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Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee and 21 other Republicans introduced a bill on Thursday that would protect people and companies that object to immoral homosexual -  same-sex marriage . The bill, called the First Amendment Defense Act , says the federal government cannot change the tax status or deny federal funding to groups who correctly object to homosexual couples, based on their religious beliefs. The bill says that the federal government “shall not take any discriminatory action against a person, wholly or partially, on the basis that such person speaks, or acts, in accordance with a sincerely held religious belief , or moral conviction, that marriage is or should be recognized as a union of one man and one woman; or two individuals as recognized under federal law; or sexual relations outside marriage are improper.” The bill was first introduced back in 2015 , but was never put to a vote. Other Republicans who have signed onto the bill include Sens . Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) ...

Canada ’s Lessons In Canada, freedoms of speech , press, religion, and association have suffered greatly due to government pressure. The debate over same-sex marriage that is taking place in the  United States  could not legally exist in Canada today. Because of legal restrictions on speech, if you say or write anything considered “homophobic” (including, by definition, anything questioning same-sex marriage), you could face discipline, termination of employment, or prosecution by the government. Why do police prosecute speech under the guise of eliminating “hate speech” when there are existing legal remedies and criminal protections against slander, defamation, threats, and assault that equally apply to all Americans?  Hate-crime-like policies using the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” create unequal protections in law, whereby protected groups receive more legal protection than other groups. Having witnessed how mob hysteria in Indiana ...

In a tendentious puff piece about David Gushee (“Progressive” Baptist and Christian ethicist at Mercer University), Jonathan Merritt (senior columnist for Religion News Service) trumpets that Gushee’s defection from the orthodox stance on homosexual practice will do great damage to that position (“Leading evangelical ethicist David Gushee is now pro-LGBT. Here’s why it matters”). Mr. Merritt declares with the usual bias that we have come to expect from him when talking about homosexuality: “While other pro-LGBT Christian activists — including Justin Lee of the Gay Christian Network and Matthew Vines, author of ‘God and the Gay Christian’ — have been dismissed in some circles as wet-behind-the-ears youngsters without formal theological training, Gushee, 52, is a scholar with impeccable credentials. He can add intellectual heft to what has largely been a youth-led movement, and is not someone who can be easily dismissed.” Mr. Merritt goes on to agree with Dr. Gushee in characte...

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction against enforcing Alabama's law banning same-sex “marriage,” despite the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision upholding that law. In March 2015, shortly before the U.S. Supreme Court's Obergefell decision, which ruled that same-sex "marriage" is a Constitutional right, the state Supreme Court had ordered probate judges to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, saying the state law remained in effect. In January of this year, Chief Justice Roy Moore reaffirmed that 2015 state Supreme Court decision. In an Administrative Order he reminded the state's judges that the ban on same-sex "marriage" remained in effect, and advised them not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Then, in March of this year, the state Supreme Court   issued a 170-page ruling   rejecting the Obergefell decision. However, U.S. District Judge Callie V. Granade ruled last week that state officials are bound by the U...