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Claiming that the civil right of marriage for gay and lesbian families contravenes "Divine law," Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, forbade any weddings between two men or two women from taking place in the state’s Catholic churches.

The same evangelical preacher who referred to GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith as a "cult" has a similar record of disparaging speech when it comes to LGBTs.

Unlike past campaigns, the lack of an imposing establishment candidate in this race has opened a door for more candidates who appeal to the party’s socially conservative base.

A cleric in Hamilton, Montana facing fraud charges after allegedly bilking a man of $150,000 may have drawn inspiration from his pastoral experience in framing the narrative for his legal woes: He blamed the gays

An anti-gay evangelical pastor in El Paso, Texas, has taken his war on same-sex families to the city by leading a push to recall officials who favored an ordinance for health benefits to the domestic partners of two gay city employees.

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he’s getting out of the political endorsement game.

As next year’s elections draw closer, religious conservatives have begun amping up their message that full legal equality for GLBTs would constitute an attack on religious freedom and on the institution of marriage.

Zimbabwe’s top Anglican bishop says an excommunicated church leader close to the country’s president has taken over an orphanage housing 80 children as part of a schism over gay marriage.

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his "700 Club" viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s is justifiable because the disease is "a kind of death."

Clergy sex abuse victims upset that no high-ranking Roman Catholic leaders have been prosecuted for sheltering guilty priests have turned to the International Criminal Court.