Basest form of sinful conduct
Alliance Church rules, like those of other evangelical denominations, strongly oppose homosexual relationships, describing them as the “basest form of sinful conduct.”
Alliance Church rules, like those of other evangelical denominations, strongly oppose homosexual relationships, describing them as the “basest form of sinful conduct.”
Here’s an idea. I’m going to start a religion. We’re going to preach “good” things and form communities and develop a huge following with hundreds of thousands of followers. We’re going to participate in civic life, publish newsletters and participate in fora, and spread our moral principles. We’re going to build churches. Many churches. We’re…
One way to understand hate, is in terms of harm. The fact of harm can be part of a test for hate. It is in this sense that the following harm hypothesis hangs together with the hate hypothesis. This is the current formulation: The Alliance Church harms people who have a disposition towards homosexuality…
There’s work happening on Ontario law to prevent “conversion therapy” in young people…
Does the moral condemnation of homosexual conduct meet the criteria for hate speech? I’m no legal expert, but the answer, I think, is probably no…
One problem with the Alliance Church is that it’s really far-reaching. They have a powerful network in Canada, but also world-wide …
Vancouver has become the first Canadian city to ban the controversial, discredited, and anti-queer practice of conversion therapy. Today (June 6), city council voted unanimously for a prohibition bylaw that will prevent businesses from offering conversion therapy, or the pseudoscientific attempt to change the sexual orientation of a person from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual….