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With Resignation of Pope, LGBTs Hope for True Dialogue on Rights

By Andrew Clark | Monday Feb 25, 2013
With the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, some in the LGBT community expressed the hope that the Church would engage in a meaningful conversation about LGBT rights. Others aren’t as optimistic.

Remembering the Gay ’Saint of 9/11’

By Kilian Melloy | Sunday Sep 11, 2011
As America looks back at the events of Sept. 11, 2001, a heroic figure in the form of a gay Catholic priest emerges.

LGBT People of Faith See Some Light

By Kilian Melloy | Friday Mar 4, 2011
Anglican bishops on both sides of the issue of gay clergy have come together to discuss the issue, while a Presbyterian church trial has cleared a gay pastor who married his same-sex spouse in California in 2008.

British Bishop to Gay Couples: Not in My Churches, You Don’t!

By Kilian Melloy | Tuesday Feb 15, 2011
The British government is thinking about lifting a ban on civil partnership ceremonies being carried out in houses of worship. But one Anglican bishop has a message for same-sex families: No way!

I’m From Driftwood, 50 State Tour

By A. Sebastian Fortino | Friday Feb 4, 2011
Last year SFGN had the opportunity to speak with Nathan Manske, the Brooklyn-based founder of I’m From Driftwood, a website which collects the stories of LGBT people across the country.

Minister on Trial for Performing Gay Weddings

By LISA LEFF | Wednesday Aug 25, 2010
A retired Presbyterian minister is facing a church trial for performing weddings of gay couples during the brief period when same-sex marriage was legal in California.

Anglican leader urges penalty, after Episcopalians, other Anglicans violate gay moratoria

Thursday Jun 3, 2010
The spiritual leader of the world’s Anglicans wants to sideline provinces that violate moratoria on ordaining partnered gays and on other contentious activity in the splintering fellowship.

Easier for Gay Faithful to Become Priests in Canada

By Kilian Melloy | Thursday Jun 3, 2010
In the wake of the pedophile priest scandal that has rocked the catholic church globally, U.S. Catholic seminaries are doing their best to ensure that the priesthood is free of... gays.

Church Renews Pressure on Pro-Gay Catholic Group

By Kilian Melloy | Friday Feb 26, 2010
Progressive Catholics maybe on a collision course with the guardians of their faith’s doctrine--especially when it comes to civil rights issues affecting GLBTs, marriage equality among them.

Pope to visit UK; urges church to accept Anglicans

By Nicole Winfield | Tuesday Feb 2, 2010
Pope Benedict XVI confirmed Monday he would visit Britain later this year, a trip that has grown fraught following his move to welcome into the Roman Catholic Church groups of Anglicans upset over the ordination of gays and women.
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