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Christian Teaching Volunteers now the new bigots - homosexual

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Burning at the stake. An illustration from an mid 19th century book. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) If you hear the words “ witch hunt ,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Well, you might think of the Salem witch trials , when mass hysteria gripped colonial Massachusetts in the late seventeenth century and twenty people—most of them women—were executed on charges of being witches. Another five died in prison. But the era of the witch hunt is far from over. According to Merriam-Webster, a witch hunt is “the act of unfairly looking for and punishing people who are accused of having opinions that are believed to be dangerous or evil.” And of course, at the top of the dangerous and evil opinion list these days is believing what the Bible says about human sexuality and marriage. While public shaming and fines against Christian business people and academics have become so commonplace as to be almost non-newsworthy, I  do  want to share with you a particularly egregious exam

Christian college under pressure after seeking exemption from gay special protections

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Official photographic portrait of immoral US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Gordon College in Massachusetts has lost a municipal contract and faces a possible threat to its accreditation after its president signed a letter to President Obama requesting a religious exemption from an expected Executive Order   adding homosexuality and transgender status as protected class  for the employees of organizations holding federal contracts. On July 1, Gordon College President D. Michael Lindsay cosigned a letter with more than a dozen other faith leaders -- some of them public Obama supporters -- asking President Obama to provide a religious exemption in his upcoming Executive Order. In response to the letter, the mayor of Salem, Massachusetts , Kim Driscoll, terminated the city's contract  with Gordon. Driscoll wrote in a  letter  that Lindsay's signature brought to light "current policies at

Gay Human Rights Commissioner to Evangelical pastor: you and your family ‘deserve to burn in hell’

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SIOUX CITY, IA , July 23, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews ) – An Evangelical pastor in Sioux City is requesting the removal of a newly-appointed member of the city’s Human Rights Commission because of hateful and threatening comments the official posted to the pastor’s Facebook page in 2010. Pastor Cary Gordon of Cornerstone World Outreach says that Human Rights Commissioner Scott Raasch, who is homosexual, wrote on Facebook that because Gordon had encouraged voters to toss out three Supreme Court judges whose court order made same-sex “marriage” legal in Iowa , he was a “hater” and a “bigot” and that he should “burn in hell” along with his entire family. “I advocated for the removal of our state supreme court judges in 2010, because they violated their oaths of office while pretending to be lawmakers, forcing gay ‘marriage’ on our state,” Gordon recounted in a  blog post .  “Thankfully, a significant majority of Iowa citizens agreed with my advocacy for the rule of law and the restricted