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Texas AG confronts Target over transgender restrooms after another woman is videotaped in changing room

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Another woman has said a man recorded as she changed her clothes inside a dressing room inside a Target store in Texas . The woman is the second to report that experience in Texas alone since Target reiterated its national gender-neutral restroom and changing room policy. A   Frisco, Texas, woman   says a man caught her on video while changing on May 3. "You don't think something like that is going to happen," the latest victim told the Dallas News . "Right now I just don't feel comfortable going back,” she added, referring to the Target location on Abrams Road. The repeated victimization of women by male voyeurs spurred state Attorney General Ken Paxton to write the company’s chairman. "After this latest incident, I hope Target finally recognizes the importance of protecting its customers, especially in environments where they can be at their most vulnerable,” said Paxton, who is also the lead plaintiff in a multi-state lawsuit against the

Atlanta mayor sacks city’s fire chief over book expressing Christian beliefs

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English: Kasim Reed (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The City of Atlanta has sacked its fire chief for expressing his personal religious beliefs in a Bible study publication. The city’s mayor accused Kelvin Cochran, an African- American Baptist church deacon, of “discrimination” and questioned his judgment and management capabilities after gay activists complained about the book. While announcing Cochran’s January 6 dismissal, Mayor Kasim Reed strove to quash any claims that the issue was about Cochran’s First Amendment rights . “This is not about religious freedom,” Reed declared. “This is not about free speech. Judgment is the basis of the problem.” Reed suspended Cochran in November because of what he wrote in two brief passages of his 160-page Bible-study, “Who Told You That You Were Naked?” which was published in 2013. In defining "uncleanness" Cochran wrote, “whatever is opposite of purity; including sodomy, homosexuality, lesbianism, pederasty, bestiality,

Will Homosexual Marriage affect my marriage?

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Español: Intercambio de anillos entre los novios (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In the attempt to defend permitting homosexuals to marry (i.e., man to man and woman to woman), proponents of homosexual marriage ask how such marriages would personally affect those who are opposed to it.  This is worth answering, and I believe there are two areas we need to look at in response. Philosophical Concerns How does a murder in another state between two people living in a trailer park in the middle of nowhere, among people whom we have never known and who don't know anyone we know, affect us personally?  It doesn't, but because it has no effect on us personally this doesn't mean that we should ignore the moral issues associated with murder  and not condemn such actions.  Murder is morally wrong , and when any moral law is broken we are all ultimately affected and we know that if such actions were to increase, society would be affected...no matter where you are. Am I compa

What Does the Bible Say about Believers and Homosexuality?

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Every Christian sins. But God in His grace holds His children secure for eternity. Perhaps you are struggling with homosexuality—you still yield to homosexual temptation even though you have truly entrusted your life to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Will God reject you? No, but realize that God has put His Holy Spirit within you, empowering you to refuse to sin and to live a morally pure life. Do not be deceived—the mere presence of “gay churches” and carefully crafted arguments can never justify a behavior that God calls “immoral.” Declaring right what God says is wrong can never remove guilt from your heart. God tells us to …       “… reject the wrong and choose the right.”       (Isaiah 7:15) “Can a believer in Christ engage in homosexual behavior?” Yes. Christians are not perfect, and they still sin—although they have placed genuine faith in Christ for salvation. Even the apostle Paul said, “Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made pe

Former homosexual, fed up with threats of violence, launches ten-day road trip to Washington, D.C.

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DALLAS, TX , July 22, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – Douglas McIntyre is “mad as hell” and he’s “not going to take it anymore.” Dr. Douglas McIntyre So begins the announcement for McIntyre’s ten-day, ten-city road trip from Dallas to Washington, D.C., where the former homosexual, now a husband and father of three, will lobby Congress to demand tolerance and protection from what he describes as a campaign of “threats and harassment that [are] being waged against former homosexuals.”  On the way there, he will make stops in Dallas, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Charlotte , Raleigh and Richmond to rally with supporters and “draw attention to the homo-fascism in this country – the bullying from gay activists who say only one viewpoint on homosexuality can be tolerated.” McIntyre was moved to action by the recent postponing of the kickoff event for the first-ever Ex- Gay Pride Month, which had been scheduled for July 31 at the Family Research Center in Washingt

‘It’s the beginning of the end’: gay scout vote only first step in demise of scouting, say leaders

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Parents, scouting leaders and pastors are warning that yesterday’s  vote to allow openly gay youth to join the Boy Scouts of America (BSA)  is likely only the beginning of a much more fundamental transformation of the scouting organization. In a statement following the vote Jonathan Saenz, the president of Texas Values, the group behind the  Save Our Scouts  initiative, charged the BSA leadership with having “willingly opened the door to allow homosexual advocates to overrun an organization that stands for a code of morality that these intolerant advocates reject.”  “The BSA is a private organization, but it has chosen to place sex and politics above its timeless principles, and the BSA will ultimately fail because of this change,” he said. “We will next see aggressive attacks on any BSA units that dare to stand for God and religious liberty, as those that seek to change the BSA will not tolerate these current BSA principles, either.”  Tony Perkins , president of the  Fam

Scouting Leadership goes against 200,000 and 19,000 petition to allow homosexual boys into scouts

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History of the Boy Scouts of America (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Boy Scouts of America's (BSA) National Council has voted in favor of a resolution to allow openly gay boys to join the organization .  Sixty percent of the 1400 delegates present at the Scouts annual meeting in Dallas, Texas voted in favor of the policy change. The resolution states that “no youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.”  A ban on openly homosexual Scout leaders remains in place.   The change comes despite a survey by the BSA,  which found  that of 200,000 respondents, 61 percent supported the previous policy. In a statement announcing the vote, the scouting organization said that while “people have different opinions about this policy, we can all agree that kids are better off when they are in Scouting .”  Debate over the change has been contentious, with some predicting that the issue could fragment the sc