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Few things better explain how common sense and morality have been subverted than the “boiling frog” analogy. Here is a standard definition: The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive.

Colorado Democrat Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation formally repealing the state’s long-unenforced ban on recognizing same-sex “marriage,” a largely-symbolic gesture for LGBT “equality” ensuring the state status quo would remain if the national one changed in the future. Senate Bill 24-014 strikes from the Colorado legal code language stating marriages can only be recognized as valid if “between one man and one woman.” It passed the state House 45-14 and the state Senate 29-6 and was signed into law on April 7. The statutory repeal follows a ballot initiative that passed last November removing the traditional definition of marriage from...

The Obergefell ruling rode rough-shod over religions and dozens of state constitutions on the bases of a moral — not legal — opinion.In late January, the Idaho House of Representatives passed a memorandum calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to “reverse” its 2015 gay marriage decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, “and restore the natural definition of marriage, a union of one man and one woman.” The memo passed 46 to 24 in the House and is heading to the Idaho Senate. If it passes the senate, it will be sent on to the Supreme Court as one more formal encouragement that...

The Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush accused evangelist Franklin Graham last week of being someone who "does not love the LGBTQ community" after the Samaritan's Purse CEO criticized Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's recent rebuke of President Donald Trump.Raushenbush, an ordained Baptist minister who serves as president and CEO of Interfaith Alliance, also suggested Graham pales in comparison with his father, the late Rev. Billy Graham.During the Jan. 29 episode of C-SPAN's "Washington Journal," host John McArdle asked Raushenbush to respond to a clip of Graham on "Piers Morgan Uncensored," during which Graham excoriated the bishop of Washington for "mixing the...

Louisa Jacobson’s coming-out journey was gradual. “I was hiding for so long, part of myself that I knew was always there,” the “Gilded Age” star, 33, told Page Six exclusively at the Human Rights Campaign’s Greater New York Dinner on Saturday night.

An Italian bishop has insisted that the rules for admission to the priesthood in his home country haven't changed amid reports that new guidelines allow homosexuals to become priests as long as they remain celibate. Last Thursday, a document titled “The Formation of priests in churches in Italy. Guidelines and standards for seminaries” took effect. The Italian Episcopal Conference, the group of Roman Catholic bishops in Italy, approved the document at its 78th General Conference in 2023. The document generated headlines for its remarks about candidates for the priesthood who struggle with same-sex attraction. It included a word-for-word reiteration of...

President @JoeBiden has officially awarded Conservative Republican Liz Cheney ( @Liz_Cheney ) the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the nation’s highest civilian honors, for defending 'our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency,' following the January 6, 2021, election chaos. "Throughout two decades in public service, including as a Congresswoman for Wyoming and Vice Chair of the Committee on the January 6 attack, Liz Cheney has raised her voice—and reached across the aisle—to defend our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency. Her integrity and intrepidness remind us all what is possible...

It’s amazing how many leftists are ashamed of their bodies but have absolutely zero shame about their minds, their belief systems, or their sexual choices. It’s also amazing how Orwellian Newspeak has conquered the English language. “Gay” used to mean “happy.” Now it means “homosexual.”***Geneticists have yet to find a “gay gene.” Homosexuality (and other peculiarities it spawns) evidently arises not from nature, but from nurture: environmental factors.Drill deeply enough into homosexuals’ memories, and far too often, there’s a history as a child sexual abuse victim. And there’s an entire community — online, at school, in the big city —...

A beloved music director at a Michigan catholic church was fired after an unknown source informed church officials of his same-sex marriage — sparking outrage from parishioners, with many protesting and some renouncing their membership over the termination. Fred Szczepanski was canned from his position at St. Francis Church in Traverse City on Oct. 18 after the church officials discovered he had a same-sex marriage ceremony to his longtime partner in Nevada in 2020, according to Traverse City Record-Eagle. Szczepanski, known by churchgoers as “Mr. Fred,” was confronted by Rev. Michael Lingaur after church leaders received a letter from an...

Evangelicals have expressed "disbelief" at comments made by the Archbishop of Canterbury in which he claimed that gay sex is not sinful if it is within a committed relationship. Archbishop Justin Welby made the comments on "The Rest is Politics" podcast hosted by former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and former Tory MP Rory Stewart. Campbell used the podcast to pose a similar question to one he had asked Archbishop Welby in a 2017 interview for GQ magazine about whether he believed gay sex was sinful. Asked if he now had a "better answer" to that question, Welby said he...

hile serving as a teacher and football coach at Mankato West High School, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was the faculty adviser to a Gay-Straight Alliance club founded in 1999. In August 2024, the managing editor of the Christian satire website The Babylon Bee, Joel Berry, used that fact to claim in an X post that "Tim Walz recruited young boys into a gay club at school."

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?...

A High Court judge in England on Thursday upheld a ban on Christian Joshua Sutcliffe from teaching following his dismissal for refusing to use the preferred pronoun of a schoolgirl identifying as a boy. The indefinite ban in response to Sutcliffe’s appeal means the teacher, fired from Cherwell School in Oxford after the incident in 2017, cannot return to his profession. Sutcliffe had said, “Well done, girls” to a group of students, including a girl who identified as a boy. Sutcliffe, 34, launched legal action against the school and settled out of court but still received a minimum two-year ban...

The left is obsessed with falsifying American history. For these radicals, the Founding Fathers did not write the Constitution to form a more perfect union; it was merely a ploy by racist white males to protect slavery. Similarly, those who settled America were not seeking a better life for their families; their aim was genocide against peaceful indigenous people who were careful stewards of the environment. The latest example of this historical falsification recently occurred in New York City, where President Biden, accompanied by Governor Kathy Hochul and rock star Elton John, assembled for the grand opening of the Stonewall...

A regional body of The United Methodist Church has its third openly gay bishop, the first since the mainline Protestant denomination changed its rules to allow noncelibate homosexuals to be ordained. The Rev. Kristin Stoneking, a United Methodist studies professor at the Pacific School of Religion, was elected a bishop by the UMC Western Jurisdiction at their meeting held last week in Spokane, Washington.Stoneking was elected on the 11th ballot, receiving 65 votes out of 94 valid ballots cast. For that ballot, she needed to receive at least 63 votes, according to UM News. Her term of service begins on...

With little-to-no deliberation, the Republican National Convention’s Platform Committee tentatively adopted a dramatically-shortened Republican Party platform that drops the GOP’s longstanding support for federal preborn protections as well as the party’s opposition to homosexual “marriage,” along with other changes to align the party’s values and priorities with presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. WISN reports that the committee voted 84-14 to approve the platform in a closed-door session, though it still awaits final approval at the convention next week. “If you look at it, it has Donald Trump written all over it,” boasted Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump, the...

In what has seemed like the floodgates of justice and exposure pouring over a pantheon of perverse megachurch pastors over the last few months, another impostor has been exposed, with Zachary King of LexCity Church in Lexington, KY, being the last perp. According to the arrest citation, King admitted that he “engaged in a sexual relationship with a minor over the course of the last year and a half.” The victim was 15 years old, and he admitted to having “sexual intercourse in the minor’s home, at his residence, and at the church where he was a former pastor.” According...

"This is who I am, Mom. Why can't you and Dad accept that I'm trans?" Shouted a 17-year-old who now identifies as a young man. What would you say if that were your son or daughter? Or perhaps this is a conversation you've had with one of your kids. My heart truly goes out to anyone who has witnessed the pain of a child struggling with their sexual orientation or gender identity. As parents guided by Christian values, we are called to embody God's love and truth. But what does this call look like when faced with deeply personal and...

The president’s proclamation would grant clemency to around 2,000 people charged between 1951 and 2013 under a military code that outlawed the behavior.

The alleged story goes something like this: Elton John‘s partner and now-husband of 23 years, Canadian David Furnish, has been having a longtime affair with British businessman Daniel Laurence. According to multiple salacious reports from sources like the tabloid National Enquirer, Furnish had unprotected sex on numerous occasions with Laurence, and Furnish joined Laurence and his husband Pieter Van den Bergh for a Dec. 2011 threesome in a kiddie pool... Unfortunately for British media, which could very easily seize on this story and blow it up on an immense scale, a controversial injunction in the U.K., brought by John himself,...