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Christian baker must make ‘wedding’ bakes for gay couples, court rules

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DENVER, CO ,  – A Colorado board has ruled that a Christian business owner must make wedding cakes for homosexual "marriages" despite his religious objections. Business owner Jack Phillips came under legal fire in 2012, when he refused to bake a cake for Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig , who had traveled to Massachusetts for a marriage license, and wanted to celebrate in their home state. They sued on the basis of a state law that prevents the application of religious beliefs if one owns a business. The Commission's ruling, which was issued verbally on Friday, orders Phillips to report every three months for the next two years on anti-discrimination training for his staff, and any customers who are refused service at his establishment. "I can believe anything I want, but if I'm going to do business here, I'd ought to not discriminate against people," said one of the Civil Rights Commission 's seven members in a public statement. Phil...

Viral video about ‘transgender’ 6-year-old not so heartwarming, says psychiatrist

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SAN DIEGO, CA , June 3, 2014 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A well-known psychiatrist is raising concerns over a new  viral video  featuring a California couple who allowed their pre-school-aged daughter to begin living as a boy. The video was created by the girl’s parents, Jeff and Hillary Whittington, who posted it to YouTube after showing it to homosexual activists at the Harvey Milk Diversity Breakfast, where they accepted an “Inspiration Award” for their decision to help their daughter “transition” to her chosen sex at such an early age. It has since been viewed over 4 million times. Dr. Keith Ablow Massachusetts psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow, an author and Fox News contributor, told LifeSiteNews that the video paints a happy picture while consciously ignoring the risks of early transition – which often involves genital plastic surgery and large doses of hormones. “I am not convinced that the best option for children who are uncomfortable with their gender is to rap...

Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman

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Facts are not subject to our feelings. By Kevin D. Williamson The world is abuzz with news that actor Laverne Cox has become the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine . If I understand the current state of the ever-shifting ethic and rhetoric of transgenderism, that is not quite true: Bradley Manning , whom we are expected now to call Chelsea, beat Cox to the punch by some time. Manning’s announcement of his intention to begin living his life as a woman and to undergo so-called sex-reassignment surgery came after Time’s story, but, given that we are expected to defer to all subjective experience in the matter of gender identity, it could not possibly be the case that Manning is a transgendered person today but was not at the time of the Time cover simply because Time was unaware of the fact, unless the issuance of a press release is now a critical step in the evolutionary process. Bradley Manning is not a woman . Neither is Laverne Cox. Cox, a fine actor,...

New Boy Scouts president: Gay scout leaders acceptable

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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates IRVING, TX , May 27, 2014- Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who led the military to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, says that he would have allowed homosexual leaders for Boy Scouts of America . Gates, who was  elected  to head the Boy Scouts of America ( BSA )  for a two-year term  last week, said that he "would have supported having gay Scoutmasters , but at the same time, I fully accept the decision that was democratically arrived at by 1,500 volunteers from across the entire country." A year ago, BSA allowed openly homosexual scouts for the first time. The policy  reads  that "No youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.” The policy took effect on January 1, 2014. Gates, who said he "was prepared to go further than the decision that was made," declared in a public statement last week that he did not intend to reignite t...

My husband became a ‘woman,’ and it ruined our marriage – and my future relationships

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MELBOURNE, Australia , – What happens when a good Catholic girl marries the man of her dreams, and then he tells her he thinks he's a woman? It yields heartbreak and a lifetime of emotionally stunted relationships, according to an autobiographical essay in Sunday's  Sydney Morning Herald   that asks society to consider “the other side” of the transgender debate. The woman, whose name has been withheld, was 18 years-old when she met “ Ryan ,” a musician who slowly worked his way into her heart. His sense of humor made the self-described “good Catholic girl” fall for the young man, who was trying to get ahead in the 1980s Australian music scene. When he asked her to move to Melbourne with her, she had second thoughts. “I did not want to 'live in sin,'” she wrote. So, he asked for her hand in marriage. Although she believed their life was idyllic, he became sullen and withdrawn. Soon, he left her a letter saying he believed he was a woman trapped inside a...

Grassroots protest petition and letters halt Estonian homosexual civil unions bill

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TALLINN , May 27, 2014  – A small group of family campaigners has for the moment turned back an internationally-backed effort to create “civil union” legislation in Estonia. In a surprising turnaround, within 24 hours of the launch of a petition the bill has been withdrawn for further consideration and is not expected to be reintroduced until the autumn. The signature drive was a re-play of a similar outcome a year ago when 38,000 people said no to a bill that proposed to create “gay marriage” in Estonia. In April this year, a group of forty parliamentarians tried again, bringing forward their Civil Partnership Act , the most recent of several efforts since 2005, that proposed to confer legal recognition on homosexual relationships, establishing that children can have “two mothers” or “two fathers.” Its supporters argued both that the bill was not exclusively aimed at same-sex partners and that it was in no way a prelude to the introduction of “gay marriage.” Opponents, howe...

One Victorian Parent wants to change Religious Education in Victoria

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Karen Percy  from the  ABC  wrote the following article:  The way religion is taught in Victorian primary schools will be overhauled after a report found that volunteers from the state's key provider  Access Ministries  breached its guidelines.   (based on the complaint of one person) A Department of  Education  investigation found that Access Ministries volunteers gave out between 16 and 18 copies of Refuel 2, a "Biblezine", at a Christmas performance at Torquay College in December last year.  Naja Voorhoeve complained to the department after her seven-year-old mildly autistic son, who was not enrolled in special religious instruction (SRI) classes, was given the Refuel 2 magazine by another student.  (So lets get some perspective here. A student hands it to another student then the parent demands the  Education Department  to overhaul the whole RE program? Does the Education department overhaul EVERY program...