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Religion was once described as a “the cluster of imperatives and beliefs which orient a life in motion,” so in the case of one Indiana church, that cluster of imperatives is that it is vitally important that anyone who ever went to gay pride should be prevented from singing. The situation is this: the Hakes family has belonged to the St. Mary’s of the Assumption Catholic (of course) Church in Indiana for many generations. When an elderly member of the family died, one of the...

A politician who has pledged to attack same-sex adoption rights is the new favourite to be President of France… and his main opponent is a far-right nationalist. François Fillon was the surprise winner of the centre-right conservative primary this month, edging out competition from former President Nicolas Sarkozy and Former Prime Minister Alain Juppé ahead of next year’s Presidential vote. The hardline conservative candidate, a strong opponent of LGBT rights, is expected to face the National Front candidate Marine Le Pen...

The Warwick Rowers have been banned for YouTube despite achieving worldwide recognition after fundraising for equality. The naked athletes have been long standing supportive figures for the LGBT community, and in 2014 they were awarded the PinkNews Community Group of the Year award. At the time Mrs Morgan joked that she attempted to access the Rowers’ website but that it was blocked from Department for Education computers. She said: “My office tried to show me their website on the Department for Education...

Five states, the District of Columbia, Miami and Cincinnati have also banned the widely discredited practice. The Seattle City Council unanimously voted Monday to ban conversion therapy for queer youth, becoming the third American city to independently outlaw the practice. Under the new ordinance, mental health providers will be barred from offering or advertising conversion therapy to minors. The practice, which claims to help gay people overcome same-sex attraction, has been widely discredited by mental health professionals and called potentially harmful...

After the shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando earlier this year, there was renewed talk about the importance of gay bars and other “safe spaces” where LGBTQ people can come together. But what happens when those spaces become infiltrated by straight people? “For someone who’s gay, a night out in a gay bar means that they don’t have to brush off homophobic comments disguised as ‘banter’ and aren’t at risk from violence and harassment from people who don’t agree with their sexuality,” Lottie Tiplady-Bishop...

The Eastern Europe is moving slowly with LGBT rights, or rtaher, it's not moving at all. In Romania, the Orthodox Church has started a petition to ban same-sex marriage, which is not legalized in Romania. To submit the petition to the Government, they needed 500,000 signatures instead they gathered three million. This shows the mentality of Romanian people regarding same-sex relationships. Lead by the Orthodox Church, 23 NGO's try to stay against LGBT rights in Romania, and according to  MozaiQ, an LGBT rights...

Dylan Settles had visited Woods Chapel General Baptist Church that is in Brookland, Arkansas, for many years until this church kicked out him. What happened? Dylan came out as gay and this fact made church ban him. Being devastated some period of time he finally decided to come back with a pefect response. When Dylan came out his church called his lifestyle ‘sinful’ and made such a decision. Mr Settles received a letter from the Church that explained the main reason the following way: "It...

Google Ventures, now known as GV, has joined a growing list of tech and corporate heavyweights speaking out against North Carolina’s HB 2, a law that the companies say discriminates against transgender people in the state. And GV, the early and middle-stage investment arm of Alphabet, is taking it a step further: Its chief has pledged not to back any companies from the state until the law is repealed. Bill Maris, the CEO of GV, added his name to a Human...

Yesterday, the Michigan senate has passed a bill that could sentence to 15 years of prison anyone who will engage in same-sex intercourse. The main purpose of the law that includes the bill aims to stop animal abusers from buying pets, yet the bill refers to gay sex as well, bestiality being compared with sodomy. Subjectively, the bill bans anal and oral sex between two people. “A person who commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature with mankind or with any...