Gay unselor's firg at Indiana Catholic school OK'd by urt

Contents:

• SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• RELIGN AND ACCEPTANCE OF GAYS
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• PUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STATPUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STAT
• GAY: RELIGN

SECTN 2: KNOWG GAYS AND LBIANS, RELIG CONFLICTS, BELIEFS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

Dpe major chang laws and norms surroundg the issue of same-sex marriage and the rights of LGBT people around the world, public opn on the acceptance of homosexualy society remas sharply divid by untry, regn and enomic velopment. The term “homosexualy, ” while sometim nsired anachronistic the current era, is the most applible and easily translatable term to e when askg this qutn across societi and languag and has been ed other cross-natnal studi, cludg the World Valu Survey.

However, while took nearly 15 years for acceptance to rise 13 pots om 2000 to jt before the feral legalizatn of gay marriage June 2015, there was a near equal rise acceptance jt the four years sce legalizatn.

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In South Korea, for example, those who classify themselv on the iologil left are more than twice as likely to say homosexualy is acceptable than those on the iologil right (a 39-percentage-pot difference). And Poland, supporters of the erng PiS (Law and Jtice), which has explicly targeted gay rights as anathema to tradnal Polish valu, are 23 percentage pots ls likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted by society than those who do not support the erng party.

But even untri like France and Germany where acceptance of homosexualy is high, there are differenc between supporters and non-supporters of key right-wg populist parti such as Natnal Rally France and Alternative for Germany (AfD). In 25 of the 34 untri surveyed, those who say relign is “somewhat, ” “not too” or “not at all” important their liv are more likely to say that homosexualy should be accepted than those who say relign is “very” important. Acrdg to a 2019 Pew Rearch Center analysis, 26 percent of Amerins intify as agnostic, atheist or “nothg particular, ” up om 17 percent jt a Sharon Klebm, of Congregatn Be Simchat Torah, New York’s LGBTQ synagogue, said the barriers gay people face when participatg their fah have only started to fall.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

“There’s been progrs, but I al wh people all the time om liberal relig fai who have faced horrible bigotry and rejectn, ” she, she add, the hunger for spirualy is ep among gay people — perhaps even eper than among the larger populatn. 5 percent intify as Jewish and 2 percent as the percentage of gay Amerins who intify as part of any fah tradn is still nsirably lower than the general populatn, of which 67 percent is relig, acrdg to a 2017 Gallup LGBTQ Black Amerins, the most likely mographic to be relig (over 70 percent), still lag behd Black people the general populatn: More than 82 percent are relig. Includ are web rourc for gay people g together as mory groups wh relig tradns, lks to relig activist groups for and agast homosexual rights, rourc beg created by gay people alg wh their relign and their homosexualy, and rourc beg created by relig activists who oppose homosexualy.

The Wikipedia article "Homosexualy and Baha'i Fah" giv an overview of the posn of the Baha'i fah towards homosexualy and also lists referenc and external lks to several statements published by the Universal Hoe of Jtice, the lg body for the Baha'i fah.

PUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STATPUBLIC OPN AND RELIGN: GAY RIGHTS THE UNED STAT

is "a web se dited to misterg to the gay and lbian Christian muny, " and featur "one of the largt gay and lbian welg Christian church directori and bullet boards the world, " cludg over 3, 400 entri for the Uned Stat. Whosoever is an onle magaze that "striv to show God nstantly at work the daily liv of gays, lbians, bisexuals and transgenr people" through "biblil scholarship, personal ttimoni and prayerful mentary on timely topics.

Affirmatn: Gay and Lbian Mormons is an anizatn which clus active members of the Church of the Latter-Day Sats, former members and non-members of all sexual and genr orientatns, and their supportive iends and fay. Exod Internatnal is "a worldwi ternomatnal, Christian anizatn lled to enurage, strengthen, unify and equip Christians to mister the transformg power of the Lord J Christ to those affected by homosexualy. Emergence Internatnal is "a world-wi muny of Christian Scientists, their fai and iends, that provis spirual and tnal support for lbians, gay men, and bisexual and transgenred people, as they al wh homophobia and heterosexism.

The Gay and Lbian Vaishnava Associatn (GALVA) (webse no longer active) is an ternatnal anizatn mted to tg "Vaishnavas, Hd and the public general" about "the teachgs of Lord Caanya, the importance of all-clivens wh His missn, and the Vedic ncept of a natural third genr" the hop that "this knowledge will help to rrect many of the mon misnceptns that people hold today ncerng third-genr people (gays, lbians, bisexuals, transgenrs, the tersexed, etc. An article the April 2004 edn of the Ltle India magaze entled "Here Com the the Bri" (webse no longer active) reunts the stori of a number of homosexual Indian partners, while examg their opns on same-sex marriage.

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People of Fah for Gay Civil Rights is "an terfah and ecumenil movement of clergy, vowed relig, and lay people of all sexual orientatns and genr inti” who “poe prayer, nscns-raisg and nonvlent ristance to achieve equaly for sexual mori society and relig nomatns. The Interfah Gay/Straight Alliance (webse no longer active) is centered Charlottville, Virgia and "is a fah-based group whose broad missn is to w full civil rights for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer persons and their fai. The World Congrs of Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, and Transgenr Jews, also lled Khet Ga’avah, "nsists of around 50 member anizatns all over the world, " cludg "member anisatns : Argenta, Atralia, Atria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Mexi, The Netherlands, Spa, Swen, the Uned Kgdom, and the Uned Stat.

The Femist Sexual Ethics Project provis rearch on Jewish sexual ethics that exam "ancient rabbic texts on which many Jews base their liv today through says on: rabbic laws that regulate genr segregatn, rabbic thkg on female homoeroticism, and rabbic thkg on same-sex marriage.