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Disagreement with pro- LGBT policies quickly gets one branded as anti-science. As Jonah Goldberg   points out , this is an example of ideology using the language of science to camouflage itself. It turns out that actual science isn’t much help to transgender advocacy. The American Psychiatric Association ’s  DSM V  notes gender dysphoria desistence rates of 70 to 97 percent in “natal males” and 50 to 88 percent in “natal females.” The American Psychological Association ’s  APA Handbook on Sexuality and Psychology  states that the vast majority of gender dysphoric boys and girls accept their birth/chromosomal sex by adolescence or adulthood. University of Toronto psychologist  Dr. James Cantor  cites three large scale and other smaller studies showing trans-identifying kids will outgrow it 60 to 90 percent of the time. A  2008 study  affirmed that 80 to 95 percent of gender dysphoric pre-pubertal children will accept their biological...

Australian parliaments regularly pass laws without sufficient protections for religious freedom . It is common for Australian courts and human rights officials, when having to decide between protecting religious freedom and any other claim, to decline to protect religious freedom. By way of example, Archbishop Porteous of Hobart was subject to an anti-discrimination claim for distributing a booklet explaining traditional Catholic teaching on marriage. Although ultimately discontinued, the court action was not dismissed as trivial or lacking foundation at the outset. And Christian Youth Camps (CYC), owned by the Christian Brethren , was successfully sued for discrimination in Victoria for politely declining a booking of its camping site by an organisation for rural gay and lesbian youth. The CYC declined the booking because it did not wish its premises to be used in the promotion to young people of a view of sexual morality at odds with the Christian Brethren faith. In 2013, a ...

Religious liberty hangs in the balance in Governor Pat McCrory’s bid for reelection. The future of religious liberty for traditional religious believers hangs on what happens to North Carolina governor Pat McCrory’s bid for re-election this November, and he is down six points in the latest CNN poll.  The Atlanta Constitution Journal just acknowledged as much in a story on the decision to hold more public debates on the need for laws to protect the conscience rights of gay-marriage dissenters in Georgia (where Republican governor Nathan Deal vetoed such legislation in 2015): The re-introduction of ‘religious liberty’ legislation may be a given, but its prospects could largely depend on what happens in North Carolina on Election Day. Shortly before Deal’s veto, Gov.  P at McCrory of North Carolina signed into law a measure that barred transgender individuals from using public restrooms associated with their present identity rather than their birth gender. McCrory is ...

GUY Sebastian has been forced to defend himself following his recent admission that he has moved away from the fundamentalist Christian movement that shaped his early years. The Battle Scars singer - who recently admitted his religious beliefs had "changed" as he grew older, married and welcomed a child - posted a lengthy statement on his Facebook page in response to online backlash from some of his devout Christian fans. He opened up last week about his spiritual outlook admitting his beliefs began to change when a churchgoing friend fled the country after coming out as gay. "He moved countries, he was that scared about the whole religious thing because he was brought up in the church. My friends and I were like, 'Dude, why did you leave, what did you think we would say?' It became not a big deal at all," Sebastian said in a Daily Telegraph interview, adding; " Look at gay marriage . I don't think anyone has the right to tell someone who the...

GLOUCESTER – The Christian Legal Centre reports that a Christian group has received an apology from the Gloucester City Council, saying that they had been fully within their rights to hand out religious leaflets THAT SPEAK ON THE SIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY and that it had been wrong to try to stop them. The apology comes after the city had attempted to stop members of ten city churches from handing out tracts during “Bible Day Gloucester”. The Council claimed that the group had breached city by-laws, but later apologized following the threat of legal action . Roland Parsons, a spokesman for Christians in Gloucester, said the group is “delighted that the council has seen sense”. “ Christians in Gloucester maintain that we have the basic freedom in Britain to hand out literature of a political or religious opinion to any other citizen in Gloucester,” he said. “We also refuse to live in a totalitarian regime where political and religious opinion is banned. The city MP would n...

Image via Wikipedia Author: John Milbank is Research Professor of Politics, Religion and Ethics at the University of Nottingham , Director of the  Centre of Theology and Philosophy The controversy surrounding gay marriage has now reached a fever pitch in countries like Australia and the UK , as governments have begun to move past debate and towards legislative change. While such intensity can have the benefit of clarifying just what is at stake - on both sides of the argument - it can also obscure some of the deeper, intrinsically related issues. So, in the UK, the arguments put forward by the coalition government in favour of legalising gay marriage have been, appropriately, at once liberal and conservative. In liberal terms it is seen as a matter of equal rights; in conservative terms a matter of promoting the good of faithful, long-term relationships for homosexual as well as heterosexual people. Those resisting the change - mostly, but not entirely, religious people - a...