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    Pro-Lifers shock Brighton Students

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    Students file past the Abort67 witness
    Students file past the Abort67 witness

    Pro-Life activists caused a stir yesterday by displaying abortion imagery at a Brighton campus.

    Christians from Abort67 stood outside Sussex University with the graphic pictures as the students turned up in their hundreds for lectures.

    The banners the activists used had only recently been returned to them following their acquittal on public order charges by Brighton Magistrates last month.  The material had been held by Brighton Police since their arrests last year.

    Andy Stephenson of Abort67 was asked about the location of the witness and said yesterday: ‘Why university campuses? Because not only are 19-24 year olds having significant numbers of abortions, but this is where our future leaders are.

    ‘We saw people change their minds in this way today.  One guy who was studying nursing at another university talked at length with the team and left saying he was going to try and get us a three hour lecture spot for his medical faculty.  Others included a Law student who moved significantly in his position.’

    Pro-abortion students attempt to obscure the pro-life message

    Pro-abortion students mounted a counter-demonstration after a couple of hours, standing in front of the pictures shouting and swearing in the hope that people wouldn’t notice the pro-life witness.

    Andy Stephenson continued: ‘I am fairly certain that the rest of the day, the only topic of conversation on campus was abortion.  Indeed before I even had a chance to unpack our things, a blogger at Huffington Post responded with an article.

    ‘It is unlikely (though not impossible) that those so entrenched in their pro-death position will ever move, but they are not our target audience.  A majority of people are just plain ambivalent about abortion. These are the ones with functioning consciences and enough intellectual honesty to recognise they have been lied to about who the baby is and what abortion will do to him/her.

    ‘I am always amazed that pro-aborts don’t see the irony in what they blindly recite over and over.  If people are distressed by what they believe to be a noble choice, it is because abortion is a distressing act. Of course, we are grateful for the coverage and the inclusion of one of our graphic images that will now be seen by countless people.

    ‘Do the pictures work?  The pro-aborts think so.’

    Please sign our simple online petition to Parliament to repeal the 1967 Abortion Act:

    http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/repealtheabortionact/

     

    See our previous story: 18/09/2012:  Anti-abortion activists win their case

     

    Christian Voice Website Cyber Attack!

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    How a DDOS attack works – The attacker recruits thousands of slave computers to send simultaneous requests to the target website.

    Yesterday, the Christian Voice website was off-line most of the day after coming under a massive cyber-attack.  We apologise to our members and readers but there was nothing we could do.

    Our web host reported at 8:22 am: ‘A few moments ago the Christian Voice website began to come under a massive DDOS attack which quickly crippled the server.

    ‘You’ve probably upset some people!  We see these from time to time – it’s usually outspoken Christians who get targetted.

    ‘I’ve had to temporarily suspend it, as the attackers had sufficient resources to bring down the whole shared-hosting machine – if you were paying for dedicated hosting, i.e. only your website on a single machine belonging to you, you’d still be brought down.

    ‘The scale of the attack was the largest we’ve ever seen. When people have enough resources, they can bring Amazon down.

    ‘Sadly, launching powerful attacks is very cheap these days. You can go onto the Internet’s “underground” and hire the computing capacity of thousands of virus infected computers for a few minutes for a few dollars, and that’s enough to bring down a few servers.’

    In the Police and Justice Act 2006, the United Kingdom specifically outlawed denial-of-service attacks and set a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.  But the attack was from faked IP addresses which cannot be traced.

    Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:

    ‘This attack on our website is encouraging.  I don’t know whether it was Secularirists or Islamists we have upset beyond measure, but clearly someone out there thinks Christian Voice is doing such a great job we have to be disrupted.  So by the grace of God we’ll stand up for Jesus Christ and for righteousness all the more.’

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    Election Leaflet Was ‘Hate Crime’

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    CHRISTIAN PREACHER CHARGED FOR OFFENDING GAYS

    (6th September 2010) Colchester Magistrates are to hear the case of a Christian man accused of a public order offence in two weeks’ time.

    Paul Shaw was charged by Essex Police with a ‘hate crime’ after an election address was distributed in Colchester calling – in very moderate language – for a review of whether sodomy and other homosexual acts should remain legal.

    Two homosexual men complained to the police after the leaflet dropped through their door in south-east Colchester , leading to a completely over-the-top police search of Paul Shaw’s flat and confiscation of his diaries in June.

    Mr Shaw was put in the cells, interrogated in what he describes as a ‘hostile and provoking’ interview, and then charged on 12th June with causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress by words or writing under Section 31 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

    ‘MAKE HOMOSEXUAL ACTS UNLAWFUL’

    The ‘offending’ words were in an election address, distributed after Paul Shaw had stood for election as an independent at a time when he thought a new election was imminent. In a leaflet previously approved by the Returning Officer and the Royal Mail, he said:

    I believe for example that homosexual and lesbian acts are immoral and that the law should reflect that; by making them unlawful as they once were; and so acting as a deterrent to such behaviour.

    The concept of homophobia is nonsense and a play on words; it is not and has never been a phobia! A phobia is an un-natural fear; whereas a rejection of perverse behaviour; is a righteous godly fear; that fears to do wrong because it knows that there are consequences and punishment otherwise! This is the most pronounced example of a nation that has lost its way ..

    Previous case withdrawn

    However, during a preliminary hearing on Thursday 26th August, the Crown Prosecutor applied for an adjournment. This was in order, he said, to consider the implications for freedom of speech raised by the case. The Magistrate, District Judge David Cooper, readily agreed and the case was adjourned to Thursday 23rd September at 9.15am. Paul Shaw was up before the very same magistrate only a few months ago for preaching on the same subject, and Essex Police charged him then as well, leading to the CPS withdrawing the case.

    PRAY the same thing happens this time. PRAY that justice is done and this attack on our historic freedom to preach the Gospel is defeated. PRAISE GOD for so much support for Paul. PLEASE continue to hold up our brother in prayer at this challenging time.

    CHRISTIAN VOICE SUPPORT

    Christian Voice is actively supporting Paul Shaw. We publicised his case as soon as he contacted us the day before his court appearance and immediately went down to Colchester to support him. It is just four years since Christian Voice National Director Stephen Green was arrested for a similar purported offence during the Cardiff Mardi Gras homosexual event in September 2006. He was put in the cells for four hours and charged under the Public Order Act 1986 Section 5. And in that case the same thing happened. At the committal hearing the CPS threw up their hands in horror and then withdrew the case.

    Stephen Green promptly took South Wales Police to court for wrongly arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution and won. South Wales Police settled out of court in a humiliation for arresting officer Inspector Alexander Chadd, head of the Force’s ‘Minorities Support Unit’.

    NEXT HEARING

    Christians are invited to come and support Paul Shaw at Colchester Magistrates Court, CO1 1FP on Thursday 23rd September 2010. The case is listed for 9.15am, but be prepared for it to be heard, as the August hearing was, in the afternoon.

    In all, seven brethren came along to the August hearing at a moments notice to support Paul Shaw and the Gospel, so let us pray for an even bigger witness this time.

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    No Equality for Christians Despite Free Speech Claus

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    Christians today welcomed the stand taken on freedom of speech by the House of Lords. Their Lordships refused to give way to the House of Commons, which wanted to make it illegal for Christians to criticise the sexual practices and lifestyles of homosexuals.

    By a majority of 44 (179 to 135) peers rejected the Government’s fourth and last attempt to abolish Section 29JA of the Public Order Act. The Section clarifies the law brought in last year to make it a criminal offence to use threatening language intending to stir up hatred against people on the grounds of sexual orientation. It also mirrors a similar section in the law against stirring up hatred on religious grounds. It says:

    ’29JA Protection of freedom of expression (sexual orientation)

    ‘In this Part, for the avoidance of doubt, the discussion or criticism of sexual conduct or practices or the urging of persons to refrain from or modify such conduct or practices shall not be taken of itself to be threatening or intended to stir up hatred.’

    Peers were very much aware of the case of Pauline Howe. She wrote to Norwich City Council to complain about public money and effort being expended on a ‘gay pride’ march. In her letter she referred to homosexuals as ‘sodomites’ and blamed ‘their perverted sexual practice’ for sexually transmitted diseases and for the ‘downfall of every empire’.

    Whether she was totally right in that or whether sodomy is simply the most visible expression of a failing empire in its death throes is open to debate, but the council broke the Data Protection Act by passing Mrs Howe’s letter to Norfolk Constabulary, who immediately sent two police officers around to threaten and intimidate her.

    The vote by peers infuriated gay activists. Chris, Lord, Smith, said it would lead to attacks on homosexuals, conveniently ignoring the massive amount of violence perpetrated on homosexuals from within their own network.

    The co-chair of LGBT Labour, Katie Hanson, said, ‘We are very disappointed that the new law will have an exemption in it for people on the basis of religious views. We do not want to let this rest. We will be urging the government to revisit this law in the new session of parliament … to make sure there are no exemptions to protection from homophobic hatred.’

    Stonewall, the wealthy gay lobby group, said, ‘We’re worried that the unelected Lords have sent a message that intolerance is OK’.

    Intolerance is certainly OK in the Governments’ Equality Bill, but it is intolerance of Christians and anyone disagreeing with the politically-correct view that homosexuality is just wonderful.

    The Bill would force churches and faith-based organisations to employ practising homosexuals and transsexuals, allow atheists cleaners to object to the display of crosses and oblige public authorities such as local councils, the police, fire and ambulance services, hospitals and primary care trusts and even schools to promote homosexuality.

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