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The Trump administration reiterated its opposition to the so-called “Equality Act” Tuesday, responding to a challenge by pop star Taylor Swift in support of the wide-reaching LGBT measure. Swift used her Monday performance at the annual MTV Video Music Awards to promote her Change.org petition supporting the pro-homosexual Equality Act, which she claimed: “basically just says we all deserve equal rights under the law.” She added that its more-than 500,000 signatures “is five times the amount that it would need to warrant a response from the White House.” Fox News notes that the administration is only obligated to address petitions if they gather 100,000 signatures within a 30-day window, but the White House chose to answer questions on the matter anyway. "The Trump Administration absolutely opposes discrimination of any kind and supports the equal treatment of all; however, the House-passed bill in its current form is filled with poison pills that threaten to undermine p...

The co-creator of “Veggie Tales” says that Christian filmmakers will need to start addressing LGBT issues in their work, but from a biblical perspective, since children are already being exposed to these narratives in secular programming. Phil Vischer said he won’t compromise if pressed. “If I get pressure from Hollywood to show two men getting 'married' because we’ve all decided it’s right and correct, my pushback is: ‘No, I won’t,” he stated. “Because that’s not what I believe is best for kids,’” “It’s more about what we show as normal rather than explicitly showing something and saying, ‘that’s wrong,’” he said. “I’m portraying the positive rather than the negative.” “At least for now,” said Vischer. “I do believe that at some point we’ll be forced to figure out how to explicitly address it.” Christian families don’t have the choice of whether to expose their children to LGBT issues, he said, with society having placed them on the par with civil rights.  “Pare...

Pro-family groups blasted Ontario premier Doug Ford’s government Wednesday over a sex-ed curriculum they say is a betrayal of parents and no better than the radical program Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne rolled out in 2015. They also denounced the Tory government’s “opt-out” provision, much touted in the press, as “completely ineffective.” After Ford’s landslide victory last June, his government scrapped Wynne’s 2015 sex-ed curriculum and reverted to a 2010 version pending promised consultations with parents, although Lisa Thompson, his education minister at the time, said students had to learn gender identity theory.   But most media accounts agree the Grade 1 to 8 sex-ed curriculum that education minister Stephen Lecce released online August 21 closely resembles the Liberal product Ford vowed during his election campaign to repeal. The Ford sex-ed curriculum “largely mirrors the previous Liberal government’s 2015 curriculum,” reported the  Globe and Mail . ...

The Christian owner of a Kentucky print shop who has spent years fighting for his right not to create “gay pride” T-shirts has taken his case to the state Supreme Court. Blaine Adamson is the owner of Hands On Originals Christian Outfitters, a Lexington company that advertises "high quality, customized Christian apparel.” For the past several years, he has been fighting the Lexington Human Rights Commission over his polite refusal of the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization’s (now called the Pride Community Services Organization) request to print shirts for the Lexington Pride Festival. The Kentucky Court of Appeals sided with Adamson in 2017, and the Kentucky Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Friday, NBC News reported. “For the last seven years, the government has tried to punish me for declining to print a message that violated my conscience,” Adamson told the public outside the court chamber. “So far, the lower courts have upheld my freedom as a creative ...

A Republican lawmaker running to become Louisiana’s next governor has a new campaign ad succinctly declaring his conservative stances, including that “life begins at conception” and “there are only two genders.” Ralph Abraham is a physician, veterinarian, and National Guard veteran who currently represents Louisiana’s fifth district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He’s running for governor against incumbent Democrat John Bel Edwards and Republican businessman Eddie Rispone. Louisiana governor candidate: ‘As a doctor, I can assure you there are only 2 genders’ A Republican lawmaker running to become Louisiana’s next governor has a new campaign ad succinctly declaring his conservative stances, including that “life begins at conception” and “there are only two genders.”  Ralph Abraham is a physician, veterinarian, and National Guard veteran who currently represents Louisiana’s fifth district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He’s running for governor against incu...

An elementary school teacher packed a powerful punch in a two-minute testimony last month against a proposed law that would require teachers to affirm homosexual, lesbian, and transgender students. Her testimony occurred during a July 10 California  Senate Education Committee  hearing regarding  AB 493 , a measure known as “Teachers: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning pupil resources and training.” Speaking before the panel of liberal California politicians, Rachel Olsen – a 20-year veteran of the school system – referred to the training she had recently received from a program run by a contractor,  Queerly Elementary.    “I was told to use preferred pronouns to address students, to stop referring to students by their biological genders as boys and girls, and to teach sexual orientation and various gender identities,” said Olsen.   The purpose of the training being given is to “seek to coe...

Lynn Starkey worked at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. In May, however, the Roman Catholic school fired Starkey as a guidance counselor after officials discovered that she is married to a woman. In July, Starkey, 63, sued the school and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, claiming, in part, that they discriminated against her on the basis of her sexual orientation. In May, the school's principal notified Starkey, who has been married to her spouse since 2015, that her contract would not be renewed, stating in a letter that civil unions are in violation of her contract and “contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church.” The archdiocese — which is also being sued by a gay teacher who was recently fired from a different Catholic school in Indianapolis — claims that it has a “constitutional right to hire leaders who support the schools’ religious mission.” "Catholic schools exist to communicate the Catholic faith to the next generation," the archdiocese sa...

A diverse coalition of faith-based college leaders say they feel like the Supreme Court holds the fate of their institutions in its hands this term. They’re closely following a high-profile trio of sex discrimination cases about whether federal employment nondiscrimination law protects gay and transgender employees. And yet, none of the employers involved in the cases are religious institutions. So why are faith-based schools so concerned? In a legal brie f filed Friday by the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, Brigham Young University and 40 other religious schools, campus leaders explain how the cases could change life as they know it. They argue that a ruling in favor of a broad interpretation of sex discrimination could devastate their ability to operate in accordance with their beliefs. “Student housing standards would face new pressure. Affiliated clinics and hospitals could be compelled to provide religiously objectionable medical procedures. A religious unive...

It’s been over three months since the PBS show Arthur aired its homosexual fake marriage episode, and conservatives are still rightly angry the state of kids’ television because of it. In a recent interview with The Christian Post, Phil Vischer, the co-creator of the longtime popular kids’ franchise Veggie Tales shared his concern over shows like Arthur normalizing immoral homosexual relationships.  “The most striking thing about that episode of Arthur wasn’t that they thought it was time to introduce kids to homosexual fake gay marriage; it was the reaction of all the kids on the show,” he said. “None of them asked questions about why two men were getting married. Their reaction was, ‘Oh, OK! Great!’” “It’s such a strong message of, well kids, of course you’re fine with homosexual fake marriage, because there’s nothing to question about it,” he added. Vischer also said he believes Christian programming for children will eventually have to step forward and contradict the messa...

A federal appeals court has ruled that the state of Kentucky, not Kim Davis or her county, is responsible for the costs associated with Davis’s legal battle over her refusal to issue fake homosexual marriage licenses to homosexual couples — but she’s being sued in a separate case by homosexuals who appear want money if not revenge? A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Friday that the state is liable for nearly $225,000 in attorney fees and court costs run up by couples who sued when Davis in 2015 shut down all marriage license operations in Rowan County rather than serve homosexual couples after the rushed unbalanced Supreme Court’s homosexual fake marriage ruling, The Courier-Journal of Louisville reports. Four couples, seeking money if not revenge because they were offended brought the suit against Davis, who was county clerk at the time. She cited her religious beliefs as a reason for not obeying the marriage equality ruling. A federal ...