Regarding Religion

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US: Evangelical Leaders Aligned with Trump-Pence Launch Vicious Attack on LGBTQ People

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More than 150 conservative Evangelical Christian leaders, including prominent members of the Trump-Pence administration’s Evangelical Advisory Board, released a vicious, anti-LGBTQ manifesto Tuesday attacking LGBTQ people as immoral and sinful, asserting their opposition to marriage equality and denying the dignity of transgender people.

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Australia: Talk of same-sex marriage impinging on religious freedom is misconceived: here’s why

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Conservative religious organisations and politicians have played a major role in preventing the introduction of same-sex marriage in Australia and hope to do so again.

US: Group Advocates For LGBT Youth In Religious Homes

It's being labeled an epidemic: alarmingly high suicide rates, homeless rates, and sex trafficking rates among LGBT youth, especially in religious homes. To try and change the trend, a group named Faith in America walked into the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention on Friday to share a message that LGBT youth are in danger.

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Australia: Married Sunday, fired Monday: Churches threaten to dismiss staff who wed same-sex partners

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Australia's Catholic church is threatening to fire teachers, nurses and other employees who marry their same-sex partner if gay marriage is legalised, in a dramatic move led by the country's most senior Catholic.