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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 4/29/2008 10:31:07 PM
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Here is some more info on the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal Ruling Denies Christian Ministry's Right to be Christian
ruling has the Christian community in Canada deeply concerned for religious freedom.
By John-Henry Westen
TORONTO, April 28, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The ruling of the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal against a Christian ministry serving disabled people in Ontario has the Christian community in Canada deeply concerned for religious freedom.
Don Hutchinson, General Legal Counsel for the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, summarized the situation by way of analogy in a article in the National Post today. He wrote: "Imagine that Mother Theresa and her Missionaries of Charity had been told that their ministry in the streets of Calcutta was, in essence, not ministry but 'social work.' In order for the sisters to continue in their work, they would no longer be permitted to require that staff members share their beliefs and ministry commitment."
Christian Horizons (CH), the group in question, describes itself as "an evangelical ministry seeking to reach out with Christian love to people with disabilities." Its services have been so well received by the province that it has become the largest provider of community living services in the province providing care and residential services to 1,400 developmentally disabled individuals with over 180 residential homes across Ontario, and 2,300 employees. CH receives $75 million in funding annually from the Ontario government in order to carry out these services.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 4/30/2008 11:35:10 AM
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Thanks for the clarification.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 4/30/2008 11:30:35 PM
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'Believe homosexuality is wrong? SHUT UP!'
Damages case from school's ban on student speech goes to appeals court
Posted: April 29, 2008
10:46 pm Eastern
A case triggered by a school district's instructions to students to "shut up" if they held religious beliefs that did not support the practice of homosexuality is being appealed to the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. Officials with the Alliance Defense Fund have confirmed they are taking the case involving Timothy Morrison to the next level after a panel decided against a judicial ruling endorsing the student's First Amendment rights in the dispute with the Boyd County, Ky., Board of Education. "Christian students shouldn't be prohibited from expressing their beliefs," ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster said. "The school adopted a policy that prohibited students from sharing their beliefs that homosexual behavior was wrong simply because others might find the message insulting.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 4/30/2008 11:31:53 PM
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Class for kids: How to be homosexual
'Social change' organization says 'masculinity' too narrowly defined
Posted: April 28, 2008
9:30 pm Eastern
A state-funded organization in Maine touted as "a stellar program for social change" is advertising a seminar that essentially provides information to impressionable school-age boys on how to be homosexual, according to a pro-family organization opposing the plans.
The seminar, "Queer, Questioning, Quiet: Developing Gender Identity & Male Sexual Orientation," is promoted by the Boys to Men organization in Portland, Maine, during its coming 2008 conference. The session will feature a presentation by speakers from the homosexual Proud Rainbow Youth for Southern Maine, officials said.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/1/2008 8:04:51 AM
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Lesbians Who Don't Want to Be
Thought this would be an interesting article to post here.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/1/2008 8:22:38 AM
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Lesbians Who Don't Want to Be
Thought this would be an interesting article to post here.
Saw that yesterday! I appreciated the laugh. They waited quite a bit too long to protest, don't you think? 
Just to clarify: It is not funny for the most part, but to suddenly care seems ridiculous. They should have fussed many years ago.
Maybe they should just change the island's name. It would probably be easier. But then again it's been called Lesbos for just a couple thousand years. The term lesbian to indicate a gay woman was only in used since the 1700's.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/1/2008 4:24:31 PM
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Methodists uphold traditional marriage
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 5/1/2008 10:15:00 AM
Delegates to the United Methodist Church's General Conference have voted to uphold traditional marriage.
The vote was 574-298 to reject a measure that would have changed the UMC's definition of marriage to include same-sex unions. The guidelines are included in the church's "Social Principles."
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/9/2008 3:58:49 PM
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Mich. high court says gay partners can't get health benefits
Associated Press - May 7, 2008 7:24 PM ET
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled that a voter-approved ban against gay marriage also prevents governments and state universities from recognizing domestic partnerships to provide health insurance to the partners of gay workers.
The 5-2 decision affects up to 20 universities, community colleges, school districts and governments in Michigan with policies covering at least 375 gay couples.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/11/2008 6:07:28 AM
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3rd-graders asked to help classmate in gender change
Parents given 1-day notice of presentation explaining boy would now wear girl clothes
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Posted: May 10, 2008
6:55 pm Eastern
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A Pennsylvania elementary school has angered parents by giving them one-day's notice of planned counseling sessions with 100 third-grade students to explain that one of their male classmates would soon begin wearing girls' clothing and taking a female name and to ask that they accept him as a girl and not make unkind remarks.
The exercise in "social transition" was initiated by the boy's parents who approached the administration at Chatham Park Elementary School in Haverford Township asking that the school help in having their child's female identity find acceptance among his peers. After consulting experts on transgender children, the Haverford School District sent letters to parents advising them the school guidance counselor would meet with their children, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.
While some parents contacted the principal asking that their children be excused, others took their anger out online.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=63978
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/11/2008 6:10:14 AM
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Homosexualist Activist Links "Corrective Rape" of Lesbians to Ex-Gay Movement
"I call on people of good will to challenge this kind of shrill, polarizing rhetoric," says psychology professor
By Michael Baggot
BROOKLYN, NY, May 8, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Outspoken "gay rights" activist Wayne Besen posted a provocative message on his TurthWinsOut.org blog yesterday which linked an alleged climate of discrimination produced by Ex-Gay organizations with the rape of lesbians in South America performed under the pretext of changing their sexual orientation.
"The notion that GLBT people must be 'changed' no matter what the psychological or physical toll is in step with the West's 'ex-gay' movement. The very existence of these organizations creates a sour climate where GLBT lives are demeaned and homosexual relationships are viewed as inferior," wrote Besen in his "'Corrective Rape' of Lesbians In South African Schools Shows Sickness of 'Ex-Gay' Movement" post.
Besen begins his post with a reference to a recent Human Rights Commission report that notes an increased number of male students raping lesbian students in an effort to make them heterosexual.
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/may/08050805.html
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/11/2008 8:49:17 PM
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Brett VanAsdlen’s Mom: “We’re Just Getting Persecuted Here”
WorldNetDaily in its story, “Teen facing ‘hate crime’ count over spat,” picks up on our story yesterday on the “hate crimes” prosecution of Parkland College student-athlete Brett VanAsdlen. Click HERE to TAKE ACTION on this case. From the WND story:
There's two sides to every story:
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On April 12, University of Illinois student Steven Velasquez became the recipient of some hater’s violence. While there are two sides to every story, some facts are not in dispute:
Velasquez was walking with friends at 1:00 am. Another young man, Brett Vanasdlen, saw him and made a bigoted remark.
According to Velasquez, he responded, “How ignorant was that?” and kept walking. According to Vanasdlen, Velasquez grabbed him and started screaming, “What did you say” in his face.
In both stories, Vanasdlen threw Velasquez to the ground where he was knocked out, suffered head trauma, and was taken to the hospital. He was released the next day and is fine.
Vanasdlen was arrested and charged with a hate crime. He’s been released until his trial.
It is likely that this will be a very straightforward case. There were witnesses who can make their argument and a judge or jury will either convict or acquit Vanasdlen of assault.
But the story does not stop there.
Rest here:
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/15/2008 4:01:12 PM
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Like it or not, it's happening.
California Supreme Court finds a ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
Looks like that's the final say for California, as the decision cannot be appealed to the US Supreme Court.
But it can be voted on in Nowvember, if the California Legislature so wishes.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/15/2008 4:06:12 PM
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But it seems unlikely that anything will change, since they have passed same-sex marriage laws twice and the Governor, who vetoed both times, intends to uphold the court's ruling.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/15/2008 5:05:22 PM
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Why is California still a state? I know they grow fruit and cotton and make bread out of it, but, really, do we we really want to be assocatied with them anymore? Can't we just cut our loses and negotiate a trade agreement for the fruits we want to import?
They are like the crazy uncle of statehood, one is unfortunately related by way of sharing a country, but when they start acting out one just doesn't want people to know they are related.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/15/2008 5:30:25 PM
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Gret Dissenting opinion on this case by the way, by what appears to be one of three sane judges left in the state of California:
Only one other American state recognizes the right the majority announces today. So far, Congress, and virtually every court to consider the issue, has rejected it. Nothing in our Constitution, express or implicit, compels the majority’s startling conclusion that the age-old understanding of marriage —an understanding recently confirmed by an initiative law — is no longer valid. California statutes already recognize same-sex unions and grant them all the substantive legal rights this state can bestow. If there is to be a further sea change in the social and legal understanding of marriage itself, that evolution should occur by similar democratic means. The majority forecloses this ordinary democratic process, and, in doing so, oversteps its authority....
But a bare majority of this court, not satisfied with the pace of democratic change, now abruptly forestalls that process and substitutes, by judicial fiat, its own social policy views for those expressed by the People themselves.Undeterred by the strong weight of state and federal law and authority, the majority invents a new constitutional right, immune from the ordinary process of legislative consideration. The majority finds that our Constitution suddenly demands no less than a permanent redefinition of marriage, regardless of the popular will....
I cannot join this exercise in legal jujitsu, by which the Legislature’s own weight is used against it to create a constitutional right from whole cloth, defeat the People’s will, and invalidate a statute otherwise immune from legislative interference. Though the majority insists otherwise, its pronouncement seriously oversteps the judicial power. The majority purports to apply certain fundamentalprovisions of the state Constitution, but it runs afoul of another just as fundamental— article III, section 3, the separation of powers clause. This clause declares that “[t]he powers of state government are legislative, executive, and judicial,” and that“[p]ersons charged with the exercise of one power may not exercise either of the others” except as the Constitution itself specifically provides. (Italics added.)
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Judicial restraint is particularly appropriate where, as here, the claimed constitutional entitlement is of recent conception and challenges the most fundamental assumption about a basic social institution.
The majority has violated these principles. It simply does not have the right to erase, then recast, the age-old definition of marriage, as virtually all societies have understood it, in order to satisfy its own contemporary notions of equality and justice.
By the way, this is perhaps the strongest reason there is right now to vote against Obama. Obama justices will undeniably rule exactly like this, except the judges he appoints won't be limited to the insane asylum in California, but will change every statute now on the books in every state from Hawaii to Delaware.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/15/2008 6:19:24 PM
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Why is California still a state?
Because we bring in far too much federal tax revenue to kick us out.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/15/2008 7:43:31 PM
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Why is California still a state?
Don't forget it was the great state of Massachusetts that started the marrying of gay people! Darn East Coasters! They're all devil worshippers! What have they done good since the tea party! [Sarc/very much on]
Your prejudice against the Golden State is well known. It's those types of comments by you and others with their drivel against our state that makes me wish we were still the California Republic. You can go sulk at your lake.
And don't worry Jack your state will be added to the legalized gay marriage list when the US Supreme Court rules on it within the decade so we'll all be in the same boat.
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RE: Homosexuality in the News - 5/15/2008 7:58:59 PM
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Eh, I think there's more pressing matters in the world than being concerned with who may or may not be getting married by the state of California. I personally don't care...if they're married by state, it's not marriage in God's eyes. Homosexuals aren't going anywhere...whether it's legal or not, we will still have the same amount. At the most I think legalizing gay marriage would promote tolerance...not acceptance...not a nice stamp on their hand that says, "I like you and approve of your actions." But simple tolerance...in my rather short life, I've known two homosexuals to be murdered for being gay, and quite a few to be sent to the hospital for the same reason. Let them get married and be miserable if they want. With tons of marriages ending in divorce, and people being married for all the wrong reasons...can't see how much more damage we can do to the institution of the family. If the homosexuals want kids, they will have them...whether it's by surrogacy or adoption. Marriage was devalued long ago, and "normal" families have been disbanded ages ago as well.
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