25, 2007 1:28 | Updated Jun. 25, 2007
1:31 By ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK
Religious groups lead New York
gay pride parade
Religious groups including Christians, Jews and
Buddhists led the New York gay pride parade on Sunday,
lending gravity to the often outrageous event that
celebrates the 1969 Stonewall riots when patrons at a
Greenwich Village gay bar fought back against a police
raid. "We stand for a progressive religious voice," said
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum of New York City's Congregation
Beth Simchat Torah. "Those who use religion to advocate
an anti-gay agenda I believe are blaspheming God's name."
... Kleinbaum, who heads the world's largest
predominantly gay synagogue, and the Rev. Troy Perry,
founder of the Metropolitan Community Church, were the
parade's grand marshals, waving from his-and-hers
convertibles.
The march took place days after the New York State
Assembly passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage,
which Governor Eliot Spitzer supports. Although the bill
is unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled state
Senate any time soon, parade-goers said they were cheered
by the Assembly's action. ... Tens of thousands of people
attended the march, including NY Mayor Michael
Bloomberg.
BBC World
News, Sunday, 26 June, 2005, 17:44 GMT 18:44
UK
A Jerusalem court has
ruled that the city's annual gay parade should be allowed
to take place next Thursday as originally scheduled. The
decision overturned a ban on the event by the city's
council, which had said the event would be "provocative"
and set off unrest. The judge ordered Jerusalem's mayor
to personally pay 30,000 shekels ($6,600) to the city's
gay and lesbian centre to cover the group's legal costs
and underwrite the event. Judge Mussia Arad also ordered
the council to pay and additional 30,000 shekels to the
group, and to line the parade route with banners
representing the group in advance of the event, as the
city customarily does for cultural events. In her ruling,
the Jerusalem district court judge said the city did not
have the right to prohibit the parade, arguing that the
mayor could not act with prejudice against a group of
homosexual people because he disagreed with their
views.
3400 years earlier
(Judges 19 - 21) The Tribe of Benjamin had also defended
their Gay homosexual community and the Lord sent 400,000
troops against them who nearly exterminated the little
tribe; moreover, they took an oath not to give to the
Benjamites any of their daughters in marriage. Only at
the last moment, when all but 600 men had been slain, a
way was found to provide the survivors with wives in
order to prevent the tribe from dying out They also
burned their city.
Three months ago,
Christian, Jewish and Muslim religious leaders held a
news conference calling for gay festivals in Jerusalem to
be banned. One Muslim cleric suggested gay events in
Jerusalem would attract divine wrath similar to that
which destroyed the biblical city of Sodom.
Pop star Elton John,, and his longtime partner David
Furnish, waved to members of the media and the public
after they had a civil ceremony at the Guildhall in the
town of Windsor, England, Wednesday Dec. 21, 2005. John
and Furnish are among the some hundreds of same-sex
couples planning to form civil partnerships on Wednesday,
the first day that such ceremonies have become legally
possible. in a much-anticipated ceremony that capped the
first week of legalized civil unions in the United
Kingdom.
The new law passed last year despite some opposition
from Parliament's unelected House of Lords allows civil
ceremonies that will give same-sex couples the same
social security, tax, pension and inheritance rights as
married couples.
As millions of Christians across earth commemorate
Good Friday remembering the day on which the Lord Jesus
Christ gave Himself as a sacrifice for sins for the
world, it seems not all religious leaders in Christendom
will be celebrating. Bishop Jeffrey John, an openly
homosexual priest that was ordained by the Church of
England several years ago, has said during an interview
with the BBC that he believes the idea that God could
punish Jesus Christ for the sins of the world is
"repulsive".
"Brokeback Mountain is the 'Perfect Storm' of
Hollywood's war on morality," said Robert Knight,
director of Concerned Women for America's (CWA's) Culture
& Family Institute (CFI). "It combines high
production values with a lowdown attack on morality. It's
a mockery of the Western genre embodied by every movie
cowboy from John Wayne to Gene Autry to Kevin Costner. I
can't think of a more effective way to annoy and alienate
most movie-going Americans than to show two cowboys
lusting after each other and even smooching.
Published: June 3, 2007 ... SAN FRANCISCO, Gay and
lesbian prisoners in California will be allowed overnight
visits with their partners under a new prison policy,
believed to be the first time a state has allowed
same-sex conjugal stays. .... The policy change was
spurred by a letter warning of legal action from the
American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Vernon
Foeller, 40, a gay man who had been serving a 20-month
sentence for attempted burglary at the state prison in
Vacaville, Calif. Alex Cleghorn, an AC.L.U. lawyer, said
that Mr. Foeller was eligible for a conjugal visit except
that the prison system "didn't recognize his partner as a
family member."
West of the mountains of
Moab, in the Judean Desert, lies a deep canyon. In its
center sits a body of water which is called in Hebrew,
"Yam Hamelah," meaning "The Sea of Salt." Located 1300
feet (405 meters) below sea level, it is at the very
lowest spot on earth. The ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah
have been discovered southeast of the Dead Sea. The
modern names are Bab edh Dhra, thought to be Sodom, and
Numeira, thought to be Gomorrah.The destruction debris is
about three feet thick. Both places were destroyed at the
same time by an enormous fiery conflagration that also
destroyed the lower Jordan Valley in 1868 B.C. The
lowering of the Valley to below sea level formed the Dead
Sea. During the 1000 year Reign of Jesus the Messiah,
water will flow out of His Temple causing the Dead Sea to
rise to it's original level once again.
"The two angels ( sent to
judge the wickedness of Sodom and determine whether or
not to spare it) arrived in Sodom in the evening, and Lot
was sitting in the gateway of the city." (Genesis 19:1)
"He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast,
and they ate. Before the angels had gone to bed, all the
men from every part of the city of Sodom both young and
old surrounded the house. They called to Lot, "Where are
the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so
that we can have sex with them ['so we may know
them']." Lot went outside to meet them…and said,
" No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I
have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let
me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like
with them. But don't do anything to these men." …And
the men said, "We'll treat you worse than them."
...Genesis 19:4-9
"The two
men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here -
sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the
city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we
are going to destroy this place. The outcry to The Lord
against its people is so great that He has sent us to
destroy it." (Genesis 19:12-13)
"By the time Lot reached
Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Then The Lord
rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah - from
The Lord out of the heavens. Thus He overthrew those
cities and the entire plain, including all those living
in those cities - and also the vegetation in the land.
But Lot's wife looked back and she became a pillar of
salt." (Genesis 19:23-26)
PICTURE
FROM
THE JERUSALEM CHRISTIAN REVIEW
As
beautiful as Heaven is ! that is how Horrifying HELL is!
Words cannot describe HELL and words cannot describe
Heaven! Hell was created for the Fallen angels (demons)
and Satan and the Anti Christ! Hell was never made for
human beings! The Horror of HELL is NOT only for those
who are the Mass murderers, or Hitler, or the really EVIL
of this world! But Hell is filled with people we love,
and our neighbors and friends who give to Charities,
always there to lend a helping hand, People who we would
say were GOOD people if they were judged by their works!
All
mankind has sinned and fell short of the Glory of God his
perfection and Holiness! NONE of US are perfect! except
ONE and his name is JESUS the Messiah! that is why
accepting the Price he paid when he Spilled his blood at
Calvary is the ONLY thing that can make US HOLY and
Acceptable before Father God.
Here are
a few brief lyrics to the song " A CITIZEN IN HELL"©
Copyright Apostle Elisabeth Elijah Nikomia
"Flaming
worms crawl in, flaming worms crawl out ....In the eyes
and out the ears! We scream for mercy yet NO one cares or
hears! Red hot pain in my blood rivers of feces, lava,
vomit and blood, it looks like a flood! Flames everywhere
yet they cast NO light! All I have is every kind of pain,
terror, torture, and fright! I am a Citizen in HELL!
This is
the first level of HELL the other levels there are NO
words to tell!...how do I describe the HELLISH pain I'm
in! I'm so thirsty yet There's NO water of any kind not
even sweat to cool my brow, I know from HEll I will never
be set free and demons curse and Mock me! I scream to God
to help me! yet he does NOT hear! instead the voice of
Satan laughs and Jeers! haha There's NO GOD and there's
NO mercy here! I have torture , terror, and Damnation and
every kind of FEAR! but there's NO GOD HERE!
The rich
man in the bible who went to HELL told Abraham if he
would just send a man back from HELL to warn others his
brothers of the torment in Hell they would not want to
come there! would live differently! but Abraham said even
if he sent someone back from HELL few would listen and
take the warning seriously! ...I'll live in Satan's evil
domain with every kind of torture and shame! wanting to
die but forgetting there is no death thinking it will be
better tomorrow but forgetting I have FOREVER left! this
is what its like to be a CITIZEN IN HELL!!!
One thing
about Hell is...it's no respecter of persons. The rich go
to Hell, the poor go, to Hell, the Old go to Hell, the
teens go to Hell! the jew goes to Hell, the gentile goes
to Hell! Even those that never hurt anyone, and even help
others, those that are kind and generous to charities, in
the worlds eyes we would say they are NOT bad enough to
go to Hell with Hitler and the Satanic worshipers,
murders, etc.. but the bible says ALL Have sinned and
fell short of the Glory of God! All of US need a perfect
savior.
It does
NOT matter how famous you are in this world, in HELL you
are a NOBODY! Satan has no favorites he only wants to do
one thing, to take as many souls to HELL with Him to
suffer with him for all eternity! Please don't be one of
these many faces! Please warn others! grandma's,
grandpa's, moms, dads, sisters, brothers, husbands,
wives, children (teens) are in HELL! All races warn THEM
before its too late! in Hell no healing! you die in
sickness and pain! in Hell there is no healing! if you
choose to go to HELL after reading this I can NOT stop
you its Your Choice!!!! but at least you were warned!
"In a
similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns
gave themselves up to
sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an
example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal
fire." (Jude 7) Both Philo and Josephus plainly name
same-sex relations as the characteristic view of Sodom.
... "The look on their faces testifies against them; they
parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to
them! They have brought disaster upon themselves."
(Isaiah 3:9)
It is unpleasant to have
to write about homosexuality. What homosexuals do to each
other and the way they use each other for the sake of
lust and self-gratification are things that, according to
St. Paul, should
not even be mentioned among
Christians.
Certainly, a few decades ago such things were not
mentioned anywhere, anytime, in newspapers or on the
radio. Talk about "homosexuality" and "lesbianism" was,
restricted to under-the-counter pornography sold in
sleazy drug stores. Our culture has declined to such an
extent that these matters are talked about constantly on
the radio, on TV and in the press. One consequence of
this is a massive desensitizing of our people. Things
have gotten so bad that small children in primary school
are taught about sexual matters and all forms of
perversion, including bestiality. Much of this is done in
the name of "AIDS prevention." The verbal engineering of
the homosexual lobby - has resulted in words like "gay"
and "homosexual orientation." The implication of the word
"orientation" is that just like the color of your eyes
and the color of your skin, one is not responsible for
their "orientation." The homosexual lifestyle and
ideology has invaded the Church. It is no secret that
homosexual Priests and Ministers are costing religious
groups millions of dollars in lawsuits and some
denominations are ordaining homosexuals and
lesbians.
We are witnessing social
engineering on a huge scale. Social change is being
promoted by secularistic and atheistic groups in this
country who want to drive belief in God from all public
life. Those who oppose the sexualization of American
society are ridiculed, marginalized and called "right
wing fanatics." The Promise Keepers are called a danger
to America because they were sorry for their sins and
pledged themselves to be responsible in their duties
towards their wives and children. Is that dangerous
?
The Supreme Court,
lawmakers and all people that support by ballot those who
promote gay rights, will one day see God face to face and
they are not going to be very happy on that day. God is
going to want to know why they called His Word a hate
crime. What are they going to say to Him on that day?
"Sorry God, but I know what is right and wrong better
than you do." If you think you know more than God, you
have become a fool.
"Professing themselves to
be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible
man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness
through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their
own bodies between themselves:"
Paul's condemnation of
homosexual behavior in Rom. 1:26-27 is the centerpiece of
any Bible discussion. "For
this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their
women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in
the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse
with women, were consumed with passion for one another.
Men committed shameless acts with men and received in
their own persons the due penalty for their
error."Two Old
Testament references, which condemn homosexual behavior.
Lev. 18:22 states "You shall not lie with a male as with
a woman; it is an abomination" The second (Lev. 20:13)
adds the penalty: "If a man lies with a male as with a
woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they
shall be put to death; their blood is upon
them.
1 Timothy 1:8-10 " But we
know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully;
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous
man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly
and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of
fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, For
whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with
mankind, (Sodomites - those who practice Sodomy) for
menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if
there be any other thing that is contrary to sound
doctrine;
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 "
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the
kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor
idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit
the kingdom of God." (Abusers of themselves with mankind
is the same as "defile themselves with mankind"
above)
Men having sexual
connections with other men is shameless sin in God's
eyes. So is women with women.. If you are a homosexual
person reading this and you would like to go to Heaven,
repent to God for your sin of homosexuality and ask the
Lord to help you change your ways. Do not believe the lie
that you were born homosexual. Read the two verses above
again. It tells us
not
to be deceived
because people that commit these sins shall not inherit
the kingdom of God.. Jesus Christ died for the sins of
the world and homosexuality is a sin that He will forgive
if you repent and change your ways ... " And such were
some of you Christians (that is:former homosexuals and
lesbians) but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but
ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by
the Spirit of our God."
1st Century In the 54th year, Nero becomes Emperor of
Rome. Nero married two men in legal ceremonies, with at
least one spouse accorded the same honors as an empress.
... 4th Century In 342, the sons of Constantine, Constans
and Constantius II, pass a law read by historians as
outlawing homosexuality. ...... 6th Century In 529,
Justinian's code outlaws homosexuality in the Byzantine
Empire. ...7th Century In 650, in early medieval
Visigothic Spain, homosexuality is criminalized. However,
outside of Spain, homosexuality remains completely legal,
in almost all of Europe........... Ivo of Chartes is
unsuccessful in his attempt to convince Pope Urban II of
the dangers of homosexuality. .....;.12th Century In
1102, the Council of London took measures to ensure that
the public knew that homosexuality was sinful, marking a
significant shift in church attitudes..... 13th Century
,,,,,, The first mention in English common law of a
punishment for homosexuality occurs in 1290. ..... 14th
Century King Edward III was unsuccessfully petitioned to
banish foreign homosexuals. .......16th Century In 1533,
King Henry VIII proclaims sodomy a crime. .......17th
Century The first known conviction for lesbian activity
in North America occurs in March when Sarah White Norman
is charged with lewd behavior with Mary Vincent Hammon in
Plymouth, Massachusetts. ..... 18th Century France and
Belgium decriminalize homosexuality. ......19th Century
The Netherlands and Italy legalize homosexual acts.
Bavaria, Brazil, Portugal, Ivory Coast, and Japan,
decriminalize homosexuality.
1977.Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the
Human Male, in which he claims as many as 37% of men have
participated in homosexual behavior...... Illinois
becomes the first U.S. State to remove sodomy laws from
its criminal code....... Kathy Kozachenko is elected to
the City Council of Ann Arbor, Michigan, as the first
openly homosexual candidate to run successfully for
elective office in the United States. ....1977 The
American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality
from is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM-III). ......1978 Gay News was prosecuted
by Mary Whitehouse for 'blasphemy' after they had printed
James Kirkup's poem imagining a Roman centurion having
gay sex with Jesus of Nazareth. ....1978 The rainbow flag
is first used as a symbol of homosexual pride.
....1983..The Democratic National Convention becomes the
first major political party to endorse homosexual rights.
....1984 Human Immune deficiency Virus (HIV) is
identified as the cause of AIDS. ...The first national
lesbian and gay television series, One in Five, was shown
on Channel 4 in the U.K...... 1988 U.S. Congressman
Barney Frank publicly admits to his homosexuality. ....
.The City College of San Francisco created the first gay
and lesbian studies department at an American institution
of higher education.... Denmark is the first country in
the world to give legal recognition to homosexual
partnerships...... 1991 University of Colorado football
coach Bill McCartney founds Promise Keepers, which
promotes traditional masculinity.... 1992 Washington,
D.C. held its first Black Lesbian and Gay Pride
celebration........ 1993 Canada grants refugee status to
homosexuals fearing for their well-being in their home
country...... Israels supreme court defines homosexual
couples rights as the same as any common-law couple......
1997 Robert Runcie, ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, admits
to having ordained known homosexual men. Ellen DeGeneres,
character on TV comes out as a lesbian. ........Israel's
supreme court recognizes a lesbian partner as another
legal mother of her partner's biological son....... 2001
The British government lifts the ban on homosexuals
serving in the armed services. .....Israel recognizes
homosexual relations for immigration purposes for a
foreign partner of an Israeli resident. ....The first
homosexual partnerships are registered in London....
Sweden legalizes adoption for homosexual couples.
.....China decriminalizes homosexuality. .....2004. U.S.
Supreme Court strikes down thr remaining state sodomy
laws. ..... Lithuania, the Northern Territory and New
South Wales all lower the age of consent for homosexual
acts. ....2004 San Francisco officials begin issuing
marriage licenses to homosexual couples. 2005..
Homosexual marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts.
...2006..New Zealand is the first nation in the world to
outlaw discrimination of the basis of gender identity or
transsexuality. ...Hong Kong lowers the age of consent
for homosexual acts. .....Canada and Spain legalize
homosexual marriage. .....The United Kingdom introduces
homosexual civil partnerships with rights equal to
marriage. ..... Maine adds sexual orientation and gender
identity to its existing anti-discrimination laws.
.....Connecticut legalizes homosexual marriage. ... South
Africa legalizes homosexual marriage..... Illinois
outlaws sexual orientation discrimination. .....
Washington adds sexual orientation to its existing
anti-discrimination laws. .......The first gay pride
parade in Moscow ends in violence. ....2007 Serbia,
Kosovo, and Vojvodina lower the age of consent for
homosexual acts..... OTTAWA, CANADA June 9, 2008 On
Friday, the Alberta Human Rights Commission ordered
Alberta pastor Stephen Boissoin to desist from expressing
his views on homosexuality in any sort of public forum.
He was also commanded to pay damages equivalent to $7,000
as a result of the tribunal's November decision to side
with complainant and homosexual activist Dr. Darren Lund.
The tribunal has also called for Boissoin to personally
apologize to Lund via a public statement in the local
newspaper..
