Monthly Archives: June 2015
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Roberts Warns Churches Could Lose Tax-Exempt Status For Opposing Gay Marriage
June 30, 2015
Daily Caller 26 June 2015 Churches could lose their tax-exempt status with the IRS if they refuse to recognize the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday legalizing gay marriage in all 50 states, Supreme Court Chief Justice...
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Here We Stand: An Evangelical Declaration on Marriage
June 29, 2015
Christianity Today 26 June 2015 As evangelical Christians, we dissent from the court’s ruling that redefines marriage. The state did not create the family, and should not try to recreate the family in its own...
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Gay Marriage – Learning To Live as Exiles
June 29, 2015
Time 26 June 2015 No, the sky is not falling — not yet, anyway — but with the Supreme Court ruling constitutionalizing same-sex marriage, the ground under our feet has shifted tectonically. It is hard...
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Russell Moore: The church should neither cave nor panic about the decision on gay marriage
June 29, 2015
NZ Herald 28 June 2015 As I write this, the Supreme Court has handed down what will be the “Roe v. Wade” of marriage, redefining marriage in all 50 states. This is a sober moment,...
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Ryan Anderson: re Supreme Court’s dumb ruling on marriage
June 29, 2015
Daily Signal 26 June 2015 Today is a significant setback for all Americans who believe in the Constitution, the rule of law, democratic self-government, and marriage as the union of one man and one woman....
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Why group marriage is the next horizon of social liberalism
June 29, 2015
Politico Magazine 26 June 2015 Welcome to the exciting new world of the slippery slope. With the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling this Friday legalizing same sex marriage in all 50 states, social liberalism has achieved...
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A sad day for humanity
June 27, 2015
Gay marriage made legal across US NZ Herald 27 June 2015 Gay and lesbian Americans have the same right to marry as any other couples, the U.S. Supreme Court declared Friday in a historic ruling...
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Catalogue of ‘same-sex marriage’ entrapments
June 24, 2015
WND Faith 4 June 2015 Here’s a list of cases in which Christians have been accused of violating non-discrimination laws for following the dictates of their faith, “gay” advocates have refused to do business with...
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Family First to fight deregistration moves
June 22, 2015
OneNews 22 June 2015 Family First NZ is at the Wellington High Court today to appeal against attempts by the Charities Registration Board to deregister it as a charity. The non-profit organisation receives no government...
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Married men healthier than women
June 13, 2015
NZ Herald 13 June 2015 Marriage has long been said to be good for health. Now, however, a study has suggested that while married men are healthier than their single counterparts, women hardly benefit from...
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Don’t Use My Pain as a Weapon: Infertility and Same-Sex Marriage
June 12, 2015
Public Discourse 11 June 2015 Infertility does not invalidate our marriage, but we constantly experience infertility as an inability to fulfill a basic aspect of marriage. It is a loss for us in a way...
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The Prospects for Polygamy
June 10, 2015
New York Times 30 May 2015 The acceptance of polygamy has more than doubled. Now admittedly, that last one is an outlier: Support for plural matrimony rose to 16 percent from 7 percent, a swift...
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Forum on the Family 2015 – REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN!
June 7, 2015
This is a special invite for you to attend our Forum on the Family 2015. We have a superb line-up of international and local experts, covering the crucial issues of MARRIAGE, EUTHANASIA, MARIJUANA, SURROGACY, and...
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Bakers Facing $135K Fine Over Wedding Cake for Same-Sex Couple Speak Out
June 2, 2015
26 Apr 2015 Aaron and Melissa Klein, owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham, Ore., speak exclusively with The Daily Signal about the fallout of their decision to decline baking a cake for a...
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Canada Same-Sex Marriage 10 Years on
June 2, 2015
Crisis Magazine 28 May 2015 Canada legalized same-sex “marriage” in 2005, the fourth country in the world to do so. During the rushed public debate that preceded legalization, the Christian and traditional understanding of marriage...