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Homosexuality and God's moral law

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One of the most popular arguments for the existence of God is the moral argument.  It states that God alone makes sense of objective moral values , and since objective moral values exist, then God exists.  A large number of people today, including atheists and agnostics, believe in objective moral values.  However, they do not agree with the Christian answer to provide a basis for those values. Sometimes looking at what can be considered the Christian answer, I don’t agree with it either. For instance, if someone says, “Murder is wrong because the Bible says so,” I disagree. To see what I am saying, consider if I stated this: “ Jesus was crucified because the Bible says so.” Is the Bible saying so the cause of Jesus being crucified, or was Jesus’ crucifixion the reason the Bible says he was crucified? Just as the Bible writers wrote about objective history that happened before their record of it, so they wrote about objective morality that was known before they recorded

Christian persecution and Homosexual Marriage Activists

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Last week, two Christian preachers were summoned to Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Tribunal for preaching their faith’s stand on traditional marriage and homosexuality. Hobart pastor Campbell Mark­ham and street preacher David Gee, from Hobart’s Cornerstone Church, were denounced by an atheist offended by, among other things, Markham quoting a verse from the Bible. We’ve seen this before. Hobart’s Catholic Archbishop, Julian Porteous , was two years ago ordered by this tribunal to tell by what right he spoke against same-sex marriage. How cowed the churches have been before this looming persecution, now picking off vocal Christians, one by one. Just this year, Sydney University ’s Student Union threatened to deregister the university’s Evangelical Union unless it stopped insisting members declare their faith in Christ. Meanwhile, same-sex marriage extremists bullied Coopers Brewery into taking down a video of a Christian MP Andrew Hastie debating same-sex marriage , and lobbied IB

Australia: Politician stands by decision to call for same-sex marriage plebiscite in Alliance Defending Freedom address

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The ABC Australia  (the Australian Broadcasting Network) is reporting that "Former prime minister Tony Abbott has stood by his decision to call for a plebiscite on same-sex marriage , despite calling the potential change a massive ask". Mr Abbott said whatever the result of the public vote, the subsequent action of the Government would have "authority". He said the decision should be made by the whole people, not just the Parliament . "This is the best way to decide something that's so important but so personal: it's to let the people decide. The decision, whichever way it goes, will have their authority." Mr Abbott made the comments during an address to the US -based Alliance Defending Freedom ( ADF ), which is strongly opposed to same-sex marriage. The "pro-family member of parliament" cited the 17 countries that adopted same-sex marriage, saying more than 175 countries retained the traditional definition. "I know that numbers

Rob Bell and Andrew Wilson Discuss Homosexuality and the Bible

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Or perhaps I should have titled that “ Rob Bell Discusses Homosexuality and Andrew Wilson Discusses the Bible ,” because there was a disturbing lack of Bible in Rob Bell’s answers and arguments. Instead, Rob argued along these lines (and I’m paraphrasing): · People don’t like Christianity . Therefore, we should change the parts they don’t like. · The modern world affirms homosexuality . Therefore, we should too. · Monogamous homosexuals aren’t hurting anyone. Therefore, they’re not sinful. · Monogamy is better than promiscuity because the latter is dangerous and destructive. · Because homosexuals want to share their lives with each other, they should be able to. I wasn’t familiar with Andrew Wilson prior to watching this video, but I appreciate the way he interacted with Rob. He was direct, logical, kind, persistent, and uncompromising. Watch it for yourself. Related articles Students taught to reconcile faith with 'gay' behavior

The gay sex revolution will be unable to keep its promise of love

This past weekend I met a couple who were married on the Fourth of July and baptized on the fifth. They had been cohabiting for many years and had several children together. They had never known anyone who was part of a church . But when their lives didn’t turn out the way that they hoped, they were willing to try anything, including a local church. There they ran into an old gospel, and new life. As I watched them plunged into the waters of baptism—and as I heard their three year-old son yell from his pew “Wow!”—I thought about how their story may well be the story of the coming generations. The Sexual Revolution certainly seems triumphant. After a generation of no-fault divorce, cohabitation, ubiquitous pornography, and the cultural unhinging of sex from marriage and marriage from childbearing, we now see the courts and the culture decoupling marriage from even its most basic reality: gender. And there are hints on the horizon that the next step is to culturally , and perhaps le

Lesbian teacher: How I convince kids to accept gay ‘marriage’, starting at 4-years-old

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TORONTO, April 20, 2015 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) -- A primary grade lesbian teacher from an Ontario public school revealed in a workshop at a homosexual activist conference for teachers earlier this month how she uses her classroom to convince children as young as four to accept homosexual relationships . “And I started in Kindergarten . What a great place to start. It was where I was teaching. So, I was the most comfortable there,” Pam Strong said at the conference, attended by LifeSiteNews. The conference, hosted by the homosexual activist organization Jer’s Vision , now called the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity, focused on the implementation of Bill 13 in Ontario classrooms. Bill 13, called by critics the ‘ homosexual bill of rights ,’ passed in June 2012 and gave students the right to form pro-gay clubs in their school, including Catholic ones, using the name Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). Strong, who is in an open relationship with another woman and who

When they come to destroy your business because you are pro-traditional family

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English: Porlock Hardware, High Street, Porlock A traditional family run hardware shop. A hardware business has been run from these premises since 1935. http://www.porlock.co.uk/members/index.php?id=00114 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) When they come to destroy your business because you are pro- traditional family I’ve been thinking about how homosexualists target Christian businesses for destruction.  Approach a florist or a bakery or, now, a pizzeria and tell the owner that this is for a homosexual “wedding” and then hammer them with law suits . Enough already.  It’s time for everyone to calm down. We need a new approach. Think about this. When some homosexual couple comes to your Christian business for services at their immoral event, don’t panic.  Go ahead and take their business! Then explain what is going to happen next. Tell them that the food and services will be just fine.  And then inform them that all of the money that they pay for the services will be dona

A year after refusing to provide cake for gay ‘wedding,’ Christian bakery closes

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Español: Intercambio de anillos entre los novios (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) INDIANAPOLIS, March 5, 2015 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – An Indianapolis bakery that drew national media attention a year ago after refusing to make a cake for a same-sex “wedding” has closed its doors . Randy and Trish McGath, the owners of the former 111 Cakery , said they closed the business down because Trish, the shop’s primary baker, was tired and wanted to spend more time with her grandchildren. The work was “wearing [Trish] out,” said Randy, who has since transitioned to a job selling recreational vehicles. Last March , the McGaths endured a campaign of internet harassment by homosexual activists after a local television station reported that the couple had declined to produce a cake for a gay couple’s “ commitment ceremony .” Outraged social media posters accused the Christian couple of homophobia and hatred, and called for boycotts. But the McGaths said their refusal to make a cake for a homos