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In her sermon on the last Sunday of  Black History Month , the Rev. Maria Swearingen preached about her belief that black lives, “queer lives” and immigrant lives matter.  There is no doubt that God loves people. But he calls all people to repent and turn from their sin and sin no more. Sin is then defined by scripture and not the cultural elite.  And since it also was  Transfiguration Sunday , she pointed to the story in the  Gospel of Matthew  where  God  declared Jesus “beloved.” That is a term, she said, that can be used for everyone.  Swearingen stood in the pulpit for the first time as the lesbian co-pastor of Calvary  Baptist Church , her wife and fellow co-pastor, the Rev. Sally Sarratt, smiling over her left shoulder as they began their new joint roles. “Here we find words that Sally and I will say to you so much you might start calling us a couple of broken-record co-pastors:  ‘You are God’s child, the beloved, and with you God is well pleased,’”  she  preached  to th

At the same time as Ohio legislators consider a bill to protect the religious freedom of churches and pastors, a prominent Ohio gay activist has admitted that her group does indeed want to force churches to rent their facilities to homosexuals for receptions, weddings, dinners, and meetings. The surprising admission came as legislators are debating  Ohio Pastors Protection Act (HB-36 ). The bill would protect pastors from forced participation in homosexual ‘marriages’ and allow churches to refuse to rent space for ceremonies or activities “that do not conform” to the church’s “sincerely held religious beliefs .” The sponsor of the bill, Rep. Nino Vitale, recently debated Alana Jochum, executive director of the LGBTQ advocacy group " Equality Ohio ," on NPR . Rep. Vitale explained to LifeSiteNews, "Basically, I've been trying to get them to admit that they are going after church facilities." During the NPR interview, Vitale asked if churches shou

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) has been forced to hire three security officers to stand guard at a Baptist church in East Melbourne on Saturday after a vile online campaign to sabotage an ACL event there by registering 54,000 fake attendees using extremely obscene and insulting language. ACL managing director Lyle Shelton was invited by a group of Seventh Day Adventists , who use the church’s facilities on Saturdays, to address the small group about key current issues, including euthanasia, same-sex “marriage” and the highly-controversial "Safe Schools” sex-ed program. The fake RSVPs contained “the foulest, most degrading, most obscene written forms of communication I have seen in my life,” Shelton said. The submissions reportedly included sexual acts, bestiality, pedophilia accusations against Shelton, and Jesus Christ being insulted and mocked. “I'm sorry that my staff had to wade through it," Shelton said in a Facebook post after the incident. T