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January 11 2014 By virtueonline "Homophobia" and "Islamophobia": Totalitarian Threats Foreign and Domestic

A similar duality exists in the world's democracies with respect to campaigns against "homophobia" and "Islamophobia." As used by their various proponents, these terms define as a phobia or irrational fear any reservation to any beliefs and behaviors of LGBT and Muslim individuals respectively. For these ideologues only public approval, not just private autonomy, will suffice.

January 08 2014 By virtueonline 22 Possible So-Called Sexual Orientations

The addition of "sexual orientation" to non-discrimination laws and company policies in Europe and the United States during the past 12 or more years shows us what we can expect if "sexual orientation" is classified as an international right. The Swedes have lost their freedoms of speech and religion (e.g. two pastors were arrested in 2003 for reading from the scriptures and saying homosexuality is wrong-in their own churches).

January 07 2014 By virtueonline Colorado Baker Threatened with Jail for Not Baking Cakes for Same-Sex Weddings

Craig and Mullins complained to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. On Dec. 6, 2013, an administrative law judge-Robert Spencer-ruled that Masterpiece Cakeshop and Jack Phillips violated Colorado's antidiscrimination law. Spencer ordered Phillips to bake cakes celebrating gay marriage for any other parties that ask for such a cake in the future.

Spencer readily acknowledged the authenticity of Phillips's faith, including in his findings of fact:

January 05 2014 By virtueonline Hobby Lobby Founder May Close ALL Stores

We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week's biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest.

We believe that it is by God's grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has blessed us and our employees. We've not only added jobs in a weak economy, we've raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage.

January 04 2014 By virtueonline Pope Repeats that Same-Sex 'Marriage' is "Anthropological Regression"

He added: "I told him that the promoters [of the bill] quote his words: 'If a person is gay and seek the Lord and have good will, who am I to judge?' but they don't quote his words from 2010 when he was still Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires. The Pope repeated the phrase of his letter of 2010: 'It's an anthropological regression.'"

January 02 2014 By virtueonline How To Prevent Suicide - Mike McManus

Deaths from suicide are only part of the problem. Another million adults attempted suicide and 487,700 were hurt badly enough in 2011 to be treated in hospitals for self-inflicted injuries - wounds from guns, etc.

Therefore, it's important for all to understand what puts people at risk of suicide, and how to help them.

December 31 2013 By virtueonline GLAAD Tidings, But Not of Comfort and Joy

But what you might not have guessed is that all three of these men's lives have been influenced by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, or GLAAD for short. Since its inception in New York in 1985, GLAAD has grown to become one of the chief secular LGBT advocacy groups in the nation, and the one with the most control over programming of news and entertainment. Its overarching goal is to ensure that only positive LGBT-related images and stories appear in the national media.

December 25 2013 By virtueonline 5 Lessons From the 'Duck Dynasty' Controversy

In all likelihood, Robertson will eventually be reinstated by A&E. In the meantime, we can learn some valuable lessons from this culture clash.

Hollywood hates conservatives and kowtows to GLAAD. It's been an open secret in Hollywood for years that the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation routinely prescreens many television shows and movies, vetting them for anti-homosexual biases.

December 24 2013 By virtueonline Utah judge strikes down state's marriage amendment

He twice cited the Supreme Court's ruling this summer that the federal Defense of Marriage Act was motivated by animus, or the "bare...desire to harm" homosexuals. He agreed with Justince Antonin Scalia's dissent that it was impossible not "to reach the same conclusion with regard to state laws denying same-sex couples marital status."

December 23 2013 By virtueonline Vladimir Putin, Conservative Icon

According to excerpts from the report cited in the media, most people yearn for stability and security, favor traditional family values over feminism and gay rights, and prefer nation-based states rather than multicultural melting pots. Putin, the report says, stands for these values while "ideological populism of the left" in the West "is dividing society and destroying its moral and Christian foundation."

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