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Court: ‘Tolerance is a two-way street’

January 27th, 2012 Comments off

by Jody Brown, Charlie Butts, and Bob Kellogg

The Sixth Circuit has ruled in favor of Christian graduate student Julea Ward, who almost three years ago was expelled from a university counseling program for her religious beliefs. Read more…

Sexual Orientation and Reason: On the Implications of False Beliefs about Homosexuality

January 20th, 2012 Comments off

Note: This is a longer version, with citations, of the article posted just previous to this on the Ruth blog.

by Stanton L. Jones is Provost and Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College (IL).  PDF version of this paper and the Resources available for download at our Print Resources Page.

Homosexuality in particular, and sexual orientation, sexual identity and sexuality in general, are enormously complex topics, about which religious and social conservatives are prone to believe a number of falsehoods. This reality exposes us to derision in the public arena and weakens our capacity to engage this issue effectively. These false assertions include that: Read more…

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In Praise of Evelyn Hooker

January 20th, 2012 Comments off

by Stanton L Jones

Dr. Evelyn Hooker is arguably history’s most revered gay-affirming activist scientist, and so it is that, at a time when social science is frequently abused in public discussions of same-sex issues, Hooker should be remembered and praised for her clearheaded allegiance to proper scientific standards. Read more…

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Why Fight Same-Sex Marriage?

January 4th, 2012 Comments off

Is There Really That Much at Stake?

by Douglas Farrow

Why fight same-sex marriage? Even in America, where the outcome is not yet decided, there appear to be good reasons not to. The optics are poor and the mandate seems uncertain. Prospects for victory appear slim. Resources that might be reserved for more important fronts—abortion, for example—are squandered in defense of an institution to which our modern urban society is no longer committed. Industrial economies, reprogenetic technologies, and new ideas of autonomy—not to speak of new moralities—have called into question many of the assumptions on which that institution has always been based. Read more…

Bed and Breakfast fights for right not to host civil unions

December 12th, 2011 Comments off

Christian Examiner staff report

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, — A bed and breakfast in central Illinois is struggling to keep its right not to host civil union ceremonies on its premises. Read more…

Ontario gvmt to mandate gay-straight alliances

December 7th, 2011 Comments off

by Patrick B. Craine

TORONTO, Ontario, December 1st, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – All of Ontario’s Catholic and public schools will be required to set up gay-straight alliances if students request them, Ontario’s education minister said Thursday as Dalton McGuinty’s Liberal government unveiled its new bill to crack down on homosexual bullying. Read more…

Gay activist admits: bullying hysteria may cause suicides, not prevent them

December 7th, 2011 Comments off

by Peter Sprigg

December 2, 2011 (frc.org) – Ever since the highly-publicized suicide of a New Jersey college student in September of 2010, pro-homosexual activists have been using the issues of bullying and teen suicide as tools in pursuit of their political agenda, and as rhetorical weapons against those who oppose it. Every time another report surfaced about a suicide by a teenager who identified as or was perceived to be “gay,” and who had reportedly been bullied, the finger would be pointed directly at conservatives. Bullying causes suicides, we were told, and public expression of conservative political, social, or religious viewpoints concerning homosexuality causes bullying. Affirm homosexual conduct as morally neutral, or more kids will die. Read more…

Macy’s Fires Employee for Protecting Women’s Dressing Rooms from Cross-dresser

December 7th, 2011 Comments off

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A young woman was fired from the Macy’s San Antonio Rivercenter department store in Texas for refusing to violate her religious beliefs by permitting a young man dressed as a woman from entering the women’s dressing room. Natalie Johnson claims she saw the young man walk out of the women’s fitting room and politely told him that he could not go back in because it was for women only. The cross-dressing young man claimed that he is a “female.” Read more…

Charity boycott step to criminalizing Christianity

December 7th, 2011 Comments off

by Charlie Butts

Groups supporting special rights for homosexuals are urging people to boycott the campaign because the Salvation Army supposedly has a history of “discriminating” against them. But Peter LaBarbera, who heads Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), believes such protestors are missing the charity’s goal. Read more…

Foundation funds pro-homosexual events on Catholic campuses

December 6th, 2011 Comments off

A recent conference series on “Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church,” held at two Catholic universities as well as two secular institutions, was subsidized by a foundation with a long history of support for homosexual attacks on Catholic Church teaching, the Cardinal Newman Society has discovered. Read more…

Hate crimes — media contradicts FBI report

November 25th, 2011 Comments off

by Charlie Butts

After analyzing the numbers in the FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics report for 2010, Matt Barber, vice president of Liberty Counsel Action, concludes that there is a clear bias against religion.

“There were fewer hate crimes committed against people based on an animus toward their sexual behavior than there were committed toward people based on religion,” he reports. “So that is to say there were more hate crimes committed against people because of anti-religious bias than there [were] for anti-homosexual bias.” Read more…

Gay marriage group run exclusively from New York and DC, documents reveal

November 21st, 2011 Comments off

By Shawn Millerick

The entire leadership of the controversial gay marriage advocacy group Standing Up for New Hampshire Families consists of lawyers and activists from New York City and Washington, DC, new documents obtained by NH Journal reveal. In fact, judging strictly from these organizational documents, the group has no connection to the Granite State whatsoever. Read more…

A Tale of Two Colleges

November 17th, 2011 Comments off

from albertmohler.com

Mercer University and Shorter University represent opposite trajectories on the landscape of American education.

Shorter University and Mercer University are institutions of higher education in Georgia, and both have been historically related to the Georgia Baptist Convention — the state’s largest Baptist group. Both schools have been in the news in recent days over the issue of homosexuality. Seen together, the actions taken by the schools point backwards to critical decisions made in the past, forward to issues that will be faced by every college, and directly to the present, where the future is taking shape before our eyes. Read more…

What could end Rush Limbaugh’s career?

November 15th, 2011 Comments off

by Dr. Michael L. Brown

It was surprising to hear Rush Limbaugh say the words, “I don’t have the guts to bring it up” – but he did, on November 8, to his massive radio audience.

Rush Limbaugh lacking the guts to address something publicly? Rush Limbaugh not willing to tackle controversy? Really? Read more…

No ‘Glee’ About Virginity

November 12th, 2011 Comments off

by Brent Bozell

In Hollywood, the only truly serious sexual disease is virginity. It’s a dire and embarrassing condition, desperately in need of elimination. Teenagers that still have “it” are woefully immature. They might as well consider themselves to be walking the school hallways in diapers.

Along comes Fox Entertainment to enlighten us. Get ready. It’s sick. Read more…

New York archbishop decrees no same-sex ‘marriages’ in Catholic churches, properties

November 10th, 2011 Comments off

by Thaddeus Baklinski

NEW YORK, November 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in New York in June, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan has issued an official statement banning the use of Roman Catholic churches, facilities or properties for homosexual “marriage” ceremonies. Read more…

‘Let them cut off aid:’ African countries revolt against UK threat to cut aid over homosexuality

November 10th, 2011 Comments off

by Peter Baklinski

Africa, November 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of Ghana is leading the charge as several African countries are making their stand against Britain’s threat that they either legalize homosexual acts or be excluded from financial aid. Read more…

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Military homosexuals suing for marriage rights

October 28th, 2011 Comments off

Associated Press

BOSTON - A group of married “gay” current and former military personnel has sued the federal government, seeking equal recognition, benefits and the same support as married heterosexual couples. Read more…

No condemnation for vandalism by ‘gay’ activists

October 26th, 2011 19 comments

by Charlie Butts

On October 15, homosexual activists, who later took credit for the attack, threw concrete bricks through the door and windows of the Christian Liberty Academy in suburban Chicago (see earlier story). The site was chosen for the attack because it hosted a fundraising banquet for Americans for Truth About HomosexualityRead more…

Groundbreaking ruling in gay custody case

October 26th, 2011 4 comments

You need a scorecard to keep track of this one, but the bottom line is clear enough: a bio mom and bio dad want their child to themselves, and the man’s ex-partner (who is a gay man) is declared to be a parent and the father isn’t. Unbelievable.

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In what’s being called a groundbreaking ruling, a gay Calgary man has been granted legal parent status in place of his ex-partner, the child’s biological father. Read more…