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1. Judaism' Sexual Revolution -, Dennis Prager (how Judaism and later Christianity shaped marriage) - : http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1082868/posts
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2) What is marriage? Prof Robert George et al (Princeton)  An article by leading legal theorist Robert George of Princeton - gay activists called him to be expelled after this article was published, but he is both an accomplished scholar and popular professor.http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1722155
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3. “Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up' - Singapore Communitarianism and the Case for Conserving 377A, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies
Conserving_377A.pdf Download this file
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See Also "Marriage or Pansexuaity" by John C Rankin, Theological Educational Institute
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Man and Women in the Image of God , Rankin
male_and_female_john_rankin.pdf Download this file
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77 Reasons to Support man/woman marriage
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 "Hillary's hate speech" (against Christians &social conservatives)
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US State Dept to force gay agenda on foreign nations!

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And for a clear biblical understanding

What Jesus Christ said about Homosexuality
http://www.defendproclaimthefaith.org/blog/?p=2484
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God's love for those struggling with homosexuality and His invitation to all sinners to turn to Him and to repent of their sins:
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Touching Testimony at Willow Creek by Christopher Yuan and his father

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Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:06:00 -0700 THE OPPRESSION OF CHRISTIANS, UK SEPT 2012 http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/the-oppression-of-christians-uk-sept-2012 http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/the-oppression-of-christians-uk-sept-2012

Comment: The homosexual agenda in its unrelenting push for so called 'marriage equality ' i.e. redefinition marriage radically claims liberty and equality are its goals. This is not neutral. It is a radical understanding of equality ie. the moral equivalence of heterosexuality and homosexuality. It is not a zero sum game, as this article indicates, as it threatens to violate the rights of others.

1. Employment: potential sacking for refusing to endorse SSM contrary to conscience.

2. No parental rights re: education of children

3. Suing clergy for refusing to perform SSM (Religious freedom)

See: Coalition for Marriage, UK

 

Teachers 'face sack' for refusing to endorse gay marriage, The Telegraph, UK 10 Sept 2012

Teachers who refuse to endorse gay marriage in the classroom could face the sack under controversial Government reforms, a legal expert has warned.

Teachers could be sacked for refusing to follow books on gay marriage, according to legal advice commissioned by the Coalition for Marriage.

Teachers could be sacked for refusing to follow books on gay marriage, according to legal advice commissioned by the Coalition for Marriage. Photo: ALAMY

Schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff that wilfully fail to use stories or textbooks promoting same-sex weddings, it is claimed.

Aidan O’Neill, a senior QC and expert on religious freedom and human rights, also warned that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their child from lessons.

In a report, he said that any decision to redefine marriage would have far-reaching consequences for schools, hospitals, foster carers and public buildings.

The most serious impact is likely to be felt in the church where vicars and priests conducting religious marriage ceremonies could be taken to court for refusing to carry out a gay wedding, he said.

The conclusions – in legal advice commissioned by the Coalition for Marriage – comes amid continuing fall-out over Government plans to tear up the centuries-old law on marriage.

Ministers launched a consultation on proposals to legalise homosexual weddings earlier this year. David Cameron has said he is committed to pushing through the change by 2015.

The plan is being backed by the Liberal Democrats and many senior Conservatives, although it has prompted a backlash among some backbenchers and Christian groups.

Last month, the Roman Catholic Church had a letter read in all 500 Catholic parishes in Scotland urging churchgoers to oppose attempts to “redefine” marriage north of the border.

Sharon James, a Coalition for Marriage spokeswoman, said the proposed law change would have a serious effect on schools, representing an “unprecedented assault on the rights of parents”.

“This is a dangerous path to go down and one that should be resisted,” she said.

The redefinition of marriage would ride roughshod over a person’s right to support marriage as the exclusive union between one man and one woman, whether that person be a teacher, a parent, a foster carer or a marriage registrar. The only winners from a change in marriage law will be lawyers.”

Mr O’Neill – based at Matrix Chambers – has analysed the effect that any change in the legal basis of marriage would have on a series of public institutions.

He outlined a fictional scenario in which a Christian teacher is asked to use a book called King & King, a story of a prince who marries a man, and produce a play based on the tale.

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The QC suggested that any refusal to comply would be “grounds for her dismissal from employment” because of a legal ruling that religious belief cannot be used by employees “to demand changes in their conditions of their employment”.

Mr O’Neill also warned that parents who object to gay marriage being taught would have no right to withdraw their child from lessons for religious conscience reasons.

“If gay marriage is introduced, the school would be in its own legal right to refuse the wishes of the child’s parents, arguing it is under a legal obligation of its own to promote equality - whatever the cost,” he said.

In the report, he also claimed that Government promises to protect churches and other faiths who object to gay marriage would be meaningless.

Mr O’Neill insisted that vicars or priests would be powerless to stop same-sex couples demanding the same weddings as hetrosexuals under the European Convention on Human Rights.

Churches would be in a stronger legal position if they were to stop conducting weddings altogether – bring to an end more than a thousand years of tradition, he suggested.

“Churches might indeed better protect themselves against the possibility of any such litigation by deciding not to provide marriage services at all, since there could be no complaint then of discrimination in their provision of services as between same sex and opposite sex couples,” he said.

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Sat, 28 Jul 2012 22:47:00 -0700 Arrogant political leaders lecture church on SSM. Judgment. http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/arrogant-political-leaders-lecture-church-on http://tarsusturn.posterous.com/arrogant-political-leaders-lecture-church-on

I'll legalise gay marriage by 2015, vows Cameron: PM warns opponents from the Church 'not to lock people out', Daily Mail (UK) 25 July 2012

    

 

David Cameron yesterday promised that gay marriage will be legalised by 2015, as he compared Church opposition with Conservatives who once ‘locked out’ homosexuals from the party. The Prime Minister also paid tribute to Tony Blair for paving the way by introducing civil partnerships.

 

In remarks that will concern some Tory traditionalists, he said: ‘I am absolutely determined that this Coalition government will follow in that tradition by legislating for gay marriage in this Parliament.’ Praising the institution of marriage, he added: ‘It’s something I feel passionately about and I think if it’s good enough for straight people like me, it’s good enough for everybody and that’s why we should have gay marriage and we will.’

 

Mr Cameron, who was speaking at a Number 10 reception for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community, has promised his MPs a free vote on the issue. But the Lib Dems will be whipped to vote in favour of it. The Prime Minister compared his opponents in the Church to parts of the Tory party who fought against gay rights and ‘for many, many years got itself on the wrong side of this argument’. He said: ‘It locked people out who were naturally Conservative from supporting [the party] and so I think I can make that point to the Church, gently.’

 

The Church should not ‘be locking out people who are gay, or are bisexual or are transgender from being full members of that Church, because many people with deeply held Christian views, are also gay’, he added. ‘And just as the Conservative Party, as an institution, made a mistake in locking people out so I think the Churches can be in danger of doing the same thing.’

Ministers in the Scottish Parliament yesterday promised to bring forward laws enabling same-sex marriage by the start of 2015. Mr Cameron wants similar laws in England and Wales by that year.

Yesterday Tory MP Peter Bone said it would be a ‘sham’ consultation if the Government had already made up its mind, adding: ‘We are talking about something which is clearly divisive. The bulk of Conservative MPs hope that this will quietly be left until after the next election.’ Mike Judge, of the Christian Institute, said: ‘The Prime Minister’s sneering remarks show his own intolerance of religious people who disagree with him on gay marriage. ‘It is incredibly arrogant of him to tell churches what religious beliefs they should and shouldn’t hold. No wonder huge swathes of churchgoers are suspicious of his motives.’

  

He added: ‘Voters would rather he was working to boost the flagging economy, not meddling with marriage and lecturing the church. 'The plans to redefine marriage are unnecessary, unpopular, divisive, and a vote-loser. It is high time they were dumped.’

 

  

  

  

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