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May 31 2015 By dvirtue The trouble with gay marriage

Instead of saying 'We can finally get married', the most common response to the referendum result from both the leaders of the Yes campaign and their considerable army of supporters in the media and political classes has been: 'Gays have finally been validated.' Across the spectrum, from the drag queens who led the Yes lobby to the right-wing politicians who backed them, all the talk was of 'recognition', not marriage.

May 30 2015 By dvirtue Science Journal Retracts Gay Marriage Study amid Fraud Allegations

LaCour told Politico he was "gathering evidence and relevant information so I can provide a single comprehensive response. I will do so at my earliest opportunity."

LaCour's work was done in cooperation with the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

May 28 2015 By dvirtue Why Supreme Court Should Not Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

During the six months of legal same-sex marriage in California, there were 18,000 gay weddings. However, if the state's gays and lesbians are 1.7% of the population, that's 651,000 who could have married, but only 5.5% chose to do so.

In New York State after two years of legal same-sex marriage, 333,000 same-sex people could have married, but there were only 12,200 gay weddings.

May 22 2015 By dvirtue Are gays 'born that way'? Most Americans now say yes, but science says no

Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council says that these numerous, rigorous studies of identical twins have now made it impossible to argue that there is a "gay gene." If homosexuality were inborn and predetermined, then when one identical twin is homosexual, the other should be, as well.

Yet one study from Yale and Columbia Universities found homosexuality common to only 6.7 percent of male identical twins and 5.3 percent of female identical twins.

May 20 2015 By dvirtue The Battle of Indiana and the Promise of Battles to Come

Four truths are emerging: First, the battle is not between gay rights and religious liberty--although religious liberty is certainly at stake--but between the sexual revolution and Christianity itself. This means that Christians are faced not with allegedly "minor" or "insignificant" theological changes to gain leftist acceptance, but with wholesale changes to the historical doctrines of the church.

May 14 2015 By dvirtue Fewer Catholics & Protestants, More Evangelicals

What has grown the most are the religiously unaffiliated, who shot up from 16.1% to 22.8%. The number of religiously unaffiliated adults increased by 19 million since 2007. There are now 56 million atheists, agnostics and those with no religious affiliation in America. They are more numerous than Catholics or Mainline Protestants.

May 14 2015 By rturner Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde Makes New Divisions for Mother’s Day

Yes, you read that correctly. A mother of color. Caucasian mothers are to be excluded.

Budde emphasizes only mothers of color and writes, “I cannot deny the fact that our society values white children more than children of color.” Budde mentions no place where she gets this "fact" but maybe her New Age mentor David Whyte told her. I guess Budde feels as a bishop, she has a right to pull any facts out of nether space she wants and not release their source.

May 13 2015 By dvirtue The new totalitarians: Change your religious beliefs or else

Chuck feared--rightly, it turns out--that opponents of religious liberty were seeking to keep religion within the four walls of our churches, synagogues, and mosques--as if religious belief were no more than a purely private opinion with no practical implications for the real world. In other words, "Feel free to worship, if you like, but keep your religiously informed opinions and actions to yourself."

May 08 2015 By dvirtue How forcing gay 'marriage' on America would provoke hostility to religion and limit free speech

A third brief, filed by religious organizations, public speakers, and scholars concerned about free speech, explains the ways in which those who do not agree with same-sex marriage have been actively silenced or chilled in speaking their views. Given the importance of the freedom of speech to political and religious minorities, this is especially disturbing.

Religious Support for Man-Woman Marriage Is Not Based on Animus

May 07 2015 By dvirtue Needed: More Chastity & More Marriage

Result: Baltimore had the fifth highest murder rate and the seventh highest violent crime rate in America -- and criminal activity is only increasing.

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