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Marriage equality is not legal in the predominantly Catholic Phillippines, but that has not stopped a growing number of gay and lesbian families from celebrating their long-term commitment.

A major donor to Belmont University is pressuring the Catholic school to re-hire a lesbian coach who was allegedly fired for revealing her sexual orientation. What’s more, the donor, Michael Curb, is a Republican politician, record company executive, and NASCAR owner.

A retired Presbyterian minister was found guilty of misconduct Friday by a church court for officiating the weddings of 16 gay couples when same-sex marriage was legal in California.

Novelist Anne Rice-whose novels about the supernatural include the famed "vampire" series, which reportedly translates a gay demimonde into a fictional world of immortal beings sustained by blood-announced that she was leaving Christianity in a July 29 posting at Facebook.

An Austrian Cardinal--the head of the Catholic faith in that country--has said that his church ought to respect long-term, committed rerlationships between people fo the same gender.