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59 Bishops Contributed Financially to Maine Bishop's Effort to Oppose Maine Same-Sex "Marriage" Law
Remarkable. I do find it pretty nauseating that they talk about how much they've "suffered" for the cause of "doing battle with same-sex 'marriage' advocates." (Note the quotation marks around "marriage.") I have a hard time mustering up too much sympathy for that kind of "suffering."
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Malone said that he was grateful for his fellow Catholic bishops "prayer, encouragement, and financial support" and sharing the suffering that now comes with the territory of doing battle with same-sex "marriage" advocates.
Report: Homosexuality no factor in abusive priests - Yahoo! News
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But the authors said that their evidence to date found no data indicating that homosexuality was a predictor of abuse.
Christian registrar should not be disciplined over same-sex marriage refusal - Telegraph
From the UK: a clerk who refused to solemnize a same-sex marriage is claiming that her refusal to do so -- which she says stems from her religious beliefs -- is protected under freedom-of-conscience laws. She is suing her employer, the Islington Council, for religious discrimination, and she "claims she suffered ridicule and bullying as a result of her stance and said she had been harassed ... by the council."
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James Dingemans QC, representing her, told a panel of three appeal judges that
Ms Ladele had never wanted to undermine the human rights or respect due to
members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender communities.
But human rights laws must also be there to protect people with committed
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'Modern human rights jurisprudence was not intended to obliterate religious
beliefs held for millennia.''
Mr Dingemans said she could not go against her faith and take an active part
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Stephen Colbert interviews Fr. Randall Balmer on the papal appeal to Anglicans, Oct. 27, 2009
At n+1 Panel, the Cat Got Douthat's Tongue on Topic of of Gay Marriage | The New York Observer
A tiny little column that opens up a really interesting issue, when conservative -- sort of -- commentator Ross Douthat admits that he opposes same-sex marriage but is "uncomfortable discussing the issue in public," mainly because he can't think of a non-religious reason for his views. Fascinating example of the way public and private discourses can collide in one individual's experience.
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At first Mr. Douthat seemed unable to get a sentence out without interrupting himself and starting over. Then he explained: "I am someone opposed to gay marriage who is deeply uncomfortable arguing the issue in public."
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Mr. Douthat indicated that he opposes gay marriage because of his religious beliefs, but that he does not like debating the issue in those terms. At one point he said that, sometimes, he feels like he should either change his mind, or simply resolve never to address the question in public.
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Preaching the Gospel Would be Against the Law! (And Other Hate Crimes Myths) (via Politics Daily - Disputations (religion news and comment))
With a Senate vote expected soon to expand federal hate crimes laws to include sexual orientation, religious conservatives are ramping up the rhetoric
Anglican Mainstream » Blog Archive » “Simply Unprecedented” — President Obama and the Gay Rights Movement
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Add Sticky NoteYou will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.
- Notice that he did NOT say that he would press for legal recognition of same-sex marriage. He seemed to be pretty careful about that. - on 2009-10-12
Youth In Motion | Frameline
This is the website for the movie packages that aroused WorldNetDaily's watchful indignation.
'Gay' curriculum challenges students' faith (WorldNetDaily)
WorldNetDaily sounds the alarm over a gay-friendly curriculum unit used by some California public schools. Apparently some of the materials in the curriculum make explicit references to religion. Reporters expose the subversive (and ungrammatical) question, "Does your culture, religion or family have any similar coming-of-age rites of passage (quinceañera, bat/bar mitzvah, prom)?... Do these cultural events encourage gender choice or reinforce gender expectations?" The curriculum also says that "some Native American religions honor individuals who 'embody feminine and masculine qualities' as 'a third gender, beyond man and woman.'" Luckily the Pacific Justice Institute and Focus on the Family will be keeping a close eye on this issue to "investigate whether any opt-out laws are being violated." According to the creators' website, these films are not intended for classroom use but rather for student groups, though they do include some discussion guides aimed at teachers.
Crime Against Nature - Gay Mormon History
Under the subhed "Shocking Events at the Y," some history of experimentation with so-called aversive therapies (mostly involving electric shocks and pornography) as "treatment" for young gay men.
legacies, a documentary by sean weakland on BYU's sexual aversion techniques
More on BYU's experimental "aversive therapies" (which amounted to torture, basically) as a form of "treatment" for homosexuality.
Gay penguin book gets most US ban requests | News | The Christian Institute
A Christian organization's news site comments on the American Library Assoc.'s report on banned books for 2009, according to which the book most often subject to challenge or removal requests in children's libraries in the U.S. this year was a book called "And Tango Makes Three," which is about "two male penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo who raise a baby penguin."
Get Religion's M.Z. Hemingway on journalistic use of the term "gay-friendly"
Yet another post where Mollie Hemingway takes a position I find perverse, i.e., criticizing the journalistic use of the phrase "gay-friendly" (specifically to describe the ELCA's decision to ordain gay pastors who are in "committed relationships," whatever that means) for taking an unacknowledged theological position. She points out that according to traditional readings of Christian teaching regarding sexual morality, there's nothing "friendly" about allowing gay people to, well, just be gay. While simultaneously claiming that she doesn't have a theological dog in this fight, she also says that journalists should stay away from the expression "gay-friendly" because its use presupposes a theological framework that sees homosexuality as acceptable. To me this would be kind of like objecting to calling a racially-integrated church during the 1950s "black-friendly," because, after all, you could make the argument that it's not very "friendly" to black people to instill in them them the false notion that it is acceptable for them to mingle with whites, and ultimately it is more loving to encourage them to know their God-given place and to be happy in it. To me, the issue Hemingway raises, and especially the comments, point to a real problem with the idea of journalistic "neutrality," but I haven't completely figured out what the problem is.
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