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A former member of a conservative, especially anti-gay branch of the Lutheran Church was sentenced to one year in jail on child porn charges.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization in Montgomery, Ala., labeled some religious groups as "hate groups" because of their anti-gay beliefs. Religious leaders including African-American pastors recently rallied against the SPLC.

Claiming that the civil right of marriage for gay and lesbian families contravenes "Divine law," Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, forbade any weddings between two men or two women from taking place in the state’s Catholic churches.

A religious university in Georgia has told its staff that anyone who refuses to sign documents attesting to their heterosexuality will face termination.

A 135-year-old parish that broke away from the Episcopal Church after it consecrated its first openly gay bishop cannot keep its building and land, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday.

Clergy sex abuse victims upset that no high-ranking Roman Catholic leaders have been prosecuted for sheltering guilty priests have turned to the International Criminal Court.

An Illinois judge ruled Thursday that the state can stop working with Catholic Charities on adoptions and foster care placements-something the state decided to do in July after the not-for-profit agency refused to recognize Illinois’ new civil unions law.

One of the largest social service networks in the United States, working in areas ranging from adoption to disaster relief, faces a shakeup because of Lutheran divisions over the Bible and homosexuality.

Evangelicals may be losing faith in the idea that gays choose their sexual orientation and can be converted to heterosexuality using so-called "reparative therapy."

Members of the now-defunct queer anarchist group Bash Back! have settled with a church where the group carried out a confrontational demonstration in 2008.