In this sermon, Voddie Baucham compares the sin of the men of Sodom to where American culture is today.
Atlanta's Mayor has joined a growing list of municipal officials and company heads voicing opposing to North Carolina's new law that blocked Charlotte's non-discrimation ordinance. If the NC General Assembly had not intervened, the ordinance would have obliterated all gender guidelines for bathroom usage. “As a result of Governor Pat McCrory’s decision to sign discriminatory and unnecessary legislation into law, effective today I am directing all City departments to stop non-essential, publicly-funded employee travel to the State of North Carolina," Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed said on Monday.
PayPal has announced it will no longer be expanding to Charlotte after lawmakers in North Carolina passed House Bill 2, repealing Charlotte’s non-discrimination ordinance. “The new law perpetuates discrimination and it violates the values and principles that are at the core of PayPal’s mission and culture," PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said. "As a result, PayPal will not move forward with our planned expansion into Charlotte.”
In this article, written just before the U.S. Supreme Court Struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act, Al Mohler challenges the idea that "gay marriage" is a civil right. He says: "At the end of the day, the argument over same-sex marriage is never just about same-sex marriage, and debates about civil rights are never just about civil rights. Deeper truths and worldview implications are always at stake, and it is our responsibility to make certain that we know what those are and stand humbly and compassionately for those truths, regardless of the cost."
In a situation reminiscent of last year’s religious freedom fight in Indiana, and the more recent one last week in Georgia, powerful politicians and CEOs across America are pressuring North Carolina to overturn its new law protecting privacy in restrooms and similar facilities. More than 120 "major" CEOs, including mega-billionaires like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Kellogg’s John Bryant, have signed a letter opposing the law, which was delivered to the governor by the Human Rights Campaign. The companies include Google, Microsoft, Barnes & Noble, Levi & Straus, Twitter, Starbucks, and Wells Fargo.
The highest court in Massachusetts is being asked to decide a dispute over parental rights between the mother of two children and her former same-sex partner. Julie Gallagher, the biological parent, says she alone should have the right to make legal decisions for her children, ages 4 and 7. However, Gallagher's former partner, Karen Partanen, wants to be declared a full legal parent. The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Tuesday.
Pastor Kevin DeYoung writes on the destruction of the Seventh Commandment in this country. He says: "It is almost impossible in the Western world to escape sensuality. Sex is on the television, in the movies and in our music, on the side of buses, during halftime shows, in our books and in glossy close-ups at supermarket check-out." So how do we continue to obey the Seventh Commandment? DeYoung gives us 15 passages of Scripture to help us fight temptation.
A federal judge purported to strike down a Mississippi ban on adoptions by same-sex couples Thursday, labeling the 16-year-old law as unconstitutional. In his ruling, he cited the Supreme Court's decision last year that purported to redefine marriage nationwide. Jordan's ruling comes as Mississippi lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow businesses and religious groups to decide for themselves who they should do business with.
A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit to proceed that alleges an Idaho city's anti-discrimination policy violates the religious rights of wedding chapel owners. However, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Bush severely limited the scope of the lawsuit in his ruling on Friday. Hitching Post owners Don and Lynn Knapp shut down their business for a week in 2014 out of fear of being prosecuted for refusing to host homosexual ceremonies. Now, the Knapps are suing Coeur d'Alene, arguing the city caused their economic loss.
Generations Radio Host Kevin Swanson takes a look at the rise in comprehensive sex education and the weak attempt to bring abstinence sex education into the public schools. A right perspective of the uses of the law of God will help us understand why pure moralism in the public schools, paid for by $1 billion of tax monies, won’t fix the problem. He suggests something better: parents teaching Proverbs 1:7, 5, and 7, as well as the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Bank of America, which has its headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., announced late Tuesday on Twitter that its leadership was joining over 80 chief executives, including Timothy D. Cook of Apple and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, in objecting to North Carolina's new bathroom law. In addition, the governors of New York, Washington and Vermont have issued bans on most official state travel to North Carolina, as have the mayors of San Francisco, Seattle and New York.
A Christian couple in rural Illinois say they will never host same-sex "marriages" or civil unions at their bed and breakfast, after being forced to pay $80,000 in damages to a same-sex couple they turned away in 2011. Jim and Beth Walder, the owners of TimberCreek B&B, issued a statement that says, in part, "We cannot host a same-sex wedding even though fines and penalties have been imposed by the Illinois Human Rights Commission. Our policy will not be changing."
A Christian couple in rural Illinois say they will never host same-sex "marriages" or civil unions at their bed and breakfast, after being forced to pay $80,000 in damages to a same-sex couple they turned away in 2011. Jim and Beth Walder, the owners of TimberCreek B&B, issued a statement that says, in part, "We cannot host a same-sex wedding even though fines and penalties have been imposed by the Illinois Human Rights Commission. Our policy will not be changing."
An Illinois inn that refused to allow a same-sex couple hold their civil union ceremony on the property was fined more than $80,000 by the Illinois Human Rights Commission on Tuesday. An administrative law judge with the commission ordered TimberCreek Bed & Breakfast to pay $15,000 each to Todd Wathen and Mark Wathen for "emotional distress." TimberCreek, located about 100 miles south of Chicago, must also pay $50,000 in attorneys' fees and $1,218.35 in costs.
An Illinois inn that refused to allow a same-sex couple hold their civil union ceremony on the property was fined more than $80,000 by the Illinois Human Rights Commission on Tuesday. An administrative law judge with the commission ordered TimberCreek Bed & Breakfast to pay $15,000 each to Todd Wathen and Mark Wathen for "emotional distress." TimberCreek, located about 100 miles south of Chicago, must also pay $50,000 in attorneys' fees and $1,218.35 in costs.
Rob Gagnon explains why advocating for "gay marriage" is wrong. He says, "Advocates of homosexual practice often argue that 'gay marriage,' or at least homosexual civil unions, will reduce promiscuity and promote fidelity among homosexual persons." Gagnon shows two key points that this argument overlooks: (1) Embracing homosexual unions will undermine the institution of marriage. (2) "Gay marriage” is a contradiction in terms.
Attorney David French criticizes Gov. Nathan Deal for vetoing Georgia's religious freedom bill. He says: "And experts wonder why the Republican establishment is now in full retreat, facing the wrath of the grassroots. Again and again, when GOP politicians face a choice between the people who put them in office and pressure from progressive corporations and the progressive media, the politicians back the social-justice warriors. Out of pure fear. It’s disgusting to watch."
Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore issued a joint statement Monday in response to a lawsuit filed by the national ACLU and other far-left groups. Part of the statement said: "This lawsuit takes this debate out of the hands of voters and instead attempts to argue with a straight face that there is a previously undiscovered 'right' in the U.S. Constitution for men to use women's bathrooms and locker rooms – but we are confident the court will find the General Assembly acted properly in accordance with existing state and federal law."
Kayla Moore, the founder of the Foundation for Moral Law and wife of Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, issued a harsh condemnation of the Georgia governor's decision to veto a religious freedom bill. She said, "[W]hen Georgia's governor caves to the radical gay agenda by vetoing a bill that does nothing more than protect the religious freedom of those who have sincere religious objections to same-sex marriage, we must ask whose interests he truly represents: the people of Georgia or those of the corporations who showed themselves as enemies of religious freedom and traditional values."
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday dismissed criticism of a controversial new law blocking Charlotte's bathroom ordinance as "political theater" that he says is concocted by left-wing activists, accusing them of a "calculated smear campaign" that included threatening local businesses to oppose the measure. In an interview with NBC News, McCrory said he would not heed calls to repeal the law.
Bryan Fischer asserts that accepting transgenderism in a child is a form of child abuse, citing a study from the American College of Pediatricians. He says, "The ACP quite correctly asserts that 'facts - not ideology - determine reality.' The Bible asserts on its first page that there are just two genders - 'male and female' - and not five, as homosexual activists want us to believe, or 58 like Facebook wants us to believe."
New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday signed an order banning all non-essential travel to North Carolina, after a law was passed blocking Charlotte's nondiscrimination ordinance. The ban, which took effect upon the signing of the order Monday, requires all New York state agencies, departments, boards and commissions to review any requests for state-funded travel to North Carolina. Any such travel that is not essential to the enforcement of New York state law or public health and safety will not be allowed.
Opponents of a new North Carolina law that bars individuals from using bathrooms reserved for the opposite sex sued the state on Monday, arguing the measure is unconstitutional and should be "blocked" by a federal court. State lawmakers passed the law last week during a one-day special session called to repeal a Charlotte city ordinance that would have allowed bathroom choice based on "gender identity" versus actual gender.
Georgia’s Republican Governor Nathan Deal says that Jesus wouldn’t discriminate against homosexuals when it comes to officiating homosexual "weddings." The Religious Liberty bill in Georgia is dying the slow death of a thousand qualifications, a harbinger of what is to come across the country. Generations Radio Host Kevin Swanson takes a look at the corporate bullies that threaten to boycott the State of Georgia if it doesn’t force pastors to perform homosexual "weddings."
Gov. Nathan Deal on Monday vetoed Georgia's religious liberty bill that aimed to protect pastors who object to performing same-sex ceremonies. Groups such as the Faith and Freedom Coalition and the Georgia Baptist Mission Board supported the measure; but big corporations like Disney and Apple opposed it. State Sen. Bill Heath, one of the chamber’s most conservative lawmakers, said he’s confident a veto session will be successful. "We will call for a veto session,” he said. "And we have the votes."