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Federal judge upholds New Jersey’s ban on reparative therapy for minors: exposing children to suicide and sexual immoral confusion

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A federal judge has ruled that a New Jersey law barring therapists from trying to eliminate homosexual urges in children does not violate therapists’ freedom of speech or religion. Two New Jersey-based therapists, along with the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality and the American Association of Christian Counselors , had sued to block the law’s enforcement, arguing that that it violates therapists’ free speech rights by prohibiting them from offering their minor patients reparative therapy designed to help them overcome unwanted same-sex attraction .  Two New Jersey-based therapists had sued to block the law’s enforcement, arguing that that it violates therapists’ free speech rights. But on Friday, Judge Freda L. Wolfson   dismissed  the therapists’ case, claiming that the ban “on its face does not target speech, and ‘counseling’ is not entitled to special constitutional protection merely because it is primarily carried out through talk therapy

D.C. Mayor axes gospel singer from MLK memorial concert because he is an ‘ex-gay’

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WASHINGTON, D.C. ,  – D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray  admitted  Monday that he made the final decision to remove gospel singer Donnie McClurkin from the lineup of performers at a city-sponsored concert held Saturday at the Martin Luther King memorial in respond to complaints by gay activists .  McClurkin was to have been a headline performer at the event , called “Reflections on Peace: Ghandi to King,” which marked the beginning of a planned series of events to commemorate King’s life during the run-up to the 50 th  anniversary of the civil rights leader’s “ I Have a Dream ” speech. But on Friday, several homosexual activists contacted the mayor’s office to complain about McClurkin’s inclusion in the show because the gospel singer is a vocal ex-gay who believes homosexuality is a “curse” which can be overcome through prayer and determination.  They threatened to protest the event if he was allowed to perform.  Soon after, it was announced that McClurkin would no longer be part of th

Homosexuality Confusion: ABC News producer became a transgender ‘woman’ decides to be a man again

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NEW YORK, August 6, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – It's a woman's prerogative to change her mind, but "Dawn" Ennis is changing much more. In May, ABC News producer and editor Don Ennis said that he was really "Dawn Stacey Ennis," a woman trapped inside his male body. Three months later, he has decided he is Don again and wants his buddies in the newsroom to forget his coming to work in heels. Don Ennis, before and after “I’m asking all of you who accepted me as a transgender to now understand: I was misdiagnosed," he said in an e-mail to friends last Friday. He said he would be a man “again, now and forever. And it appears I’m not transgender after all.” The note sounded much different than his announcement in May that he had embraced his inner female, “Dawn Stacey Ennis.” The Facebook post – which also said he was ending his 17-year marriage to wife Wendy and moving out of the home they shared with their three children – said his first sex

Scouts of America Homosexual compromise still bring confusion to young people

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The Boy Scouts of America will propose a measure to allow openly gay members to join the Scouts for the first time in its century-long history, despite the fact that a survey found almost two-thirds of stakeholders support the current policy, the organization announced on Friday.  The resolution would allow homosexual scouts to join, but ban adult homosexuals from being scoutmasters. “No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone,” the proposal states. The Scouts board has decided to allow  1,400 members to vote on May 20  on the measure after declining to take a position in February. The BSA released a statement saying it had received 200,000 responses to its questionaire on the policy. In a  summary of its findings , it found, “Respondents support the current policy by a 61 percent to 34 percent margin.” Fully “72 percent of chartered organizations support” the current policy they announced. C

Quinnipiac poll misleads on Catholic approval of same-sex 'marriage': critics

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WASHINGTON, D.C., March 11, 2013, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Critics are asking why a new Quinnipiac poll is claimimg that the majority of America Catholics suport same-sex “marriage” when suppressed data reveals the numbers are almost exactly reversed for the faithful. Quinnipiac released a poll on Friday headlined, “ American Catholics Support Same-Sex Marriage,” announcing that Catholics back redefining marriage by a margin of 54-38 percent. Bill Donohue , president of the Catholic League . But critics quickly questioned the way the data was presented and whether they truly reflect the views of American Catholics. Fully 39 percent of those surveyed said they do not practice their faith, with 11 percent saying they “never” attend church. “Leaving aside the not insignificant fact that the sample size of Catholics was a mere 497, with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percent,” said Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, there is a “more problematic methodolo

Vatican paper objects to court ruling stating homosexual parenting harmless for children

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ROME , January 14, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Children are being used as bargaining chips in a global struggle between two radically opposed theories of human nature, a leading Catholic bioethicist said this weekend in the Vatican’s newspaper L’Osservatore Romano . Adriano Pessina, director of bioethics at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart , wrote in response to a court ruling on Friday that concerns over harms to children raised in homosexual partnerships are based on “mere prejudice”. “Not only for biological reasons,” Pessina wrote, “the monogamous family is the ideal place where you must learn the meaning of human relationships.” The social crisis building over the broad acceptance of homosexuality is related to the fact that “people with a homosexual orientation want to build a pair bond more and more similar to the family, claiming a right to adopt children.” But there is no such right, “even for heterosexual couples,” he said. “Children are not objects or in