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Spain: Parents May Not Remove Their Children From Gay Rights Lessons

A Spanish court has ruled that parents will not be allowed to have their children opt out of civics classes that mention gay rights. Parents in Spain who do not want their children to attend civics classes that include lessons on gay rights do not have the right to conscientiously object, a court has ruled. The Roman Catholic church is …

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Scottish Catholics: Gays Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Adopt Because They Die Early

Here’s another lovely message from the Catholic Church, this one from Scotland. “There is an overwhelming body of evidence showing that same-sex relationships are inherently unstable and reduce the life expectancy of those involved,” claimed church spokesman Peter Kearney. He was commenting on the case of two children who have been adopted by a gay couple. Their grandparents wanted to …

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Tax Man Assesses Extra $15M For SF Catholic Church, Wingnuts Cry Foul

Last year the Catholic diocese in San Francisco reorganized their real estate holdings, prompting city tax assessors to deem the move a “sale” and therefore subject to $15M in property transfer taxes. Wingnuts are crying foul, claiming the city is retaliating against the church for supporting Proposition 8. From the Christianist news service, LifeSite: Assessor Phil Ting concluded that the …

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Vatican Defends Homophobic Pope

Lady Benedicia de Prada was busy hot-gluing precious gems to her Miss Hitler Youth 1944 pageant crown, so a Vatican spokeszombie stepped in defend her recent statement that mankind must defend against dirty trannies (AKA: the competition) as vigorously as against rainforest erosion. During an interview on this morning on Radio 4’s Today programme, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor said that the pope …

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Pope: Protecting Humanity From Gays Is Like Protecting The Rainforest

In his latest and most bizarre anti-gay missive, Pope Benedict says it’s just as important to protect humanity from dirty homosexuals as it is to protect the rainforest. Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.” (The Church) should also protect man from the destruction …

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The BVM Does Playboy?

The Mexican version of Playboy is causing some ire over its current cover. Playboy, based in Chicago, has offered its “sincerest apologizes” for the newest issue of its Mexican edition, which seems to poke irreverent (some would say lewd) fun at the Virgin Mary. The magazine’s cover features a model clad (barely) in a white cloth, in front of a …

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Today: UN To Call For Global End To Criminalization Of Homosexuality
(But The United States Won’t Sign On)

In a landmark but nonbinding resolution, today the United Nations will call for the global decriminalization of homosexuality. Eighty-six countries in the world still criminalize gay sex with punishments from years of imprisonment to death. France will bring the resolution to the General Assembly with the backing of the entire European Union, many non-EU European nations, Canada, Israel, Japan, Mexico, …

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SF Archbishop Defends Role Of Catholic Church In Prop 8 Battle

San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, who is slowly being revealed as the chief architect of organized religion’s opposition to same-sex marriage in California, has issued his first statement since the vote. “Religious leaders in America have the constitutional right to speak out on issues of public policy,” Niederauer wrote in a statement posted on the archdiocese’s Web site. “Catholic bishops, …

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You Are Going To Hell

But not for the reason you think. Check out what a Catholic priest in California says about people who voted for Obama: A Roman Catholic priest has told parishioners they should confess if they voted for Barack Obama because the president-elect supports abortion. The Rev. Joseph Illo says his parishioners at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Modesto shouldn’t risk losing …

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Blame The Catholics Too

According to the SF Chronicle, the Mormon Church didn’t join into the marriage equality battle until the Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco invited them. Months before the first ads would run on Proposition 8, San Francisco Catholic Archbishop George Niederauer reached out to a group he knew well, Mormons. Niederauer had made critical inroads into improving Catholic-Mormon relations while he …

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Yes On 8 Launches Blackmail Campaign

The lovely folks at Protect Marriage have sent letters to major corporations that have donated to No On 8 to demand a donation for themselves – or else face the wrath of an ad campaign denouncing them. ProtectMarriage.com, the umbrella group behind a ballot initiative that would overturn the California Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage, sent a certified …

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AZ: Knights Of Columbus Donate $100K To Support Proposition 102

The Knights of Columbus, a charity arm of the Catholic Church, has donated $100,000 to support Arizona’s gay marriage ban. The New Haven, Conn.-based Catholic group donated the money to Yesformarriage.com, a campaign committee that backs Proposition 102, which would add a ban on gay marriages to the Arizona Constitution. Current state law prohibits same-sex marriage but that provision is …

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Father Geoff Suspended

Father Geoff Farrow, the Fresno priest who shocked his parish last Sunday by sermonizing against Proposition 8 and then coming out, has been suspended by his bishop. From Farrow’s blog: In a letter which I wrote to our bishop early this week. I explained that I intended to take a private retreat and then, unless I heard otherwise from him, …

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Father On Father

Our own Father Tony has had a conversation Father Geoff Farrow, the brave Fresno, California priest who sermonized against Proposition 8 from his pulpit on Sunday. In a television interview after the service, Father Geoff then came out. Father Tony: Father Geoff is unsure of his future, but he says that for the first time in years he feels at …

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Fresno, CA: Catholic Priest Comes Out In Sermon About Proposition 8

Yesterday Father Geoffrey Farrow, a Catholic priest for the last 23 years, shocked his Fresno parishioners and likely ended his career when he defied his diocese and gave a sermon against Proposition 8. After 23 years as an ordained Catholic Priest, Father Geoffrey Farrow has likely given his final mass. Sunday morning he invited us to hear his message, a …

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Signorile Takes On Bill Donahue Over His Mission To Ban Towleroad From DNC

But all Donahue can do is complain about the commenters and those photos of men in their bathing suits. (Which Mike correctly points out are of Olympians.) Parts 2 and 3 of the interview are below.

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Knights Of Columbus Give $1M To Prop 8

The Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal service organization, has donated $1M to Protect Marriage, the group behind California’s ballot amendment to overturn gay marriage. Here is a message from Geoff Kors of Equality California: We learned today that the right-wing groups behind Proposition 8 received a $1 million contribution from the Knights of Columbus. The Catholic fraternal …

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Catholic League: Ban Towleroad From DNC

The Catholic League wants Andy Towle to be stricken from the list of credentialed bloggers attending the Democratic convention. “Towleroad describes itself as ‘A Site with Homosexual Tendencies.’ Accordingly, it shows men in jock straps and underwear. It also has a post on Pope Benedict XVI that takes him to task for wearing a cape with ermine. Some of those …

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DPV Positive

According to a priest in the Westminster Catholic diocese in the UK, one of the causes for homosexuality is demonic possession. And apparently, once you get a demon in you, you’re contagious. It’s a virus, people! Offering what may be an explanation for the explosion of homosexuality in recent years, Fr. Davies said, “Among the causes of homosexuality is a …

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CA Bishops: Marriage Is For Making Babies

The bishops of the California Catholic Conference, which comprises all of that state’s dioceses, have signed on with the haters of Protect Marriage, saying that marriage is meant for procreation. They then went on to condemn marriages for infertile men and post-menopausal women. PSYCH! From their press release: Same-sex unions are not the same as opposite-sex unions. The marriage of …

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