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US bishop disciplined for maintaining biblical stance on marriage

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ONE CHRISTIAN LEADER STANDS FOR SCRIPTURE NOT IDIOTIC DENOMINATION The US Episcopal Church is disciplining one of its bishops because he upholds the biblical position on sex and marriage. The Bishop of Albany, William Love, has been accused of violating canon law by showing “unwillingness to abide by Resolution B012” – which stipulates that bishops must permit same-sex weddings to take place in their diocese. The Resolution introduced in 2018 says that if a bishop disagrees with same-sex marriage and does not wish to participate, they must invite another bishop to do so instead. ‘Direct conflict’ When the resolution was passed, Bishop Love responded with a pastoral letter saying same-sex unions are “in direct conflict and contradiction to God’s intent for the sacrament of marriage”. He added that permitting same-sex marriages does  “a great disservice and injustice to same-sex attracted Christians, as it leads them to believe God gives his blessing “to the sharing of se

Homosexual Marriage vs Religious Liberty

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We see religious liberty denied when a cake baker in Colorado experiences sustained efforts to put him out of business, or worse, accompanied nationwide by florists and photographers and a host of others. We see the Fire Chief of Atlanta, Georgia removed because he dared to teach a biblical pattern of human sexuality, and then dared to put his convictions into print—primarily for his own church. We see Christian schools and ministries confront unprecedented challenges across several fronts and we see a continual effort to coerce Christians to surrender to the new regime of sexual rules, gender identity, intersectionality, and identity politics. The enemies of religious liberty are playing hardball, and we were warned. Chai Feldblum, a lesbian, formerly of Georgetown University Law Center and later appointed by President Barack Obama to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, over a decade ago admitted in a public statement that religious liberty would have to give way to the

Church of England to accept gay marriage if one changes gender after wedding - stupid!

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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NON-BIBLE BELIEVING PEOPLE RUN A CHURCH The Church of England says it will accept same-sex marriage, but only if the spouses were a man and woman before changing gender.  What a foolish non-biblical incoherent statement! The advice means couples will be under no pressure from the church to divorce if one of the transitions. Transgender activists have called the significant shift in direction ‘encouraging’ but accuse the church of still not accepting gender reassignment. The change was revealed ahead of today’s General Synod of bishops – the national assembly of the Church of England.  THIS IS SIMPLY MADNESS. A question on whether the church would accept a marriage involving a transgender person is one of more than 100 to be addressed at today’s meeting in York. Prudence Dailey, the churchwarden of Oxford’s St Michael at the North Gate, asked if the church’s definition of marriage as a ‘lifelong and exclusive union between one man and one woman’ s

Apostate Uniting Church Australia perform gay marriage

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The chaos and confusion which are the inevitable products of the Sexual Revolution continue to expand and the challenges constantly proliferate. The LGBTQ+ revolution has long been the leading edge of the expanding chaos, and by now the genuinely revolutionary nature of the movement is fully apparent.  The normalization of the behaviors and relationships and identities included (for now) in the LGBTQ+ spectrum will require nothing less than turning the world upside down. This revolution requires a total redefinition of morality, cultural authority, personal identity, and more. The revolution requires a new vocabulary and a radically revised dictionary. Ultimately, the moral revolutionaries seek to redefine reality itself. And this revolution has no stopping point. The plus sign at the end of LGBTQ+ is a signal of more challenges sure to come. Now the Uniting Church in Australia has fallen into this trap.    But what is worse is the leader of the Uniting Church movement

Jimmy Kimmel mocks Christian baker who refuses to bake homosexual Marriage cake

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Even Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker who won his case at the Supreme Court of the United States scarcely two months ago, has attracted the ire of the progressive funny-men. Jimmy Kimmel, who received the title “the moral conscience of America” from his friends for plugging for universal health care, decided to go after Phillips last week when the baker landed in court again , after an attorney relentlessly harassed Phillips with requests and finally got the Colorado Civil Rights Commission to agree that Phillips’ refusal to bake a cake celebrating a gender transition was a violation of civil rights. The LGBT movement, it turns out, has no intention of letting Phillips live in peace. But Kimmel apparently thinks the whole thing is hilarious. “It’s funny because this is a guy who spends all day, every day, meticulously designing flowers out of icing,” he said to his cackling audience. “His whole life is gay, okay? I don’t know if the wrong cake might bring that to life or what.” Even

Homosexual Marriage Vs Free Speech

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There’s been a battle online over whether or not to call Monday’s  Supreme Court decision  on a Christian baker “narrow.” The vote was 7-2, which isn’t narrow. But the scope of the ruling was. It seemed to say that in this particular case, the Colorado human rights commissars showed explicit, anti-religious bias. That tainted their case that a vital public interest was served by punishing this Christian wedding cake baker. (He would sell cakes to everyone, but wouldn’t design a specific, gay-wedding cake.) But bureaucrats with a little more tact would likely get away with closing down Christian businesses. At least under the Court as it stands today. SCOTUSblog explains  the decision as follows: [T]he justices today handed Phillips a victory, even if not necessarily the ruling that he and his supporters had hoped for. Kennedy, the author of some of the court’s most important gay-rights rulings, began by explaining that the case involved a conflict between two important p

Bishop Keenan questions BBC promoting hate

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'He thinks it's faith but -  It tastes like cardboard, and it smells like hate."  So BBC Scotland has described Holy Communion and Catholics in its latest digital stream for young people in Scotland on homophobia. The priest holds up a Mini-Cheddar in a parody of the Host for a Catholic parishioner to receive. The presenter goes on to suggest Jesus 'wasted his time teaching small minds that love is no sin'. All this in a week when a Sunday Times poll found 20% of Catholics reported personally experiencing abuse or prejudice towards their faith and recent government figures on religiously aggravated crime showed 57% of it is now directed at Catholics, an increase of 14% ... and we all wonder why!!!

Australia: Fake LGBT research used for homosexual marriage vote

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Claiming (falsely) that speaking against same-sex “marriage” and transgenderism kills people forces politically incorrect dissenters to remain silent. In 2015, “a major study published in Science, which purported to show that personal canvassing by  LGBT people  had an amazingly large effect on people’s opinions,”  reported   National Review ’s  Maggie Gallagher , it “was revealed to have been entirely faked, and in ways that one lone grad student, David Broockman, found easy to debunk. (The ‘scholar’ had even created easily checked fake grants from real foundations, thanking them publicly for grants they had never made.)” More recently, a study by a  Columbia University  researcher asserting that  minority stress is causing gays to die  a full 12 years earlier than straights has been debunked. The study’s authors said when it was released, “the results of this study suggest a broadening of the consequences of prejudice to include premature death.” The press loved the story

Should Christian retreat or engage?

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Without question, Christians face a new reality in post-Homosexual Marriage Turnbull Australia . This PM who has promoted and approved of homosexual sin falls under the condemnation of Romans 1:32.  Now Christians are wondering how to move forward. They hear some leaders counseling retreat and disengagement from the culture. Send back your marriage license and paperwork, marry only according to Church law and refuse to deal with the Governments new Marriage Act of 2018.  Christians hear other leaders say that we need to engage the  culture war . To fight back with solid arguments, form a new coalition or political party.  Neither option really captures what  Jesus  taught us about our enduring relationship with the world.   John 17  records the words of Jesus' prayer just before He was handed over to be crucified. His prayer focused not only on the eleven remaining disciples, but also on all those who would believe in Him through His disciples' testimony.  In sho

Australia - Homosexuals can sue Christian Pastors

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The Marriage Act provides that a minister of religion that's registered under a particular denomination is able to refuse to solemnise a marriage for any reason. So if a pastor in Mount Isa was registered as part of a denomination which is registered under the Marriage Act, they could refuse to solemnise a same-sex marriage , and they wouldn't be able to be sued for the discrimination. In section 47 of the Marriage Act it says 'Nothing imposes an obligation on an authorised celebrant, being a minister of religion, to solemnise any marriage. This protection did not extend to independent marriage celebrants, who could not rely on their attachment to a registered denomination under the Marriage Act. If an independent civil celebrant had their own particular religious convictions but weren't officially attached to a recognised denomination, if they refuse to solemnise a same-sex marriage, they wouldn't be protected by the Marriage Act and under the current

Colonel suspended for not thanking homosexual serviceman’s ‘spouse’

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The U.S. Air Force has suspended from command a soon-to-have-been general because he didn’t sign a document endorsing same-sex “marriage.” Colonel Leland B.H. Bohannon,  commander  of the Air Force Inspection Agency at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico , is a highly decorated officer who served his country for more than two decades. He flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and throughout his stellar career received the highest performance reviews from superiors. Among the devout Christian’s many commendation medals are the Bronze Star, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal , and the Air Medal .   But just before being promoted to Brigadier General , he was stripped of his command and his elevation was cancelled because he had someone else sign a thank you note. U.S. Air Force Colonel Leland B.H. Bohannon “His career is likely over,”  First Liberty Institute’s  Michael Berry told  Todd Starnes .   RELATED:  Lesbian with ‘wife’ and two kids selected to lead