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In a recent   opinion piece   on news.com.au Jane Gilmore argued that the Sydney Anglican booklet-   What has God Joined Together?   is a “logic fail”. Further, she accused the church of trying to take ownership of the homosexual marriage debate. As one of the authors of the booklet, nothing could be further from my mind. I don’t want to own this debate but I do want to move it from startlingly superficial to a far better place. I should explain that the booklet, which you can   read here , is a still a draft, written to help Sydney Anglicans engage in the public debate about whether Australia should redefine marriage to include homosexual couples. Now, I know that Christians shouldn’t expect that any special privilege attaches to our views. In a secular liberal democracy like Australia, we have no more right than others — and no less right than others — to present our point of view, and to seek to persuade others that our view might...

Crowd in support of Gay Marriage (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Speaking before Parliament earlier this month Dame Louise Casey, who recently headed a prominent review of social cohesion in the UK ,  commented on issues within faith schools. Asked about fundamentalist teachings in Muslim schools, she said: “I don’t really have a view on which religion it is that’s promoting those sorts of views, but it is not OK – the same way it is not OK for Catholic schools to be homophobic and anti-gay marriage. That’s not OK either. That’s not how we bring children up in this country. She had added: “It’s often veiled as religious conservativism…. I have a problem with the expression of religious conservatism because I think often it can be anti-equalities. We’ve got to be careful. People can choose to live the lives they want to live, but they can’t condemn others for living differently.” In a column for the  Catholic Herald , Tory MP for Gainsborough Sir Edward L...

The Turnbull government 's proposed version of marriage equality would separate discrimination by allowing civil celebrants and service providers to refuse to undertake gay weddings, the peak law body says. The Turnbull government risks loosing all conservative voters by allwoing any form of immoral homosexual marriage act to come forward let alone propose it.  The Law Council of Australia will on Monday tell a parliamentary inquiry the proposed laws would allow discrimination against immoral homosexual couples on the basis that two rights are clashing: anti-discrimination VS religious rights. Lawyers are trying to argue that religious rights undermine fundamental principles of the law.  "The current bill that they're looking at doesn't strike the right balance," council president Fiona McLeod , SC, said. It went "too far" in appeasing religious groups and was "inconsistent with the current federal law", she said. Current Federal ...

The Church of England is considering plans to hide the homosexual sin of homosexual clergy in bid to avert a growing rift over its treatment of gays and lesbians . In so doing, because they are not instigating any church discipline of homosexual sin of their clergy - the Church of England is no longer a church. Under the current system, homosexual members of the clergy are asked to be celibate, change jobs or seek a promotion to become a bishop when they are ordained. This goes beyond biblical sin ordaining homosexuals to be bishops. The House of Bishops will tomorrow discuss proposals to overhaul the system so homosexuals will not be asked about their private lives when they join the church. But Ben Bradshaw , a Labour MP who is in a civil partnership, criticised the policy for shrouding homosexuality in secrecy as clergy would still be expected to be celibate. He told the Sunday Times : 'It is progress for them to stop asking the celibacy question but it still leaves the C...

Canada 's Conservative Party has not been friendly to its social conservative wing. But the latest candidate to announce a run for the party leadership takes social liberalism to a whole new level. Business tycoon and TV personality Kevin O’Leary , who announced his leadership bid Wednesday, infamously declared that he didn’t care if “you want to marry a goat.” In an interview with The Rebel’s Ezra Levant during last May’s Tory policy convention, O’Leary dismissed traditional marriage, then the subject of heated debate on the convention floor. That debate ended with delegates ditching a long-standing party policy defining marriage as between one man and one woman. “Anything to do with the happiness of individuals, the state has no right to be in your bedroom,” O’Leary told Levant. “I don’t care if you want to marry a goat. I am for it. I really am.” O’Leary, an author and investor, has gained fame as a judge on the CBC show  Dragons’ Den  and...

The Obama administration positioned their top U.S. homosexual rights diplomat into a key position within the State Department which will make it harder for the Trump administration to change current U.S. policy opposing traditional values on human sexuality. An informed source told the  Friday Fax  that President Obama ’s Special Envoy for the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) Persons Randy Berry “has been moved over to DRL (the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor ) as a career DAS (Deputy Assistant Secretary)…. That is where the Obama agenda will be hardest to overcome.” The DRL formulates policy that U.S. staff at the UN execute. Berry stirred controversy for his part in inserting the homosexual rights agenda into the U.S. office dealing with religious freedom abroad. Another source told the  Friday Fax  that Berry “not only oversaw the incorporation of LGBT into the religious freedom office, something not...

The third in a series from inside the International LGBT Leaders conference. See  Part One here  and  Part Two here . AT&T has intensified its efforts at the state level to lobby to “stop” pro-family , religious liberty bills that have been targeted for defeat by LGBTQ activists, said a spokesman, speaking at a International LGBT Leaders conference. Scott Sapperstein, assistant vice president, public affairs for AT&T, described how the  $234 billion telecommunications corporation  supports the homosexual and "transgender" political agenda as “part of our DNA. It’s a core value for the company. … It’s part of who we are.” “(We're) helping to defeat anti-LGBT bills, but also … to find areas and pockets where we can push pro-[LGBTQ]-equality pieces of legislation,” Sapperstein told an audience of about 100 fellow activists. He said he works closely with  GLAAD , HRC and other national LGBTQ organizations. AT&T’s current embrace of L...