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Pope Francis tells gay man: ‘God made you like this’.

Juan Carlos Cruz, who was sexually abused, says pontiff told him God did not mind that he was gay. A survivor of clerical sexual abuse has said Pope Francis told him that God had made him gay and loved him, in arguably the most strikingly accepting comments about homosexuality to be uttered by the leader of the Roman Catholic church.

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A woman running for Congress filmed herself yelling at a transgender woman for using the bathroom.

Viral footage shows a transgender women being confronted in a Denny’s bathroom by a woman running for Congress. Jazmina Saavedra, who’s running for US Congress in California’s 44th District and is the spokeswoman for the California branch of Latinos for Trump, posted a video on Facebook on Tuesday…

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Major national survey finds majority of Americans in every state oppose LGBTQ discrimination.

As the Supreme Court of the United States is poised to rule in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission — a case involving a Denver-area baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple — a major new national survey found a strong majority of Americans in every state oppose licenses to discriminate against LGBTQ people.

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Pro-LGBT Corporate America strong-arms Kansas into submission – An opinion from the right.

Religious liberty and the best interests of vulnerable children hang in the balance as Corporate America again flexes its muscle to coerce a state into bending to the will of LGBT special interest groups. Apple, Google and Amazon––along with more than 80 other tech companies…

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A growing problem for Trump’s military transgender ban — Facts.

Since President Trump announced in March that the Pentagon would prohibit many transgender people from serving in the military, thousands of Americans have been in limbo, not knowing whether their careers were over or whether they would be barred from even joining the armed forces.

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Joy Reid’s missed opportunity.

MSNBC host Joy Reid offered a complicated on-air apology on her show on Saturday over homophobic rhetoric she is alleged to have used in posts on a now-defunct blog. She didn’t apologize for writing the posts; in fact, she didn’t admit to writing them at all, oddly explaining that…

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Richard Grenell is the new US ambassador to Germany — A landmark moment in gay history.

Though it took nearly seven months to be realized, the confirmation of President Trump’s inspired pick of Richard “Ric” Grenell to serve as the U. S. ambassador to Germany is now a fait accompli, and deservedly so. After a delay seemingly as interminable as the fruitless Russia probe by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, obstreperous Democrats finally folded Thursday when…