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The concern was raised as Glasgow councillors discussed a report on council efforts to boost equality.A book claiming being gay is a “sin” has been used in a religious Glasgow high school, a councillor has warned, despite efforts to boost LGBT rights. Trained teacher Fiona Higgins expressed her concern about the teaching materials being available in the city’s schools, which express views that “oppose” LGBT rights. The Labour councillor said the content had upset some “pupils” in the Catholic school while a council officer said they are working with headteachers to encourage the use of “appropriate materials” and admitted there...

(Daily readings from the USCCB)Nicodemus answered and said to him, ‘How can this happen?” Jesus answered and said to him, “You are the teacher of Israel and you do not understand this? Amen, amen, I say to you, we speak of what we know and we testify to what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.” John 3:9–11 As we reflected upon yesterday, Nicodemus is one of the only Pharisees who ultimately converted, became a follower of Jesus, and is today considered a saint. The only other Pharisees who were recorded by name as converts to...

Audrey Hale's religious parents rejected that she was gay and transgender Hale attended The Covenant School in Nashville as a child herself READ MORE: Hero schoolgirl, 9, who died trying to pull fire alarm Twisted school shooter Audrey Hale was at odds with her devout Christian parents because they 'couldn't accept' she was gay and transgender, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Church coordinator Norma, 61, and her husband Ronald, 64, refused to let Hale - who had recently adopted the name Aiden and used he/him pronouns - dress as a man in their home. The 28-year-old loner would instead wait until...

"And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise." "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?" "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God...