What if you could take a drug that would quickly alter your sexual orientation from straight to gay, or vice versa?To their surprise, neurobiologists have discovered that homosexuality can be turned o  read more »

A gay Christian who won a claim against the Church of England has been awarded more than £47,000 in compensation.  read more »

Warren Jeffs of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is in jail for raping a minor to whom he was "Spiritually Married."

There is a famous story from Seoul in 1988 that there were so many used condoms on the roof terrace of the British team's residential block the night after the swimming concluded that the British Olym  read more »

The openly gay bishop whose ordination sparked the crisis in the Anglican Communion has claimed the Church of England would be close to shutting down if it was forced to manage without its gay clergy.

Two deputies with Italy's small but vocal Radical Party caused an uproar among legislators in this predominantly Catholic country on Wednesday when they placed dolls representing two gay couples in Parliament's nativity scene.

It was removed fairly quickly, but a successful publicity stunt in favor of a law giving certain rights to unmarried, including homosexual, couples.  read more »

Organizers of San Francisco's hedonistic Folsom Street Fair — sponsored by Miller Brewing, Co.  read more »

The Northern Ireland Parades Commission is to meet with the organisers of Belfast Pride over a placard displayed at this year's event that outraged Christians.

A new survey of the sex lives of students at Cambridge University has revealed that promiscuity adversely effects a person's ability to score good grades.  read more »

Flashback to 1999: Issa was Fareeha, a thirtysomething Muslim woman and longtime U.S. resident just working her way through school.  read more »

Catholic bishops say the new course usurps the family's freedom to shape a child's morality and will impart values that in some instances diverge radically from their own.  read more »

"States can use their U.S. grants for abstinence education to reach out to people in their 20s rather than just focusing on teenagers, new federal guidance says."

Hmm...abstinence for unmarried adults? What a novel concept! Didn't the Bible mention that concept 3400 years ago? Moses--he was so progressive.  read more »

A school was planning on showing a rather graphic "gay rights" video in schools without notifying parents.

Pope Benedict XVI blasted Europeans for being selfish and not having enough children, in a sermon on Saturday at the 850-year-old pilgrimage site of Mariazell in Austria.

How d  read more »

One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is "completely heterosexual."  read more »

A number of religious leaders met to denounce human trafficking and abuse of women and children.

"The American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest severed ties with the national denomination on Thursday, concluding a yearlong battle over the theological interpretation of homosexuality." The number of churches that see homosexuality as sin continues to dwindle.

Scantily clad prostitutes beckoning from behind glass windows — long a familiar sight in Amsterdam — will become rarer, officials said Monday in announcing a major cleanup of the city'  read more »

Anglican Church of Canada official expressed dismay on Thursday after a major congregation voted to split from the national church over the issue of homosexuality.St John's Shaughnessy, a Vancouver pa  read more »

A Sri Lankan bishop has urged conservative members of the Anglican Church to stop trying to exclude people because of their perceived faults.

The synod of the Anglican Church of Canada's Ottawa diocese has voted overwhelmingly in favour of same-sex blessings.

Looks like Canada is following the ECUSA in their embr  read more »

U.S. Episcopal bishops, fed up with Anglican criticism of their support for gay priests, implored the Anglican spiritual leader to hear their side of the story — in person.  read more »

SEARCH engine Google is facing a global backlash from internet users over its refusal to carry advertisements for a Christian group.The Christian Institute is sueing Google on the grounds it is infrin  read more »

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has criticised his own church for being "obsessed" with homosexuality.

It's about more than just homosexuality.  read more »

Dr Rowan Williams called for divine guidance after he flew into Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania for the five-day primates' meeting, that will be dominated by the bitter row over homosexuality that could split Anglicanism.

Wrong prediction #2.  read more »

Leading Church of England bishops have threatened to boycott a landmark Anglican summit in protest at the presence of pro-gay clergy.

Gay couples can't be foster parents or adopt in Arkansas.

It's been almost 50 years since Earl Paulk, the archbishop of a Protestant mega-church in the Atlanta suburbs, was first accused of having sex with a parishioner.  read more »

Delegates to the Baptist State Convention have voted overwhelmingly to expel a Charlotte church for welcoming gays and lesbians without trying to change them.  read more »

The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina could expel any church that endorses homosexuality after its annual meeting this week.

In other words, they're saying churches need to be consistent with their teachings or go somewhere else where they're in agreement. Makes sense.

So while liberal churches helped change the state, the state now has a far more liberal view of same-sex marriage.  read more »

Roman Catholic Archbishop Raymond Burke, who made headlines last presidential season by saying he'd refuse Holy Communion to John Kerry, has his eye on Rudy Giuliani this year.  read more »

While many people spent New Year's Eve popping the cork, popping the question and mulling resolutions for 2009, a dozen sets of husbands and wives approached the altar at a Catholic church in Chicago'  read more »

The British government wants to make it illegal to pay for sex and is considering a plan to "name and shame" men who visit prostitutes — a move critics say would turn back the clock to Victorian tim  read more »

President Bush is promoting a federal amendment to define marriage as 1 man/1 woman. I heard him talk about it on his Saturday radio address. Opponents say it's a church & state issue.

A conservative diocese of the Episcopal Church has gotten a formal invitation to break with the national church over the ordination of gays and women.

They're considering j  read more »

A new commercial against proposition 8 in California is expected to fuel the fire of an already heated debate over gay marriage.

Early on a late September morning, if all goes according to plan, 1 million Mormons, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, evangelical Christians, Sikhs and Hindus will open their doors, march down their front wa  read more »

This article lists several moral measures around the country and their results.

An Alabama County circuit judge has ordered a millionaire to pay the Alabama-based Caritas religious group two (m) million dollars for violating a confidential April 2005 settlement of an earlier lawsuit.

Phillip Kronzer says his wife left him to join Caritas, which Kronzer claims is a cult.  read more »

A WELS school expelled 2 girls for having a lesbian relationship. There was no indication of inappropriate contact. The court is saying they discriminated.

Some same-sex marriage supporters are urging people to "call in gay" Wednesday to show how much the country relies on gays and lesbians, but others question whether it's wise to encourage skipping wor  read more »

Given recent decisions, e.g. gay and lesbian marriage in California and the recent court decision in Texas, is there a real reason to ban polygamous marriage?

Many residents in this parallel community, which includes about 500 American citizens, share those same beliefs — that you take many wives and live a communal lifestyle — but prosecutors have not  read more »

Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the president of the Italian bishops’ conference, reaffirmed the Church’s opposition to euthanasia during comments on January 22. Cardinal Ruini also sharply cr  read more »

Jim Wallis of "Sojourners" in Madison, WI, thinks homosexual marriage is not "Jesus' top priority" and suggests that clergy and state should focus more on starvation and disease than morality.

A woman in India married a King Cobra. Apparently, in Hindu marriages, the groom doesn't need to say, "I Do." In fact, he left her at the altar.

A Lutheran church in Chicago has ordained a lesbian who refuses to take a vow of celibacy, becoming the first to test a new resolution that gives bishops leeway in disciplining such violat  read more »

A British couple were watching Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, and they got into what became a violent argument over how Jesus' death was portrayed. Good thing they stopped short of a more accurat  read more »

He runs a private business, but he's been told that he has to duplicate a homosexual video because of discrimination laws.

The Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry is pressuring the Roman Catholic church to allow for homosexual marriage.

Lou Beres, leader of the Christian Coalition, has admitted to inappropriate contact with his sister-in-law and two of his daughter's friends when the girls were all in their teens. He originally denied it but is now admitting to it.  read more »

Spring Arbor University and fired transgender professor Julie Nemecek reached a financial settlement Monday (March 12) in her discrimination suit.

I was not aware that he's an ordained Baptist minister--presumably not SBC.  read more »

South Wales police arrested Stephen Green for handing out "anti-homosexual" pamphlets at a gay rally.

The Christian Game Developers Foundation, a non-profit organization co-founded by Ralph Bagley, who's known for developing the first high-quality Christian-themed video game, wants to educate parents  read more »

A gay pride celebration in Jerusalem is under heavy criticism, especially by Zionists, Jews, & Muslims.

A Christian business directory said, "No thanks" to a GLBT Christian group advertizing in it, so now, they're considered homophobic. The validity of Christian business directories aside, where do you  read more »

A hospice founded by Sister Frances helps a dying man experience sex by paying for a "sex worker" to visit him.

"A Houston landscaping company is under fire for turning down a job because its Christian owners have a policy of not working for homosexual customers."

But is it the landscaper's business or not?

Under the regulations, it will be illegal for a Christian printer to refuse to print material promoting homosexual sex, or a Jewish conference centre to refuse to accept a booking from a g  read more »

Gay-sex controversies have led not to new theology but to a call for the church to help pastors fight their urges.

After the Ted Haggard scandal and more coming to light, it's clear that pastors are as vulnerable as anyone else to temptation.  read more »

An elementary-school event in which kids were encouraged to dress as members of the opposite gender drew the ire of a Christian radio group, whose angry broadcast prompted outraged calls to the distri  read more »

Britain's fledgling religious discrimination law has come under a severe test with an employment tribunal ruling in favour of a Christian marriage registrar who refused to conduct same-sex civil partn  read more »

More evangelical couples -- once embarrassed and prudish about sex -- are now leaving their Christian inhibitions at the bedroom door.

KFYE FM in Fresno, CA was a Christian radio station. It was sold, and it now only plays songs with sexual content. You may want to change your presets....

"Missouri State University student Emily Brooker is a Christian who stood up for her faith despite outrageous retaliation by her professor and other faculty at the university. One of Brooker's MSU professors, Frank G. Kauffman, assigned to his students a project promoting homosexual foster homes and adoption. The project required the entire class to write and individually sign a letter to the Missouri Legislature in support of homosexual adoption, a letter Brooker refused to sign due to her religious objections."  read more »

Evangelicals from across Brazil flooded San Paulo Thursday for the “March for Jesus” event as live Christian bands accompanied the more than one million marchers.The annual march, organized by evangelical churches, featured a concert with 30 Christian bands carried on 17 flatbed trucks performing live as participants marched through Brazil’s financial capital, according to Agence France-Presse.  read more »

A private, Christian university is firing a transgender professor who began appearing as a woman on campus in 2005. John Nemecek, 55, who goes by Julie Marie Nemecek and often wears a wig  read more »

Australia: "A Christian lobby group wants the federal Government to block a renewed push by the ACT to make same-sex unions legal.The ACT has announced plans to reintroduce laws, quashed by the common  read more »

Christians unite in Spain to uphold the family as a unit.

New marriage guidelines are being drawn up by the Church of England amid fears that its clergy may be unwittingly conducting bogus weddings.

If the pastor has some basic criter  read more »

A megachurch canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay.  read more »

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has condemned plans to make it easier for lesbian couples to use IVF to become parents.  read more »

The Church of England yesterday edged closer to giving couples a wider choice of churches in which they can be married.

This isn't about whom they can marry, but <  read more »

Nine judges for the Presbyterian Church (USA) unanimously ruled today that a Pittsburgh minister was not guilty of violating Scripture or church law when she performed a "purported marriage ceremony"  read more »