Stephen Green on 6th February 2023 outside Marie Stopes abortion facility in Mattock Lane, Ealing.
More than seven months after the event, Ealing Council have decided to prosecute me for Day 1 of February’s Buffer Zone Challenge.
Stephen Green on 6th February 2023 outside Marie Stopes abortion facility in Mattock Lane, Ealing.
The Challenge involved a witness over five days, from Monday 6th February to Friday 10th February 2023, within the five Public Spaces Protection Order ‘Safe Zones’ local authorities in England had set up around commercial abortion facilities in their areas.
The five were, in order, Ealing, Twickenham, Bournemouth, Manchester and Birmingham. The final four went off without incident. In Bournemouth, outside British Pregnancy Advisory Services (BPAS), the police attended and heard the Gospel.
I am to appear for a preliminary hearing at 10am at Uxbridge Magistrates Court, Harefield Road, UB8 1PQ, on 17th October 2023.
The charge sheet reads:
‘On 6th February 2023, you did something you were prohibited from doing in an area which is within the Mattock Lane Safe Zone Public Spaces Protection Order outside the MSI Reproductive Choices Clinic in that you:
‘a) Protested by engaging in an act of disapproval or attempted act of act of disapproval with respect to issues related to abortion services, by written means in that you were holding a large sign displaying the text ‘Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed me (sic) reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb’
‘b) Had text displayed on a large sign namely ‘‘Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed me (sic) reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb’ relating directly or indirectly to the termination of pregnancy.
‘Contrary to Section 67 (1) (a) Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014.’
Bible on trial
Make no mistake, the Bible itself will be on trial in this case which is an assault on Christian freedom.
King Charles took his oath on the King James Bible at his coronation on 6th May, but he would not be allowed to read from it outside Marie Stopes in Ealing.
PRAY: that God is glorified. Praise the Lord that a lawyer has already read a verse from the Bible (even if he or she couldn’t quote it properly.)
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A mother-of-three, or mother-of-five if you count all the children it appears she has conceived. has been convicted of inducing an abortion outside the legal limit using abortion pills at home she acquired by lying to abortion provider BPAS.
The BBC reported the 44-year-old was initially charged with child destruction, which she denied. She then pleaded guilty to an offence under Section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.
Carla Foster was sentenced on Monday 12th June 2023 to 28 months, 14 of which will be spent in custody with the remainder out on licence.
And right on cue, the pro-abortion agitators circling around the case have descended like vultures, seizing their opportunity to make the pro-abortion case.
In fact, a trio of pro-abortion groups are planning a ‘Time to Act’ protest on Saturday 17th June at the royal Courts of Justice at 1pm. Why not be a spy and book your place (free!) ONLINE HERE. (I did!)
Careful Planning
Mrs Foster was between 32 and 34 weeks pregnant when she took medication acquired via the “pills by post” scheme introduced during lockdown, Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard.
Abortion is legal in England and Wales up to 24 weeks gestation. After 10 weeks the ‘procedure’ must be carried out in a clinic. The “pills by post” scheme, introduced in lockdown, allows babies up to 10 weeks to be killed at home.
Prosecutors told the court Mrs Foster had provided false information knowing she was over the time limit. She had made online searches which they said indicated ‘careful planning’.
The court heard between February and May 2020 she had searched ‘how to hide a pregnancy bump’, ‘how to have an abortion without going to the doctor’ and ‘how to lose a baby at six months’. She was well aware of how advanced she was when she told the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) she was seven weeks pregnant in order to acquire the tablets.
On 11th May 2020, having taken the abortion pills, she called 999 at 18:39 BST saying she was in labour. The baby, named Lily, was born not breathing during the phone call and was confirmed dead about 45 minutes later.
A post-mortem examination recorded Lily’s cause of death as stillbirth and maternal use of abortion drugs. She, Lily that is, was estimated to be between 32 and 34 weeks’ gestation.
Usual suspects
Caroline Nokes MP
Almost immediately the vultures came down. Carla Foster’s conviction and imprisonment brought out the usual suspects arguing for an ‘overhaul’ of criminal abortion laws.
They ranged from MPs Caroline Nokes (Con) and Diana Johnson and Stella Creasy (Lab), the head of UK abortion giant British Pregnancy Advisory Service Ann Furedi, and radio broadcaster Iain Dale. Every one referred to abortion as ‘medical care’. They have to lie. It’s a poison.
‘Scrap this unjust verdict, scrap this law: no woman should go to prison for having an abortion’ headed Stella Creasy’s article in the Guardian: ‘The lord chancellor should intervene to commute this sentence. Women’s rights over their own bodies are under threat,’ she raged. No, just women’s supposed ‘rights’ over their baby’s life.
The Rt Hon Caroline Nokes has been a minister and now chairs the House of Commons equalities committee. She is a Privy Councillor. The Bible says:
Prov 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
The Conservative MP told the BBC the 1861 law used to prosecute mother-of-three Carla Foster was “out of date”. Parliament should ‘debate overhauling the abortion rules’ she said.
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Iain Dale began by heading: ‘Abortion jail sentences are a public scandal’. Not ‘abortion is a public scandal’ but ‘jail sentences’. He went on: ‘No one, let alone a desperate woman, should be criminalised in this manner in a 21st-century liberal society.’ By way of clarification he asserted: ‘I am certainly not arguing for abortion on demand, as some pro-abortion advisory groups do. That way lies madness.’
In Spiked-Online, right on cue, came BPAS CEO Ann Furedi, not apologising for supplying the pills but arguing for abortion on demand: ‘The imprisonment of this poor woman shows just how important it is to decriminalise abortion once and for all.’ Ms Furedi even called the judge in support: ‘As the judge himself put it: “If the medical profession considers that judges are wrong to imprison women who procure a late abortion outside the 24-week limit, then it should lobby parliament to change that law”.’
Pro-abort bodies lobbied judge
That quote Mrs Furedi gave of Mr Justice (Sir Edward) Pepperall was quite disingenuous, but what should we expect of one condemned in the Bible in these terms:
Deut 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Prov 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, …
Mr Justice (Sir Edward) Pepperall
What happened, as Sir Edward’s judgment stated, was that: ‘Unusually the court has received a letter dated 6 April 2023 from the President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives, the President of the Faculty of Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, the President of the Faculty of Public Health, the Chair of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ Abortion Taskforce, the Clinical Lead and a Clinical Representative for the Abortion Care Guideline developed by the National Institute for Health Care Excellence, and the Co-Chair of the British Society of Adoption and Care Providers.’
Mr Justice Pepperall told Mrs Foster: ‘The letter urges a non-custodial sentence and indicates that its authors are concerned that your imprisonment might deter other women from accessing telemedical abortion services and other late-gestation women from seeking medical care or from being open and honest with medical professionals. The letter also regrets a recent increase in investigations following late-gestation deliveries, and even suggests that one of the letter’s authors might appear before the court to present their plea in person.’
Judge scathing of campaigners
His Honour was scathing about the eminent authors of the letter: ‘It would plainly not have been appropriate to have allowed any of the authors to address the court. Indeed, I consider that it would have been better if the letter had not been written at all.’
Inappropriate: Dr Ranee Thakar, President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)
The judge went on refer to the authors, some indeed from Royal Colleges, as pro-abortion lobbyists: ‘While it provides me with some useful information about the delivery of telemedicine services, the letter also has the capacity to be seen as special pleading by those who favour wider access to abortions and is, in my judgment, just as inappropriate as it would be for a judge to receive a letter from one of the groups campaigning for more restrictive laws and which might seek to argue that it is important that the law is upheld by passing a deterrent sentence.’
His Honour concluded: ‘My duty as a judge is to apply the law as provided by Parliament and clarified by the Court of Appeal. If the medical profession considers that judges are wrong to imprison women who procure a late abortion outside the 24-week limit then it should lobby Parliament to change that law and not judges who are charged with the duty of applying the law.’
The Court of Appeal case
The judge’s reference to ‘the Court of Appeal’ needs clarification.
His Honour was referring to R v. Catt [2013] EWCA Crim 1187 which you can read here. In short, Sarah Louise Catt was sentenced to three and a half years. She had aborted her baby using the same abortifacients, mifepristone and misoprostol.
Like Carla Foster, Sarah Catt had been searching online for information about late abortions, and whether she could be charged with child destruction is she succeeded.
As the Guardian reported at the time, the 36-year-old, from Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire, was around 40 weeks pregnant when she took the drugs she bought on the internet to induce her labour. She claimed the baby was stillborn and buried his body – but has to this day not revealed its whereabouts.
Mr Justice Cooke, sentencing her at Leeds crown court in September 2012, said the seriousness of the crime lay between manslaughter and murder. He said she would have been charged with murder if the baby had been born a few days later and she had then killed him.
He jailed Sarah Catt for eight years, which Lady Justice Rafferty reduced on appeal.
What did Lily look like?
What does a baby of 32 weeks look like? I’ll give you a clue. Like one of us. That’s why it’s a question the likes of Caroline Nokes, Diana Johnson, Stella Creasy, Iain Dale and Ann Furedi never ask. They never respond to the question, ‘What exactly is it growing in a woman’s womb?’ ‘Is it a human being? If not, then what is it?’ The psalmist knew:
Psa 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
A baby at 32 weeks from the Natural Childbirth Trust website
As did the writer of Ecclesiastes:
Eccl 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Both of them knew, three thousand years ago, without the benefit of ultrasound, that a human baby was growing in what should be the safest place on earth. The psalmist even says that was ‘me’. ‘I was made in secret’.
Each one of us, the chairman of the RCOG included, was knit together in our mother’s womb. Our inward parts and organs were all made. Our bones grew, in a way we can not even comprehend.
The Natural Childbirth Trust says: ‘At 32 weeks pregnant, your baby is about 40.5cm long and weighs about 1.6kg.’ In Imperial: 16” and 3lb 8oz.
UK abortion law is extreme
In the Telegraph, Allison Pearson reminds us how extreme the UK’s laws actually are: ‘You rarely hear this discussed, but the UK is out of step with the majority of European countries where the median time limit for abortion is just 12 weeks. Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Germany, Italy, Greece, all have a 12-week upper limit. France and Spain are slightly higher at 14 weeks.
‘Liberal Sweden is 18 weeks. Only the Netherlands has the same 24-week limit as the UK (the date when the foetus is considered viable outside the mother’s body) although, in practice, Dutch doctors apply a two-week margin of error, and stick to a time limit of 22 weeks.’
Indeed, not long ago we were reporting on tiny San Marino legalising abortion. The limit there is 12 weeks. Of course a mother is still carrying a genetically-distinct, even a tiny human being visually-recognisable on ultra-sound at that point. However, as gestational weeks turn to months, the UK is permitting abortion at a moment when that baby could live outside its mother’s womb. The Bible says:
Numb 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
The campaigners are right that the law needs changing, but to safeguard human life, not more easily to end it.
Age of the law
A common thread in the pro-death camp concerns the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act. It is decried as ‘Victorian’ and is therefore ‘outdated’.
However, our laws against treason and murder, theft and perjury go back even further. Shall we scrap them too? As to the penalty, the law prohibits things that it does not want to happen. If not prison then what? A fine? Probation?
The common theme is soundbites coupled with a lack of reason and clarity. They dress inhumanity up as compassion. Never do they recognise that there is a second genetically-unique human being in the abortion equation, one made in the image of God:
Gen 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Prayer
How many human beings, with their gifts and talents, creative abilities and skills, have never been born although conceived by the grace of God? How many have we lost and never been able to ask them:
Esther 4:14b and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Pray for our parliamentarians to know the scriptures and to seek after truth and life, not lies and death:
Deut 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Pray against the abortion activists picking over the case for their advantage.
Matt 24:28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Finally, while we pray against the constant pressure for decriminalisation and for abortion to remain a crime, (a crime which the Abortion Act 1967 disgracefully permits under certain easily-achieved circumstances), please pray earnestly for a UK MP to bring in a ‘heart-beat’ bill. Only then will the parameters of the debate begin to change from ‘how many weeks’ to ‘is that my fellow human being?’.
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Tesla billionaire Elon Musk has blamed birth control and abortions for the impending ‘collapse’ of civilisation.
According to the Telegraph, the Tech tycoon said that procreation has been ‘subverted’ by modern methods of contraception. Adding, that ‘limbic instinct’ can be satisfied without it.
He said: ‘Once you have birth control and abortions and whatnot, now you can still satisfy the limbic instinct but not procreate.’
Meanwhile, Mr Musk also said he was worried that if not enough people are born to sustain population numbers, civilisation is going to crumble.
The billonaire described it as ‘the biggest danger to humanity – exceeding climate change’.
Unsustainable
Daniel, Lord Hannan, writing in the Daily Telegraph, is also awake to the problem:
‘No political party will address the most immediate threat to our prosperity, though it stands in plain sight, huge and menacing. The proportion of workers to pensioners in our population is about to become unsustainable.
‘We could tackle the problem in various ways. We could raise the retirement age and impose a haircut on public-sector pension schemes. We could make deep cuts elsewhere. We could import millions of workers. Or we could have more babies.
‘In practice, we will probably end up doing a combination of these things. But only the last offers a viable long-term solution.’
Birth rates decline
Data from a variety of sources including the United Nations and the World Bank indicates that the total number of live births is falling around the world, including in developing nations.
Some commentators, whose intentions are obviously not Godly, and who may have been watching too many apocalyptic movies, have suggested that the decrease in fertility rates is good news for ‘our descendants’ if there are any, who will escape gruesome deaths brought on by food shortages and starvation.
In the real world, how is the current decline in birth rates or wiping out God’s creation good news to any sane human?
The Bible records the Lord’s repeated command to the sons of Noah: Gen 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis 9.7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
“Effective medicines and access to education for women”
World Economic Media on birth decline
World Economic Media said: ‘In previous generations, national birth rates were high as adult populations reproduced to ensure they would be taken care of in old age, and parents frequently had many children. However, factors such as the development of what they claim are ‘more effective medicines and improved access to education’ for women may be contributing to declining fertility rates’.
Meanwhile, the term ‘education for women’ has been sold through various programmes by the United Nations and the World Health Organisation. These schemes inevitably include abortion policies and reproductive health.
Even more, we have elsewhere reported that the World Health Organisation(WHO) also wants to compel its 194 Member States to legalise abortion on demand up to birth. We are urging pro-life nations to stand with Scripture and demand the abortion measure be thrown out.
The Bible says, Gen 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
And God told them: Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
That commandment and its repetition to the sons of Noah has never been repealed. Even in Babylon, when the people of Judah were in exile, the Lord’s prophet commanded: Jer 29:6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished.
Too scared to have children
Edred Whittingham, a Just Stop Oil protester told GB News after his snooker protest he will remain childless ‘on moral grounds given the uncertainties of climate change’. He added that: ‘It would be wrong to bring children into the world when he can’t guarantee there will be a habitable planet for them to grow up in’.
Not having children is a form of sloth, which the Bible condemns: Prov 22:13 The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.
We must continue to pray for our young people as it is apparently not just climate fanatics like him who think along such lines. According to a global study of 10,000 people aged 16 to 25, an astonishing 39 percent said they were hesitant to have children one day because they’re so scared of climate change.
Although coming from a different angle, some Christian young people may draw the same conclusion as we are ‘in the last days’. They are equally in defiance of the Biblical command.
Humans are ‘a plague’
Claiming that humans are responsible for all problems in the world is as deeply-held by the elite as it is misanthropic. Sir David Attenborough has said: ‘Today we’re living in an era in which the biggest threat to human wellbeing, to other species, and to the Earth as we know it, might well be ourselves. The issue of population size is always controversial because it touches on the most personal decisions we make. But we ignore it at our peril.’
Moreso, he said the only way to save ‘the planet’ from famine and species extinction is to limit human population growth. ‘We are a plague on the Earth. It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change; it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde.’
Rob Lyons commented in Spiked-Online: ‘Attenborough merely parrots the anti-human spirit of our times. It is Attenborough’s view of humanity, not humanity itself, which is toxic.’ David Attenborough is patron of ‘Population Matters’ the U.K.’s largest population control trust.
Population Matters would even have humankind ‘voluntarily’ reduce our current population of seven billion by about half to save the planet. They never say how.
Humans are not the problem
In his 1798 publication, ‘An essay on the Principle of Population’, Rev Thomas Malthus proposed a theory called “moral restraint,” which aimed to reduce the birth rate and prevent society from exceeding, as he saw it, its ability to feed itself.
However, food production has drastically increased since Malthus’ time, making his theory obsolete, if it were ever valid. But many, like population campaigner Paul Erlich, author of the 1968 book ‘The Population Bomb’ still cling to his ideas.
The global population has been steadily increasing for a long time, with around 75% of growth occurring in the past century, and over 50% of it happening since 1970. However, the United Nations predicts that population growth is likely soon to approach zero, especially in more developed countries.
The primary causes of population collapse today are not war or disease, however, but social evolution, including the decline of the family and religion, as well as diminished economic opportunity and a soaring cost of living.
Leave families alone
Legalising same-sex relationships and abortion programmes are all threats to population and to the family unit ordained by God.
In the United Kingdom, abortion, sodomy and gross indecency were all decriminalised in 1967. They all discourage pregnancy and promoting immoral behaviour and sinful actions in the eyes of God. Fifty-six years later and ‘gay pride’ marches are prevalent throughout the UK and the government has legalised same-sex marriage and transgenderism.
Christians are facing discrimination due to equality laws, and the administration is actively promoting LGBT agenda and abortion to students in schools and to nations abroad. We are truly living in the Days of Lot.
In the absence of natural fecundity, only Muslim immigration and desire for children will fund UK pensions and that only in the short term. That itself brings a challenge to our Christian constitution. In practice, Christians have not just a Biblical duty, which should in itself be enough, but a moral duty to do what their bodies were designed for and have more children. The tax burden and the size of the public sector both need to reduce as well. We are not starting from a good place. But let us at least begin to recognise and pray into the challenge that faces us.
PRAY: That Christians will wake up to the challenges, to the demands and commands of the Lord and take a prophetic, Biblical view of life today. Pray for the Church to become more masculine and attract more young men. May there be Christian marriages and families big enough to demand a people carrier. Read: Psalm 14:4, 53:4, 64:5, 91:8, 94:2, 140:1-3, Matt 9:12; Rom 3:13.
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Stephen Green on 6th February 2023 outside Marie Stopes abortion facility in Mattock Lane, Ealing.
The Council have sent Stephen Green a Fixed Penalty Notice (FPN). It demands £100. The Notice came with a covering letter from Paul Murphy, ‘Safer Communities Operations Manager’. Mr Murphy’s letter was dated 9th March 2023. The FPN, dated 2nd March, contains the threat of court action in the event that the sum of £100 remains unpaid after fourteen days.
The FPN was issued by Mr Jess Murray, ‘Assistant Director for Safer Communities and Resident Services, Ealing Council.’ Although it says it was ‘given in person to Mr Stephen Green’, it was actually sent recorded delivery (or ‘signed for’).
Mr Murray says: ‘I have reason to believe that you have committed an offence.’ He goes on: ‘Details of the alleged offence are contained in this notice. This notice offers you the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction for that offence by payment of a fixed penalty.’ Mr Murray says that if the £100 is paid within fourteen days, ‘you will not be liable to conviction’. Then comes the threat: ‘If you fail to pay the fixed penalty within that period, legal proceedings for the offence may be commenced against you.’.
Circumstance and Notes
Ealing’s Fixed Penalty Notice
The notice then gives what it calls ‘Circumstances alleged to constitute the offence’:
‘On Monday 6th February 2023, outside MSI Reproductive Choices Clinic (sic), 87 Mattock Lane, Ealing, London W5 5BJ, which is within the Safe Zone as defined in the Public Spaces Protection Order (Mattock Lane Safe Zone) 2018, you did something you were prohibited from doing in a Public Spaces Protection Order, namely 1) protested (i.e. engaged in an act of disapproval) with respect to issues related to abortion services, and (2) displayed text related directly or in directly to the termination of pregnancy.’
There follow some ‘contemporaneous notes’:
‘Further information on the offence are (sic) detailed within the witness statement of Mr Connor DULEA and PC Erhan MUSTAFA, as well as within the CCTV footage from London Borough of Ealing public safety CCTV, Metropolitan Police CCTV and an array of evidence provided by the Defendant and others on social media.’
Displayed Text
The reference above to ‘displayed text’ refers to a scripture on the placard ‘the Defendant’ was holding in front of the clinic. It said: Psalm 139:13: For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Stephen Green said today: ‘I have no intention of paying Ealing’s FPN, either within fourteen days or at all. It will be up to them to decide whether to carry out their threat of ‘legal proceedings’. If they do, they will have to explain to the court what a Bible verse using pre-natal human development to illustrate the closeness of God has to do with ‘the termination of pregnancy’. (And what a shocking expression that is.)
In his ‘Treasury of David’ Charles Hadden Spurgeon explains verse 13 of this great psalm. The Almighty one is ‘the acknowledged lord and possessor of my most secret self’. CH Spurgeon goes on: ‘Thus the Psalmist describes the intimacy which God had with him. In his most secret part—his reins, and in his most secret condition—yet unborn, he was under the control and guardianship of God.’ (Worth reading in full.)
A key take-away may be that 3,000 years ago, a shepherd-boy and musician who became a king knew quite accurately how, by the grace of God, he had grown in his mother’s womb. Moreover, each of us started that way, and each of us was known by God in that place. If God knows that much about each one of us, then each one of us has a God-given role to play in his kingdom.
Christian Witness
The witness outside the Marie Stopes facility was not an act of disapproval of abortion. It was an act of disapproval of buffer zones, timed to take place as the matter of nation-wide buffer zones was being debated in Parliament.
Of course Christian Voice, along with every Christian washed in the blood of the Lord Jesus, disapproves of abortion. The legalisation of the shedding of innocent blood is one of the United Kingdom’s defining sins. The Lord said to Cain, after he had slain his brother Abel:
Gen 4:10 … What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
However, the activity in Ealing and the other four days of February’s Buffer Zone Challenge was to do with Christian witness and our freedom to preach the word. In May of this year King Charles will be anointed and crowned king of his realms and territories. He will be presented with the Great Bible, the King James Version held in Westminster Abbey. Are we saying there are verses from that Bible His Majesty may not quote in a part of his kingdom?
Neh 6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.
Acts 4:20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
Acts 5:41 And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
Rom 10:14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Thank God for this opportunity to stand against Ealing Council and the rest of what is now becoming a pro-abortion British establishment.
The Public Order Bill, containing the establishment of buffer zones outside abortion premises all over England and Wales, is set to become law. The Bill was debated in the House of Commons last week and in the House of Lords again only yesterday. The two Houses are now set to agree and the Bill will pass, receive Royal Assent and become an Act of Parliament.
Pray for national repentance. The UK law forbids pro-life activists offering a women a better way. It protects the market of those who shed innocent blood. There will be pressure for a similar law everywhere abortion is legalised.
The legalisation of abortion will now carry with it everywhere a similar assault on freedom of Christian speech. Pray for those countries in the world where abortion is still illegal to stand firm. Pray for the Lord to raise up a vibrant Christian witness in every land.
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This was Day 2 of the Buffer Zone Challenge. This video was made at one end of the 600m radius (in one direction at least) Twickenham Public Space Protection Order Zone. All unscripted and unrehearsed, so be understanding!
The Public Order Bill has now left the House of Lords with Clause 10 in it. It returns to the House of Commons for Consideration of Lords’ amendments. The Lords have brought in a number of amendments. The Government can accept them, or vote them down and send the Bill back up the corridor to their Lordships to think again. Should the House of Lords stand firm on a matter of principle, and the Commons will not budge either, the Bill falls, and Clause 10 with it.
Remember how serious this is for the safety, security and prosperity of the United Kingdom. The Bible says:
Deut 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
The people (when will they awake?) and those who lead them are not saying ‘Amen’ to that in Northern Ireland, England and Wales, and presently in Scotland. Here, the state is siding rather with those who profit from the taking of innocent life. This is a step downwards from permitting the shedding of innocent blood, which defiles the land. Scripture shows the judgment will fall:
Deut 28:15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee: … 20 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me. …
Even our security services rely on the grace of God for things to go well for them and for the bad guys to make mistakes:
Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
Prayer
Christian Voice is here to show you historical Biblical Christianity and sound a prophetic warning. In the light of those scriptures and more (be sure there are many more), please pray that the Public Order Bill, which carries the buffer zone clause, will fall. Pray for national repentance. Pray for our legislators to know the fear of God and his wisdom and understanding:
Prov 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
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Parliament wants to put a ‘Buffer Zone’ around every abortion centre and NHS hospital in England and Wales. Meanwhile, five local authorities in England have placed their own buffer zones around abortion centres in their area.
We reported on and witnessed against the principle of buffer zones outside each one in turn over five days, 6th to 10th Feb. 2023. We stood for Jesus Christ in the United Kingdom, and established the Gospel can be preached within them, absurdly so long as one does not mention abortion, or babies, or murder, or soul or kill! But the further implications are even greater, as you will see below.
Read what the Bournemouth Echo said HERE about the witness, and read how the ‘British Pregnancy Advice Service’ abortionists were completely dumbfounded.
The implications – personal
At a personal level, any woman with a heart will regret an abortion for the rest of her life. There is sure and certain forgiveness in the blood of Jesus Christ, for all of us, for that matter, whatever our sin, but the bitter heartache will remain. That was her baby, sometimes the only baby she would ever have, and it’s tragic:
Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Matt 2:18 In Ramah was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not. (cf Jer 31:15)
That is just one reason why pro-life witness outside abortion premises or in town centres is literally vital.
The implications – national
At a national level, in the Abortion Act 1967, the United Kingdom legalised the shedding of innocent blood and brought judgment on every one of us:
Deut 19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
However, the proposed installation of buffer zones around every licensed abortion premises in England and Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland, takes that national sin to a new level. Now, the respective nations are siding with the abortionists, facilitating commercial activities (they might well be ‘charities’) which make their money from taking the lives of innocent human beings.
The Bible says: Deut 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Our legislators are now bringing that curse on all of us, as well as the hatred of the Lord: Prov 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, …
Living in the days of Lot
It is that serious. For years now, the United Kingdom in its laws has promoted homosexuality, even in the classroom to five-year-olds. Now it promotes abortion. Both institutionalised sodomy and child sacrifice were the sins of Sodom.
You may have heard it said that if God does not judge the United Kingdom he would have to apologise to Sodom and Gomorrah. If that was not true before, it is becoming true in our day. We are living in the days of Lot. The judgment must fall, as described in the words of the Lord Jesus Christ himself:
Luke 17:28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Prayer
Please pray that the Public Order Bill, which carries the buffer zone clause, will fall. Pray for national repentance. Pray for our legislators to know the fear of God and his wisdom and understanding:
Prov 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
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Parliament is currently debating installing so-called ‘buffer zones’ around all abortion clinics and all hospitals in England and Wales. We are praying against this ‘Clause 9’ of the Public Order Bill. But peers in the House of Lords have been at pains to stress abortion ‘is not the issue’. Read the Third Reading Debate here.
For this ministry, abortion IS the issue. Social abortion takes the life of an innocent human being. Each one is our brother or sister in the womb. The Bible says innocent bloodshed defiles the land:
Numb 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
The judgment falls upon us all, on the whole nation:
Deut 19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Existing Buffer Zones
In the meantime, no fewer than five local authorities in England have installed their own buffers zones around abortion facilities in their areas. They have passed Public Space Protection Orders concerning them.
By the grace of God we are going to challenge them and at the same time challenge the abortion mentality of those in power. Our National Director will be standing with a Bible verse and preaching from the word inside each Buffer Zone, outside each abortion building, one per day, all next week. That’s five buffer zones in five days. So the Buffer Zone Challenge is a challenge for him as well.
As it happens, he might well preach against the buffer zone itself, rather than against abortion. Curiously, that appears to be allowed inside the buffer zone. (P.S. that was the approach at Ealing yesterday). Or he might simply report on the buffer zone. That is definitely allowed. Or he might preach on abortion just outside the buffer zone. That too is allowed. In whichever approach, as the Bible records David’s army commander Joab said to Abishai his brother, according to the King James Version translators:
2Sam 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Buffer Zone Challenge 2023
The central issue around abortion is firstly, is there a human being in the womb, in what should be the safest place on God’s earth? If so, all the scriptures above come into play and the shedding of innocent blood in our land at the hands of every abortionist is bringing judgment on us all.
Secondly, there is the issue of Freedom of Speech (Article 10 of the Human Rights Act and Charter) and Freedom of Assembly (Article 11).
Thirdly, there is the matter of freedom of thought, belief and religion (Article 9). Christians are commanded to preach the Gospel. We are commanded to pray. We are commanded to witness to those in power.
Fourthly, this United Kingdom is constitutionally a nation under God. It follows there can be no part of it where Christian prayer, preaching or witness is ‘against the law’.
Come along and listen to the word of God and support us with your presence. None of the PSPOs forbids anyone from standing and observing an alleged breach of the PSPO. Or for that matter, reporting on the handing out of a penalty or an arrest by the police, should they be called.
Itinerary for the Buffer Zone Challenge
Monday 6th February 2023:
11am: 87 Mattock Ln, London W5 5BJ (LB Ealing)
Marie Stopes International (MSI) Reproductive Choices (sic) – West London (National Treatment Centre).
Tuesday 7th February 2023:
11am: 15 Rosslyn Rd, St Margarets, Twickenham TW1 2AR (LB Richmond)
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) Rosslyn Clinic.
Wednesday 8th February 2023:
11am: 23-25 Ophir Rd, Bournemouth BH8 8LS. (Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole Council) BPAS Bournemouth.
Thursday 9th February 2023:
11am: 5 Wynnstay Grove, Fallowfield, Manchester M14 6XG (Manchester City Council)
MSI Reproductive Choices – Manchester Treatment Centre
Friday 10th February 2023:
11am: The Robert Clinic, 162 Station Rd, King’s Norton, Birmingham B30 1DB (Birmingham City Council) BPAS Birmingham South
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Isabel Vaughan-Spruce outside the BPAS facility in Robert Road
A pro-life leader who was arrested and charged on four counts after silently praying on a public street near an abortion facility has had all charges against her dropped, Birmingham Magistrates Court told Christian Voice this morning.
Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was due to appear today, 2nd February 2023. However, the court office told us that charges were quietly dropped two weeks ago, on 20th January.
Psalm 118:23 This is the LORD’S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
Police approached Miss Vaughan-Spruce as she stood near the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) Robert Clinic last year in Kings Norton, Birmingham. She was carrying no sign and remained silent. The Police reported they had received complaints from an onlooker who suspected she was praying silently ‘in her mind’.
A West Midlands Police officer approached the campaigner to tell her he had to caution her. He then asked her: ‘What are you here for today?’
‘Physically, I’m just standing here,’ replied Miss Vaughan-Spruce, who lives in Malvern, Worcestershire. ‘Why here of all places? I know you don’t live nearby,’ the officer asked.
She responded: ‘But this is an abortion centre.’ The officer said: ‘’Okay, that’s why you’re stood here. Are you here as part of a protest? Are you praying?’ She denied she was protesting but said: ‘I might be praying in my head, but not out loud.’
The officer then arrested her on suspicion of failing to comply with a public spaces protection order. The police then charged Miss Vaughan-Spruce with four counts of failing to comply with a Public Space Protection Order. However, embarrassed Crown Prosecutors have evidently realised there was no case to answer. In a perplexing move, they have told her lawyers they could ‘reinstate’ the charges. However, CPS guidance says clearly that can only happen if more evidence comes to light. In this case, all the evidence is there already.
Public Space Protection Order
A map of the Birmingham PSPO or ‘Buffer Zone’. The BPAS premises is on the corner of Franklin Road, the long road in the picture, and Station Road, leading off south.
A Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) came into effect around the BPAS centre in September 2022. The measure was introduced by Birmingham City Council and stays in force for three years. It bans individuals from engaging in certain ‘activities’.
The PSPO states: ‘The Activities prohibited by the Order are:
‘i Protesting, namely engaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval, with respect to issues related to abortion services, by any means. This includes but is not limited to graphic, verbal or written means, prayer or counselling,’
It clarifies that: ‘“Protesting” means being in the restricted area (whether by yourself or with others) and engaging in any act of approval or disapproval or attempted act of approval or disapproval, with respect to issues related to abortion services, by any means. This includes but is not limited to, graphic, verbal or written means, prayer or counselling;’
‘v Displaying any text or images relating directly or indirectly to the termination of pregnancy.’
A note says: ‘“Displaying any text or images relating directly or indirectly to the termination of pregnancy” includes but is not limited to, imagery or textual references to abortion, baby, mum, foetus, soul, kill, hell, murder;’
Three other clauses refer to ‘Interfering with’, ‘Intimidating or harassing’, or ‘Recording or photographing’ a ‘Robert Clinic service user, visitor or member of staff’’.
Thought-crime
It emerged that Miss Vaughan-Spruce was shown pictures of herself outside the abortion facility whilst in the police station. Officers asked if she was praying at that time. She says she could not recall from the pictures whether she was praying at these specific moments, or whether these had been taken at times that she was distracted and thought about other things, such as her lunch. Moreover, she maintains that all her thoughts were equally peaceful and imperceptible and that none should be criminalised.
“It’s abhorrently wrong that I was searched, arrested, interrogated by police and charged simply for praying in the privacy of my own mind. Censorship zones purport to ban harassment, which is already illegal. Nobody should ever be subject to harassment. But what I did was the furthest thing from harmful. I was exercising my freedom of thought, my freedom of religion, inside the privacy of my own mind. Nobody should be criminalised for thinking and for praying, in a public space in the UK,” said Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, following her arrest for silent prayer.
She should now have a case against the police for wrongful arrest.
March for Life
Miss Vaughan-Spruce is the Director of the UK March for Life. She has volunteered for many years in support of women in crisis pregnancies.
She explained: “I have devoted much of my life to supporting women in crisis pregnancies with everything that they need to make an empowered choice for motherhood. I am also involved in supporting women who have had abortions and are struggling with the consequences of it. I’ve grown close to many of the women I’ve been able to support over the years, and it breaks my heart to know that so many more go through this every day.
“My faith is a central part of who I am, so sometimes I’ll stand or walk near an abortion facility and pray about this issue. This is something I’ve done pretty much every week for around the last 20 years of my life. I pray for my friends who have experienced abortion, and for the women who are thinking about going through it themselves,” she continued. As part of her conditions for bail, Miss Vaughan-Spruce was told she should not contact a local Catholic priest who is also involved in pro-life work. The condition, which would have added a breach of her right of free association to that of freedom of thought and freedom of religion, was later dropped.
However, the police also imposed bail restrictions against Miss Vaughan-Spruce engaging in public prayer even beyond the PSPO area. They stated this was necessary to ‘prevent further offences’. Of course the court is yet to decide whether an offence has been committed at all.
Alliance Defending Freedom
Jeremiah Igunnubole of ADF, Lawyer for Isabel Vaughan-Spruce
Jeremiah Igunnubole is Legal Counsel for the UK arm of US-based Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF UK), the legal organisation supporting Isabel Vaughan-Spruce.
He said: ‘Isabel’s experience should be deeply concerning to all those who believe that our hard-fought fundamental rights are worth protecting. It is truly astonishing that the law has granted local authorities such wide and unaccountable discretion, that now even thoughts deemed “wrong” can lead to a humiliating arrest and a criminal charge.’
‘A mature democracy should be able to differentiate between criminal conduct and the peaceful exercise of constitutionally protected rights. Isabel, a woman of good character, and who has tirelessly served her community by providing charitable assistance to vulnerable women and children, has been treated no better than a violent criminal. The recent increase in buffer zone legislation and orders is a watershed moment in our country. We must ask ourselves whether we are a genuinely democratic country committed to protecting the peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of speech. We are at serious risk of mindlessly sleepwalking into a society that accepts, normalises, and even promotes the “tyranny of the majority”,’ he continued.
Buffer Zones: stuff of zealots
However, it is far from clear that such PSPO’s and ‘Buffer Zones’ enjoy a majority of support. They are brought in on the demand of pro-abortion activists and parliamentarians.
Nor is it clear whether they will withstand legal process in the European Court of Human Rights. The Buffer Zone in Ealing has been upheld by the Supreme Court, but that case is now on track for Europe. How embarrassing that Christians in the Land of the Book have to turn to the Council of Europe for justice.
Isa 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
The arrest of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce follows a recent incident in Bournemouth where a woman was told to leave by what are described as ‘local authorities’ for praying. She was outside the local PSPO zone around the BPAS abortion building in Ophir Road, Bournemouth. In October it became the fifth centre to have a PSPO in the country, following Ealing, Twickenham, Manchester and the one in Birmingham.
Lockdown Penalty withdrawn in Liverpool
Last year, Rosa Lalor, a grandmother from Liverpool, successfully overturned a fixed penalty given to her while out walking and silently praying near an abortion facility. The penalty was given under lockdown restrictions in February 2021. Mrs Lalor had been questioned as to why she was outdoors and answered she was “walking and praying”. The officer decided she wasn’t praying in a place of worship, and did not have a “reasonable excuse” to be outdoors at that time. He claimed she was there to “protest”. The grandmother was arrested, detained, and issued a penalty.
Merseyside Police eventually conceded her detention was wrong. Mrs Lalor was acting within her rights, indeed having a “reasonable excuse” to be outdoors praying. The similarity with Isabel Vaughan-Spruce’’s case is that Mrs Lalor says she too was ‘praying in the privacy of my own mind.’
Buffer Zone Vote
MPs voted on Tuesday 18th October 2022 in favour of installing buffer zones 150 meters around all abortion clinics and hospitals in England and Wales. 297 MPs voted in favour of the amendment to the Public Order Bill while 110 rejected it, a majority of 187. Two hundred and forty MPs did not vote at all. See Hansard HERE.
MPs were allowed a free vote by their parties on the amendment, which meant they did not face pressure from party leaders to vote a certain way. Furthermore, it also meant the amendment was certain to pass. Labour and Liberal Democrats MPs always vote virtually en masse for abortion, while the Conservatives are always split. Only Ulster’s DUP consistently vote pro-life.
The new clause added an ‘Offence of interference with access to or provision of abortion services.’ However, only this week the House of Lords substituted a different version of ‘Clause 9’, as it is known. See Hansard HERE.
The Bible says: Prov 31:8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
It will be remiss of us, as the Public Order Bill proceeds through Parliament, not to challenge the idea of forbidding Christian witness in specific areas of the king’s realm. Christian Voice people love taking God’s message to the street. The Lord used us mightily in this way against the Corpus Christi play in St Andrews, the Sunday Mirror, the South Wales Echo and of course the theatre tour of Jerry Springer the Opera. We have confronted ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’. We have stood with parents at schools promoting LGBT propaganda. We regularly witness about creation outside the Natural History Museum.
Why should Christian Voice not be found praying or singing, holding up a Bible verse or preaching outside an abortion centre?
It is noteworthy that the Birmingham PSPO, while banning ‘text or images relating directly or indirectly to the termination of pregnancy’ says this ‘includes but is not limited to, imagery or textual references to abortion, baby, mum, foetus, soul, kill, hell, murder.’
’Formed thee from the womb’
It is an interesting selection. Nevertheless, one good word is missing. We see it in every one of these King James Bible verses:
Psalm 22:9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s breasts.
Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Eccl 11:5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Isaiah 44:2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Galations 1:15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
And of course we remember Elizabeth’s exclamation when an unborn John the Baptist reacted to the presence of an embryonic Lord Jesus: Luke 1:44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy:
Read and Pray
Surely none of those relates ‘directly or indirectly to the termination of pregnancy’, does it? We shall see. And what about these two:
READ also: Deut 27:25; Psalm 106:37-38.
PRAY: Thank God for Isabel Vaughan-Spruce. Thank him also that there were found men and women to stand for life in the House of Commons. Ask him why so few.
Pray the House of Lords will overturn the new clause in the Public Order Bill. Above all, pray for an end to abortion in our land. Pray for an MP to introduce a Texas-style ‘‘Heartbeat’ law. Pray for your MP!
Please also pray for wisdom as we consider what sort of witness will best challenge the idea of buffer zones / PSPO’s next week!
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Het Majesty the Queen attends the Commonwealth Day Service in Westminster Abbey on 9th March 2020
Jamaica, along with the rest of the Caribbean and Africa, is threatened by what former UK Chief Rabbi Jonathan, Lord Sacks identifies as ‘Cultural Climate Change’. HIS VIDEO HERE
By the grace of God, in this article you will see how Western evils like abortion and homosexuality are driven by a handful of activists in African and Caribbean countries imbued with Western vices. They are financed by wealthy Western governments and foundations with vast sums of money which should be funding proper health care or economic development.
Christian Voice is enabling Christians both in the UK and overseas to push back against this wickedness, to pray for and to speak Biblical truth to those in power. But we need your support. To invest in this work, click here!
(By the grace of God, we originally published this article in the March 2020 edition of the Christian Voice newsletter, just after Her Majesty the Queen and dignitaries celebrated Commonwealth Day in a service in Westminster Abbey on 9th March 2020. Yes, that was just before Covid, Lockdown and mRNA vaccines! But here we bring it up-to-date.)
Cultural Climate Change
So what is Cultural Climate Change? Unlike alleged weather ‘climate change’, this one is totally man-made!
Cultural Climate Change is characterised by a disregard for the sanctity of life and the divine institution of marriage. It leads to an ice age of falling birthrates, a rising sea-level of immorality, an increase in the temperature of intolerance to prophetic warning voices and a cooling of the altruism we need to bind us together. Civilisations in the past have been here and done this, Rabbi Sacks argues. Every one of them has gone down the rubbish-chute of history, driven out by a stronger monotheistic and monogamous force. The word of God says:
Proverbs 16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
If you want your nation to be blessed, those who lead you must set Jesus as their King. Scripture clearly says:
Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD;
Living in the Days of Lot
We can also say the West is now living in the Days of Lot. In the societies of Sodom and Gomorrah, immorality in the form of sodomy was not merely tolerated but encouraged by their legal and societal structures. They also practised child sacrifice. However, the West today goes one further. It uses government foreign aid programmes and immoral charitable foundations to export its immorality, funding local activist NGOs to spread Cultural Climate Change in their countries.
Psa 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
The West also employs diplomatic pressure. One forum where this can be seen is the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
In previous years, pro-homosexual nations and activists within them have attempted to promote assumed LGBT rights in and around the meeting.
Australia put down a pro-sodomy motion at the CHOGM in October 2011. The United Kingdom supported it. In June 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron told a reception he gave for gay activists at No 10 Downing Street that he intended to use UK foreign aid as a lever to force recipient countries to liberalise their laws on homosexuality. His speech was reported in the UK homosexual website Pink News. This writer’s reaction to it was reported in DominicaNewsOnline. I said: ‘David Cameron needs to realise that the white man is not the fount of all wisdom’.
The Bible writers would surely call Mr Cameron a man ‘who did evil in the sight of the Lord’.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Baroness Scotland stands accused of cronyism and corruption.
Her Majesty the Queen signed a new Commonwealth Charter in 2013, which declared: ‘We are implacably opposed to all forms of discrimination, whether rooted in gender, race, colour, creed, political belief or other grounds.’ The Western nations wanted ‘sexual orientation’ included explicitly in the Charter. They lost, and will now try to argue that ‘or other grounds’ includes ‘sexuality’.
In 2015, the CHOGM elected Baroness Scotland as Secretary-General. Her Ladyship said she would use her tenure to promote decriminalisation of homosexuality in Commonwealth countries. She is now embroiled in accusations of corruption.
In 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May told the CHOGM that laws against unnatural practices were ‘wrong’. Prince William has expressed himself to be heavily pro-gay. Yet the Bible says:
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Division and Pushback
However, events around the UNFPA Nairobi Summit in November 2019, which promoted ‘Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’ (SRHR: code for pro-LGBT and pro-abortion policies) together with Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE), exposed deep divisions between nations already engulfed by Cultural Climate Change and those threatened by it.
The Nordic Nations, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, were the primary funders of the Summit. Moreover, no end of blond young women activists attended the Summit. In contrast, African, Caribbean and Asian nations were dismayed by the Western attempts to promote immorality. Uganda and St Lucia stood with the US to condemn the UNFPA agenda. Norway then condemned what it saw as the ‘pushback’.
Christian Voice and Kenya Christian Voice were there. We handed out leaflets condemning abortion to those going in and our activities were noticed and made a real impact in the spiritual realm.
Freedom of Speech
There is, as mentioned above, a serious impact from Cultural Climate Change on freedom of speech and expression. Legalising homosexuality leads immediately to non-discrimination laws. The next step is a law mandating public authorities to promote ‘protected characteristics’. These include ‘sexual orientation’ and transgenderism. Scripture condemns such vanities:
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
The same public authorities, and other concerns and companies, use these laws to sack Christians and others who express misgivings about homosexual practice on social media. The church also begins to exercise self-censorship.
LGBT propaganda
The experience of the UK shows that legalising homosexuality also leads to the pretence of same-sex ‘marriage’. This, coupled with the public authority duty, leads to teachers corrupting primary school children with LGBT propaganda. Yet it is parents, not teachers, to whom God gives responsibility for children’s education:
Deut 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, … 19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
There is a trampling on parental responsibilities for their children’s education, even though these are enshrined not just in the Bible but in human rights legislation. In Birmingham, the courts denied parents freedom of assembly to protest against LGBT propaganda in Anderton Park and Parkfield Primary Schools.
Transgenderism
Schools in the UK are now also hotbeds of the horrors of transgenderism. The idea placed in the minds of even small children that they are ‘trapped in the wrong body’ has become so fashionable the UK government even allow doctors to prescribe hormonal drugs, ‘puberty blockers’ which interfere with children’s natural development.
Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Deut 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Matt 19:4 And he (Jesus) answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?
(P.S. There has more recently been a pushback against transgenderism, with the closure of the UK’s Tavistock Clinic. The UK government also want to ensure fairness in sports. But at this time of posting [January 2023], the Scottish Parliament had voted to allow anyone to switch gender, without so much as a doctor’s note. Meanwhile the UK government were proposing to criminalise anyone, even a parent, who voiced concerns over even a child’s intention to ‘transition’.)
The prize of Jamaica
J-Flag: Jamaican campaigning homosexuals
Cultural Climate Change is being pushed in Africa and Asia and across the whole of the Caribbean. However, Jamaica, the largest Commonwealth island in the Caribbean, would be a highly significant prize if judges and/or lawmakers could be browbeaten into legalising sodomy and abortion. There is money to be made, particularly from abortion. Underneath is an anti-Christian population control agenda. We shall explore that at another time…
Anyway, the propaganda appears to be working for now. An article in the Guardian in December 2018 was headed ‘Welcome to Jamaica – no longer ‘the most homophobic place on Earth.’
The article highlighted what it described as ‘the work of Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-Flag), the country’s largest LGBT rights organisation, which this month celebrates its 20th anniversary.’
J-FLAG
J-Flag Logo
So let us look at ‘J-FLAG’. According to its website, J-FLAG has six directors and no fewer than thirteen full-time members of staff, including a ‘Senior Youth Programme Officer’, one Sean Lord. Foreign-funded NGO jobs are among the most lucrative in the developing world. A Scottish gay charity has just admitted its youth outreach programmes amounted to grooming and sexual abuse.
Its 2017 annual report boasted of its ‘gay pride celebrations’, public visibility in its clearing beaches campaign, support from private sector companies and of being heard sympathetically in Parliament. It states that the Minister of Justice, Hon. Delory Chuck, called for decriminalisation of anti-sodomy laws, only to appear to back-track.
The Minister of Health, Dr Christopher Tufton, demanded ‘stigma and discrimination’ against ‘minority groups’ be ended. Most worrying, the Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, it says, told a London summit that Jamaica welcomes ‘LGBT travellers’. The latter bring tourism money, it is true. But they also bring heightened use of narcotics, sexual health risks and the corruption of ‘sex-tourism’ as well-heeled foreign homosexual men try to hire local boys for sex. The tourist industry is proposing a pact with the devil.
J-FLAG is also promoting feminist group ‘We-Change’, a magazine, ‘Pride ja’, a disturbing youth ‘outreach’, and a transsexual group, ‘Transwave’. They boasted of a partnership between J-Flag and ‘the Youth Division of the (Jamaica) Ministry of Youth, Sports & Culture.’
Confusing accounts
J-FLAG accounts are difficult to comprehend, even when it publishes them. It seldom lists its donors, but we’ll come to that. Its 2014 annual report lists 5,000,000 on administration, 17,500,000 pn staff, and 22,000,000 on ‘program’.
Its 2018 Annual Report showed a rise to 9,306,240 on administration, 10,133,405 on staff, and 71,811,593 on ‘program’ (p29). It does not say what currency these figures are in, which is a gross omission. It may be Jamaican dollars, which would put the listed expenditure in the £500k bracket.
Stop Press: J-Flag’s 2021 Annual Accounts listed the following wealthy international donors:
• Astraea Lesbian Foundation (US-based)
• Comic Relief/Impact (UK-based)
• GiveOut (UK-based)
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS)
• MAC-AIDS
• Open Society Foundation (George Soros)
• The Commonwealth Equality Network (qv)
• The European Union
• The Dutch Embassy
• The Global Fund
• United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
LGBT promotion in the Caribbean
What is certain is that all the money comes from the West. The 2015/2016 Global Resources Report listed ‘Government and Philanthropic Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Communities’.
The top ten funders of ‘LGBTI’ funding for Latin America, South America and the Caribbean (p6) included Hivos (a wealthy humanist foundation in the Netherlands), the EU, Ford Foundation, Open Society Foundations (founded by George Soros), Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation.
Costa Rica is being deluged with Cultural Climate Change money, $5m in 2015/16, according to the report. But second is Jamaica, with $1,785,967 pouring in. As J-FLAG is about the only and certainly the largest LGBT CSO in Jamaica, the bulk of that money must be ending up in J-FLAG coffers.
Swedish heiress Sigrid Rausing, based in the UK, is at the forefront of LGBT funding worldwide.
Donors listed
J-FLAG’s 2014 annual report listed some of its donors (p 38 – [p42 in the pdf]): Digicell Foundation, European Union, FOSI, Foundation To Promote An Open Society (sounds like a Soros set-up), Human Dignity Trust, MAC-AIDS, Rights Now, Royal Norwegian, Sigrid Rausing Trust, US State Department, York University and VIIV Healthcare. (US State Dept. money for promoting sodomy dried up under President Trump only to restart under Joe Biden.)
Sigrid Rausing Trust admits, or boasts, of having sent £480,000 to J-FLAG over the years from 2009. They gave them £240,000 over three years starting in 2018. (Stop Press: Their current grant is £300,000 over three years from 2022./)
Last year, 2019, Astraea Lesbian Foundation gave J-FLAG £500,000.
Wealthy foundations
GiveOut founder, UK gay activist Elliot Vaughn.
Astraea itself is supported by other wealthy US foundations including Arcus, Tides and Ford and has strong links to Open Society Foundations.
We see Astraea and Open Society supporting similar groups around the world, for example, South Africa’s Triangle Project (pp 39-43). Other ‘usual suspects’ also appear, such as the Germany-based Heinrich Boll Foundation.
The Edge Funders Alliance ran a conference in 2013 helpfully listing many of the Western NGOs and Foundations funding groups promoting immorality in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
Returning to J-FLAG, we find a UK homosexual charity, GiveOut, fund-raising for J-FLAG’s ‘Community Hub’, ‘Rainbow House’. GiveOut have also provided funds for J-FLAG’s Transwave as well as the ‘United Caribbean Trans Network’ (UCTRANS).
Abortion
Jamaica’s IPPF-funded FAMPLAN ’s logo carries worrying allusions to China’s infamous ‘one-child’ policy .
Abortion is illegal in Jamaica except, obviously, to save the life of the mother. International Planned Parenthood run the Jamaica Family Planning Association, FAMPLAN. We read FAMPLAN is an advocate of sex education in schools. That will heighten demand for contraceptives, and when they fail, abortion.
In 2005 the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute published a paper about ‘declining international funding’ for Caribbean family planning associations. Like the Jamaican LGBT-advocacy industry, FAMPLAN is totally reliant on Western funding. It’s money was coming from US-based IPPF, from the Canadian International Development Agency ‘and similar International organizations’. It received no money from the Jamaican government.
In Kenya, Marie Stopes has been caught out providing illegal abortions in its network on clinics in the country. The abortions are heavily subsidised from the West, notably some £48m from the UK taxpayer. Marie Stopes does not operate across the Caribbean. If IPPF is providing that service, we have found no evidence of it at this time of writing.
Propaganda
Nevertheless, IPPF would be well set to make a lot of money if abortion were ever legalised in Jamaica, so we should expect pro-abortion articles in the press, presentations to Parliament and similar propaganda, or ‘advocacy’ if one prefers.
Indeed, we read On an IPPF website: ‘FAMPLAN is a key player within a coalition of civil society organizations advocating for legal and policy changes related to sexual and reproductive health and rights, including the rights of LGBTQI+ individuals and women who have experienced violence. FAMPLAN also focuses on the health and rights of young people, and has been leading a collaborative effort to revise and strengthen school-based sexuality education, and remove the requirement of parental consent for youth under 18 who want to access sexual and reproductive health services.’
Whenever we read ‘sexual and reproductive health and rights’ (SRHR) alarm bells ring. The expression was prominent at the Nairobi UNFPA Summit in November 2019. It is code for liberalisation of laws around homosexuality and abortion. And we note FAMPLAN want to paint parents of under-18s out of the picture where their children’s sexual activities are concerned.
Christian response
That particular IPPF webpage is no longer available, but IPPF’s ‘Famplan’ section boasts of its Youth Advocacy Movement HERE and says HERE that despite ‘cultural barriers and stigma’ Famplan has ‘made its mark’. It is a challenge to the church in Jamaica and to Christian youth in particular. The church needs to identify these strongholds of Satan and take prayer action against them.
As well as confront evildoers, Christians are called to offer up:
1Tim 2:1 … prayers, intercessions, … 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority;
And above all to witness to their Members of Parliament and all others in public life.
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Mass Resistance
Moving back to the LGBT agenda, Brian Camenker of US-based Mass Resistance was able to present a speech at a pro-family rally in Jamaica in 2013 hosted by Dr Wayne West.
According to the MassResistance website, ‘Camenker outlined — point by point — the progression that followed once homosexuality was legalized everywhere else — and would surely happen in Jamaica. After legalization comes: gay pride parades; non-discrimination laws; homosexuals’ adoption of children; the homosexual agenda in schools; forcing “gay marriage” on society; public funding to deal with increased homosexual-related social problems; the transgender agenda; large-scale loss of free speech; ban on counseling for kids with homosexual issues; and attacks on churches.’
Russian response
Under President Putin, Russia has been moving to a more pro-family and pro-life stance. It is one of the reasons Russia is now so hated by Western liberals.
In 2015 Russia banned Open Society Foundation from any activities in the country. Indeed, Russia now bans all organisations funded from abroad seeking to undermine the nation’s morals and corrupt its young. In 2013, Russia brought in a federal law ‘for the purpose of protecting children from information advocating for a denial of traditional family values’. Known as the ‘gay propaganda law’, this measure has already proved highly effective at preventing gay activists presenting homosexuality as a norm, or holding gay pride parades. Amnesty International and Western liberal opinion are appalled.
P.S. (Jan 2023) Yet even the UK now demands transparency around the activities of foreign powers. The Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) was introduced to the National Security Bill by a government amendment in October 2022. The aim is to deter foreign power use of covert arrangements, activities and proxies, ‘where those activities are directed or carried out by entities established overseas or subject to foreign power control’.
John 3:20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Jamaica! Stand firm!
In the face of all the well-funded international pressure to bring Cultural Climate Change to Jamaica, we should be failing in our Christian prophetic duty if we were not to issue a warning to the people of Jamaica of their need to stand firm.
This ministry is therefore available to brief those in authority, diplomats, law-makers and pastors. We were present in Nairobi in November 2019 and are currently working on submissions to members of parliament in Kenya.
In Jamaica, it seems one necessary measure is to compel NGOs and CSOs which receive money from overseas to list each such donation in their annual published accounts. Russia’s example is one that has much to commend it as well.
The CHOGM 2020
H.E. Paul Kagame President of Rwanda
Looking ahead to June 2020 and Kigali, delegates from Africa, Asia and the Caribbean should be aware at least one pro-LGBT NGO has achieved affiliate status at the CHOGM. The‘Commonwealth Equality Network’ will ensure the presence of LGBT activists in Kigali. It lists 47 of its ‘member’ LGBT groups across the Commonwealth HERE. An article in the Independent in April 2018 also listed homosexual activists from the UK, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Barbados, Malawi, Tonga, Belize, Malaysia, Seychelles and Australia. Clearly, the Commonwealth white nations are funding all the others.
The UK government may well be on ‘best behaviour’ in June 2020 as Boris Johnson focuses on trade deals. That provides an opportunity for Caribbean, African and Asian nations to put together a pro-family, pro-life resolution. High Commissioners in London could prove instrumental in deciding whether such an approach is feasible, and if so, in organising it, and if not, pondering what else should be done.
The hosting country has great influence, not least in speeches welcoming delegates. It would be helpful if President Paul Kagame could remind assembled nations of the need to respect traditional values, for example.
(P.S. The inordinate ‘lockdown’ response to Covid saw the 2020 CHOGM abandoned.)
Research
More research should be done on the funding of pro-LGBT and pro-abortion NGOs, and this ministry stands ready to do whatever the Lord calls us to do to combat the global menace of Cultural Climate Change which threatens to destroy us all.
In particular, we are able to help and even set up pro-life and pro-family groups in the Caribbean. We are already responding to Christians who are establishing Christian Voice affiliates in Africa. This is a movement to stand for righteousness and pray for those in authority whose time is long overdue. Every Christian has a duty to offer up:
1Tim 2:1 … prayers, intercessions, … 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority;
And to inform their Members of Parliament and others in public life. And to expect miracles:
2Cor 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;
READ ALSO: Gen 19:24; Deut 4:40; 1Sam 2:20; 1Kings 15:12; 2Chron 20:12; Psalm 2:2-4, 33:12, 103:17-18; Isa 3:9; Ezek 16:49-50; Mark 9:42; Luke 17:29; Rev 7:14-17.
PRAY: For leaders in Jamaica and all the Caribbean, African and Asian members of the Commonwealth to stand firm on God’s word for human life, made in God’s image, and for the family as God has ordained it. May God pour out a blessing on those nations who fear his name and keep his righteous laws according to his promises.
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Watch our youtube video on the MPs Outlaw Protests against Abortion by Stephen Green (and do not forget to subscribe to our channel)
Last night Members of Parliament voted to outlaw any form of protest outside abortion clinics.
MPs voted on Tuesday 19th October 2022 in favour of installing buffer zones 150 meters around all abortion clinics and hospitals in England and Wales. 297 MPs voted in favour of the amendment while 110 rejected it, a majority of 187. Two hundred and forty MPs did not vote at all.
MPs were allowed a free vote by their parties on the amendment, which meant they did not face pressure from party leaders to vote a certain way. It also meant the amendment was sure to pass; Labour and Liberal Democrats MPs always vote virtually en masse for abortion, while the Conservatives are always split.
What the New Clause Says
The new clause adds an ‘Offence of interference with access to or provision of abortion services.’ It says: ‘(1) A person who is within a buffer zone and who interferes with any person’s decision to access, provide, or facilitate the provision of abortion services in that buffer zone is guilty of an offence’ and the penalty can be six months in prison.
‘Interferes with’ means ‘(a) seeks to influence, (b) persistently, continuously or repeatedly occupies, (c) impedes or threatens, (d) intimidates or harasses, (e) advises or persuades, attempts to advise or persuade, or otherwise expresses opinion, (f) informs or attempts to inform about abortion services by any means, including, without limitation, graphic, physical, verbal or written means, or (g) sketches, photographs, records, stores, broadcasts, or transmits images, audio, likenesses or personal data of any person without express consent.’
One MP ventured that someone driving a partner or a friend to an abortion clinic would be guilty of a crime if they merely asked ‘Are you sure you want to go through with this?’ Guilty that is, if the car were within 150m of the clinic. If the car is outside that distance they can say what they like. Naturally, the Guardian claims the measure was necessary to protect women accessing abortion services from protests and harassment.
Clare Murphy, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said ‘Every year, around 100,000 women are treated by a clinic or hospital for an abortion that is targeted by anti-abortion protests. These groups attempt to deter or prevent women from accessing abortion care by displaying graphic images of foetuses, calling women ‘murderers’, and hanging baby clothing around clinic entrances, causing women significant distress. Today’s vote will bring an end to this activity.’ Note ‘abortion care’. But the Bible confirms a baby in the womb, or ‘foetus’ in the language of the pro-abortion people, is a living human being. This is Elizabeth, 6 months pregnant with John the Baptist, speaking to Mary, the mother of an embryonic Jesus:
Luke 1:44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.
In that case, destroying that infant life is not ‘care’, it is murder, and the Bible condemns murder regardless of the means:
Deut 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Labour MP Stella Creasy proposed the new rules. She said: ‘Clause 11 is about abortion because, let us be honest, nobody is praying outside the places where people go to have a hip operation. Nobody offers rosary beads or dead foetuses outside the places people go when they have an ankle injury. This is about women accessing a very specific form of healthcare.’
No, indeed they are not. That is because those are genuine healthcare facilities; they are not places where people are being put to death, ripped out of what should be the safest place on God’s earth, a place of nurture and growth, as the Bible says:
Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Ms Creasy said, ‘It does not stop free speech on abortion. It does not stop people protesting. It simply says you shouldn’t have the right to do this in the face of somebody, and very often these people are right up in front of people.’
Of course sending protestors 150 metres (164 yards) away does stop them protesting. And the Bible says:
Prov 31:8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Carla Lockhart, Democratic Unionist MP for Upper Bann in Ulster, said ‘Many women have been helped by volunteers outside abortion clinics. The right hon. Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh) referred to Alina Dulgheriu, who wrote last week about her experience and how a lady helped her outside an abortion clinic. I will not repeat the story, but she explained that her “beautiful daughter would not be here today” without support from a volunteer handing out a leaflet outside the clinic.
Attack on Freedom of Speech
Under Article 10 of the Human Right Act 1998, everyone has the right to freedom of expression in the UK. ‘This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.’ The amendment to the Public Order Bill is an attack on freedom of speech. Ironically, the Opposition are claiming the entire Bill is an attack on freedom of speech. Home Office minister Jeremy Quin said Public Spaces Protection Orders (PSPOs) were effective in protecting abortion clinics, and that a blanket ban on protests was a ‘blunt approach and disproportionate given the existing powers that can and should be used’. Mr Quin voted ‘No’, but as we have seen, Tory MPs were allowed to vote as they wanted.
Hospitals with Buffers
Currently, police and local authorities are permitted to set up zones in response to complaints over protests. In 2018, Ealing Council in west London established the country’s first buffer zone, around a Marie Stopes clinic. Pro-life campaigners lost a legal challenge against it in 2019. Five abortion clinics have buffer zones set up under PSPOs, which are local authority-led powers. Other councils have subsequently proposed similar schemes, with the latest in Bournemouth banning not just preaching but singing. Similar legislation has been proposed in Scotland. In June, Sottish minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the Scottish government would back a member’s bill that would see 150-metre no-go areas placed outside health facilities so women could access services without fear, harassment or intimidation.
Defaulters to Face the law
The Sponsor of the amendment bill Stella Creasy, said anyone found guilty of breaching the buffer zone will face a summary conviction with a prison term of up to six months, an unlimited fine, or both. The Bill still has several stages to clear before becoming law, including scrutiny in the House of Lords. Christian Voice National Director, Stephen Green, said today: ‘If this becomes law, which may God forbid, we shall need to test its limits by standing outside clinics, perhaps with placards with various Bible verses (it’s what we do) or just silently praying, or perhaps preaching in general. I do not mind being arrested for preaching or witnessing, and we can see how it runs in the courts. They have picked a fight with the God of heaven. Who can remain silent?’
Innocent Blood brings Judgment
The Bible says the shedding of innocent blood brings judgment: Numb 35:33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. If infanticide is legalised in a realm, the land indeed cannot be cleansed at all, and the judgment falls on the whole society. From the first recorded homicide in the Bible, we know that innocent blood cries to heaven: Gen 4:10 And he (God) said (to Cain), What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.
Read and Pray
Gen 09:06; Gen 25:22-23; Exod 04:11; Exod 21:22-24; Exod 23:07 Pray for Godly leaders. Thank God that there were found men and women to stand for life on Tuesday. Pray the House of Lords will overturn the new clause. But above all, pray for an end to abortion in our land. Pray for an MP to introduce a Texas-style ‘Heartbeat’ law.
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One question in the Tory Party election which you won’t see asked by the mainstream media is which, if any, of the candidates is pro-life and pro-family.
Be sure news people know about it. They will be doing their best to advance pro-abortion candidates and doing down any seen as pro-life. They know it matters.
What does the Bible say?
Indeed defending innocent human life is as important to our United Kingdom as the shedding of it is to the realm of Satan. The Bible says, in Exodus 23 and verse 7:
Exod 23:7b The innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
We read in Proverbs chapter six and verses sixteen and seventeen that the Lord hates the hands, like those of the abortionists, that shed innocent blood.
The Lord evicted the Canaanites from the Promised Land because they practised ritual sodomy and child sacrifice. He later judged the people of Israel for doing the very same thing. From Psalm 106 we read that just like us, they forgot to serve the Lord:
Psa 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
MPs’ voting records
Liz Truss
In the Christian Voice office we record how MPs vote on a range of issues.
So I am able to tell you that on 9th July 2019, both Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat voted ‘Aye’ in the House of Commons to a measure to impose both abortion on demand and gay marriage on Northern Ireland. Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt and Kemi Badenoch all abstained.
On 30th March 2022 the House voted on an amendment to the Health and Care Bill to keep Do-it-Yourself abortion permanent.
Tom Tugendhat
This measure was brought in during the Covid Lockdown to enable women to receive abortion pills by post. It was a temporary measure.
We should always, by the way, be suspicious of government ‘temporary measures’. They have a strange habit of sticking around.
’Pills-by-post’ open to abuse
Under this one, women did not need to see a doctor as the 1967 Abortion Act requires, they just rang up.
Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat all abstained. Penny Mordaunt voted for it. Only Kemi Badenoch voted against, together with Suella Braverman, who was eliminated yesterday.
Candidate analysis
You may care to know that thirty-five Conservative MPs voted ‘No’ to abortion and gay-marriage in Ulster in 2019 AND to pills-by-post back in March. They included Suella and her campaign manager Steve Baker.
In fact members of this group of thirty-five pro-life MPs have been very likely to declare themselves in the leadership race for Suella, then for Kemi, then for Liz, then for Tom, then for Penny – and for Rishi, hardly at all.
Penny Mordaunt
It shows some MPs at least see this as a defining issue.
Sitting on the fence
Out of the five remaining candidates only Kemi Badenoch is remotely pro-life. Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat are pro-abortion and pro-sodomy, Penny Mordaunt is pro-abortion and pro-trans. Ms Mordaunt told the House of Commons on two occasions that ‘trans-women are women’. See Sky news story here.
Meanwhile, the devout Hindu, Rishi Sunak, sits on the fence. And yes, religion is important.
Rishi Sunak
How will a man who cannot understand where the UK has come from know where we should go, which is to our knees in repentance before King Jesus?
Prayer points
So pray in to this, and let us see what the Lord will do in the series of televised debates coming up over this weekend. As the word of God tells us to pray for those in authority, let us pray for those seeking it:
1Ti 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
1Ti 2:2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
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America really is finished, or at least its ‘intelligensia’. According to Australian Associated Press, as reported in The Guardian: ‘Jacinda Ardern has spoken out against the online “scourge of disinformation” in an address at Harvard University, in which she also won standing ovations for her government’s gun control laws, diversity and decriminalisation of abortion.’ Of course she did.
‘The New Zealand prime minister was honoured by the American university , making the annual commencement address to more than a thousand students on Thursday from the same stage as figures such as Winston Churchill, Angela Merkel, Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey (sic).’ Harvard gave the Klaus Schwab protégée an honorary degree into the bargain.
‘Ardern’s address was built around the need for democratic systems and informed debate.’ Do we need to point out that ‘disinformation’ means any line of which the elite disapprove and ‘informed debate’ means material they like?
Fusion is finished too
Nuclear fusion is finished as a technology. There won’t be enough of hydrogen isotope tritium to fuel it writes Amit Katwala in Wired.
The technology was intended to fuel the world, leading us into a new risk-free zero-emissions electric dawn. Now we learn that nuclear fission must provide tritium as a by-product. But the environmentalists hate nuclear fission. They want the power stations closed. Without the isotope, the deuterium-tritium reaction won’t even get started. All the expensive experimental reactors will be white elephants.
Monkey pox: who’s worried?
Why is anyone worried about monkeypox? The only reason for its sudden spread in the West appears to be that we aren’t exposed to pox viruses like we used to be argues David Cox in Wired. Could another reason be compromised immune systems resulting from Covid vaccinations, though? Just asking.
But on the other hand, what were epidemiologists and modellers doing simulating a monkeypox outbreak programmed in for May 2022 back in March 2021? This Nuclear Threat Initiative webpage records them doing just that, ‘partnered with the Munich Security Conference to conduct a tabletop exercise on reducing high-consequence biological threats.’ How did they know?
And is it not just a bit convenient for a World Health Organisation wanting to digitalise everyone’s vax status and rule the world in the next pandemic, asks CJ Hopkins in Off-Guardian? And strangely enough, the NHS has modified its monkeypox page to make it MORE SCARY!
Covid – the truth will out in the end
Michael Curzon in BournbrookMag says the real lesson of ‘Partygate’ is that those in power knew Covid-19 posed no real threat to the fit and healthy. So why did they impose lockdowns and restrictions on the rest of us, he asks?
The authorities in Australia are being very cagey about releasing statistics showing exactly what percentage of people in hospital with Covid-19 are vaccinated, writes Ramesh Thakur in the Aussie Spectator. Finally:
‘The NSW Respiratory Surveillance Report for the week ending 14 May offered the answers I was looking for. In this ‘epidemiological week 19’, there were 570 Covid cases admitted to hospital, 58 in ICU and 90 deaths (Figure 4). Of these, just 30, 34 and 17 per cent, respectively, were unvaccinated (or vaccination status unknown).
‘Conversely, fully 82 per cent of all Covid-related deaths in the state in this week were at least double vaccinated, including 64 per cent who had received boosters.’
He asks of the vaccination programme, and Australia’s paranoid approach in general: ‘Is this what ‘success’ looks like?’
Good news from Davos – or is it?
Olaf Scholz speaking at Davos in May 2022
Olaf Scholz was the only G7 leader to speak at the World Economic Forum’s Davos jamboree this year (May 2022). He said Europe had been struck by a “thunderbolt” from the war in Ukraine. A new “multipolar world” was emerging.
According to the Telegraph, the German Chancellor said: ‘The special phase of globalisation we have experienced in North America and Europe during the last 30 years, with reliable growth, a high level of added value and low inflation is coming to an inevitable end.’
Why might that be? He went on: ‘One reason for this is that the low cost producers of the global south are gradually becoming thriving economies with their own demand, which aspire to the same level of prosperity as we have.’ We have been arguing for ‘Africa First’ for some time now. Godly countries in the continent must establish industry and turn raw materials into product. The era of exporting them to the West and China is coming to an end. Nations are moving ‘Beyond Aid’. Davos has noticed. And as Off-Guardian observes, it doesn’t like it.
‘Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian President, has said Russian bombardments could leave the entire region of Donbas “uninhabited”, accusing the Russians of wanting to reduce its cities to ashes.’ That was even the Telegraph’s own headline. The Russians are trying to liberate these cities from Ukrainian neo-nazis. They are filled with ethnic Russians. Why would they want to reduce them ‘to ashes’? Does anyone believe Mr Zelensky any more? Do our media not even care whether what he says is remotely plausible?
ex-Miss Ukraine with a fake gun
The war will only end, or a cease-fire be agreed, by Ukraine recognising the independence of Donbass and Crimea. Possibly there will be a south-eastern corridor to ensure unhindered movement between the two. However, it will not end until the Americans say it can end. The US and their arms manufacturers had been having too much fun watching the Ukrainians try out their weapons. But there is hope for peace. The Russians have cottoned on. They are starting to destroy those weapons before they arrive. Also, NATO is being slow at providing enough of them, argues the Telegraph’s Con Coughlin.
It was not so long ago, two or three weeks, maybe, when the mainstream media were gleefully celebrating alleged Russian defeats and setbacks. It was only months since they were glorifying Ukrainian models wielding weapons. Not any more. Now the BBC admits: ‘UK PM Boris Johnson says Russian forces continue to “chew through ground” in the region, adding that Putin is making slow but palpable progress.’
Read and Pray
Psa 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Mic 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Psa 58:4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Psa 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Isa 2:4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.
Keep praying for the Lord to reveal what is hidden and for peace.
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