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Gallup: Rise in Religious ‘Nones’ Slows in 2012

The 2011 to 2012 uptick in religious “nones” is the smallest such year-to-year increase over the past five years.

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Progressive Catholic Group to Ordain Transgender Man

Kearns, who is a transgender man, will be tasked with starting a new Minneapolis parish, House of the Transfiguration, after his ordination.

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Italian Premier Monti Won’t Fight Marriage Equality if Re-Elected

The Vatican is staunchly opposed to same-sex marriage. They are in support of Monti’s re-election campaign.

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Church: Homosexuality is a Form of Demonic Possession

WOFF has been accused of being a cult because of the way it controls its members and with numerous investigations into reports of abuse.

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77% of Americans Identify with Christian Religion

Mormons are the most religious of any group in this analysis, based on self-reported data, followed by Protestants/other non-Catholic Christians and Muslims.

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Faith and Equality Offers LGBT Youth the Gift of Acceptance This Holiday

Faith In America has worked since 2005 to educate the public about the harm caused to LGBT youth and families when certain religious teaching is used to promote attitudes of hostility and rejection.

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Required Reading: My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus

My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus is the type of memoir that speaks truth to power in a way that is impossible to ignore.

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Study Finds Americans Oppose Same-Sex Marriage on Religious Basis

Americans under the age of 30 and Democrats highly favor same-sex marriage, while those aged 65 and older and Republicans significantly oppose it.

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Seven in 10 Americans Are Very or Moderately Religious

Mormons are the most religious of any specific religious group in America; Jews are the least.

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American Jewish World Service Condemns Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill

The law seeks to criminalize the “promotion of homosexuality,” which includes funding organizations that serve LGBT people or that support the human rights of sexual minorities.

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