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Kim Davis , the county clerk who in 2015 was jailed for refusing to issue same-sex “marriage” licenses, says anyone can be called and used by God . Davis said this in a new  memoir ,  Under God’s Authority: The Kim Davis Story.  She hopes it will offer encouragement to others facing challenges living their Christian faith . She recently spoke about the ordeal that sent her to jail for refusing to act against her beliefs.  The Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk maintains that she holds no ill will toward those who disagree with her pro-marriage convictions and says she only stands before “one judge” – God. ‘My story is one of redemption and transformation’ Davis’ story is a  harbinger of white (bloodless) martyrdom  for Christians in the age of marriage redefinition. It also brings to light the question: Who’s to say whom God will call and whom he can redeem? “My story is one of redemption and transformation,” Davis said.  Ridiculed for refusing to affirm gay “marriage”

The Kentucky woman who became famous for refusing to sign homosexual “marriage” licenses and spent nearly a week in jail for her Christian convictions has officially registered for re-election. Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis announced in November that she would run for a second term, but this time as a Republican. She switched parties after her confrontation with the court system over same-sex “marriage.” After the U.S. Supreme Court ’s 2015  Obergefell v. Hodges  decision imposed homosexual “marriage” nationwide, Davis refused to sign county-issued licenses.  She said that as a Christian, she believed marriage was exclusively the union of one woman and one man.   “It’s a Heaven or Hell decision,” Davis  asserted .  While she said she has “no animosity toward anyone,” she refused to violate “marriage and God’s Word.” Even after U.S. District Court Judge David Bunning ordered her to sanction same-sex “marriage” with her signature, she refused because of her sincerely-hel

If the No side of the same-sex marriage debate mounted a hateful, personal attack on the career and livelihood of an individual who spoke out against its views, the condemnations would be deafening. And rightly so. In singling out Sydney general practitioner Pansy Lai in an online petition demanding an investigation into her registration, GetUp!, a leading advocate for a Yes vote in the upcoming plebiscite, has revealed its true nature. Far from wanting to “bring participation back into our democracy’’ as it pretends, GetUp! is so intolerant of those with opposing views that it wants to bully them into silence. As Dennis Shanahan reports today, almost 6000 signatories to the GetUp! petition against Dr Lai, who spoke out publicly as a mother in an anti-same-sex marriage advertisement, call on the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency and the Australian Medical Association to review her registration. The persecution by GetUp! raises an important question about what protecti

PUBLICLY funded advertising promoting each side of the proposed same-sex marriage plebiscite will not be bound by regular advertising standards requiring truth and accuracy, news.com.au understands. A spokeswoman for the Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) told news.com.au communications promoting each camp’s messages will be classed as political advertising , and therefore will not be monitored by the industry body. If the campaigns were to be classed as political advertising, there would be no legal requirement for content of the ads to be factually correct , only that they be properly authorised as outlined in the Broadcasting Services Act. That means, when a TV or radio station runs “political matter”, it must be immediately followed by authorisation by the person responsible for approving the content and deciding it be broadcast. Though the authorisation itself — the quickly spoken message usually also written across a blank screen at the end of political campaign ads — must

Christian ethicist David Gushee, claiming to be evangelical, yet LGBT promoter fired a warning shot across the bow of conservative evangelicals and religious traditionalists. He writes, “[y]ou are either for full and unequivocal social and legal equality for LGBT people, or you are against it. . . neutrality is not an option. Neither is polite half-acceptance . . . Hide as you might, the issue will come and find you.” Christian ethicist David Gushee of Mercer University writes:  For Christians, the LGBT debate has always been framed as a question of sexual ethics. Our argument has centered on six or seven biblical passages that appear to mention homosexuality negatively or appear to establish a heterosexual norm: the sin of Sodom , the laws of Leviticus and the list of “the unrighteous” in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 . For most of my career, these ideas formed the foundation of my views and teachings as an evangelical minister and professor of Christian ethics. I co-authored a popula

  The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today stating that North Carolina has violated federal civil rights laws by overturning ordinances mandating that transgender people can use the restroom and shower facilities of the opposite biological sex. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced the federal case at a press conference late this afternoon, likening laws that bar biological males from using female showers to Jim Crow laws and segregation measures that forced blacks to use separate drinking fountains. “This is not the first time we have seen discriminatory responses to historic moments of progress to our nation,” said Lynch in a press conference scheduled for 3:30, which began half an hour late. “We saw it in the Jim Crow laws that followed the Emancipation Proclamation. We saw it in the fierce arguments against   Brown v. the Board of Education ” - the 1954 Supreme Court decision that overturned segregation. “And we saw it in the state bans on same-sex unions tha

Springsteen, Bryan Adams back LGBT campaign, cancel concerts in North Carolina , Mississippi usicians Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams cancelled planned shows in North Carolina and Mississippi this week over the states’ bathroom privacy and religious freedom laws. Springsteen cancelled his April 10 appearance in Greensboro, NC in protest of the state’s new law requiring people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their biological sex.  In a  statement  on his website, the singer announced: North Carolina has just passed HB2, which the media are referring to as the “bathroom” law…To my mind, it’s an attempt by people who cannot stand the progress our country has made in recognizing the human rights of all of our citizens to overturn that progress. Right now, there are many groups, businesses, and individuals in North Carolina working to oppose and overcome these negative developments. Taking all of this into account, I feel that this is a time for me and the band to

Pope Benedictus XVI (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) After more than a year’s silence on the part of the Holy See , France has finally acknowledged this silence as its normal diplomatic way of rejecting a country’s appointed ambassador. Laurent Stefanini has just been named as France’s ambassador to UNESCO , the Paris-based agency of the United Nations for education, science and culture, ending a long stretch as chief of protocol of the president of the Republic . The coveted position of ambassador of France to the Holy See will most probably remain vacant until the end of François Hollande’s presidential mandate next year. So ends a lengthy and confusing saga in which Pope Francis is said to have intervened personally in order to prevent the acceptance of Laurent Stefanini’s credentials because of the diplomat’s “homosexuality.” Laurent Stefanini had the backing of the archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Vingt-Trois – who confirmed him in 1998 shortly after he converted to the Cathol

A federal appeals court overturned a district judge's ruling on Thursday, and declared that same-sex "marriage" in Puerto Rico is constitutional. In 1999, Governor Pedro Rosselló signed into law a bill defining marriage as "a civil contract whereby a man and a woman mutually agree to become husband and wife."  Attempts failed, however, in 2008 and 2009 to put the definition of marriage in Puerto Rico's Constitution as a union between a man and a woman, and to outright ban same-sex "marriages." A groundswell of  popular support for natural marriage  culminated in between 120,000 and 200,000 people demonstrating at the San Juan's Capitol Building in February 2013. In March 2014, a lesbian couple from Massachusetts filed a legal complaint, seeking recognition of their "marriage," which was solemnized in the states. U.S. District Court Judge Juan Pérez-Giménez ruled against the lesbians and upheld Puerto Rico law in Octo