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Author Caleb Kaltenbach once found himself saying, “I never want to be a Christian,” but a blatant attempt to try and disprove the Bible left him in the most surprising of circumstances: accepting Christianity and transforming his heart and mind in the process.Kaltenbach’s faith journey and theological views are especially surprising considering he was raised by three gay parents in an activistic environment before his conversion.LISTEN: HEAR KALTENBACH SHARE HIS POWERFUL CONVERSION STORY“My parents divorced when I was 2 and they both went into same-sex relationships,” he told the “Edifi With Billy Hallowell” podcast.That journey led Kaltenbach and his family...

Lone Tree boy, 9, asks Pete Buttigieg how he can tell the world he is gay too by: Joe St. George DENVER (KDVR) — Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg rallied more than 4,000 supporters at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Aurora Saturday night. While Buttigieg landed familiar attacks on Bernie Sanders and Michael Bloomberg, it was a question asked by a 9-year-old Lone Tree boy that stole the show. Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold read the question of 9 year old Zachary Ro: “Would you help me tell the world I am gay too?” “It won’t always be easy but...

WHEN IRELAND VOTED overwhelmingly for the marriage equality referendum, we thought that when we have children everything is going to be equal. We were wrong. On Monday, Minister for Health Simon Harris signed regulations for the Children and Family Relationships Act. These will allow both names of some LGBTQ+ couples on their children’s birth certificate from May 2020. He said that it was a really important day and received a lot of good publicity but we are still excluded and unequal in the eyes of the law. This Act covers same-sex couples who use a non-anonymous donor through an Irish...

Dear Justice Kennedy,June is nigh, and with it will comes your ruling on the most contentious political issue of our time: marriage.I write because I am one of many children with gay parents who believe we should protect marriage. I believe you were right when, during the Proposition 8 deliberations, you said “the voice of those children [of same-sex parents] is important.” I’d like to explain why I think redefining marriage would actually serve to strip these children of their most fundamental rights.It’s very difficult to speak about this subject, because I love my mom. Most of us children...

Allegations of scientific misconduct have prompted the University of Texas to investigate a professor's study that found adults with gay parents reported significantly different life experiences than the children of married, heterosexual biological parents. The study, authored by associate professor of sociology Mark Regnerus, made a splash when it was published last month in the journal Social Science Research. It has since drawn criticism from scholars at UT and elsewhere. Bucking the consensus of the past decade of scholarship that the sexual orientation of parents does not negatively affect children in consequential ways Regnerus found that adults with gay parents...

No child custody for 'gay' dad Court rejects argument based on Texas sodomy case Posted: June 22, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The Maryland Court of Appeals upheld an order that prevented a divorced man from having custody of his child if he lived in a homosexual relationship. Ulf Hedberg, represented in court by the National Center for Lesbian Rights, contended that the Supreme Court decision striking down Texas sodomy laws in 2003 invalidates any court order or legislation that has a "moral base." But the appeals court rejected that argument, ruling that where minors are involved in...

Brad Kempf/Lafayette Daily Advertiser, via The Associated Press Marcus McLaurin, 7, with his two mothers, Sharon Huff, left, and Heather Manley. He got into trouble in school discussing his family. Boy's Talk of His Gay Mothers Sets Off Furor in Louisiana By TAMAR LEWIN Published: December 3, 2003 A 7-year-old Louisiana boy was disciplined by his elementary school for telling a second-grade classmate that he had two mothers and explaining that gay meant "when a girl likes a girl," the American Civil Liberties Union says. The boy, Marcus McLaurin, was referred to the school's behavior clinic, where he was ordered...

Today: October 27, 2002 at 11:50:10 PST Gay Parents Baptize Quadruplets ASSOCIATED PRESS LEXINGTON, Ky.- A gay couple who became parents of quadruplets after enlisting the help of a surrogate mother had their 3-month-old children baptized Saturday in a Roman Catholic church. Father Paul Prabell blessed the men, Thomas Dysarz and Michael Meehan, and baptized their daughter and three sons at Lexington's Cathedral of Christ the King. "This is what Christ would do," said Meehan, the quadruplets' biological father. The babies "are God's children. That's how the church should view it." Saturday's ceremony was attended by about 30 friends...

July 22 — Theron McGriff says he thought the issue in his fight for custody of his kids was supposed to be his parenting skills, but he believes an Idaho judge made his decision based on something else — McGriff's sexuality. McGriff, 38, who saw primary custody of his two school-age daughters awarded to his ex-wife at a trial in Idaho Falls, Idaho, earlier this year, is gay. "There's no way you can convince me that that judge didn't go into that courtroom with the preconceived notion that there's no way those kids can be there with him because he's...

<p>Gay couples may make better parents than heterosexual mothers and fathers who don't measure up to the responsibility of having children, Rosie O'Donnell says in an interview Monday night on The O'Reilly Factor.</p> <p>"Every homosexual who has a child really wants that child, by a large degree," O'Donnell tells Factor host Bill O'Reilly. "Heterosexuals make worse parents, because there are half a million kids in foster care ... not every one of those children that were born to them were wanted."</p>

Rosie O'Donnell, who recently touted her gay lifestyle during a network TV interview, is now claiming that gays actually make better parents than their heteroseuxal counterparts. More......