Opposition to gay marriage is "not acceptable", minister says 31 May 2012
"Marriage is as old as man himself, and you can't change something as fundamental," the party's church spokesperson Christian Langballe said during the debate. "Marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman."
Karsten Nissen, the Bishop of Viborg, who is refusing to carry out the ceremonies, has warned that the new law risks "splitting the church".
Read moreThe APA "started changing pretty drastically by the late 1980s," said Cummings. "By the mid 1990s, the Leona Tyler principle was absolutely forgotten, that political stances seemed to override any scientific results. Cherry-picking results became the mode. The gay rights movement sort of captured the APA."
Cummings says that the movement for "diversity" in the APA, which he endorsed, had resulted in a lack of diversity regarding heterosexuals.
Read moreBut firstly for how long? Secondly, does that mean it will eventually dominate the rest of the world also?
HOW DO WE ANSWER THIS ARGUMENT?
Read moreI've been saying for years that liberal Christianity will have to up the ante on its purported self-loathing in order to promote itself as this generation's rightful owners of the White Man's Burden.
Sorry, I should have said White Person's Burden.
Read moreEvidently Bishop Jefferts Schori could not deliver all her thoughts at the UN session, so she later issued her own "Pastoral Letter on the Doctrine of Discovery and Indigenous Peoples." Perhaps small numbers of elderly Episcopalians, if still awake in their pews, will listen to at least part of it.
Read more"Today, we are sending demand letters to school districts in Florida, Maine, Virginia, West Virginia, Mississippi, and Alabama insisting that they take steps to end single-sex programs that rely on and promote archaic and harmful sex stereotypes," the ACLU announced.
"And we're launching a new campaign called Teach Kids, Not Stereotypes to drive the point home."
Read moreFirst, the question can be asked to suggest that the Bible's clear condemnation of sexual sins can simply be set aside. The other way of posing the question represents a genuine attempt to understand how the Bible is to be rightly applied to life today.
In truth, those asking the question the first way really don't want an answer.
Read moreMore than 150.6 million Christian adherents and 344,894 congregations were reported across the country. It is noteworthy that less than 50 percent of of the nation's population identified as Christian adherents. With close to 15.8 million Christian adherents, California reported the highest number of Christian adherents, whereas Vermont reported the lowest -- only 200,000 identified as Christian adherents. Around 10 percent of the nation's Christians reside in California.
Read moreThe avalanche of criticism against, variously, the Obama administration, secularization, gay and lesbian activists, etc., began with Tom Farr of Georgetown who said that in his 2009 address at Notre Dame, President Barack Obama asserted a "lack of rational content" in religion. The relevant words of Mr. Obama's were: "It's beyond our capacity as human beings to know with certainty what God has planned for us or what He asks of us.
Read moreThese charges prompted Obama to reassess how his faith related to his approach to politics. He concluded that his typical responses to Keyes' criticisms -- that "we live in a pluralistic society" and "I can't impose my own religious views" on others -- had been inadequate.
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