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Actor Kirk Cameron, at Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan, May 5, 2007. Photo by Luigi Novi. You are free to use this photo as long as I am visibly credited in each instance in which it is used. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Protesters gathered in front of the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove, New Jerser last Friday to rally against actor Kirk Cameron 's presence at a Christian conference, claiming his expressed convictions on marriage are harmful to gays and lesbians. Reportedly 100 protesters, mainly part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community ( LGBT ), marched silently in front of the Great Auditorium to protest Cameron's Christian views regarding homosexuality. The protesters, a part of the self-described civil rights group Ocean Grove United, marched with signs that read "Kirk! Your Words Hurt Us!" as roughly 6,000 couples showed up to hear Cameron speak on "Love Worth Fighting For," a presentation on Christian marriage . In...

A bill to legalise same-sex marriage is close to having the numbers to pass its first stage, despite an attempt by New Zealand First to derail it. A  Herald  poll of all 121 MPs found 54 of them intend to vote for Labour Party MP Louisa Wall 's private member's bill, which would redefine marriage as a union of two people, "regardless of their sex, sexual orientation or gender identity". It was expected to be decided by a conscience vote, and needs 61 votes to pass. But many MPs have refused to take a side on the contentious debate, and the final vote could be close. New Zealand First yesterday complicated the process, with leader Winston Peters suggesting the party might abstain from the first vote - expected to take place in late August. Mr Peters called for a referendum to be held on same-sex marriage. "Serious issues like this should be decided by the public of this country, and not a few temporary, empowered politicians." He would no...

OLYMPIA, Washington , July 31, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - The fight for traditional marriage in Washington state is heating up with the announcement that billionaire Jeff Bezos , the founder of Amazon .com, and his wife, MacKenzie, have pledged $2.5 million to homosexual lobbyists. The donation comes after opponents of the state’s new gay “marriage” law stopped the legislation in its tracks by collecting and filing over 240,000 signatures in support of a referendum on the November ballot. The contribution makes the Amazon couple the largest financial backer of homosexual “rights” in the state, according to  the NY Times , far outstripping the $100k donation by Bill Gates and Steven A. Ballmer of Microsoft. Gov. Christine Gregoire of Washington State, a Democrat, signed  the homosexual “marriage” bill into law in February, making Washington the seventh U.S. state to redefine marriage, in addition to the District of Columbia . The bill was expected to take effe...

Image via CrunchBase You've likely heard that Chick-fil-A ®  has come under fire for supporting traditional marriage and the biblical understanding of the family .  But now it appears that the social media giant, Facebook ® , temporarily censored a grassroots effort to applaud and support the family-run business . What's this all about? Former Arkansas governor -turned-talk-show-host Mike Huckabee floated the idea of organizing a "Chick-fil-A ®  Appreciation Day" for August 1 st . He talked about it on his FOX News TV show last Sunday, launched a  Facebook® page  to promote it and by the following Tuesday morning had gathered over 100,000 supporters declaring their agreement with the concept.  By late Tuesday morning, however, the page was gone. It seems Facebook ®  had removed it. After several news outlets pushed for an explanation, including Focus on the Family's  Citizenlink ® , the page suddenly reappeared last Wednesday. Shortly ...

July 30, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - For over four years, the American public has been told repeatedly by the President and his surrogates in the media and politics, that Barrack Obama is a “ Christian .” Yet, according to a recent poll, fewer people recognize his claimed religious affiliation than in 2008. The poll, conducted by the Pew Research Center ’s Forum on Religion and Public Life , and released on Thursday, indicates that only 49% of Americans believe that President Obama is a Christian. Another 17% called him a “Muslim.” Just before the 2008 election, a majority, 55%, had described then-candidate Obama’s faith as Christian, while just 12% said he was Muslim. Major media outlets spun the story, as they have in the past, as an issue of voter ignorance. The left-wing New York Daily News declared that “Poll finds Americans still confused about Barack Obama’s religion,” while ABC’s Amy Bingham titled her blog entry: “Half of Americans Do Not Know the President’s R...

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WASHINGTON, July 30, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A committee in charge of drafting a new Democratic Party platform has included in its draft a plank endorsing the redefinition of marriage. The gay news outlet Washington Blade quoted Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), a member of the committee, who told the paper Monday that the group unanimously backed the new marriage plank after a national hearing in Minneapolis this weekend. The 2008 Democratic National Committee (DNC) platform did not take an explicit stance on marriage, stating only that, “We support the full inclusion of all families, including same-sex couples, in the life of our nation, and support equal responsibility, benefits, and protections. We will enact a comprehensive bipartisan employment non-discrimination act. We oppose the Defense of Marriage Act and all attempts to use this issue to divide us.” “I was part of a unanimous decision to include it,” Frank said, according to the Blade. “There was a unanimous decision in...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota , July 30, 2012 – Target is promoting their wedding registry with a focus on homosexual “marriage”. A new ad released last month depicts two men holding hands with the slogan, “Be yourself, together.” The retail giant has angered both pro-family and pro-homosexual activists as they have apparently flip-flopped in their approach to same-sex “marriage”. In 2010 Target faced some backlash from homosexual political groups after they gave $150,000 to MN Forward , a political group that supported Tom Emmer , the pro-life, pro-marriage Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota . More recently they have been criticized for their decision not to sell an album by Frank Ocean , who recently came out as homosexual. But last month the chain began selling same-sex “marriage” wedding cards, and they have supported pride parades in Minneapolis for a number of years. In May, Target sold gay pride t-shirts ad gave the proceeds to the Family Equality Council , a h...

English: Gender symbols, sexual orientation: heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality. Česky: (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Religious writer Thomas Moore speaks about soul care: “A major difference between care and cure is that cure implies the end of trouble. If you are cured, you don’t have to worry about whatever was bothering you any longer. But care has a sense of ongoing attention. There is no end.”  Reparative therapy programs that try to cure homosexuals do more harm than good if “success” is narrowly defined as conversion of sexual orientation . (According to a longitudinal study by Christian psychologists Mark Yarhouse and Stanton Jones, only 15% of participants in reparative therapy experience conversion, 23% experience chastity, 29% continual same-sex attraction , 15% no response, 4% confusion, and 8% defeat.) Hill and Paris long for a church that focuses on care instead of cure because that will help same-sex attracted persons to live with fruitful ambigu...

Are you aware of how the apostle Paul ’s logic goes against the cultural logic of his day and ours: What we desire or do sexually is not who we are. When Paul addresses a catalog of sins in the Corinthian church, including “the sexually immoral” and “men who practice homosexuality,” he says—with emphasis on the past tense—“And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God ” (1 Cor. 6:11, ESV ).  Today many Christians interpret that process of repentance (metanoia) through the framework of sexual identity categories, as if the decisive change is one of sexual orientation rather than conformity to the image of Christ . What matters is not whether a person can boast of being an “ ex-gay ”—a bizarre appellation—but whether, after undergoing burial and resurrection with Christ, he or she “[walks] in newness of life” (Rom. 6:4, ESV). The gay self—and its binary opposite, the strai...

From a worldly perspective, the Bible ’s no to homosexual practice is viewed as the impossible demand of a sadistic God and pharisaical church. We’re told that being sexually active is the way to be most alive—to be fully, truly, beautifully human. But perhaps the Bible’s no to same-sex behavior is actually a yes to something even greater than sexual expression, which is good, no doubt, but also potentially idolatrous, especially in our oversexed culture, and certainly not our summum bonum (or highest good). Alasdair MacIntyre says, “I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’” It’s this prior question that gets ignored in the debate on homosexuality because the church has mistakenly given primacy to ethics over the narrative functions of doctrine and ministry. Some Christians who battle homosexual attractions are learning to struggle well as a celibate gay men because of his embeddedness...