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A Catholic parish recently screened a film spotlighting “gender identity,” the presentation of which its diocese says did not controvert Church teaching. The LGBT and Adult Faith Formation ministries of Sacramento’s St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church hosted  Call Me Malcolm  on June 22. The film was billed by the parish as a “down-to-earth, non-threatening and wholesome film” about a “transgendered man in his first year of United Church of Christ seminary.” The 90-minute documentary was written by a United Church of Christ (UCC) minister and produced in 2005 by the UCC. It follows Miriam, now “Malcolm,” a UCC seminary student who had undergone “sex reassignment” surgery and travels around meeting with other “transgender” individuals. “ Call Me Malcolm   is an amazing story of the human spirit and God's spirit, and the liberating struggle to realize and express with confidence the marvelous gift of one's truest sense of self,” the UCC’s information says of...

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against enforcing Alabama's law banning same-sex “marriage,” despite the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision upholding that law. In March 2015, shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court's Obergefell decision, which ruled that same-sex "marriage" is a Constitutional right, the state Supreme Court had ordered probate judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, saying the state law remained in effect. In January of this year, Chief Justice Roy Moore reaffirmed that 2015 state Supreme Court decision. In an Administrative Order he reminded the state's judges that the ban on same-sex "marriage" remained in effect, and advised them not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Then, in March of this year, the state Supreme Court   issued a 170-page ruling   rejecting the Obergefell decision. However, U.S. District Judge Callie V. Granade ruled last week that state officials are bound by the U...