Christian housing programs must accept transgender, homosexual applicants
Image by joseph a via Flickr January 31, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The federal government will publish regulations next month requiring all religious groups involved in government-assisted housing facilities to accept homosexual couples and transgender individuals - a change effected in part by including homosexual couples in the rule’s definition of the word “family.” The Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) proposed a new rule on Thursday that defines “family” as at least two people living together “regardless of marital status, or actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity ,” in addition to the surviving partners of AIDS victims who had previously been housed under HUD’s AIDS housing program. “HUD’s proposed rule clarifies that families, otherwise eligible for HUD programs, may not be excluded because one or more members of the family may be an LGBT individual, have an LGBT relationship, or be perceived to be such an individual or in suc