Lutheran Panel Votes to Expel Gay Minister
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A disciplinary committee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ruled yesterday that a gay pastor in Atlanta must give up his pulpit, saying it was reluctantly enforcing a "bad policy."
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An international commission intent on stopping the splintering of the worldwide association of Anglican churches rebuked the US Episcopal Church Monday for electing a gay bishop
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The liberal U.S. church now faces a tough decision: give up its liberal policies on gay priests and same-sex marriage, or be shunned by the worldwide Anglican Communion
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Compensation is awarded to a gay man whose appointment as a youth worker was blocked by the Church of England.
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A jury made up of United Methodist Church clergy convicted a lesbian minister Thursday of violating church law by openly living with her partner in a committed relationship.
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The U.S. Presbyterian Church has rebuked one of its ministers who describes herself as a "lesbian evangelist" for presiding over two gay weddings, officials said on Friday.
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By Lori Van Ingen  Some say gay issues fueled decisions  Theological differences with United Church of Christ have spurred three local congregations to sever ties with the denomination over the past two months.
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By Michael Duck, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Jun. 9--The United States' biggest Lutheran church should change its policy on gay pastors, but not anytime soon, agreed Lutherans from across northeastern Pennsylvania while meeting Friday in Bethlehem.
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LONDON - An Anglican church commission on Monday sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologize and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union...
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A D.C. judge handed a sharp defeat to members of Shiloh Baptist Church who have sought to oust their pastor, ruling today that an August vote to remove the Rev. Charles Wallace Smith was invalid.
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Some clergy have criticized what they regarded as the churchâs leftward drift, including the consecration of an openly gay bishop.
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Eight congregations in the Virginia Diocese of the Episcopal Church voted overwhelming to break away, the Church announced on Sunday, in the latest sign of a rift in the U.S. denomination over its ordination of a gay bishop.
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President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Kentucky cardiologist Dr. James Holsinger, has come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expel a lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Church and writing in 1991 that gay sex is unnatural and unhealthy.
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A Senate committee approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Thursday, after a shouting match that ended when one Democrat strode out and the Republican chairman bid him &quot;good riddance.&quot;
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A commission of the worldwide Anglican Church released a report Monday that criticized the US Episcopal Church, asking it to apologize for electing an openly gay bishop to
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LONDON  - An Anglican church commission sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church on Monday for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologize and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union.
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An appeals court Friday overturned the hate crimes conviction of a Swedish pastor who in a sermon had branded homosexuals a "cancer."