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Anglican Church rejects 'prayers of blessing' for same-sex unions

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Rainbow flag. Symbol of gay sin JOHANNESBURG - The Anglican Church of Southern Africa has voted against the blessing of same-sex civil unions in South Africa . The vote was taken by the church's top legislative body, the Provincial Synod .  Same-sex marriages are allowed only under South African civil law. The initial motion before the Synod also proposed that bishops could provide for clergy who identify as LGBTI and are in legal same-sex civil unions, to be licensed to minister in parishes.  But the proposers withdrew this section before debate began. The church includes Anglicans in Angola, Lesotho , Mozambique, Namibia , South Africa, Swaziland and on the island of Saint Helena .

European gay activists fail in first bid to block grassroots pro-marriage effort

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The first attempt to stop a citizens’ initiative to get the European Union to endorse tradition marriage has failed. The “Mum, Dad & Kids” initiative must first gather 1 million signatures by December 11, and then be approved by the European Commission for submission to the European Parliament , and then be approved by a majority of MEPs . As hard as that is likely to prove, the powerful, publicly-funded European branch  of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA Europe ) recently requested that the Court of Justice of the European Union overturn the European Commission’s decision to register the initiative in the first place. But the CJEU has summarily dismissed the request. As the conservative Agenda Europe website has reported, the court declared the request “manifestly inadmissible.” Such decisions by the European Commission are final and not appealable. But the ILGA has other plans to derail the initiative before it...

Leading gay activist appointed to British House of Lords

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Pro-homosexual - anti marriage David Cameron's picture on the 10 Downing Street website (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A co-founder of Stonewall, Britain’s powerful LGBT lobby group, and the longtime head of the European Parliament ’s Intergroup on LGBT Rights, was named to the House of Lords last week by Prime Minister David Cameron ’s coalition government. A spokesman for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) told LifeSiteNews.com they are concerned that with the appointment, Michael “ Cashman will use his role in Britain’s ‘revising chamber’ to continue his campaigning against life and family.” Cashman, a retired Labor Party-affiliated MEP who represented the West Midlands in the European Parliament since 1999 and retired in May, has been a key player in the press for Britain to adopt the LGBT political agenda. He was one of the principal figures within Stonewall  pressuring the group  to adopt as a lead policy the demand to change the definitio...

EU pressure on homosexuality complicates EU-Africa summit

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Countries using the Euro de jure Countries and territories using the Euro de facto Countries in the EU not using the Euro (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) April 4, 2014 ( C-FAM ) - European pressure on African nations to change laws on homosexuality has created a backlash that may threaten this week's meeting between leaders of the two continents European officials have been scrambling to appease African leaders ahead of this week’s summit of EU and African leaders in Brussels . The summit is meant to address a host of issues on which the EU and Africa cooperate. Homosexuality is not one of them. African governments reacted negatively when the European Parliament passed a resolution last month threatening sanctions on countries that punish homosexual acts. The resolution was a response to Uganda and Nigeria toughening sodomy laws and outlawing the promotion of homosexuality and same-sex marriage. The European Parliament asked that the governments of Uganda and Nigeria no l...

African leaders urged to boycott EU summit over criticism of anti-homosexuality bills

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa , March 18, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The African, Caribbean and Pacific Parliament (ACP) has issued a statement denouncing the European Parliament's decision to recommend sanctions against African nations that refuse to kowtow to the EU’s homosexual agenda. The ACP is calling on African heads of state to boycott the EU-Africa summit scheduled for May, according to  South Africa News24 . The  ACP  is an organization composed of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific states that are connected to the European Union under the "ACP-EC Partnership Agreement." Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni 's decision to sign an anti-homosexuality has been strongly condemned -even by pro-family leaders - because of the bill's harsh penalties. The European Parliament  voted last week  to recommend heavy economic penalties, the denial of travel visas, the withdrawal of foreign aid and other sanctions against Uganda and Nigeria in response to their...

Romania rejects redefinition of marriage disguised under Civil Partnership Bill

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BUCHAREST, March 17, 2014 ( StiriPentruViata.ro ) - On March 5th, 2014, the Juridical Commission of Romania’s Chamber of Deputies rejected a bill proposing legal recognition for civil partnerships signed before a notary. The bill had already been rejected by Romania ’s Senate (with 105 votes against and 2 in favor). After its unanimous rejection by the Juridical Commission, the last chance would be for it to be introduced directly to the plenary session of the Chamber of Deputies. This is exactly what its sponsor, Remus Cernea , independent Member of Parliament and a promoter of secular humanism, intends to do, though with little chances of success. Romanian MP Diana Tusha (R) with her family The law was presented as a non-discriminatory set of provisions for both “heterosexual and same-sex couples” who could “enjoy rights like the right to inheritance, the right to become a co-beneficiary on the other’s health insurance, the right to apply for [housing] loans as joint debt...

European Parliament votes to impose heavy sanctions against pro-family African nations

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ABUJA , Nigeria , March 14, 2014  - On Thursday, the European Parliament voted to recommend heavy economic sanctions, the denial of travel visas, the withdrawing of foreign aid, as well as force the isolation from the international community of African nations that refuse to heel to the EU ’s homosexual agenda. During the debate at the European Parliament, French socialist Marie-Christine Vergiat and Dutch Liberal MEP Marietje Schaake both laid blame for the pro-family laws in Nigeria and Uganda on “evangelists from the United States .” Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan Meanwhile in the capitol of Nigeria, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, Navi Pillay met with determined resistance to her advocacy for the homosexual lifestyle. Addressing the UN delegation in Nigeria, the attorney general of the Nigerian federal government, Mohammed Adoke, emphasized that Nigeria’s laws “do not criminalize individual sexual orientation,” but explained that t...

Gender ideology pushed at EU through bogus data methods: pro-family groups

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BRUSSELS ,– Pro-family organisations are again sounding the alarm across Europe at an attempt by homosexual activist EU politicians to force member states to teach children “gender ideology” under the guise of mandatory “sex education,” programmes that would include promotion of homosexual activity as normative. At the same time, the groups are calling foul on the methods used to obtain the data being used to back the effort, accusing the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency of fabricating data to bring about a foregone, ideologically motivated conclusion. Some time between February 3 rd  and 6 th  the European Parliament   is expected  to debate and vote upon the report by Ulrike Lunacek , an Austrian MEP and the co-president of the European Parliament’s homosexual rights group. The Lunacek Report, titled “Roadmap against homophobia and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity,” seeks to force all member states to implement a “sex...

Croatia government reveals same-sex civil unions law: pro-family petition gathers 750k signatures

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ZAGREB, August 13, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Croatian Public Administration Minister Arsen Bauk has said that the bill being drawn up to grant homosexual partnerings the same legal rights as marriages will not call the unions “gay marriage” or “civil partnerships,” but “life partnerships”. Under the draft legislation, homosexual partners will be able to inherit property, receive the same social security and tax benefits as couples in natural marriages.  Bauk told the Zagreb newspaper Jutarnij List that the government is still considering whether the legislation will allow adoptions. Bauk said, however, that the bill will include provisions for “one member of the couple to adopt the biological child of the other, if the natural parent is unknown or no longer alive.”  Minister Arsen Bauk told the Zagreb newspaper Jutarnij List that the government is still considering whether the legislation will allow adoptions. Croatia , an overwhelmingly Catholic country, has long ...