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Evangelist Franklin Graham blames gay sex for rise in STIs.

Celebrity evangelist Franklin Graham’s latest stunt is scaring people about a rise in sexually transmitted infections, a problem he himself may have contributed to. In a Facebook post that went live Tuesday, Graham pointed to a topic he claimed “probably won’t be…

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Catholic Archbishop: LGBT activism is the new communism.

The Roman Catholic archbishop of Kraków, Poland, has claimed LGBTQ activism threatens to oppress his nation as communism did. “Currently we are living at a time in which the next great threat to our freedom has appeared,” Archbishop Marek Jędraszewski said…

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Pope meets U.S. priest attacked for ministering to gays.

Pope Francis on Monday gave a high-profile private audience to a prominent American Jesuit priest who has been attacked repeatedly by conservative Catholics and media outlets for ministering to homosexuals. By meeting Father James Martin during the morning, when the pope’s…

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Catholic church hosts conversion group accused of abuse.

Some LGBTQ activists are incensed that a Catholic church within the Archdiocese of Philadelphia hosted a presentation by a conversion therapy group that has been accused of sexual abuse — and has admitted to it in at least one case. Desert Stream/Living Waters Ministries…

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MCC Church founder to donate artifacts to Smithsonian.

Rev. Elder Troy Perry, founder of the Metropolitan Community Churches, the first Christian denomination with a primary ministry to the LGBT community, is donating a collection of artifacts from the church’s 51-year history to the Smithsonian Institution…