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A small town in Mississippi turned down a parade permit for homosexuals , who in response are filing a lawsuit and creating a national uproar. Starkville city council voted 4-3 on Tuesday the 20 th  against a special event request to host and pay for accommodating the first celebration of homosexuality through their main streets.  Attending the Starkville council meeting were members of the community speaking against the parade.  “If anything should be held up and down our streets, it should not be this,” resident Dorothy Isaac  said . “Do not turn our city into a sin city.” “This is a very inclusive, a very friendly place, a very friendly city, a very friendly county, but every city has to have limits,” Rev. Thomas Rogers of Josey Creek Missionary Baptist Church  stated .  “Cities without walls are easily taken.”  He noted that the parade organizers asked for a “special privilege.” “God made Adam and Eve,” Isaac reminded the council....

Recently on BreakPoint, we told you how Baptist ethicist David Gushee proclaimed there was no more middle ground on LGBT issues. He’s right. You either approve of so-called sexually progressive ideas or you don’t—and if you don’t, you’ve placed yourself in the bigoted, wrong-side-of-history category. That’s exactly what happened with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship . Earlier this month, IV informed employees that they were expected to align with traditional Christian teaching on marriage and human sexuality. If they couldn’t, they were asked to come forward. TIME magazine reported on the announcement this way. “One of the largest evangelical organizations on college campuses nationwide “has told its 1,300 staff members they will be fired if they personally support gay marriage or otherwise disagree with its newly detailed positions on sexuality starting on November 11.” They called it a “theological purge.” But they completely misreported the story. This was no out-...

Margaret Somerville is Professor of Bioethics in the School of Medicine at the University of Notre Dame Australia . Her most recent book is  Bird on an Ethics Wire: Battles about Values in the Culture Wars . It seems that the only issue in relation to same-sex marriage on which politicians can agree is that the debate which would surround a plebiscite must be civilized and mutually respectful. To have any chance of achieving that "tone", we need first to identify what the issues are and where we disagree. Homosexuality is not the issue in the debate. Sexual orientation is not a "life style choice" as some opponents of same-sex marriage argue. Whatever its origins, which is scientifically uncertain, it is an innate way of being and a matter of personal morality, not one attracting public or legal disapproval or disrespect. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a grievous wrong and must be prevented. And committed same-sex couples h...

Impregnated Lesbian becomes a Christian - leaves lesbian partner - now lawyers imprison person who helped Christian escape from homosexual lifestyle A pastor serving a 27-month prison sentence for helping a young girl and her mother escape the custody of her court-assigned lesbian “parent” has been threatened with more prison time for refusing to testify in the prosecution of Christian businessman Philip Zodhiates, who is also accused of aiding the escape. After refusing to testify on Fifth Amendment grounds, Kenneth Miller was informed by U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara that he had been granted immunity from prosecution and therefore “you no longer have a Fifth Amendment right not to answer,” according to Christian News. U.S. Assistant Attorney Paul Van De Graaf then proceeded to interrogate Kenneth Miller, asking him where he lived in September 2009, if he had ever met ex-lesbian Lisa Miller, and if he had called Timothy Miller, another Mennonite pastor living in ...

So if she  could not, in good conscience, issue marriage licenses  to same-sex couples, why didn’t Kim Davis resign from her job as county clerk? I’m not privy to her reasoning, but I have my own reasons why she should not be expected to resign. Ordinarily, when a public official faces a crisis of conscience, the cause is either a change of responsibilities or a change of heart. Suppose a building inspector is asked to approve construction under a new code, and he firmly believes that the new buildings will be unsafe. If he cannot convince his superiors to amend the code, he should resign; he cannot carry out his responsibilities in good conscience. Or suppose (to use an example borrowed from a friend) an executioner experiences a religious conversion, and decides that capital punishment is immoral. He too should resign; he cannot carry out the duties for which he was hired. Kim Davis cannot, in good conscience, certify that two people of the same sex are eligible...

As you know I am now an Official Bonafide Jet-setter and as such I was in DC (people who move and shake drop the Washington part and now that I am so worldly, well, you know) last weekend for a panel discussion hosted by Alliance Defending Freedom called “What about the children?” They invited me to speak alongside marriage law expert Caleb Dalton and Dr. Paul Sullins who happens to be The Go -To Man on the impact of same-sex parenting . He is responsible for studies that capture data representative of more than all of the oppositions studies represent combined. So basically, with a legal expert and social scientist at my side I just got to show up and blather. Here’s a few blather-inspired video clips: Is “love makes a family” really a fair thing to say to kids? When kids watch their father love their mother Gender matters in jury selection and parenting selection The broken bond of same-sex parenting If we get the real message of marriage across, we could have the most pro-marri...

U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that the state of Virginia does not have to begin sanctioning same-sex “marriages.” The stay comes after a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to  strike down the state's constitutional marriage protection amendment . The appeals court refused to grant a stay until the Supreme Court decided the case, a decision that would have forced Virginia clerks to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples  starting this week . However, one such clerk, Michele B. McQuigg , petitioned Chief Justice John Roberts to grant a stay. The order was allowed without dissent. “This is another indication that the rush to judgment declaring marriage to be unconstitutional is not only premature, but incorrect,” said Brian Brown, president of the  National Organization for Marriage . “The U.S. Supreme Court has determined that states have the right to de...

Map of the geographic boundaries of the various United States Courts of Appeals and United States District Courts. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) On Monday a divided three-judge panel of the  U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond upheld a federal district court ’s decision from February 2014 declaring Virginia ’s male-female marriage definition to be unconstitutional. In  Bostic v. Schaeffer , the Court of Appeals ruled that Virginia’s “ Marriage Laws ,” including its electorally-enacted constitutional provision defining marriage, “warrant strict scrutiny due to their infringement of the fundamental right to marry.” Upon further analysis the court’s majority opinion, written by Judge Henry Floyd and joined by Judge Roger Gregory , concluded that these marital provisions were not supported by a sufficiently strong rationale to withstand heightened constitutional scrutiny. The key fighting ground between the court’s majority and the dissenter, J...