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December 27 2022 By dvirtue Scottish Parliament passes bill allowing teens as young as 16 to legally change their gender

Known as the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) bill, the measure was passed in a vote of 86 to 69. The proposed legislation still awaits royal assent.

According to its official overview, the legislation seeks to change the standards for Scottish citizens to acquire a "gender recognition certificate," a legal document stating that "a person's gender is not the gender that they were assigned at birth, but is their 'acquired gender.'"

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December 20 2022 By dvirtue A mass exodus from Christianity is underway in America. Here's why

And it likely will, with the largest percentage of those losing their religion being young adults who are about as old as that REM reference: people around 30 and under.

It's a kind of "cultural whiplash" from religion to secularism that's hit the United States much faster than it has other parts of the world, said theology and sociology professor Stephen Bullivant.

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November 28 2022 By dvirtue THE IMPENDING THREAT TO RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN THE SO CALLED "RESPECT FOR MARRIAGE ACT"

The bill's proponents claim that The Respect for Marriage Act's is intended to protect same-sex marriage by making it a federal law. So, what's the big deal? Hasn't the Supreme Court already made it unconstitutional for states to restrict same-sex marriage?

Actually, the Act would go much farther than simply making same sex marriage a federal Law. Rather, Section 5 defines marriage as:

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November 22 2022 By dvirtue THE PARABLE OF DAVID FRENCH

In a piece published last week at The Atlantic, French argues that the Respect for Marriage Act rightly "protects same-sex marriage" and "contains religious-freedom protections for religious dissenters, including explicit protections for tax exemptions." His main argument is that the legislation codifying same-sex marriage nationwide rightly balances competing interests (LGBTQ rights and religious liberty) and thus represents "how pluralism is supposed to work." He argues that the bill just m

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November 16 2022 By dvirtue EVANGELICAL PASTORS DISCUSS WAYS TO 'MEND' FAILINGS OF EVANGELICALISM

According to Religion News, the pastors posed a fundamental question that served as a springboard for the day's discussion: "What is an evangelical?"

Joel Lawrence, the Center for Pastor Theologian's executive director, honestly answered: "Nobody knows exactly what an evangelical is."

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November 11 2022 By dvirtue THE CHURCH OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION

Churches are increasingly in the middle of cultural and moral controversies. Mr. Oliver's denomination has dramatically fragmented over issues of sexuality, with many congregations leaving to join the Global Methodist Church, a new denomination founded in 2022 as a conservative alternative.

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November 01 2022 By dvirtue The Clearest Sign Yet That God Has Given America Over to Depravity

Rampant porn addiction is bad enough, as is the redefining of the very meaning of marriage.

Radicals shouting their abortions and the government openly advocating for the chemical castration and genital mutilation of confused children is yet another telltale sign.

But the drag queen depravity goes one step further.

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October 22 2022 By dvirtue Americans Trust the Gov't More than the Church to Make 'Meaningful Change': Barna

The state government (51 percent) and local government (46 percent) had similar support as the national government.

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October 08 2022 By dvirtue DETRANSITIONERS CAN NO LONGER BE IGNORED

Many prominent detransitioners have come to the fore in recent years. Perhaps the best known is Keira Bell. In 2020, she took legal action against the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the soon-to-be-closed Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS), the UK's only specialist gender clinic for young people. Bell argues that staff at GIDS should have challenged her desire to become a boy, rather than affirm it.

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October 04 2022 By dvirtue The Russian Orthodox patriarch betrays the gospel

Christians, of course, believe that our sin is atoned by divine grace through Christ's blood, not through human works--much less aggressive war, or the horrors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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