Men´s depravity equals same-sex marriage.

"French court rules mayors cannot block same-sex marriage"

(CNN) -- France's top court ruled Friday that French mayors cannot refuse to officiate same-sex marriages based on their personal, moral or religious beliefs.

The Constitutional Council ruled that the same-sex marriage law does not infringe on the mayors' "freedom of conscience" and therefore should be applied.

 

A group of seven mayors had filed an appeal with the Constitutional Council on September 18 stating their opposition to conducting same-sex marriage.

 

A bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt was passed earlier this year by the French parliament and signed into law by President Francois Hollande.

 

A growing number of countries around the world now allow same-sex marriage, the majority of them in Europe.

 

The Netherlands was the first, in 2001, and it was later joined by Belgium, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Portugal, Denmark and France. A bill to allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales is also now law, though it isn't expected to come into force until 2014.

 

Argentina, Uruguay, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand and South Africa are the non-European countries in the group, according to the Pew Research Center.

 

Same-sex marriage is also legal in some parts of Mexico and the United States.

 

 

Personal Opinion

 

There is a doctrine called the depravity of man. It basically takes the position that due to the Fall, mankind has no desire for God, mankind enjoys being at enmity with God, and mankind will not seek Him.

 

• Titus 1:15-16 - to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

 

Men´s depravity is now present almost everywhere in our society. Reading all this list containing the countries in which same-sex marriage has been accepted by the law, it´s really sad.

 

• For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12.

 

• But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.” Luke 21:36.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/18/world/europe/france-same-sex-marriage/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

 

"Dean Karnazes hopes to inspire Greece with marathon effort"

The ultra-marathon expert, described by some as the fittest man on Earth, is running from Arcadia to Messinia to highlight child obesity in Greece.

 

Dean Karnazes is not a man to shy away from challenges: like Pheidippides, the original marathon runner who delivered the news of the Greek army's victory over invading Persian forces, he doesn't give up.

Seven years ago, he ran 50 marathons in 50 consecutive days from one coast of the US to the other. Before that he spent three days and three nights running 350 miles – the last night "sleep running" as he went. He has crossed all four of the world's great deserts, including Death Valley, the hottest place on Earth. And he's run through sub-zero temperatures to get to the south pole, the coldest place. In 2015, he hopes to traverse the world by clocking up marathons throughout the year in 204 countries.

But now the Californian has set his sights on crisis-hit Greece, the land of his forebears, where he arrived this week on a mission of endurance and hope.

"I come with a message," he said on the first day of his first visit to the Greek capital. "And that is that you are better than you think and you can go further than you think. The only limits you have are you own preconceived notions of what you can't, and can, do."





If the world had more Dean Karnazes´, I am sure that everything would be different. His optimistic, persintence and desire for improvement makes the different. I don´´t know his values, if he is Christian or not; but he absolutely has been taught the importance excellence and self-steem has in our lives. His attitude is a really good example and speaks for himself.

 

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Colossians 3:23-24.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/17/dean-karnazes-greece-marathon-ultra-arcadia-messina-child-obesity

"Dating website makes money off infidelity in Asia"

Hong Kong (CNN) -- AshleyMadison.com, the dating website for people seeking affairs with married individuals which claims 20 million members worldwide, has dropped another pin on its map -- Asia.

The company cast out its first line in Japan in June, reeling in under half a million members within three months, said Noel Biderman, company CEO, "making it our most successful launch ever."

The infidelity website launched in Hong Kong last month -- it's 29th market since starting 11 years ago in Canada -- and now has 80,000 members. That makes Hong Kong the most successful launch rate per capita, showing a "massive pent up demand," Biderman said.

 

While Asian countries are typically seen as more conservative, he says different cultural values do not diminish the demand for infidelity. "We're just trying to address a universal behavior and pattern, targeting people from all walks of life. Infidelity is in our DNA. I'm just riding a tidal wave, a social change where women lead and men follow," Biderman said.

 

"This is their unfaithful, sexual revolution. Infidelity trumps a lot of it, there's no culturally stopping it, no religious groups can," he said.

 

 

 

As Biderman said, this is a sexual revolution. In my concern, this infidelity website goes against God´s principles. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous (Hebrews 13:4). Since we were in our mother´s womb, He had already chosen our perfect match to be married with; therefore, we shouldn´t visit this kind of websites.

 

 

 

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/11/business/infidelity-ashley-madison-asia/index.html?hpt=hp_c4

 

 

 

"Brighter future for Pakistan's women"

By Saima Mohsin, CNN

Islamabad (CNN) -- I first came across Ziauddin Yousafzai when I interviewed him in 2007. He was running his own school and had set up a peace council in Pakistan's restive Swat Valley región.

An eloquent English speaker, he was very keen to tell me his story on air.

Our first conversation was in whispers; the Taliban had started to make inroads in the Swat Valley and were marching around the streets he told me. He was whispering as if he thought the Taliban might hear at that moment.

 

Oppression

In a male-dominated society where the cultural oppression of women is rife, husbands, fathers, brothers -- men like Ziauddin -- are real saviors. They help their wives, sisters, daughters become all they can be; they encourage support and stand by them against all odds. The majority of women here in Pakistan that I meet know their rights, or know they are capable of much more and have huge ambitions. It's the men in Pakistan who need to respect them and support them. The men who are with them and the men in authority.

 

Why Malala's bravery inspires us

Yes, Pakistan needs more girls like Malala. I have met many who are, who defy the Taliban by going to school every day in the North West and tribal areas. I have met young children with little money for books and pens but who run up mountains in Kashmir and walk miles in the searing desert heat of Sindh to go to school. There any many Malalas in Pakistan. But what Pakistan really needs right now is more men like Ziauddin Yousafzai.

 

 

When I read the whole story from family, I thanked God for the liberty He offers me every day in my country, Honduras. This also make me think that not every day I thank God for his blessings. 

Every family is different, but this special family is outsanding. Even though they live in a country in which Christianity is sometimes neglected, they know how to treat ech other with love. 

 

Without men like Ziauddin, there will be no women like Malala.

 

 

 

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/11/world/asia/pakistan-malala-father-mohsin/index.html?hpt=hp_mid

 

"Greek police will be rid of 'any racist elements"

By Mick Krever and Annabel Archer, CNN

Greece is determined to rid its police of “any racist elements,” Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday.

“We have ordered a full-scale investigation by the internal department of the Greek police,” Dendias said. “Please allow me to say that we are adamant in our target to clean up the Greek police from any racist elements.”

Elements of the Greek police have been widely criticized as not only targeting minority groups, but being complicit with right-wing groups like the Golden Dawn, which has a neo-Nazi following.
Greece has seen a rise in racist attacks, which are up 20% according over last year, according to the head Greece’s National Commission for Human Rights.

But the dire economic situation in Egypt, Dendias said, is no excuse.

“Unemployment does exist. An economic crisis does exist. The Greek people, the Greek society is under considerable stress,” Dendias told Amanpour from Athens. “But that is no excuse, and it will not be accepted as the excuse for the reappearance of a neo-Nazi phenomenon. Neo-Nazism is completely unacceptable.”

Prosecutors are cracking down on Golden Dawn, charging the top leadership with running a criminal organization.

The action is largely seen as a response to last month’s killing on an anti-fascist musician; he was stabbed, allegedly, but a Golden Dawn supporter.



My point of view according this happening in Greece, is that racism exists everywhere. There´s not a place where we can feel free from it. We have not the right to judge other people, only God can do it. We are humans and commit mistakes; therefore, we can´t judge other´s errors.

John 7:24
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”








http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/03/greek-police-will-be-rid-of-any-racist-elements-public-order-minister-nikos-dendias-tells-amanpour/?hpt=hp_bn9

"Gay couple´s daughter expelled"

(CNN) -- They're a family of two fathers and one daughter. Until recently, they had lived a quiet life in an upper-class neighborhood in the Mexican city of Monterrey. But they're now at the center of a national gay rights debate in Mexico.

Their 2-year-old daughter, the couple says, was expelled from a private school in Monterrey for having two fathers.

 

Alex and Pepe were married in Mexico City, where same-sex marriage is legally sanctioned. They asked CNN not to make their last names public to protect their daughter's identity.

Alex, a 28-year-old who works in marketing and sales, is the girl's biological father. Pepe is a 39-year-old broker with a degree from the University of Miami.

 

The couple says an administrator at The Hills Institute, which also has a daycare facility, told them they would have to hide the fact that they're a same-sex couple if they wanted the girl to stay at their school.

 

"They were asking me to give up all of my rights as parent at the school," Alex told Telediario Monterrey, a local independent TV station. "I would've had to not participate in school or social activities. I was to not communicate with anybody nor attend together, as a family, Mother's Day or Father's Day celebrations as long as she was attending the school."

 

The couple found the conditions unacceptable and the school called the parents to the school a few days later only to give them the news that girl had been officially expelled.

 

 

 

 

Personally, I am really sorry for the kind of future this gay couple is giving to her daughter. At her young age of two, we already see the first consequence of her parents actions. She was expelled from her daycare, having no fault for the directors decision.

 

1 Corinthians 6:9-10

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

 

 

 

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