Gospel Hall Toronto Congregation Prays For And Preys On Gay Couple Prompting Neighbours To Defend Street, Retired Presbyterian Reverend To Stand Trial For Performing Gay Marriages, Gay Geese, Canadian Track And Field Athlete Diane Cummins Calls Caster Semenya A Man, Cristiano Ronaldo

A terrible sight Sunday night in Toronto, Ontario members of the anti-gay Gospel Hall Highfield Road congregation descending on the home of a gay couple in the city’s Leslieville neighbourhood, where they prayed for the men’s salvation. The evangelical Gospel Hall has several congregations throughout the province – several, in fact, in the Toronto area - and apparently preaches their own particular form of perverted Christianity door to door in the area, and has done so for many years. It is not known why they targeted the gay couple - although the Gospel Hall contingent says they are "living in sin" - but neighbours, as the video within the link demonstrates, came to the defence of the two men, calling the police, who arrived after the Gospel Hall delegation had long left.

Retired Presbyterian Reverend Jane Spahr accused by church officials of publically, deliberately, and repeatedly violating church doctrine when presiding at sixteen same sex marriages between June and November 2008 will face a church trial, to commence Tuesday in Napa, California. All of the services were performed within the window when gay marriage was legalized in California before the passage of Proposition 8, the gay marriage ban. This is the second time the 67 year old has been censured by the church; a regional church court convicting her for marrying two lesbian couples, although the conviction was soon overturned by the church’s highest court who contended that the ceremonies did not constitute real marriages.

Gay geese: literally.

Sunday, South African sprinter Caster Semenya competed in only her third race since having been ordered by the track and field governing body to undergo gender verification tests, Semenya taking the 800 metres in a time of 1:59.90, despite an almost eleven month absence. She is training for the Commonwealth Games to be held this October, and the crowd in Berlin, Germany Sunday – the same stadium she won the same race in last year, prompting the gender authentic testing – welcomed her back. A number of fellow athletes, however, have not, angered by the ruling by the International Association of Athletics Federation to allow the 19 year old to return to racing. Most troubling, comments from Canada’s Diane Cummins, who finished Sunday’s race eighth, said of Caster “Even if she is a female, she’s on the very fringe of the normal athlete female biological composition from what I understand of hormone testing. So, from that perspective, most of us feel that we are literally running against a man.”

Cristiano Ronaldo spotted in Madrid, Spain, attending an exhibition basketball game between Spain and the United States.