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States, scholars, lawmakers, and activists have filed a dozen amicus briefs with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, urging it to maintain an injunction against the state of California’s efforts to exclude parents from school decisions to “socially transition” their gender-confused children. Back in 2023, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez sided with Christian teachers Elizabeth Mirabelli and Lori Ann West in their lawsuit against Escondido Union School District, which was trying to force teachers to withhold from parents signs that a child is suffering from gender dysphoria. The policy created a “trifecta of harm” that “harms the child who needs parental guidance and possibly mental health intervention,” the judge found at the time. Later that month, however, California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a guidance directing school districts to disregard that ruling, as it only applied to those specific teachers in that specific district, along with a similar ruling by a lower court i...

The new $24 million monument in Ottawa cleverly attempts to link the LGBT movement's roots with Indigenous history.   Surrounding the new Thunderhead monument at the centre of the Canadian capital is an interpretive wall offering visitors and passersby the official history “of 2SLGBTQ+ people in Canada.”  As the Globe and Mail solemnly put it : “Every night, on the banks of the Ottawa River, a thundercloud will glow like a disco ball.” The 30-foot-tall monument is a cylinder with a cloud-shaped carveout, the interior of which is covered with thousands of mirrored tiles. The disco-ball effect, of course, is a nod to gay nightclubs. The cloud inside the cylinder, one activist said, symbolises the LGBT movement’s triumph. “We didn’t stay in the mould,” Martine Roy said. “We blew it up.” The monument and surrounding park were constructed with $24 million allocated to the LGBT Purge Fund after a class action lawsuit against the Canadian government launched by LGBT-identifyi...

A newly published study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found a strong correlation between transgender ideology and societal and political violence. Titled “ Where the Clinic Meets the Movement: Does Gender Ideology Arm Left-Wing Authoritarian (LWA) Psychology? , ” the study, which surveyed 1,208 U.S. adults, determined that LWA was “positively associated with the justification of political violence across six targets: killing Charlie Kirk, killing Donald Trump, killing Brian Thompson, arson of ICE buildings, damaging wealthy people’s property, and violence against police.” The authors of the report ultimately concluded that “gender ideology may function as an ideological accelerant, telling left-wing authoritarian psychology who the enemy is, why the situation is urgent, and—in those already disposed toward force—that violence is legitimate.” “Left-wing authoritarianism describes a psychological profile characterised by aggression toward perceive...

One way to resolve sexual identity conflicts is to affirm a gay identity as central to who one is as a person. This is historically atypical, but it is common in contemporary culture. One gay historian identifies four forms of homosexuality across cultures and throughout history.59  The first is age-structured homosexuality. This is seen, for example, in age-related initiation ceremonies in some societies in New Guinea.  The second form is gender-reversed homosexuality. An example of this might be the North American Indian berdache (sometimes referred to as “two spirit”, suggesting both a masculine and feminine spirit reside in the individual).  The third form of homosexuality across cultures is role-specialised homosexuality. According to Herdt, an example of this can be found in the Chukchee shaman whose vision quests direct him to engage in same-sex behaviour for a time.  The fourth and final form of homosexuality can be seen in the modern gay movement.  Wha...

MOVE FROM HOMOSEXUAL TO HETEROSEXUAL ORIENTATION Christians have often countered Trajectory 1 with what we can refer to as Trajectory 2, which moves the person from a homosexual orientation (the basis of a gay identity) toward a heterosexual orientation (the basis of a heterosexual identity).  From a Christian perspective, what are we to make of attempts to change sexual orientation? Understandably, a person would consider attempting to change since Christians view heterosexuality as normative. At the same time, the assertion that heterosexuality is normative is no guarantee that sexual orientation can change. As we parse out these different trajectories, I want to explore how they might respond to a key verse from Scripture that is often cited in these discussions: 1 Corinthians 6:11.  After Paul lists several sinful behaviours, he declares, “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ a...

MOVE AWAY FROM GAY IDENTITY It helps a person think about who they are and how they think of themselves and communicate who they are to others rather than limiting the discussion to arousal patterns and measures of sexual attraction. It is interesting to think about what some Christians have said about their change of orientation experience. In our study of ninety-eight people attempting to change orientation through involvement in a Christian ministry, we asked, “How helpful has the ministry been so far?” Here are a few responses: • It “made my walk with Christ closer.” • ‌“It was very helpful to increase my relationship with God, making it closer.” • It got “my hands on materials that are helpful to read.” • ‌“I need that intermediate place between church, between the rest of the world to be able to be honest … to have somewhere to be real.” • ‌“They’ve helped me to find myself.” Note that the areas of help have a lot to do with spiritual themes, such as walking closer with the Lord...