Twenty-five years ago this summer, in Victoria, the United Church of Canada General Council wrestled with the issue of the ordination of openly gay and lesbian people to the Christian ministry. The Council, the United Church’s highest court, which meets every three years, passed the initiative, with considerable, passionate and generally polite debate. I can […]
Haters
Haters. Nobody likes a hater, it is the polar opposite of the Christian value of love, yes standing behind the traditional Christian perspective that homosexuality is a sin, can result in you landing on the wrong side of the law as a perpetrator of “Hate Speech” after a landmark decision in a Saskatchewan court, that challenges our constitutional right to “Freedom of Expression”
Trinity Western University’s law school and the battle over free thinking
It is clear that the debate over Trinity Western University’s proposal for a law school is no longer a debate over homosexuality and religious freedom, but a debate over intellectual competency. Take the recent article in the National Post from legal scholars who oppose TWU’s proposal for a law school as an example. While arguing […]
Opposition to Trinity Western Law School because of anti-homosexual rules
As reported in the Vancouver Sun, the Council of Canadian Law Deans oppose Trinity Western University’s (TWU) proposal for the country’s first religious law school because of the university’s long-standing requirement that faculty and students abstain from homosexual relationships. According to Trinity Western community covenant, any sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between […]
Straight Christian Male Pretends To Be Gay For A Year
How far are you willing to go to walk a mile in another person’s shoes? For Timothy Kurek, a Portland based author and Liberty University graduate, that meant pretending to be gay for a year. Kurek grew up a conservative Christian and learned to fear the gay community from an early age. However, an encounter […]
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Repealed
For many years the United States military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy protected closeted gay, lesbian, or bisexuals from experiencing discrimination and harassment. The same policy also prevented these same people from serving the military as openly gay. The policy was introduced in 1993 during the presidency of Bill Clinton who had made the campaign […]
U Vic prof offers insights on Ugandan anti-gay law
University of Victoria German professor Michael Hadley has been to Uganda four times since 2004 to teach ethics at a medical school there, but the latest visit at the start of the year came while the East African country was in a turmoil over a bill before parliament to make some homosexual practices a capital […]