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The ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Sets the Stage to Overturn Obergefell v. Hodges

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While I am disappointed that the “Respect for Marriage Act” (RFMA) passed in the U.S. Congress, I am convinced that this bill will be the undoing of the Supreme Court’s 2015 same-sex marriage opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges. We fought hard to stop HR 8404, and we came very close to killing the bill thanks to so many citizens engaged in preserving religious freedom in America. To them, I would say, “Don’t get discouraged.” Now we move to the next strategy, in which I have a high level of confidence. The advocates of RFMA may celebrate today, but that celebration will not last. Lawmakers and LGBTQ advocates have unwittingly created the perfect scenario to fix the mess the High Court originally created. Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, has no constitutional foundation. Overturning Obergefell would return the regulation and definition of marriage to the States as it was throughout our history up till the Court issued its flawed opinion in June 2015. Like abortion, many states would return to ...

NBC News dehumanizing Christians

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NBC News is doing a full-court press against pro-family organizations, with three smear pieces in the last three weeks of 2020. These stories aim to eliminate pro-family groups from polite society and routine business transactions. Even worse, these NBC News stories are scapegoating and marginalizing Christians. We are to blame, you see, for all the troubles in our troubled world. The SPLC “Hate List” First up: on December 9, NBC News published a story cataloging 14 organizations on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate List” that received Paycheck Protection Program forgivable loans. (Full disclosure: the Ruth Institute, which I head, is one of the 14.) The Paycheck Protection Program was designed to provide relief to small businesses affected by the government-imposed coronavirus lockdowns. The NBC article quoted experts who mused aloud about whether the government should forgive Paycheck Protection Program loans to these “hate groups.” These experts were “troubled” by “extremist g...

5 Casualties of the Court’s LGBTQ Sex Ruling

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“Sex” in civil rights law now legally means sexual orientation, or whatever gender you think you are. That’s the result of a surprising Supreme Court decision (Bostock v. Clayton County) from Justice Neil Gorsuch. Problem? Yes. Here are five casualties of this ruling: 1. We the People If you think you have the ability to govern yourselves through your elected representatives, the U.S. Supreme Court has again made a mockery of that Constitutional principle. You can work to elect the right people and pass all the laws you want, only to see a handful of appointed lawyers on the Supreme Court nullify or replace your laws with their own. That’s what six justices did this week. They changed the 1964 civil rights law into a law that they desired, despite the fact that the very changes they made have been rejected by Congress in recent years. Now, just like that, “sex” no longer means biological sex but sexual orientation and whatever a person thinks their sex is at the time. As Ju...

JK Rowling warns the loss of free speech after trans LGBTQ+ abuse

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Author JK Rowling has joined 150 high-profile figures on an open letter claiming that free speech is under threat due to an "intolerance of opposing views", after coming under attack for her comments about transgender issues. Key points: US feminist Gloria Steinem and Margaret Atwood joined Rowling in signing the letter It cautioned that debate was being weakened amongst a 'vogue for public shaming and ostracism' Rowling has come under attack as expected by LGBTQ+ zealots. The Harry Potter writer, says only women menstruate, joined 550 academics, artists, and writers who signed the letter condemning the fashionable trans movement as nonsense, against biology and is a mental health issue.  Other signatories on the 530-word letter published in Harper's magazine included US feminist Gloria Steinem, author Margaret Atwood and linguist and activist Noam Chomsky. In 'A Letter on Justice and Open Debate', they welcomed protests for racial and so...

Bible professor who used to identify as gay speaks out about transgenderism

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Dr. Christopher Yuan, a former agnostic gay man who was also a drug dealer, joins Jonathon Van Maren on this week’s episode of The Van Maren Show to discuss his powerful journey and conversion and what the LGBT agenda is doing to society.   Yuan was raised in a ‘very traditional’ family with ‘Asian values,’ although he was not raised Christian. He first encountered pornography at age 9. He said this was the “first time that I recognized that I had these [homosexual] attractions.” Yuan officially “came out” in his late 20s while pursuing his doctorate in dentistry, much to the dismay of his parents. His mother told him to choose to be homosexual or choose the family, but he couldn’t have both.  “My mom even says news of my death would have been better than receiving that type of rejection,” he said.   Feeling as though this wasn’t a choice, rather a part of who he was, Yuan went back to school and immersed himself even deeper into his party lifestyle. He ...

‘Biology is not bigotry’: teacher blasts bill that would force teachers to receive LGBT ‘training’

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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...

Disney Channel ramps up its LGBTQ agenda in ‘Andi Mack’ show for kids

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The season finale of a Disney Channel teen show made history by featuring the network’s first teenage homosexual couple. On  the Andi Mack show , Cyrus Goodman -- a 13-year-old male gay character -- confesses on the last episode his feelings for a male classmate, TJ Kippen. As romantic music plays on the soundtrack, Cyrus asks TJ, “Is there anything else you want to tell me?” TJ responds, “Yeah,” and then asks the same question. Cyrus says “Yes” while TJ takes his hand. The camera pans away while the music swells as a fire illuminates the emotionally-charged scene.  Andi Mack has thus joined a number of other television shows aimed at children that feature transgender and/or homosexual characters. These include Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix, Euphoria on HBO, and Batwoman and Charmed on CW.  In February, the sexual orientation of the Cyrus character on Andi Mack was confirmed. At that time, he was the first to say “I’m gay” on a Disney Channel...

Lee Battle Story: LGBT ideology poisons her Christian faith

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Below is a sad story of the confusion of a person who does not understand God the Bible or God's grace. Sadly, when we stop reasoning the scriptures we reason ourselves into sin. She confuses sexuality and sin. She values self-esteem above obeying God. She doesn't recognize the God-given purpose of conscience instead she takes her reasoning from the LGBTQ ideology and not scripture and history.  Ultimately she ends up in deception. Below is the sad story of Lee Battle step downwards into darkness and away from the holiness and righteousness of God.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Coming out as a gay Christian can be harder than coming out as gay at all. That might seem strange, as the message at the heart of the gospel is to “love your neighbor, as yourself”. Jesus did not add an addendum to this; he did not put “apart from gay people” in brackets. Yet in my experience, that’s exactly what some churches have don...