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European gay activists fail in first bid to block grassroots pro-marriage effort

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The first attempt to stop a citizens’ initiative to get the European Union to endorse tradition marriage has failed. The “Mum, Dad & Kids” initiative must first gather 1 million signatures by December 11, and then be approved by the European Commission for submission to the European Parliament , and then be approved by a majority of MEPs . As hard as that is likely to prove, the powerful, publicly-funded European branch  of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA Europe ) recently requested that the Court of Justice of the European Union overturn the European Commission’s decision to register the initiative in the first place. But the CJEU has summarily dismissed the request. As the conservative Agenda Europe website has reported, the court declared the request “manifestly inadmissible.” Such decisions by the European Commission are final and not appealable. But the ILGA has other plans to derail the initiative before it bui

US bishop: We fight same-sex ‘marriage’ out of love for homosexuals (VIDEO)

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WASHINGTON, DC , January 27, 2014– The US Catholic bishop from Illinois who held a public exorcism on the same day the state governor signed into effect a controversial same-sex “marriage” bill has defended his actions as the “loving” thing to do. “You really have to understand what love is all about. Love is really to seek the best for people. By being opposed to the redefinition of marriage , and being opposed to things that are sinful, that’s actually a very loving thing,” Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Springfield Diocese told LifeSiteNews.com in a video interview during the March for Life in Washington, DC. It was in November that Paprocki held the  rare public exorcism , an event that he  defended  as a prayer to God to cast out the influences of evil in the state. The service, held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception , was called “Prayers of Supplication and Exorcism in Reparation for the Sin of Same-Sex Marriage.” During an announcement of the event,

Northern Cyprus overturns Europe’s last ban on immoral homosexual sex

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NORTH NICOSIA , Cyprus January 27, 2014  – Until yesterday, Northern Cyprus was the last jurisdiction in Europe to have kept homosexual activity on the criminal law books. In a bill passed Monday by its legislature, the region overturned its British colonial-era law outlawing sexual activity between two men. But they have not over-ruled God's law against the sin of homosexuality. Section 171 of the criminal code carried a punishment of up to five years for male homosexual acts. Female homosexuality is not included in the statute. The new law has yet to receive the formal ratification of Northern Cyprus’ leader. Northern Cyprus is a disputed territory since the withdrawal of British rule in 1960. It is called the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus only by Turkey , which annexed the territory and expelled the ethnic Greek population in 1974, triggering decades of conflict. Northern Cyprus declared independence from the Republic of Cyprus , an EU member state , in 1983.