Discussions continue regarding what actually constitutes a family in our society, in light of proposed and imminent changes to marriage legislation. Conservative Christian groups in particular claim that children are better off when situated in a certain arrangement of opposing genders and “appropriate” sexual preferences, i.e.: parenting is to be carried out by one heterosexual [...]
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How Will You React When You Realise Your Child Is Gay? Guest post by Hannah Pate
I’ve known my friend Hannah Pate since she was a young girl. She and her sister Rebekah were P.K.’s – pastors kids – at the big Assemblies Of God church we used to be a part of when we lived on the Central Coast of NSW in the late eighties and early nineties. Their dad [...]
Why Christians Are *Not* The Boss Of Marriage
*After the recent affirmation by US president Barack Obama of same-sex marriage, I’m reposting my piece Why Christians Are Not The Boss Of Marriage which appears in my book God, You Can Take My Mental Illness, Just Not The Part Where You Speak To Me – available on Amazon for Kindle, and soon as a [...]
