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English: Craig Thomson, Member of the Australian House of Representatives for the Australian Labor Party and Dobell. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Further evidence of the intolerance of the leading voices in the same-sex marriage debate will be on display again at this weekend’s Australian Labor Party National Conference in Melbourne . At its last conference in 2011, Labor changed its party policy to support redefining marriage in law. It was a terrible blow to have one of the two major political parties capitulate. However, at that time, Labor made an important concession. Normally conscience votes on both sides of politics are reserved for life or death matters such as abortion or euthanasia. But in this case, after tense backroom negotiations, Labor decided to depart from this political rule of thumb and allow its parliamentarians a conscience vote . Under Labor’s party rules, parliamentarians who vote against party policy are automatically expelled. (The Liberal’s don’t expel ...

For this reason  God  gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. (1:26–27) For this reason, Paul declares-that is, because of man’s rejecting the true God for false gods of his own making, for worshiping the creature rather than the Creator-God gave them over to degrading passions. For the second time (see v. 24) the apostle mentions God’s abandonment of sinful mankind. He abandoned them not only to idolatry, the ultimate sexual expression of man’s spiritual degeneracy, but also to degrading passions, which he identifies in these two verses as homosexuality, the ultimate expression of man’s moral degeneracy. To illustrate the degrading passions that rise out of the fallen human hea...

The Bible says nothing specifically about the homosexual condition (despite the rather misleading RSV translation of 1 Cor. 6:9), but its condemnations of homosexual conduct are explicit. The scope of these strictures must, however, be carefully determined. Too often they have been used as tools of a homophobic polemic which has claimed too much. The exegesis of the Sodom and Gibeah stories (Gn. 19:1–25; Jdg. 19:13–20:48) is a good case in point. We must resist D. S. Bailey’s widely-quoted claim that the sin God punished on these occasions was a breach of hospitality etiquette without sexual overtones (it fails to explain adequately both the double usage of the word ‘know’ (yāḏa‘) and the reason behind the substitutionary offer of Lot’s daughters and the Levite’s concubine); but neither account amounts to a wholesale condemnation of all homosexual acts . Metropolitan Community Church and Freedom2b have used Bailey to fully justify their immoral position seeking to make it righteous b...

Christian abhorrence of homosexuality was not confined to pederasty, however. Sex between two adult males was also considered abhorrent. For instance, St. Paul condemned men’s “indecent acts with other men” ( Romans 1:27 ). He did not differentiate between pedophilia and adult homosexual acts; both were sinful sexual perversions in God’s eyes. It seems that wherever pagan values reign, as in the Greco-Roman culture , there one finds widespread homosexuality. For instance, homosexuality was common among numerous American Indian tribes. Walter L. Williams, in a book that focuses on homosexuality among American Indians, sympathetically notes that the Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia, the Crows, the Klamaths, the Hopi, the Sioux, the Navajo, the Zuni, the Yokuts, and other tribes in the United States all practiced homosexuality before contact with Westerners. Sometimes homosexual acts were intertwined with the religious ceremonies performed by shamans.  Williams not only con...

Image via Wikipedia December 15, 2011  - The leader of Brazil ’s National Conference of Brazilian Bishops (CNBB), Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis, has issued a statement denying that CNBB has made an agreement with legislators regarding the content of a proposed “anti- homophobia ” bill being pushed by the ruling socialist Labor Party. Following  reports  in the Brazilian press that a deal had been struck with the CNBB to modify the bill to allow religious groups to continue expressing their opposition to homosexual behavior, Cardinal Assis writes that the presidency of the CNBB did “not make an agreement” with Labor Party senator Marta Suplicy , the bill’s principal advocate in the nation’s Senate . “The presidency of the CNBB did not make an agreement with the senator, as was reported in the press,” Assis writes. “At the time, (we) made observations and suggestions, and agreed to continue accompanying the development of the discussion regarding the bill,” he add I...

November 22, 2011  - Brazil ’s largest Catholic television network has decided to end a controversial new program led by a well-known socialist, homosexualist politician. New Song TV (TV Canção Nova) has canceled the program following an Internet protest campaign by outraged viewers, led th Image via Wikipedia rough the twitter account #CançãoNovaSemPT (New Song without the Labor Party ). The “Justice and Peace” show, which aired weekly beginning November 3, featured Edinho Silva, who was billed as a “sociologist,” but who is also the leader of the ruling Labor Party in the state of São Paulo. Catholic commentators were quick to point out that Silva openly promotes the homosexualist political agenda, and leads a party that is seeking to legalize the murder of unborn children throughout Brazil, in the name of “public health.” During the national elections earlier this year, Silva’s political machine led the attack against Catholic bishops who sought to alert voters about the pro-ab...