There's battle lines being drawn ...
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong.
Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder
in China until 2001 and is still treated as such.
Gay rights activists in China have lost in their fight
to stop homosexuality being treated as an illness.
Prayerfully the U.S. November elections will further
repent this abomination against Lord God, Almighty ...
Maranatha !
Previously posted ...
The Strawberry Alarm Clock Rang for What it's Worth !!!
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My interview with Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on religious freedom bill
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
This morning, I interviewed Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant about HB 1523, a bill that was passed by the legislature and signed by the Gov. to protect the religious rights of people in his state. I appreciate what Gov. Bryant had to say and think you will too. Please listen to this short interview and be encouraged by the strong stand he has taken for religious freedom.
Click here to listen mp3 audio (11:39)
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Thank you,
Tim Wildmon, President
American Family Association
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE - HOUSE BILL NO. 1523
(As Passed the House) 13 page pdf
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.
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Protests escalate outside of Trump rally
by Chrissie Thompson - The Cincinnati Enquirer
PITTSBURGH – Protests erupted Wednesday night between Donald Trump supporters and anti-Trump protesters at a Pittsburgh convention center where the Republican front-runner held a campaign rally. Hundreds of demonstrators awaited Trump backers outside the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, dancing and shouting epithets about the presidential hopeful. At the height of the chaos, police shoved and Trump backers lingered for confrontations. ... The timing of the Trump rally could not have been worse for downtown traffic: A Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game and Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game were also underway. [...]
http://www.usatoday.com/story/
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Trump's delegate hunter signals aggressive push
by David Jackson - USA TODAY
Donald Trump's revamped campaign figures to be just as aggressive as his previous version, especially when it comes to securing convention delegates — an effort led by a veteran Republican strategist known for playing hardball politics himself. Paul Manafort, whose convention experience extends back to the Ford-Reagan battle royal of 1976, has already accused primary rival Ted Cruz and his team of "Gestapo tactics" in rounding up delegates, though he predicted Trump would prevail in the end. Cruz and his supporters have "taken an approach to some of the county conventions, where they can (do) scorch earth policy and don't care about the party," Manafort said on NBC's Meet the Press. "If they don't get what they want, they blow it up." After being shut out of delegates during a weekend convention in Colorado, Trump accused Republicans in the state and elsewhere of operating a "corrupt" system that is denying the wishes of the many voters who have backed him. [...]
http://www.usatoday.com/story/
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Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly met over lunch to discuss a potential interview
by Josh Hafner - USA TODAY
Donald Trump and Megyn Kelly met over lunch Wednesday at Trump Tower, and everyone's buzzing about it. So what's it all mean that Kelly swung by to talk with Trump, the Republican front-runner who feuded with her and Fox News for the better part of the past year? Well, that's hard to say. Kelly, whom Trump has called "crazy" and "highly overrated," entered Trump Tower at 11 a.m., NBC News reported, and left about an hour later. Trump's representatives had no immediate comment for CNN, nor did Kelly's employers at Fox News, which has accused Trump of having an "extreme, sick obsession" with Kelly. On The Kelly File, Kelly confirmed that the meeting was at her request. "We met for an hour, just the two of us, and had a chance to clear the air," she said. "...By the way, in case you were wondering, yes, the doormen appeared a bit stunned when I walked in." She also confirmed that they discussed the possibility of an interview, though no other details were announced.
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Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
1 Corinthians 15:1, 3-4 KJV
China Court nixes LGBT for What It Is !!!
CHINESE COURT RULES GAY COUPLE CAN’T MARRY
Still, just hearing the case is seen as a ‘big step’ by rights activists
by Hannah Gardner - Special for USA TODAY
BEIJING - A judge in the central city of Changsha ruled Wednesday against a gay couple in China’s first same-sex marriage case. Sun Wenlin, 27, brought the case against his local civil affairs bureau because it refused to grant a marriage license last summer to him and his partner, Hu Mingliang, 37. “I had hope before the trial started, but when I saw the official from Civil Affairs Ministry look at the judge, I knew that the result had been decided in advance,” Sun told USA TODAY after the court hearing. Hundreds cheered for the couple outside as they entered the court. Authorities allowed about 100 people to go inside. Sun, who said he and Hu will appeal, said his motive was “to secure equality for all people. ... It is to make gay people’s voices heard.” Homosexuality was decriminalized in China in 1997, but Sun said he hoped to win his case on the grounds that Chinese law doesn’t specifically ban marriage between two men. The hearing came three days after a labor tribunal heard China’s first trans-gender discrimination case. [...]
http://www.usatoday.com/story/
Lead up article ...
China activists fight gay 'conversion therapy'
by John Sudworth - BBC News, Shanghai
Gay rights activists in China are preparing for what they say could be a legal milestone in their fight to stop homosexuality being treated as an illness.
Later this month, a Chinese court will hear the first case of its kind brought against a clinic that offers so-called "gay conversion therapy".
A long campaign in Europe and America has been successful in shifting the medical consensus against such treatment, and now campaigners want Chinese doctors to follow suit.
In an office block in the eastern city of Nanjing, down a gloomy corridor, I find the Nanjing Urban Psychiatric Consultancy Centre.
It's a small office with a sparsely-furnished treatment room upstairs, from which - seemingly prompted by our arrival - a young male patient hurriedly leaves.
China declassified homosexuality as a mental illness well over a decade ago, but clinics like this one are still easy to find.
Dr Zhou Zhengyou shows me some of the books he's written on the subject over the course of his career.
One of them is a guide for parents who suspect their son or daughter might be gay.
The overriding message appears to be that it is their own parenting methods that are somehow to "blame".
Dr Zhou now claims to cure up to 70% of his gay patients, although he says it is a long and difficult process.
And, his critics point out, at $120 (£70) a session - a lot of money on an average Chinese wage - long and difficult can mean lucrative.
Dr Zhou tells me that today he uses counselling alone and does not treat his patients with so-called aversion-therapy offered elsewhere in China. But he is happy to describe how it works.
"One common method is electric shock. When the patient has a gay thought, we electrocute them or inject them with drugs that make them sick," he said.
Legal challenge
China's gay community has begun to fight back. They've organised a number of protests - small in number but nonetheless brave in China.
Video footage of one demonstration shows activists holding up a protest banner at a Beijing medical conference. "Being gay is not an illness," it reads.
The delegates do not seem convinced. "We cannot support homosexuality," a doctor said. "Although we try to understand it," his colleague adds.
In addition to such direct action, the campaigners have been given another avenue to pursue.
For the first time, China has allowed them to challenge gay conversion therapy in the courts.
"I had electric shock therapy only once," the man bringing the case, who calls himself Xiao Zhen, told the BBC. "Imagine those who've had it many times."
He put himself through the treatment in order to gather the evidence and he's now hoping that a successful court ruling in his favour will effectively ban the practice.
It's a battle that has been fought elsewhere, of course.
Aversion therapy has been the target of campaigners in Europe and America for decades and today, the notion of the gay conversion has not completely gone away.
But the modern medical consensus in the West is that there's no good evidence that sexual orientation can be changed.
Some people suggest that attitudes in China have been slower to evolve because of the one-child-policy as well as heavy Confucian pressure on young people to get married and produce a family heir.
Attitudes in China, though, are changing fast - that Shanghai now holds an annual gay pride event is proof of that. It includes gay film screenings, discussion groups and a fun-run.
Being China, participants are not allowed to march.
Now the court case, it's hoped, will be another step forward,
sending a message that the enduring medical prejudice needs to stop.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-
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Court to hear China’s first transgender labor discrimination case
by Emily Rauhala
A transgender man who claims he was fired for wearing men’s clothing to work will get his day in court, a first-of-its kind hearing that could be landmark for China's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movement.
The litigant, who asked to be identified as “Mr. C” to protect the privacy of his family and girlfriend, alleges that he was fired last year days into a new job at a branch of Ciming Checkup, a health services firm, after the staff there said he looked "like a lesbian" and might damage the company's reputation. [...]
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China faces test cases on gay and transgender rights
by Patti Waldmeir in Shanghai
Beijing is facing two important test cases on gay and transgender rights this week as China’s traditionally conservative attitudes to sexual and gender orientation are transformed by economic development and globalisation. A court in the central Chinese city of Changsha will on Wednesday hear what could be the country’s first gay marriage case. Sun Wenlin, a 27-year-old employee of an internet company, is asking the court to overrule a local authority that denied him the right to marry his partner, a 37-year-old security guard he met online. Mr Sun’s case argues that Chinese law does not specify that marriage must be between a man and a woman, it only calls for marriage between “one husband and one wife”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/
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Tie ruling on immigration? A major tangle
Likely 4-4 vote could unleash ‘a judicial mess’
by Richard Wolf - USA TODAY
WASHINGTON President Obama’s last-ditch effort to offer more than 4 million undocumented immigrants protection from deportation reaches a short-handed Supreme Court on Monday, but the eight justices may not have the final word.
A tie vote would hand a victory to Texas and 25 other states that have successfully blocked the program in lower courts, but it could unleash new challenges. States and cities who favor the program could try to fight the nationwide injunction imposed by a judge on the Mexican border and upheld by the nation’s most conservative federal appeals court.
“Basically, you’d have a judicial mess,” says David Leopold, an immigration attorney and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. “You’d have absolute chaos in the courts.”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/
Dark economic cloud over IMF-World Bank meeting
by AFP
Worries that the global economy is nearing a stall made worse by the specter of '"Brexit" cloud the air as the world's finance chiefs gather in Washington beginning Thursday for the IMF-World Bank Spring meetings. Finance ministers and central bankers will be greeted with dire warnings that if they do not take immediate action to boost growth and consumption, the world risks slowing to the point that recession is possible. The IMF opened the week by cutting its forecast for world economic growth for the third time in six months, saying growth has been "too slow for too long." [...]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
ONCE-RAUCOUS IMF MEETINGS NOW A MORE SOBER AFFAIR
by Darrell Delamaide - Special for USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – The joint meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that gets underway this week promises once again to be a sober affair discussing serious matters of global economic growth and financial stability. These semiannual meetings in the spring and fall used to be a lot more fun. The atmosphere in those bygone days was boisterous and the consumption was raucously conspicuous. Global banks surfing atop buoyant markets for international bonds and loans in the go-go ’80s would maintain hospitality suites at the Wardman Park and Omni Shoreham hotels, where the bigger fall meeting was held, and their hospitality was generous and liquid. The Safra banking family would rent out the entire National Gallery and host a gala evening reception with champagne and a buffet of all-kosher delicacies. Institutional Investor magazine would take over the Desirée nightclub (long gone) in Georgetown’s Four Seasons Hotel for a festive after-party. [...]
http://www.usatoday.com/story/
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