Anglican Mainstream

Homosexual Marriage: A Social Science View

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Posted in Children/Family, From Lisa's Lookout, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Dr. Laura A. Haynes, Psychologist, Tustin, California  Many people have heard that homosexuality is largely genetically determined, homosexual relationships are essentially the same as heterosexual relationships except for the gender of the ... Read more..

Australian Health Minister Fires Men’s Health Ambassador for Documenting Risks of Homosexuality

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 Posted in Coercion, Homosexuality, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From LifeSite News SYDNEY, December 1, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Last week, Australian Health Minister Nicola Roxon appointed Warwick Marsh of the Fatherhood Foundation as one of six men’s health ambassadors who ... Read more..

Church responds to ‘anti-gay’ opinion

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 Posted in Apologetics, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Melanie Menkevich, Religious Intelligence The Church reacts to the US opinion that all Christians are "anti-gay," especially with the recent passing of proposition 8 in California, which defined marriage as ... Read more..

Christian Policeman loses Police Disciplinary over ‘Homosexuality’

Thursday, November 27th, 2008 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Andrea Minichiello Williams, Christian Legal Centre A Christian policeman who objected to the aggressive promotion of homosexual rights within the Norfolk Constabulary has lost a disciplinary hearing brought against him ... Read more..

Illinois Family Institute objects to the Homosexuality-Affirming High School

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 Posted in Coercion, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From Christian Newswire Laurie Higgins, Director of the Division of School Advocacy at the Illinois Family Institute, issued the following statement in response to the Chicago Board of Education's decision to ... Read more..

Bishop of Los Angeles says California voters ‘ignorant’ about homosexuality

Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in Homosexuality | No Comments »

By George Conger,  Religious Intelligence The Bishop of Los Angeles has challenged California voters who backed the successful ballot initiative to ban gay marriage to examine their consciences and banish their ignorance ... Read more..

San Francisco to decriminalize prostitution?

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, News, Politics | No Comments »

by Thaddeus Baklinski SAN FRANCISCO - Voters in this west coast city that celebrates sadomasochism, homosexuality and pornography are being asked to decide whether they would like to become the first ... Read more..

Losing our liberty: Not just words anymore II

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, From Lisa's Lookout, Gay Marriage, Political Correctness | No Comments »

Crystal Dixon (see Losing our Liberty I below) was fired by her university employer because she expressed politically incorrect views in a letter she as a private citizen sent to her local newspaper ... Read more..

What Yes on 8 Means

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Coercion, Homosexuality, Marriage, Political Correctness, Religious Liberty | No Comments »

By Jennifer Roback Morse, Christian Newswire Voting Yes on Proposition 8 is one of the few ways ordinary citizens can protest. They are not saying they hate gay people: they are ... Read more..

Windy City proposes ‘gay’-friendly school

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008 Posted in Children/Family, Homosexuality | No Comments »

From OneNewsNow A battleground is forming in Chicago over a proposed "gay"-friendly high school for homosexual, lesbian, and transgendered students, or any other students who want to attend. According to reports, ... Read more..

Answering Advocates of Gay Marriage

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Marriage is a complex institution. It must do several things (and, from an anthropological and historical perspective, fostering the emotional gratification of two adults is the least important). It must ... Read more..

Farewell to Tearfund?

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Social justice | 1 Comment »

My family has supported a little girl through Tearfund for a decade or so and I have flown Tearfund's flag and donated to it in various ways over the years. No more, however. I redirected our sponsorship from Tearfund ... Read more..

Help available for those struggling with same-sex attraction

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Homosexuality | 1 Comment »

 A Christian apologist who once [struggled] with same-sex attractions is trying to help others dealing and struggling with the issue. Debbie Thurman is a freelance journalist, speaker, author, wife, and mother, ... Read more..

Former New Westminster clergy and lay leaders sue diocese

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada | No Comments »

By Marites N Sison, Anglican Journal Seventeen former clergy and former lay leaders of three parishes on Sept. 9 filed a lawsuit against the diocese of New Westminster and its bishop, ... Read more..

The hard route to Heaven

Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in Apologetics | No Comments »

By Riazat Butt, Guardian At a seminar in Rome this week the Rev Philip Goyret from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross said that one of the biggest challenges facing ... Read more..

Archbishop of Canterbury’s rescue plan for Anglican Communion rejected

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Posted in Anglican Communion, Global Anglican Future Conference | No Comments »

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Hopes of a solution for the split in the Anglican Communion over homosexuality have been further diminished after a rescue plan endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury ... Read more..

Glynn Harrison, Peter Tatchell and ‘Born Gay’

Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Homosexuality, Nature/Nurture, Political Correctness | No Comments »

In a very recent letter to the Church Times which I hope to put up tomorrow, Glynn Harrison, the Norah Cooke Hurle Professor of Mental Health and Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Bristol, claims that the 'born ... Read more..

But I Was Born That Way

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 Posted in Homosexuality, Nature/Nurture | No Comments »

By Bill Muehlenberg The most common homosexual myth of all – and there are many – is that homosexuals are born that way, and cannot help being the way they are. ... Read more..

Why I leaked the Archbishop’s letters

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Sir, The Bishop of Durham in his articulate letter (Aug 9) regarding the leaking of the Williams letters makes some useful clarifications and I am grateful for his statements regarding ... Read more..

George Conger interviewed on Lambeth

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

In the aftermath of the most recent Lambeth Conference of the Anglican Church, Albert Mohler interviewed Rev. Canon George Conger. He is an Episcopalian Priest with the Diocese of Central ... Read more..