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Local priest rejects gay marriages

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A prominent Timaru priest has said he could never marry a gay couple. If he did, he feared he might face excommunication from the church. Sacred Heart Basilica parish priest Father Peter Costello was reacting to the news that Louisa Wall's Marriage Amendment Bill had passed its first reading in Parliament. Opinions have been divided over the consequences for clergy if the bill comes into law. Family First-commissioned expert Ian Bassett said earlier in the week that if passed into law, clergy who refused to marry same-sex couples could be criminalised. But the Human Rights Commission has said churches will still be allowed to refuse to marry anyone, including same-sex couples, without legal ramifications. Father Costello hopes he will be able to refuse gay marriages. "It is never a universal human right to be married," he said. "The [Catholic] church would say that love and friendship exist for everyone, but only the bond between a male and a female is recognised in

California Assembly passes ‘attack on parental rights’ bill banning sex orientation therapy

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SACRAMENTO, August 30, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A first-of-its-kind state measure banning voluntary therapy for same-sex attraction for minors has passed California ’s Assembly , moving it a step closer to law, pending the reconciliation of the bill’s versions this week. The latest version of the bill states that California has a compelling interest in protecting minors against “exposure to serious harms caused by sexual orientation change efforts ,” and prohibits any mental health professional from providing sexual orientation therapy to individuals under 18 years old.  Ted Lieu said he designed the bill to deny parental rights. The measure passed by a 51-21 vote in the Democratic -controlled Assembly, and was approved by the Senate in May. Critics have blasted the bill as an infringement upon parents’ rights, while supporters say that’s precisely the point. “ The attack on parental rights is exactly the whole point of the bill , because we don’t want to let paren

Canadian Medical Association shows its rainbow colors: new president is lesbian

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YELLOWKNIFE, NWT , August 30, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Canada ’s largest physicians’ association, the Canadian Medical Association ( CMA ) has elected an openly lesbian doctor as the new president of the 76,000-member organization. Dr Anna Reid, who practices as an emergency room doctor at the Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife, was officially introduced as the new president of the CMA at the organization’s national convention held in the capital of the Northwest Territories earlier this month. She will serve as president for one year. Dr. Anna Reid. The new president’s  biography  posted on the CMA website notes that she lives “with her partner, Linda, and their canine life–coach, Ella.” In an  interview with Toronto’s  Globe and Mail  newspaper, Reid, who is the CMA’s first president from the Northwest Territories, the first open homosexual, and the sixth woman to head the doctor’s group, said, “Being a woman has never stood in the way of my doing anythi

LGBTTIQQ2S: How many more letters do we need?

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“LGBTTIQQ2S? How many letters do we need, and what do half of these even stand for?,” someone recently asked in the comments section of a news article I wrote. The answer is simple: A letter is needed for every single sexual inclination and action that deviates from the obvious norm - i.e. sexual inclinations and actions between a male and female that are best expressed in marriage. Can I say such a thing without being discriminatory and homophobic? I hope it is not being discriminatory to point out what biology teaches. On a purely biological level, sexual organs are for the sake of reproduction. Nature produced woman with a vagina and man with a penis so that the two could come together to procreate new life. Ejaculation is for the sake of shooting a seed to fertilize the egg so that a new human being can come into existence. On a purely biological level, the sexual inclination is for the sake of the continuation of the species. If there was no sexual drive , the hum

University upholds study finding children do better with straight parents than homosexuals

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AUSTIN, TX , August 30, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A Texas university has determined that “no formal investigation is warranted” against a professor who published a rigorous study this summer finding that children of heterosexual parents fare better in many respects than children of homosexual parents. Mark Regnerus is vindicated. The University of Texas at Austin   announced  this week it would not pursue allegations against associate sociology professor Mark Regnerus an article published in the journal  Social Science Research  in July. The announcement came in response to LGBT activist and blog author Scott Rosensweig, who had accused Regnerus of crafting a study “designed so as to be guaranteed to make gay people look bad, through means plainly fraudulent and defamatory,” and of “harbor[ing] anti-gay prejudices” because he is Catholic . The  study  unearthed alarming disparities between the two family models, from suicide attempts and unemployment rates to sexual

Support for homosexual marriage is going down

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Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, 2008 US presidential candidate. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Greetings from the great state of Florida, where marriage emerged from the platform fight with a great victory! In the buildup to the RNC Convention in Tampa, the Log Cabin Republicans and GOProud promised that a new generation of Margaret Hoover Republicans would help weaken the GOP 's commitment to marriage. This is part of a larger narrative of supposed inevitability that we always hear: "Support for gay marriage is growing everywhere." Except when it's not. The effort to get the GOP to retreat from marriage in Tampa was an epic fail for the seditious pro-gay marriage elites within the GOP! The director of the Log Cabin Republicans, R. Clarke Cooper , told the Boston Globe in July that his group's goal was to convince Republicans to strike any "anti-gay language" from the platform—including any mention that marriage is a union of male and

Lara Gidding's illegal homosexual stunt

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English: The logo of the Australian Greens political party. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings  is seeking to force Federal Labor to support same sex marriage and in so doing is seeking to force all Australians to support her immoral legislation. Who does she think she is? Even though Gay and lesbian couples gathered in the public gallery of the House of Assembly to hear the bill debated she chose not to mention those who don't support her stunt. There are literally thousands of people who have been bullied into silence over coming out against homosexuality and homosexual marriage.  With support from the extreme Greens it has little chance of passing the Upper house. Placard carrying supporters of gay marriage greeted about 250 people turning up to a "Save Marriage" meeting at the University of Tasmania last night. The 50-person vigil outside the Stanley Burbury Theatre was peaceful with only a few jeers, as people arrived to attend the mee

Planned Parenthood targets gay youth with ‘LGBTTIQQ2S’ resource explaining gay/lesbian sex

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TORONTO, Ontario , 29 August, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – School-aged youths in Toronto who identify themselves with the homosexual lifestyle are about to be given a LGBTTIQQ2S sex-ed resource called “ Queering Sex ed ,” thanks to Planned Parenthood . The resource, when complete, will “have gay and lesbian sex properly explained” and will be offered to schools as part of Planned Parenthood’s sex education package. Anna Penner, one of the creators of Queering Sex ed,  told  the homosexual news service Xtra that she hopes to achieve a “resource that queer and trans youth can look at and think: ‘This is relevant to me.’” But Gwen Landolt, national vice president of REAL Women of Canada , told LifeSiteNews that if Planned Parenthood “really cared” about children who struggled with their sexual identity, then they would point out how the homosexual life style “negatively affects one’s health, longevity, and emotional stability”. Planned Parenthood  will involve youths  in the cr