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Conservative legal scholar proposes new marriage-defense bill to challenge Obergefell ruling

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As LGBT activists continue their efforts to impose acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism in the country at large, one prominent conservative thinker has offered a unique legislative proposal he says may help conservatives go back on offense in the culture wars. For months, conservatives have been debating how to respond to instances of left-wing cultural aggression such as Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH), which is the practice of cross-dressers reading to small children in public libraries for the express purpose of acclimating them to notions of gender-fluidity. New York Post editor Sohrab Ahmari initiated the debate in May by identifying National Review writer David French as emblematic of a certain breed of conservative unsuited to meaningfully resist such projects; French argues that DQSH is a free-speech issue government is powerless to prevent. Last week, Hadley Arkes, eminent Amherst College political scientist and architect of the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act

The Church, the State and Homosexuals

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English: Julia Gillard (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) One of the great threats which loom with Julia Gillard and the Greens is the very real possibility of greater inroads by the homosexual lobby. Though she has angered homosexuals with her own personal lack of support for homosexual marriage even though she lives with her boyfriend outside of marriage. Her response is you don't need to damage marriage to do what you want. She being the highest person in the land proves  that you don't need a marriage certificate to be equal or respected.  She believes she has both and so can homosexual without marriage.  So what’s the Christian to do? What should we be fighting for with respect to the state civil unions and possible federal changes to the Marriage Act ? And what are the legitimate battle lines? Since the culture war is waged so fiercely in the arena of rhetoric, it is vital that we seek to fight with a logical precision. We must not let ourselves forget that in

Dump Starbucks

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Rainbow flag. Symbol of gay pride. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) We are urging customers across the globe to 'Dump Starbucks ' because it has taken a corporate-wide position that the definition of marriage between one man and one woman should be eliminated and that same-sex marriage should become equally 'normal'. As such, Starbucks has deeply offended at least half its US customers, and the vast majority of its international customers. On January 12th, 2012, Starbucks issued a memorandum declaring that same-sex marriage 'is core to who we are and what we value as a company. Starbucks also used its resources to participate in a legal case seeking to overturn a federal law declaring marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In many areas of the world where Starbucks does business, the concept of 'gay marriage' is unheard of and deeply offensive to cultural, moral and religious values. In taking these actions, Starbucks has declared a culture war on a

Gay Bullying

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Since the  Charity Give Back Group  was forced to defend its financing of organizations like the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, spokesman Kevin McCullough (who himself has propagated  virulent ant Image via Wikipedia i-gay rhetoric ) has stated that the campaign to have companies withdraw from the CGBG represents bullying. Tony Perkins , the president of the FRC, even said it was an attempt to  “censor” Christians . After Apple dropped out of the CGBG, which was previously known as the Christian Values Network, McCullough  told   The Christian Post , “We're not asking Apple to embrace our position or the other side's position. We just want them to stay neutral,” and the FRC is calling on activists to tell companies to “ remain neutral in the current cultural battles .” But by indirectly assisting the FRC and Focus on the Family, two of th Image via Wikipedia e major ‘culture war’ players, companies listed in the CGBG’s virtual mall are inadvertently finding

Gay activists get LifeSiteNews translator and pro-family activist Julio Severo cut off by PayPal

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Image via Wikipedia Click here to sign a petition  to PayPal to protest against persecution of Pro-Family Christians September 19, 2011  (LifeSiteNews.com ) - Under pressure from homosexual activists, PayPal has decided to deny service to famed Brazilian pro-life and pro-family Christian activist Julio Severo. In additon, at least two Christian organizations targeted by the same activists remain under investigation by PayPal and may also lose use of the service. Severo, an Evangelical essayist who also translates for LifeSiteNews, maintains a highly influential blog in Portuguese that is read and commented on by politicians in Brazil ’s federal government.  He is also the author of several books, including a work on the homosexual movement in Brazil. (See his  blog in Portuguese here  and his  blog in English here .) Severo’s use of PayPal has been targeted in recent weeks by the homosexual group “All Out,” which has created an  online petition  to urge PayPal to dump Severo and ni

Hardware store supports gay agenda

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Image via Wikipedia For several years, Home Depot has thrown its support behind activism; now it has indicated that it will continue to do so despite being handed a petition with almost half a million names asking the company to “remain neutral in the culture war .” According to the American Family Association (AFA), Home Depot has chosen to sponsor and participate in numerous gay pride parades and festivals.  AFA charges that by conducting kid’s craft workshops at special booths targeting youngsters, the company has deliberately exposed small children to the lewd displays of sexual conduct by homosexuals and cross-dressers that are a common occurrence at these events. On Thursday, June 3, the AFA delivered 474,161 petition signatures to Home Depot chairman Frank Blake at the company’s annual shareholders meeting in Atlanta. AFA Vice-president Buddy Smith appealed to Chairman Blake to review Home Depot’s extensive support for homosexual activism and direct the company toward n

Homosexuality is individual preferences above all morals

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Image via Wikipedia As a political issue, the debates over homosexual rights represent a serious conceptual and moral issue.  By making sexual identity a public matter, the  gay /lesbian/ bisexual/transgender movement fulfills  Hannah Arendt 's prophesy (in her book,  The Human Condition ) that traditionally private matters will become socialized in modernity.  On a deeper level, the prohomosexual lobby, which seeks equal legal rights to nonheterosexual marriage s and an end to all  discrimination  on sexual orientation and activities grounds, reflects  James Davison Hunter 's " progressive " mindset (in his book  Culture Wars ), which places personal individual preference above all objective and traditional moral standards and sees ethics as historically and personally relative.  This is contrasted, by Hunter, with the more  conservative  "orthodox" perspective that rejects homosexuality on traditional moral, religious, and  natural-law  grounds. In con