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Russia retaliates: New report says EU’s promotion of homosexuality ignores real human rights issues

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MOSCOW, January 16, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Far from backing down on its national  ban on homosexual propaganda , the Russian government is going on the offensive, saying the European Union's promotion of homosexuality has led it to ignore real human rights violations, including the growth of ultra-nationalist and neo-Nazi groups. Since the bill was signed into law, Russia has been the target of a massive international campaign, spearheaded by the European Union and homosexual campaigners at the EU, to overturn it. A report on human rights to the EU by the Russian government, accuses the EU of “the dissemination of their neo-liberal values as a universal lifestyle for all other members of the international community.” “This is particularly evident in their aggressive promotion of the sexual minorities' rights,” the report said. “Attempts have been made to enforce on other countries an alien view of homosexuality and same-sex marriages as a norm of life and ...

High Court Sir Paul Coleridge stood down because he supports traditional marriage and not immoral homosexual marriage

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News that Sir Paul Coleridge, High Court Judge , has stood down, after being reprimanded for his comments in support of marriage, may reflect a liberal bias at the top of British civic life. The implied suggestion that Sir Paul may have acted in a way unbecoming of a Court official , simply by sharing his frustration at the breakdown of marriages and the impact this has on children, is tantamount to an admission that so-called traditional marriage is no longer considered a norm worthy of protection. Whilst Sir Paul could have continued in his position with the High Court for another five years, he has said that his position is now untenable. He could not, he says, properly fulfil his duties if he felt he had to constantly look over his shoulder. It is outrageous that a judge should be reprimanded for speaking up for one of the major foundations of our social order . Surely if judges are allowed to speak about anything, it should be the defence of the social order they are installe...

Hundreds expected to protest anti-free speech ‘homophobia’ law in Rome, Paris

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ROME , - Up to 500 people are expected to hold a demonstration later tonight outside the Italian parliament to protest  a bill that would criminalize homophobia and "transphobia,"  something constitutional experts believe would shut down citizens' right to free speech , especially for Christians. The event is organized by the recently formed Italian branch of  Manif pour Tous . It will be matched by a demonstration in Paris by the French branch of the group, outside the Italian embassy. The group contends that the bill would stifle any principled opposition to the homosexual political agenda, including plans that they say are already afoot in parliament to institute homosexual civil unions or “ gay marriage ” and homosexual adoptions in Italy . Manif pour Tous Italia has frankly called the bill a “gag law” that, if passed, would “prevent associations and free citizens from making reasoned opposition to civil measures relating to same-sex marria...

Anti-homophobia, ‘transphobia’ bill could silence Christians, Italian family groups warn

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ROME , August 5, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Today’s session of the Italian Lower House is the last opportunity Deputies will have to discuss a highly contentious “anti- homophobia ” law that opponents have said will shut down and criminalize any public opposition to “gay marriage,” civil unions, or homosexuals adopting children. Avvenire , the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops’ conference, has said that, as in Britain, this law could usher in prosecutions against religious associations or clergy who publicly denounce the homosexual act as a sin. The strongest objections have warned that Italy could be following the same path as Britain by introducing a law that would strike at freedom of thought, expression, and religious belief, all rights that are explicitly defined by the Constitution. Critics of the bill, who include constitutional legal experts as well as the Italian Catholic bishops, have warned that the bill will make it a criminal act to publicl...

3/4s of British Christians say anti-Christian discrimination is on the rise: poll

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Distribution of Christianity (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Seventy-four percent of Christian Britons believe that discrimination against Christianity and Christian freedom of expression is on the rise in their country, according to a recent poll. This is a significant increase from 66 percent in 2009 according to an independent research group, ComRes .  The ComRes poll was taken in October 2011 and surveyed 544 practicing Christians across Britain from all age groups. It asked respondents if they thought that marginalization of Christians is increasing, decreasing or staying the same in key areas of public life. The results showed that 66 percent believe the marginalization of Christians is increasing in the government compared to 59 percent the year before. Sixty-one percent believe it is increasing in the workplace 71 percent of respondents perceive an increase in the marginalization of Christians in the media. The poll was commissioned by Premier Christian Media Trust...

Anglican bishops in West Indies denounce Obama blackmail over gay 'marriage'

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English: Flag of the Anglican Communion (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The Anglican bishops of the West Indies have urged their governments to hold fast and resist pressure from Britain and the United States to legalize gay rights and gay "marriage." In a statement released on April 25, 2013, following the House of Bishops meeting in Barbados, bishops of the Church the Province of the West Indies (CPWI) reiterated their belief in marriage “definedas a faithful, committed, permanent and legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman.” “The idea of such unions being constituted by persons of the same sex is, therefore, totally unacceptable on theological and cultural grounds,” the bishops said. The CPWI consists of eight dioceses: the Diocese of Barbados, the Diocese of Belize, the Diocese of Guyana, the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands , the Diocese of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands , the Diocese of the North Eastern Caribbean and Aruba, th...

UK Liberal Catholic Newspaper abandon fight against ‘gay marriage’

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ROME , March 5, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The Catholic Church in Britain, and presumably abroad, must abandon its fight against “gay marriage” and “make peace with the gay world and move on.” So says The Tablet , Britain’s “international Catholic weekly” magazine, sold across the country in Catholic parishes and often endorsed by the Catholic bishops. The fight over marriage, the magazine’s editor said, is largely over within the Church, with over half of Westminster Catholic MPs voting in favor of the government’s “gay marriage” bill last month. Citing a U.S. poll that found more Catholics than non-Catholics supported “gay marriage,” the editorial said, “These results rather scotch the idea that Catholics are mindless zombies who do whatever the bishops tell them to.” “There is no more mileage in this issue for the Catholic Church,” the editorial continued, “and the sensible course would be to put it on the back burner with the heat turned low – to make peace with the ga...