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TEACHERS at one of the Hunter’s largest Catholic high schools have been issued an edict not to “say or suggest or imply” they support same-sex marriage. St Pius X High School Adamstown principal Robert Emery has written two emails to staff warning that while they should vote in the upcoming marriage law postal survey according to their conscience, they shouldn’t “put yourself out there in a way that could be detrimental to your employment or promotional prospects in a Catholic school”. Mr Emery said while staff didn’t need to delete comments previously made on social media, they should “be careful from this point onwards not to say or write anything online or in class that could be seen as contradicting Catholic Church teaching”. “That is not a sensible thing to do when you are an employee of the Catholic diocese,” he wrote. “It is completely permissible to answer student questions about the issue provided you present both sides of the debate in a fair and non-judgemental way....

Fr. James Martin , SJ, editor-at-large for the Jesuit magazine  America , has made the headlines twice this past week.   First,  top Vatican and US church officials backed his forthcoming gay-friendly book ,  Building A Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity . Then in an unforeseen move, the  Vatican named Fr. Martin as a communications consultant  to the Holy See’s  Secretariat for Communications .   Several months preceding all this, Fr. Martin received an award from the LGBT group, New Ways Ministry , a group previously condemned for representing itself as a Catholic organization.  His  acceptance speech  became the broad outline for his new book.  In fact, the name of the award he received is,  New Ways Ministry’s Bridge Building Award . Catholic dissident, Sister Jeannine Gramick , co-founder of New Ways Ministry, lea...

Australia: Queensland Labor’s plan to set aside five per cent of winnable seats to LGBTI candidates risks alienating a large proportion of Queenslanders, according to the Australian Christian Lobby . ACL Queensland Director, Wendy Francis , said it would be difficult for Queenslanders to understand why the Labor Party had chosen to introduce a quota for LGBTI candidates at last weekend’s Queensland Labor Conference, but not ones for other segments of the community. The motion was put to the conference by Rainbow Labor, a powerful lobby group which advocates for LGBTI issues within the party. “The Labor Party is sending the message that it is more concerned with embracing Rainbow politics than providing policies that benefit all Queenslanders,” Ms Francis said. “The comments from Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten that ‘Labor is light years ahead when it comes to electing Australians from ­diverse backgrounds to office’ begs the question; ‘Why not have quotas for Christians an...

President Obama told 500 young leaders in London on Saturday that gay activists have been so successful at convincing Americans to accept the redefinition of marriage by saying that same-sex “marriage” promoted "family values" and "stability and commitment and partnership." At a town hall event, the president described the gay "marriage" movement as "the fastest set of changes in terms of the social movement" he has ever seen. He chalked this success up to the way LGBT activists framed the issue so as to win the minds and hearts of Americans. “I thought there was a lot of smarts in reaching out and building and framing the issue in a way that could bring in people who initially didn’t agree with them,” Obama remarked. The leader of the free world added that his two daughters, Malia, 17, and Sasha, 14, "had an impact on me" in changing from supporting civil unions to overt support for gay “marriage.” "My notion was...

A public prosecutor in Marseille , the main city on the south coast of France , has demanded a 1,500-euro fine (about 1,680 dollars) and a suspended prison sentence of three months against a deputy mayor in charge of marriage celebrations who used a "stratagem" in order to avoid registering a same-sex "marriage." Sabrina Hout was sued by a lesbian couple complaining that they had been discriminated against on the grounds of "sexual orientation." Hout is of North African origin and Islamic background. The intended "marriage" was between two native Frenchwomen , Claude and Hélène, who wanted their union to be registered in the 8th sector of Marseille, in the northern neighborhood where they live and work and where the population is now mainly of Islamic descent. The ceremony took place on the 16th of August, 2014, more than a year after same-sex "marriage" was made legal in France. Hout was the "civil officer"...

MADRID, Spain , February 7, 2014  A Spanish prosecutor has agreed to investigate Cardinal -elect Fernando Sebastian Aguilar after a national homosexualist group launched a legal action against him last month, accusing him of hate speech for calling homosexuality a “defective way of expressing sexuality.” Aguilar, recently named as a cardinal-elect by Pope Francis, told the Spanish newspaper   Diario Sur January 20 that sex “has a structure and a purpose, which is procreation.” Cardinal-elect Fernando Sebastián Aguilar with Pope Francis “A homosexual who can’t achieve procreation is failing,” he said. “Our bodies have many defects. I have high blood pressure, a defect I have to try and correct in whatever way I can.” Members of Colegas, the homosexual group behind the complaint, say that the Cardinal-elect’s words "clearly incit[e] hate and discrimination,” a crime that they say violates constitutional guarantees. “Spain is a modern country and a secular one, an...

FRANCE , November 19, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Hundreds of thousands of traditional marriage supporters demonstrated against same-sex “marriage” in France over the weekend. On Saturday, a nationwide rally drew an estimated 200,000 protesters in Paris according to organizers, with tens of thousands more attending rallies throughout the country. Almost 30,000 traditional marriage supporters demonstrated in the city of Lyon , according to a Reuters report. Police there reported that 40 counter-protesters were arrested after they attempted to disrupt the rally. Hundreds of thousands showed up to rally in defense of marriage. Police in Toulouse reported that tear gas was used to break up a group of homosexual activists who tried to interfere with the gathering of five thousand traditional marriage supporters. Le Parisien  reports that between 6,000 and 8,000 people demonstrated in Marseille, proving that, as  one blogger quipped, “there are more than just drug deal...

FRENCH opponents of same-sex marriage and adoption have staged their first major protests , rallying more than 100,000 people nationwide as police used tear gas against counter-demonstrators in one city. Wearing pink scarves and T-shirts and carrying pink balloons with the image of a man and woman holding two children's hands, demonstrators on Saturday marched against plans by the socialist government to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption. Demonstrators rallied under slogans such as "Pro-marriage, not anti-gay" and "Long live the true family". And a Catholic humourist who goes by the name of "Frigide Barjot" opened the Paris protest. "This is a great movement that is being launched," she told the crowd through a megaphone. People rally in support of same-sex marriage during a counter-demonstration of a march against gay marriage  in Toulouse , southern France.Picture: AFP "We are born from a man and a woman...