The Archbishop of Vienna has sharply criticized a new ruling by the Austrian Constitutional Court that paves the way for same-sex marriages, calling the decision a “denial of reality.”
Austrian Roman Catholic Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has slammed a recent supreme court ruling which paves the way for the legalisation of gay marriage beginning in 2019.
The global media made much of Britain’s Prince Harry announcing his engagement to American divorcee Meghan Markle, but a new poll has found British opinion on a variety of potential future scenarios — including gay marriage — is less settled.
A George Soros-funded NGO which is trying to push gay marriage on Cambodia “must close”, said Prime Minister Hun Sen, accusing the group of serving foreign interests.
A new report asserts that, despite the international push for same-sex marriage in the name of civil rights, few gays and lesbians are taking advantage of legal wedded bliss, and many of those who are, end up filing for divorce.
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australians have said they support gay marriage in a postal survey that ensures the Parliament considers a bill to legalise same-sex weddings this year.
Paul Singer, who through his Washington Free Beacon news outlet, appears to be the Republican behind what eventually became Fusion GPS’s now-infamous “Pee Pee Dossier” on President Donald Trump. It was hardly the first time the Wall Street Billionaire bankrolled anti-populist causes. Here of five of Singer’s worst globalist endeavors.
Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher has urged Catholics to vote “no” in a same-sex marriage postal survey, telling parishioners that the government has no vested interest in regulating relationships other than heterosexual marriage.
The Scottish Episcopal Church has responded to sanctions from the worldwide Anglican communion on its decision to perform gay marriages in church with the pro-LGBT maxim: “Love means love.”
Tony Abbott has been physically assaulted by a campaigner for same-sex marriage, in an attack Australia’s former prime minister said characterised the “ugliness and intolerance” present on the LGBT side of the debate.
An Australian church has received “vicious” threats to its safety after it displayed a sign stating the Biblical position on marriage, which activists claim “cause distress”.
The decision-making body of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party was reported Wednesday to be divided over the future of lawmaker Yigal Guetta, who indicated he would resign earlier in the day in the wake of a furor sparked by his revelation that he had attended his nephew’s gay wedding two years ago, before becoming an MK.
Australian rugby star Israel Folau sparked a fierce backlash after he entered the country’s debate on same-sex marriage and said he would not support a proposal to make it legal.
The Times of Israel reports: A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis is calling for the summary dismissal of a Haredi lawmaker who boasted he had attended his nephew’s gay wedding.
LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s prime minister says it is “only a matter of time” before same-sex marriage is legalized in Northern Ireland — the only part of the United Kingdom where it still is banned.
LONDON (AP) — Ireland’s prime minister says it is “only a matter of time” before same-sex marriage is legalized in Northern Ireland — the only part of the United Kingdom where it still is banned.
Yet there is another, underlying reason that Trump’s voters back him through thick and thin, and it has to do with the Constitution, whose relevance the left and the media have only belatedly discovered.
In a clear but gently worded column, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput chides Jesuit priest Father James Martin for failing to summon gay Catholics to “conversion,” rather than simply asking for “affirmation.”
Colombia has become the first country to legally recognize the union of three gay men, where Manuel Bermúdez, Alejandro Rodríguez and Víctor Hugo Prada have united in a “special three-way patrimonial regime” in the city of Medellín.
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel has dominated German politics for over a decade thanks to a combination of flexibility, tactical savvy and luck — and she looks likely to benefit from Germany’s legalization of gay marriage as she seeks
The Supreme Court of Texas held that the U.S. Supreme Court opinion recognizing the right of same-sex couples to marry does not automatically entitle them to spousal employment benefits. The unanimous court held that the 2015 opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges did not address the right to tax, insurance, or other benefits–only the right to marry.
BERLIN (AP) – German lawmakers voted Friday to legalise same-sex marriage after a short but emotional debate, bringing the country in line with many of its Western peers. Though Chancellor Angela Merkel voted against the measure, she paved the way for its passage by freeing other members of her party to vote their “conscience.”
British people, especially Christians, are increasingly more accepting of same-sex marriage, abortion, pornography, and sex before marriage.
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time seems to have softened her previous opposition toward legalizing same-sex marriages.
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has said her commitment to social liberalism is more important to her than the Conservative party.
A Catholic apple grower in Michigan has been barred from a city farmers’ market over his views on same-sex marriage, after he refused to host a lesbian couple’s wedding at his orchard.
If elected president, Marine Le Pen will repeal France’s gay marriage laws, the Front National candidate’s politician niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen has vowed.
The ongoing saga of LGBT protests of an upcoming Chick-fil-A restaurant on campus at Duquesne University, a Catholic college in Pittsburgh, has taken on biblical dimensions as a test-case of safe spaces and microaggressions in American higher education.
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, famed as a staunch gay rights advocate and a champion of progressive causes, has been accused of sexually molesting several teenaged boys 30 years ago, reports have revealed.
The Human Rights Committee of the United Nations has censured Italy for failing to provide ready access to abortion throughout the country due to a “high number of physicians” who refuse to carry out the procedure for reasons of conscience.
The Kentucky clerk who refused to obey President Barack Obama’s 2015 order to pass out marriage licenses to gay couples is poised to win another victory in her long legal battle with state and federal governments after a federal judge refused to force her to pay the ACLU’s legal fees.
Dozens of conservatives and faith-based groups have signed on to a Council for National Policy letter, urging President Donald Trump to sign an executive order to protect the religious liberty of people and organizations that have been targeted by the federal government for expressing their beliefs on traditional marriage, the sanctity of life from birth to natural death, and other social issues.
The Supreme Court of Texas heard oral arguments today in a case where Houston taxpayers sued urging that subsidizing employment benefits for the spouse of a same-sex couple is illegal. Lawyers for the taxpayers describe the case as “the only one of its kind in the nation.”
As part of her 144 pledges to the French people, anti-mass migration Front National presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has said she will abandon gay marriages in favour of civil partnerships. Earlier this month after holding her campaign launch in Lyon,
HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish lawmakers on Friday rejected a petition from more than 100,000 people demanding the repeal of a law allowing same-sex marriage that takes effect on March 1.
The Church of England’s main legislative body has rejected a report saying marriage can only be between a man and a woman, plunging the church into a new crisis.
A report by the Church of England’s Bishops laying out the Church’s stance on gay marriage is likely to be vetoed by the Synod as both conservative and liberals oppose it – for conflicting reasons. The report, Marriage and Same
A self-proclaimed “anti-theist” stabbed his Christian flatmate to death in Germany after bursting into her room and demanding to know her views on same-sex marriage.
The Church of England’s doctrine on marriage will not be changed to accommodate same sex relationships, but church teaching should offer “fresh thought” in line with society’s changed attitudes to sexuality, a report from the House of Bishops has said.
The Supreme Court of Texas decided to hear a Texas case fighting taxpayer-funded employment benefits for gay spouses.
