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Damian Goddard: Pacquiao Packs a Punch for Traditional Marriage

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May 17, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - What Emmanuel Dapidran Pacquiao has managed to accomplish inside the boxing ring is unprecedented.  Outside the squared-circle, the Filipino is just as impressive.  Maybe even more so, when one considers the formidable foe with which he went toe-to-toe just this week.  But this opponent’s reach, height, weight is of something altogether different than the ordinary pugilist who would climb under the ropes, swinging away with taped up, 10 ounce gloves, ready to inflict some serious pain.  Ring Announcer - “And in this corner… wearing green… weighing in at a number that even pollsters and proponents can’t agree upon… the challenger!... fresh off a 32nd straight loss courtesy of “We The People”... recently smoked on Tobacco Road…. down, but not out… Gaaaaaaaaay Marriage Activism!” In this most recent battle of a burgeoning culture war between those who believe marriage to be something of a special bond between one man and one women, and those wh

Boxing superstar Manny Pacquio banned from shopping mall over gay ‘marriage’ remarks

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MANILA, Philippines , May 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - World boxing superstar and Philippines congressman Manny Pacquiao has stated his opposition to Barack Obama ’s endorsement of same-sex “marriage” and received a black eye for his trouble. During a May 12 interview with the  National Conservative Examiner  Pacquiao said the Bible is clear on homosexual activity and that with regard to marriage we must follow “God’s words first ... obey God’s law first before considering the laws of man.” “God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other,” he said. In the written account of the interview, however, Granville Ampong of the Examiner quoted a passage from Leviticus in the Old Testament that condemns homosexual sex acts. “Pacquiao’s directive for Obama calls societies to fear God and not to promote sin, inclusive of same-sex marriage and cohabitation, notwithstanding what Leviticus 20:13 has been point