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Reporting on religious news:Starting in early 1999-NOV, we started to collect items from various news sources which describe incidents of religious change, intolerance, conflict, lack of freedom, and violence. These include:
We also collected positive news items separately that were related to religious tolerance and information until 2009-SEP. The topics of religious change, intolerance, conflict, violence and positive news were combined after 2009-SEP, Unfortunatley, lack of staff time reduced coverage of these topics after 2010-JUN. If this list had been active in the past...:It would have dealt with the great ethical debates of the day. It would have discussed in depth:
Without exception, these great moral struggles have been resolved -- or at least partly resolved -- in the direction of greater equality and personal freedom. Recent struggles, like equality for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender persons (LGBT) Some commentators have suggested that acceptance of these topics reached a tipping point in 2011-FEB. Allowing same-sex couples to marry was resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court throughout the U.S. during 2016-JUN in their ruling for Obergefell v. Hodges. An exception was the territory of American Samoa, where most people are considered American residents, not American citizens. Thus the High Court rulings are not necessarily accepted there. Debates in the present:These are unusual in that we have many relatively new topics being simultaneously debated.
We also maintain news summaries elsewhere. These are recent developments, both positive and negative, which are related to a specific topic: e.g. abortion access, homosexual rights death penalty, etc. We also track developments concerning the acceptance of gays and lesbians as church members and clergy. This is reported separately for each denomination. News items:Media reports related to religious intolerance, violence, discrimination and change Archived news from:1999-NOV, DEC 2010-JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN Legal noticeIn accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. sec 107: The news items contained in the above hyperlinks are provided by the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, Box 27026, Kingston ON Canada K7M 8W5. They are intended to be available to anyone interested in the topics included, for educational purposes only. Any editor, author, Webmaster, writer, publisher, news service, etc that objects to being part of this listing may request that future works be excluded. We will also attempt to delete all previous entries from the same source. Sources used:
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