When officials at a small high school in rural Mississippi cancelled the annual prom, little did they know they would trigger a passionate national debate.
In the News
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March 23rd, 2010
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March 23rd, 2010
School officials in Mississippi violated a lesbian student?s constitutional rights by banning her from dressing in a tuxedo and taking her girlfriend to a school dance, a federal judge ruled today.
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March 23rd, 2010
It was a startling voice of protest at a startling venue. Covered head-to-toe in black, a Saudi woman lashed out at hard-line Muslim clerics' harsh religious edicts in verse on live TV at a popular Arabic version of 'American Idol'.
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March 21st, 2010
The introduction of an excessive number of new laws in the last 10 years has created a a 'victim society' and a 'blame culture', a senior Church of England bishop has warned.
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March 20th, 2010
The full text of Pope Benedict XVI's letter to the Catholics of Ireland.
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March 19th, 2010
In the light of the reports of further killings on the night of Tuesday 16-17 March, see here on the Jos Diocesan website, and the continued declension of The Episcopal Church in the USA from Christian faith in the confirmation of the election of Mary Glasspool while Christians in Nigeria are being killed for professing the very faith that TEC is resiling from.
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March 19th, 2010
In what has been seen as a move likely to worsen divisions over homosexuality, an Anglican church in the US has approved the consecration of its first openly lesbian bishop.
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March 19th, 2010
A lesbian priest has been confirmed as an assistant bishop in Los Angeles, making her the Episcopal Church's second openly gay bishop and potentially widening its breach with Anglicans overseas.
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March 19th, 2010
Tidworth has been identified as a priority area for action after the most extensive county-wide study of health and deprivation ever carried out in England highlighted several areas of concern ? including binge-drinking and the county?s highest rate of teenage pregnancy.
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March 19th, 2010
Dutch officials have furiously rejected a claim by a U.S. general that Dutch troops were unable to defend against genocide in the Bosnian war because openly homosexual soldiers were allowed to serve in the military.