Adventist Pastor Forced To Resign Over Step-Daughter’s Wedding

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Recently, Brett Hadley, a Bible teacher, pastor and drama coach at Highland View Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist school in Maryland, was forced to resign. The reason: he participated in the wedding of his step-daughter, who entered into a same-sex marriage. When the family planned this event as a family dinner, no one guessed it would result in…

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Saints Bring Hope On World AIDS Day 25th Anniversary

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World AIDS Day, which marks its 25th anniversary this year on Dec. 1, supports everyone affected by HIV. The day is dedicated to prevention and treatment, and honors those who died of AIDS—more than 25 million people worldwide. First held in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first global health day for any disease.  …

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This Is Not The Progress We Deserve

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The LGBT movement has made a strong case that gays are just the same as everyone else, and furthermore, our same love deserves equal rights. In the meantime, we are watching the clock unwind on racial justice. The same week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality, they struck down Section 4 of…

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Catholic Coalition Supports Theologian Criticized By Rome

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Equally Blessed released the following statement in response to the criticism of Just Love, by Sister Margaret Farley, a Catholic theologian emeritus at Yale University, released today by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:   “We are saddened, but not surprised that the Roman Catholic hierarchy has found fault with the valuable…

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Catholic Bishops, Knights Of Columbus Must Cut Ties To NOM

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Equally Blessed, a coalition of four Catholic justice organizations, today called on the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, to publicly disassociate themselves and their organizations from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). The group wrote to Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New…

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