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Andy Stanley’s North Point Community Church continues to be a safe haven for LGBTQ-affirming pastors and leaders to work directly against the cause of Christ and the gospel to gay people, and this is no more clear than the recent news that Renovus is sponsoring ‘brunch’ at an upcoming Pride parade. Renovus Network is a pro-LGBTQ+ advocacy group whose mission is to “Connect LGBTQ+ individuals to reclaim and develop their relationship with Jesus” and envision “a world where no one has to choose between their faith and sexual orientation or gender identity.” They believe that homosexuality is not a sin...

So imagine that you're a conservative evangelical Christian or a traditional Catholic, and a nephew invites you to attend his upcoming wedding. And oh, by the way, he will be standing at the altar with another man. Do you go? That question presents a huge dilemma for many followers of Jesus Christ, who said that marriage consists solely of one man and one woman, united for life, for the purpose of raising a family while cherishing one another. Do you, by attending such a ceremony, thereby lend support to a practice that you view as fundamentally un-biblical and therefore sinful?...

Liberty University has been sued for discrimination and wrongful termination because they enforced their doctrinal statement on a man who decided he was a transvestite. To make matters more intense, the ACLU is involved. According to Cardinal News: The lawsuit, filed Monday by the ACLU of Virginia and the Richmond law firm Butler Curwood, claims that the university violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. The plaintiff, Ellenor Zinski, was hired to work at the private university’s information technology help desk in 2023, and received a positive performance...

The leftist-populist government of Slovakia has announced that it will not take part in the closing ceremonies of the Paris Olympics over the “insult” to Christianity and the “degenerate decadence” put on display during the opening of the games. Deputy Prime Minister Tomas Taraba announced on social media on Monday that he will cancel his planned trip to France to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympics after an LGBTQ-themed apparent parody of the Last Supper of Jesus Christ enraged Christians worldwide. Taraba, who has been covering certain responsibilities in the wake of the failed assassination attempt of PM Robert...

Many disputes arose a few years ago when the then-liberal U.S. Supreme Court created, in a decision condemned as unrelated to the Constitution, same-sex "marriage" for the entire nation. One of the more vicious was a series of lawsuits against a Kentucky county clerk who declined to issue ANY marriage licenses for a time because of the conflict the court decision created with her own constitutionally protected religious rights. An activist federal judge, David Bunning, took up the LGBT agenda and put Kim Davis in jail for a time. And two same-sex duos sued her for damages.

The so-called “Corporate Equality Index” (CEI) from the radical left-wing Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has gained plenty of attention in recent years as one of the primary engines behind the rise of corporate wokeism. But HRC has another lesser-known ratings system, the “Municipal Equality Index” (MEI), that is driving woke policies in city governments – and may even be rewarding city officials for breaking state laws. HRC published its first edition of the CEI in 2002, a 100-point scale supposedly designed to score companies on how “inclusive” and accommodating they are to minority groups. Over time, however, the CEI has...

The abortion debate in America has been a defining issue for decades, drawing a clearly defined line between those who value life and those who, quite frankly, promote death. From the infamous Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, which opened the floodgates to the slaughter of the unborn, to the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned it, conservatives have long held the moral high ground. We have rightfully labeled the Democrat party as the “party of death”—it is their policies that have facilitated the killing of millions of innocent lives. Yet, with the latest compromises from the Republican National Committee (RNC),...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill into law Monday that bars schools from informing parents when their child decides to change his or her gender, effectively stripping parents’ rights to know about gender transitions. The bill, AB 1955, euphemistically called the Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth Act, and sponsored by Assemblymember Christopher Ward (D-San Diego), was also backed by statewide Democratic officials. Asked directly by Breitbart News last year why parents should not have the right to know about their children’s gender transitions, Newsom dismissed the idea — first claiming that it was not an...

A gay couple in New York is suing the Big Apple government because, under the city’s current insurance policy, they did not qualify for fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization and surrogacy. Corey Briskin, a former assistant district attorney for the City of New York, and Nicholas Maggipinto claim they have a right to parenthood even though their biology together doesn’t allow for it…

For those wondering how the box office could get any worse than September, which was the worst September in 25 years, I have an answer for you: how about the first weekend of October? The woketards at TheWrap assured us Bros, an R-rated, homosexual romantic comedy released in 3,350 theaters, would — and I quote — “Kick Off Box Office Revival.” Why would anyone think that? I’ll confess I didn’t expect Bros to die-die-die with a, lol, $4.8 million opening, but… How bubbled do you have to be to predict a gay movie filled with gay sex and gay talking...

Actor Billy Eichner has spent years smearing conservatives and Republicans, attacking Christianity, and lashing out at just about anybody who disagrees with him politically. The star of Disney’s The Lion King just watched his $22 million LGBTQ romantic comedy make an abysmal $4 million in its Box Office debut over the weekend. In response to the film’s poor performance, an angry Eichner appears to blame (at least) two things: homophobia and “straight people in a certain parts of the country.” The film, trumpeted as Hollywood’s first major gay romcom, initially received enthusiastic acclaim from critics but has been largely ignored...

Christians shouldn't attend same-sex wedding ceremonies, as attending would be to an inherent show of support, according to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler Jr.In an episode of Mohler’s “The Briefing” podcast that aired Friday, the Evangelical theologian was asked by a listener about what to do if one is invited to a same-sex wedding ceremony.Mohler responded by noting that the “whole context of the wedding as a public event is the public exchange of vows and the public declaration of the rightness of this relationship.”“Remember that the traditional word used of those who are attending a wedding is...

Dozens of high school and college students rallied...before boarding a bus to Tallahassee to protest against what many opponents have termed the "Don't Say Gay" bill. The Florida Senate is scheduled to vote on the bill Monday. "There are so many LGBT youths that are going to have their lives put at risk," one student said. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and other elected officials sent them on their way.

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra 'told Congress that he values religious freedom and that nothing will change with OCR concerning enforcement,' but 'his actions since then prove that he lied,' Roger Severino says.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Biden administration is considering revoking a federal civil rights agency’s power to review alleged violations of religious liberty by the federal government, according to a draft memo to Secretary of Health & Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra obtained by Fox News. Fox reported that the memo concerns a 2017 Trump administration decision that empowered HHS’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to review federal agencies’...

The Russian Ministry of Culture has refused to allow a new French-Dutch drama about a 17th-century lesbian nun to be shown in Russia. Benedetta, co-written and directed by Paul Verhoeven, is loosely based on the 1986 book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, about Benedetta Carlini (1591-1661), a Catholic abbess and mystic who was found guilty of having relations with one of her nuns and stripped of her rank and imprisoned. The film is entitled Temptation in Russian. “There is a scene of provocative content in the film, which is regarded as a violation of...

By 2021, schools in the country will include courses on "inclusion" and "history" of the LGBTQ "movement" in their curricula.[This is a translation of a piece published by the German edition of iFamNews – Ed.]In many Western countries LGBTQ groups celebrate June as “Pride Month.” This gives rise to more aggressive rhetoric, propaganda and initiatives by LGBTQ lobby groups. England is not spared from these escapades. Although the “joy” of “sexual diversity” was buffered due to coronavirus-related restrictions, the LGBTQ lobby in Great Britain can still celebrate an ill-fated victory. Scotland will be the first nation in the world to...

PBS is celebrating homosexuality, winking at polyamory, and shaming religious beliefs in a new documentary filmed in the South --- and using your tax dollars to do it. For once a left-wing film crew didn’t venture through the Deep South to document poverty and look for the Klan, but the production crew behind “Prideland” did interview a homosexual minister in Mississippi and a lesbian rodeo performer in Texas, among other encounters.

Novo-Ogaryovo, February 13, Interfax - Russian President Vladimir Putin said that as long as he remains in office, Russia will not legitimize same-sex marriages. "As concerns Parent No. 1 and Parent No. 2, I've said publicly some time ago, and I'll repeat once again now: as long as I am president, we won't have parents number one and number two, we will have Mom and Dad," Putin said at a meeting with members of a working group for preparing constitutional amendments on Thursday. State Duma deputy Olga Batalina said at the meeting that the working group had received numerous proposals...

The U.S. Navy recently started construction on a U.S. Naval Ship (USNS) that will be named after child rapist Harvey Milk, some of whose victims committed suicide. Milk’s main claim to fame is that in 1977, he became the first openly homosexual elected official in U.S. history by winning a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He was elected with strong with help from the notorious “People’s Temple” cult of mass-murderer Jim Jones, who forced his followers and their children to drink poison in Guyana as part of a mass suicide.

Lesbian judge denied Communion tried to get priest removed as chaplain from Catholic lawyer’s group EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, November 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — LifeSite has learned that the lesbian judge currently orchestrating a coup against the Catholic priest who runs the parish she attends has previously attempted to not only smear him as a bigot but has tried to get him removed as chaplain of the Catholic Lawyers Association of Western Michigan.  Judge Sara Smolenski is the chief judge of the Kent County District Court in Western Michigan. Earlier this week, Smolenski appeared on local NBC affiliate WOOD-TV 8...