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The Rhode Island legislature introduced two pro-marriage equality bills this week that will handily pass through the House, but face tough opposition from the Senate.

Police from Kansas City, Mo., have confirmed that the leader of a cult-like prayer group is suspected of having plotted to kill his wife, to whom he was married to for just four months.

A musician from Kansas was removed from his church’s band because religious leaders found out he is gay.

A 22-year-old man has filed a complaint against a North Carolina-based church for keeping him hostage for four months because he is gay.

A 2010 letter where Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt tells a woman she may go to hell for accepting her gay son has sparked football player Chris Kluwe to condemn him in an op-ed piece.

In the past few weeks, Catholic bishops have been in the media spotlight for their views and actions on marriage equality. One archbishop has even urged politicians supporting gay marriage be banned from taking Holy Communion.

Maryland’s most vocal politician against gay marriage, which he says will impact children’s health, admitted to crashing his boat into another boat full of children while intoxicated and in injuring four.

A pastor known for railing against New Orleans’ LGBT community during events like Southern Decadence is guilty of some decadence of his own: He was convicted of public masturbation.

The newly appointed archbishop of Scotland is under fire for suggesting a gay Member of Parlament suddenly died because he was gay.

Alan Chambers, the president of Exodus International who announced that the group would no longer support reparative therapy, has said that gay men and women will go to heaven as long as they believe in Christ. His statements have upset many Christians.