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Travis Weber, Director of the Family Research Council’s Center for Religious Liberty, encapsulated this new conversation on the right in a post he  published Wednesday on FRC’s blog entitled, “How can Christians oppose same-sex marriage and yet pray and care for the LGBT victims in Orlando at the same time?” He answered the question in his opening line: “In a word: Love.” When we decline to agree that same-sex marriage (or any sexual conduct at odds with God’s standard) is okay, we are doing this for the good of those who may engage in that conduct which is harmful to them. When we pray for the well-being of the LGBT victims of violence in Orlando, we are doing it for their good. There should be no tension between the two for a Christian. Telling LGBT people that their lives are sinful can have severe mental health consequences . The have no concept of sin and so they see it as offense only. They don't see God as holy and homosexual sin as unholy ...just offended. But when

The Archdiocese of Omaha has announced that its charitable branch will no longer provide behavioral health services in order to avoid relying on government funding. Significant financial losses and increasing government encroachment on religious principles drove the decision for Catholic Charities of Omaha to transfer its residential substance abuse and mental health services to other providers after fulfilling current contracts. “It no longer makes sense for us to partner with the government,” Deacon Rim McNeil, the archdiocese’s chancellor, told LifeSiteNews, citing decreasing reimbursements and such things as government hiring regulations. “It becomes to where you can’t authentically live the mission entrusted to you.” The disparity between government payments and the organization’s expenses has continued to increase and become unsustainable, he said. Catholic Charities of Omaha lost more than $400,000 out of its $14 million budget last year, Deacon McNeil told the   O

Christians in America now face a moment of judgment at the hands of a secular culture that grows more intensely adversarial with each passing day. Churches, institutions, and individuals committed to the Christian church’s historic sexual ethic, held consistently over two millennia, now find themselves faced with a stark choice — join the sexual revolution or face the consequences. Those consequences include social marginalization, overt discrimination,the censure from the cultural elites, and worse. Christian colleges and schools are now openly threatened with the loss of tax-exempt status and participation in federal and state student aid. Christian employees in businesses large and small are told to get with the program or get lost. Getting with the program does not mean simply working amiably with all, regardless of sexual orientation. It means openly and enthusiastically celebrating every demand and aim of the LGBT community. Entire professions will soon be closed to many Chri

Churches that meet in public school halls in NSW on Sundays are under attack for the content of their sermons. The attack comes from a one-man advocacy group linked to the campaign against scripture in public schools. Sermons found on the websites of Hunter Bible Church, Maitland Evangelical Church and The Lakes Evangelical Church (all part of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches) on the NSW mid north coast were the subject of complaints by Dr Darrin Morgan, sent to the NSW Department of Education. All three churches meet in public high school halls. The Newcastle Herald and SBS report the content of some of the sermons, which relate to sexuality, including: “Homosexuality is one of the things that send people to hell.” “Anything outside of that, whether it is homosexuality, or adultery or pornography or sex before marriage; anything that doesn’t conform with what God created us into, is wrong.” “God’s good design for sex within marriage” is between “one man and a wom