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Christian churches in Northern Ireland forced to declare if they’ll ‘marry’ gays or not

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A Northern Ireland government body has backtracked and apologized after writing to churches and asking them to state whether or not they will celebrate same-sex “weddings” while threatening that they would lose their status as marriage officiants for all weddings if they did not reply in less within a month. The Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Act 2019, the same piece of legislation that introduced new abortion laws into the region, has also legalized same-sex “marriage,” effective from January 13 of this year.   Same-sex “marriage” has been legal in the rest of the UK since 2013, but until this year had not been imposed on Northern Ireland. And a number of Nothern Ireland churches recently received a letter from General Register Office for Northern Ireland (GRO) asking them to complete a form detailing whether would officiate only weddings between people of the opposite sex or whether they would also officiate at so-called same-sex “weddings.” “Although your church

Transgenderism is having ‘corrosive impact’ on society: UK think tank

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Transgender ideology is a recent invention that is having a “corrosive impact” on society, a British think tank has affirmed.  Civitas, the Institute for the Study of Civil Society, published in June a monograph by researcher Joanna Williams, its director of freedom, democracy, and victimhood, titled “The Corrosive Impact of Transgender Ideology.” “This report explores the social impact of changed understandings of gender and, in particular, the emergence of the idea of transgender,” Williams wrote.   “A new orthodoxy that gender identity is brain-based and innate, something we need to discover for ourselves and then reveal to a readily accepting world, has rapidly gained ground,” she continued.   “This seemingly benign view has consequences for how we socialise children and organise society. It calls into question sex-protected rights and freedom of association. The existence of female-only prisons and refuges or girls’ schools, clubs and sports is thrown into doubt. Yet

Judge orders UK Christian adoption agency to adopt kids to Christian ‘homosexual carers’

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An English High Court judge has told a Christian adoption and fostering agency that its stipulation that its foster carers refrain from the homosexual activity is “unlawful” but that it may still recruit solely from evangelical Christians.  Mr. Justice Julian Knowles handed down his decision concerning Sunderland’s Cornerstone Adoption and Fostering Service yesterday.   “The law requires Cornerstone to accept gay men and lesbian women as  potential foster carers,” Knowles said. He added that he “categorically” rejected “any suggestion that gay men and lesbians cannot make wonderfully loving foster and adoptive parents whether they are single or in same-sex partnerships.”   Knowles said Cornerstone “must change its recruitment policy” to allow homosexual carers to become “prospective foster parents and it cannot lawfully refuse to do so.” However, Cornerstone, the only evangelical Christian agency among the 306 independent fostering agencies in England, may still exclusively

Neil Gorsuch Helps Transform the Supreme Court Into the Supreme Legislature on LGBT Rights

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In what dissenting Justice Samuel Alito called one of the most “brazen abuse[s]” of the Supreme Court’s authority, a six-member majority of the court led by Justice Neil Gorsuch has rewritten Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include sexual orientation and gender identity in the definition of “sex.” Why bother trying to pass the proposed Equality Act when you can get the justices to make law for you? Title VII prohibits an employer from failing or refusing “to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual … because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.”  Gorsuch — joined by the four liberal justices, along with Chief Justice John Roberts — decided that employment decisions that take any account of an employee’s sexual orientation or gender identity necessarily entail discrimination based on sex in violation of Title VII.  A Giant Leap In Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, which was combine

5 Casualties of the Court’s LGBTQ Sex Ruling

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“Sex” in civil rights law now legally means sexual orientation, or whatever gender you think you are. That’s the result of a surprising Supreme Court decision (Bostock v. Clayton County) from Justice Neil Gorsuch. Problem? Yes. Here are five casualties of this ruling: 1. We the People If you think you have the ability to govern yourselves through your elected representatives, the U.S. Supreme Court has again made a mockery of that Constitutional principle. You can work to elect the right people and pass all the laws you want, only to see a handful of appointed lawyers on the Supreme Court nullify or replace your laws with their own. That’s what six justices did this week. They changed the 1964 civil rights law into a law that they desired, despite the fact that the very changes they made have been rejected by Congress in recent years. Now, just like that, “sex” no longer means biological sex but sexual orientation and whatever a person thinks their sex is at the time. As Ju

Here Comes Polyamory, Just As We Predicted

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Let me totally clear at the outset. One of the purposes of this article is to say, “I told you so!” Or, more precisely, many of us have been predicting this moment for years. As reported in a New York Times article titled “A Massachusetts City Decides to Recognize Polyamorous Relationships,” “The city of Somerville has broadened the definition of domestic partnership to include relationships between three or more adults, expanding access to health care.” Is anyone really surprised? After all, if the winning mantras of the same-sex “marriage” movement have been “Love is love” and “Love wins” and “I have the right to marry the one I love,” why limit that number to two? Isn’t that discriminating against love? Isn’t that simply carrying over the outdated, outmoded, limiting ways of the past? To this day, in all my dialogue and debate with LGBTQ activists and their allies, I have yet to hear a reasonable explanation of why marriage should be limited to two people if any two people ca

JK Rowling warns the loss of free speech after trans LGBTQ+ abuse

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Author JK Rowling has joined 150 high-profile figures on an open letter claiming that free speech is under threat due to an "intolerance of opposing views", after coming under attack for her comments about transgender issues. Key points: US feminist Gloria Steinem and Margaret Atwood joined Rowling in signing the letter It cautioned that debate was being weakened amongst a 'vogue for public shaming and ostracism' Rowling has come under attack as expected by LGBTQ+ zealots. The Harry Potter writer, says only women menstruate, joined 550 academics, artists, and writers who signed the letter condemning the fashionable trans movement as nonsense, against biology and is a mental health issue.  Other signatories on the 530-word letter published in Harper's magazine included US feminist Gloria Steinem, author Margaret Atwood and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky. In 'A Letter on Justice and Open Debate', they welcomed protests for racial and so