Tag Archives: Topic: Homosexual Agenda

Christian Post: After reports suggested the federal government is considering becoming party to the Prop. 8 case, Austin R. Nimocks, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, who is a co-counsel in the case, told The Christian Post in a phone interview that his group will hold off on commenting on such a brief until, or if, it is actually filed. However, he shared his hopes that the Supreme Court justices will not change the traditional definition of marriage. “The wisest course of action is for the Supreme Court to allow the debate over marriage to continue in this country and not judicially impose same-sex marriage on Americans,” Nimocks said.

Matthew Staver at Orlando Sentinel: A national uproar apparently caused the executive board of the Boy Scouts of America to postpone until May a vote on whether to allow homosexual Scouts and Scoutmasters among their ranks.

PDF of the map is available here via the “Marriage and Family” page on the Alliance Defending Freedom website.

Heritage Foundation: President Obama has so many flip-flops in his policy positions that it’s hard to keep track. After running for President supporting traditional marriage, he “evolved” to support same-sex marriage—and now his Justice Department has officially urged the Supreme Court to overthrow the law of the land.

Robert Oscar Lopez at American Thinker: For all the talk of being inclusive, same-sex marriage proponents are actually promoting the exclusion of one biological parent from the custody of their own children. In other words, a man’s right to marry another man is actually a man’s right to exclude the woman who bore his child from the household where the child grows up. While utterly offensive to me, this is apparently perfectly legitimate reasoning to many readers who feel that adults have rights to children if they have the money or political clout to come into possession of them, while children have no rights to anything at all.

Baptist Press: What has happened in America? It seems that political correctness has become a religion — an idol — in America. Everyone who does not embrace all beliefs — including sexual and religious — as equal is to be vilified and shamed. And if a person does not repent of their intolerance, he or she is to be shunned and ostracized. By canceling his appearance at First Dallas, Tim Tebow has, for now, appeased the priests and priestesses of political correctness. It seems one movement’s “tolerance” is just an excuse to exercise its own intolerance.

Tampa Bay Times: “While other factors such as growing unemployment played a role, there is a strong case that redefining marriage is mostly responsible for the decline,” Sheedy said. We wanted to examine his theory.

Christian Post:Those upset with the article disagree that it remained completely unbiased, arguing that the paper was attempting to “glorify” same-sex marriage through its portrayal of the wedding.

Cardinal Newman Society: Georgetown University’s student newspaper, The Hoya, reports that Georgetown may elect its first homosexual president to the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA). Nate Tisa is one of five candidates vying for the position.

(1/17) Lambda Legal today announced that the State of Oregon has changed an employee health care policy to remove all language that denies coverage to transgender people for transition-related health care.

ChristianNews.net: According to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which is at the forefront of the cases currently before the court, attorney generals from 19 states have filed joint briefs with the Supreme Court in favor of marriage remaining between a man and woman, and at least four legal organizations discussed the religious liberty concerns that the legalization of homosexual “marriage” would raise.

Florida Baptist Witness: The day after New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow cancelled a scheduled appearance at First Baptist Church in Dallas, his pastor has called for prayer for him and those “hated by the world” because of the stands they have taken.

SCOTUS Blog links to the briefs.

Business Week: “A man cannot enter into the state of marriage as defined with another man just as a woman cannot enter into the state of marriage with another woman,” the judge wrote. “The redress for these circumstances lies in the political and not the legal arena.” . . . Sex discrimination depends on a comparison between the treatment of the person of one sex with the treatment of the opposite sex, Jagot wrote in her ruling. “There cannot be discrimination by reason of the sex of a person because in all cases the treatment of the person of the opposite sex is the same,” she wrote.| Margan v President, Australian Human Rights Commission [2013] FCA 109

Belfast Telegraph: A legal victory for a lesbian couple who want to jointly raise one partner’s child could lead to same sex couples in Northern Ireland being allowed to adopt, a gay rights activist has said.

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Republican state Sen. Branden Petersen is preparing to become a co-sponsor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Minnesota.

Rod Dreher at the American Conservative: The problem for people my age is this: your definition of marriage was displaced prior to our lifetime. I have no memory of when that definition was true. Virtually everyone under the age of 30 has lived their entire lives under a culture that believes marriage is an expression of romantic love between two people.

CNSNews: Conservatives are blasting a Democratic California lawmaker for introducing a bill to strip the Boy Scouts in California of their tax–exempt status, solely because Scout membership policy doesn’t allow homosexual scoutmasters or scouts.

Bill Blacquiere of Bethany Christian Services at Christian Post: We are working every day to protect our religious freedom. We are partnering with organizations like Focus on the Family, Alliance Defending Freedom, the Heritage Foundation, and the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance to safeguard religious freedom. But we need those who stand with us to let their voice be heard.

Christian Post: Austin R. Nimocks, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, who is a co-counsel in the case in favor of upholding Prop. 8, told The Christian Post in a phone interview on Thursday that ADF will hold off on commenting on such a brief until, or if, it is actually filed. However, he shared his hopes that the Supreme Court justices will not change the traditional definition of marriage. “The wisest course of action is for the Supreme Court to allow the debate over marriage to continue in this country and not judicially impose same-sex marriage on Americans,” Nimocks told CP.

Ruth Institute: Parents across Massachusetts are upset over new rules that would not only allow transgender students to use their restrooms of their choice – but would also punish students who refuse to affirm or support their transgender classmates.

Catholic Culture: La Repubblica claimed that in a lengthy report on the leaks, the cardinals had alerted the Pontiff to the existence of factions within the Roman Curia, including a powerful faction “united by sexual orientation.” Some members of that bloc, the cardinals reportedly said, may be vulnerable to “external influence” because of their activities. The Italian newspaper said that the report shocked Pope Benedict and contributed to his decision to resign.

The wisest course is for the Supreme Court to resist demands to prematurely end the national debate over the future of marriage. Californians and Congress voted for marriage, and the court should respect the freedom to affirm society’s fundamental building block.

SCOTUS Blog links to the briefs.

Lyle Denniston at SCOTUS Blog: Accusing the backers of California’s ban on same-sex marriage of seeking to turn marriage into an institution that serves only the government’s interests and does away with any private right to wed, the opponents of Proposition 8 on Thursday challenged the Supreme Court to strike down that measure as a stark contradiction of history and the Constitution.

Christian Post: A new advertisement launched by the Respect for Marriage Coalition on Wednesday shows U.S. President Barack Obama, former first lady Laura Bush, former vice president Dick Cheney, and former secretary of state Colin Powell, all speaking out on their support for same-sex marriage in the U.S.

Providence Journal: Board of Rabbis of Greater Rhode Island has announced its support for legislation to allow same-sex couples to marry in Rhode Island.

Robin Fretwell Wilson at Providence Journal: The risks to religious organizations are not speculative. Rhode Island requires prequalification of all proposed contractors’ nondiscrimination policies with the state to receive consideration, raising the possibility of denial of access to government contracts or grants. San Francisco yanked $3.5 million in social-service contracts from the Salvation Army because it refused on religious grounds to provide benefits to employees’ same-sex partners.

Santa Fe New Mexican: A House committee on Thursday effectively killed a proposed constitutional amendment to make same-sex marriage a constitutional right in New Mexico. The House Voters & Elections Committee voted 7-4 to table House Joint Resolution 3, sponsored by Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe.

AFP on Google: Russia expressed “serious worry” Wednesday over the fate of a Russian boy adopted by an American woman who did not reveal that she is a lesbian, Moscow’s latest broadside in a growing war of words over adoption.

Politico: The AP came under fire earlier this month over an internal memo advising staff to use “couples” or “partners” when referring to civil unions and same-sex marriages, rather than “husband” and “wife.

The Australian: RELIGIOUS organisations running schools, health and aged-care services face losing key exemptions to Labor’s new anti-discrimination laws under recommendations that could see them sued by people who disagree with church ethos.

Christianity Today: Associated Baptist Press reports that FBC was “once known as the flagship church of the Southern Baptist Convention,” but Jeffress’ reputation has grown increasingly negative outside the Bible Belt. He gained “notoriety for his statements about the gay community,” . . .

ABC: The former first lady’s office told the Dallas Morning News that Bush had not given her consent to be part of the ad, and had asked that she be removed from it.

Washington Post: Puerto Rico’s Supreme Court narrowly voted Wednesday to uphold a law banning gay couples from adopting children. The 5-4 vote came . . .

Star Herald (AP): “There’s a critical mass of states that have spoken out and believe states should continue to have the right to define marriage as between one man and one woman,” said Jim Campbell, legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents supporters of Proposition 8. [This AP report is widely distributed]

Pink News: “There’s a critical mass of states that have spoken out and believe states should continue to have the right to define marriage as between one man and one woman,” said Jim Campbell of the anti-equal marriage Alliance Defending Freedom.

Marine Corps Times: This new policy under the guise of ‘equal benefits’ undermines marriage as the union of one man and one woman because it treats two persons of the same sex as spouses,” said Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, in the statement issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “Can the Secretary of Defense establish a policy that undermines federal law as established by [the Defense of Marriage Act]?”

Washington Post: “There’s a critical mass of states that have spoken out and believe states should continue to have the right to define marriage as between one man and one woman,” said Jim Campbell, legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents supporters of Proposition 8.

AP: – An Indiana school district reeling from the uproar over a teacher’s comments that she believes gays have no purpose in life suspended the woman Wednesday.

RRStar.com: An estimated 3,000 people, sporting bright yellow buttons that read “One Man, One Woman,” participated in the rally.

The Christian Institute: A French branch of Subway has been forced to shut after it advertised a Valentine’s Day deal that did not include gay couples.

Christian Institute: A Conservative councillor in Henley has left the Party because of its push to redefine marriage, saying there is no mandate for the move.

LifeSiteNews: While pressure continues at the international level to prohibit psychotherapists from offering help to those wanting to overcome same-sex attraction, a Canadian therapist has told a British audience that such bans are “unethical.”

LifeSiteNews: Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Mitchell Chester has issued orders to the state’s K-12 public schools requiring them to permit “transgender” boys and girls to use the opposite sex’s locker rooms, bathrooms, and changing facilities as long as they claim to identify with that gender.

Buzz Feed: Denying same-sex couples the right to marry is unconstitutionally discriminatory, Mexico’s Supreme Court announced in a sweeping ruling made public Monday. The ruling not only makes a strong statement about Mexican law’s treatment of equal protection guarantees, it also relies heavily on civil rights rulings handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Metro Weekly: Coming on the heels of the Pentagon’s decision earlier this week to extend certain benefits to same-sex military families, members of the House and Senate introduced legislation this week that would grant full benefits to gay servicemembers and their families.

Ken Connor at Townhall: The right of individuals to freely associate – in public and behind closed doors – has been an issue that has sparked controversy in all quarters. The question remains as to what level of acceptance society must accord homosexual behavior – conduct that is fraught with social, religious, moral, and medical implications.

Religion Clause Blog: Last week the Virginia state legislature gave final approval to HB 1617 which provides . . . In an editorial yesterday, the Virginia Pilot called for the governor to veto the bill, saying: “The real reason for the bill is to allow certain religious or political groups to reject gay or lesbian students with the commonwealth’s blessing.”

Michael Foust at Baptist Press: The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution that criticizes Boy Scouts leadership for trying to change the policy on homosexuality but also urges the Scouts’ voting members to uphold the current policy in May.

Liberty Counsel: California ban on change therapy (SB 1172), which would ban any counseling to minors seeking to diminish or eliminate unwanted same-sex sexual attractions, behavior, or identity. On December 21, 2012, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pickup v. Brown granted Liberty Counsel’s emergency motion to temporarily block the law from going into effect on January 1, 2013, as scheduled.

Turtle Bay and Beyond: In December, the EU tried to qualify the word “family” with “various forms of the family exist” in a GA resolution on observing the international year of the family (2014). The proposal was shot down by the G77 (who sponsored the resolution), and the EU whined vociferously during the adoption of the resolution in the General Assembly.

WDEL.com: The Delaware State AFL-CIO, the Delaware Building and Construction Trades Council and the Delaware Public Employees Council 81-AFSCME. are appealing to lawmakers to support a marriage equality bill this session.

Christian Post: Neil Clark Warren, Christian co-founder and CEO of the popular online dating site eHarmony, recently spoke on how he believes the same-sex marriage debate has “damaged his company,” and that he hopes America can “be more harmonious” on the issue.

LifeSiteNews: Between 120,000 and 200,000 people blanketed the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, today to encourage the island’s lawmakers to defend marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Harry R. Jackson, Jr. at Townhall: Homosexual activists achieved historic gains in the November 2012 election in the states of Washington, Maine and Maryland. These three notoriously liberal states passed laws extending marriage benefits to homosexual relationships by four to six percentage points. But will these legal victories ultimately deny them the sweeping Supreme Court decision they long for?

Doug Napier at Townhall: Today, homosexual activists have tried to co-opt the allusion to slavery to advance their demand to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples. Nice try, but if Lincoln were chiming in, he would undoubtedly bring up Euclid. A union of two men or two women is not the same as the union of one man and one woman, and all the rhetorical sleights of hand can’t change that biological and social reality. It’s one of those “self-evident truths” Lincoln referenced.

Austin R. Nimocks at Washington Examiner (2/16): By making a constitutional claim for a new federal definition of marriage, Windsor is asking the Constitution that binds all of us to impose her view of marriage upon everyone. If the U.S. Constitution is interpreted to require same-sex marriage, it doesn’t require it in one place and not another. The U.S. Constitution will require it everywhere. So much for Section 2 of DOMA.

One News Now: Ken Klukowski, a senior legal analyst for The American Civil Rights Union (ACRU), explains how that would happen. “The argument that’s being raised there is if there is no standing at the Supreme Court, then there was no standing at the Ninth Circuit, and, in fact, there was no standing in U.S. District Court — that the whole case has to be stricken entirely off the books,” he details.

Mercury News: On a May day in 2009, Vaughn Walker was going through one of his weekly routines as a federal judge, reviewing a stack of new lawsuits assigned to his San Francisco chambers, when one case caught his eye: Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

Reuters: As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take up same-sex marriage next month, laws barring recognition of such unions are not the only issue hanging in the balance. The very question of whether gay people constitute a vulnerable group that needs the court’s help in asserting equal rights is also at stake.

KTAR.com (2/14): “There is a potential concern for businesses that have offices in multiple cities across our state to have unequal enforcement of the law throughout our state,” Legal Consultant Joseph La Rue, with the Alliance Defending Freedom said. La Rue said the new proposals may make hiring decisions difficult for multi-city companies. The Alliance Defending Freedom is a nonprofit religious rights group dedicated to defending religious freedom, marriage and family, and pro-life issues. La Rue also opposed the new proposals because of potential costs to small businesses if further protections are added to the city ordinances. “What we’ve seen in other places where amendments like these are passed is the cost to small business owners goes up,” La Rue said. “There is the threat of litigation anytime [businesses] fail to hire someone who is a member of the protected class.”

The Christian Institute: An Aberdeen congregation and its minister have become the latest to leave the Church of Scotland over its ordination of homosexual clergy.

Telegraph: An historic majority of MPs voted to press forward with a bill legalising gay marriage on Wednesday, but more than half of Conservative MPs and a significant minority of Labour MPs voted against it.

Christian Concern: The Church of England’s most senior figure has warned that teachers and “people of faith” could face legal challenges if the government’s same-sex ‘marriage’ Bill is pushed through.

GLAD: The American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity recognized Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defender’s Civil Rights Project Director Mary L. Bonauto with the newly created Stonewall Award for her significant achievements in advancing the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Hawaii Family Forum: Today, around 150 people gathered at the capitol to demand what they are calling “marriage equality” (another name for redefining marriage.) Tomorrow, (February 12, 2013) they plan to visit the capitol all day. The timing is critical because if nothing happens by Wednesday, than the issue will be off the table for this legislative session. That’s why the push is happening so strongly all of a sudden.

The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty, an organization of chaplain endorsers, is expressing dismay that the Department of Defense issued a policy memorandum Monday extending benefits to “same-sex domestic partners” of military members without notifying Congress.

Pink News: The updated AP memo states “husband” or “wife” can be used if those involved regularly used those terms.

KSDK.com (includes video): It’s expected to clear the Senate without problems, and then goes to the House.

MyFoxDetroit: In a motion filed Tuesday, newly elected Oakland County Clerk Lisa Brown said the county no longer wants to challenge the suit filed last year in federal court against Gov. Rick Snyder, Attorney General Bill Schuette and former Oakland County Clerk Bill Bullard.

Politifact: “I’m pleased with the direction the Institute is taking,” wrote Sears, who has been a board member of the group for several years. “Unlike David, I was never against same-sex marriage. But much like David, I’ve witnessed the fallout from broken families in the past several decades, during which divorce and out-of-wedlock births have skyrocketed, and unstable, serial cohabiting relationships have become the norm for raising children.”

Fox News: Gay rights activists are calling for DC Comics to fire the author of a new digital Superman project because he is opposed to gay marriage.

LifeSiteNews: Canada’s Conservative government is defending its grant to a Christian organization working to improve water access in Uganda after a media report on Sunday called for its defunding because of its Christian beliefs on sexuality.

AP: Sen. Patrick Leahy want the government to start affording same sex, married couples the same immigration benefits that heterosexual couples now enjoy.