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Gay California Catholic teacher's firing sparks online petition Posted: 01 Aug 2013 03:47 PM PDT By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Catholic teacher's claim that he was fired after marrying his gay partner soon after same-sex marriage was made legal in California has prompted a Web-based push to see him reinstated. The petition drive in support of English instructor Ken Bencomo on the website of social advocacy group Change.org has gathered over 9,000 signatures from his former students and people as far away as Spain since it was launched earlier this week. The high school teacher and his partner were among a wave of same-sex couples who married after a U.S. ...

German Catholic seminarians expelled for Nazi jokes, salute Posted: 01 Aug 2013 09:08 AM PDT By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters) - An investigation into rumors of neo-Nazi activity at a seminary in Bavaria has resulted in two student priests being expelled for imitating the Nazi salute and making jokes about death camps, two bishops announced. The commission probing rumors of neo-Nazi activity at the seminary in Wuerzburg also found a third student had said participants in recent anti-racism marches in the southern German state deserved "a smack in the face", the bishops said. ...

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