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(Note: The following piece contains spoilers for  How to Get Away With Murder .) Warning: Keep your kids away from ABC on Thursday nights at 10. Shonda Rhimes has created yet another raunchfest of a show, this one a “legal procedural” show called  How to Get Away With Murder. I put “legal procedural” quotes because anyone who’s watched a single episode of Rhimes’ long-running nighttime soap opera  Grey’s Anatomy  knows the medical setting is mostly a backdrop for exploring the convoluted sex lives of a group of total neurotics who happen to be surgeons. The same appears to be the case with Murder , which focuses extensively on the numerous sexual entanglements between the show’s sprawling ensemble cast – with a special and unusually explicit focus on homosexual relations. First, the basics: Just as  Grey’s Anatomy  started with a group of five attractive young first-year residents thrown into the deep end at a major teaching hospital,  Murder...

Ministers in the state of Idaho are facing fines and potential jail time for refusing to perform same-sex “marriages,” even though homosexuality violates their religion. In 2013, the Idaho city of Coeur D'Alene passed a law that forces all businesses to consider homosexuals the same as racial minorities when it comes to housing, employment, and "public accommodation," regardless of religious beliefs. Religious institutions are exempt from the ordinance – but according to the city, the ministers who run The Hitching Post, a wedding chapel, do not qualify for an exemption because their business operates for profit. The battle came to a head earlier this year, after Idaho's marriage law was overturned by a federal court. At the time, a deputy attorney for the city said that The Hitching Post would have to follow the ordinance because it charges what the  Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)   calls  "a small fee" to conduct the ceremony and provide marriage...

Dean Bailey , 50, is not afraid to tell anyone he is living proof that ‘ sexual orientation’ can in fact be changed. But he prefers to use the word ‘restored’ rather than ‘changed.’ Bailey remembers how from an early age he felt different from other boys. He felt he did not fit in and thought of himself as awkward, out of place. He remembers never feeling treasured or affirmed by his dad who was an alcoholic and who consumed pornography. Bailey believes this began a pattern of turning to other males to find the affirmation he never received from his dad. When a new outgoing boy began to attend school when Bailey was in grade three, he remembers trying hard to become the boy’s friend. It was during a sleepover at the boy’s house that Bailey was introduced to sexual play, including streaking and oral copulation . The experience not only robbed him of his childhood innocence, but awakened in him a sense of sexual curiosity. From here, Bailey became preoccupied with images of male...

Toronto District School Board (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is hosting three student conferences within the span of eight days for the purpose of LGBTQ activism.  The  conferences , which have been organized in collaboration with Jer’s Vision , will take place on October 28, October 30, and November 5. The first two conferences are for secondary school students, who will attend workshops relating to two-spirit and LGBTQ advocacy.  The third, which is for middle school students, will feature workshops on gay pride.  In addition, both students and teachers will be given training on advocating for all-gender washrooms.  This workshop will be given by David Stocker, a teacher who succeeded in implementing a multi-stall all-gender washroom  at a middle school in Toronto last year. Jer’s Vision plans to travel across the country organizing similar conferences over the course of the school year, before returning...

English: Bill Shorten outside Jason Wood's Boronia electoral office during the Dec'1st anti-WorkChoices rally.http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jason_Wood_%28politician%29&diff=prev&oldid=91283679. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) CANBERRA - Gay activists in Australia have launched  a furious campaign  to convince Australian opposition leader Bill Shorten to pull out of speaking at the Australian Christian Lobby 's national conference this weekend, and to pressure the hotel hosting the event to cancel. While gay activists had previously achieved notable success in convincing politicians to  withdraw from the World Congress of Families  event in Melbourne in August, this case has a twist, in that Shorten himself personally supports gay “marriage,” and is so far refusing to back down.  A spokesman for the Australian Christian Lobby, which is a leading force in the country against redefining marriage, told LifeSiteNews that organizers of the ...

Following their successful push to outlaw sexual orientation change therapy (sometimes called “conversion therapy”) for minors in their home state of California, the National Center for Lesbian Rights is looking to ban the treatment all over the world, and they want the United Nations ’ help. The group will address the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva next month, putting forward their case that counseling aimed at curing unwanted same-sex attraction amounts to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" and "torture." “Persuading the Committee Against Torture to take up the issue of conversion therapy on the international stage has the potential to save the lives of countless LGBT youth in the United States and around the world,” said NCLR attorney Samantha Ames. “ Conversion therapy is damaging our human rights record both at home and around the world and creating a crisis the United Nations can and should address this November." Samuel ...

An Irish theater company has created a pro- LGBT play specifically geared towards youngsters ages 7-13 with the goal of remolding a child’s conception of the human person as either male or female.  Titled “ Aunty Ben ,” the play tells the story of a nine-year-old primary student named Tracey who one day brings her school friends home to meet her exciting and fun-loving “Aunty Ben,” only to have the friends react negatively as they encounter a biological male decked-out in women’s clothing . As the story progresses, Tracey’s friends learn to overcome their negativity toward “Aunty Ben.” “Tracey loves her Aunty Ben. It doesn't matter to her that Aunty Ben is actually her uncle, or that he is a Drag Queen , because in Tracey’s family dressing up is for everyone!” reads an online description of the play from the theater  company’s website . “‘Aunty Ben’ is a colourful and playful exploration of gender, family, love and happiness, for young audiences aged 7+.” The play ma...

Both the Evangelical and homosexual communities took to social media today to debate a report from Religion News Service claiming that Southern Baptist leader Dr. Russell Moore publicly denounced sexual orientation change therapy at the denomination’s conference on “The Gospel, Homosexuality and the Future of Marriage” this week. According to RNS, Moore told a group of reporters at a press breakfast that reparative therapies aimed at ridding patients of unwanted same-sex attraction are “severely counterproductive.” “There were utopian ideas about reparative therapy that frankly weren’t unique to evangelicalism,” Moore said. “That was something that came along in the 1970s and 1980s about the power of psychotherapy to do all sorts of things that we have a more nuanced views about now.” Instead of depending on psychologists for a cure for same-sex attraction, Moore suggested that people with homosexual inclinations look to Christ and the Gospel for the strength to withstand ...