Sexual Purity - articles
Marriage mayhem multiplies across states
With Valentine’s Day positioned in the heart of February, the timeless value of building strong marriages has been, naturally, a major emphasis among the pro-family community during this second month of the year. more »
By Doug Carlson - Feb 23, 2012
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality,
Senate sinks controversial U.S. ambassador to El Salvador nomination
A controversial U.S. ambassador may be coming home for Christmas—and staying for a lot longer. In what many American and Latin American social conservatives are hailing as a victory, the U.S. more »
By Doug Carlson - Dec 15, 2011
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality,
With DADT gone, is DOMA next?
In September, the homosexual lobby celebrated what it considered to be a pair of major victories. The first was the official repeal of the longstanding “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which barred open homosexuals from serving in the military. more »
By Doug Carlson - Nov 2, 2011
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality,
Land on Repeal of DADT
Last December, the U.S. Congress effectively placed the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, established in 1993, on life support, pending certification from the president and the heads of the military that a repeal of the policy, which allowed homosexual members of the military to serve but not to openly practice their homosexuality, would not harm the nation’s military readiness. more »
Topic: Culture, Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, National, Social Issues,
Be the Church
I was sharing with the elder body of a large, progressive, growing, life-changing church about my vision for the church to become the place of healing and restoration for those struggling with unwanted same-sex attractions, when one of the elders expressed a sentiment I have since heard many times. more »
By Mike Goeke - Aug 9, 2011
Topic: Faith, Ministry, , Family, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality,
ERLC analysis: a defense of DOMA and response to DOJ’s advocacy of DOMA’s partial overturn
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it would no longer defend the federal definition of marriage as only the union of one man and one woman—a key statute of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). more »
By staff - Jul 29, 2011
Topic: Family, Children, Marriage, Husbands, Wives, Parenting, Fathers, Mothers, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, , ,
Empire State strikes against marriage
This year’s “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month,” set aside as June once again by President Obama, now includes another notation on the calendar: the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in New York. more »
By Doug Carlson - Jun 29, 2011
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality,
Death of Liberalism?
“The Achilles’ heel of liberal relativism is catastrophically low birthrates. When you deny the importance of family…of children…of God’s teaching about marriage, you end up with low birth rates.” more »
By Matthew Hawkins - Jun 16, 2011 - (18)
Topic: Faith, Apologetics, Family, Marriage, Parenting, Adoption, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Life, Abortion, Citizenship, Church and State, Social Issues, Issues,
House Committee stands for ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ DOMA
Salvaging the now-revoked longstanding ban on open homosexuals in the military and keeping the court-challenged 1996 law defining one-man, one-woman marriage on the books are lost causes. more »
By Doug Carlson - May 18, 2011 - (2)
Topic: Family, Marriage, Sexual Purity, Homosexuality, Citizenship, Legislation,
Porn gains its .xxx Web domain
Pornography now has its own online domain — to the chagrin of pro-family advocates.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees the creation of Web addresses, approved the establishment of the .xxx domain for sexually explicit material in a 9-3 vote at the March 18 meeting of its board in San Francisco. more »
By Tom Strode - Mar 25, 2011
Topic: Family, Sexual Purity, Pornography,