Craig James, a former professional football player and respected sportscaster, is suing Fox Sports Southwest, alleging that the broadcast network fired him because of his religious beliefs on homosexuality and marriage. A senior vice president at the network suggested that the decision was based on statements James made about homosexuality and same-sex marriage—expressed more than a year prior to being hired at Fox Sports while campaigning to run for Senate.
A family bakery owned by a Christian cannot refuse to make "wedding" cakes for homosexual couples, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. According to Todd Starnes, "When all is said and done – Jack Phillips does not answer to the Colorado Court of Appeals. He answers to a Higher Power."
A suburban Denver baker who would not make a "wedding" cake for a same-sex couple cannot cite his Christian beliefs in refusing them service because it would lead to discrimination, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The three-judge panel said in a 66-page ruling that Colorado's anti-discrimination law does not prevent baker Jack Phillips from believing what he wants but that if he wants his business open to the public, he is prohibited "from picking and choosing customers based on their sexual orientation."
In Minnesota, teens who identify as "gay, lesbian or bisexual" are far more likely than their "straight" peers to become pregnant or have gotten someone pregnant, according to a recent analysis of data on adolescent sexual health. Among the revelatory findings: "Bisexual" females were five times more likely to have been pregnant than "straight" females. And questioning and "gay" males were four times more likely than "straight" males to report getting someone pregnant.
Seventy-one percent of Americans want the nation to produce "a commonsense solution that both protects religious freedom and gay and lesbian couples from discrimination." But by a margin of 4 to 1, they will pick religious freedom and liberty over "gay rights" in a "cultural war." The degree of their fierce support for religious freedom and liberty jumps when given this choice: "Suppose a Christian wedding photographer has deeply held religious beliefs opposing same sex marriage. If a same sex couple wanted to hire the photographer for their wedding, should the photographer have the right to say no?" A huge 82 percent said yes.
T.D. Jakes has "clarified" that his method of ministering to "LGBT" people who choose to attend The Potter's House church was "evolving" and said he does not endorse "same-sex marriage," after a recent HuffPost Live interview seemed to indicate that he had shifted in his convictions regarding human sexuality and marriage.
Rodney James Quine was convicted of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery. He is serving a life sentence for the murder in the California prison system. He sued the federal government to pay for transgender surgery, and the state of California has agreed to use tax dollars to do so. This gives California another first: the first state to pay for a prison inmate’s gender “reassignment” operation, which costs up to $25,000.
Two months ago, an Ohio mom’s tweet went viral when she called out Target for separating “building sets” and “girls’ building sets.” Now, the retailer is "fixing the problem." The toy section will get the biggest makeover. Along with grouping all toys together, the aisles will no longer have colored backdrops to indicate gender, such as pink and yellow for girls or blue and green for boys.
Chaplain David Wells was told he could either sign a state-mandated document promising to never tell inmates that homosexuality is “sinful” or else the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice would revoke his credentials. When he refused to sign the paper, the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice revoked his volunteer credentials as an ordained minister – ending 13 years of ministry to underage inmates at the Warren County Regional Juvenile Detention Center.
An Ohio judicial board has ruled that judges who perform weddings can't refuse same-sex couples based on personal, moral or religious beliefs. The board also says judges who stop performing all marriages to avoid "marrying" same-sex couples may be interpreted as biased and could be disqualified from any case where "sexual orientation" is an issue.
Yesterday, we linked to an article by Christian News Network which revealed disturbing comments made by T.D. Jakes about the "LGBT community" and the black church. Since then, confusion has arisen in the public sphere as to the accuracy of this article. Jakes himself has claimed that his words were misconstrued. We highly recommend that anyone who is confused about the context of Jakes's comments watch the original Huffington Post interview from end to end. Analyze Jakes's comments about the "LGBT community" and the church coexisting in light of 2 Corinthians 6:14, "Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?"
A bill introduced this week by Ohio lawmakers has continued the debate over same-sex "marriage". The language of the proposed bill reads that "a business is not required to participate in a ceremony creating a union between two persons of the same sex if such participation violates the business’s right of conscience or freedom of religion."
Megachurch leader and author T.D. Jakes says that homosexuals should attend congregations that affirm their lifestyle and that politics do not need to reflect biblical ethics, adding that his position on homosexuality is both “evolved and evolving.” During an interview with the Huffington Post on Monday, Jakes was asked by a viewer if he believes that homosexuals and the black church can co-exist. “Absolutely… I think it is going to be diverse from church to church. Every church has a different opinion on the issue and every gay person is different,” he replied. “And I think that to speak that the church—the black church, the white church or any kind of church you wanna call it—are all the same, is totally not true.”
Tim Brown: "OK, the very things that Christians warned of concerning the illegal and unconstitutional ruling regarding sodomy-based 'marriage' is coming to pass. Sadly, it seems [that] even those who oppose such perversion are falling prey to the propaganda. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) asked Internal Revenue Commissioner John Koskinen if he would pledge not to remove tax exempt status from Christian colleges without the authorization of Congress of the courts and the commissioner said that he wouldn't surprise anyone, but give fair warning."
The bulk of Republicans seeking their party’s nomination for the White House in 2016 emphasized strong support for traditional marriage during both of Thursday’s FOX News presidential debates. But not so with Ohio Gov. John Kasich. When asked what he would tell one of his children if they happened to be "gay," he replied, “Look, I’m an old-fashioned person here, and I happen to believe in traditional marriage. But I’ve also said the court has ruled and I said, ‘We’ll accept it.’ And guess what? I just went to a wedding of a friend of mine, who happens to be gay. Because somebody doesn’t think the way I do, doesn’t mean I can’t care about them or I can’t love them."
South Carolina shouldn't have to pay legal fees for a couple who challenged its "gay marriage ban" because that state was merely defending its law, the state's top prosecutor argued Wednesday. Judges can order losing parties to pay opponents' fees, especially in civil rights cases. But in papers filed Wednesday, state Attorney General Alan Wilson said the state shouldn't have to do so in this case because prosecutors were merely doing their jobs — upholding the law as it stood before the U.S. Supreme Court issued its marriage opinion in late June.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton must explain why he should not be held in contempt for enforcing state laws that impede "gay marriage rights" after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision, a federal judge ordered Wednesday. Judge Orlando Garcia ordered Paxton to appear in a San Antonio federal court next Wednesday after a Houston homosexual man was not provided an amended death certificate for his "husband."
A Kentucky clerk is suing Gov. Steve Beshear, saying that his order to the state's 120 county clerks to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples amounts to a violation of her religious beliefs. Disobeying the marching orders left Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis vulnerable to lawsuits that have been piling up since the Supreme Court’s attempt to redefine marriage, she contends in the complaint filed Tuesday.
Maine's highest court on Tuesday rejected a national group's latest bid to shield the identities of the donors who contributed to its effort to defeat the state's "gay marriage" law in 2009. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) was fined $50,250 last year for its involvement in overturning the law supporting homosexual "marriage" six years ago. Now, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court says that NOM must not delay in revealing the names on its donor list.
Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon responds to abusive comments leveled against him by Don M. Burrows and Jean-Fabrice Nardelli, because of his support for Scripture's prohibition of homosexual practice. He says, "Get your smelling salts out: I disagree with homosexualist advocates and agree with Paul and, for that matter, Jesus and the rest of Scripture."
The two sets of winning attorneys in South Carolina’s landmark marriage redefinition lawsuits want a total of $244,338 in legal fees for their victories in federal court over Attorney General Alan Wilson and Gov. Nikki Haley. That money apparently will come from taxpayers, although the two federal judges in the cases have not yet issued final orders for Haley and Wilson to pay the lawyers. “The attorney general’s office objects to paying legal fees in these cases, and we will continue to object,” a spokesman for Wilson said Tuesday.
On July 29 and 30, Dr. Paul Church’s appeal hearing at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) took place. It’s possible that more evidence, oral or written, could be submitted a few days after July 30 before the panel officially ends the hearing. Within 20 days after the hearing ends, the hearing panel will meet, deliberate, and prepare a report of its recommendations. Finally, the hospital’s Board of Directors will vote on final action regarding Dr. Church.
Washington County Probate Judge Nick Williams is urging the state's high court to issue a "landmark" ruling challenging the U.S. Supreme Court's attempt to redefine marriage. And he wants Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who had earlier recused himself because of his outspoken stance for real marriage, to be able to vote on it.
Last month Apple clambered aboard the newest corporate bandwagon, joining other Internet Age corporate giants such as Google and Facebook, older companies such as General Mills, American Airlines, Dow Chemicals and Levi Strauss and hundreds of lesser enterprises in throwing their support behind the 2015 Equality Act, a piece of radical legislation that would ban discrimination based on “sexual orientation or gender identity."
Sanctity of Marriage Alabama: "Please pray for the justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama - Chief Justice Moore, Justice Stuart, Justice Bolin, Justice Parker, Justice Murdock, Justice Shaw, Justice Main, Justice Wise, and Justice Bryan. They still have the opportunity to say no to the same-sex marriage ruling and their decision should be any day now! They are under a great amount of pressure and tension and we pray that they will have the courage and resolve to do what they know is right. Very few know that this is going on as there has purposefully been almost no mainstream media coverage of this."