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A week after married Christian rocker Trey Pearson announced he is gay and will be leaving his family, twin brothers Jason and David Benham have urged him to find his identity in Christ - not his sexuality.

The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru has legalized homosexuality, replacing its century-old criminal code with a new law that also criminalizes slavery and broadens the definition of rape to apply to married and unmarried couples.

A prominent figure in the Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert Sarah, has slammed the United States over the country's transgender bathroom debates and argued that the devil himself is behind the destruction of the traditional family unit.

President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the decision to direct public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice was based on the law and the best interests of the children.

Trey Pearson, the married lead singer of Christian rock group Everyday Sunday has come out as gay, claiming that "there is absolutely no conflict with accepting who I am and following Jesus."

Texas College Steers' football player Carlton Champion Jr., 21, was arrested and charged on Monday with the murder of Tyrone "Ty or Tyra" Lee Underwood, 24, a transgender woman found dead on a Texas street Jan. 26. Police verified Champion and Underwood had been dating within "a sexual relationship."

The New York bar known as the birthplace of the gay pride movement could become the country's first national monument honoring LGBT rights under a plan to be considered by President Barack Obama.

"Finding Dory," as the long-awaited animated sequel to Disney and Pixar's "Finding Nemo" 3-D movie in 2003, may be taking on the major topic of showing the first lesbian couple to appear in a Disney film, based on interpretations of the movie's new trailer. Many reactions to the possibility dotted the Internet during this Memorial Day weekend. The film is scheduled to be released on June 17, 2016.

A lawsuit brought by Texas and other states against the Obama administration's policy on bathroom access may move the United States closer to a resolution on transgender rights by putting the issue on a trajectory for the Supreme Court.

The Rev. Franklin Graham has once again criticized Target for allowing men to go into women's bathrooms if they identify as female and called on Americans to sign an online petition boycotting the retail chain.

Americans are divided on the debate regarding which public restrooms and locker rooms that transgender people should be allowed to use, according to a new CBS/New York Times poll released Thursday. President Barack Obama's Administration recently issued guidelines to all public schools directing them to allow transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds to their gender identity, with an implied threat of a loss of federal funding if not followed. This poll, which was conducted after the directive was issued to schools, surveyed 1,300 adults.

Oklahoma lawmakers on Friday proposed a new bill that would allow students to request their school buildings provide bathrooms, showers and locker rooms based on religious grounds, not just on self-assigned sex -- essentially rooms to disallow transgender people. The same Republican legislators introduced a resolution Thursday to urge the state's congressional delegates to start an impeachment of President Barack Obama over the White House's recent directive to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their gender identity.

A Christian high school in Wichita, Kansas prohibits admission of a child with a gay relative, or even practices or promotes LGBT at home

Pro-LGBTQ businesses are a greater threat to religious freedom in the United States than the Islamic State, said Robert Jeffress, a conservative evangelical minister of the 12,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. He reportedly was speaking out about the federal government's reaction to anti-transgender legislation in states, such as North Carolina.

"It's time to stand up and have a voice, instead of bowing to the homosexual, perverted agenda that's taken over this nation," an unidentified woman walking through a Target store with what is assumed her family says in a video posted by YouTube user Loredana Camelia, which has gone viral since the video was posted Saturday. It received more than 390,890 views at the time this article was published.

Barbara Satin, a transgender woman, joined representatives from the Sikh and Baha'i communities as new advisers to President Barack Obama on faith-based issues. The White House announced the additions to the President's third and final advisory council on faith-based and neighborhood partnerships on May 12. But Satin's appointment was not welcomed by all.

Battle lines now exist between North Carolina and U.S. federal government representatives regarding the state's controversial bathroom law, which has become the epicenter of a larger fight over transgender rights. The N.C. law, HB2, requires people to use public restrooms according to the sex they were assigned at birth, rather than the one with which they currently they "identify." Everyone's suing everyone, except one defector: N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat who is running for governor.

Canada will introduce legislation to protect transgender people from discrimination, the prime minister said on Monday, as the political debate around such rights heats up in the United States.

Evangelist Franklin Graham has accused Obama of opening bathrooms to "sexual predators and perverts" after the president ordered public schools to permit transgender students to use the bathroom that corresponds their gender identity.

The Obama administration's notice to U.S. public schools on Friday that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice raised questions about federal funding and legal authority that could play out for months.

Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has slammed a new guidance issued by President Barack Obama stating that every U.S. public school district should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.

Despite Mayo Bill de Blasio's call to New Yorkers to boycott Chick-fil-A restaurants over its opposition to same-sex marriage, the fast-food chain's two Manhattan locations have experienced tremendous success, with lines often stretching around the block.

The Obama administration directed all public schools to allow transgender students to allow access in restrooms according to gender.

The Massachusetts' Senate began debating a bill protecting the rights of transgender people on Thursday, a move some see as a rebuke to a North Carolina law (HB2) requiring people to use bathrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificates.

Evangelist Franklin Graham has thanked North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory for standing strong in defense of the state's recently passed transgender bathroom law despite significant backlash from the federal government, politicians, and Hollywood celebrities.