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Brexit
We lead on Brexit, where madness has taken hold of our politicians. We went to press last Thursday 2nd May, before the results of the English local council elections were in.
As we know, a week is a long time in politics. Right now, even a few days is a long time. Nevertheless, one prediction we made has already come true.
We said: ‘The Foreign Secretary has said it is an ‘absolute priority’ for the government to leave the EU by 23rd May to avoid having to take part in European elections. But it is not going to happen.’
Just two days ago, as our newsletter was being printed, Mrs May’s deputy David Liddington MP confirmed the Government had run out of time to get any kind of deal through. He said: ‘The UK will have to hold European elections’.
We also predict the Conservatives’ talks with Labour will fail. We say: ‘And make no mistake about the function of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. It is not there to bail out the Government. It is there to oppose, to call to account, to be elected into government itself. Above all, Jeremy Corbyn does not want his fingerprints on Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement, thank you very much.’
Divorce
We report on how the Government has ignored 80% of respondents to its divorce consultation, who wanted the concept of fault to stay. It will go, along with any ability to contest a divorce. But we point out that the ‘substantive issues’ of property and residence of children is already decided on a no-fault’ basis.
We also explain the differences in Scottish divorce law from that in England & Wales and Northern Ireland. Furthermore, we observe that people have a desire for justice. Above all, it’s the divorce itself, not the acrimony, as the Government have been persuaded by the divorce industry, which does the damage to the prospects for children.
Finally, we show how the Government proposals will reduce marriage to a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. Every marriage will last until one party says, ‘You’re dumped’.
As with the Brexit issue, we give relevant scripture references, prayer points and show how to write to your MP.
Relationships and Sex Education
The Government also ignored respondents to their Relationships and Sex Education consultation. Their new guidelines have now been passed by both houses of Parliament. They come into force in September 2020. We acknowledge the single good point about them: Schools ‘must’ consult parents.
However, the Government determination for schools to promote deviant lifestyles trump rights of parents. These were set out in the House of Lords by Lord Mackay of Clashfern. You will want to read his masterly analysis. You’ll also be encouraged that there are men like Rev Dr William, Lord McCrea, in Parliament, standing up and quoting scripture.
But we are clear that parents now have only the nuclear option of removing their children if schools simply will not listen to them. Moreover, we cannot leave it all to the Muslims. So this author will gladly come to your church to set out the issues from a scriptural perspective and encourage pastors and parents to ‘fight for your sons and daughters.’
Christians under fire
We have articles on how Christians are being sacked for expressing orthodox views both here and the other side of the world. A rugby player and a teaching assistant are dismissed. Meanwhile, the gay lobby have been flexing their muscles over Evan Robert’s chapel in Wales. You’ll want to read about that. On the bright side, you’ll be encouraged by the force for Christ that is the group of Pacific Islands.
Beyond Foreign Aid
The faith of the President of Ghana will also encourage you, as we urge you to pray into Ghana’s godly attempts to break free of foreign aid. God honours those who honour him, and Ghana has refused to allow the UK to decide its policy on homosexuality.
Indeed, David Cameron’s threats to make aid dependent on pro-sodomy policies surely acted as a spur to the Ghanaians to do without it and move ‘beyond aid’. But will the West allow Africans to add to value to raw materials like aluminium and iron ore and cocoa and coffee beans?
Major abortion conference
However, the other side of Africa feminists and pro-abortionists are gearing up for a major conference in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It’s 25 years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994. Now United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) are convening the Nairobi Summit.
In the Newsletter, we commend the UNFPA for its efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation. However, we take serious issue with its ‘women’s empowerment’ agenda. It sounds good, but it’s based on lies and aims to divide women from men. Reality check: most of us live in families! The other emphasis is on ‘reproductive rights’. Yes, that’s code for abortion on demand. Much prayer will be needed, and we give scripture references and action targets here as well.
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Rt Hon Damian Hinds, HM Secretary of State for Education, has declared war on parents
Rt Hon Damian Hinds, HM Secretary of State for Education, has declared war on parents
The Guardian reports that Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Education has written to a head teachers’ union. It was prompted by a row which started in Birmingham over schools teaching homosexuality to primary-age children. The row is mentioned in his letter, available right here: Letter 190409 to NAHT from Damian Hinds
No Outsiders
At Parkfield Community School, Muslim parents objected to a programme called ‘No Outsiders’ ‘No Outsiders’ was developed by a gay activist at that very primary school to promote sodomy and lesbianism. The man, Andrew Moffat, has a history of producing pro-sodomy propaganda for schools. A previous work of his was called ‘Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools’. No Outsiders was taught under ‘Relationships Education’. This enables the school to say they are not teaching homosexuality in Sex Education. Clever, eh?
Three successive Thursday morning protests outside the school failed to moved them. In the event, it took two days of mass truancy for Parkfield to back down. The parents kept 540 to 600 pupils off school out of 740 on the roll on successive Fridays. As a consequence, CEO Hazel Pulley is no longer teaching ‘No Outsiders’. She said: ‘Until a resolution has been reached, No Outsiders lessons will not be taught at Parkfield and we hope that children will not be removed from school to take part in protests.’
Nevertheless, an ex-chief of Ofsted and gay activists want the lessons to resume. That report is here.
In the letter, Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP declares what amounts to a religious war on parents. He said it was right that parents were consulted. They should be ‘involved in developing how schools deliver relationships education’. Nevertheless, he insisted “what is taught, and how, is ultimately a decision for the school.”
Equality Act
The letter was written to the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT). It was made public yesterday. Mr Hinds expresses concern at reports of teachers feeling intimidated. “Dedicated public servants faithfully discharging their duty have an absolute right to feel confident and safe.”
Paul Whiteman, pro-gay NAHT general secretary, welcomed Hinds’ intervention: “We are pleased to see the secretary of state making his views known and reaffirming the expectations that the Equality Act places on schools.
“Schools should be a place of safety and calm, and everyone in the community has a responsibility to maintain that atmosphere. Protests do nothing to help schools achieve their public duty or create the conditions children need to learn.” That’s more establishment arrogance. We care nothing for this apparent ‘public duty’ of schools to advance homosexuality. But protests can create exactly the conditions parents want their children to learn in. As in, LGBT-free.
On the issue of what is taught, Mr Hinds continued: “We want schools to consult parents, listen to their views, and make reasonable decisions about how to proceed.”
No parental veto
Nevertheless, Mr Hinds went to say schools could ride roughshod over parental views. “I want to reassure you and the members you represent that consultation does not provide a parental veto on curriculum content. “We want schools to consult parents, listen to their views, and make reasonable decisions about how to proceed (including through consideration of their wider duties) – and we will support them in this.”
Elsewhere in his letter, Mr Hinds says LGBT content is optional for primary schools. They do not actually have to teach it. ‘We have been clear that pupils should receive teaching on LGBT relationships during their school years -we expect secondary schools to include LGBT content. Primary schools are enabled and encouraged to cover LGBT content if they consider it age appropriate to do so.’
Moreover, schools will cite the ‘Public Sector Equality Duty’ to advance homosexuality and transgenderism.
In September 2020 new Guidelines on RSE will make it compulsory for schools to consult parents. At the moment consultation is only a ‘should’.
The new Guidelines say:
‘13. All schools must have in place a written policy for Relationships Education and RSE. Schools must consult parents in developing and reviewing their policy. Schools should ensure that the policy meets the needs of pupils and parents and reflects the community they serve.
‘14. There are many excellent examples in which schools have established clear sex education policies in consultation with parents, governors and the wider community, and where they are already delivering effective programmes. Schools should build on that good work in adapting to these new requirements.’
The Guidance goes on: ‘24. Schools should also ensure that, when they consult with parents, they provide examples of the resources that they plan to use as this can be reassuring for parents and enables them to continue the conversations started in class at home.’
A nod to parents
In his letter, Mr Hinds makes a nod to parents and their fundamental role: ‘Parents and carers are the primary educators of their children, and it is right that they are involved in developing how schools deliver relationships education.’
Indeed, the Bible says, regarding the ways of the Lord:
Deut 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
There were teachers in Bible times. Nevertheless, the Apostle Paul still makes clear teaching their children is down to parents:
Eph 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
But Mr Hinds says after schools have ‘consulted’ parents they can do what they want. ‘We trust school leaders and teachers to make the right professional choices and act reasonably when considering consultation feedback,’ he says
British Values
Three times in his letter, Damian Hinds uses coded language for softening up children with LGBT ideas. The code is couched in terms firstly of children ‘understanding’ ‘the world around them’. Secondly they should be ‘prepared’ for adult life in modern Britain. This code is becoming popular in education circles. Amanda Spielman, chief of Ofsted employs it as well. In connection with home schooling, the BBC reports her speaking about children ‘receiving an education that prepares them for adult life’.:
For Damian Hinds, it goes like this:
‘… want all children to leave school prepared for life in modern, diverse Britain.’
‘A core part of preparing children for life in modern Britain is ensuring they understand the world in which they are growing up.’
‘… contribute to children’s understanding of the world around them and foster their respect of people who seem different from them.’
Moreover, his letter even boasts about requiring schools to teach ‘British values’ in 2014. These, in case you had forgotten, are not the Ten Commandments. They are: ‘democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.’
Naturally, if there is a conflict between religious faith and LGBT belief, LGBT wins.
This says: Protocol 1, Article 2: Right to education ‘No person shall be denied a right to an education. In the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.’
Human rights group Liberty says:
‘When it first agreed to be bound by this Article the UK entered a reservation to it to say that it accepts the need to respect parents’ religious and philosophical convictions but that it would do so only so far as it is compatible with providing efficient instruction and training and unreasonable public expenditure was avoided.’ So the UK made no reservations about making RSE parent-compliant.
Another Human Rights website claims: ‘Although parents have a right to ensure their religious or philosophical beliefs are respected during their children’s education, this is not an absolute right. As long as these beliefs are properly considered, an education authority can depart from them provided there are good reasons and it is done objectively, critically and caters for a diversity of beliefs and world views.’
However, they give no case law supporting that position. According to one blog, none of the case law appears to have addressed the point of schools trying to indoctrinate pupils with views and beliefs contrary to those of their parents.
Parents must protest
Parents can of course go to the High Court and seek judicial review on the matter. However, that will take years and cost money. Furthermore, there is no guarantee of success in the present climate.
Try something in Parliament? We were pleased to see the launch of ‘Parent Power’ in Westminster, but the House of Commons passed the new RSE Guidelines overwhelmingly in Parliament last month. 538 MPs voted in favour of them. Only twenty-one voted against. One of them, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, helped launch Parent Power. The Guidelines have yet to be approved in the House of Lords, but it’s a formality.
So protests outside school gates and keeping children off school seem to be the only course of action.
Above all, it is important for Christian parents to start to become aware of the challenge from RSE. This author will happily address a meeting in your church on the topic.
Neh 4:14 … Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
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We became interested in the Global Teacher Prize when a homosexual activist in the UK made the short-list of ten. Andrew Moffat is assistant head at Parkfield Community School in Birmingham. There he developed a homosexual propaganda programme called ‘No Outsiders.’ The programme encourages primary-age children to read campaigning books such as ‘King and king’ and ‘Two dads’. To raise the numbers of children deciding they are ‘trapped in the wrong body’, Moffat also recommends ‘My Princess Boy’.
Previously Moffat wrote a homosexual activist tool called ‘Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools’ or ‘CHIPS’. So he was always a gay activist first and teacher a long way second. Many of our members made that point to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. So did many of the parents of children at Parkfield School. HH is UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and also Ruler of Dubai. It was he who presented the prize.
This writer also emailed selected members of the 210-member judging panel, or ‘academy’ as Sunny Varkey calls it. The prize criteria look for achievements. I was able to show them Mr Moffat’s greatest achievement has been uniting the local community – against him.
Nine real teachers
In truth, any of the nine real teachers could have won the prize. For example, Debora Garofalo is another science teacher this time from São Paulo, Brazil. She has helped over 2,000 students learn electronics and robotics while turning junk into usable items.
Martin Salvetti teaches in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While there he set up a weekend football club involving students and staff. Next, he secured funding from an arts programme organised by a group of charities. This supported a radio & cinema project and a band. In 2007, Salvetti and his students won a national competition for their work. They invested the prize in broadcasting equipment and their station now broadcasts around the clock.
Stopped Child Labour
In Gujarat, India, Swaroop Rawal teaches at Lavad Primary School. She also reaches children on the streets and in rural communities. Her pupils helped put a stop to child labour in the diamond polishing industry and facilitated children’s return to school.
Vladimer Apkhazava from Georgia is another teacher who has raised funds for the children in his school. Eonomic pressures are high, with some pupils coming to school hungry. There are also problems of child labour in the region, which Vladimer has made it his mission to oppose. He won Georgia’s National Teacher Award in 2017.
Prayer for Peter Tabichi
Nevertheless, in our house Peter Tabichi stood out and Judy and I prayed he might win. Firstly, obviously, he is from Kenya. Naturally, Judy circulated the prayer request around her praying Kenyan friends.
Secondly, the man’s achievements are astonishing and challenging. Brother Peter gives away 80% of his income some of which helps the poorest students at the school. The school, like other Kenyan secondary schools, is fee-paying. Nevertheless, many parents can only just afford the modest fees, let alone uniforms and books. This is where Peter Tabichi steps in. Some students can walk 4 miles to school. Moreover, they will make it despite rainy season floods or dry season scorching heat.
The Prize page says: ‘Peter has dedicated his life to helping others. He gives 80% of his teaching salary to local community projects, including education, sustainable agriculture and peace-building.
‘He’s changed the lives of his students in many ways, including the introduction of science clubs and the promotion of peace between different ethnic groups and religions. He has also helped to address food insecurity among the wider community in the famine-prone Rift Valley.’
National Competitions
Despite only having one computer, a poor internet connection and a student-teacher ratio of 58:1, Tabichi started a ‘talent nurturing club’ and expanded the school’s science club, helping pupils design research projects of such quality that many now qualify for national competitions.
His students have taken part in international science competitions and won an award from the Royal Society of Chemistry after harnessing local plant life to generate electricity.
The Guardian reported Tabichi and four colleagues also give struggling pupils one-to-one tuition in maths and science, visiting students’ homes and meeting their families to identify the challenges they face.
Enrolment at the school has doubled to 400 over three years and girls’ achievement in particular has been boosted. Here’s a video on YouTube about Peter Tabichi. It opens, like all our links, in a new tab.
The Tau Symbol
Peter Tabichi, in a photo from the Global Teachers Prize short list, wearing the Franciscan ‘Tau’ cross.
In the short-list photos, although he was always pictured in casual dress, one feature grabbed my attention. Mr Tabichi was often wearing a curious wooden ‘T’ symbol around his neck. Realising it must have religious significance, I spent an hour researching it. I’ll share what I learned in the hope it may challenge and inspire somebody.
It turned out the symbol marks the order of the Franciscan Friars. It is the Greek form of the letter ‘Tau’. Tau is also the last letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is the root of the ‘mark’ of Ezekiel:
Ezek 9:4 And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Franciscans
The Tau cross was adopted by St Francis of Assisi. The order he founded lived a rule of chastity, poverty and obedience. The characteristic grey or brown habit was of undyed woollen fabric, identifying with the poor amongst whom they moved. Franciscans, says one of their websites, do not live in monasteries. They are not monks, but friars, or brothers:
‘For the monk poverty was the mark of his detachment from things, while the abbey inevitably grew rich, for the Friar the whole Order was poor and held on to nothing. For the monk his abbey, originally at least, was remote from men, although in the course of time inevitably a whole town might well grow around it, for the Friar his dwelling was right among men, among the poorest people of society, in the poorest parts of the existing towns. The monk fled the company of ordinary folk, the Friar lived among them and preached to them.’
That might be unfair to the monasteries, many of which supported the poor around them. And of course the Franciscans also lived communally in Friaries, like the one which existed near this writer in Carmarthen. Nevertheless, our churches could take note lest we become ‘holy clubs’. This ministry loves to see churches which are outgoing with good works and prophetic words to our leaders while preaching the Gospel in the community.
The Prize-Giving
In all the pre-prize publicity Peter Tabichi was dressed in ordinary clothes. For the prize-giving, he turned up in his full Franciscan habit. What a picture when His Highness, in his Arabic attire, presents the prize to Brother Peter, in his Franciscan habit, with the LGBT secularist Moffat looking on.
The Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, said in a video message: ‘Peter, your story is the story of Africa, a young continent bursting with talent.’ Here’s his video tribute.
The $1m of prize money could have ended up in the pocket of a homosexual activist. Instead, it has gone to a man of faith helping his community. We give God the glory, and our members who prayed and all who emailed His Highness can take pleasure in answered prayer and an outcome beyond our dreams.
Psalm 66:19 But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Prayer:
Thank God for this outcome. Pray for Peter Tabichi, that he will give glory to God and use the money to benefit his community and advance the Kingdom of God.
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Amanda Spielman Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector (HMCI) at Ofsted
Amanda Spielman Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector (HMCI) at Ofsted
Parents at Parkfield School in Birmingham have demonstrated overwhelming solidarity in their battle to oust a campaigning homosexual teacher. The parents took between 540 and 600 children out of school on Friday 1st March 2019. That’s out of a total roll of 740, as the Birmingham Mail reports.
The ‘No Outsiders’ project has been developed by one Andrew Moffat. The campaigning homosexual acts as ‘assistant head teacher’ at the school. No Outsiders has figured books such as ‘Mommy, Mama and Me’, ‘My Princess Boy’ and ‘King & king’ – stories about same-sex relationships and transgenderism.
No protests, please!
The head of the education inspection agency supports gay lessons. A defiant Amanda Spielman, ‘Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector’ (HMCI) at Ofsted, explained it is ‘vital’ children know about ‘families that have two mummies or two daddies’. To a decadent society, sodomy is ‘vital’.
She condemned parental protests and called for ‘sane, rational discussion’. If a policy was ‘not working well enough’ then ‘it’s proper conversation that will change it, not protests,’ she sniffed.
But protests work …
It’s breathtaking establishment arrogance. Funnily enough, the Guardian told us on Monday that Parkfield School has now stopped gay lessons, for now. In a face-saving letter to parents, the school said: ‘Up to the end of this term, we will not be delivering any No Outsiders lessons in our long-term year curriculum plan, as this half term has already been blocked for religious education (RE).’ So protests work!
But in a defiant tone, the letter went on: ‘Equality assemblies will continue as normal and our welcoming No Outsiders ethos will be there for all.’
The parents are telling Christian Voice that no child will attend any assembly or class conducted by Andrew Moffat. Here is our earlier report of their protests, which we attended.
Ofsted: ‘Outside influence’
Parkfield Community School, where gay activist Andrew Moffat has been promoting No Outsiders
Astonishingly, Ofsted later confirmed Parkfield was re-inspected after receiving a number of complaints. However, a spokesperson said: ‘We support the right of school leaders to determine the curriculum as they see fit and in the interests of their pupils – free from hostile outside influence.’ That’ll be parents, no doubt.
The ‘spokesperson’ went on: ‘All schools have a responsibility to prepare children for life in modern Britain and that includes encouraging respect for those who are different, for instance LGBT people or those of different faiths.’ And parents have a responsibility to defend and inoculate their children from gay propaganda:
Deut 6:7 And thou shalt teach (God’s words) diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Conference in Cumbria
In an interesting development, Amanda Spielman is the headline act at an education conference in Cumbria on Monday 18th March. HMCI will speak at the Cumbrian Leading Learning research conference at West Lakes Academy in Egremont.
The conference starts at 8.30am and runs until 4.00pm. We are talking to local Christians and may hold a witness which would start from 8.00am sharp if we have enough support.
Psa 94:16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
Conference in Birmingham
However, the weekend before, Education Secretary Damian Hinds is speaking on Friday 15th and Amanda Spielman on Saturday 16th March at the Association of School and College Leaders 2019 Annual Conference. It is being held in, of all places, Birmingham. Lord, how do you do that? the venue is the International Convention Centre (ICC) B1 2EA.
We’ll witness with leafleting at 8.00am on both days and also aim to be there from 4.00pm to 5.30pm for people leaving the venue.
Psa 20:5 We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the LORD fulfil all thy petitions.
This event is heaven-sent for a big witness! If you can, come. If not, pray!
Spielman controversies
Controversy appears to dog Amanda Spielman. An accountant with no teaching experience, never having placed her children in a state school, her appointment was roundly condemned by the Education Select Committee. Despite that, then Education Secretary Nicky Morgan MP appointed her anyway.
Luke Tryl. The gay Tory activist has enjoyed a meteoric rise.
And here’s a twist. Nicky Morgan’s education advisor at the time, gay activist and Tory Party 1hack Luke Tryl, fresh from a stint at Stonewall, went on to become head of policy, no less, at Ofsted.
SchoolsWeek says he’s just left the corrupt watchdog to become head of the New Schools Network, a Government-funded charity which advises on setting up Free Schools.
Psa 73:3 For I was envious … when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. … 8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. … 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.
The hijab crusade
This time last year, the Amanda went on a crusade – as it were- against hijabs when Neena Lall, head of St Stephen’s, an east London primary school, banned girls under eight from wearing them. She even sent inspectors to the school to show solidarity. “School leaders,” she said subsequently, “must have the right to set school uniform policies … to promote cohesion … Ofsted will always back heads who take tough decisions in their pupils’ interests.” Parents and Muslim community leaders forced the ban’s reversal anyway.
Ms Spielman pointedly called on “others in government” to give similar backing. “Muscular liberalism”, she said, was needed “to tackle those who actively undermine fundamental British values”.
That’ll be ‘fundamental British values’ like accepting sodomy. This Amanda is heading for a fall.
Prov 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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Andrew Moffat, author of No Outsiders and assistant head at Parkfield is in line for the Global Teacher Prize
Andrew Moffat, author of No Outsiders and assistant head at Parkfield is in line for the Global Teacher Prize
The Guardian reports a homosexual activist under fire for pushing gay propaganda in a school in Birmingham is up for a £1m prize.
Andrew Moffat has made the shortlist of ten for the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize.
The prize is the brainchild of Indian businessman Sunny Varkey, who is based in the United Arab Emirates. It will be awarded in a ceremony in Dubai on Sunday 24th March 2019.
The prize will be presented by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. HH is UAE Vice President and Prime Minister and also Ruler of Dubai.
The members of the ‘academy’ which will choose the winner are teachers and entrepreneurs and are listed on the Varkey Foundation website. The names of the committee who chose the ten finalists are rather more shadowy.
Propaganda
Around 200 parents gathered in front of Parkfield school.
Andrew Moffat is infamous for his homosexual propaganda. He started off at Chilwell Croft Primary School in Birmingham. There he developed a homosexual activist tool called ‘Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools’ or ‘CHIPS’. He was forced to resign from Chilwell Croft in December 2013. Both Christian and Muslim parents complained they did not want their children ‘learning it’s OK to be gay’.
Undaunted, Moffat skipped across town to Parkfield Community School. The head teacher, or ‘CEO’, one Hazel Pulley, says plainly she wanted him to try out his activism there.
At Parkfield he developed ‘No Outsiders’. It sounds inclusive, but what it amounts to is yet more homosexual propaganda. The programme encourages primary-age children to read campaigning books such as ‘King and king’ and ‘Two dads’. To raise the numbers of children deciding they are ‘trapped in the wrong body’, Moffat also recommends ‘My Princess Boy’.
‘In light of the new guidance published today, I am afraid that “No Outsiders” will have to be comprehensively overhauled and refreshed … I hope that today the Minister will guarantee that the three basic rights of parents—the right to have their voice heard, the right to have their role respected and, crucially, their right of choice—will be protected as the school reworks its teaching over the months ahead.’
We must particularly commend the speeches by MPs Sammy Wilson, Chris Green, Fiona Bruce, and Jim Shannon. John Howell, Shaban Mahmood, Imran Hussain, Paul Scully, Faisal Rashid and Mohammad Yasin also made valuable points. A number of them are Muslim Labour MPs representing partly-Muslim constituencies, yet they spoke up for parental rights in the face of the ‘orthodoxy’ of propagandists like Moffat.
Human Rights Act
Parkfield Community School, where gay activist Andrew Moffat has been promoting No Outsiders
In the Human Rights Act 1998, First Protocol, Article 2: Right to Education, the Act states:
‘… In the exercise of any functions which it assumes in relation to education and to teaching, the State shall respect the right of parents to ensure such education and teaching is in conformity with their own religious and philosophical convictions.’
Both ‘CHIPS’ and ‘No Outsiders’ are contrary to the parents’ deeply-held religious convictions.
Hazel Pulley recognises that No Outsiders is contrary to Islam, Christianity and other faith positions. However, she says: ‘it’s lovely that the children will hear both views.’ On the contrary, children will be confused by hearing views expressed by authority figures in school at odds with their parents’ religious and philosophical convictions.
Ludicrous claim
Moffat makes a ludicrous claim on the Varkey Foundation website. He says his ‘No Outsiders’ can be ‘a tool to reduce the potential for radicalisation’. How a teaching resource promoting homosexuality could possibly reduce the impact of radical recruiters he does not say.
In reality, 98% of the children at Parkfield Community School are Muslim. At best, ‘No Outsiders’ will give their parents and older siblings the impression that the United Kingdom is decadent and depraved.
Not really a teacher
Moreover, in stark contrast with the nine others shortlisted for the prize, Andrew Moffat is not really a teacher. He has all the certificates of course. However, he is actually a gay activist posing as a teacher. Moffat does not even teach a class. So much for ‘Achieving demonstrable student learning outcomes in the classroom,’ one of the prize criteria.
Indeed, the prize application form asks applicants to ‘highlight some of the measurable outcomes that are the result of your teaching practices.’ It asks for ‘specific examples of how your teaching has produced excellent results in terms of student outcomes.’ Moffat cannot point to anything specific.
Another Global Teachers Prize criterion is : ‘Achievements (or impact) in the community beyond the classroom that provide unique and distinguished models of excellence for the teaching profession and others.’
Andrew Moffat has certainly made an impact. However, his highest achievement in the community around Chilwell Croft and Parkfield has been to unite parents against him and demand his resignation. Is ‘excellence for the teaching profession’ illustrated by a refusal to meet parents alarmed and distressed by his teaching? If so, Moffat has it.
Not replicable
Another criterion is ‘Employing effective instructional practices that are replicable and scalable to influence the quality of education globally.’ ‘No Outsiders’ was drawn up to advance homosexuality and transgenderism specifically in the UK. These are indeed ‘protected characteristics’ under UK law. The project is not applicable to the majority of countries around the world which do not promote such practices in their laws.
In particular, across the Middle and Far East and Africa, where over three quarters of the world’s population live, such practices are viewed as deviant and anathema. On top of that, as we saw above, Liam Byrne, the local MP, has criticised ‘No Outsiders’ in Parliament and observed it does not strike any balance with parents human rights or even comply with the law.
Challenges
Yet another criterion is ‘Employing innovative instructional practices that address the particular challenges of the school, community or country and which have shown sufficient evidence to suggest they could be effective in addressing such challenges in a new way.’
Deeply-help religious and philosophical beliefs that view homosexual practice and changing gender should be seen as a given. But let’s just suppose they may be viewed by someone who hates them as ‘a challenge’. Then Moffat’s innovations have addressed them in the sense of trampling all over them contrary to human rights laws.
As to ‘effective’, there is little evidence that Moffat’s bulldozer approach is remotely ‘effective’. He has alienated local opinion and stirred up religious antipathy.
Global citizens
The fifth criterion is ‘Helping children become global citizens through providing them with a values based education that equips them for a world where they will potentially live, work and socialise with people from many different nationalities, cultures and
religions.’
All ‘No Outsiders’ does is advance the ‘protected characteristics’ of homosexuality and transgenderism. Those are its values and they are highly UK-specific. Anything else, such as the UK’s ‘protected characteristics’ of race and religion, disability and age, are dealt with by mature teachers in normal course anyway. But here they pad out the package. For a gay activist teacher, who has already shown ‘form’ with his ‘Challenging Homophobia in Primary Schools’, the emphasis is clear.
Recognition
The final criterion is ‘Teacher recognition from governments, national teaching organisations, head-teachers, colleagues, members of the wider community or pupils.
Andrew Moffat has indeed received an MBE in the Her Majesty the Queen’s 2017 Birthday Honours List for ‘services to Equality and Diversity in Education’.
It is important to realise that such honours can be highly politicised in the UK. A committee of the elite sits and draws up the list. Some honours are awarded to distinguished sportsmen, musicians, entrepreneurs and those working selflessly in the community. Others are given to politicians and their helpers. But some are dished out to those viewed as advancing a politically correct agenda.
Moffat’s award falls into the latter category. He will receive plaudits from teachers’ organisations for the same reason, and be appointed by partisan heads like Hazel Pully, CEO at his Parkfield, his current school.
However, when it comes to the ‘wider community’, support for this activist falls away. He record above he had to resign from his previous school, Chilwell Croft, while parents at Parkfield are now campaigning for him to leave there as well.
The real teachers contesting the Global Teacher Prize
Peter Tabichi: inspiring science teacher from Kenya.
For example, there is Peter Tabichi. The science teacher in rural Kenya gives away 80% of his monthly income to help the poor. He constantly leads his poorly-resourced school to victory in national science competitions.
Debora Garofalo is another science teacher this time from São Paulo, Brazil. She has helped over 2,000 students learn electronics and robotics while turning junk into usable items.
Martin Salvetti teaches in Buenos Aires, Argentina. While there he set up a weekend football club involving students and staff. Next, he secured funding from an arts programme organised by a group of charities. This supported a radio & cinema project and a band. In 2007, Salvetti and his students won a national competition for their work. They invested the prize in broadcasting equipment and their station now broadcasts around the clock.
Stopped Child Labour
Hidekazu Shoto from Kyoto, Japan has created methods of teaching fluency in English without needing foreign travel or study abroad.
In Gujarat, India, Swaroop Rawal teaches at Lavad Primary School also reaches children on the streets and in rural communities. Her pupils helped put a stop to child labour in the diamond polishing industry and facilitated children’s return to school.
Vladimer Apkhazava from Georgia is another teacher who has raised funds for the children in his school. Eonomic pressures are high, with some pupils coming to school hungry. There are also problems of child labour in the region, which Vladimer has made it his mission to oppose. He won Georgia’s National Teacher Award in 2017.
Not campaigning
Melissa Salguero has already won a Grammy award for her work as a music teacher.
Yasodai Selvakumaran was born in Sri Lanka but teaches in Australia. She has won a string of awards for actual, real teaching.
Daisy Mertens from the Netherlands is another real teacher. She works in a large community primary school. In contrast to Moffat, Daisy is actually teaching. Nor is rubbing parents up the worng way with blatant self-interested campaigning.
Lastly, Melissa Salguero in New York’s Bronx, USA, did a real-life ‘School of Rock’ – and other genres. Coming into a school with no music, no instruments and no resources, she raised the money and formed a band. In 2013, Melissa was named the Big Apple Awards & Lincoln Center Arts Teacher of the Year for her contribution.
The UK competition
And what of the UK teachers Moffat beat to the short-list?
Emma Russo teaches physics at South Hampstead High School. That’s an independent day school, part of the Girls’ Public Day School Trust. Not surprisingly, Miss Russo’s focus is on opportunities for girls in physics and engineering. Pushing girls towards science, technology, engineering and maths is fashionable today.
Like New York’s Melissa, Jimmy Rotheram at Feversham Primary Academy in Bradford teaches music. Furthermore, he has developed an approach stressing the importance of music for developing brains. In contrast to Hampstead, Bradford Moor is financially impoverished. 60% of households there are unemployed or in low-skilled manual work.
Both Emma Russo and Jimmy Rotheram are real teachers making innovations easily on a par with the the other nine shortlisted. Furthermore, they are not riding roughshod over parents’ convictions along the way.
Embarrassment
If Moffat is chosen as the ‘Global Teacher’, all the talk will be about him and his gay indoctrination, not about excellence in teaching. The whole awards process will become a laughing stock. It will prove a severe embarrassment both to Sunny Varkey and to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed. A shameless homosexual activist at an awards ceremony in Dubai hosted by HH in the presence of other national leaders?
It is clear no risk analysis was done about the embarrassment his presence on the list would cause the Foundation and His Highness.
It is not beyond the imagination that a prize ‘academy’ could be politically-correct enough to splash £100k a year for ten years at the Moffat to spread his poison around the community. All over the world, in Africa, in the Far East, in Muslim countries, the message will go out: ‘If you aren’t a gay activist, don’t bother applying for the Global Teacher Prize.’
Southampton City Council heads the adoption lottery
Southampton City Council heads the adoption lottery
Research into adoption and care rates has revealed a postcode lottery. Children in some areas in England are 12 times more likely to be removed and adopted by child protection units.
The BBC and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism sent Freedom of Information Act enquiries to all English local authorities. Half provided full responses. The BBC reported the results in this article. The data reveal significant variation in adoption rates.
Twelve times higher
For children born in 2011-12 the chances of being placed for adoption by the age of five were 12 times higher in Southampton than Greenwich.
Twenty authorities had significantly increased adoption rates compared with children born five years before.
Andy Bilson, emeritus professor of social work at the University of Central Lancashire, wanted to compare child protection practice across all local authorities in England.
He sent a series of detailed questions to all 152 bodies, asking how many children, born between 1 April 2011 and 31 March 2012, had by the age of five been investigated by social services, and how many had been permanently removed from their families, adopted or given placement orders by family courts. He asked the same questions about children born five years before.
Huge variation
Professor Bilson received full responses from 70 local authorities and used ONS data to calculate adoption rates.
The Southampton Coat of Arms is surmounted by a figure of justice.
This revealed a huge variation: in Southampton, almost one in 50 children had been adopted or had placement orders imposed. In Greenwich, which has a similar socio-economic profile, the rate was a twelfth of that – more like 1 in 600.
In Southampton there was a marked rise in adoption rates for the age group, compared with children born five years before. The FOI response also showed the authority had investigated many more families. The number of detailed investigations, carried out under section 47 of the children act, had risen from 215 to 454. There was a similar pattern in 19 other authorities.
Adoption promoted
For nearly 20 years, both Labour and Conservative governments have promoted adoption as a way of getting children out of care. Children, they said, often move from one foster family to another. They fare poorly in education. Some are abuse in care. Girls in care have figured highly in all the grooming scandals, from Rotherham, to Rochdale, to Bradford and Oxford. Outcomes for children in care are poor. Adopted children do much better than children in care.
The Blair Government set targets to get children into adoption. They gave local authorities financial incentives. All local authorities did was take more potentially adoptable children into care to chase the money. Children were too often taken by force from parents who wanted to keep their children. But the system was more interested in taking their children for financial gain than helping them to stay together as a family.
The mindset persists today. Professor Bilson found in the authorities where adoption had risen, the numbers in care had risen too. In authorities where adoption was stable or had fallen, care numbers had fallen.
“This is the exact opposite of what you’d expect,” he told the BBC. “It points instead to a difference in the way that children are being removed from parents.”
Southampton’s Blake Fowler
Blake Fowler’s sad case drove social workers to take more children into care ‘just in case’.
The BBC asked Southampton why it had changed its approach. The authority responded: “All children who were adopted were subject to rigorous scrutiny by the legal system and the Family Court, both of which agreed with the Local Authority that not only had the threshold for a Care Order been met, but that the Local Authority had exhausted all opportunity and support for any potential family or other carers: adoption was therefore the only realistic option.”
However, the BBC suggests another influence may be at work in Southampton. In 2011, there were four child deaths, one especially high profile. Blake Fowler died of a head injury aged seven. Concerns had been raised about him since he was a toddler: the authority were later severely criticised for failing to act.
Sir Mark Hedley, who for many years was a High Court judge in the Family Division, told the BBC: “It would be wrong to suggest that one is the cause of the other. But there is no doubt that public criticism of social workers if children have suffered will lead to an increased priority being given to child protection at the expense of maintaining family groups.”
Action varies
Social workers have to intervene if they believe a child is at risk of significant harm. But ‘significant’ is not defined in statute. Sir Mark says action will vary from one authority to another.
“There will inevitably be a wide range of views in relation to what is significant harm,” he said. “Just as there will be a range of views about the desirability of intervening in families in the first place.”
Professor Bilson found that far more children are being put on child protection plans because of “emotional abuse” and neglect – 82% of the children in the younger group. Again, these are terms which can be subject to interpretation.
Medway’s emotional abuse
Last year, Christian Voice uncovered wide discrepancies in practice for the ill-defined category of ’emotional abuse’. The Government’s most recent figures showed wide variations in numbers of children taken into care and reasons given. The discrepancy showed up widely in the contrast between the two councils in Kent. They were Kent County Council and Medway Council. We have been following some terrible cases of injustice in Medway.
Kent County Council took 1,049 children into care in 2015-2016. The population of Kent CC area at the last census was 1,541,900. Under 20’s were 360,605. So a Kent child has a 0.29% chance of being ‘in care’.
Medway Council took 539 children into care in 2015-2016. The population of Medway’s council area at the last census was 263,925. Under 20’s were 74,000. So a Medway child has a 0.73% chance of being ‘in care’.
In Kent County Council, 656 children were taken for neglect, 63% of the total and higher than the national average for England. The Council took 203 children for ‘emotional abuse’. That is 19%, lower than England’s national average.
But in Medway, 237 children (44%) were taken for neglect and 257 (48%) for emotional abuse. Given Medway’s far lower population, are we really being asked to accept that children in Chatham and Rochester are suffering ‘emotional abuse’ (whatever that is) over six times more than children in Canterbury and Ramsgate?
Dramatic picture
Over the last decade, the number of children in care has risen by 134%. That means for every four cases then there are seven now. Many talk of the crisis in the care system, the family courts overwhelmed by cases.
Why this happens is less clear, though council support for families, so-called early intervention, has been dramatically reduced thanks to cuts, and rising poverty increases the pressure. For many months now local authorities have been warning that more families are in crisis, and that child protection is becoming an emergency service.
Professor Bilson’s research provides a dramatic picture of varying approaches in different authorities.
Best interests of the system
The Department for Education said: “Every decision regarding adoption is made with the best interests of the child at its heart. Many children and their adoptive families have had their lives transformed by adoption, and we are determined to support them every step of the way.
“On top of this, there are of course a number of alternative options available, including long-term fostering and special guardianship, which may be chosen when it is best for the child.”
But many parents tell Christian Voice care decisions are too often made in the best interests of the system. We have seen outrageous injustice in what is now a child protection industry. Social workers, solicitors, barristers, court psychologists, even judges all depend on this industry for their income.
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According to the BBC, England’s chief inspector of schools is targetting what she calls ‘fundamentalists’ and ‘religious extremists’.
Amanda Spielman, head of Ofsted, says some community leaders see schools as vehicles to ‘indoctrinate impressionable minds’.
They use schools to narrow children’s horizons and ‘pervert education’, she says. Some schools even promote ‘extremist ideology’.
She is asking head teachers to confront those who foster what she terms ‘extremist behaviour’.
Ofsted on ‘Forms of liberalism’
‘Rather than adopting a passive liberalism that says anything goes, for fear of causing offence, schools leaders should be promoting a muscular liberalism,’ Ms Spielman said. She was speaking today at a conference held by the Church of England in London.
‘That sort of liberalism holds no truck for ideologies that seek to close minds or narrow opportunity.
‘Occasionally that will mean taking uncomfortable decisions or having tough conversations.
‘It means not assuming that the most conservative voices in a particular faith speak for everyone.’
She added: ‘Ofsted inspectors are increasingly brought into contact with those who want to actively pervert the purpose of education’.
Extremist ideology
‘Under the pretext of religious belief, they use education institutions, legal and illegal, to narrow young people’s horizons, to isolate and segregate, and in the worst cases to indoctrinate impressionable minds with extremist ideology.
‘Freedom of belief in the private sphere is paramount, but in our schools it is our responsibility to tackle those who actively undermine fundamental British values or equalities law.’
She is making the speech to support head teacher Neena Lall, of St Stephen’s state primary in east London. Ms Lall has tried to prevent children under the age of eight from wearing the hijab in class. Generally speaking, Muslim girls, although not all of them, wear the hijab after the age of 10. Ms Lall also tried to stop younger pupils from taking part in Ramadan fasting during school hours.
‘All forms of fundamentalism’
Tahir Alam, alleged “ringleader” of the Trojan Horse Plot of Muslims to take over secular schools, was also the co-author of a 72-page document revealing the strategy. See below…
So far, so anti-Muslim, but naturally the Chief Inspector implied she also has Christian schools in her sights. Ofsted said Ms Spielman was not targeting the Islamic faith, but ‘all forms of fundamentalism’.
A Department for Education official said: ‘Extremism has no place in our society.
That’s why we changed the law and the requirements on schools so that they have to actively promote the ‘fundamental British values’ of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and the mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
‘If there are any allegations of schools promoting ideologies or discrimination in the classroom, we will not hesitate to take action.’
What it means for Christians
There are two ways of looking at this story. Maybe it really is all about Islam. In this view, Ofsted is putting up a smokescreen with its ‘all forms of fundamentalism’ line.
Or perhaps Ofsted really have Christian schools in their sights. This view might make better sense. There have already been disturbing accounts of Ofsted inspectors marking down Christian schools.
The Independent reported in January 2017: ‘A number of Christian fundamentalist schools have been downgraded by government inspectors following an investigation by The Independent which revealed children at some schools that follow the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) curriculum are taught that LGBT people are inferior and girls must submit to men.’ There are 26 ACE schools registered in the UK.
According to the Daily Telegraph, ‘Nine out of 10 schools linked to the Christian Education Europe network were deemed inadequate or said to be requiring improvement in their latest visit by the regulator in October 2016, despite most receiving positive feedback previously.
‘Criticisms included failing to balance lessons on the creation with teaching about evolution and not addressing other faiths in class in deep enough detail.’
Christian school forced to close
Ofsted forced Cornerstone School in Epsom to close
And in November 2015, as a local paper reports, Cornerstone School in Epsom was forced to close. Ofsted reported pupils at the small Christian faith school in Epsom had ‘a limited view of the world.’ They were not ‘open to the views of those who might have different beliefs than those offered by church members’.
In the Guardian’s article, Ofsted reported: ‘Pupils do not have sufficient opportunity to learn about and consider the lives of those who have a different religious faith or no faith.’
Headteacher Grahame Davies said: ‘The mountain of demands made by Ofsted meant that, after over 27 years as headteacher, I felt I was not the person to take the school forward.
‘Our unique setting means that this is much easier said than done, so the governors realised they had little option but to close the school.’
Parents’ responsibility
Teaching about creation has been one other way in which Christian schools have incurred the wrath of Ofsted. So is teaching Biblical morality and not giving room to condom-based sex education. The Bible shows the importance of sound teaching here, but it cuts both ways:
Prov 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Going further, parents have the responsibility for their children’s education:
Deut 6:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
The New Testament reinforces that doctrine:
Eph 6:4 And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
It follows that Muslim parents have the right to bring up their children as they see fit. Nevertheless, they should not do this at public expense. If they are delegating the duty, as is their right, they should pay for it themselves. Moreover, we should be clear. They may not teach murder or treason. However, teaching against the transient fashion of ‘equalities law’ may be a prophetic act, whoever does it.
Indoctrination
Muslims, however, prefer to have their cake and eat it. They put their children into state schools. When there are enough Muslim children, they make sure the school becomes Islamic. However, the State will certainly inspect schools which have public funding. Moreover, if it finds that a Muslim clique has taken over, Ofsted should take action. This was what happened in the Trojan Horse scandal in Birmingham.
But firstly, as is clear, even private schools are under the inspection regime. Secondly, Ofsted used the Trojan Horse problem to bring in the absurd ‘British Values’ idea, and try to compel all schools to become ‘liberal’ and ‘tolerant’ notably of perversion.
Amanda Spielman, head of Ofsted, says some community leaders see schools as vehicles to ‘indoctrinate impressionable minds’. But Ofsted itself wants to ‘indoctrinate impressionable minds’ – in all schools. It will do that with its own liberal values.
Ofsted express outrage at schools ‘promoting ideologies’. But every school does that. Ofsted mean ‘ideologies we do not share.’ We may feel a constitutional Christian State should insist on Christian ideology. But the elite are now overwhelmingly secularist, and they defend their privileged position by all means possible.
Home schoolers
German Social Services took the Wunderlich children because their parents were home-schooling them. Home-schooling is illegal in Germany.
Finally, home schoolers should be on guard. Ofsted and its Scottish and Northern Irish equivalents will not stop until home schooling is either outlawed or registered. The Biblical idea of parents educating their children is anathema to the elite.
They believe the ‘purpose of education’ is to make children uncritical servants of the state.
Radical Christians or New Agers often head such households. Either way, the elite see them as places of insurrection against the system.
Do not think a clamp-down cannot happen. Home schooling is illegal in Germany. Children will be taken away from home-schooling parents, as we reported here.
Australia has voted for 'gay marriage' and gay activists are delighted. This march took place in Melbourne
Australia has voted for ‘gay marriage’ and gay activists are delighted. This march took place in Melbourne
Australia has voted overwhelmingly in favour of legalising same-sex marriage, reports the BBC.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said 61.6% of people were in favour allowing same-sex couples to counterfeit marriage. 79.5% of voters took part in the non-binding postal vote.
Jubilant supporters celebrated in public spaces, waving rainbow flags and singing and dancing.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said his government would aim to pass legislation in parliament by Christmas.
‘[Australians] have spoken in their millions and they have voted overwhelmingly yes for marriage equality,’ Mr Turnbull said after the result was announced.
‘They voted yes for fairness, yes for commitment, yes for love.’
God’s first social institution
The word of God describes marriage as God’s first social institution:
‘Vote No’ campaigners stressed the family
Genesis 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Moreover, those words were reinforced by the Lord Jesus himself:
Mark10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Becoming ‘one flesh’ in the full emotional, spiritual and physical sense is something a pair of gays, or two women, cannot do. A pair of homosexuals can never engage in the defining act of marriage. So they engage in a variety of confected quasi-sexual activities, all of which are condemned in scripture:
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
So, despite what Mr Turnbull says, homosexals won’t have equality or fairness. Nature itself is against them. It won’t be committment, because their relationships are inherently transient. As for love, people – brothers, a father and son, comrades in arms – can love each other without feeling the need to press the part of the body perfectly designed for the extraction of water from bodily waste into a use our gracious Maker never intended.
How gender is taught in schools
Felix Ngole was expelled for calling gay ‘marriage’ a sin on Facebook and an English court upheld it.
Australia’s No campaign put the focus on the definition of family. They also raised concerns about how issues like gender will be taught in schools.
Their concerns are well founded. England and Wales allowed homosexuals to get gay-married in 2013 under David Cameron’s Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act. Theresa May described the measure recently as one of her greatest achievements. Scotland followed in 2014. Only Northern Ireland holds out against the tide of sodomy.
Consequently, since 2013, students and local authority workers have been harassed by the authorities for expressing traditionalist, Christian views. Many have been thrown off courses or lost their jobs.
In addition, the earlier Equality Act 2010 laid a duty on public authorities to advance homosexuality and transgenderism. A public authority is anything from a fire brigade to a hospital to a government department to a school.
Taken together, the UK’s Equality Act and Britain’s ‘gay marriage’ Act have given the green light to activist head teachers and Stonewall’s gay activists to groom schoolchildren into positive views of a lifestyle characterised by disease, degradation and early death. The Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Rome:
J D Unwin discovered that no civilisation which allowed its family structure to crumble escaped going down the rubbish chute of history.
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Sex and Culture
In his book Sex and Culture, anthropologist J.D. Unwin, warned that loose sexual mores would lead to cultural decline in the West.
The website EthikaPolitika says: ‘After a careful evaluation a variety of civilizations—including the Romans, Greeks, Sumerians, Moors, Babylonians, and Anglo-Saxons—a clear pattern emerged for Unwin: a perfect correlation between sexual fidelity and civilizational flourishing.
‘Though each civilization’s success correlated with strict sexual ethics, attitudes toward sex became increasingly liberalized and loosened. The consequences of the myth that sexual activity and its impacts could be confined to the private sphere soon became apparent. Premarital, extramarital and homosexual relationships proliferated and individuals began placing their individual desires over the common good. An increase in promiscuity corresponded to a subsequent decrease in the social energy required for civilizational maintenance and innovation. Ultimately, each civilization became less cohesive, less aggressive, and less resolute.’
Unwin said: ‘These societies lived in different geographical environments; they belonged to different racial stocks; but the history of their marriage customs is the same. In the beginning each society had the same ideas in regard to sexual regulations. Then the same struggles took place, the same sentiments were expressed, the same changes were made, the same results ensued. Each society reduced its sexual opportunity to a minimum and displaying great social energy, flourished greatly. Then it extended its sexual opportunity; its energy decreased, and faded away. The one outstanding feature of the whole story is its unrelieved monotony.’
Where ‘gay marriage’ is legal
In the whole of Africa, only South Africa, under a constitution drafted by Westerners, allows homosexuals to get ‘gay-married’
Australia has joined not just Great Britain, but Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, some states of the United States and Uruguay.
Russia and Eastern Europe, Africa, apart from South Africa, and Asia, apart from Taiwan, are holding out.
Furthermore, many of those nations make the commission of unnatural acts a criminal offence.
Those countries which have legalised what Almighty God describes as an abomination, and then devalued God’s institution of marriage, are heading for judgment and disaster.
Unwin concluded: ‘Civilizations in this liminal phase then collapsed from either 1) an internal anarchic revolution, or 2) conquest by invaders with greater social energy.’
Now who could those ‘invaders with greater social energy’ be in Europe, Australia and the Western world in the twenty-first century?
Only hope is in repentance
There is however hope for each individual homosexual, as scripture speaks of them, and many other sinners, finding forgivness and release from the power of sin:
1Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Moreover, there is hope for Australia, Britain and the rest of the decadent West, but only if Christian men will rise up and proclaim the crown rights of King Jesus, calling for and praying for national repentance. There are not many organisations today which will give you the theological tools to do that, but Christian Voice is one of them, and you can join us on the link below:
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Sara Root was taken to court for contempt by Medway Council
Medway Council took Sara Root to Maidstone County Court for contempt.
A mother who says her two youngest children were wrongly taken into care by Medway Council was given a six-month suspended prison sentence at the end of last month by Judge Richard Polden
Sara Root told Christian Voice her children were taken seven years ago for ‘emotional abuse’.
District Judge Graham Green made a judgment which will concern home-schoolers up and down the land.. Medway satisfied the judge the son and daughter were suffering the said emotional abuse due to home schooling. This had given them, said Medway’s Ian Scrivens, a ‘skewed view of the world’. Despite attending a primary school, playing with other children and going out to the park and the cinema, they were not ‘socialising.’
Legal Statement
Sara Root was found guilty in July, as we reported at the time. But in July we did not feel able to identify the mother. Now that she has been sentenced, the court authorised this legal statement:
In relation to C00ME422. On 30th August 2017, at Maidstone County Court, His Honour Judge Polden sentenced Sara Root to a custodial sentence of six months, suspended for twelve months, for contempt of court. The basis of that sentence was that: (a) she had breached an injunction made under section 12 of the Administration of Justice 1960 on 13th December 2011 on ten occasions; (b) she was in breach of an undertaking she gave to the court on 12th December 2016; and (c) she failed to comply with reporting restrictions made at the same hearing. All of the breaches were occasioned by publishing material relating to care proceedings on Facebook and failing to remove it.
September hearing
Ms Root is now applying to the High Court to remove the injunctions. Her two children are now young adults aged respectively 18 and 19, she told Christian Voice. Therefore they are no longer subject to any care order. Not surprisingly, she would like to make contact with them again. But in a bizarre twist, Medway Council have applied for non-molestation orders on behalf of the two young adults. Their only evidence appears to be hearsay.
Social worker Kelly Hopper had to admit in court she was not even in touch with Ms Root’s children. Meanwhile, ‘support worker’ Lucy Conn has made a statement. We understand this discloses that the young man involved does not even want Medway Council to speak on his behalf. The case will be heard behind closed doors at the Royal Courts of Justice on 28th September.
Contempt removes some secrecy
The family courts are shrouded in secrecy. Those in social services and the child protection industry say this is to protect the children involved. But it also means parents cannot easily bring injustices to the light. The media are also loathe to report cases. Editors fear they may fall foul of contempt of court rules. So in practice, the secrecy rules protect the system.
The only reason Sara Root and Eugene Lukjanenko can be named is because Medway Council brought actions against them for contempt of court, which carries a maximum penalty of two years in prison. Family court judges still hear such cases. Nevertheless, the cases have to be held in open court in the civil court, rather than the family court. This is because the British legal jurisdictions do not ‘disappear’ people. Anyone facing jail must be named. This does not mean the media can then name any children involved, nor do we want to. But we can and shall name local authorities and social workers.
Medway Council rooftop protest
Eugene Lukjanenko was convicted of contempt at Canterbury County Court in January and July 2017
Meanwhile, concert pianist Eugene Lukjanenko occupied the porch roof of Medway Council offices in Chatham last week. He remains in dispute with Medway over access to his son in care. However, above all, he wants his son returned, and his son, who is 14, also wants to come home. With worrying similarities to the Sara Root case, Mr Lukjanenko also says his son his taken away for alleged ’emotional abuse’.
A group of people on the ground also protested against forced adoption & foster care. Two police cars were called to the protest, where four people were spotted handing out leaflets. A spokesman from the police said: ‘Officers have been made aware of a protest on a roof in Dock Road, Chatham. Officers were called to the scene at 7.21am on Tuesday 5 September 2017.’
One protester told the local KentOnline newspaper they were calling on the government to investigate the way in which children are taken into care.
Mr Lukjanenko came down from the roof voluntarily at 7.30pm. He was arrested on suspicion of aggravated criminal trespass and causing a public nuisance.
Earlier this year he was twice found in contempt of court for publishing details of case in social media. Mr Lukjanenko was sentenced to 56 days suspended for a year in January 2017 and again, for a separate offence, in July.
Emotional abuse in Medway Council area
The Government’s most recent figures show wide variations in numbers of children taken into care and reasons given. The discrepancy shows up widely in the contrast between the two councils in Kent. These are Kent County Council and, funnily enough, Medway Council.
Kent County Council took 1,049 children into care in 2015-2016. The population of Kent CC area at the last census was 1,541,900. Under 20’s were 360,605. So a Kent child has a 0.29% chance of being ‘in care’.
Medway Council took 539 children into care in 2015-2016. The population of Medway’s council area at the last census was 263,925. Under 20’s were 74,000. So a Medway child has a 0.73% chance of being ‘in care’.
In Kent County Council, 656 children were taken for neglect, 63% of the total and higher than the national average for England. The Council took 203 children for ‘emotional abuse’. That is 19%, which is lower than England’s national average.
But in Medway, 237 children (44%) were taken for neglect and 257 (48%) for emotional abuse. Given Medway’s far lower population, are we really being asked to accept that children in Chatham and Rochester are suffering ‘emotional abuse’ (whatever that is) over six times more than children in Canterbury and Ramsgate?
Or is something rather odd going on in Medway Council Social Services? And if it is, are we justified, to use the old Watergate expression, to ‘follow the money’?
Rt Hon Justine Greening, MP for Putney, has proposed a 'choose your gender bill'.
Rt Hon Justine Greening, MP for Putney, has proposed a ‘choose your gender bill’.
People will be allowed to choose their gender if the UK Government gets its way.
Change gender ‘at will’
The Independent reports: ‘Under plans being considered by ministers, adults will be able to change their birth certificates at will without a doctor’s diagnosis, while non-binary gender people will be able to record their gender as “X”.’
The paper says: ‘Changes to the law will be consulted on and will ultimately be included in a planned Gender Recognition Bill, set to be published in the autumn.’
In stark contrast, just before we went to press, President Trump announced a ban on transgender personnel in the US military, citing ‘the need to focus on victory’, the Washington Post reported.
And then, according to RT, in true ‘couldn’t make it up mode’, Rear Admiral Alex Burton, commander UK Maritime Forces, tweeted: ‘As a Royal Navy LGBT champion and senior warfighter I am so glad we are not going this way.’ As one of those you would be glad, Admiral. But as a husband and father you should know better.
‘This is a choice’
Education and Equalities Secretary Justine Greening announced the move as MPs set off for their summer recess last Friday. Just days before, Jeremy Corbyn urged the Conservatives to allow people to ‘self-identify’. The fiftieth anniversary of legalising sodomy also appears to have influenced the timing. The Queen gave her Royal Assent to the Sexual Offences Act on 27th July 1967.
The Labour manifesto included plans for self-identification. The Conservatives’ did not. Nor did June’s Queen’s Speech include a Gender Recognition Bill. It is safe to say that had the Tories included such a divisive measure they would have lost the election.
According to RT, Miss Greening ‘told Sky News on Sunday the state needs to “stop treating people changing their gender as if it’s some medical problem that needs fixing. Actually this is a choice that people are making and we need to try and make that choice more straightforward than it already is.”’
Suzanna Hopwood, a member of the sodomy advocacy group Stonewall’s Trans Advisory Group, agrees. ‘It is “vital” the reform removes the requirement for medical evidence and an intrusive interview panel,’ she said. Miss Hopwood went on to describe the current system as ‘demeaning and broken.’ (‘Broken’ is a fashionable word with which to criticise Government policy or a state department’s handling of something.)
‘Still a long way to go’
A follow-up article in the Indy shows Prime Minister Theresa May as wholly supportive. She said “when it comes to rights and protections for trans people, there is still a long way to go”. Her predecessor, David Cameron, rode ‘gay marriage’ roughshod over his party’s opposition. He even boasted about it in his resignation speech
Mary Douglas speaking about the choose gender farce on BBC
But Tory activist Mary Douglas of Grassroots Conservatives strongly disagreed. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, she said she was ‘very concerned’ about the move. ‘In my view it should not be easy to do something as massive as change your gender,’ she said. ‘And the law is there to protect us, normally from other people, but also sometimes from ourselves. I think many people have profound concerns about this.’
She went on: ‘It is profoundly unconservative. Conservative with a big C and small C implies continuity with what has gone before.’ She was asked if Miss Greenings’ own self-declared homosexuality had anything to do with the announcement. Mrs Douglas replied: ‘It’s a possibility.’ She continued: ‘But I’m not going to suggest anything I don’t know. I don’t know Justine personally at all but the bigger issue here is not who is … considering introducing this policy, but the implications of the policy itself.’
‘They are deeply troubled’
The liberal Huffington Post reports activists were up in arms about further comments from Mrs Douglas. They took particular exception to her suggestion that those with gender dysphoria have mental or emotional problems.
Mrs Douglas asked: ‘If somebody thinks they have a mismatch between how they think and the way their body is, the question is: which should be changed?’
Answering her own question, she said: ‘What’s interesting is that many people who have gender dysphoria also have other mental health conditions like depression or drug addiction. They are deeply troubled and it has been proven that when they change their gender, that doesn’t solve those issues.’
Activists called her ‘rude’, ‘bigoted’, insensitive’, ‘old-fashioned’ and even ‘disgraceful.’ Crucially, no-one appears to have put together a coherent response to show she was wrong.
The practicalities
We need to be very clear about why Christians need to oppose this measure. Just at a practical level, it means that anyone can just decide to be the opposite gender to the one they were born with. They will need no evidence. Just their word will do. In no other area would we accept someone’s word against scientific evidence. The evidence here is that of simple genetics.
The proposal is a voyeurs’ charter, allowing men to visit ladies’ toilets and dressing rooms. They will also absurdly be able to compete in athletics events this time against proper women. We could be seeing the beginning of the end of women’s sport. Sadly, in today’s post-truth world, being ridiculous will not stop this preposterous measure being enacted.
Additionally, the move will give a further push to the already-rolling transgender bandwagon. More children will start deciding they are ‘in the wrong body’. Shockingly, teachers and social workers have been encouraging such children. Doctors too are prescribing powerful hormones to adolescent children to delay or block the onset of puberty. Medicine is intended to cure. Puberty blockers harm. Sadly, medicine is not free of charlatans. Surgeons too are ready to mutilate people’s God-given bodies into what they think they should be. Some, as Mrs Douglas implied, will regret it.
Adults are meant to safeguard children from bad decisions. But instead, authority figures are taking vicarious delight in these wrong-headed childish decisions. They are perpetrating child abuse. Some school or local authority, in a few years’ time, is going to be sued.
Rebellion against God’s creation
Moreover, at a theological level, we need to recognise that transgenderism is far worse than sodomy, even than ‘gay marriage’. Homosexuality rebels against God’s institution of the family.
The Bible records this moment in Genesis chapter 2:
Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
However, transsexuals and transgender apologists are in rebellion against creation itself. If we go back a chapter in Genesis, we find the chromosonal reality of the division of the sexes as an expression of God’s very image:
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.
God decides your gender, not you. Our generation wants to spit in the face of God. The church has to stand firm and proclaim the whole Gospel.
The economic and security dimension
This brings us to the economic and security dimension. When the UK voted to leave the European Union, all sides agreed our Parliament could now pass our own laws. The EU would not allow the UK that freedom. We expressed a hope that the UK would now repent and start to enact godly laws.
Allowing self-determined gender choice was not and never will be in a list of godly laws.
Accordingly, by enacting a measure in sheer defiance of God’s righteousness, our legislators are bringing even more of God’s judgment on us.
Furthermore, with Brexit negotiations going on and Islamic extremists stalking the streets, we need all the economic and security blessings – and all the wisdom – the Almighty can bestow.
Make no mistake, if our nation is doing well, we shall all be doing well. Moreover, Christian people want the best for those sad individuals caught up in gender dysphoria, for the nation’s children and for the country of which we are a temporal part. God’s words to the captives in Babylon still ring true:
Jeremiah 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Meetings
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