ECUADOR’S Bishops’ Conference has slammed a court decision this week to legalise same-sex marriage, saying that the ruling violates the heavily Catholic country’s constitution. The Conference rejected the decision handed down by the Constitutional Court, and parroted that tired old mantra that marriage is comprised of one man and one woman. The Constitutional Court recognised gay marriage June 12 in a 5-4 decision. In a statement published June 13, the bishops pointed out that: The Constitutional Court under no argument… Read more
June 15, 2019
Ecuador legalises gay marriage and Catholics are furious
June 15, 2019 By Barry Duke
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June 15, 2019
Vatican’s new sexuality document opens up a fresh can of worms
June 15, 2019 By Barry Duke
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ON Monday the Congregation for Catholic Education published the grandly titled Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question of Gender Theory in Education. It is addressed to Catholic schools and to those who, inspired by a Christian vision, work in other schools; to parents, students, and staff; but also to bishops, priests, and religious, as well as ecclesial movements and associations of the faithful. Among the first to comprehensively rubbish the document was… Read more
June 14, 2019
Deranged Tennessee detective called for gays to be executed
June 14, 2019 By Barry Duke
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GRAYSON Fritts, above, a Knox County Sheriff’s Office detective and a Baptist minister, has been placed on sick leave after he delivered a rabid, hate-fueled sermon calling for the government to execute LGBTQ people. According to this report, Fritts, 39, was removed from active duty for calling for riot teams to round up and take away Pride event participants and execute them. During the sermon, Fritts, said to a laughing congregation: Such arrests and executions should be carried out by… Read more
June 14, 2019
Anti-transgender booklets: Catholic hate group targets school kids
June 14, 2019 By Barry Duke
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VARIOUS reports in the UK claim that the Archdiocese of Liverpool was compelled this week to issue an apology after thousands of school children across across the city – and many more across the country – were ‘accidentally’ handed transphobic booklets. Because none of the reports reveal who was responsible for the publication – Gender Theory: Diversity or 21st Century Totalitarianism? – I did some digging, and discovered it was distributed by a Glasgow-based Catholic outfit that calls itself the… Read more
June 13, 2019
Software glitch bans words like ‘Jesus’ and ‘God’ from photo kiosk
June 13, 2019 By Barry Duke
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RED faces all round at Australia’s Kmart, where a photo printing machine disallowed the use of words like ‘God’, ‘church’, ‘Jesus’, ‘Jewish’ and ‘Bible. A glitch in the system appears to have been discovered by customers Anthony Dorsett and his wife Marelynda who were stopped from captioning photographs with the words “church” and “Jesus”. Dowsett said he was trying to print photographs for his church group. He said his wife was “offended” and: She thought it was disgusting. She is… Read more
June 13, 2019
Disney refuses to accept anti-gay petition, tells bigot to get lost
June 13, 2019 By Barry Duke
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CHRISTIAN Concern, a nasty little British outfit made up of perpetually outraged bigots, is seething over the fact that Disney in London rejected an anti-gay petition, and told a woman who tried to present it to vacate its premises. The petition was started when homophobes got wind of the fact that Disneyland Paris was about to officially hosted its first LGBT Pride event on June 1, making it the first Disney theme park to do so. A day before the… Read more
June 12, 2019
God ‘grabbed’ teen who fell off a Missouri cliff
June 12, 2019 By Barry Duke
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HARDLY a day goes by without Christian news outlets reporting on ‘miracles’ of crosses or Bibles surviving earthquakes or fires, or someone getting ‘miraculously’ saved from death by a Higher Power. The latest report of a ‘miracle’ comes from Missouri, where 17-year-old Ben Foster, above, slipped off a cliff on Sunday and and was rescued by paramedics and fire crews. But Foster credits God for saving him from what might have been a fatal fall from a cliff in Cuivre River… Read more
June 12, 2019
NSS castigates vicar over ‘alarming’ relationship teaching article
June 12, 2019 By Barry Duke
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The National Secular Society’s Education and Schools Officer, Alastair Lichten, above, has weighed into a row sparked by a vicar who described lessons about LGBT relationships as “state-sponsored child abuse”.Referring to an article written by Rev Peter Hughes in the latest edition of the Wickersley St Alban’s parish magazine under the headline “Parents: Take Back Control” Lichten said: Smearing the transmission of knowledge of LGBT people as child abuse sends a vicious message to LGBT pupils, parents and local people…. Read more
June 11, 2019
Petition demands that the Catholic Church returns to basic ‘truths’
June 11, 2019 By Barry Duke
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HELL exists for sure, homosexuality remains ‘contrary to natural law and Divine Revelation’ and contraception, under no circumstances, should ever be allowed. These, and a whole bunch of other issues, are addressed in a ‘back to basics’ document which readers of LifeSiteNews are being exhorted to support via a petition. The document – “A Declaration of Truths Amid Confusion in Universal Church” – is the creation of a clot of Catholic fossils who are deeply unhappy with the direction in… Read more
June 11, 2019
Wrongly buried committed atheist is to be exhumed and cremated
June 11, 2019 By Barry Duke
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IN a rare decision, a Church of England Consistory Court judge agreed that a ‘fundamental mistake’ had been made when an atheist was buried in consecrated ground at a church cemetery. Morag Ellis QC, above, Deputy Chancellor of the Diocese of Southwark, ruled that the remains of Gwendolen Patricia Crow could be exhumed and then cremated after she learned that the dead woman and her family were committed atheists. Crow, 58, was killed in a road accident on January 10,… Read more
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