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  • Big Brother’s Danielle McMahon Talks About Gay Marriage

    We knew it wouldn’t take long before something would be said about same-sex marriage…

    The lingerie model and devout Catholic from Glasgow, Danielle McMahon, 25, who is currently appearing in Big Brother 2014 has spoken out against same-sex marriage during a conversation with Kimberley.

    Kimberley was recalling a story in which she had experienced some anti-gay sentiments at a church, saying, ‘I went to church with my sister, close to my house… we have a lot of friends who are gay and we walked in there and they were absolutely slating gay people… [saying] they’re in hell and all this sort of stuff and I just walked out. How could someone be so horrible… I find it so crazy.”

    Danielle countered,

    “That’s too much. I don’t agree with that. I’m not in favour of same-sex marriage but I’d never turn around and say, you’re going to hell… God still loves you regardless. I just don’t agree with it in the church of God.

    ‘The Catholic church don’t believe in same-sex marriage in the church and I go by what the Pope says.”

    When Kimberley made the point about marriage being a legal document and that the Church was not needed to get married, Danielle replied, ‘The only point I see in marriage is through God in the Catholic church… or else, to me, it’s not marriage really.’

    New housemate Marlon also got involved in the conversation adding, ‘ think, if you want to get married, get married to who the hell you want to get married to. It’s as simple as that.’

  • Anti-Gay Marriage Contestant Enters Big Brother House

    Catholic Lingerie Model Danielle McMahon has entered the Big Brother house – and she’s not afraid to speak her mind, especially when it comes to same-sex couples.

    Danielle McMahon, 25, from Glasgow has already caused concern amongst the gay community, after her Big Brother VT showed her talking about her beliefs, which included strong anti-same sex marriage ideas.

    Amongst her other ideas:

    She doesn’t believe in gay marriage but says she isn’t homophobic.

    She has strict and ‘old-fashioned’ views and believes ‘things were better years ago’.

    She believes in traditional gender roles and feels the ‘1950’s housewife was a better role model’.

    She says she will always be ‘upfront about not believing in sex before marriage

    Danielle wants to be a role model for women and young girls and help them to aim higher. She is disgusted at the trends at the moment for revealing clothes and doesn’t think you need to dress like that to be successful. She wants to show people how to have ‘class, flair and charisma’.

  • Westboro Baptists release anti-gay version of Let It Go

    Anti-everything Church Westboro Baptist Church has released a version of Frozen’s hit song Let It Go, but have cleverly changed the words… oh those talented beasts.

    The ever-on-the-pulse-of-pop-culture Church, WBC have released a version of Idina Menzel’s Let It Go, with clever, almost rhyming, new lyrics warning us all about our sins… yada yada yada.

    We’re assuming they did this they because Let it Go is seen as the perfect coming out song. (Props to their marketing dept.)

    We particularly enjoyed the failed reach for the high note – it seems god isn’t lifting you up as you reach for your E flat.

    Listen to the song here

  • Cher Is Anti-Gay Church WBO Next Protest

    The hate mongers at Westboro Baptist Church have decided on their next picket: Cher.

    This could get messy folks after the almost parody of its own self church, Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) released information on its next anti-gay protest.

    In a press release (comedy one-sheet as we like to refer to it around these parts) WBC says, it plans to picket ‘that bundle of confusion going by the name of Cher’ at the singer’s Kansas City concert on 31 May.

    The press release gets personal by dismissing Cher as a bad mother saying, ‘It’s no wonder that Chastity did a slow motion meltdown before the eyes of the world with such rage in her heart that she decided to show Cher who was boss and started chopping body parts off and calling herself a man.’

    In March the founder of WBC Fred Phelps died at the age of 84.

    We think that Cher will get along just fine…

  • Archbishop Of Canterbury Meets With School Teacher For Anti-Homophobic Campaign

    Archbishop Of Canterbury Meets With School Teacher For Anti-Homophobic Campaign

    ‘Southwark School Leader and Anti-Homophobic Bullying Champion Shaun Dellenty to Meet the Archbishop of Canterbury’

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  • Gay Church of England priest marries his partner

    A gay Church of England Priest has become the first clergyman to marry his boyfriend.

    Canon Jeremy Pemberton has defied the Church of England’s ban on same-sex marriage to become the first priest to marry his long-term, same-sex partner Laurence Cunnington. The couple wed on Saturday afternoon, the Telegraph has reported.

    The law in the UK that allows same-sex marriage came into force on the 29th March. However some religious organisations are forced by law to not be able to conduct same-sex marriages, the Church of England was one of them.

    The couple did not marry within a C of E Church.

    The Church, earlier this year, decided to ban gay clergy from marrying. The decision means that Priests who marry their same-sex partners could face disciplinary actions.

    Speaking in his blog over at The Telegraph Damian Thompson suggested that the punishment for Mr Pemberton’s marriage could be:

    ‘the withdrawal of his licence to officiate at services (he doesn’t have a parish). Technically he could be defrocked, but that would involve a messy legal process…’

  • Why is Matt Barber focusing on anal sex and not Christian values?

    Some people just can’t let it go. Is Matt Barber is one of them? Forget what we’re doing with our bodies and concentrate on what you’re doing with your mind.

    Last year the author, lawyer and ex-pro boxer, Matt Barber, used a column in WND to tell gay teens that they were just a ‘means to an end’.

    Today he takes to the same publication to focus on ‘How The “Gay” Jihad Normalized A Filthy Practice’, and he definitely seems to know a lot about those gay ‘practices’.

    What an odd thought, such a mix of ideologies, but well done on mixing a Muslim war against unbelievers and gay people (and their allies) who are merely asking the government for equality.

    Within his article Barber calls homosexuals ‘pagan sexual jihadists’ and laments the poor Christian business owners who are ‘facing harsh government persecution for merely living out their faith.’

    Ah, it’s the Christian business owners that are facing persecution; we won’t mention at this point, Crusades, Inquisitions, ‘gay cure’ therapies or what women can or can’t do with their bodies all in the name of beliefs and faiths.

    Forgive me, I thought it was the ‘homosexualists’ who faced daily persecution and inequality around the world, but clearly I was wrong. I checked the same dictionary; homosexualist isn’t actually a word.

    Throughout Barber’s incoherent ramblings within the article, he arrives, I assume, to the crux of his issues. Anal.

    I have to ask why does he care?

    How does he know so much about the intimate acts between gay men?

    And, why just focus on gay men? Aren’t lesbians part of your rampage against the ‘homosexualists’?

    I’d like to take a moment to inform Barber and the rest of his audience, which he insists of ill informing, that not all gay men partake in anal sex.

    Some do, but so do some heterosexuals. In fact if you add up the number of straight people having butt sex and the entire homosexual community that do it, you’ll probably find that proportionally straights are having it more often than the gays and good for them. After all it’s their body.

    There are of course, the biological facts to look at here; but since Barber seems to know so much about sodomy, I’m guessing I don’t have to explain. We’ll ignore the fact that the male G-spot is placed inside his body, we’ll forget the fact that the anus is conveniently placed in a position that makes anal sex just as easy and accessible as vaginal intercourse. We’ll also forget the fact that women also enjoy anal intercourse too, and that not all sexual contact between heterosexuals has to end in conception.

    Barber’s references to the millions of homosexual men wasting away in hospices, and how the gay press has hidden them away, are just erroneous.

    The struggles that gay men faced during the 80s and 90s are still very much at the forefront of the gay media today, and continue to be the subject of many films, books and health campaigns by health services world over.

    Barber would be wise to check facts here, perhaps cast his eyes to the real statistics surrounding people living with HIV and AIDS. This just reinforces negativity toward the gay community from those who are far too uneducated on the matter.

    It’s articles like this one that perpetuate the issues that gay people face, but thankfully if one looks at the latest polls and trends on what society thinks on the matter of same-sex marriage, people like Matt Barber look more and more ridiculous as they position themselves on the wrong side of public opinion.

    Stop thinking about what the gay community does or doesn’t do in its bedrooms and start focussing on real Christian values of compassion and equality.

     

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  • La Manif Pour Tous London Protest draws poor turn out

    La Manif Pour Tous London Protest draws poor turn out

    La Manif Pour Tous, the French anti same sex marriage and anti adoption for gay couples, organisation is taking its protests to the streets of other European cities including our very own Trafalgar Square.

    After the reported 340,000 protesters who turned up last month in Paris to march against same sex marriage, the French organisers have booked out Trafalgar Square for a UK protest, again expecting to bring in thousands of supporters.

    However it could be the great British weather or the fact that most UK citizens support same sex marriage, as the live web cam shows, it’s quite a poor turn out and not quite the scenes of Paris last month.

    The organisers state that they have 3 purposes to their demonstrations:

    La Manif Pour Tous in Londom
    CREDIT: TheGayUK

    – First, because defending children rights is not a French or an English matter, but a global matter- Secondly, because we share the same values around marriage and family; we need to be united

    – Finally, because it’s obviously a way to send a message to the UK government, even if the demonstation [sic] is initiated by the French.

  • Christian B&B Owners Can Turn Away Gay Couples Legally

    Christian B&B owners who turned away gay customers, can now legally turn away homosexual couples.

    Peter and Hazelmary Bull were subject to an international media storm when they refused to let civilly partnered Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy share a room at their B&B, the Chymorvah Hotel, in Marazion in 2008, citing their religious beliefs as a reason for their decision.

    Mr Hall and Mr Preddy successfully sued the hotel owners for £3600 in 2011, in a landmark case which found that Mr. & Mrs. Bull had discriminated against the gay couple, on the grounds of sexual orientation under the Equalities Act.

    The hotel couple took their case to the Court of Appeal, where it was dismissed and are now waiting to have it heard in England’s highest court, the Supreme Court.

    The Independent now reports that the Chymorvah Hotel has been turned in to a respite care centre for Christians and will be run as a ‘not-for-profit’ organisation which means anyone staying under the Bull’s roof will have to abide by their rules, as long as those rules are set out in the company’s articles.

    Mrs Bull, 69, told the Daily Mail:

    “We are not fanatics. We have often been portrayed as being bigoted.

    “I am not homophobic. I have no problem with them – I have always thought of them as people and enjoy their company. It is just that we thought it would be wrong for here.

    “All we wanted was to be able to support marriage, to say no here.

    “This (the result of the trial) is the men’s human rights and they come into a collision with our human rights.”

    Mr Hall and Mr Preddy said:

    “The judge has confirmed what we already know – our civil partnership has the same status in law as a marriage between a man and a woman, and that, regardless of each person’s religious beliefs, no one is above the law.”

    Following the Hearing’s conclusion the Chymorvah found difficulties in attracting guests and was stripped of its Visit England status because of its policies and was not featured in many tourist guides.

    On the hotel’s website, customers are given a special note before booking a double bed which reads: ‘Here at Chymorvah we have few rules, but please note that as Christians we have a deep regard for marriage(being the union of one man to one woman for life to the exclusion of all others).
    Therefore, although we extend to all a warm welcome to our home, our double bedded accommodation is not available to unmarried couples. Thank you’
  • UK Christians Should Rally Against Gay Marriage

    Christian People’s Alliance leader Sid Cordle has called on the United Kingdom’s Christians to demonstrate against gay marriage.

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  • Prominent Evangelical Urges Church To “Rethink” Gay Adoption

    Inclusive Christian group calls for debate over same-sex relationships, Rev. Steve Chalke challenges Christian Church to ‘rethink’ attitudes to homosexuality and launches new Online Support Service.

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