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Florida Catholic Bookstore Wins Right to Discriminate Against LGBTQ+ Customers

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A Florida bookstore has won an exemption from LGBTQ+ non-discrimination protections in a case highlighting U.S. federal courts' increasing willingness to hear anti-LGBTQ+ lawsuits where no actual harm has been done. Read More

Catholic Charities Allegedly Bars Lesbian Couple from Fostering a Refugee Child

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A lesbian couple in Texas have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bbishops and the U.S. government for allegedly barring the couple from becoming foster parents to a refugee child. Read More

CATHOLIC LGBT HISTORY: Cardinal O’Connor Decries Violence Against Lesbian & Gay People

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Cardinal John J. O'Connor, who was Archbishop of New York in the 1980s and 1990s had a long history of statements and actions offensive to the LGBT community.  Among other things, he supported the ban on Irish LGBT groups in the N.Y. St. Patrick's Day Parade and he challenged Mayor Ed Koch's Executive Order 50 which banned sexual orientation discrimination in employment for groups that had contracts with the city.  Yet, he was also known to volunteer at a Catholic hospital, tending to patients with HIV/AIDS at a time when many others shunned any physical contact with the syndrome's victims. Read More

Catholic Groups Endorse California Law to End Conversion Therapy

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Over 30 religious organizations, including two Catholic groups, have endorsed California’s proposed law (Senate Bill... Read More