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A Federal Court judge has blasted a Commonwealth tribunal after it concluded homosexuality is fixed at birth and cannot change over time, branding the decision "illogical" and based on "assumptions, pre-conceptions or pre-judgments" about human sexuality. Justice Jayne Jagot said the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) failed to "properly satisfy itself about critical facts" when it affirmed an immigration department decision refusing a Lebanese woman a temporary partner visa on the basis she was not in a genuine relationship with her husband. The woman came to Australia in December 2009 on a student visa and remained in the country illegally between December 2013 and October 2014 before marrying her husband, a Lebanese man in Australia on a protection visa , and applying for a temporary partner visa. According to the AAT, the woman's husband had been granted a protection visa on the basis of his homosexuality and feared persecution in Leban...

Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodrigues Maradiaga of Honduras said “no man is born homosexual” during a two-hour discussion with school children last week in Münster, Germany. In the discussion, the Cardinal brushed over many hot topics raised by students. Yet when asked about the Church’s dealings with people with homosexual tendencies, Cardinal Maradiaga told the children that homosexuality is not a lifelong condition starting from birth. He asserted that “everybody is born a man or a woman, to love the other – that is God’s plan,” the diocesan media website reported. He added that natural sexual orientation is only altered by negative influences in childhood or adolescence such as abuse, neglect, or pornography. “Sexuality is a gift of God,” Cardinal Maradiaga said. It is “not a hobby, but an expression of love. … Nobody should be the slave of his sexual passions, but should learn how to manage them with responsibility and with self-esteem. … Therefore, we need formation, not just...