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Spanish bishop to LGBT activists: ‘You have much to offer the Church’

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Bishop José Antonio Satué of Malaga has previously made pro-LGBT remarks and supported ‘blessings’ for homosexual ‘couples.’ A Spanish bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV told a gathering of so-called “LGBT Christians” in Chipiona, Spain, “You have much to offer the Church,” adding, “at the same time, you can be enriched within it.” Homosexuality is a sin, so how does Satue get around the Bible's prohibition? He doesn't because he does not care. Bishop José Antonio Satué of Malaga addressed the 15th Meeting of “LGBT Christians” last week, according to SSPX News . SSPX News reported: The meeting was organized by the Pastoral Care for Sexual Diversity in the Canary Islands (PADIS) under the motto “Todos, todas, todes” — an adaptation of the famous “everyone, everyone, everyone” (*todos, todos, todos*) used by Pope Francis at World Youth Day in Lisbon in 2023. The inclusion of a gender-inclusive grammatical form, drawn from gender ideology, set the tone for the gathering. The meetin...

Gender ideology suffers defeat after major UK hospital policy shift

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New NHS guidance requires hospital accommodation to be based on biological sex, marking a major reversal after nurses faced disciplinary action for challenging gender-identity policies. The U.K.’s National Health Service has taken another step toward purging transgender ideology from hospitals. According to new guidance published on October 15, trans-identifying patients will now be placed in hospital wards that accord to their sex rather than their self-professed “gender identity.” This is a direct reversal of NHS England’s 2019 guidance, which formally instructed hospitals to place trans-identifying patients in wards that accorded to their “gender identity” rather than their sex. This reversal was not voluntary; the new guidance makes it crystal clear that the NHS was forced to make the changes based on the court rulings: The Equality Act 2010 protects everyone in Britain from discrimination based on 9 protected characteristics . To support providers of single-sex services, includin...

Gay Dutch PM Rob Jetten hires surrogate to carry baby, accused of skirting the law

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Commercial surrogacy is illegal in the Netherlands. but Rob Jetten's leftist political party D66 claims that no laws have been broken. Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten and homosexual partner Nicolas Keenan announced in a joint Instagram post on October 19 that they are expecting a child via surrogate. “Someone very special is on the way,” the two men announced . “See you in 2027, little one. There are no words big enough to thank our egg donor, our surrogate mum Lisa and both their families. None of this would be possible without you.” The post included a photo of the men holding a sonogram image, and another with the child’s mother standing in between them. They did not say which one of the men was the biological father of the child. Jetten’s political party, the leftist D66, issued a statement assuring the public that nothing illegal had occurred. “There is no commercial surrogacy involved,” the party stated. “The surrogate mother and the egg donor are known to Jetten and Keenan...

Love is love.....really?

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  Objection Stated “All you need is love.” But this is consensual. We’re not harming anyone. Biblical Response “All You Need Is Love” is a Beatles song that does not make for good theology or ethics. We will not argue about the prominent place of love in Christian theology and practice; without it we would not have redemption (John 3:16; Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:10).  Nor will we argue about the Christian requirement that we love one another. It is unquestionably Christian doctrine that “the one who loves his brother abides in the light” (1 John 2:10).  Furthermore, “we know that we have passed out of death into life because we love the brethren” (1 John 3:14). We agree that we should “not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth” (1 John 3:18). The loving of one another is evidence of the life of God abiding in us (1 John 4:12). Truly, “we love, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19), and we must love one another if we truly love God (1 John 4:20). While these ...

Does the Bible address homosexuality?

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All You Need Is Love and Other Justifications Various other attempts are designed to justify homosexuality as acceptable within biblical morality. When it is shown that the passages that supposedly condemn homosexuality actually do condemn homosexuality, then the revisionists must find other ways to defend their preferences.  The arguments that follow are those that did not fall precisely into our discussion of the various biblical texts that were surveyed. These arguments, as with the others we have considered, are also put forth as “biblical.” These are supposedly based upon the truths of Scripture when taken as a whole. To these we now turn. Objection Stated The words “homosexual” and “homosexuality” are not found in the Bible. This is one of the most common objections raised by those who teach the compatibility of homosexuality and the Bible. This statement has become mantra-like due to its frequency of utterance and is one of the first comments heard from those who argue for t...

Homosexuals or Male prostitutes: Bible?

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Objection Stated Arsenokoites should be defined narrowly to refer to “male prostitutes.” Biblical Response We have already noted this primary objection of revisionist authors5 or merely to pederasty.6 But these sources ignore the role of the LXX in the formation of Paul’s vocabulary and cannot be taken seriously outside of this consideration. What is more, many revisionists, upon asserting the term is basically beyond our meaningful definition, are forced to fall back on the assertion that the modern view of homosexuality, involving “orientation” and “loving monogamous relationships,” was unknown to Paul, and hence what he meant in using arsenokoites is for all intents and purposes irrelevant to the modern situation.  Revisionist arguments all lead to this singular conclusion: that the biblical text cannot speak to the modern expression of homosexuality. How they support that conclusion may differ, but the goal is always the same. Even if it could be established that the apostle P...

Hope for the Homosexual

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The Apostle Paul We miss the truly redemptive force of 1 Corinthians 6:9–10, however, if we allow ourselves to be caught up solely in the discussion of the meaning of arsenokoites. Once its definition has been established, we must surely hear the clear teaching of this portion of God’s Word: 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. The past tense “such were some of you” cannot be ignored. Paul does not address “homosexual Christians.” He addresses former homosexuals who were now Christians.  A transition had taken place, a supernatural movement from the practice of homosexuality to the Christian faith. They had been washed, showing that their previous activities were sinful and required cleansing. They had been sanctified, showing that their previous acts had been unholy.  They had been justified, showing that their previous deeds placed them under the wrat...