Gay marriage critic tried on lewdness
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The lawyer for a former Baptist church leader who had spoken out against homosexuality said Thursday the minister has a constitutional right to solicit sex from an undercover policeman.
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A Methodist minister was tried by an ecclesiastical court on Wednesday for being a practicing homosexual and said she believes God created her as a lesbian but she does not expect to keep her job.
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Religious conservative leaders, sensing declining alarm over same-sex marriage, are warning that the debate over homosexuality has prompted attacks on religious freedom.
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Comment is free: Simon Fanshawe: Forty years after the 1967 bill, homophobic abuse still goes on. Let's ditch the sexual stereotypes.
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LOS ANGELES - County health officials are having trouble finding a TV station willing to air a public service announcement about syphilis that employs a lumpy, red cartoon character named "Phil the Sore." Los Angeles-area broadcasters said the ad is in poor taste, but the county health agency said it is simply trying to reach gay men - the group at greatest risk of getting the sexually transmitted disease, which has been on the rise in recent years.
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Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church are urging Fred Thompson to support their stance on homosexuality Â a position on which they say the Republican presidential candidate once "saw eye to eye" with them.
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Some heterosexual couples are protesting the inability of gay and lesbian couples to marry by putting off their own marriage.
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A U.S. Senate candidate who said recently that homosexuals should not be teaching in South Carolina's public schools has added another group to his list of poor role models for children &#151; pregnant women with live-in boyfriends.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.  - As founder and president of  PRUDES (People Revolted by Unnecessary Depictions of Eroticism  and Sexuality), I am shocked -- shocked! -- by "Leisure Suit  Larry: Magna Cum Laude."
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Comment is free: Simon Jenkins: I'm an atheist but still I resent this joker in Rome slighting my community. A residual theological chauvinism is aroused.
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US Vice-President Dick Cheney opposes a federal ban on gay marriage - seemingly contradicting George Bush.
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Pope John Paul on Saturday  condemned same sex marriage as an attack on the fabric of  society and called on Catholics to combat what he said was  aggressive attempt to legally undermine the family.
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By ANICK JESDANUN NEW YORK - At first glance, the posting looked like any number of Internet classified ads explicitly seeking sex.
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So, the governor of New Jersey is gay. After reading through chat rooms of New Jersey residents, I was apparently the only one who did not know this.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has criticised conservatives in the Anglican church for using hostile words about homosexuals in the recent row over the ordination of gay bishops, a British newspaper reported.
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Calling gays "the most oppressed minority since slavery," an attorney for a gay couple urged a judge Thursday to overturn California and federal laws banning same-sex marriage.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg staked out a compromise position in the gay-marriage debate: He would publicly support gay marriage, but challenge a court decision allowing it.