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Editor's note: This commentary contains language and descriptions of sexual activities which will be offensive and disturbing to some readers. Allyson Smith contributed to this article. By Stephen Bennett © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com No doubt this is a sin-sick world we live in, yet it still amazes me how wicked and debased America continues to become. You better brace yourselves for this one folks. In my recent WND commentary, "Was Jesus 'gay?'," I addressed the "gay friendly" theology of the Metropolitan Community Church – one of the largest growing networks of homosexual churches worldwide catering to the "gay, lesbian and transgendered communities." In...

One of the fastest growing churches among homosexuals in America and around the world is the Metropolitan Community Church – a "Christian" church specifically for "gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgendered communities." The MCC was originally started by openly homosexual ex-Baptist minister, Troy Perry, who after the discovery and disclosure of his homosexuality, losing his license as a minister, a divorce and estrangement from his wife and children, as well as a failed suicide attempt, "rediscovered" his rainbow-colored vocation and ministry. From his Los Angeles living room in 1968, Perry and his initial 12 members began their "gay church." According to...

Jonathan Wells, Ph.D. Department of Molecular Cell Biology University of California Berkeley, California, USAEvery student of biological evolution learns about peppered moths. The dramatic increase in dark forms of this species during the industrial revolution, and experiments pointing to differential bird predation as the cause, have become the classical story of evolution by natural selection. The same careful scientific approach which established the classical story in the first place, however, has now revealed major flaws in it. It is time to take another look.The peppered moth, Biston betularia, comes in various shades of gray. One hundred and fifty years ago,...

"I did not choose to be homosexual. I would change my sexual orientation if that were within my power." So wrote Robert Bauman, the powerful, ultraconservative congressman from Maryland. Americans were stunned in 1980 when headlines revealed Bauman had been caught having a sexual rendezvous with a young male prostitute. In his book, "The Gentleman From Maryland: The Conscience of a Gay Conservative," Bauman revealed the conditions that shaped his own tortured double life as a congressman and closet homosexual. At the tender age of 5, Bauman had been sexually seduced by a neighbor boy about 12. Reflecting on that...

While the whole country debates a controversial court ruling declaring "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional, a federal lawsuit filed in another California court last week seeks to stop a public school from having its seventh-graders pray to Allah. On behalf of parents and four children, the Thomas More Law Center filed suit against the Byron Union School District and various school officials to stop the use of the "Islam simulation" materials used in the Excelsior Elementary School in Byron, Calif. As WorldNetDaily reported in January, the public school students at Excelsior pretend to be Muslims, wear robes,...

Stunning videos of Arab atrocities and violence training – which are available only on WorldNetDaily.com – will be featured Monday night on MSNBC's "Alan Keyes is Making Sense." The entire first half-hour of Keyes' groundbreaking show, which begins at 10 p.m. Eastern, will feature clips from "Israel and the War of Images" and "The Trojan Horse." These explosive tapes, made by French film maker Pierre Rehov, contain actual footage from Palestinian Authority television documenting Yasser Arafat's call for destruction of the Jewish people and annihilation of Israel. They also document the brainwashing of Arab children with attitudes of hatred and...

The Swedish government is moving toward prohibiting Christians from voicing biblical positions on issues. The Swedish Parliament has moved to within one step of changing the nation’s constitution to ban speech or materials opposing homosexuality and any other alternate lifestyles. If the amendment becomes reality, violators could be subject to prison sentences. Swedish lawmakers narrowly approved the constitutional amendment last week. Annalie Enochson, a Christian member of Parliament, said the homosexual lobby in Sweden is small but powerful. She noted the measure passed with only 56 percent of the vote. "Usually, if you change the constitution it should be nearly...

A new position paper released by the Family Research Council in Washington has combined results from many scholarly studies and discovered a link between homosexuality and child molestation.The paper, entitled "Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse," was compiled by Dr. Timothy Daily, a senior fellow for Culture Studies at Family Research Council. Peter Sprigg, senior director of Culture Studies, concludes there is a definite link between homosexuality and child molestation. He points out the vast majority of child molesters are male, and one-third of the victims of molestation are young boys."You have a tiny percentage of the population -- male homosexuals,...

Scandals involving the sexual abuse of under-age boys by homosexual priests have rocked the Roman Catholic Church. At the same time, defenders of homosexuality argue that youth organizations such as the Boy Scouts should be forced to include homosexuals among their adult leaders. Similarly, the Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a homosexual activist organization that targets schools, has spearheaded the formation of "Gay-Straight Alliances" among students. GLSEN encourages homosexual teachers—even in the youngest grades—to be open about their sexuality, as a way of providing role models to "gay" students. In addition, laws or policies banning employment discrimination based...

According to some ecologists, you don't need to invoke adaptation to explain biodiversity. They may sound like nihilists, but their ideas are proving remarkably resilient. Vive la difference? Forget it. La difference est morte. That is the message from the proponents of neutrality, a view of ecology that is anathema to many in the field. Rather than focusing on how differences between species allow them to coexist, neutrality assumes that trees in the rainforest, or corals on a tropical reef, are basically all the same. Ecologists have strived to explain species' patterns of distribution, abundance and coexistence for more than...

Mice and men share about 97.5 per cent of their working DNA, just one per cent less than chimps and humans. The new estimate is based on the comparison of mouse chromosome 16 with human DNA. Previous estimates had suggested mouse-human differences as high as 15 per cent. The new work suggests that neither genome has changed much since we shared a common ancestor 100 million years ago. "The differences are going to be few rather than many," says Richard Mural of Celera Genomics, the Maryland company that compared the mouse chromosome with human DNA. "Perhaps 100 million years separating...

"Initial Empirical and Clinical Findings Concerning the Change Process for Ex-Gays," an article by Dr. Warren Throckmorton, is published in the current issue of the American Psychological Association's publication Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. "I'm pleased that this research summary will reach an audience of psychologists and mental health professionals that may not be aware of ex-gay issues," says Throckmorton, the director of college counseling at Grove City College. "My literature review contradicts the policies of major mental health organizations because it suggests that sexual orientation, once thought to be an unchanging sexual trait, is actually quite flexible for many...

A dinosaur fossil expedition for home educators has excavated a large, rare, intact allosaurus, a discovery that organizers say helps debunk the theory of evolution. The fossil measures more than 22 feet in length and 10 feet in height, with a complete skull more than a yard long. Allosauruses are believed to be a close relative of the tyrannosaurus rex, differing from the T-rex primarily in size and cranial capacity. Under the leadership of Doug Phillips, president of Vision Forum and an adjunct professor of apologetics with the Institute for Creation Research, and Peter DeRosa, a veteran archaeologist and paleontologist...

WASHINGTON – Many dual-income parents who thought they'd get tax breaks this filing season were surprised to learn they're too wealthy to qualify for them, tax preparers say. More than 20 tax benefits, such as the child tax credit, phase out at higher income levels. Complaints are on the rise as the number of households reporting two incomes continues to grow, pushing taxpayers who otherwise thought they were middle class into income ranges the government views as too high to deserve breaks. Counted among the "rich," for example, are a married couple working as a fire fighter and school teacher...

A cloak of fear hangs over a part of the body of the Roman Catholic Church. ``They are on a witch hunt,'' said a gay priest who says Mass for a group of gay Catholics called Dignity meeting at a Congregational Church in downtown Columbus two Sunday evenings a month. He has been a priest for 20 years. But he refuses to give his name over the phone. He refuses to even say in which diocese he serves, though diocesan officials know that he is gay and that he ministers to Dignity. His fear is not without foundation. The child...

Well, here we all are – we troglodytes – sitting around thinking that sex is harmful to minors. What is the matter with us! Don't we know that we should respect kids as sexual beings – that we shouldn't be too quick to deny children and teenagers the right to make their own sexual decisions? Oh, boy, here we go again. Heinous and dangerous arguments all dressed up as respect for the rights of others. Americans are suckers for this argument. Just look at how the media, civil libertarians and university officials are jumping on the bandwagon in support of...

Child molestation and pedophilia occur far more commonly among homosexuals than among heterosexuals on a per capita basis, according to a new study. "Overwhelming evidence supports the belief that homosexuality is a sexual deviancy often accompanied by disorders that have dire consequences for our culture," wrote Steve Baldwin in, "Child Molestation and the Homosexual Movement," soon to be published by the Regent University Law Review – after Stanford Law Review backed out. Baldwin is the executive director of the Council for National Policy in Washington, D.C. "It is difficult to convey the dark side of the homosexual culture without appearing...

The police yesterday told me I can't use a gun in self defense on my own property or in my house. Here's the story from central California. Besides weekly garbage pickup, once a year our city provides a time when we can put nearly anything on the curb and they'll pick it up for free. It's a great time to clean the house and garage of items that just don't fit in the garbage can and any item you don't want. This great service also creates an opportunity for anyone to look through your trash and take items they consider...

The Associated Press ran a rare article explaining exactly who pays the federal income taxes. They state that the top 5 percent of income earners pay more than 55 percent of the total federal income taxes. (To be eligible for the top 5 percent, one must have an annual income above $120,846.) For people who believe the "rich" hire fancy accountants and lawyers to avoid paying taxes, this news comes as quite a shock. Three years ago, Investor's Business Daily ran a similar article about the top 10 percent of taxpayers – those earning above $74,981 – who received 41.6...

El Cajon education officials have rejected a discrimination claim filed by a parent who argued that his daughter should not have to share restrooms or dressing areas with lesbian students. Click here to read the rest of the article.