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April 06 2016 By dvirtue ARE CHRISTIANITY AND REPARATIVE THERAPY COMPATIBLE?

Reparative Therapy has been mostly attacked from within by psychology, but also by fellow Christians, although from a different angle. In psychology, this attack is coming from the LGBTQ stranglehold which it possesses on that profession.

In offering their own critique, the Christian community is giving aid and comfort to their enemies and distress to our friends. This is unintentional, but it is still happening. This is collateral damage.

April 05 2016 By dvirtue The West's War against Faith and Freedom

This is not a late April Fools' Day joke. The 88-year-old Catholic Society at the University of Sydney is facing deregistration on the grounds that it requires senior members to be Catholic. In a move that has startled many of the university's Catholic students, the society, formed in 1928, has been told that its membership requirements are discriminatory, and further funding could be denied if the Catholic stipulation is not removed.

April 04 2016 By dvirtue The Theology of Donald Trump - Two Stories

Let me suggest that the slender thread connecting Trump to the church is his occasional holiday appearances at Marble Collegiate Church, made famous by its pastor for 52 years, Norman Vincent Peale. Blending pop-psychology and spirituality, Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking (1952) remained on The New York Times bestsellers list for 186 weeks. Nicknamed "God's Salesman," Peale was criticized for trivializing Christianity.

March 30 2016 By dvirtue American College of Pediatricians: 'Transgender' Conditioning Is 'Child Abuse'

Hence, it's of little surprise that, tragically, of those who put themselves through this imaginary "transition," 41 percent will subsequently attempt suicide.

March 29 2016 By dvirtue I always thought I was born gay. Today, I'm a happily married dad

In floods of tears I came out to my parents when 17 years old. Dad and Mum were amazing. They said they had known I was gay and affirmed their unconditional love for me. My mates in high school also told me they had known I was gay and not only honoured me for coming out but affirmed me in what they too believed to be my true sexual orientation. My deepest fears rapidly subsided. I felt a freedom like I had never experienced before.

March 26 2016 By dvirtue World's largest psychiatrist org condemns treatment for unwanted gay attractions

But therapy to change the orientation is wrong on two counts in the WPA's view. First, it claims, "There is no sound scientific evidence that innate sexual orientation can be changed," and second, "So-called treatments of homosexuality can create a setting in which prejudice and discrimination flourish, and they can be potentially harmful." Therefore, any therapy "purporting to treat something that is not a disorder is wholly unethical."

March 25 2016 By dvirtue House of Bishops "Living Under the Shadow of the Lynching Tree"

On Good Friday the ruling political forces of the day tortured and executed an innocent man. They sacrificed the weak and the blameless to protect their own status and power.

Uh oh, here comes a thinly veiled political statement.

On the third day Jesus was raised from the dead, revealing not only their injustice but also unmasking the lie that might makes right.

March 25 2016 By dvirtue UK: Religious Approaches to Human Rights in the Houses of Parliament: Interviews with the author and sponsors

Below is a video with interviews with the author, Martin Davie and the sponsors of the projects.

http://www.ocrpl.org/2016/release-of-religious-approaches-to-human-rights-in-the-houses-of-parliament-interviews-with-the-author-and-sponsors/

March 18 2016 By dvirtue While the Church Slept

In the main still-orthodox Christian churches, leaders and organizations minimize attention to gay issues while maximizing focus on more politically correct ones, like the dangers of porn.

March 17 2016 By dvirtue As Predicted, Here Come the Gay Bullies

In the U.K., Pink News reports that, "Scotland is training a small army of LGBT-friendly police officers to stamp out hate crime."

This "small army" has been tasked with encouraging victims of "hate crimes" to report those crimes to the police, since such crimes are allegedly under-reported.

The problem is that, in the U.K., preachers simply reading the Scriptures on a street corner have been charged with LGBT "hate crimes."

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