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A Calgary bus driver who is a faithful Christian and married father of two children has been fired from his job after stating publicly last week that he would refuse to drive a city bus decked out by his employer to promote the city’s Gay ‘Pride’ festival. “They called me in and read me a statement saying that I would no longer be working for them,” Jesse Rau, former Calgary Transit Authority employee, told LifeSiteNews in an exclusive interview. Two weeks ago Calgary Transit unveiled a “Pride Bus” it had specially decorated with a rainbow paint job to promote the city’s Calgary Pride Festival. A large banner on the side of the bus states: “Ride with Pride” and provides the dates for the celebration of homosexuality, something that Christians believe is a deviation from God ’s plan for human sexuality. Rau came out publicly last week saying that he would refuse to drive the bus if it were put on his route since he wanted no part in promoting what he said was a “very rad...

Gay adoption could be hindered over push for religious exemptions. Plans to allow gay couples to adopt could hit a stumbling block after Liberal leader Matthew Guy declared he would not support any laws that penalised faith-based organisations.The Andrews government last week rejected calls to grant religious agencies special exemptions that would have given them the right to refuse placing a child in the care of a same-sex couple. The Australian Christian Lobby had been pushing for the exemptions for months, arguing that some agencies could be forced to close unless they were protected under law to preference heterosexual couples, in line with their religious beliefs. However, Equality Minister Martin Foley rejected this, saying the government had committed to removing discrimination in the Adoption Act "at any level" and that "genuinely equality, particularly for LGBTI people, should not be something that's up for some kind of debate." Asked for his...

The main entrance to the east campus of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, on Brookline Avenue in Boston. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) A special appeal panel at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston has upheld the hospital administration ’s earlier claim that a physician’s statements to colleagues and staff about the dangers of homosexuality constitute “discrimination,” “harassment,” and “unprofessional conduct,” and that Bible verses regarding homosexuality are similarly “offensive” and discriminatory . Dr. Paul Church has been a urologist on the BIDMC staff for nearly 30 years and is a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. He has done research on diagnosing prostate and bladder cancer. He has also spoken on the subject of high-risk sexual behaviors. In recent years he voiced concerns to colleagues about the hospital’s aggressive promotion of LGBT events and activities. That angered the hospital administration. Expelled from staff for brin...

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis returned to work and read from her handwritten statement just prior to opening the Clerk's office. She began by saying, "I love my Lord Jesus , I love all people, and I love my job. I want to continue to serve all three as I have tried to do until now." During parts of her statement, Kim Davis became emotional, especially when she explained that she had been placed in a position to violate her conscience, which she said she could not do. Kim Davis said that from the beginning she had asked for a reasonable accommodation to remove her name and authoritative title as the Clerk of Rowan County from the marriage licenses , a request that has been ignored or not acted upon by Governor Beshear or the court. She explained that she could not issue a license with her name and title affixed to it that authorizes a marriage that is contrary to God 's definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Because she could not viola...

Musician and LGBT activist Sir Elton John says he wants a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to encourage him to reverse the country's "isolating and prejudiced" law banning homosexual propaganda directed at youth. Speaking with the BBC in Ukraine, where he met with business leaders and President Petro Poroshenko to discuss LGBT issues, John said he opposes a Russian law that bans "propaganda of nontraditional sexual practices." John also heavily criticized Putin's 2014 statement that homosexuals "can feel calm and at ease" as long as they leave children alone at last year's Winter Olympics. "Give me a break. You are president of Russia , and you go and say stupid things like that?" he asked. The law John criticized, which bans "propaganda of nontraditional sexual practices" and "homosexual behavior among minors," has become a rallying cry for LGBT activists who claim it encourages atta...

South Africa's highest court is poised to uncork a powder keg as it decides whether it has any business second-guessing the country's Methodist Church for firing a pastor in 2010 who announced her same-sex engagement. The surface issue is incendiary enough: were the Methodists unfair to the Rev. Ecclesia de Lange? But far more significantly, if religious freedom means anything at all, shouldn't it mean that churches that consider homosexuality to be against God's law can fire their employees for breaking that law, without having to defend their actions in secular courts? Both sides agree that it is a crucial case. Declared Nadene Badenhorst of Freedom of Religion South Africa (FOR SA): "This is undoubtedly the most important case for religious freedom and the autonomy of the church that has ever come before our courts, and one that could open the door to the courts dictating to the church what she may and may not believe, preach and how she should go...

Photograph of Malcolm Turnbull, New South Wales Liberal politician. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Australia ’s pro- marriage prime minister, Tony Abbott , was ousted today, replaced by Malcolm Turnbull and his deputy Julie Bishop after the second party leadership challenge within a year.  Turnbull won the leadership ballot 54-44.  Both Turnbull and Bishop are supporters of gay “marriage,” with Bishop only declaring her position in recent months. One of the reasons given for the leadership challenge was the fact that the government last 18 successive opinion polls.   It's not clear to what degree those poll results were a reflection of the Australian mainstream media's aggressively negative coverage of Abbott.  The Australian media have been strongly activist in the cause of legalizing same-sex “marriage” in Australia and see Abbott as the obstacle to achieving this goal. The prime minister had also suffered from well-timed leaks, including the claim ...