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Politician exposes the harms of homosexuality in letter; newspaper won’t publish

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SIOUX FALLS, SD , May 2, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A South Dakota politician is receiving national criticism after  posting an op-ed  on his Facebook page denouncing same-sex relations and the way society has handled suicide rates among transgender youth. Among many other outlets,  TheWire.com ,  Jezebel , and  Slate.com  all published criticisms of the op-ed published by State Representative Steve Hickey. Among the attacks is Slate.com's Mark Joseph Stern assertion that "there’s nothing inherently unhealthy about anal sex." However, much of Hickey's op-ed is in line with well-established realities surrounding the topic. For example, Hickey states that "gay sex is not good for the body or mind." This statement is in line with  reports  from the Center for Disease Control (CDC)  showing  that while men having sex with men (MSM) are approximately four percent of the population, they make up 52 percent of the U.S. HIV/AID...

Same-sex ‘marriage’ could force churches to stop performing legal marriages altogether: archbishop

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ROME, October 19, 2011 – The legalization of same-sex “marriage” in Australia could push Christian churches out of their historic role in solemnizing legal marriages altogether, according to on Image via Wikipedia e archbishop. Archbishop Barry Hickey of the archdiocese of Perth   said  late last month that the archdiocese would cancel its registration that allows it to celebrate legal marriages if the government attempted to force them to participate in same-sex ceremonies. “We might be back to the ghetto,” Hickey told parishioners at St. Ninian and St. Chad in Maylands. “We can’t do those marriages at all. And if the law forces us to, we cancel our registration as marriage celebrants. We just don’t do it.” Image via Wikipedia Hickey added, “We continue to perform Church marriages but we can’t perform the marriage where there is a basic objection.” “We might be back to the ghetto,” Hickey told parishioners at St. Ninian and St. Chad in Maylands. “We can’t do those mar...