Chicago's public school system said on Tuesday it would allow transgender students to use restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their "gender identities." "Chicago Public Schools, like much of the country, has become far more aware of the needs and experiences of the transgender community, and it’s crucial for CPS guidelines to reflect our commitment to promoting safe and inclusive schools," Chief Education Officer Janice Jackson said in an emailed statement.
What is adultery? Before you answer, read Jesus’s words in the Sermon on the Mount. You may be surprised. The standard to which we hold ourselves is often worlds apart from what is required by our Lord. Jesus uses the Seventh Commandment as a teaching tool to help his hearers see their need for the gospel.
Sen. Ted Cruz defended his stance for bathroom privacy on the weekend after Bruce Jenner claimed he was equating people who identify as transgender with child molesters. "It doesn’t make sense for grown adult men, strangers, to be alone in a restroom with a little girl,” Cruz said. "Frankly, the concern is not the Caitlyn Jenners of the world," he continued. “But if the law is such that any man if he feels like it can go in a women’s restroom and you can’t ask him to leave, that opens the door for predators."
In this video, Dr. Richard D. Phillips looks at the Creation Account in Genesis and explains that the male and the female were created by God with a specific goal in mind. Gender is not merely a social construct that changes with the culture, but a gift from the Creator that should be used for His glory.
Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon responds to an article by Dr. Wesley Hill, and points out that feeling happy for the newfound "legitimacy" that same-sex couples experience in the wake of Obergefell is out of touch with Scripture. Gagnon indicates that Hill "views any classification of homosexual practice as a particularly severe sexual offense to be an instance of abuse, even though the united witness of Scripture supports such a conclusion."
Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Friday was pressed by a man in California to answer whether or not he believed people are born "gay," setting off a lengthy and somewhat testy exchange that resulted in the Republican presidential candidate declaring that he believes homosexuals are "probably" born that way. "You know, sir, probably. I mean, I don't, I don't know how it all works, okay?" Kasich said. "I mean, look. Are they? You know, probability they are. Okay?"
We are witnessing the ultimate insidious evil winding its way around the children of a nation. Disney reaches a new low as it transforms the old children’s stories into tales of homosexuals doing homosexual things. Should we send a ten-year-old daughter into a public restroom at Target or Hilton Hotels? Do these entities do violence to the bodies or to the minds of children—or both? We have arrived at the very depths of social degradation, but what should Christian families do? Get on the ark.
The Foundation for Moral Law, a Montgomery-based legal foundation dedicated to the defense of the Constitution and of Biblical values, announced its willingness to defend the City of Oxford in the event its restroom ordinance is challenged in court. "The Foundation regularly champions Biblical values including traditional marriage, and if this ordinance is challenged in court, the Foundation will be most willing to assist in the City’s defense," Foundation Senior Counsel John Eidsmoe said.
The City of Oxford in Alabama has swiftly responded to Target’s new transgender bathroom policy by passing a citywide ordinance outlawing individuals from using a restroom that does not correspond with their biological sex. "(Target’s) policy creates an unsafe environment,” Steven Waits, Oxford City Council’s president, said. The city’s new ordinance carries penalties of a $500 fine or six months in jail.
The Colorado Supreme Court will not review the case of a Denver-area cake artist ordered by the state government to bake and decorate cakes to celebrate same-sex "marriages." Lawyers for Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., said they are evaluating his legal options. In 2012, Phillips declined to bake a cake celebrating the same-sex "wedding" of Charlie Craig and David Mullins, who then filed a discrimination complaint against him.
The Colorado Supreme Court will not review the case of a Denver-area cake artist ordered by the state government to bake and decorate cakes to celebrate same-sex "marriages." Lawyers for Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., said they are evaluating his legal options. In 2012, Phillips declined to bake a cake celebrating the same-sex "wedding" of Charlie Craig and David Mullins, who then filed a discrimination complaint against him.
Sadly these days, our nation is marked not only by an unrestrained and unashamed abandonment to sensuality but also by the putrid sin of sexual perversion. In this sermon, Albert N. Martin addresses these issues. What is called sexual orientation and an alternative lifestyle today, God has always called an abomination, which he visits with severe judgment but from which he offers salvation.
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore on Wednesday said that complaints against him brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center to the Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama are politically motivated. "This is not about any wrongdoing I’ve done, this is not about ethics, this is about marriage," Chief Justice Moore said. "And it’s about my legal judgments I’ve issued in administrative orders, which is in my capacity as chief justice to issue. This is about legalism, it’s about what the law is."
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore on Wednesday said that complaints against him brought by the Southern Poverty Law Center to the Judicial Inquiry Commission of Alabama are politically motivated. "This is not about any wrongdoing I’ve done, this is not about ethics, this is about marriage," Chief Justice Moore said. "And it’s about my legal judgments I’ve issued in administrative orders, which is in my capacity as chief justice to issue. This is about legalism, it’s about what the law is."
The Oregon bakers who were ordered to pay $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex "wedding" filed a brief with the Oregon Court of Appeals on Monday, arguing the ruling against them was biased and violates both the Oregon and U.S. constitutions. The Kleins maintain that they did not decline to serve the cake due to sexual orientation—but only because of their Christian beliefs about marriage.
The Oregon bakers who were ordered to pay $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex "wedding" filed a brief with the Oregon Court of Appeals on Monday, arguing the ruling against them was biased and violates both the Oregon and U.S. constitutions. The Kleins maintain that they did not decline to serve the cake due to sexual orientation—but only because of their Christian beliefs about marriage.
Last night, NC Lt. Governor Dan Forest began airing this commercial on 3 TV stations in Charlotte—WSOC, WBT and WCCB—reiterating his support for HB2, the bill that blocked Charlotte’s bathroom ordinance. "If keeping men out of women’s showers and bathrooms protects just one child or one woman from being molested or assaulted, then it was worth it,” Forest said in the video. “And if a corporation wanting to do business here can’t see the value of our children, they’re making a grave mistake," he said.
Kevin DeYoung writes about the frequent attempts made by revisionist scholars to explain that the Bible condemns only "bad" kinds of homosexuality, not "loving" relationships. He says, "The only way to think the Bible is talking about every other kind of homosexuality except the kind our culture wants to affirm is to be less than honest with the texts or less than honest with ourselves."
Monday, approximately 5000 people came to the Halifax Mall in Raleigh for a rally in support of HB 2, the North Carolina Bill that blocked Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance. Dr. Mark Creech, executive director of the Christian Action League of North Carolina, spoke at the rally. In response to the claim that supporters of HB2 are unloving, Dr. Creech quoted 1 Corinthians 13:6: "Love rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth."
North Carolina Republicans criticized President Barack Obama on Friday after the president told a news conference in London the state's law on bathroom use was wrong and should be overturned. "Not every father has the luxury of Secret Service agents protecting his daughters' right to privacy in the girls' bathroom," NC State Senate Leader Phil Berger said in a statement. NC Speaker of the House Tim Moore also commented, saying Obama's safety and security record on foreign policy was weak and "now it seems like he's challenged on some basic safety issues here in the United States, too."
Bryan Fischer makes it clear that the Christian view of marriage is based on the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. He says: "While these issues may seem complex, they aren’t. How do we know the answers are simple and straightforward? Because Jesus gave them to us......Bottom line: to those of you who vigorously and even hatefully disagree with me about gender and marriage, your issue is not with me. It’s with Jesus. Maybe it’s best if you take it up with him."
In this article, Steve Golden addresses several arguments made by "pro-gay theologians," and refutes them with the plain wording of Scripture. Golden says, "Try as they might, the arguments of pro-homosexual scholars simply are not convincing. In the very first book of the Bible, we read that God created a man and a woman for the first marriage (not a man and a man or a woman and a woman)."
The British Government has warned homosexual and transgender travelers that they may be affected by North Carolina's new law that blocked Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance. A travel advisory notice published by the Foreign Office reads: "The US is an extremely diverse society and attitudes towards LGBT people differ hugely across the country. LGBT travellers may be affected by legislation passed recently in the states of North Carolina and Mississippi."
Transgender people should be able to use whatever bathroom they want, Donald Trump said Thursday. "Leave it the way it is," he said. "North Carolina, what they're going through with all the business that's leaving, all of the strife -- and this is on both sides. Leave it the way it is. There have been very few complaints the way it is. People go. They use the bathroom that they feel is appropriate. There has been so little trouble."
Gavin Grimm, a 16 year-old girl, has persuaded the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that she should have the right to use the boys’ bathroom at her high school in rural Virginia. The 2-1 ruling, which came Tuesday afternoon, could affect the fight over House Bill 2 in North Carolina and have an impact on a lawsuit filed in March by two transgender people and a lesbian law professor.