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Churches embracing homosexuality prepare members to accept the Anti-Christ: Russian Orthodox leader

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Churches that have deemed homosexuality morally acceptable have rejected Christianity and are preparing their followers to accept the Anti-Christ , according to one of the leading figures in the Russian Orthodox Church . His statement came as the Russian Orthodox Church announced that it is ending "formal contacts" with the United Protestant Church of France and the Church of Scotland over those churches' abandonment of traditional Christian sexual morality. In its statement, the church said ecumenical dialogue was pointless after France's United Protestant Church last month voted to allow pastors to officiate at same-sex "marriages" and the Church of Scotland approved ordaining clergy who are in same-sex civil unions. "The Russian Orthodox Church holds the firm position based on Holy Scriptures and has repeatedly declared that [homosexual 'marriage' is] inadmissible for moral teaching," the statement reads. Churches that offer to

Should the Government force people against their conscience to servegays

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Conservative pundit Erick Erickson says that " Jesus Christ would absolutely bake a cake for a gay person."* In fact, he says that if any Christian owns "a bakery or a florist shop or a photography shop or a diner," then he or she "should no more be allowed to deny service to a gay person than to a black person." In his telling, almost everyone agrees. "The disagreement comes on one issue only—should a Christian provide goods and services to a gay wedding ," he says. "That’s it. We’re not talking about serving a meal at a restaurant. We’re not talking about baking a cake for a birthday party. We’re talking about a wedding, which millions of Christians view as a sacrament of the faith and other, mostly Protestant Christians , view as a relationship ordained by God to reflect a holy relationship." He continues: This slope is only slippery if you grease it with hypotheticals not in play. There are Christians who have no problem prov

United Methodist Church affirms homosexuality ‘incompatible with Christian teaching’

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TAMPA, FLORIDA , May 7, 2012,  –  Members of the nation’s largest mainline Protestant church voted to maintain the doctrine that homosexual actions were “incompatible with Christian teaching” on Thursday. The United Methodist Church voted down  two proposals to water down its stance  on homosexuality on Thursday. One proposal called homosexuals “people of sacred worth” and acknowledged differing viewpoints on the issue, while another said humans did not know enough about human sexuality to prefer one lifestyle over another. The Religion News Service   reports   after delegates defeated the pro- LGBT proposals, “gay rights activists flooded the assembly floor and disrupted the session by singing the hymn ‘What Does the Lord Require of You?’” They refused to honor Indiana Bishop Michael Coyner’s request to stop singing, forcing him to curtail that morning’s session. Hillary's views conflict with those of her denomination. The church’s position, enshrined in its  Book of Discipli

Metropolitan Community Church is a false church

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Image via Wikipedia The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) grew out of the experience of its founder, Troy D. Perry (b. 1940), as a homosexual man in the Protestant church . Licensed as a Baptist preacher, Perry was drawn to Pentecostalism and became an evangelist for the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) . He later married, but an early homosexual encounter led to his dismissal from the church. He became a member of the Church of God of Prophecy , and worked as a pastor in Southern California. Over the next few years, he came to accept his homosexuality, ended his  marriage , and left the Church of God of Prophecy. In 1968, following a period of reflection on his call to the ministry and his sexual orientation, he began a church serving the homosexual community in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Community Church, the first congregation of what would soon be a new Denomination. The movement would enjoy great success as the  gay  movement developed throug