GAY MARRIAGE AND IMPACT ON CHILDREN

A 2015 ABC Lateline interview revisited: Katy Faust, raised by lesbian mothers, calmly dismantles Australia’s most probing journalist with compelling, child-centred arguments against same-sex marriage.

In 2015, a quietly spoken yet courageous ‘mom’ and pastor’s wife from America, Katy Faust, appeared on the ABC’s Lateline. Fast forward to 2026, and Faust is one of the most courageous spokespersons in the world for the rights of children, especially as they relate to the injustice of gay marriage. All this from a woman whose greatest boast is as a ‘mom’ and a wife of a Christian pastor.

When it comes to Katy’s interview on Australia’s tax-funded national broadcaster, though, you have to realise this was still a couple of years before the institution of marriage was redefined. Apparently, we couldn’t be trusted to behave civilly in a plebiscite, let alone a democratically appropriate mechanism such as a referendum. No, our federal politicians sought to change the most important legislation ever essentially by a voluntary, non-binding, postal version of Survey Monkey©.

Stepping into the modern-day lion’s den of our only occasional national broadcaster (which is Australia’s version of CNN, or what the US President pejoratively simply refers to as ‘fake news’), Katy was at the time serving on the academic and testimonial council of the International Children’s Rights Institute. And while Tony Jones is arguably one of the best interviewers in the country, I don’t think even he was prepared for the stellar quality of the rapid-fire answers he was about to receive.

Jones had pre-prepared a number of pointed political and personal questions which most guests would have honestly stumbled over, at least at one point. But in the sovereign providence of God, 12 August 2015 was not going to be one of those times.

What you’re about to read next is a transcript of what took place, and you have to remember that none of these questions were given with prior notice. What you’re going to find is that Mrs Faust’s answers were as concise as they were cogent. And because of the timeless nature of the truth she was presenting, her answers remain as relevant and as true as they were when she first gave them.

So, make yourself a coffee or tea, and be prepared to be blown away by a pastor’s wife schooling one of Australia’s most left-leaning journalists on why gay marriage should never have occurred. Jones’ questions, Katy’s answers and my own (Mark Powell – MP) relatively short commentary follow:

Question 1

TJ        Have you been able to talk to any politicians yet?

KF       We did. My partner in crime, Millie Fontana, who is a resident of Melbourne and also raised by two mothers [as was I], had a chance to talk to a couple of members of parliament yesterday.

MP      Notice how Jones immediately tries to put Katy on the back foot by asking her if anyone has been prepared to even meet with her, let alone listen to and be persuaded by what she has to say. Katy responds, though, that indeed, some members of parliament have been willing to meet with her. What’s more, this is not just an American sticking their nose into our own politics, because she was also joined by the outspoken Aussie opponent to gay marriage, Millie Fontana. Someone who, significantly, was not a Christian, but had precisely the same concerns as Katy has regarding the rights of children. And so Jones presses the point with this follow-up question…

Question 2

TJ        Not the Prime Minister so far?

KF       No. No, he hasn’t called yet.

MP      Sadly Tony Abbott never did, and precisely one month later, on 15 September 2015, he was removed by his own party in favour of Malcolm Turnbull. The reason why that particular phone call was explained by Brendon O’Neill on the ABC’s Q&A just a couple of days later. As the editor for Spiked said:

“The reason Tony Abbott is very defensive on this issue and is umming and aring and shifting from the free vote to the not free vote and all this, is because he clearly has a problem with gay marriage, but he can’t articulate it because we live in a climate in which it’s not acceptable, as we’ve just seen in Sam’s (Dastyari) attack on Katy calling her hateful and saying she’s talking claptrap. It’s not acceptable to express this sentiment in public life. And I think [applause] Tony Abbot is now being described as someone from the dark ages for believing what humanity has believed for thousands of years.

Within the space of a decade something that humanity has believed for thousands of years has suddenly become a form of bigotry, a form of hate, something you’re not allowed to express in public life. That extraordinary shift in intolerance is something I think all liberals, like me, should be worried about. Gay marriage is not a liberal issue, it has a deeply illiberal streak.”

Question 3

TJ       Now, how is it that the daughter of lesbian mothers has become a leading opponent of gay marriage? How does that work?

KF       Simply because while I recognise that while my mother was a fantastic mother and most of what I do well as a mother myself, I do because that’s how she parented me, she can’t be a father. Her partner, an incredible woman, both of these women have my heart, cannot be a father either. Children have a right to be in relationship with their mother and father whenever possible, and as a society, we shouldn’t normalise a family structure that requires children to lose one or both parents to be in that household.

MP      This goes to the very essence of the whole issue. Having a child is not the same thing as purchasing a puppy. That is because children are people and not someone’s personal property. What this also means is that as human beings, they also have innate rights, of which one of the most important is the right to be raised by the mother and father who produced them. Becoming a parent carries with it wonderful joys, but also a lifelong responsibility. This is also why the act of procreation has been considered to be so sacred.

Question 4

TJ       Now trying to sway the US Supreme Court to rule against gay marriage, you wrote to Justice Anthony Kennedy before that vote, and you said, “You used to say I’m happy my parents got divorced so I could get to know all you wonderful women.” Now you seem to be saying that was all a lie…?

KF       Well, there’s a lot of pressure on children of gay parents to please their parents, to sort of carry the banner forward for them, and you can read about this not just in conservative publications but even books like Families Like Mine, which was publicised by a pro-gay marriage daughter of gays. And she admitted, and several of the kids in that book admitted, that it’s very difficult to be honest about this because of the political pressure surrounding this topic. There are several children who have contacted me ever since I started writing about this, saying, I agree with you, but I’ll never come out and speak about this publicly, because my relationship with my parents is too tenuous.

MP      This is an incredibly important point which is rarely allowed to be expressed. If you’ve never seen this, watch the following moving presentation by Millie-Fontana, who talks about the heartbreak and trauma from not knowing who her father was because she was donor-conceived and raised by lesbian parents.

Question 5

TJ       Now Katy, did you find God somewhere in this journey towards anti-gay marriage?

KF       Well, I was not raised a Christian, but I did become a Christian in high school.

MP      Yes, Katy is a Christian. But as Millie Fontana—who is not a Christian—pointed out in the above video, you don’t have to be religious to understand that gay marriage creates inequality for children. What Millie Fontana said back in 2015 has proven to be prophetic when she said in a speech, “This is an extremist minority that are pushing, from my opinion, what seems to be extinction of gender in itself. I don’t see gender equality. I see a pitch to get rid of gender altogether.”

While people at the time viewed her prediction as extreme, just over ten years later, I don’t know anyone who disagrees about just how right she was!

Question 6

TJ       And did that change things? I mean, did you decide that homosexuality was against the Scriptures, against God’s will, something of that nature?

KF       Well, it took a long time, honestly, for me to get on board with what Biblical sexuality says because there’s a very fierce protectiveness, I think, all children have for their parents, but what I was delighted to find when I read Scripture, is that God has an incredible heart for the orphan, and that He’s very concerned for the plight of children.

And that lines up very much with where we need to go in this discussion, which is focusing on the rights of children primarily as opposed to emphasising the desires of adults, which tend to take centre-stage when we’re talking about this issue.

MP      Katy is clever in how she pivots on the question here because rather than saying what the Bible is against, she reaffirms what God is for. And it’s not without significance that so often in the Bible He calls Himself the Father of the fatherless and defender of widows – i.e. Psalm 68:5.

Question 7

TJ       After your parents divorced—because you originally had a father and a mother—they divorced. Your father, you say, went off with other women… Why have you focused your main criticism on the homosexual part of the equation and not your father?

KF       Well, I think that I’m pretty fair in my statements to say that whether you’re heterosexual or homosexual, children have rights. And the onus needs to be on adults to conform to the rights of children, rather than children fitting into an adult’s lifestyle.

And certainly, I don’t think that homosexuals are responsible by any means for the crisis that we face in America when it comes to family structure these days. Absolutely, heterosexuals have led the way on that charge.

I got into this discussion primarily because what I heard from the gay lobby was that children don’t care who’s raising them, right? That children are just fine if it’s two men or two women, and the reality is that anybody who’s talked to a child who has lost a parent, whether through divorce, abandonment, third-party reproduction or death, kids absolutely care. Family structure matters to children.

And so I heard the LGBT lobby say it doesn’t matter, they [children] don’t care, and I think that that’s reality.

MP      Once again, especially if you’ve skipped over it and haven’t watched the above speech by Millie Fontana. Children do care whether they are being raised by both of their biological parents. As Katy rightly says, “They absolutely do!”

Question 8

TJ       You were also motivated politically when President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage, and you set up an anonymous blog called “Ask the Bigot”. Why did you do that, why did you call it that to start with, and what happened when you did it?

KF       Yes, well, you know, strangely the URL wasn’t taken for that web name, not sure why..

But it was kind of born in an angry moment. I’m not really a confrontational person, but what happened when Obama ‘evolved’ is, to me, it felt like the media was free to play the bigot card. So now everybody who doesn’t support gay marriage is a bigot, right? Because either you’re isolated and you don’t know any gay people, or you’re indoctrinated, or you’re homophobic, or you’re the equivalent of a racist.

And they were not giving any attention to people who had a genuine argument, a well-founded, secular, convincing argument for supporting traditional marriage. And so I started blogging anonymously…

MP      Ten years after same-sex marriage was introduced, and we’ve seen an increasing intolerance and hatred towards people of faith, particularly those who are Jews but also Christians. There were warning signs of this happening even at the time. Just take, for instance, the bombing of the Australian Christian Lobby’s office in Canberra, and the AFP’s seeming reluctance to prosecute.

Even the ABC’s Media Watch covered the mainstream media deception with the fake “Stop the Fags” posters being put up around Melbourne. Don’t know what I’m referring to? Then take a look at this post.

Question 9

TJ       I was going to make that point… you started blogging anonymously, what happened? Why did you go public, as it were?

KF       I didn’t. I was ‘outed’ by a gay blogger who felt like I needed to be held accountable for my stance. And the truth is that I would not have filed a brief with the Supreme Court—I wouldn’t be having this interview with you today—because I never intended to be involved in the legal fight. But because I was outed in the name of love and tolerance, I am talking with you today.

MP      Well, that one certainly backfired, didn’t — God 1 vs Gay Blogger 0.

Question 10

TJ       So just going to that Supreme Court decision, in June, Justice Kennedy authored — the same man you wrote to — authored the Supreme Court’s decision in favour of same-sex marriage. He began in agreement with you, saying that no union is more profound than marriage. But he said of the gay people who had petitioned the court, it would be to misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they respect it so much, respect it so deeply, that they seek to find its fulfilment for themselves. And now, obviously, the court agreed that their dignity was the critical thing here. Why do you disagree with that position?

KF       Well, because they have dignity, right? Single parents have dignity. People who have never been married have dignity. You don’t gain dignity by government bestowing that on you. You just have it. The question is not whether or not they have dignity, and the question is not even really whether or not they have the capacity to love and commit the way heterosexuals do — they do. They absolutely do!

The question is, what is government’s interest in marriage? It’s really not about affirming the connections that we have with one another; it has to do with the product of those unions, and there’s something distinct about the product of a union between heterosexuals. What’s distinct is that they make babies. And those babes have rights, and those babies deserve protection.

MP      This is another brilliant response because it highlights by what standard ethical decisions are made. If it is merely whatever the most popular opinion of the day is — well, it’s unreliable since it changes as often as the election promises of politicians. Without some kind of objective criterion to assess it, though, the slogan “love is love” is as practically useful as saying, “cat food is cat food”. That’s all well and good if the food the cat wants to eat is good, but what if a cat consumes something like ‘chocolate’? (Hint: it never ends well.) In the same way, though, ‘love is love’ without a boundary opens an immoral Pandora’s box of every kind of sexual depravity.

We Cannot Be Silent!

All I can say, especially after Katy’s answer to that last question, is ‘BOOM’, as my children like to say. There was something about this whole interview that reminded me of Jesus’ promise in the Gospels when He sends out the twelve on mission:

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues. On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.” (Matthew 10:16-20)

STANDING ON THE TRUTH OF GOD’S WORD

Barna Group’s recent research reveals: only 4% of American adults and 6% of professing Christians hold a biblical worldview. Nearly half of American adults don’t believe the Bible is literally true — that is, according to a recent study highlighted by The Christian Post. The Ligonier State of Theology 2025 report, a separate study conducted by Lifeway Research, found a collective 48% of Americans believe “the Bible, like all sacred writings, contains helpful accounts of ancient myths but is not literally true.” Similarly, 44% reject that “the Bible is 100% accurate in all that it teaches.”

The State of Theology study revealed alarming trends: 47% of evangelicals believe God accepts the worship of all religions, 53% assert that most people are inherently good despite sinning occasionally, and 49% of U.S. adults view Jesus as a great teacher but not God. These findings, as Hibbs and Perkins emphasized, directly contradict biblical teachings, raising concerns about the doctrinal fidelity of many churches.

This should not come as a surprise as most church denominations have accepted gay marriage, homosexual pastors and even transgenderism. 

The Bible is God’s voice, His truth, alive and active. Every passion you’re wrestling with, every opinion you hold, Scripture speaks to it, directly or indirectly. Throw out any topic, and the Bible has the final say. It’s the lens that makes sense of everything. Every worldview outside the Bible crumbles under scrutiny. Only Scripture unveils who God is, what’s broken in the world, who we are, and where we’re headed. It’s the only lens that makes sense of a chaotic world.

When skeptics reject the Bible as God’s inspired, authoritative word, they’re left chasing fleeting wisdom from the “universe” — or worse, themselves — and they always come up empty.

I challenge you to find one person who’s genuinely content — not just pretending to be — and unshaken by life’s uncertainties, without a flicker of longing for something greater. I’ve yet to meet an unbeliever who isn’t, knowingly or not, trying to fill a God-shaped void with something, because we simply weren’t created from nothing, for nothing, only to die and fade back into nothing.

Dr. George Barna nailed it: “Understanding God — often referred to as ‘prime reality’ — is the cornerstone of worldview development. Without a biblical understanding of God, it is difficult to develop a coherent biblical worldview built on His truth.” There’s a simple truth we, as believers, must never forget: it’s not ultimately up to us to change minds and unharden hearts. Only God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, carries that ability. It’s easy to feel like a failure if a single conversation doesn’t spark a conversion, but that’s not the case.

I’ll tell you where we’ve failed. We fail when we water down Scripture to appease skeptics. We fail when we stop quoting God’s word because it’s “unwelcome.” We fail when we dodge the hard truths — sin, Christ’s cross, repentance — to avoid ruffling feathers. We fail when fear of rejection or uncertainty silences our witness, or when cynicism tricks us into thinking humanity’s hope lies in ourselves, not in Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords.

If you’re a Christ-follower reading this, I pray it causes you to re-examine your own life. Do you shy away from tough talks? Do you let skeptics dictate what you can or cannot say? Or do you stand bold in biblical conviction? Do doubts shake you, or do you anchor yourself in Christ?

We are all called to trust and obey. Trust that “the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say” (Luke 12:12). Trust that God’s grace is enough, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9). Trust that “God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19). Trust Psalm 118:6: “The LORD is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?” Because “if God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31).

Then, with these promises written on your heart, obey Christ’s call in Matthew 28:19 to “make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you.” Obey Ephesians 4:15’s charge to “speak truth in love.” Trusting in God’s faithfulness, obey the call to be salt and light, even when the world mocks us for it.

SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE

Great message from Rev Calvin Robinson at the Oxford Union in the UK. He shocked this group with God’s truth. Make sure you share this message widely.

Calvin Robinson: I feel LIBERATED after being CANCELLED by the Church of England for having the wrong opinion on the Bible. Believing it is all God’s Word, the truth by which we should live.

I have just added another video of Calvin being interviewed and it is good to learn that Calvin will be preaching in another church. Both of these videos need to be viewed and shared.

GAY MARRIAGE HAS GIVEN OUR SOCIETY LITTLE TO CELEBRATE

Great article in The Australian Saturday 19th November 2022 by Angela Shanahan

COLUMNIST: Angela Shanahan is a Canberra-based freelance journalist and mother of nine children. She has written regularly for The Australian for over 20 years.

This week marked the fifth anniversary of Australia supporting same-sex marriage in a postal vote. Now we are being reassured by same-sex marriage advocates that “society has not fallen apart”.

Think again. If the punitive ­coercion suffered by people who did not support gay marriage ­during the period preceding the vote didn’t convince you that this was not just about marriage, but about the gradual imposition of a radical agenda on the whole of ­society, then look what has happened since.

If the dissolution of society as we know it was an exaggeration, a furious expression of frustrated Christians angry at seeing the social verities of the past falling away, people might start looking at their local school and see what sorts of things are being taught to their children. The notion that our sexual identity is fluid and not fixed is now accepted in most government schools, and challenging that view is impossible.

It has already been raised as a problem if a religious anti-discrimination bill is ever passed, and activists are now fixated on making it harder to challenge the trans agenda even in private and systemic Catholic schools. In Canada, despite assurances and a preamble to the law, Catholic schools are having a very difficult time teaching Catholic precepts on marriage and sexuality, and in the US many individuals and groups are being punished for what amounts to thought crime, prompting a conservative backlash.

The real problem with the Marriage Equality fight was the fight itself. It was never a civilised discussion in a civilised environment. It was bare-knuckle and nasty from the Yes side, from daubing vile slogans on church walls to ridiculing and denouncing people on social media. I know, I went through it. And it goes on.

It has spread beyond marriage, to the trans agenda. I recently wrote a column about a woman who started an app for women and girls called Giggle. This woman was threatened with a human rights action over the very nature of the people for whom her app was intended, women, by a transsexual person who thought they should not be discriminated against because they identified as a woman. These are the two great mantras of the new society” “Discrimination” and “Identity”. It will only get worse.

Go back to the case of Israel Folau. Freedom of expression was not available to Folau who as a believing Mormon did not support same-sex marriage. Not only did he lose his job as Australia’s star rugby player but other players who supported him and did not support SSM were told not to say anything. Meanwhile, those who supported the Yes vote were allowed to speak out. Rugby Australia undermined their freedom of expression about conscientiously held views, becoming, in effect, the arbiters of their conscience.

An even graver case was Archbishop Julian Porteous who, as a preliminary salvo to the same-sex marriage vote, was dragged before the Human Rights board in Tasmania for disseminating a booklet outlining Catholic teaching on marriage to Catholic students. The complainant was not protesting about the church’s ban on remarriage after divorce or any of the teachings about marriage and fertility tied to the vows which married Catholics must make. No, this was an opener in the battle for same-sex marriage. The agenda of the Equality movement was not about equality at all: it was about trying to muzzle the view that the family, based on a generative relationship, is the bedrock of society which has been common to all societies of all religious persuasions since time immemorial.

Meanwhile, the trans agenda has inserted itself into the centre of right think. Who says society as we know it hasn’t declined?

Consequently, the number of cases of well-meaning ordinary people being denounced on social media, or to the human rights apparatuses and even pushed out of positions for stating quite ordinary views on marriage, the family, and sexual identity is increasing, and freedom of expression – and particularly of religious expression – is being undermined.

Andrew Thorburn is an ordinary man who happened to be at a church nine years before when his minister expressed moral views not in line with the Equality mantra. Thorburn is chair of the City on a Hill Church, which Essendon football club pronounced has views in “direct contradiction to our values as a club”. So, a football club, assuming a prior moral authority to the church, forced his resignation as the club’s CEO.

Not surprisingly, it was this case that awakened the general public to the danger that now awaits anyone. Not only could someone dig up a sermon a pastor gave nine years before and still hold you to account, but how long before, Torquemada-like, you are taken to the inquisitors of the board of the company for which you work, or the school where you teach, or any governing body?

It is well known that in most echelons of the public service various topics of conversation, especially those dealing with sex and family issues, are off the table. The endorsement of Thorburn’s removal by the AFL and Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews highlights the frightening seriousness of this. It has made a mockery of the idea that we have equality of expression, and that the real fault line is freedom of religion.

LESBIANS REPENT AND TELL OF TRANSFORMING POWER OF THE GOSPEL

The Holy Spirit is at work in the world, only He could do what you hear from these two former lesbians.

The world says, to try and convert people from a homosexual lifestyle is not only impossible but criminal. Nothing is impossible for God as Scripture plainly tells us. These testimonies are proof positive.

CAN YOU BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN?

Dr Michael Brown does a credible job of addressing this critical issue in this 6 1/2 minute video

It’s the question that’s dividing churches and separating family members. It’s the question that must be answered: Can you be gay and Christian?

Well, if you claim to be a Christian, that means Jesus is your Lord and the Bible is your authority, so the real question is: What does Jesus have to say about this? And what does the Bible—God’s Word—have to say? That’s what we need to find out.

Of course, we understand that every Christian struggles in some area, whether it be pride or anger or lust or jealousy or greed. But we also recognize that these desires and attitudes are sinful, and so we say no to them and yes to the Lord.

In the same way, some Christians struggle with same-sex attractions, saying no to those attractions and yes to the Lord. That’s their area of temptation and battle.

But what about those who say, “God made me gay, and if I’m in a committed relationship, the Lord is pleased. After all, God is love, and love wins. What the Bible opposes is abusive relationships like homosexual pederasty and prostitution and promiscuity. That’s what the Scriptures condemn. But the Lord blesses committed same-sex relationships.”

Is this true?

There’s only one way to answer this question. With humility, we must come to God and His Word and say, “Father, whatever You say, we will obey. We only want Your will.”

So, what does God’s Word have to say? Can you practice homosexuality and follow Jesus at the same time?

We’ve put together a six-minute video that answers this head-on, clarifying misunderstandings, dispelling myths and offering hope.

Can you be gay and Christian? You’ll find your answers in this video.

GOD IS JUDGING NATIONS TODAY AS ACCURATELY PROPHESIED IN THE BIBLE

The Bible accurately prophesied events which we see unfolding today as the nations turn away from Christian morality which came from the Bible. The rejection of the Bible’s authority and God as creator (evolution) means the Bible’s morality is being rejected as well. Morals are being redefined in ways that would have been unthinkable even a generation ago. The Bible clearly calls homosexual behaviour an abomination. And just a generation or two ago most people would have agreed. The prophet Isaiah warned:

“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight.” Isaiah 5:21

And the New Testament says:

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but have itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 2 Timothy 4:3-4

Gay Marriage

This booklet is both biblically and scientifically sound, it displays genuine compassion while at the same time not shirking from the truth; e.g. “because homosexuals can clearly love each other and since anything labelled ‘love’ is believed to be good, because their sin is then brought under the umbrella of ‘love’, then their sinful behaviour also becomes good.  For Christians, we should steer clear of a ‘pro-marriage’ stance based upon mere tradition (often politically charged). We need to stand on the principles of scripture that define what God intends for marriage.

Christians who have an uncompromising stance on the Bible’s authority , which follows from a conviction  that its big picture of history is true from the beginning, can be a powerful force, particularly if they can provide evidence to support the Bible’s history as real.

What is KEY is “What does the Bible say about marriage? What does the Bible say about homosexuality and other sexual sins?

“And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbour’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her…… You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. And you shall not lie with any animal…. it is perversion.” Leviticus 18:20-23

In the New Testament, Romans 1 argues that homosexual behaviour among both men and women is the result of suppressing the knowledge of God the Creator (the one who makes the rules for His creation).

“Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonouring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passions for one another, men committing shameless acts with men receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.” Romans 1:24-27

Jesus was crystal clear on the issue: “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’.” Matthew 19:1-12 and Mark 10: 1-12

Nations have now embraced the homosexual lifestyle and gay marriage. It is now illegal in the USA for medical professionals or therapists to engage in reparative therapy that seeks to rehabilitate teen homosexuals back into a heterosexual lifestyle.

The White House was lit up in rainbow colours within hours of the Supreme Court declaring same sex marriage legal in all States. The rainbow is God’s covenant so what does this say about Obama?

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The Bible shows God is sovereign and he has judged nations and its leaders down through history. He judged Sodom & Gomorrah and He will judge those nations that embrace this lifestyle. Look at what is unfolding in some of these nations – “Terrifying Bush fires prompt the evacuation of an entire Canadian City” News.com.au

Australians have an important decision before them at the coming election. Labour promises to bring in gay marriage and in fact, you cannot belong to the Labour Party after 2017 if you don’t support gay marriage. The Liberals pledge to hold a plebiscite on the issue as soon after the election as can be done.

A great shaking of America by God is imminent

God established the rainbow as one of His signs of covenant. On the night of America’s desecration of marriage by the Supreme Court decision, President Obama caused the walls of the White House, to be illumined in the colours of the rainbow, God’s holy vessel, to celebrate the desecration of God’s holy order. The American White House had now become a vessel of desecration.

The nations first President, George Washington uttered a prophetic warning in the first ever presidential address “The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right that heaven itself has ordained….” If America should ever turn away from God then judgment will come.

For those of you that have read The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn know that God has sent a number of warnings to America to repent and turn back to Him. The Nation that still has “In God we trust” on its bank notes is effectively shaking its collective fist at God in defiance. The only hope for revival in America is through a great shaking and it’s imminent.

Liberal Party decision has protected Australia from God’s judgment

Tony Abbott made a courageous, God honouring stand, to ensure there is no change to the Marriage Act in his term of Parliament. Nor can we forget the other 65 members that supported him.

Sadly the young activists supporting same sex marriage shown in the picture below marching in Brisbane August 8th, 2015 have no fear and knowledge of the one true God.

Same sex marriage

God is sovereign over nations. History shows that he uses nations for His purposes, raising up and deposing leaders, at will. King Nebuchadnezzar, greatest king of ancient Babylon (Daniel 2), is a good example as is King Cyrus (Cyrus the Great) founder of the Persian Empire (2 Chronicles 36:22) whom God used to bring the Jews back to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.

These young people therefore have no understanding that Tony Abbott’s decision protected Australia from further judgment by God.

As the consequences of changing the Marriage Act in countries such as Canada, UK, Ireland and the USA unfold, including persecution of Christians who hold to God’s ordained role of marriage, hopefully Australia will remain a beacon of light, blessed by our Almighty God.

The church of Australia needs to understand what a blessing we have been given and therefore responsibility to pray for and support our Christian brothers and sisters in all the domains but particularly Government. As well as Tony Abbott, Glen Stevens, Governor of the Reserve Bank comes to mind, as does Mike Baird, Premier of N.S.W., all three are staunch Christians.

Roman Catholic Ireland has just voted to legalize Gay Marriage.

Did gay deviant priests bring this debacle upon the Irish people?

Supporters celebrate outside Dublin Castle following the announcement of the result of the same-sex marriage referendum in Dublin on Saturday.

Supporters celebrate outside Dublin Castle following the announcement of the result of the same-sex marriage referendum in Dublin on Saturday. Photo: AFP
NEWS BRIEF: “Church unnerved by Ireland’s huge ‘Yes’ ” Sky News, Australia, 25 May 2015

“The once-dominant Catholic Church in Ireland is trying to come to terms with an overwhelming vote in favour of gay marriage … the faithful attended mass to hear their priests reflect on the new social landscape. ‘The Church has to find a new language which will be understood and heard by people,’ Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin told reporters after mass at the city’s St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral.

” ‘We have to see how is it that the Church’s teaching on marriage and family is not being received even within its own flock.’ ”

My wife exclaimed to me when she heard that Ireland had just voted to legalize gay marriage, “how could this happen in Catholic Ireland”?

The answer is both simple and profound. Ireland has lost so many tens of thousands of Catholic adherents for the same reason the Catholic Church the world over has lost so many — the scandal of gay deviant priests preying upon innocent children within the church has gotten so deep and so dreadful that families have been leaving in droves for years.

The pressure for Tony Abbott to legalize gay marriage is now increasing exponentially. After the Ireland announcement, listen to what the Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, who is in favour of marriage equality, said, “Mr Abbott now needs explain why the Government is unwilling to pursue the change. If the Irish people can vote in favour of marriage equality, the question has to be asked, what is Tony Abbott’s problem with it?” he said. “Most places in the world are dealing with marriage equality, why is Tony Abbott stopping Australia becoming a more modern nation?”

The world is quickly shedding God’s moral standards and sadly so much of the church no longer holds to God’s Word as TRUTH and it is infallible/inerrant. As a result, many church denominations have accepted gay marriage, gay priests along with other heresies.

Those nations, such as the U.S.A, that legalized abortion and have progressively taken God out its life, which now includes embracing gay marriage, are already under God’s judgment but don’t recognize it, and that judgment is set to escalate – see my posts on Jonathan Cahn, God’s prophet to America.

Prophesied last days events are unfolding rapidly, people who don’t know God and His Word will be shattered as it becomes obvious that governments are no longer in control and anarchy abounds.

I believe, it will be opportunity time for Christians as we understand what is happening. If we stay close to God, and allow the Holy Spirit to direct our activities, His church will bear much fruit in these last days.