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Retired Pastor - barred for not marrying homosexuals

A retired pastor has been barred as a marriage celebrant because he won't marry same-sex couples. Auckland pastor Barrie Baker, 65, is one of 22 people barred from becoming marriage celebrants in the past 15 months because they refuse to do same-sex marriages . Family First director Bob McCoskrie says the rejections breach their rights under the Bill of Rights Act to "freedom of thought, conscience, religion, and belief". "It's coercing and it's bullying," he said. But the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Jeff Montgomery , said independent marriage celebrants were bound by the Human Rights Act not to discriminate against people on the basis of their sexual orientation. Labour MP Louisa Wall 's marriage equality bill, which legalised same-sex marriages in 2013, exempted celebrants nominated by a church or other approved organisation whose "religious beliefs or philosophical or humanitarian convictions" do not allow sa

Pro-family activists call on Trump to undo Obama transgender ‘guidance’

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A leading pro-natural marriage advocate called on President-elect Donald Trump to reverse outgoing President Obama ’s pro-homosexual and pro-transgender Executive Orders while the ACLU threatens to sue Trump to stop him from implementing his campaign promises. Ryan Anderson , a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation ,   tweeted : "Because so much of the bad that [Barack Obama] did came through executive action, [Donald Trump] can get rid of it all.” And he added: “With one stroke of a pen   @realDonaldTrump   can get rid of the DOE [Department of Education]/DOJ [ Department of Justice ] Transgender Agenda and allow local schools to find win-win solutions.” Back in May, in an interview with   The Washington Post , Trump promised to revoke Obama’s highly-controversial “transgender” student directive — which pushes schools to allow gender-confused students to use the opposite-sex restrooms of their perceived “gender identity,” under the threat of a federal civ

Obama shoves homosexuality onto nations

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A   story   in the New York Times last year noted that the U.S. has spent millions worldwide since 2012 promoting homosexual "marriage" and other minority causes.  It also cited both African homosexuals and Christian church leaders claiming that this push was causing a backlash against homosexuals and resistance to such tied aid . "This is an abuse of power , and that's why many are turning around and saying, 'Keep your money,'  Related articles U.S. Muslim planned to shoot Christians in church (themostimportantnews.com) Ugandan President Museveni Has Signed the Perilous Anti NGO Bill (oblogdeeoblogda.me) NY Times column says pedophiles deserve civil rights and should not be treated as criminals (matrixbob.wordpress.com) Public Enemy's "Make You Blind" Featured on "The Church House" Documentary Soundtrack (prweb.com) Nike drops Manny Pacquiao over homosexual remarks (prdaily.com) Amnesty criticizes India for into

Will businesses be protected from the LGBT agenda?

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The Missouri State Senate has passed Senate Joint Resolution (SJR39) that will put to the voters a Constitutional amendment protecting those of us who want to live out the truth that marriage is the union of one man and one woman in Missouri . I don't need to tell you that our First Freedom is under attack. As we've seen across the country Christians who stand for marriage have been under attack, even being sued for not using their talents to support same-sex "marriage". The far-left media is losing it over this bill. Here's the NY Times article. The other side will be aggressively lobbying to stop this bill. NY Times article below: A bill to give some of the nation’s broadest legal protections to opponents of same-sex marriage took a crucial step forward in Missouri on Wednesday, winning approval in the State Senate after Republicans used a rare procedural move to break a 39-hour filibuster by Democrats. Since the Supreme Court’s ruling in June legali

Christian churches ‘must be made’ to affirm homosexuality, says New York Times columnist

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NEW YORK, April 7, 2015 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A New York Times   columnist and a corporate leader have agreed that Christian churches “must” be convinced, or coerced, to change their teachings on sexual morality and abandon an “ossified” doctrinal teaching that sex outside heterosexual marriage is immoral. Frank Bruni wrote that traditional Christianity – whether among evangelicals, Catholics, or Orthodox – provides the greatest resistance to normalizing homosexuality in the United States in a recent column in the New York Times. “ Homosexuality and Christianity don’t have to be in conflict in any church anywhere,” Bruni insisted. “The continued view of gays, lesbians and bisexuals as sinners is a decision. It’s a choice. It prioritizes scattered passages of ancient texts over all that has been learned since — as if time had stood still, as if  the advances of science  and knowledge meant nothing.” Bruni quoted furniture tycoon Mitchell Gold, who has used his millions to

This is how religious liberty dies: the new rules of the secular left

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Official portrait of Congressman (R-IN) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) April 8, 2015 ( AlbertMohler.com ) -- The vast high-velocity moral revolution that is reshaping modern cultures at warp speed is leaving almost no aspect of the culture untouched and untransformed. The advocates of same-sex marriage and the more comprehensive goals of the LGBT movement assured the nation that nothing would be fundamentally changed if people of the same gender were allowed to marry one another. We knew that could not be true, and now the entire nation knows. The latest Ground Zero for the moral revolution is the state of Indiana , where legislators passed a state version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act , which Gov. Mike Pence then signed into law. The controversy that followed was a free-for-all of misrepresentation and political posturing. Within days, the governor capitulated to the controversy by calling for a revision of the law — a revision that may well make the RFRA a force for

Catholic school, with priest’s backing, suspends theology teacher for defending marriage on Facebook

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SOMMERVILLE, NJ , March 18, 2015 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A Catholic high school in New Jersey has suspended a 30-year veteran theology teacher for making comments on her personal Facebook page supporting the Catholic Church's position on homosexual "marriage" and family. Controversy struck when Patricia Jannuzzi, a theology teacher at Immaculata High School in Sommerville, New Jersey, said that she opposed the legal arguments homosexual activists used to persuade the Supreme Court to redefine marriage. “One minute they argue hey [sic] are born this way and it is not a choice to get 14th amendment rights equal protection” – which was intended for “unchangeable characteristics such as race and disability,” she wrote. Then, “they will argue everyone should be able to choose” to engage in the homosexual lifestyle. Patricia Jannuzzi That juggernaut threatened to “reengineer Western civ[ilization] into a slow extinction.” “We need healthy families with a mother and