Rights advocates fear the First Amendment Defense Act will be used to discriminate against same-sex couples, single parents and unmarried couples.

Paintings by Douglas Blanchard. A contemporary Jesus arrives as a gay man in a modern city with “The Passion of Christ: A Gay Vision” by Douglas Blanchard.

Ben Clements University of Leicester January 2017 Same sex equality issues, such as civil partnerships, adoption and gay marriage, have been the subject of considerable debate in recent years as governments have passed various laws on the matter.

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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest problems facing Mario Batali: There is no celebrity chef more adored by elites nationwide than Mario Batali. They particularly like the way he champions women’s rights and the rights …

Catholic teaching condemns homosexual acts as gravely immoral, while holding that gay people “must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity”, and “every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided” “The Catholic Church holds that, as a state beyond a person’s choice, being homosexual is not wrong or sinful in

Gay and straight priests alike are cheering Pope Francis’s comments about homosexuality in the priesthood, saying gay priests make up a significant segment of the Catholic clergy and deserve papal recognition. On a plane from Brazil Monday, Francis told reporters that, “if someone is gay and he

Vatican Pool/Getty Images By Christopher J. Hale September 8, 2014 Last week New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave his okay to the St. Patrick Day Parade Committee’s decision to allow a gay group to march in the 2015 parade under their own banner. This was a remarkable shift from one of Dolan’s

John C. Favalora is a sallow old man who looks like the corpse of Dom DeLuise. He likes attractive men to sit on his lap and allegedly …