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An ethics hearing is underway for an Oregon judge who refused to perform same-sex “marriage,” a probe his attorney says will test whether conservative judges are allowed to hold traditional beliefs on marriage. As Marion County Circuit Judge Vance Day fights the probe, now four days into a two-week hearing, his attorney says Day is a test subject for those who want him and others gone from the bench. “He’s the vehicle by which this issue is being litigated in Oregon,” said Ralph Spooner, according to Northwest News Network. “He’s the one they picked on. He’s got the target on his back." Day is being hit with numerous charges, including allegations that he treated same-sex couples unequally to heterosexual couples. A supporter of natural marriage, Day declined to perform same-sex ceremonies and subsequently decided to stop overseeing all such unions. While Oregon judges are not required to perform marriages , the Judicial Commission's attorney said that “when a judge in

Robert Oscar Lopez isn’t your typical social-conservative professor: he was raised by his mom and her lesbian partner, and he openly admits that he is bisexual. But he also opposes same-sex “marriage” and adoption, and even submitted a brief to the United States Supreme Court arguing against the redefinition of marriage . He bases his views in part on the trauma of his parents’ divorce when he was a toddler, and his subsequent experiences of being raised in a same-sex household. Now he says he's under attack for defending the rights of children to be raised by their natural parents. Specifically, he may lose tenure, and   even faces   suspension without pay, from   California State University-Northridge , the taxpayer-funded university that tenured him just two years ago. Lopez says that it all began when he gave his students the option to attend and present research, for credit, at a conference he organized on parenting and children's rights at the Ronald Reagan P

Christians must be honest enough to recognize that the modern secular understanding of sexual orientation has legitimate insights that we can appropriate in a way consistent with evangelical theology, Scripture, and the Christian tradition . Christians in general, and evangelicals in particular, must admit that we have often had a very superficial understanding of sexuality. We assumed for centuries that people simply chose their pattern of sexual interest .  The modern secular concept of sexual orientation suggests that every single human being who has reached the age of sexual maturity is characterized by a specific pattern of sexual interest that includes sexual arousal , sexual fantasy , sexual expectation, and a hope for specific sexual fulfillment.  From the vantage point of biblical theology and orthodox pastoral counsel, the modern notion of sexual orientation helps us see how deeply situated matters of sexual interest, sexual arousal, and sexual fulfillment really a

Is the homosexual orientation / gay marriage debate the same as the African American revolution of the 1960's? Christians must engage carefully in the task of biblical theology. The diversity of races and ethnicities comprises part of God's plan (see, for example, the table of nations in Genesis 10). The Bible also indicates that God is pleased that his human creatures are organized by families, clans, languages, and nations. Furthermore, Revelation 5 indicates that this pleasure is an eternal pleasure for God. Those gathered around the Lamb's throne are men and women from every tongue, tribe, and nation who have all been ransomed by Christ. Thus, Scripture celebrates racial differences. The Bible celebrates these distinctions as part of God's glorious diversity in creation. The Bible, however, unquestionably expresses only one legitimate pattern of human sexuality. Only one framework exists in which conjugal acts can be enjoyed and celebrated-the monogamous, f

We can " agree to disagree " in the sense that the issue is likely destined to be one of lasting disagreement. If we are committed to Scripture, human flourishing , the gospel, and love of neighbor, however, then an issue of this magnitude compels us to plead with and attempt to persuade those who will face the eternal wrath of God if they do not abandon their sin for Jesus .  Our greatest responsibility is to point sinners to the cross of Christ and the promise of salvation for all who believe. Those with common sense on both sides of the issue reject the suggestion that there can be a third way or that some kind of neutral ground can be reached. There are many issues- same-sex marriage and homosexuality central among them-on which the answer eventually must be a yes or no. Every single church must eventually accept or reject the legitimacy of same-sex marriage. Every congregation, Christian institution, and religious organization will eventually have to make a d

Queen Latifah presides over an immoral act of homosexual marriage with a fake church, fake pastor but it is still arrogant sin (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) LOS ANGELES , January 27, 2014  – It’s been called the “Gay Equality Anthem” by homosexual activists: Macklemore ’s rap hit “ Same Love ,” written to support the legalization of gay ‘marriage’ in Washington state in 2012, reached number eleven on the Billboard Top 100 in the U.S. and number one in both Australia and New Zealand. “Same Love” was nominated for Song of the Year at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards , but lost out to Lorde’s “Royals.” But it’s the on-stage performance by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis that had people talking Monday morning, after 33 couples – many of them gay and lesbian – got legally ‘married’ during the performance, with rap artist Queen Latifah presiding. Both the song and the mass ‘wedding’ aired live on CBS during primetime. The immoral performance was set on a stage that looked like a church, comple