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5 reasons why marriage still matters to you

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A small group of USA judges took it upon themselves to redefine historic marriage on behalf of millions of people. Whu gave them that right?  In light of these developments, many Christians are wondering if the struggle to preserve marriage is worth it.  “What’s the use?” they ask.  If you’re wondering why this battle is still important, here are five reasons why marriage still matters – and why it matters to you: 1. Marriage as defined by God has not changed.  Ideologies come and go.  Cultural customs can – and do – change.  Societies can decline and descend into depravity.  As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia reminded us, “Societies can rot as well as ripen.”  But God’s Truth and God’s standard remain unchanged. 2. If same-sex “marriage” is now legalized, the religious freedom of your church and your pastor is threatened.  We have seen this in other countries that are further down the road to redefining marriage.  In Sweden, a pastor was convicted of a

Canada’s Navy urges sailors to attend Gay Pride parades in uniform

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Royal Canadian Navy commander Vice-Admiral Ron Lloyd urged sailors last week to attend "Pride" events in uniform without any special permission to show that the Navy is "diverse" and "inclusive." "In an effort to epitomize diversity and inclusion," Lloyd wrote in his directives, "the (Navy) encourages attendance to Pride events and authorizes the wear of uniform to participate in or attend the parade." The Navy commander said that effective immediately, Navy personnel no longer had to seek permission in order to wear their uniforms in homosexual "Pride" parades. Lloyd marched in last year's Pride Parade in Toronto . He told  Canadian Press that he issued the directives after meeting with members of the LGBTQ community , who complained to him about Navy members needing permission to wear their uniforms in Pride Parades . "They were speaking to the fact that you needed chain-of-command approval in orde

University president fully supports institute that linked gov’t website for school kids to ‘gay’ smut

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West view of Rutherford House on the grounds of the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The University of Alberta ’s president is singing the praises of a pro-homosexual institute even after revelations it runs a government website for kindergarten to Grade 12 students that provided links to graphic homosexual content. In an email to Brian Rushfeldt, founder and former president of Canada Family Action, University of Alberta president David Turpin lauded  the Institute for Sexual Minorities Studies and Services, part of the university’s education faculty, as “groundbreaking and nationally recognized.” Alberta blogger Teresa Ng broke the story in mid-March that the ISMSS created and oversees the NDP government-funded Alberta Gay Straight Alliance Network website, which linked to  “gay” sex sites  as “resources.” Notable among these was Fruit Loop, a pro-LGBTQ site linking to sexually explicit posts with such content as “images of

Canadian government employees must pass pro-LGBT ‘gender equality’ test, or else

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Canada ’s federal public servants have three chances to pass a mandatory feminist “gender equality” course or face unspecified consequences. We've  learned of a number of federal employees who fear that if they refuse to take the test, or outright fail it by not selecting the feminist-approved answers, they might be overlooked for promotion. Some fear they might even lose their jobs.  The gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) course was  developed  under Jean Chretien ’s Liberal government in 1995. Its purpose was to “advance gender equality in Canada” by helping government employees craft and implement “gender equality” policies, programs, and legislation.  The GBA+ tool was erratically applied over the past 20 years. One woman  complained  in a 2005 article that appeared in  Canadian Women's Studies  that under the Harper government "further development of policies using this tool is almost nonexistent."   But this changed when Liberal leader Justin Trudeau

Gay-activist pastor accused of sexually abusing a teen set free by judge

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A Nova Scotia judge has acquitted Canada ’s most prominent homosexual-activist pastor of charges that he sexually abused a 16-year-old boy, despite acknowledging in his ruling the “likelihood or even a probability that some sexual activity happened in the bedroom.” Judge Alan Tufts acquitted Toronto gay-pastor Brent Hawkes in a case going back to the 1970s after concluding that the complainant ’s testimony did not hold up to scrutiny, and that there were “significant inconsistencies” in the testimony of the witnesses. “In the end, it is not clear what happened in the bedroom that evening 41 years ago. It is easy to speculate, but that is something that is not permitted here,” he wrote in his 59-page decision given on Tuesday. Tufts ruled that while “there is a likelihood or even a probability that some sexual activity happened in the bedroom, possibly between the accused and [the complainant],” he was “not convinced of that beyond a reasonable doubt.” “For that reason

‘Harassment’? Pro-LGBT pols blast police sting that caught pedophile masturbating in public park

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NDP politician Cheri DiNovo has sent an open letter to Ontario’s attorney general condemning a community-based police action during which the police arrested a convicted pedophile who was breaching a probation order to stay away from children. A self-identified “queer woman,” DiNovo added her voice to a number of protests of Project Marie, a six-week sting operation at a west-end Toronto park that   police report resulted in 89 charges, including 71 charges of indecent exposure and engaging in sexual activity and one criminal charge, against 76 men and two women. Cheri DiNovo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In her   open letter , the MPP for Parkdale-High Park accused police of “trying to lure gay men and trans people to proposition them for sex.” DiNovo urged Attorney-General Yasir Navqi to “immediately order all 89 charges against these 72 individuals be dropped before more lives are ruined.” “Considering these were minor by-law infractions, this also raises many ques

Canadian Navy flies gay ‘Pride’ flag - and this Christian sailor isn’t happy, at all

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Last year , I wrote a column  detailing the secular progressive strategy to push Christians out of the public square: Two of Canada ’s three major political parties have demanded that all of their members support abortion on demand. Law societies across Canada are stating that they will refuse to recognize lawyers coming from Christian universities, since such lawyers must obviously be homophobic. Doctors are being told that they must refer for abortion and assisted suicide. It seems as if  every day there’s another story  about a gay couple suing a school or a teacher or a university instructor, appalled that there are still people who walk and talk that do not agree with them. "Had I remained, I would have discovered that one of my tasks for that morning would have been to participate in the raising of the Pride flag over our unit - in some cases, higher than the Canadian flag . Completely unaware of what would happen, I would have been forced into a position to choose