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After the passage of California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative in California that stripped LGBT people of their constitutional right to marry, many clergy and people of faith around the country have been offering solace and encouragement to their lesbian, gay and bisexual congregants and neighbors.
The Transgender Day of Remembrance (November 20, 2008) is set aside toremember those lost to anti-transgender violence in the last year.
The Rev. Jay Scott Newman, a Roman Catholic priest in South Carolina, doesn't want his parishioners taking communion if they voted for Barack Obama, at least not until after they do penance for it.
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.
[Episcopal News Service, Quincy, Illinois] A majority of delegates to the 131st annual synod of the Diocese of Quincy voted on November 7 to leave the Episcopal Church and realign the diocese under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Province of the Southern Cone, which covers the southern portion of South America.
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Some Mormons upset at church's Proposition 8 campaign The LDS Church is campaigning on behalf of California's Proposition 8, which would restrict marriage rights.
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
After prayerful consideration, I have decided that it is my duty as aChristian, and as your bishop, to urge the defeat of the proposed Amendment2 to our Florida Constitution, which would define marriage as only between a man and a woman.
Jeffrey Altman will be ordained an Anglican priest today in a ceremony that reflects Central New York's role in the nationwide growth of a separate Anglican church in the United States.
An Anglican church in Ottawa may soon be the second in Canada to bless same-sex marriages.
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