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  • LifeSite: People in so-called homosexual marriage almost 3 times more likely to commit suicide
    August 5th, 2016

     

    Aug. 5, 2016 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexuals who “marry” each other are almost three times more likely to commit suicide than their heterosexual counterparts, even in very gay-friendly Sweden, according to a study published in the May issue of the European Journal of Epidemiology.

    The authors of the study noted that social intolerance of homosexual behavior could not so easily be blamed for increased suicide risk, given that Sweden is known for its accepting attitude towards same-sex relationships.

    Source: LifesiteNews

  • Reuters: German high court rejects adding third gender category
    August 4th, 2016

    Germany's high court on Thursday said it rejected the creation of a third gender category of "inter" to describe people born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit the typical definitions of female or male.

    In a challenge to strict binary definitions of gender that evokes other court cases on both sides of the Atlantic, a panel of the Federal Court of Justice ruled against a lawsuit filed by a German citizen who was born as a female in 1989.

    Source: Reuters

  • Mail: How the blameless sick are paying the price of this HIV drug - NHS chiefs spell out nine vital treatments that have now gone
    August 4th, 2016

    Plans to fund nine life-changing medical treatments have been abandoned by the NHS after it was ordered to provide a controversial HIV treatment.

    Officials had been poised to announce approval this week for a range of new devices and breakthrough drugs which would benefit children as young as two.

    Toddlers with cystic fibrosis, children born deaf, adults who have lost their legs, and patients with cancer were among those who would have learned that they could receive the treatments for the first time.

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  • Reuters: U.S. Supreme Court blocks transgender bathroom choice for now
    August 4th, 2016

    A Virginia school board may temporarily block a student who was born a girl from using the boys' bathroom while a legal fight over transgender rights proceeds on appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court said on Wednesday.

    The case is the first time the fight over transgender bathroom rights has reached the Supreme Court. The subject arrived in the heat of a U.S. presidential election in which the makeup of the court is a central issue.

    In a brief order, the country's highest court put on hold an order from a lower court that had permitted the high school student to use the bathroom of his choice.

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  • Telegraph: Outrage as Olympic swimming pool bans women from 'men only' sessions for 'cultural reasons' with bathers required to cover 'navel to knee'
    August 3rd, 2016

    A swimming pool has introduced gender segregated sessions with bathers required to cover up from "navel to knee" for "cultural reasons".

    The Inspire Sports Village in Stopsley, Luton, Beds., built using taxpayer-funded Olympic money, will give men exclusive access to the larger 50 metre competitive pool on Friday evenings, while women will be able to use the smaller 20 metre community pool.

    On Facebook, the gender-segregated sessions were advertised saying "Alhamdulliah swimming is back" - a phrase which thanks God for his blessings.

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  • Telegraph: The Gif of God - Church of England issues eight social media commandments
    August 3rd, 2016

    In ages past the technical side of a local vicar’s calling might have involved nothing more challenging than locating the correct page in the prayer book and keep track on the lectionary.

    But in the age of instant communications, when some people are thought more likely to venture into their parish church in search of Pokémon than pilgrimage, clergy are being advised - gently but firmly - to keep up with the tide.

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  • Christian Post: Christians in Russia Refuse to Stop Sharing the Gospel Despite Putin's Ban on Evangelism
    August 3rd, 2016

    The Slavic Centre for Law and Justice, an affiliate of the American Center for Law and Justice, said a new manner of carrying out missionary work in Russia will have to be established.

    The law bans all missionary activities in residential areas and requires Christians who want to share their faith with others, even on the internet, to obtain authorization documents from a religious association. It also imposes a fine of $75 to $765 if the violator is a Russian citizen, and a fine of up to $15,265 in case of an organization, while foreigners would be deported, The Christian Post reported last month.

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  • American College of Pediatricians: Normalizing Gender Dysphoria is Dangerous and Unethical
    August 3rd, 2016

    In its updated statement, Gender Dysphoria in Children, the American College of Pediatricians (College) calls for an end to the normalization of gender dysphoria (GD) in children because it has led to the ongoing experimentation upon, and sterilization of, confused children. Children with GD believe that they are something other than their biological sex. For children experiencing GD before the age of puberty, the confusion resolves over 80 percent of the time by late adolescence. There is a suppressed debate among professionals regarding the new treatment “standard” for childhood GD. This media-popularized standard involves the use of medicines that block puberty followed by life-long use of toxic cross-sex hormones—a combination that results in the sterilization of minors and other significant health risks. A review of current medical literature finds this approach to be rooted in an unscientific gender ideology that violates the long-standing medical ethics principle of “First do no harm.”

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  • ITV: Woman calling for assisted suicide to be legalised
    August 3rd, 2016

    The widow of a Hertfordshire man who has died after a two year battle with Motor Neurone Disease is calling for assisted suicide to be legalised in the UK.

    Nikki Davey told ITV News that watching her husband die 'by inches' as he lost the ability to move, speak or breathe for himself was the toughest thing she'd ever done.

    She now wants there to be a change in the law to allow terminally ill people to end their own life.

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  • Times of India: China experts to gene-edit humans
    August 3rd, 2016

    Chinese scientists will perform the world's first genetic editing trial on humans this month, in an attempt to find a cure for lung cancer. A group of oncologists at West China Hospital of Sichuan University will inject patients with cells that have been modified using the Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technique, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Monday. Short for 'clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats', Crispr was named the 2015 breakthrough of the year by the US journal `Science'.

    Source: Times of India