BACKGROUND: THREAT TO CHURCHES The church community in the United States has played a critical role in protecting and expanding civil rights for qualified minorities. As a result, Americans of diverse ethnic origin now enjoy a greater level of economic opportunity and religious liberty than ever before. In turn employers, employees, churches and church member […]
MAINE VOTERS WON’T ENDORSE MEASURE TO LIMIT GAY RIGHTS AUGUSTA, Maine (EP) — By a narrow margin, Maine voters refused to adopt a statewide measure that would ban special civil rights protection or other legal recognition for homosexuals. The morning after the referendum, a count of 91 percent of the votes had the measure failing […]
Tucked away in this year’s Agenda for Synod 1996 of the Christian Reformed Church lies a “Report of the CRC Worship Committee Regarding Gender-Sensitive Language in the Belgic Confession and the Canons of Dort” (pp. 90–123). For those who desire to see the CRC return to its historic commitment to the Word of God in Scripture […]
The decision by one judge in Hawaii that the state may not prohibit same-sex “marriages” goes against the Author of marriage, legal precedent, the will of an estimated 75 percent of Hawaii’s citizens and what used to be called common sense. But it is not the victory the gay lobby claims. It is what Alliance […]
“GREATER SCRIPTURE AVAILABILITY’ GOAL OF MERGING MINISTRIES PRM International and Audio Scriptures-International merge to form Audio Scripture Ministries to foster increased audio Scripture production and distribution around the world HOLLAND, MI, November 21, 1996 PRM International (based in Holland, Michigan) and Audio Scriptures International (based in San Diego, California) have merged to become AUDIO SCRIPTURE […]
The Supreme Court challenge to the Boy Scouts of America and its policy against membership for known homosexuals and the new “civil union” law in Vermont are the latest in a string of advances by gay-rights advocates. They have managed to intimidate into silence many who don’t agree with them. The surest way to expose […]