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  • Coptic Orthodox Church suspends dialogue with Catholics over blessing of same-sex couples

    03/13/2024 5:38:19 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 8 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 03/13/2024 | Michael Gryboski
    The Coptic Orthodox Church has reportedly suspended its dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church over the Catholic Church's decision to allow priests to bless same-sex couples. Coptic leadership held a Holy Synod last week in Wadi El-Natrun, Egypt. The church hierarchy recommended various issues, including recognizing assorted monasteries, adding mental health topics to marital counseling and praying for unity within the Orthodox Church.Coptic Orthodox spokesman Father Moussa Ibrahim explained in a video that "the most notable" action from the annual Holy Synod was "to suspend theological dialogue with the Catholic Church after its change of position on the issue of...
  • Youngkin signs marriage equality measure, takes tougher line against gun control

    03/10/2024 11:09:15 AM PDT · by Ennis85 · 19 replies
    Virginia Mercury ^ | March 9th 2024 | GRAHAM MOOMAW
    In the first signals of how he’ll act on legislation approved by Virginia’s Democratic General Assembly, Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed a largely symbolic bill protecting same-sex marriage but took a more adversarial stance to bills dealing with gun control, reproductive rights and marijuana. Youngkin had until Friday night to take action on 84 bills the legislature sent to him on a shorter-than-usual timeline. He vetoed eight, recommended changes to 12 and signed the rest. The General Assembly finished its work Saturday without taking up any of the governor’s initial amendments and vetoes, which means they will be dealt with during...
  • Pastor John MacArthur repudiates Pastor Alistair Begg's advice for Christians to attend LGBT weddings

    02/25/2024 9:11:24 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 22 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 02/25/2024 | CP Staff
    'It's not loving to help somebody celebrate stepping into the fury of God's judgment'Pastor John MacArthur recently repudiated Pastor Alistair Begg's comments suggesting Christians ought to attend LGBT weddings.Responding to a congregant who asked for his take on the controversy during a question-and-answer period at his Grace Community Church in Los Angeles last weekend, MacArthur also suggested Begg's advice will tarnish the Christian radio personality's otherwise faithful 40-year ministry.John MacArthur’s first public comment (that I know of) regarding Alistair Begg’s counsel to grandmother to attend her grandchild’s transgender wedding.Q and A, Grace Church, Feb. 18, 2024https://t.co/E5MZZfkgwL via @YouTubepic.twitter.com/iHcY4Cl0Q4— The...
  • Putin as the Patron Saint of Right Wing Misanthropy (Barf alert)

    02/18/2024 3:40:39 PM PST · by Ennis85 · 19 replies
    Richard Hanania's Newsletter ^ | February 16th 2024 | RICHARD HANANIA
    Aleksei Navalny has reportedly died in prison, and the timing of this tragic event for the sake of proving the moral and intellectual bankruptcy of the anti-American right on the Russia question is absolutely perfect, coming on the heels of a series of humiliating videos of Tucker going to Moscow and declaring it heaven on earth. It’s one thing to just be wrong in normal and understandable ways. It’s completely different to go abroad and declare, “This poor country has food that is affordable in American dollars! They’ve developed technology to stop the shopping carts from rolling away!” Quotes don’t...
  • Greece legalizes same-sex marriage in a first for an Orthodox Christian country

    02/15/2024 3:09:36 PM PST · by Miami Rebel · 33 replies
    CNN ^ | February 15, 2024 | Elinda Labropoulou
    The Greek parliament on Thursday passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage, in a landmark victory for human rights in Greece and making it the first majority Orthodox Christian country to establish marriage equality for all. The decision, supported by 176 out of 300 lawmakers in parliament and with 78 against, follows months of polarized political and public discourse, and has been welcomed as a long-awaited vindication by the country’s LGBTQ+ couples.
  • John MacArthur's Shepherd's Conference removes Alistair Begg from speakers' lineup for his advice for Christians and same-sex weddings.

    02/04/2024 8:56:15 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 64 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 02/04/2024 | Ian M. Giatti
    A screenshot of a now-archived version of the Shepherd's Conference website shows Pastor Alistair Begg listed as a speaker for the March conference. Begg's name is no longer listed on the website.Pastor, author and Christian radio personality Alistair Begg continues to face fallout from comments he made in a podcast last year about advice for Christians and same-sex weddings.Begg’s bio has been removed from the website of the Shepherd’s Conference, a ministry of Grace Community Church led by Pastor John MacArthur, following controversy over Begg’s advice for a grandmother about attending her LGBT-identified grandson’s wedding.An archived version of the site...
  • Pope Francis says opponents of gay couples blessings are ‘small ideological groups' and Africans

    01/31/2024 11:00:15 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 34 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 01/31/2024 | Anugrah Kumar
    Addressing the controversy surrounding the Vatican's decision to allow blessings for same-sex couples, Pope Francis said the critics of the guidance, except for Africans, belong to "small ideological groups."The pontiff claimed that even in Africa, the resistance is more cultural, as homosexuality is generally not tolerated, Reuters quoted him as saying in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa.Francis was referring to the December 2023 document "Fiducia Supplicans" issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which has sparked widespread debate within the Catholic Church. The guidance stated that priests may bless same-sex couples that approach them...
  • Why Christians Who Love Their Gay And Trans Neighbors Won’t Attend Their "Weddings"

    01/29/2024 10:10:01 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 69 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 01/29/2024 | Robert Gagnon
    If Christians want to convey love, there are other — and truer — ways of doing so than attending a celebration of sin.Alistair Begg, a 71-year-old evangelical Scottish pastor of Cleveland’s Parkside Church, who has an influential radio ministry called “Truth For Life,” should repent of the dangerous advice he gave on his program.In response to a question from a grandmother as to whether she should attend her grandson’s wedding to “a transgender person,” Begg said that, so long as the grandson knows that she “can’t countenance … the choices that he has made in life,” she should “go to...
  • Holy Synod of Constantinople against gay marriage

    01/27/2024 1:14:19 PM PST · by lightman · 5 replies
    orthodoxchristianity.com ^ | 25 January A.D. 2024 | Staff
    The Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople weighed in today on the gay marriage and adoption controversy currently raging in Greece. Constantinople has dozens of dioceses in Greece, including those on the island of Crete, whose Eparchial Synod also issued a statement last week. The hierarchs of the Church of Greece also unanimously voted against gay marriage and adoption on Tuesday. And yesterday, the Synod of Constantinople reiterated the Church’s stance against gay marriage. Its communiqué reads: The Holy and Sacred Synod, convening under the presidency of His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch in its regular session today, Wednesday, January...
  • Pope Francis defends Vatican guidance on same-sex couples: Bless 'the people,' 'not the union'

    01/26/2024 7:06:21 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 01/26/2024 | Ryan Foley
    Pope Francis is seeking to clarify that the Catholic Church is not changing its teachings about homosexual practices and same-sex relationships as the Vatican faces criticism for approving a document allowing priests to bless same-sex couples. Delivering remarks at the plenary session of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith Friday, the pontiff addressed the “Fiducia Supplicans” declaration handed down by the Vatican office last month. The declaration, published on Dec. 18, allows priests to bless same-sex couples while stressing that “one should neither provide for nor promote a ritual for the blessings of couples in an irregular situation.”As...
  • African bishops hurl thunderbolts at Pope Francis's call to bless gay couples in same-sex 'marriages'

    12/24/2023 9:10:00 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/24/2023 | Monica Showalter
    Has Pope Francis stepped in it?After putting out a document calling for the blessings of people in "irregular" marital situations and gay marriage, Africa's Catholic bishops aren't taking this well.One after another, they are putting out statements of their own condemning the idea: Bishops in Malawi have prohibited the implementation of the Vatican declaration on the blessing of “same-sex couples” and couples in other “irregular situations,” Fiducia Supplicans, which the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released Dec. 18.https://t.co/4sr3nVPiOq — Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) December 20, 2023 Cameroon's bishops issue 1 of strongest statements rejecting #PopeFrancis' Fiducia Supplicans: “we...
  • On gay blessings, Pope Francis sows confusion: Apparently Nothing's changed, but the press and its advocates are saying it is

    12/20/2023 8:11:58 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 21 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 12/20/2023 | Monica Showalter
    According to much of what's read in the media and among some advocates, the Vatican's changed! It's finally come around to embracing the LGBTQ+ agenda, and is now offering blessings for gay couples for inclusivity's sake, and who knows, soon may be offering gay marriages! Here is some of the cheering from Christopher Lamb at CNN:With five words, uttered right at the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis changed the Catholic conversation about LGBTQ+ people. In 2013, when asked by a journalist about gay priests, the pope famously replied: “Who am I to judge?”Over the last decade the pope has...
  • Our LGBT Empire

    12/16/2023 6:33:18 PM PST · by Rummyfan · 23 replies
    The American Conservative ^ | 11 Dec 2023 | Helen Andrews
    Are we fighting in Ukraine in order to “queer the Donbass”? That phrase, which I believe originated with TAC’s editor-at-large Rod Dreher, implies that the ideological package that NATO rallied to Ukraine to defend includes not only freedom and democracy but also pride parades and drag queen story hour. That would, of course, be a ridiculous reason to fight a war. Many Americans don’t want to queer their own kids’ elementary school, much less an industrial Slavic province five thousand miles away. In August 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged that his government would introduce legislation to create civil partnerships for...
  • Is a Southern Baptist megachurch now affirming same-sex relationships?

    12/12/2023 12:45:08 PM PST · by Ennis85 · 8 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 12th December 2023 | Leonardo Blair
    As Florida business owner Joe Mills remembers it, all the questions about whether the 14,000-memberFirst Baptist Church Orlando is now affirming same-sex relationships began after he started a Bible study group on Facebook with two of his gay friends called The Gospel Gathering while actively participating at the church. The group, which describes itself as a gathering “of Christian believers who want to worship God in a safe and nonjudgmental environment where all are welcome,” has 98 members. It was launched in May 2021 by Mills and his friends, Kevin Copley and David Speight. All three men are gay but...
  • Tucker Carlson's top producer preyed on male Fox News staffer, shoved his tongue down man's throat - then retaliated against him when rebuffed, while network discouraged complaints, lawsuit alleges

    12/05/2023 4:27:33 AM PST · by marcusmaximus · 91 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 12/5/2023 | Rachel Bowman
    A former Fox News staffer has filed a lawsuit against the network and Tucker Carlson's executive producer for sexual assault and alleged the network prevented him from reporting it. The lawsuit, filed Monday in the Southern District of New York, claimed that Andrew Delancey, a former Regional Producer with Fox News Edge, was sexually assaulted by Tucker Carlson's Senior Executive Producer Justin Wells. -snip- Wells was fired at the same time as Carlson - but now works as a producer on Carlson's new X chat show. Delancey alleged Wells first made contact with him in 2007 through a Facebook group...
  • Democrat Mayor Pleads Guilty to 140 Child Pornography Charges

    08/03/2023 11:50:54 AM PDT · by Right Wing Vegan · 24 replies
    Free Beacon ^ | 8/3/2023 | Ben Wilson
    A Democratic former mayor pleaded guilty to 140 charges for child porn possession and distribution. Patrick Wojahn—who served for nearly eight years as mayor of College Park, Md., before his arrest and resignation in March—pleaded guilty to 60 counts of distribution of child pornography, 40 counts of possession of child pornography with the intention to distribute, and 40 counts of possession of child pornography. Wojahn, who listed his pronouns in his Twitter bio, said in his resignation letter that he was stepping down to address his "mental health." The ex-mayor also has connections to the Biden administration. Wojahn in a...
  • Church of England votes to proceed with trial blessing services for same-sex couples

    11/19/2023 1:50:25 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 17 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 11/19/23 | Anugrah Kumar
    The Church of England has decided to proceed with trial blessing services for same-sex couples. This decision, made during the General Synod, marks a significant shift in the denomination's stance on same-sex relationships. The Bishop of Oxford proposed the amendment for these trial services, which narrowly passed in the House of Laity by one vote, the U.K.-based group The Christian Institute noted, adding that the House of Bishops supported the motion 23 to 10, with four abstentions. The House of Clergy also voted in favor, 100 to 93, with one abstention. The House of Laity also voted in favor, but...
  • India’s Supreme Court leaves it to Parliament to decide on legalizing same-sex ‘marriage’

    10/18/2023 5:12:59 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 9 replies
    LifeSiteNews ^ | October 17th 2023 | Doug Mainwaring
    Five years after decriminalizing sodomy, the justices on India’s Supreme Court unanimously declined to legalize same-sex marriage, leaving the issue for the nation’s Parliament to decide. Tuesday’s ruling came after listening to arguments for and against same-sex “marriage” last spring. During those hearings, “the government argued that a marriage is only between a biological male and a biological woman, adding that same-sex marriages went against religious values and that the petitions reflected only ‘urban elitist views,’” according to an AP report. “Religious groups too had opposed same-sex unions, saying they went against Indian culture.” Attorneys representing those in favor of...
  • An Assessment of Pastor Andy Stanley’s Unconditional Conference for Friends and Family who Identity as LGBTQ

    10/13/2023 7:36:56 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 33 replies
    Stand To Reason ^ | 10/13/23 | Alan Shlemon
    In 2014, I attended Matthew Vines’s conference on the Bible and homosexuality. His stated goal was to “promote inclusion of LGBTQ people by reforming church teaching.” The organization he started, The Reformation Project, teaches that homosexual sex and same-sex marriage are biblically permissible, and its goal to mainstream this theology into the church is overt and clear.Fast-forward to last month, when I attended the Unconditional Conference put on by Embracing the Journey (ETJ). Hosted by nationally known pastor Andy Stanley and held at his church, which boasts a weekly attendance of nearly 40,000 people, the event sought to create a...
  • New law propels gay rights in Mexico - (Coahuila moves boldly with civil unions as nation watches)

    03/05/2007 11:29:59 AM PST · by NormsRevenge · 23 replies · 854+ views
    San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 3/5/07 | S. Lynne Walker - Copley News Service
    SALTILLO, Mexico – Gabby and Ana are in love. So are Marco Antonio and Juan Carlos. Under a sweeping new law allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions, they are planning to turn their love into a legal commitment. Legislators in the dusty northern border state of Coahuila have stunned Mexico by giving same-sex couples property and inheritance rights long reserved for married heterosexuals. It is a first for this predominantly Roman Catholic country, a measure so swift and so bold that it surprised even the gay community. All of a sudden, gay rights are on the national agenda. Since...