Pope Faces Homosexual Kiss-in Protest
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May 12 2009
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February 2nd 2009
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December 15, 2009 Leave a comment
I will say them anyway.
For years, I have noticed something curious about religion in America, Israel, and elsewhere. When I go into an establishment to pray, I notice how thick the carpet is. The gold and silver on doors and paneling’s. The “honorees” abounding with their plaques and pictures adorning walls and halls. I have prayed in many different shuls (synagogues) throughout the world, and I admit a proclivity toward those humbler, more “hamish” (homey) environs, with the simple wood benches and plain floors. Read more of this post
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November 8, 2009 Leave a comment
Children will learn about parts of the body, the facts of life and puberty in primary school. At secondary school, they will be taught about pregnancy, contraception, HIV and homosexual relationships, it was disclosed.
All mothers and fathers will be able to keep children out on moral and religious grounds but will lose the right of withdraw when they turn 15. The ruling will affect 600,000 pupils a year. Read more of this post
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October 16, 2009 3 Comments
“I make no apology in saying decisively and emphatically that the government of Jamaica remains irrevocably opposed to the recognition, legitimization or acceptance of same-sex marriages or same-sex unions,” Golding said on Tuesday.
The prime minister was opening parliamentary debate on a major proposed amendment to the constitution which would lay out the scope of rights and freedoms for Jamaicans. Read more of this post
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September 14, 2009 Leave a comment
The Bourne Identity actor recently admitted he fuelled gossip Clooney was secretly in love with another man and that the couple planned to marry.
He told reporters at a press conference for the Venice Film Festival earlier this week (ends13Sep09), “Brad Pitt was there (Venice) doing interviews for Inglorious Basterds and I guess people had been asking him, ‘When are you and Angelina Jolie going to get married?’ and he finally just said, ‘Me and Angelina will marry when George Clooney marries his boyfriend!’ “The thing is, you do that in America and they just laugh; you do that overseas and I guess something gets lost in translation, so at eight in the morning, I’m doing interviews and this Italian journalist comes to me and says, ‘Matt, is it true what Brad say (sic)?’ I had no idea what he was talking about so I just said, ‘Of course, yeah.’
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December 19, 2008 1 Comment
That and similar questions have been raised in response to parliamentarian Patrick Todd’s call for fellow Members of Parliament (MPs) to publicly declare their sexual orientation.
State preferences
In the House of Assembly on Tuesday, Todd, who is Minister of State in the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development, said MPs should state if they were practising heterosexuals or homosexuals, so the public would not consider them as hypocrites.
“How does someone’s sexual orientation affect their ability to perform the task assigned to them in the workplace and what does it really matter . . . ? That is a very private and personal thing,” George Griffith, executive director of the Barbados Family Planning Association, said yesterday.
Veteran trade unionist Caswell Franklyn also joined the debate and said Todd’s comparing of an assets declaration to sexual orientation declaration was ridiculous.
“Comparing a declaration of assets to a declaration of one’s sexuality is ridiculous because personal assets can be gained through stealing and the public can build a strong case as taxpayers; but if a politician steals “piece” on the side from a girl or a fella, it is really nobody’s business,” he told WEEKEND NATION.
Todd’s call also sparked concern from within the church. Reverend Errington Massiah, rector of St Joseph’s Parish Church, said: “Sexuality is strictly something private to individuals and as long as someone declares, they stand to be ridiculed and it really can’t benefit the public. The situation is very much alive in Barbados but it has to be tackled differently.”
Will point fingers
Dr Beverley Lashley, of the Wesleyan Holiness Church, said: “What will happen is that people will point more fingers and the discrimination continues.
“As soon as someone declares his or her preference, all hell will break loose in this country but at the same time, Todd is accurate regarding the expectations and the example leaders must set, walking the straight and narrow.”
Source: Nation News
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Participants at the six-day International AIDS Conference, gathering more than 22,000 people, said it was very complicated for men to access AIDS tests and potential treatment in the region with the second highest figure of HIV/AIDS cases worldwide at one percent of the population.The figure represents more than a quarter of a million people and is second only to Sub-saharan Africa.
Many of them are married and have children.
Moreover, some 20 percent of those with HIV in the region, mainly women, contracted the virus through their partner, said Peter Figueroa, director of epidemiology and AIDS for the Jamaican government.
On a rare positive note for the region, he highlighted universal access to AIDS treatment in Cuba.
Source – Carib Net News
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July 2, 2008 1 Comment
Twice elected George Bush of the Republican Party known for its conservatives views have traditionally court evangelical voters. Yet this same self proclaim Christian who stated before that the Christan religion guides his everyday decisions invaded a country under the pretense of finding weapons of mass destruction, a decision that have since been discovered to be an excuse for a hidden agenda. How does ”Love your enemy” and “Blessed be the peacemakers” square up with this war of pretense? Maybe Obama Democratic Party is sensing a despair on the part of the faith based crowd and is seizing an opportunity. Whatever it is Obama is taking a cue from the Republicans and courting the evangelical votes more so than ever. However his decision to oppose the California measure to define marriage as between a man and a woman definitely would not will not sit too well with that section of the electorate. Bill Clinton remarks on Obama having to kiss his ass for his support sure would not help either. Read more of this post
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May 26, 2008 1 Comment
Their excuse is the never ending stubbornness of countries worldwide where homosexuality remains a crime on the statue books. Like India for example where I am yet to hear Egale Canada bringing that country to its knees by calling for an international boycott of its goods and tourism as well but feels justified in going after a small island.
Instead of addressing the problem head on, the thought of forcing countries to decriminalised homosexuality may seem the likely choice to stop gay violence but fail to addressed the other side of the coin. Read more of this post
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May 22, 2008 7 Comments
What prompted such a statement? Let us go back a bit.
A Canadian gays rights group by the name of Egale Canada had the audacity to issued an ultimatum to the Jamaican government that if by May 17th, the Bruce Golding-led administration does not announce plans to abolish the country’s laws on homosexuality it will hold the country to ransom. Read more of this post
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April 18, 2008 1 Comment
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April 10, 2008 1 Comment
The rector of St Stephen’s Church in Bellevue Hill, the Reverend Richard Lane, denounced the judge for calling himself a Christian Anglican while living in an openly gay relationship and warned as a “messenger, watchman and steward of the Lord in the Anglican Church of Australia”, he faced God’s judgment.
To call himself a Christian Anglican was a “perversion of truth” and to continue to do so without changing his lifestyle would brand him, like Herod, a “coward, a liar, a deceiver” and a “lawless one”.
“I appeal to you to cast yourself on the mercy of Jesus … That is admit your sin, confess your wrongdoing and turn in humble repentance to the Lord Jesus, who alone can forgive you,” Mr Lane said.
The attack came in an exchange of letters between the priest and the judge which was cited during a forum organised by St James Institute on Tuesday night to encourage a “public conversation” about religious tolerance and homosexuality.
The letters prompted a complaint from Justice Kirby to the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen, who also asserts that homosexual practices are sinful.
“The archbishop’s injunction to me, which was quite sensible I thought, was we’ll give this person the benefit of the doubt,” Justice Kirby told the audience. “He probably thinks he’s doing you a favour and you should just see whether there is any truth in what he says, and think about it.”
Urging the judge to open himself to “God’s healing of homosexuality”, Mr Lane said Justice Kirby was a hypocrite for choosing to remain inside the church but claiming that homosexual practice “or any other sin” was in accordance with God’s will.
Mr Lane proposed circulating the written exchange with fellow clergy to ask the question: “Am I wrong?” Justice Kirby openly, gay and proud has agreed to this.
In reply he argued Mr Lane’s interpretation of biblical injunctions against homosexuality was not a universal one, and the biblical quotations used were unreliable mid-19th century translations. Mr Lane appeared to have turned a blind eye to the “central loving message of Jesus of the gospels”.
“To defy modern knowledge and to stick to uninformed interpretations is truly irrational. To do so selectively is specially so. It is a reason why the churches are losing rational adherents.”
Mr Lane declined to comment yesterday. Dr Jensen said correspondence between Mr Lane and Justice Kirby needed to be read fully and in context. “I have a long-standing personal relationship with Justice Kirby and he and I have communicated about these letters in confidence,” he said.
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