DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1
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Direct Threat to Religious Liberty: Legislative Bans on Conversion Therapy on Both Sides of the Atlantic as Canada Passes Most Comprehensive Conversion Therapy Laws in the World and Britain Seeks to Follow Suit

NPR (RACHEL TREISMAN)
After Two Failed Attempts, Canada Bans Conversion Therapy

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-4: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (conversion therapy)

GOVERNMENT OF EQUALITIES OFFICE (ELIZABETH TRUSS)
Open Consultation: Banning Conversion Therapy

BBC NEWS
Religious Group Warns Against LGBT+ Conversion Therapy Ban

PART 2
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Combining Courage Against Apartheid, Rejection of Biblical Revelation Of Sexuality, and Aquamation: Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dies at 90

THE GUARDIAN (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE)
What is Aquamation? The Process behind Desmond Tutu’s ‘Green Cremation’

PART 3
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Against Cries to Defund the Police, Eric Adams – Former Police Captain – Takes Office as Mayor of New York City

NEW YORK TIMES (EMMA G. FITZSIMMONS)
Eric Adams Takes Office as New York City’s 110th Mayor at a Perilous Moment

ASSOCIATED PRESS (MICHELLE PRICE)
On Busy 1st day, NYC Mayor Urges Resiliency Against Pandemic

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