Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap
New Vatican Confab on ‘Complementarity’ in Marriage Before the dust had settled from the Catholic…
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Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who heads what is certainly one of the most visible global…
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In the New York Times, Ross Douthat cheers the conservative rebuff at the recently concluded…
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Church Synod Recap: Micromanaging the Morals of Others
Changes in tone are no substitute for changes in substance.
Read MoreConservative Bishops Still Mad at Pope; Oligarch Launches Orthodox Network; Yoga Won’t Change Sexuality; Global LGBT Recap
Heads up: next week Mexico will host the International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex…
Read MoreDid Pope Francis Win, Lose or Draw at the Family Synod?
How you view the no-consensus outcome of the just-concluded Extraordinary Synod on the Family very…
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Will the Francis revolution be lost in translation?
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The big story this week is the ideological warfare and spin-control struggles that broke into…
Read MoreBishops More Welcoming To LGBT, But Not to Women
The surprisingly conciliatory tone regarding gay Catholics in the working document for the family synod…
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The biggest news to come out of the bishops’ synod in Rome so far is…
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