Liverpool church linked to “home exorcisms” to cure gays

 The Frontline Church, Liverpool, which runs courses “helping Christian men and women out of homosexuality” has been described as being part of the “Dark Ages”.

The church’s courses are connected to the American LIFE Ministry, whose website instructs gay readers on home “exorcism”.

A document published on the Liverpool church’s website claimed people became gay as a result of “pain in childhood”.

Inside Australia's Gay Cure.

Article first published as Getting Inside Australia's Gay Cure. on Technorati.

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Inside Australia's 'Gay Cure'  from Jason Shaw

If I were to mention the word exodus to you, what would you think?  Migration or evacuation might come to mind, but for many all over the world the mention of the name Exodus is greeted with horror, anger and fear.  For Exodus is an American organisation of global religious ministries that claims to ‘cure’ gays with some very alarming practises.

Exorcisms, hugging, behavioural management and marriage are all among those alarming methods used by Exodus Christian ministries to "heal" or “cure” homosexuals according to a former leader who has now seen the light and wants such things stamped out.

Paul Martin became one of the main counsellors at the Melbourne branch of Exodus Asia Pacific during his 20’s has told local Australian newspapers, that after signing up to the Exodus ministries, parishioners would partake in various “treatment programs” which included focused prayer groups, counselling, and exercises, even exorcisms designed to cast out their inner ‘gay’ demons.

The Exodus message stems from the idea that homosexuality stems from a childhood love-deficit, that you weren't loved enough by your father and so crave love from men, or that you were sexually abused; basically that homosexuality comes from a bad place, that homosexuals are damaged people, and that Exodus will heal your brokenness, according to Paul Martin.

PayPal halt four anti-gay sites.

PayPal has suspended the accounts of four anti-gay organizations in response to a campaign from gay activists.

According to the group Allout.org, the websites of the Florida-based Truth in Action Ministries, formerly Coral Ridge Ministries, and Dove World Outreach Center are no longer accepting donations through the payment service.

Coral Ridge Ministries was founded by the late D. James Kennedy, an opponent of gay rights.

Last year, the Dove World Outreach Center vociferously opposed the campaign of Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe.

“Here in Gainesville, they're getting ready to have a runoff election between two candidates and one of them is openly a homo, gay, fag – whatever you want to call him, I don't care,” Pastor Wayne Sapp says in a video. “Bottom line is we cannot afford a homo mayor.”

Welsh church looks at benefits for gay clergy

Church Of Wales makes changes.

THE Church in Wales will next week consider taking a further step towards equality for gay clerics by providing improved pension rights for their civil partners.

But progressive elements in the Church remain uneasy that while there is an acceptance that priests can have a monogamous sexual relationship, the same tolerance does not extend to Bishops.

During a two-day meeting starting on Wednesday of the Church’s Governing Body, it will be recommended that surviving civil partners of retired clerics should receive a pension based on the priest’s entire working life. Until now, the rate of pension has only been calculated from 2005, when civil partnerships were first allowed.

Gay marriage 'pointless' says top Scottish catholic

Archbishop’s new attack on ‘pointless’ gay marriage

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• BROADSIDE: Mario Conti condemned as hubristic attempts to redefine the concept of marriage.

JODY HARRISON for the herald

ONE of Scotland’s top Catholics has launched a stinging attack on same-sex marriage, saying such relationships would be “meaningless”.

Mario Conti, the Archbishop of Glasgow, believes allowing gay couples to marry in a traditional sense would be pointless as it would not result in the creation of a “natural family”.

His comments come in a letter to The Herald today following the Scottish Government’s decision to hold a 14-week consultation on the issue.

It will look at whether to change a law that allows gay and lesbian couples to formalise their relationship in a civil partnership ceremony but prevents them from marrying in a religious service.

Archbishop Conti said its supporters, who are said to number around 60% of the Scottish population according to a recent poll, were being “foolish”.

Any attempt to redefine marriage is a direct attack on a foundational building block of society and will be opposed

He also criticised the Scottish Government for attempting to redefine the concept of marriage with their consultation, which he claims is akin to saying that “black is white”.

He writes: “In a proposed consultation regarding the redefinition of civil partnerships, we are talking not of human rights or of civil liberties, nor of legal or fiscal equalities, but of redefining a particular relationship to give it a meaning it doesn’t possess.

“We would use a word which carries huge significance, and render it meaningless in respect of one of its essential attributes, its capacity to create a natural family – I mean of course marriage.

“It hints also at a hubristic mentality on the part of those in power, who imagine that today they can call something what it was not yesterday, and tomorrow tell us that black is white.”

Archbishop Conti’s comments are part of a concerted effort by Catholic leaders to oppose any change to the status quo regarding marriage.

The Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, which represents every diocese, responded to the consultation’s launch in a homily delivered by Cardinal Keith O’Brien at a Mass attended by MSPs on Wednesday.

He said: “The Catholic Church will study the consultation document in detail and respond to it. The view of the church is, however, clear – no government can rewrite human nature. The family and marriage existed before the state and are built on the union between a man and woman.

“Any attempt to redefine marriage is a direct attack on a foundational building block of society and will be strenuously opposed.”

The Scottish Government’s consultation will hear the views of all key groups and will report back before the end of the year.

Ministers have said that although they are in favour of making gay marriage legal, they would not force any religious group to carry out a ceremony if it did not want to.

A recent Scottish Attitudes survey found a majority of Scots were in favour of same-sex marriage, and that the number who backed the idea was growing.

Alan Wardle, director of the gay rights group Stonewall Scotland, said he hoped ministers would be swayed by those opinions rather than Archbishop Conti’s.

Mr Wardle said: “Along with a growing majority of Scots, we believe gay, lesbian and bisexual couples should have equal legal access to civil marriage, with no mandate on religious organisations to celebrate it. We lobbied strenuously for the Scottish Government to consult on equal marriage.

“We hope now that they listen to the majority of Scots and the various faiths and religious denominations who support same-sex marriage, as well as those lesbian, gay and bisexual people of devout faith in Scotland who wish to marry.”

Anti-Gay Religious Group in Iowa Uses Federal Funds to be Total Assholes

 

wa has a complicated back-and-forth history with marriage equality. Iowa’s state Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2009, pioneering marriage equality in the Midwest. The ruling wasn’t necessarily representative of the will of the people (or the politicians), however — three of the judges responsible for the ruling were promptly removed from their positions, reports Autostraddle.

Teacher of hate Jerry Buell insists being gay is irrelevant to gay marriage debate

 

Jason Shaw

The so called teacher of the year Jerry Buell made an appearance on TMZ Live but refused to discuss his views on gay people.  

 

The complete bigot and homophobic hate monger  was last year was named Teacher of the Year at Mount Dora High School in South Florida.    Took his place back in the classroom on Thursday.

Lady Gaga flash mob held at Bachmann family clinic

 

Pray the gay away?   Nope,  dance the straight away perhaps. Who would have thought a flash mob of dancers would take on a the husband of a US presidential candidate.

However,  that’s what has happened because the said husband thinks that being gay can be cured right out people.  More from the state of hate Minnesota.

Bachmann’s comments, in which he referred to the gay community as “barbarians”, a flash mob of over 100 dancers descended on the driveway of the Bachmann & Associates clinic in full costume.

Dance the gay away?

Presbyterians Meet To Consider Leaving Church Over Gay Clergy, Other Issues

 

Less than four months after the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) made a historic and controversial move to ordain noncelibate, openly gay and lesbian clergy, a group of more than 2,000 disaffected ministers and lay people kicked off a conference Thursday that they say could lead to a breakaway church.

The Fellowship of Presbyterians plans to continue its meeting Friday to discuss how to reform a denomination that the group's leaders say has become "deathly ill" from declining membership, theological disagreements, increased bureaucracy and, most recently, the contentious debate over gay clergy.

Perry signs pledge on anti-gay marriage amendment

 

Credit: AP Photo / Brett Flashnick

 

AUSTIN, Gov. Rick Perry has signed a pledge to back a federal constitutional amendment against gay marriage — repudiating his earlier comments that marriage rights should be left up to individual states.
The Republican presidential hopeful signed the National Organization for Marriage's pledge Friday.
It states that, if elected, Perry will send a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the states for ratification and appoint U.S. Supreme Court and federal judges who will "reject the idea our Founding Fathers inserted a right to gay marriage into our Constitution."

Perry had said that though he doesn't support gay marriage personally, it is a states' rights issue. He even suggested New York's decision to legalize it was therefore fine with him.

Pope Benedict Shielded From Gay Kiss-In

 

Police in Spain on Thursday shielded Pope Benedict XVI from a planned gay kiss-in protest.   A similar protest last November during the pontiff's last visit to the Roman Catholic stronghold included roughly 200 gay men, lesbians and allies embracing as the Holy Fatherwas being driven to celebrate mass at Barcelona's La Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) basilica. The protesters, however, were drowned out by thousands of cheering, flag-waving supporters of the pontiff.

UK Government May Change Public Order Act

 

The government says it will “assess the benefits” of removing the crime of causing ‘insult’ from the Public Order Act, reports Jessica Green on the UK’s Pink News service.   The law has been used to prosecute street preachers who persist in delivering anti-gay sermons in public, although some campaigners – including Peter Tatchell – say it should not be illegal to insult people.

'Demonised' Christians Pull Out of Gay Talks In Hobart

 

ANTI-gay marriage groups say they are pulling out of a public debate in Hobart because they are sick of being demonised by their opposition, reports the Herald Sun news paper.

The Australian Christian Lobby's Jim Wallace, state Liberal MP Michael Ferguson and Terri Kelleher of the Australian Family Association were set to take part in a debate about gay marriage at the University of Tasmania in Launceston.

American Churches Face ‘The Gay Debate’

 

After same-sex marriage becomes legal in New York on July 24, gay priests with partners in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island will head to the altar. They have to – simple as that.  They have been ordered to but their bishop,  who has given them a nine month time limit.  If they are not married by then,  it’s time for them to hit the road! 

Openly gay bishop in Louisville urges Christians to 'show more love'

 

Sharing his views on gays and lesbians in the church, the role of religion in public policy and whether non-Christians can go to heaven, Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, conducted an adult faith forum Sunday at Episcopal Church of the Advent in Louisville.

New York Town Clerk Quits Over Gay Marriages

 

A town clerk in western New York has resigned in a bid to avoid being forced to sign marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples.   The clerk has  cited  religious objections to same-sex marriage marriage.

Laura Fotusky, was the town clerk in Barker, on the western side of  New York state told the media before her employers that she had sent in her resignation.  She’ll step down on 21st July, just three days before New York becomes the sixth and largest state in the US to allow gay nuptials.

The current New York governor and supporter of equality Andrew Cuomo signed the same sex marriage law last month.   The bill was narrowly passed in the Republican-led state Senate,  after a small  number of republicans went against GOP orders and voted to approve the bill.    Its approval in New York has been seen by many as a catalyst for gay marriage elsewhere.

Much of the debate in New York focused on the scope of protections for those opposed to same-sex marriage. The new law exempts religious groups from performing same-sex marriages but does not extend those protections to individuals, including government employees.

Fotusky stated in her letter that  she said she believes the Bible takes precedence over man-made laws. "The Bible clearly teaches that God created marriage between male and female as a divine gift that preserves families and cultures. Since I love and follow Him, I cannot put my signature on something that is against God," she wrote, "I would be compromising my moral conscience if I participated in the licensing procedure,"

According to New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a conservative Christian nonprofit group that circulated Fotusky's letter to the media, she is the first clerk in the state to resign over objections to same-sex nuptials.

But she is not the first to raise concerns. Two weeks ago, the town clerk in the Syracuse suburb of Volney cited her own religious objections and requested that outside help be brought in to sign same-sex marriage licenses.

Cuomo, who had made the legalization of same-sex marriage a top priority this year, told reporters on Tuesday that he agreed with Fotusky's decision to resign because government workers have a responsibility to enforce the law.

"When you enforce the laws of the state, you don't get to pick and choose the laws," Cuomo said.

“Of course,  she is entitled to hold her views, in respect of religion. However, being held up as a champion of religious freedoms by Constitutional Freedoms is a dangerous thing. She and they mat well believe “bible takes precedence over man-made laws”  I therefore expect them to call for the death penalty for anyone who works on a Sunday and will sell their first born daughters in to slavery – both of which are both laws as per the bible”  Said gay rights commentator Jason Shaw.

 

Edinburgh–Scottish Church In Crises Over Gays

 

The Church of Scotland may very well be in a state of crisis according to some,  for they are warning that at least three Edinburgh churches could break away from the Church of Scotland over the gay ministers debate.

Aussie Christians Complain About Gay Ad

Jason Shaw

Christian groups are behind a campaign to topple sexual health advertisement programme in Queensland, Australia.

Michele Bachmann's Husband, Marcus, Seeks To Cure Gay People.

 

 

 

An undercover investigation has revealed that Marcus Bachmann's clinic provides “pray away the gay”therapy.

Marcus and Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who is seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for president, have been married 30 years.

 

(Related: Michele Bachmann signs anti-gay marriage pledge.)

Anti Gay Preacher Visit Angers MP

 

In the UK a member of parliament has asked Home Secretary Theresa May why an anti-gay US preacher is being allowed into the UK, reports Pink News.    The labour MP Richard Burden has told local paper Birmingham Mail that people would question why Pastor John Hagee is allowed into the country while other hate preachers, such as Muslim speaker Sheikh Raed Salah, are banned.