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September 01 2006 By virtueonline WASHINGTON: Gay marriage is a lost cause

For all intents and purposes, gay marriage is dead. Activists proclaimed that the Goodrich decision in Massachusetts was the end of the beginning of the struggle for equality, but in retrospect it was the beginning of the end.

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August 31 2006 By virtueonline APA President Supports Therapy Treating Unwanted Homosexual Tendencies

The APA has long been hostile toward the work of NARTH, saying attempts to alter the sexual inclinations of homosexual or lesbian persons amount to discrimination against homosexuality.

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August 22 2006 By virtueonline Sexual Sin Is Never Just a Private Matter - by Alan Medinger

This is important for us to recognize in order to duly defend and strengthen the church, to further the Kingdom, and to give us another reason to turn away from sin when we're tempted. To become healthy members of a strong and effective Body, we need to have an awareness of the harm that our sexual sins do to others.

I see seven ways in which even our solitary sexual sins bring harm to the Body of Christ:

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August 16 2006 By virtueonline Multiculturalism is to blame for perverting young Muslims

The movements that were born or renewed do not have any kind of centralised command structure, but co-operate through diffuse networks of affinity and patronage. One of their most important aims is to impose their form of Islam on countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia and Indonesia. This may be why they were not regarded as an immediate threat to the West.

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July 28 2006 By virtueonline The Clash of Worldviews: Defending the Truth

I will be hitting upon this throughout this talk: Remember always the balance between the two great commissions-to make disciples, baptize them, teach them all that I have taught you, draw people into the faith, but at the same time, remember that the culture is to be reclaimed. The world is to be reclaimed because it is God's world. My duty today is to bring God's truth and righteousness and majesty to bear in the culture. So we have two great commissions.

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July 18 2006 By virtueonline LONDON: 'The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state'

"It's confirmation of what they believe to be a familiar pattern: if spokesmen for British Muslims threaten what they call 'adverse consequences' - violence to the rest of us - then the British Government will cave in. I think it is a very dangerous precedent."

Dr Sookhdeo adds that he believes that "in a decade, you will see parts of English cities which are controlled by Muslim clerics and which follow, not the common law, but aspects of Muslim sharia law.

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July 14 2006 By virtueonline Survey Reveals Why Some 'Same Sex Attracted' Men Seek Change

The desire to heal emotional pain was cited as a major motivator by 77% of respondents, compared to 22% who identified "outside pressure" as a major motivator. In fact, just 3% identified outside pressure as one of the three main reasons they were seeking change.

The survey was conducted by People Can Change, a non-profit, non-religious self-help organization of men who have overcome unwanted homosexual attractions and who now support others who seek similar change.

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July 06 2006 By virtueonline Same-Sex Marriage Flounders. Few Homosexuals Interested in Tying the Knot

So far the highest estimate of the proportion of homosexuals who have used the new laws to marry is in the American state of Massachusetts, with 16.7% tying the knot. But this seems to be an exception. In the Netherlands, where same-sex marriage has been established the longest, the percentage was far lower.

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July 01 2006 By virtueonline John Danforth: Ban on gay marriage is "silly"; most Episcopalians "don't care.."

Danforth, also a former U.S. envoy to Sudan, told the Presiding Bishop's forum, "Toward a Reconciled World," at the convention on June 15 that "Virtually all of the public attention on this General Convention has been on the issue of sexual orientation...bear in mind that over 99 percent of the people in the United States are not Episcopalians and they really don't care, with all due respect, Bishop Griswold, who our bishops are.

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June 04 2006 By virtueonline Same-Sex Marriage: Hijacking the Civil Rights Legacy

As an exercise in marketing and merchandising, this strategy is the most brilliant playing of the race card in recent memory. Not since the "poverty pimps" of 35 years ago, who leveraged the guilt and sense of fair play of the American public to hustle affirmative action set-asides, have we witnessed so brazen a misuse of African-American history for partisan purposes.

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