A bill introduced last month in the Ugandan parliament would require citizens to turn in the names of suspected LGBT people so the government can put them to death. I kid you not.
Having Gay sex in Uganda is already a capital crime. I kid you not—the death penalty.
Ugandan LGBT activists have asked supporters in the [...]
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“All of the pageantry—none of the guilt!”
— Robin Williams
Dear Catholic Friends,
You may have heard recently that the Pope has announced a new “ordinariate” that allows Anglicans and Episcopalians to become Catholics while keeping their Prayer Books, hymns and married priests.
(Is there a special office at the Vatican that comes up with words like “ordinariate”? [...]
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Cartoon: the Southern Voice
Episcopal Café notes that Barack Obama’s Justice Department is upholding the so-called Defense of Marriage Act:
President Obama’s administration filed a legal brief defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in a court case seeking to overturn it. In effect the administration has come out defending the constitutionality of measures that give a [...]
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UPDATE: The legislature in Maine passed the Gay marriage bill May 6 and Gov. John Baldacci signed it. Whaddaya know, Democrats who act like Democrats. Hooray for Maine!
Richard Malone, Bishop of Portland, Maine.
I guess it’s no surprise, the Catholic Church hates Gay people, and calls us such charming phrases as “intrinsically disordered.”
In your being, [...]
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Let’s start with this quote from Michael Scott-Joynt, the Anglican Bishop of Winchester, reporting to his diocese on the recently-ended Lambeth Conference:
In the UK, too, today the “orthodox” often face mockery, and charges of “bigotry”, for their convictions (as I know well)!
See, it’s not that he’s a bigot, it’s that he has “convictions.”
Uh-huh. [...]
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