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BY LifeSiteNews.com OTTAWA, July 7, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Senator Marilyn Trenholme Counsell, in comments made during debate of the impending same-sex “marriage” legislation Wednesday, made the astonishing claim that Jesus Christ would have voted in favour of the legislation as she did.“As a Christian, I often ask myself ‘what would Jesus do?’” she said, reiterating a maxim often heard in Christian circles. She answered her question with, “In this case, in this time, I believe he would say yes.” Trenholme Counsell, as LifeSiteNews.com learned from the Senator’s assistant Rebecca Menard, was originally Baptist but converted to Anglicanism when she was married.“After all,” the Chrétien-appointed Liberal from New Brunswick claimed, “we have come a long way from Old Testament days when adulterers were put to death; and we have come a long way in our understanding of human sexuality.”As Robert A.J. Gagnon of the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary explained to Zenit news, the Old Testament in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 declared homosexuality a capital offence, describing it as an “abomination”– something utterly loathsome to God. “The prohibition of same-sex intercourse is clearly picked up in the New Testament,” Gagnon added. “The basic categories of sexual immorality – such as same-sex intercourse, incest, solicitation of prostitutes, adultery, etc. – remained in place for believers in Christ.”Trenholme Counsell, a physician, compared homosexuality to a “learning disability.” She added the unscientific claim that “One’s sexuality is as fundamental to who we are as the colour of our eyes and the shape of our hands,” implying that “sexuality” here refers to a tendency to either opposite sex or same-sex attraction. Because this same-sex attraction is immutable, her argument assumes, it would be cruel to expect persons with same-sex attraction to suppress those urges.Evidence from biology reveals clearly that persons disposed to homosexuality are simply not born that way. “Studies to date – including the most important identical twin study ever done, one that factored out sample bias – indicate that homoerotic impulses are not congenital,” Gagnon explained. “Rather, whatever contribution is made through genes, hormones or brain-wiring is largely indirect and subordinate to macro- and micro-cultural factors.”Read the LifeSiteNews.com Special Report:  Scripture on Homosexuality (Part 1)   A Christian Researcher Says Biblical Prohibition Is Categoricalhttp://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/homosexuality/scriptureand.htmlSee related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:  Is Homosexuality Genetic? Science Says Nothttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/04040609.html  New Genetics Study Undermines Gay Gene Theoryhttp://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05021002.htmlhttp://www.lifesite.net/features/marriage_defence/SSM_MD_evidence.pdfSee LifeSiteNews.com’s Defense of Marriage page with numerous resources athttp://www.lifesite.net/features/marriage_defence/tv http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/jesus-would-vote-with-me-in-favour-of-gay-marriage-says-canadian-senator/

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