Homosexuality & Trans
‘Hurtful’ National Trust in Rainbow Row
The National Trust is in a row over the promotion of homosexuality after volunteers refused to wear homosexual equality symbols.
The National Trust is Britain’s leading conservation charity. It exists, according to its most recent Annual Report, to protect ‘the nation’s heritage and open spaces … for everyone to enjoy’. It operates in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There is a separate National Trust for Scotland.
According to the BBC, the National Trust required staff and volunteers at Felbrigg Hall, a stately home in Norfolk, to wear rainbow badges and lanyards in support of a campaign to promote homosexuality.
Annabel Smith, the Trust’s head of volunteering and participation development, said ‘Whilst volunteering for the National Trust we do request and expect individuals to uphold the values of the organisation.’
But of course, the promotion of homosexuality does not appear in the aims or values of the National Trust.
Dissenting volunteers
By Friday, over 30 (and possibly as many as 75, depending where you read) of 350 volunteers refused to be part of the stunt.
Initially, National Trust management offered them duties away from the public gaze. Non-rainbowed staff would be an embarrassment. Its director general, Dame Helen Ghosh, said anyone who did not agree with the campaign was ‘free to step back from the volunteer role or take a different role for the duration’. Who said Victorian-style labour relations were dead?
But Lucy Pasha-Robinson writes in the Independent that 240 National Trust members revoked their membership over the weekend in disgust. Meanwhile, the volunteers went to the newspapers. They accused the Trust of encroaching on their political freedoms. The Trust began to get rattled.
Dame Helen was left humiliated as a National Trust official later issued a statement on Saturday. Now they were ‘making it clear to volunteers that the wearing of the badge is optional and a personal decision’.
Previous owner ‘outed’ as homosexual
One Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer owned Felbrigg Hall. The distinguished historian and author left his ancestral home to the National Trust when he died in 1969.
But as part of its pro-sodomy campaign – it actually has a special page for it – the National Trust latched onto rumours that Lord Ketton-Cremer was homosexual. It commissioned Professor Richard Sandell from the University of Leicester to dig up any dirt he could find.
In true gutter journalism style, Sandell trawled the local area for anyone prepared to say Ketton-Cremer’s sexuality was an ‘open secret’. He pored over his poems and books about acquaintances to try to find code words and possible euphemisms. But he failed to find anyone to say his subject engaged in any same-sex activity with anyone.
The Trust then hired the King of Crass, Stephen Fry, to voice a video. In the frankly tedious film, Fry states Ketton-Cremer ‘defied the conventions of his day’. Actually, he didn’t. He lived exactly as a bachelor of those days would do.
National Trust ‘hurtful’
The film appalled Ketton-Cramer’s nephew and niece. Ted Coryton and Katie Spencer are demanding to know what proof the Trust has that their uncle and godfather, known to them as ‘Bun’, was homosexual. Moreover, even if he was, what right did the National Trust have to ‘out’ someone who chose to keep his sexuality secret? The squire died two years after sodomy in private was decriminalised in 1967.
‘It is simply so hurtful,’ Mrs Spencer, 78, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘It is outrageous and totally unnecessary. The National Trust has done this to get publicity to get people to visit the hall and make money. I personally didn’t think there was any suggestion he was gay. The first I heard was when I was shown the article in the Telegraph about the Trust’s film. I would like to know what proof they actually have. I think Bun would have felt betrayed by the National Trust. He was a fascinating man, a brilliant historian and biographer. That was how he would want to be remembered. His sexuality was a private matter and should remain so.’
The siblings, from Cornwall, share the late Ketton-Cremer with another godson, Tristram Powell, from London. All believe the move represents a betrayal. Moreover, they argue it could have serious implications for future legacies to the Trust. They have a point. Who is going to leave property to the National Trust knowing its officials are prepared to seek and publicise salacious gossip about you years later?
Virtue signalling
The Trust’s pro-sodomy campaign does not end here. The National Trust has also signed up the BBC’s token sports lesbian, Clare Balding.
Miss Balding will do a series of podcasts on homosexually-themed National Trust properties. There turn out to be very few, by the way. And of course, this is not a serious attempt at increasing its membership among the 1% of the population who are sadly homosexual. If they like old houses, they will join the Trust’s four million other members anyway. No, the Trust is instead engaging in a perverted form of ‘virtue-signalling’ while blundering into the minefield of social engineering.
Indeed, Mr Fry said: ‘Some have asked why Prejudice and Pride is necessary – why the lives of people who challenged conventional ideas of gender and sexuality should be made public and celebrated in this way. The answer is quite simple – to do anything less is to suggest that same-sex love and gender diversity is somehow wrong, and keeping these stories hidden only lets prejudice – past and present – go unchallenged.’
Once again, Lord Ketton-Cremer did not ‘challenge conventional ideas of gender and sexuality’. Moreover, some 40& of the population still believe gay sex is wrong, after all the years of pro-sodomy propaganda. And we can venture the figure will be higher among National Trust members.
Professor Sandell added: ‘We have equality in many areas of the law but there is a need to build greater public understanding.’ I was right. It’s virtue-signalling and propaganda rolled into one.
Condescension
This is not the first controversy at the National Trust under Dame Helen’s tenure, says the Guardian. During her leadership, the Trust found itself drawn into debates about fracking and windfarms. The Trust quite likes the former, but is snooty about the latter. And earlier this year our members will recall it replaced the word ‘Easter’ by ‘Cadbury’ in publicity for its egg hunt.
Rachel Cooke, also in the Guardian, writes: ‘There is a growing sense in some quarters that the Trust is distracted from its main purpose – conservation – and that in its determination to be inclusive, it is, for want of a better description, dumbing down.’
Miss Cooke also has some acerbic observations on the Trust’s acquisition of land and on Dame Helen Ghosh, with whom she secured an interview. Dame Helen is a retired civil servant. The National Trust pays her £183,960 as its director general.
But Miss Cooke says: ‘Her manner is – how to put this? – edged with condescension. Five minutes into our conversation, she tells me about her first-class history degree from Oxford, as if this alone should settle my mind in her favour. … She talks loudly of the importance of listening to other views without ever really giving the impression that she is doing so.’
Dame Helen Ghosh to leave
And now Dame Helen is returning to her alma mater. She gained a first in history, you know. She will leave her job at the National Trust in March 2018 to become the first woman master of Balliol College, Oxford. She is taking an obvious career step.
National Trust members and volunteers will be eager to attend its Annual General Meeting in Swindon on 21st October 2017. Will this topic come up? What will Dame Helen condescend to say to the backward member masses? Will her replacement will be as eager to force gayness down everyone’s throats? Is the National Trust going to continue alienating the public with repellent virtue-signalling? Will it return to its core business of protecting the nation’s heritage and open spaces for everyone to enjoy – not just the intellectual elite? When are the next elections to the National Trust’s Council?
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BBC unwatchable on Gay Jubilee
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the legalisation of sodomy. Consequently, the BBC will be unwatchable and unlistenable for a week at least.
Especially today, all BBC channels will be awash with ‘Gay Britania’. It is exactly fifty years since the enactment of the Sexual Offences Act 1967.
BBC reflecting the Establishment
One can argue the BBC is simply reflecting the Establishment. It is impossible to be a candidate for Labour, the LibDems or the Tories without being a ‘Diversity’ wonk. Plaid Cymru, SNP and Sinn Fein are almost as bad. And anyone Christian or just pro-family in government needs to keep his views to himself.
Moreover, in the broadcast media, Sky, ITV and Channel 4 news will no doubt be promoting what they will see as a joyous day. It is always interesting to discern between what is news and what is the advancement of the Establishment agenda. This author reckons BBC ‘news’ is usually 50% propaganda.
Nevertheless, TV viewers have a choice. RT (Freeview 135) ought to be free of homosexual promotion while Yesterday (19) and TBN (65) should be gay-free zones.
Never satisfied
The homosexual mindset is never satisfied. Neither with life as a whole, nor with sexual expression, nor indeed with political gains. It was never enough just to be left alone to do whatever they were going to do in private. As it happens, we all now know rather more than we ever wanted to about what homosexuals do in private. That is largely owing to the AIDS crisis, forcing gay charities like Terrence Higgins Trust to list homosexual activities in order of health risk.
So in 2004 Tony Blair enacted Civil Partnerships. The BBC celebrating that event with footage of happy couples. Nevertheless, civil partnerships were not good enough. Equally, gay politics had moved out of its Labour redoubt. Therefore, a Conservative Party Prime Minister, David Cameron, inflicted same-sex ‘marriage’ on the nation in 2013. More celebratory BBC footage, this time of gays getting gay-married.
And now the elite are moving on again. They want to allow anyone, for any reason or none, to change his gender at will. The Government have announced a new ‘Gender Recognition Bill’ for the autumn. Our story on that is here.
Homosexuality … universally condemned
How did it come to this? Was such a degradation of society in the minds of those who framed the Sexual Offences Act? Not at all. The 1967 Act was ‘permissive’ legislation. That does not mean it was part of the ‘permissive society’, although of course it was. It means it permitted something still illegal to happen in certain circumstances. The Abortion Act of the same year is another example of ‘permissive’ legislation.
So the Sexual Offences Act allowed acts of sodomy and gross indecency to take place in England and Wales between two consenting adults (aged 21 or over) in private. It was a Private Member’s Bill, brought in by Leo Abse MP, at the instigation of Antony Grey of the Albany Trust and the Homosexual Law Reform Society.
In the debates on the 1967 Sexual Offences Bill, MPs and Peers made clear Parliament was refusing to do anything more than permit homosexual acts in certain circumstances. This was emphasised again and again by, for example, Lord Arran, who said:
‘In all the discussions we have had, and in all the speeches, no single noble Lord or noble Lady has ever said that homosexuality is right or a good thing. It has been universally condemned from start to finish, and by every single member of the House.’
First Gay Pride March in 1972
Strangely enough, under a Christian legal system, there would be no need for the Sexual Offences Act. The Bible requires at least two witnesses before a court can convict anyone of a crime:
Deuteronomy 19:15 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
If two men were doing something indecent in private there would be no witnesses. Accordingly, there could be no prosecution.
But the sentiments of their Lordships, no doubt well-intended, were to fall on deaf ears. Homosexuality would not now stay private. Activists held the first ever gay pride march in London five years later in 1972. Veteran campaigner Peter Tatchell was on it. He gives a valuable Gay Liberation Front insider’s view here.
Eschew ostentatious behaviour and flaunting
In a later House of Lords debate, one Lord Henderson slightly misquoted the Earl of Arran. In 1967, said Henderson, Lord Arran ‘asked the homosexual people of the future to comport themselves quietly and with dignity and to eschew any form of ostentatious behaviour or public flouting.’ Lord Arran actually used the word ‘flaunting.’ He said any evidence of it would ‘make the sponsors of this Bill regret that they have done what they have done.’
One homosexual activist, John Marshall, summed up the arguments of the Bill’s supporters like this:
‘The protection afforded by the Sexual Offences Bill, particularly for young people, was stressed repeatedly; homosexuality was a lesser evil than the blackmail which its prohibition encouraged; relaxing the law would make it easier for homosexuals who wished to be free of their practices to seek help from the caring ministries.’
The Sexual Offences Act 1967 was extended to Scotland in 1980 and to Northern Ireland in 1982. The latter happened after a European Court ruling and despite a campaign led by the late Dr Ian Paisley MP to ‘Save Ulster from Sodomy.’
Homosexual lobby group founded
Even twenty-one years after the Sexual Offences Act, in 1988, homosexual activity was still viewed with distaste. That was the year of Section 28, which banned promotion of homosexuality in the classroom.
Section 28 and its description of homosexual couples as being in a ‘pretended family’ energised gay activists. They founded the Stonewall lobby group in 1989.
Five years later, under John Major, Parliament lowered the minimum age in the Sexual Offences Act to eighteen. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 also permitted buggery on women.
The Christian Voice group was founded in the same year to inform Christians so they could pray into such matters and take action. But a tidal wave was approaching.
In 1998 activist MPs voted to lower the homosexual age again, this time to sixteen. The House of Lords objected. Undaunted, Prime Minister Tony Blair used the Parliament Act. Accordingly, in 2000 homosexual men gained legal access to sixteen-year-old boys. In 2003, his administration repealed Section 28. The Scottish Parliament repealed its equivalent in 2000.
In 2003, Parliament allowed homosexuals to adopt children. The following year saw civil partnerships. Also in 2004 Parliament legislated a lie. They passed the Gender Recognition Act. That allowed someone to go back and falsify his birth certificate if a doctor agreed he was a woman – or if a woman thought she was really a man.
Like a flood
Gay-promoting legislation was now coming in like a flood. In 2007 we had the Sexual Orientation Regulations, forcing Christian B&B owners to offer beds to homosexual couples. In 2008 Parliament abolished the offence of blasphemy and passed their own blasphemy law, a ‘gay hate speech’ law.
2009 saw the Equality Act placing a duty on public authorities to promote sodomy and transgenderism. And then David Cameron forced through the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act 2013.
It is difficult to promote homosexuality politically any more. The activists have achieved virtually everything. Accordingly, the BBC is simply leading today’s celebrations. Of course, reparative therapy offering people a progression out of same-sex attraction is still a target, because the idea there could be something wrong with being homosexual is anathema to the ungodly. Additionally, it is true there are still grumblings in society. For example, many parents still do not want teachers promoting homosexuality to their children. And the Independent says today that 42% of people in Britain still think homosexual activity is unnatural. Curiously, 59% of Brexit voters said gay sex was unnatural, compared to a quarter of Remain voters. (And if you want to know which countries in the world say sodomy is unacceptable, click here!)
But one UK institution in particular remains a thorn in the activists’ collective side. The stronger elements of Christianity are still holding out. Homosexuals demand full acceptance from the church. Tolerance is not enough. So our openly-lesbian Education Secretary has demanded churches offer ceremonies for people getting gay-married. According to the Daily Mirror, Justine Greening said: ‘I think it is important that the church in a way keeps up.’
Lift up a standard
The Bible shows God Almighty does not ‘keep up’ with wickedness. In contrast, the Prophet of God says:
Isaiah 59:19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
And on this day of shame, this satanic jubilee, good Lord, that is what your Church is praying for. For men of God to be filled with the Holy Spirit, to lift up the Lord’s standard and press the Crown Rights of King Jesus!
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‘Choose your gender’ says UK Government
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
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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They’re all backing London Gay Pride
Businesses and politicians fell over each other to support the London Gay Pride parade at the weekend.
The BBC reported: ‘With almost 50 official partners, ranging from airlines to mobile networks, and a list of over 60 supporters, companies are signing up to try to stamp out prejudice.’
Well, no, they are not trying to ‘stamp out prejudice’, BBC, they are simply trying to sell product. To do that, a bit of good old ‘virtue signalling’ will do the trick.
The inverted commas indicate that we have come to a strange place when supporting a group defined by vice is ‘virtue signalling’ in the first place. But clothing retailers such as Topshop are definitely adopting a ‘more progressive than thou’ stance.
London Gay Pride sponsored by Barclays and the Mayor
Costa coffee also went rainbow coloured. In addition to the opportunists on the street, the ‘Pride in London’ website indeed lists around fifty corporate sponsors of one kind and another.
London Underground is a sponsor, putting the six-coloured rainbow up at Oxford Circus with a slogan: ‘#LoveisLove’. Or five minutes in the bushes on Hampstead Heath.
Barclays Bank was joint ‘headline’ sponsor with the Mayor of London.
That’s devout Muslim Mr Khan. There is obviously a time and a place for Islam in a politician’s life.
Gold sponsors include Starbucks and Tesco. Tesco seem not to have learnt the lesson of their disastrous financial calamities following their £30,000 sponsorship of the 2012 Gay Pride.
Gay flag flying over Downing Street
Politicians other than the mayor of London jumped on the bandwagon. The London Evening Standard gleefully reported that the Houses of Parliament were lit up in rainbow colours. Well, after a fashion.
“The rainbow illumination of Parliament is our signal of support for sodomy,” said John Bercow, the Commons Speaker. Sorry to misquote him. Actually, he said: ‘.. of support for equality’.
Moreover, the Prime Minister flew the rainbow flag over 10 Downing Street. Thersa May put every true Christian, Othodox Jew, Muslim and for that matter every decent person in the realm, firmly in their place.
From protest to fashionable
Gay Pride has moved from protest to fashionable in forty years. However, not everyone in the gay sub-culture is happy. Peter Tatchell complained in the Guardian: ‘What began in 1972 as a protest for gay rights has now morphed into a commercialised, bureaucratic and rule-bound event, which too often reflects the wishes of the city authorities, not the LGBT community.’
The veteran campaigner went on to observe ‘a mere 26,500 people will be permitted to march. This is a fraction of the number who would march if it were a free and open event’.
Many might think 26,500 is more than enough dysfunctional people parading through our capital city. But when Gay Pride becomes as much a part of the calendar as Christmas, we need to take notice and start praying very hard for our nation to repent. And keep our passports up to date just in case the mind of God is for judgment on the UK, rather than for mercy.
Conversion therapy ‘abusive’, says Jayne
Meanwhile, one Jayne Ozanne, speaking at a weekend event in York, condemned so-called conversion therapy. This is where people who wish to be free of same-sex attraction seek psychiatric help. She said:
“Conversion therapy is condemned by professionals as being harmful to LGBT people as it is based on a misguided belief that being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender is wrong. This leads to increased mental health problems for LGBT community due to stigmatization.”
No, that’s not a ‘misguided belief’, Jayne, that is the plain teaching of scripture:
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. Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Mar 10:6 (Jesus said) 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.
And being ‘one flesh’, in that full wonderful God-given spiritual, emotional and physical sense, is something a pair of gays, or two lesbians, can never do. Moreover, the ‘increased mental health problems’ are from gays and lesbians knowing what they are doing is plain wrong. If it were from ‘stigmatization’, mental health problems for LGBT’s would be diminishing with greater media-driven acceptance. They aren’t. It isn’t.
Postscript
Just why is transgenderism an even greater assault on the Gospel than homosexuality? Click here to read about the Canadian baby whose mother (sorry, ‘parent’) insists she (sorry, ‘they’) has no gender.
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Canadian mother puts transgender curse on baby
An eight-month old baby has been given a Canadian health card with no gender marker. The media claim it is the first case in the world.
A health card seems to be a little like a British NHS card. It is not a registration of birth. A Canadian court will hear arguments over the latter.
The child’s mother, whom the mainstream media, such as the BBC and the Independent, ludicrously insist on calling ‘the parent’, does not want to admit her baby is either a girl or a boy.
Transgender pronoun nonsense
Therefore, the Province has issued the health card with a ‘U’ in the space for ‘sex’, which could be for ‘undetermined’ or ‘unassigned’. Essentially, this is a case of a grown-up forcing her own prejudices on an infant.
Naturally, it was left to the Daily Caller, the thinking man’s Huffington Post, to reveal the Canadian tot is actually a girl.
The BBC says: ‘Parent Kori Doty – a non-binary transgender person who identifies as neither male nor female – aims to allow the child to discover their own gender.’ She has hired a lawyer to fight to omit the child’s gender from her birth certificate.
The BBC totally goes along with the fiction and the transgender pronoun nonsense. Its website says: ‘The parent gave birth to Searyl Atli in November at a friend’s home in British Columbia. Kori Doty, who prefers to use the pronoun they, argues that a visual inspection at birth is unable to determine what gender that person will have or identify with later in life. They want to keep Searyl’s sex off all official records.’
Kori Doty is transgender
Naturally, Searyl Atli is a ‘they’ as well.
The Independent chips in: ‘Doty claims a medical examination at birth cannot determine a child’s true gender because a baby might be intersex or grow up to identify with a gender that is different to their biological sex.
“When I was born, doctors looked at my genitals and made assumptions about who I would be, and those assignments followed me and followed my identification throughout my life,” they said. “Those assumptions were incorrect, and I ended up having to do a lot of adjustments since then”.’
Those ‘adjustments’ appear to be Kori Doty taking just enough male hormone tablets to sport a scraggy beard.
Clearly, charlatan surgeons have not yet adjusted anything ‘down below’ or in the nursing department to reflect the gender Kori thinks she is.
The Sun was not quite so bad, saying ‘its mum insists only the tot can decide what sex it wants to be’.
But the Sun signed up transgender Hayden Cross. Then the paper ridiculously called her Britain’s ‘first transgender dad’.
Daughter stands in the need of prayer
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation first ran the story about Kori Doti’s daughter. Naturally, CBC is just as politically correct. It quotes Kori Doty as saying: ‘I’m raising Searyl in in such a way that until they have the sense of self and command of vocabulary to tell me who they are, I’m recognising them as a baby and trying to give them all the love and support to be the most whole person that they can be outside of the restrictions that come with the boy box and the girl box.’
The Province of British Columbia refuses to issue Searyl a birth certificate with no gender on it. They only issued the health card so the child could access medical services.
Doty’s lawyer is one barbara findlay. That’s right, she objects to capital letters. Moreover, Ontario and Alberta are currently reviewing their policies to include a third, non-binary gender option on birth certificates. Doty herself is inevitably a member of the ‘Gender-Free ID Coalition’.
What will her daughter make of this nonsense when she is old enough to make decisions? Has her mother already cursed her with transgenderism? Or will she reject her mother’s words and her fantasy land? This daughter stands in the need of prayer.
Change coming to British Passports
Campaigners in the UK have already called for British passports to be allowed to include a third gender for people who do not identify as male or female.
The Government said earlier this year that it is reviewing rules on how gender is registered on official documents.
‘The UK already has strong laws in place to protect transgender people and we are committed to delivering further positive changes for them,’ a spokesperson said in April.
‘That is why we have committed to reviewing the Gender Recognition Act to look at ways of streamlining and de-medicalising the process for changing a person’s legal gender, as well as reviewing gender markers in official documents.’
The homosexual rebellion
The Queen enacted the Sexual Offences Act 1967 fifity years ago this month. The Act started the relentless promotion of sodomy and all things homosexual. Many of our readers might be tempted to say homosexual practice is just another sexual sin. However, it goes much further than that.
We object to all things sodomite on the grounds that homosexuality rebels against God’s natural order, that its activists clearly intended to destroy the family, that it brought appalling consequences of ill health on its practitioners and costs on the taxpayer, that those caught up in it would start recruiting the young, destroying lives along the way. Furthermore, we said the homosexual values of hedonism, crassness, self-absorption coupled with a disregard for self, others and the future would negatively impact on society as a whole. All that has come true.
At its root, homosexuality rebels against God’s institution of the family, found in Genesis chapter two:
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
The transgender rebellion
But transgenderism goes back a step. It rebels against God’s created order itself:
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.
We know about the sad condidtion of ‘intersex’, where external organs are typically at odds with internal ones. It is extremely rare, but the South African athlete Caster Semenya is one example.
She/he was born with the external manifestation of female genitalia, but with internal testes. Real women athletes understandably object to racing against the testosterone factory that is Caster. They simply cannot compete with someone awash with male hormones and built like a brick outhouse.
But we do not hear Kori Doti’s daughter has been diagnosed with intersexualism. God evidently made her, like Doti, genetically a girl. It is just Doti’s self-centred lunacy which is causing the problem.
Perversion of medicine
It is sheer idiocy for society to just go along with someone who decides his or her God-given gender is not satisfactory. Such people need psychological, emotional and indeed spiritual assistance to accept their God-given gender.
What they do not need is doctors prescribing powerful hormone drugs to stop the onset of puberty. That is child abuse. Nor do they need ‘reconstructive surgery. That is a perversion of medicine.
It is like me deciding I am Long John Silver and expecting you to fund my operation to remove my leg and buy me a parrot.
In no other area of life would we accept such a life-shattering decision to be made on the say-so of an individual. If I said someone had hit me, I should be expected to provide witnesses to prove my case in court. In other words, the court would require some evidence.
Here there is none. Indeed, any sensible society would say: ‘your own genetics witness against you.’
But we now allow an individual to play God with their own body. The UK’s Gender Recognition Act 2004 started the rot, allowing people to go back and falsify their birth certificates. Now we are at the stage of a Canadian mother imposing transgenderism on own daughter.
Welcome, again, to the post-truth world.
Isaiah 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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Ariana Grande wished fans would die
The singer Ariana Grande wished fans would die, according to 2014 report in the respected New York Daily News.
The paper reports: ‘While visiting a Manhattan radio station this summer (2014), the 21-year-old “Better Left Unsaid” singer should’ve left her thoughts unsaid.
‘I hope they all f—ing die’
‘“She did autographs and pics and was all smiles until she got into the elevator,” a stunned industry insider tells us. “And as soon as the doors shut she said, ‘I hope they all f—ing die.’ ”’
On 22nd May 2017, her death wish came true. IS-motivated Muslim bomber Salman Abedi took 22 innocent lives as he blew himself up at her ‘Dangerous Woman’ concert at Manchester Arena.
We ran a previous post asking why parents were actually taking their daughters (mainly) along to hear the potty-mouthed popstrel’s sexualised lyrics. A lesbian-themed launderette video still defiles her website home page.
But the new allegations must leave anyone with any sanity wondering why this young woman is still successful. If the reports are true, she despises her fan-base. Why do they turn out for her? Why do parents pay for tickets for her concerts? Don’t they even investigate her lyrics of lifestyle? A simple internet search and parents can easily explain to their children that she is nasty piece of work. Why don’t they love their children enough to do that and protect them from her influence?
The New York Times allegations are based, they say, on two separate witnesses. They are fueled by the singer’s reaction to the story. That fell far short of a denial.
According to the Daily Mail, Ariana Grande “said she had been ‘laughing out loud’ following the shock claims, in which it is said she blasted naive supporters in New York as soon as their backs were turned following a seemingly joyful encounter.”
Greedy
The Mail often runs stories which are not true, or are slanted, but here they quoted the NY Daily News and printed a copy of a tweet from the Ariana Grande twitter account. And indeed it said: ‘man some of these rumors which have been coming out about me lately have me laughing out loud – really can’t take ’em seriously’. That folks, is not a denial.
Also ‘coming out’ are reports that she charges fans $495 to have their picture taken with her. Such an amount is not out of the ordinary. But every other pop star has their picture taken with you alone. Ariana Grande has hers taken with up to six of her adoring fans together. That’s nudging three grand of dollars a shot.
New York Daily News reports: ‘Grande further dissed fans Monday by offering a $495 photo op for fans during her upcoming “Honeymoon Tour,” but stipulated that shoots are for groups of four to six people, not individuals.
‘“Really?” exclaimed one media industry tipster. “Bieber, Miley, Britney, Katy Perry all did individual pics when they sold these packages.”’
There’s a lot more about the sheer unpleasantness of Miss Grande-Butera on BuzzFeed here.
Ariana Grande says a lot about our culture
The ‘Love Manchester’ gig on Sunday 4th June should by rights be termed the ‘Exploit Manchester’. Ariana Grande is receiving exposure and virtue-signalling all in one. And making a few quid along the way, despite the charity emphasis.
But the character and nature of the centre of attention must focus attention on our civilisation. We have someone here who is crass, graceless, destructive, avaricious, self-centred, ill-mannered, foul-mouthed, indecent and got up like a prostitute. Far from telling her to repent and be saved by the blood of Jesus, the public and mainstream media fawn over Ariana Grande.
Parents encourage their daughters to watch her, to listen to her and to regard her as a role model. Then they will be surprised when their child comes out with foul language, insults them, dresses like a slag, turns lesbian or gets pregnant. Depraved, dissolute and disgusting hardly covers this culture. We are in decline, friends. We are just treading water at best, waiting for a stronger, militant people to destroy and supplant us. Now what could that militant culture be?
Ezek 39:4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands, and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 13:5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
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Prince William feted by LGBT lobby
The Duke of Cambridge has received an award from a wealthy group calling itself the British LGBT awards.
The LGBT group designated Prince William as ‘straight ally of the year’. It appears the Prince was duped into supporting the homosexual activists’ Trojan horse of ‘anti-bullying’.
He has even appeared on the front cover of a homosexual magazine promoting the cause. Neither Prince William nor his advisors seem to have realised the anti-gay-bullying campaign is just another gay propaganda tool. The Bible says:
Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
Activists use anti-bullying in schools, to recruit vulnerable teenagers. Firstly they sucker schoolchildren into supporting the gay cause.
Secondly, if a child experiences any kind of homosexual attraction phase in adolescence, teachers and other authority figures encourage them to see themselves as possessing a ‘homosexual orientation’.
Sarah Garrett, promoter of the post-truth world
Lesbian activist Sarah Garrett founded the British LGBT Awards through the Square Peg Media (SPM) group. She built up SPM from 2005 with her lesbian partner Linda Riley. Ms Riley remains as managing director.
Nevertheless, she nauseatingly refers to Ms Garrett as ‘my ex-wifey’. Sarah Garrett gave birth to twin daughters by a sperm donor in 2007, when she was ‘with’ Ms Riley. Two women can now be named on a birth certificate. Welcome to the post-truth world.
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
As well as the LGBT awards, SPM also started something called ‘Alternative Parenting Week’. Naturally, the Queen made Ms Garrett a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Years Honours List. We cannot be bothered to look it up, but the excuse was probably ‘Services to Diversity’. Sarah Garrett was no.36 on the Pride Power List at this time of writing. Linda Riley does not appear. Yes, Sir Ian McKellen is no.1 on the list and the ghastly God-hating Stephen Fry is no.2.
‘Progess on Equality’ means LGBT awards not needed
In a sign of the times, the National Westminster Bank is the major sponsor of the LGBT awards. The awards become the ‘NatWest British LGBT awards’. But if that makes you want to switch banks, Barclays and HSBC are also sponsors and Lloyds was slated for an award. The Independent newspaper is ‘media sponsor’.
Psalm 14:3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Sarah Garrett started up the LGBT Awards in 2015, when the Stonewall Awards closed down. Stonewall is the UK’s major sodomy-promoting pressure group. Their awards were notorious for including a ‘Bigot of the Year’ category. This author was nominated for that category but disappointingly lost out to Melanie Phillips in 2011.
Why did Stonewall end the awards? Stonewall Chief Executive Ruth Hunt cited society’s ‘progress on equality’ since the awards were first launched in 2005. So did Stonewall drop the awards and Sarah Garrett just pick up the loose ball? Did Stonewall possibly agree for Ms Garrett to take over? Or did she just muscle in? We shall probably never know.
Prince William in bad company
What is safe to say is that Prince William took care to absent himself from bad company on Friday night. He sent a video recording to the sequin-attired gay glitterati.
SPM will have agreed the award with the Prince’s office before he was nominated. It was a bad decision to link up with those trying to destroy the Christian faith and promote sodomy to schoolchildren:
2Samuel 23:3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.
Given that, it was a good call to stay away from the actual event. The ex-athlete and Kardashian associate Bruce Jenner won an award called ‘Loud and Proud’. Of course he won this posing as ‘transgender women’ ‘Caitlin Jenner’.
Diving flop Tom Daley and his twice-as-old American seducer Dustin Lance Black were jointly named as ‘influencers of the year’. That award shows this ministry was right to criticise Daley after the 2016 Rio Olympics. The diver was promoting his new gay lifestyle relentlessly. By the grace of God he flopped in his final dive. We can only imagine how great an ‘influencer’ Daley would have been had he won. The BBC now refer to Black as Daley’s ‘husband’. The two seem now to be gay-married. But if Black is the ‘husband’ what does that make Daley?
Royal sanction for gay propaganda
The gay anti-bullying propaganda campaign now has royal sanction. Consequently, Pastors and parents will need to be on even greater alert. What are the schools teaching your children? You need to find out.
Meanwhile, we can only pray the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will keep Prince George well away from the gay scene itself. But all their mixing with the ‘luvvies’ of the entertainment world at a time when the whole Establishment is promoting an anti-life lifestyle of disease, death and degradation will make that hard to do. Moreover, if his parents have totally lost their moral compass, the infant prince will be in real spiritual danger.
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Psalm 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?
Mrs May’s General Election Challenge
As the political parties write their general election manifestos, one of them faces a particular challenge.
The Conservatives might think they have an unassailable lead, but they could easily snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And that would put Brexit in peril.
NHI for the Self-Employed
Firstly., they would dearly like their manifesto to give them fiscal carte blanche. Their previous manifesto promised no rise in VAT, income tax or national health insurance (NHI) contributions. That may have been foolish, but it’s why Chancellor Philip Hammond came unstuck in March.
His March 2017 budget proposed to increase NHI for the self-employed. The Guardian found at least 18 Tory MPs prepared to vote that down. Hammond and Mrs May retreated.
But this time, if they take out the pledge, every Tory candidate will be signed up to the change. It follows they will be unable to object. But they may not have the opportunity. According to National Statistics, there are now over four and a half million self-employed in the UK. The trend shows not sign of slowing down. ONS say: ‘The level of self-employment in the UK increased from 3.8 million in 2008 to 4.6 million in 2015.’
The pensioners’ ‘triple-lock’
Secondly, the Conservatives would love to abolish the so-called ‘triple-lock’ with this general election. The coalition government began this scheme in 2010. It increases the state pension each year by inflation, the increase in average earnings or 2.5%, whichever is the highest. Maintaining the triple lock until at least 2020 was another David Cameron 2015 manifesto commitment.
Labour have already pledged to maintain the triple-lock. If the Tories take it away, they could alienate every one of the UK’s 11.8 million pensioners in one go. Nearly one million over-75s live in poverty, according to the BBC. At April 2014, the basic state pension was around £440 a year more than it would have been if it had been increased only in line with the increase in average earnings. So it matters to people. Almost 2 million pensioners may live in a household with a millionaire, but if self-interest or altruism kick in, Mrs May could be in trouble.
So that is twelve million pensioners and four-and-a-half million self-employed. Fifteen million is a huge voting block to alienate. There are just 44.7 million electors in the UK, according to ONS. You do the maths. The Tories stand to lose the votes of over a third of the electorate. And these are people who actually vote. Lose them and they lose the general election.
The Brexit dimension
The LibDems want to remain in the EU, or at least in the Single Market and Customs Union, which amounts to the same thing. Their leader, Tim Farron, is also promising a second referendum.
Labour’s shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer said today that his party would scrap Theresa May’s Brexit plans. Labour would unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU residents to stay before talks even start. Furthermore, he said the EU single market should be kept ‘on the table’.
Frankly, a general election yielding a Conservative majority is the only way of guaranteeing a full, proper, clean exit from the revived Roman Empire. Without putting trust in princes, Mrs May looks like she could achieve that. More EU jobs are dependent on the UK market than vice versa, but even World Trade Organisation tariffs are not actually that high across most sectors. Trade deals are good for trade, but companies manage to trade with foreign partners without them. There is no EU trade agreement with China, for example.
Pray for the General Election
We need to pray for Ben Gummer MP, the Ipswich MP in charge of writing the Conservative manifesto. Obviously he will be talking to party bigwigs, but they all need to realise what is at stake.
They may not realise that there is a massive spiritual battle going on over Brexit right now. Behind every material reality is a spiritual reality and we are aware of that.
Pray the Tories do not alienate voters by abandoning the NHI pledge and the triple-lock. The Chancellor will have to wait. The most vital matter today is Brexit. If the Conservatives mess up the election and put Brexit in jeopardy there will be massive public anger.
Easter Message
We also need to pray that Theresa May takes this opportunity to make good her Easter message. She clearly said people in public service should be able to share their faith without risk of losing their job. But they are losing their jobs. So dispel accusations of hypocrisy by making that a manifesto pledge.
She also said the UK should be standing up for Christians overseas. So stand up for the Christians of Syria, and support the Syrian Government which is their only protector. Stand up also for persecuted Christians in Pakistan, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, for example.
We should obviously like to see measures promised opposing the abortion industry and euthanasia. Reform of the family courts and the scandal of overbearing child protection is overdue. Crucially for the nation’s children, the Tory manifesto should stand against the fashionable transgender scam, especially in schools. That would cause outcry, but not fifteen million voters’ worth of outcry.
Finally, on foreign affairs, let us pray for a manifesto commitment of peace. Pray to have a Secretary of State for Defence, rather than – as we currently have – one for Provocation. Pray for a reset with Russia. Mrs May could pledge in this general election never again to destablise other nations. She could promise the UK will approach diplomacy with maturity. At the moment, Boris Johnson and Sir Michael Fallon seem like a couple of adolescent stags trying to prove their virility. The anti-Russia rhetoric is ludicrous and embarrassing.
Prayer and Email:
You can email your MP from the Parliament link right here to witness to him or her about content of the manifesto.
If your MP is not Conservative, you can even email Mr Ben Gummer MP with suggestions, or just to let him know you are praying.
Be sure every lobby group will be doing the same. Not the praying bit, obviously.
And do also pray for the other parties. On some matters, their general election manifestos could at the very least change the parameters of debate. Labour and UKIP could be better disposed towards peace, for example. There are plainly other issues attracting attention in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and Wales to some extent. But if you live outside England, or even overseas, please spare some prayer time for the overall UK picture.
Deuteronomy 3:24 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
1Samuel 12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: 24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
1Thess 5:17 Pray without ceasing.
1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Manchester United goes gay with Stonewall
Manchester United Football Club have struck a Faustian deal with homosexual pressure group Stonewall.
The Premier League outfit, sometimes known as the ‘Red Devils’, have announced a new partnership with the LGBT activists. ManU is the first, and by God’s grace the last, UK football club to sell its soul to Stonewall.
Although, to be fair, AFC Bournemouth have done their best. The Cherries sponsored a divisive LGBT event and fundraised for a gay youth group only last month.
Manchester United ‘a leader’
Foolish managing director Richard Arnold said, ‘Manchester United always looks to be a leader in everything it does. We are proud to be the first sports club to sign up to TeamPride.’
Well, the club is currently not actually leading the Premier League, lying sixth in the table.
Crucially, they are outside the top four who will qualify for first-rank European football in the Champions League next year.
Indeed, the club has a challenging run-in at this end of this season. They face Chelsea twice and travel to Arsenal, Burnley and Tottenham Hotspur. They also face possible banana skins at home entertaining in-form Crystal Palace, Everton and Swansea. This was probably not the best time to bring the curse of gay pride down upon the club.
Stonewall able to promote sodomy through football
Stonewall already has government departments, the forces, big banks and major companies in thrall. However, to promote sodomy through a football club with its legions of young fans is an activist’s dream.
Stonewall’s chief executive Ruth Hunt said: ‘Manchester United’s support means we can reach millions of football fans both here and around the world, to encourage them to do their part in making all people feel welcome in sport.’
But men with a sexual interest in teenage boys will find they are still not as welcome as they would like to be. And they make up a significant part of the Stonewall constituency.
Sexual abuse scandal
A sexual abuse scandal involving young male victims began to emerge in November 2016. Allegations firstly centred on abuse of young players at Crewe Alexandra and Manchester City, from the clubs’ associations with one Barry Bennell. The homosexual was previously convicted of sexual abuse offences in the US and UK. Subsequent allegations included former Newcastle United youth coach George Ormond. He was imprisoned in 2002 for offences against young footballers in the area.
Former Chelsea player Gary Johnson accused coach Eddie Heath of sexually abusing him. The Sun newspaper said he ‘worked as a football chief scout in the 1960s and 1970s and looked out for new young talent’. Of course he did. Allegations of abuse by coach Bob Higgins at Southampton and Peterborough were also made.
Manchester United has not been untouched by the scandal. Matthew Monaghan was signed by the club from Crewe Alexander. But the three years of sexual abuse he endured at the hands of Barry Bennell took its toll. Monaghan lasted only two months at Old Trafford as a professional, unable to cope with the crippling anxiety caused by the abuse.
Now Manchester United and England captain Wayne Rooney is encouraging any player who has been sexually abused during their careers to call a new, dedicated football helpline.
Rainbow Laces
Ruth Hunt went on: ‘It’s crucial for organisations like Manchester United to show they not only welcome LGBT people, but are active in leading the change. At the moment, many LGBT people want to take part in sport, either as players or fans, but the behaviour of a minority can make them feel unsafe, unwelcome or unable to be themselves.’
Leading what change, exactly? Turning the club into a recruiting ground for pederasts? There can be no doubt the club has many homosexual fans. Chelsea’s gay fans even have a little banner, but that club hasn’t been stupid enough to join up with Stonewall. What does ‘unable to be themselves’ mean? Use the club’s toilets for cottaging? Pick up boys in the car parks?
‘There’s so much work left to do to ensure that all LGBT people feel able to participate in sport’, concluded Miss Hunt. ‘We hope to see other clubs take Manchester United’s lead and join the Rainbow Laces campaign to make this a reality.’
The ‘Rainbow Laces campaign’ is where players are browbeaten into putting multicoloured laces in their boots. Of course the reality is sport is awash with gays and lesbians. However, homosexual footballers, if there are any and if they were to ‘come out’, would face considerable opposition, and rightly so, as footballers are role models for young players.
Huge responsibility
Manchester United will bear a huge responsibility if through their actions an impressionable adolescent boy, going through a teenage phase, were to decide he was ‘gay’ because an authority body like ManU promoted that perversion. Some parents might even stop taking their children to the club if the see LGBT rubbish around.
It’s a sad day for football, and a worse one for Manchester United.
1Kings 14:24 And there were also sodomites in the land: and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
Mark 9:42 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.
Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
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‘Woman’ accused of raping a man is a man
A ‘woman’ accused of raping a man is actually a man, Christian Voice has discovered.
All the press, including the Independent, and even RT, have reported the case in the following politically correct fashion:
Woman appears in court charged with raping a man twice
‘A British woman is to stand trial accused of raping a man.
‘Katie Brannen appeared in Newcastle Crown Court accused of two offences of rape after allegedly attacking the man in January in South Shields.
‘The 24-year-old, of Julian Avenue, Newcastle, spoke only to confirm her name during the hearing.
‘Barrister Gavin Doig indicated a not guilty plea and said he would be looking for a trial date.
‘An approximate four-day trial was listed for 4th December and a review hearing, which she must attend, was scheduled for 25th September.
‘Brannen was granted bail on the condition she must not try to contact the alleged victim and must live at an address on Green Lane in South Shields.’
Katie Brannen is actually Gavin
The wheels of justice grind exceeding slow in Newcastle. The alleged victim of this offence must wait nine months for the trial. But leave that aside.
This is actually not a case of a ‘woman raping a man’. ‘Katie’ Brannen is actually a man named Gavin. Moreover, he appeared at South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court in April 2013. He racked up a £27 taxi bill from Newcastle. Brannen fled on arriving home in Laygate, South Shields. He was charged and convicted as Gavin Brannen. But he appeared in court dressed as a woman. The court heard on that occasion that he was going through gender reassignment and wanted to be known as Katie. In addition, his boyfriend, Cory Elstob, 20, also of Laygate, South Shields, failed to appear in court in relation to the same incident. Magistrates issued a warrant for his arrest.
The 22-year-old was back in court In August 2014, says the Shields Gazette. Once again he was accused of dodging a taxi fare. This time he appeared under the name of Katie Brannen. The court heard he dashed off at the end of another taxi ride from Sunderland to Frederick Street, South Shields. On the second occasion it was a £20 bill the transgender fare dodger tried to avoid.
Gender reassignment will not address mental issues
Firstly, Gavin Brannen has obvious mental, emotional and dare we say spiritual issues which gender reassignment will fail to address. How much more ethical it would be for doctors to address the underlying pathologies in those with gender dysphoria rather than to administer hormones and embark on surgical mutilation. In addition, his homosexuality appears to be another part of the problem. No doubt we shall find out in December more depressing detail about how the alleged rape was accomplished.
Secondly, memories of the emperor with no clothes come flooding back when our politically-correct press persist in referring to Brannen as ‘her’ and ‘she’. Er, Brannen is a bloke, guys. It’s actually easy to find that out. We took just two minutes. He may have gone back to falsify his birth certificate under the Gender Recognition Act 2004. But be assured it originally said ‘Gavin’. Those midwives did not get it wrong when they tied a blue ribbon around his ankle. He can take all the hormones he wants. Surgeons can cuts bits he was endowed with by his Creator right off. But he will always be genetically a man, despite all his protestations to the contrary.
Jenni Murray says ‘transwomen’ are ‘not real women’
Meanwhile, arch-feminist presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Jenni Murray, has joined the fray. She wrote a piece on the subject in the Sunday Times.
Ms Murray took particular exception to a CofE minister who became a ‘trans-woman’, the late Rev Peter Stone. Jenni M recalls the conversation she had with ‘Carol’: ‘Her primary concerns, she told me, were finding the most suitable dress in which to meet her parishioners in her new persona and deciding if she should wear makeup or not.’
Her piece appeared under the heading: ‘Jenni Murray: Be trans, be proud – but don’t call yourself a ‘real woman’. Can someone who has lived as a man, with all the privilege that entails, really lay claim to womanhood? It takes more than a sex change and makeup.’
‘I believe I’m a woman’
She was immediately jumped on by Stonewall. Next, boxing promoter Frank Maloney pitched in. Despite being a man, he says: ‘I see myself as a woman and I believe I’m a woman’. As one’s children would remark, ‘Whatever’.
He was ‘shocked by broadcaster Dame Jenni Murray’s suggestion that people who have undergone “sex change” operations from male to female are not “real women”.’ His South London friends would probably say ‘Oh mate, get over it!’ Or words to that effect.
Frank appeared on ‘Loose Women’ (here’s the video if you can bear it) in May 2016 dressed up as ‘Kellie’.
He admits even his three children call him ‘dad in a frock.’ ‘They will always call me Dad’, he says. Again wittering on about dresses and makeup, he says: ‘it’s bloody hard being a woman.’ Especially when you aren’t, Frank.
Nigerian feminist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has also taken the Jenni Murray stance. She is opposed by a Nigerian man called Miss Sahhara. Apparently, feminists like Chimamanda are called TERF by the Miss Sahharas of this world. That stands for ‘Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist’. You wanted to know that.
Welcome again to the Post-Truth World
This is what happens when you cut a nation adrift from its Christian anchor point. Well, it’s not all that happens. For that see our publication Britain in Sin. It’s probably only the most contemporary part of what happens.
Welcome, once again, to the post-truth world.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
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Women’s Day: Feminist Envoy appointed
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has appointed its first ‘Special Envoy for Gender Equality’ to mark International Women’s Day (8th March 2017).
Joanna Roper will be in charge of spreading gender division and antagonism around the globe. The senior diplomat will be targeting developing countries in particular.
She will be tying UK foreign aid to whether nations bring in divisive women’s ‘empowerment programmes’. She will also be ‘working with ministers and departments across government, pulling together projects.’
Boris is ‘really enthusiastic’
According to Rosamund Urwin, writing in the Evening Standard: ‘Roper describes her new job as a “mission” and keeps using the word “exciting” about the work. Is this, I ask, the Foreign Office promoting an explicitly feminist agenda? She nods. “The Foreign Secretary was clear that he wanted to have a foreign policy that delivered for women and girls and to have policy work that has gender woven through it.” Boris, she adds, is “really enthusiastic — it’s something he takes seriously”.’
What about places like Saudi Arabia, Urwin asked. ‘How do you take a feminist agenda to a country that doesn’t believe women are equal?’ ‘It’s about trying to understand where you can start the conversation, understanding what will work,’ replied Ms Roper. It might also be about knowing when to stop the conversation, perhaps when they start to brandish their scimitars.
Joanna Roper is an insider’s insider
Joanna Roper graduated from the London University School of Oriental and African Studies with a master’s degree in Japanese Studies. She went on to the London School of Economics. The FCO mandarin even took a summer school on contemporary Chinese politics and society at Beijing University three years ago.
She started her career in the Home Office and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2001. The job she is leaving is Acting Director General for the Department for International Trade at the British Embassy in Beijing. Prior to that, Joanna was Director for Consular Services in the FCO overseeing 700 staff helping British nationals in difficulty overseas.
Film, theatre and opera
She was been head of the FCO’s China Department and has served in Tokyo and in Islamabad. She also spent ‘a number of years’ working on national security issues back in London.
Joanna is highly supportive of a ‘Women’s Day’ and is Chair of the FCO Women’s Association. Apparently, the highlight of that position was interviewing former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The American warmonger is one of Joanna’s heroines. Her eyes ‘shine with excitement’ when she talks about her. Joanna Roper was awarded a CMG (Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George – an FCO gong) in the June 2016 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Joanna enjoys travelling, outdoor pursuits, film, theatre and opera. Especially from the most expensive seats.
Roper’s husband: Charterhouse and Trinity
Joanna Roper’s husband, Thomas Drew CMG, is Britain’s High Commissioner in Pakistan. Of course he is. Drew attended expensive Charterhouse and then Trinity College, Oxford where he read Classics. Well, yes. He ‘came down’ from Oxford in 1993 and was quickly in the Foreign Office, rising to First Secretary in Moscow.
In 2002 Drew was found heading the UK’s unit on the European Constitution Treaty, which Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Tony Blair signed in 2004. After the Treaty failed he continued in the Foreign Office’s ‘EU Enlargement group’ until 2006. He directed Security and Counter-Terrorism at the Home Office then at the Foreign Office from 2008 to 2012.
Drew has been a Visiting Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, whose name says it all. Naturally, it believes migration ‘generates significant economic benefits’.
Drew responsible for destroying Syria
He was Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary William Hague from 2012 to 2014. In that post, Thomas Drew helped draw up the ‘Assad must go’ mantra and set in motion the devastation the UK caused in Syria by supporting the insurgency and the jihadist rebels. If you want to know why two hundred thousand Syrians have died, why businesses there have been ruined, property devastated, the Syrian Church all but destroyed and why Syrian refugees and migrants are flooding Europe, part of the answer is ‘Thomas Drew’.
Of course, one is awarded a CMG for all that, in 2015, ‘for services to British foreign policy interests.’ And now Drew is our man in Islamabad. Don’t worry, he’ll be ‘Sir Thomas’ before you can blink.
A place in hell
Joanna Roper says she is a great believer in the Madeleine Albright aphorism; ‘there is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women’. ‘Women supporting women is vital,’ she cooes.
Perhaps that place in hell is next to the one for those who spread division between women and men? Does it adjoin that place in hell for those who destroy people’s lives and homes and businesses for imaginary ‘British foreign policy interests’?
Make no mistake, at its very heart feminism – and International Women’s Day – is divisive. It whips up a feeling that women are disadvantaged in society compared to men. An opposite case could and has been made, but that still is not the point.
The point is that seeking things to moan about regarding the opposite sex is destructive of human relations. The great fault of feminism is its failure to see men and women as partners in a familial or social enterprise, let alone acknowledge the Biblical understanding of woman as an appropriate and dynamic help for her man.
The Bible records God saying: ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a help, meet – or appropriate – for him’ (Genesis 2:18). God there sets out a pattern for societal stability and economic progress.
Such a partnership, let alone the male headship it implies, has no place in feminism.
Women’s Day depends on conflict and whingeing
Feminists believe there is a cake of a certain size and women are constantly fighting men for their proper share of it. Borrowing the Marxist dialectic of continual change and struggle, feminists must always find some new grievance. Feminism depends on conflict and whingeing.
The ‘Walk in her shoes’ programme supported by Annie Lennox complained that women and girls are the ones walking miles for water. The subtext was their men are swanning around taking it easy. But they aren’t. They are out in the fields cultivating and harvesting, or building, or fixing something. Those women don’t need a women’s empowerment programme. They need boreholes in the village.
It is divisive not to say a complete lie to claim: ‘Women and girls worldwide bear the brunt of the burden of poverty’ as Miss Lennox did. That burden falls on a whole society. In real life men and women are in it together, drawing on their God-given roles to make the world, or at least their little bit of it, a better place. They allocate the jobs according to what has always worked best, not according to some ideological grid.
Sees moral inferiors in the developing world
Here we have the repellent spectacle of a well-heeled, pushy, elitist white upper-middle-class woman pontificating to those she sees as her moral inferiors in the developing world.
Let us pray that rich, posh westerners in Governments and NGO’s would stop trying to set women and men everywhere in the world at each other’s throats. And doing it with our money.
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Isaiah 3:12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
1Corinthians 11:12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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Anti-Transgender bus banned from Barcelona
A bus with an anti-transgender message in Spanish has been banned from Barcelona and not allowed to move in Madrid.
And now a judge has supported Madrid’s capture of the bus, reports the BBC. Jose Juan Escalonilla said the bus could not move until the slogans, including “if you are born a man, you are a man”, were removed.
The story made Breitbart, after which the BBC and RT took it up. Secularists, of course, are incensed. RT’s story gives more detail and pictures some anti-Christian slogans photo-shopped onto the original bus image.
Crude cartoon
In fact the slogans go further than that. The bus was painted in response to an advertisement placed by ‘trans’ activists featuring a crude cartoon of two boys and two girls, all naked, in which one of each sex is pictured with the genitalia of the other. In a sop to normality, the ‘boy’ figures have short hair, the ‘girl’ ones long hair. The BBC link above reprints the cartoon.
It said: “Hay niñas con pene y niños con vulva. Así de sencillo”. ‘Hay’ is ‘there are’, ‘niñas’ is ‘girls’, ‘niños’ is ‘boys’ while ‘Así de sencillo’ means ‘It’s that simple’. You can work out the obvious words for genitals.
Anti-transgender response
But is it that simple? The bus disagreed: ‘Los niños tienen penes, las niñas tienen vulva, que no te engañen”. “Si naces hombre, eres hombre. Si eres mujer, seguirás siéndolo”.
To help you translate, ‘tienen’ is ‘they have’. ‘que no te engañen’ means ‘Don’t be fooled’. Breitbart helps us with the rest: ‘If you are born a man, you are a man. If you are a woman, you will still be one.’
The bus was impounded under municipal rules against outdoor advertising. The judge did not find the bus went as far as being a hate crime. However, he said the bus was an “act of contempt”. Moreover, it was meant to “injure” the dignity of people of a different sexual orientation, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais.
Furthermore, Señor Escalonilla said the bus may not move until the slogans are removed.
Make yourself heard
The bus belongs to a Catholic group, Hazte Oir, but it was funded anonymously. The group plans to take it on a nationwide tour of Spanish cities.
Ignacio Arsuaga, the president of Hazte Oir, which translates as “Make yourself heard”, argued the group had a right to protest against “laws of sexual indoctrination” and had the right to freedom of speech, says the BBC.
The group contend Madrid City Council’s “kidnap” of the bus was “clearly illegal”.
Mr Arsuaga claimed the slogan on the bus stated only “a fact of biology that is studied in schools”.
The Mayor of Barcelona said the controversial coach would not be welcome there. He wrote on Twitter: “In Barcelona there is no place for LGBT-phobic buses. We want our children to grow in freedom and without hatred.”
Of course, in the rarified atmosphere of gender identity, anti-transgender people speaking the truth have no defence against a charge of ‘hatred’.
A flood of activism
There has been a flood of transgender activism recently. Firstly, the BMA banned the expression ‘pregnant mothers’ in case it offended ‘trans men’ Secondly, the SUN newspaper ludicrously described a woman called Hayden Cross as a ‘pregnant man.’ Then we reported a father-of-three working as a photographer at Bournemouth Football Club deciding he is now ‘Sophie’. Next, we had the ‘transgender doll’ from the USA.
Finally, at least to date, the girl who sang the US National Anthem at President Trump’s Inauguration has chipped in.
Just days ago, Mr Trump overturned Obama-era guidance allowing transgender students to use school ‘rest-rooms’ matching their gender identity. As a consequence, boys in frocks can no longer pop up in the girls’ toilets.
It turns out Jackie Evancho’s brother thinks he is a girl. So Miss Evancho, 16, now wants to meet the President and “enlighten” him on the transgender issue.
In return, he might bring in a singing teacher to enlighten Miss Evancho on where to find a bottom A flat.
Take a stand
But seriously, as if singing within your range is not serious, we all, from the President down, need to take a stand.
We all need to say very clearly that no amount of hormone drugs and no grotesque surgical mutilation will ever stop a man being genetically a man and a woman remaining genetically a woman. After all, if you seriously and honestly believed you were Long John Silver, would you really expect doctors to cut off your leg and buy you a parrot? Medicine is given because someone is ill. Doctors should heal, not destroy. Of course ‘Trans’ people have issues, but they need help to accept their body at a psychological, emotional and dare we say spiritual level. Some may even need deliverance. But none needs the surgeon’s knife.
Welcome to the Post-Truth World
In the UK of course, the House of Commons started the rot in 2004. Regrettably, they passed the Gender Recognition Act in that fateful year. Under it, men and women can now go back and falsify their birth certificates.
As a result, Parliament legislated a lie. So welcome to the ‘post-truth’ world.
Pray for the truth to triumph. Pray for righteousness to prevail in a world parting company with reality. You could pray the bus is released and continues on its prophetic journey through Spain. Pray it wakes us all up and starts a movement. Above all, never forget always to refer to people by their God-given gender, never by their assumed one!
Psalm 33:4 For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth.
John 18:37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
2Cor 6:7 By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left…
2Peter 2:2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
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Pray for Northern Ireland
Please pray for Northern Ireland and its people. They are going to the polls on Thursday 2nd March less than a year after the last election.
The Province elected a legislative assembly last May (2016). Sinn Fein pulled out of that in January. Martin McGuiness, Deputy First Minister, resigned, ostensibly over a botched energy scheme. Under the terms of the Agreement, Arlene Foster, the First Minister, could not continue. Elections were called and are taking place today.
Abortion in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is the only nation of the United Kingdom to which the Abortion Act 1967 does not extend. Nationalist MLAs (Sinn Fein and the SDLP) have constantly put forward motions to extend it to the Province, joined by the Alliance Party.
The last vote was in February 2016, where the Assembly defeated a motion to bring in abortion in cases of foetal abnormality by 59 votes to 40. In December 2016, the Alliance Party’s David Ford introduced the bill again.
Northern Ireland does not have ‘gay marriage’
The other major issue is same-sex ‘marriage’. In November 2015 the Assembly voted for the first time to legalise ‘gay marriage’. But the measure was blocked by the Democratic Unionist Party tabling a ‘petition of concern’. This effectively exercised a veto over the legislation.
It is crucial that the largest unionist party retains enough seats to be able to exercise its veto. It needed thirty members to table a petition of concern in the last Assembly, which had 108 seats. However, the Assembly has been slimmed down to 90 seats for the latest poll. But the petition of concern threshold remains at 30.
Safeguard the ‘petition of concern’ veto
The Guardian says the DUP is expecting losses in the wake of the renewable heat incentive. Obviously, with a smaller assembly, every party except the tiniest will expect losses. But it is vital, at the very least, that the DUP retain enough seats to table a petition of concern and exercise the veto.
So please pray to the Lord as the people of Northern Ireland go the polls during this day. Pray they elect enough righteous men and women to thwart the devices of the enemy. Thank God the Province stands against the Abortion Act and against ‘gay marriage’. Pray that situation continues.
Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.
Bristol Magistrates Convict Preachers
Bristol Court tramples on freedom of speech
A magistrates court in Bristol has convicted two Christian preachers charged with public order offences.
The case against two other men collapsed.
Justices of the Peace Mr Robert Stacey (Chairman), Mr Gerry McDermot and Mrs Josephine Ramsden gave judgment on Tuesday 28th February 2017. The justices rode roughshod over principles of freedom of speech set out in a catalogue of previous cases.
They imposed a fine and costs on each convicted totalling £2016.
Afterwards it emerged Robert Stacey is a high-ranking Freemason – Click here for our investigation into ‘the craft’.
The case arose over an outreach in Bristol city centre last July (2016). Four preachers were setting out the Gospel in front of John Wesley’s Chapel in Broadmead.
Out of the four, Don Karns had charges laid and then withdrawn. Having heard the prosecution case against Adrian Clark, their worships decided he had no case to answer. That left Michael Overd and Michael Stockwell who were found guilty today.
Public Order Act
The men were prosecuted under the Public Order Act 1986. This says, at Section 5:
‘(1) A person is guilty of an offence if he—
‘(a) uses threatening or abusive words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or
‘(b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening or abusive, ‘within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby.’
The Court saw a video of the whole event recorded by one of the defendants.
In the video Mr Overd described the crowd as ‘depraved’ because of their ignorance of God. He told them he had been like that himself. He said all mankind were liars and thieves, and he specifically included Mohammed and the Buddha in that. Allah was a false god, he said, and only Jesus Christ was the way to salvation. He denounced extra-marital sex and homosexual behaviour.
Crossed the line
But the Crown, said Mr Ian Jackson, prosecuting, held that these ‘crossed the line’.
Mr Stockwell told the crowd the ‘Thief comes to kill, steal and destroy’. ‘People were on their way to hell because of their failure to adopt the world view of Christianity’, said Mr Jackson.
The inclusion of homosexuality in a list containing thieves and drunkards also crossed the line into abuse.
But Michael Phillips, defending, told the court the list of sinners was in the Bible, at 1Cor 6:9-10. It was the same passage cited in the Appeal Court case of Alison Redmond-Bate, where important principles of free speech were laid down and her conviction set aside.
There, as in this case, said Mr Phillips, a hostile crowd gathered and the police were called to maintain order. There, as in this case, the preachers rather than the trouble-makers were wrongly arrested.
Witnesses gave false evidence
The prosecution brought four witnesses. Event Sales Manager Dimitri Lavallée, describing himself as a Buddhist, had called the police, by falsely telling them the preachers were making racist and homophobic statements. He saw no violence and heard no threats. He evidently did not like ‘peoples faith and lifestyle choices’ being criticised.
Witness Ahsanul Khan said he was shopping and engaged the preachers about Islam and the authenticity of the Bible. He agreed he enjoyed the cut and thrust of debate. But he did not like the preachers ‘saying all of us were sinners’. They were ‘discriminating us’, he said.
Alexander Walker could not remember the substance of any remarks but said some in the crowd were ‘incensed’ by them.
Finally, Lindsay Tamsin Powell said she was in Bristol’s Broadmead saw a placard about Islam and heard the preachers say gay people ‘would burn in hell’. A preacher told a gay person he was ‘disgusting’, she said.
She stayed for about an hour, did not see any violence, but said she was ‘upset’. Ms Powell did not to see people ‘hated on’. She thought we should be ‘nice to each other’. The preachers ‘told a Muslim guy he would burn in hell’, she said.
Mr Phillips asked Lindsay Powell to identify which man in the dock said gays and Muslims would ‘burn in hell’. She pointed to Mr Stockwell. But it was never said, Mr Phillips told her. ‘Disgusting’ was never said either. There was no anti-Islam placard. Her testimony was false.
All the witnesses accepted they had stayed around and anyone was free to listen or to leave.
Provoking violence?
Mr Robert Stacey, speaking on behalf of the bench, said the case revolved around whether the individual behaviour of the two defendants crossed the line between freedom of speech and public disorder. He said the case law set the bar very high before the law should intervene. Speakers had to ‘move into the territory of provoking violence’, he said.
The court heard no evidence of any violence. But the bench held the mere fact some disorderly elements in the crowd became restless meant the preachers had provoked violence. Mr Stacey, who had some difficulty in reading what he had written and pronouncing long words like ‘Catholicism;, said the preachers were abusive and disorderly.
In addition, they were motivated by hostility to religious beliefs and therefore the offence was ‘aggravated’. This was despite the statute law saying religious aggravation only kicked in when hatred was directed at members of a religious group, not at their religious beliefs in isolation.
The case was proved ‘beyond all reasonable doubt’, added Mr Stacey.
Bristol case highlights uncertainty
Mr Phillips told Christian Voice there was an automatic right of appeal to the Crown Court to be heard by a circuit judge, far more learned in the law than lay magistrates. Moreover, it is almost certain the convictions will be quashed there. But in the meantime, Mr Overd and Mr Stockwell have this conviction hanging over them and other preachers – and the law – appear to be in a state of uncertainty.
It surely cannot stand, as Mr Overd reported, that some police forces maintain the right of preachers to freedom of speech while others arrest them. There should be much better guidance both to police forces in the United Kingdom and to the Crown Prosecution Service.
Michael Overd and Michael Stockwell have appealed to the Crown Court. The last time that happened, the Crown’s case collapsed. It will again. What happened last time is still a good read! Street preaching is legal!
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Abortion ship blocked as pressure builds
Pressure to legalise abortion is growing world-wide, thanks to international funding led by financier George Soros, Christian Voice has discovered.
The billionaire is behind moves to repeal a pro-life constitutional amendment in the Republic of Ireland. He is almost certainly also involved with a Dutch abortion boat run by the ‘Women on Waves’ group.
The financier also funded the presidential campaign of Republican contender John Kasich. The Ohio Governor repaid Soros by vetoing the state’s ‘fetal heartbeat’ bill.
Guatemala Police block abortion yacht
Today, news broke that police in Guatemala have blocked a yacht offering abortion pills. Accordingly, Women on Waves, run by Dutch national Rebecca Gomperts, may not disembark the vessel. Police are also preventing anyone boarding. President Jimmy Morales deployed the army. A spokesman said it would defend “human life and the laws of our country” by preventing the group from carrying out abortions.
Reuters reports that the abortifacient dispensed ‘combines two medicines, mifepristone and misoprostol’. The news agency said: ‘It is more than 90 percent effective for women up to 10 weeks pregnant’.
The boat takes women out to international waters to administer the drug. It only docks in countries where abortion is illegal. But it is as much a publicity stunt as a ‘pro-choice’ facility.
Where does the money come from?
Women on Waves is coy about where the money comes from. Nevertheless, this document from a court dispute gives some details. It says Women on Waves ‘has received grants from organizations including the Global Fund for Women (United States), the Mondrian Foundation (Netherlands), and the Mama Cash Foundation (Netherlands)’.
To add to the mix, the Dutch humanist HIVOS group gave money towards a film about Women on Waves. Mama Cash, a source of money for anti-Christian projects worldwide, was also listed. The Soros Open Society says it provides joint funding with HIVOS. Where you find HIVOS you will usually find Soros. The world of antichrist funding groups is highly incestuous.
Moreover, a highly revealing website for women’s ngos in Kyrgystan confirms the point. It lists Hivos, Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan, Open Society Foundation and Mama Cash as donors. Joining them are the California-based Global Fund For Women, the American Hunt Alternatives Fund and Urgent Action Fund. The latter always pops up promoting abortion or feminism in the developing world. Lastly, the Democracy Commission of the Embassy of the USA and the European Union help fund the Kyrgystan feminists. President Trump and Brexiteers kindly note.
Campaign to repeal Ireland’s Eighth Amendment
Meanwhile, abortionists are agitating in Ireland. The Republic passed the pro-life ‘Eighth Amendment’ of the Constitution of Ireland in 1983 by a two to one majority. The Amendment gives explicit recognition to the right to life of an unborn child. Accordingly, it effectively introduced a constitutional ban on abortion.
But there is pressure to repeal the Amendment. Activists feel emboldened by the Republic’s vote to allow ‘gay marriage’ in 2015. They believe the times they are a-changing enough to secure a majority to scrap ‘the Eighth’. Nevertheless, there is hostility to them. Strangely enough, an LGBT group is among their opponents.
As part of the campaign, a group of girls who do not appear to have done much work are calling for a ‘strike of women.’ No doubt the mainstream media will give ‘Strike4Repeal‘ huge publicity on 8th March 2017.
But who is funding Strike4Repeal? LifeSiteNews reports: Soros’ New York City-based Open Foundations document focuses on repealing the pro-life Eighth Amendment’. Consequently, he will give ‘heavy funding for the Abortion Rights Campaign, Amnesty International Ireland, and the Irish Family Planning Association. Above all, Soros intends they will “work collectively on a campaign to repeal Ireland’s (Eighth) constitutional amendment.”
Soros fingerprints
But does Strike4Repeal receive Soros money? Firstly, any group like that needs money to carry out its campaign. Secondly, there are parallels between the modus operandi of Strike4Repeal and previous Soros agitations. He funded Pussy Riot and Femen who adopt similar poses (albeit bare-breasted in the case of Femen) and shock tactics. He was behind protests against Donald Trump’s inauguration. Thirdly, a Soros’ foundations document says ‘legalization of same-sex “marriage” presents “valuable and timely opportunities to advance the (pro-abortion) campaign.”’ Fourthly, it just has Soros fingerprints all over it.
One thing we can be certain of. Pro-abortion movements, like pro-sodomy ngos, do not spring up in countries out of the blue. They are rarely indigenous. There is always money from external affluent western ‘philanthropists’ behind them. If it is not Soros it is Hivos, or Mama Cash. If not them, Ford Foundation or Gates Foundation step in. Or Carnegie. Or the Rockefeller or Tides Foundaton. Similarly, the Atlantic Philanthropies may contribute. Or the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Prayer points
Please pray at this time particularly for Guatemala and the Republic of Ireland to stand firm against the abortionist assault. The Bible says: Proverbs 16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
We read that only Christ will bring in perfect government, but that does not mean earthly governments should not try to rule by God’s standards: Hebrews 1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
As to the antichrist NGOs, the Bible says: Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
The Bible says of king Ahaz: 2Chr 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
The passage is speaking about child sacrifice. Abortion is our modern version of it. Many nations including Great Britain are now polluted because of this shedding of innocent blood. Israel did the same, as the Psalmist declares: Psalm 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. So pray also for repentance in those nations who have legalised this abomination, for the slaughter to stop.
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AFC Bournemouth hosts gay youth fundraiser
AFC Bournemouth is hosting a fundraiser this weekend for a group promoting homosexuality among adolescents.
Three-course dinner
The event, raising money for Space Youth Project, will take place on Saturday evening in the Balfour Suite of AFC Bournemouth’s Vitality Stadium.
Tickets are a cool £60 per person and VIP speakers are promised. There will be an auction. AFC Bournemouth have stumped up some memorabilia for that. And of course the punters will be treated to a ‘delicious 3 course dinner’.
Space Youth Project, according to its website, appears to exist in order to advise confused adolescents that a transient homosexual phase is indicative of a permanent ‘orientation’.
It is in the business of messing up children’s lives, in other words. AFC Bournemouth funds this organisation through its ‘nominated charity’ policy.
Space Youth Project and AFC Bournemouth funded schools event
Only last weekend the football club sponsored an event at Bournemouth University promoting homosexuality to school children. Space Youth Project also gave money towards it. February has been designated LGBT History Month. It is a prime opportunity for homosexual teachers to engage in classroom-scale grooming.
Six Christian activists attended, making up a quarter of the audience. Blame for the low attendance fell on one Michael Tonge. He was accused of not organising it well enough. Equally, our man on the spot reported the organisers didn’t really want to publicise it too widely. They were frightened the public might turn up, he says. He also tells us it was a dreary event. Largely ‘academics talking to each other’, he says.
Among the speakers was one Jenny White. She described lesbian sexual activities in graphic and embarrassing detail. Homosexual apologists try to say homosexuality is just about ‘relationships’. Our mole suggests that, yet again, the Jenny’s contribution shows it is really all about sex.
Our man on the spot also had the joy of meeting a certain Bournemouth University lecturer. On a previous occasion, this man told him how he wanted to take a pro-gay message around every youth football team in the town. Thanks to the good sense of the great majority of coaches, this scheme never took off. The issue of a tiny minority of football coaches grooming young players for sexual abuse has of course been in the news recently.
The ‘curse of gay pride’
Also this coming Saturday, AFC Bournemouth’s actual football team are in action in the Premier League. AFCB travel to the Hawthorns to meet West Bromwich Albion. The Cherries have yet to win in 2017. Moreover, they appear to be heading into a relegation battle.
Out of the teams below them, Hull City are improving under new manager Marco Silva. Swansea City are on a roll, having won four of their previous six matches. Meanwhile, Crystal Palace are overdue for the renowned Sam Allardyce ‘bounce’.
In the corporate world, Tesco and Co-op Bank floundered seriously since promoting gay pride. Diver Tom Daley flopped at the Rio Olympics. That followed prayer that God would judge him for using his celebrity status to flaunt his newly-found homosexuality. Rugby player Gareth Thomas has fared little better since ‘coming out’ and promoting sodomy to children.
AFC Bournemouth have made, some say, bad management decisions. Bringing the curse of gay pride upon themselves by promoting Space Youth Project and gay events for schools may turn out to be the worst of all.
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Activism Marketing and the Transgender Doll
The world’s first ‘transgender doll’ is appearing at this week’s New York Toy Fair, according to the BBC.
There have been thousands of tweets about the Tonner Doll Company product. The Twitter-sphere is divided between those supporting and those ridiculing the stunt.
So how do you make a ‘transgender doll’? The manufacturers say: ‘This is an 18″ doll, much like that of every other child doll out there.’ ‘The doll itself is hard plastic and vinyl and no specific parts, much like all the dolls we have created …’ Pictures show the doll is wearing girls’ clothing.
Modelled on activist
In fact there is only one thing that makes this a ‘transgender doll’. Its facial features are modelled on a teenage activist born a boy, now living as a female. That is why the doll has a slightly masculine face.
Jazz Jennings shot to fame, says the BBC, after an interview he did about gender dysphoria. Popular US TV presenter Barbara Walters conducted the interview.
We learn from Jazz’s reaction that he is being paid royalties for the doll’s use of his image: “I love her. A portion of my proceeds will be donated to help trans youth who are struggling.”
He goes on: “Of course it is still just a regular girl doll because that’s exactly what I am: a regular girl!” Now 16, Jazz says: “I heavily insisted that I WAS a girl.”
But Jazz, you are not. Protest and insist all you want, but you are and always will be genetically a man.
And Jazz, the doll, Tonner Dolls and the story itself are influencing our cultural environment. They change our perceptions, little by little. Jazz hopes it will “place transgender people in a positive light” In other words, the doll is a campaigning stunt. And it can only add to the adverse pressures on children who may be confused or struggling with gender dysphoria (not liking your gender).
Virtue Signalling
There is another dimension to this. Recently Starbucks said it would take on 10,000 refugees. They made the announcement after President Trump’s ‘travel ban’. US taxi firm Lyft joined the bandwagon. It told the Twitter world it would donate $1 million to the anti-Christian American Civil Liberties Union. There are many more examples. Adidas and Nike praised the contribution of immigrant workers. AirBnB said it would give them free accommodation.
Getting away from refugees, card manufacturers boast of the trees they are planting. Kenco Coffee is training young gang members in Honduras to be coffee farmers. Dove portrays ‘normal’ women rather than models in its Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. Even back in 2015, Coca-Cola removed its logo from its in the Middle East during Ramadan. It replaced it with a message that read “Labels are for cans, not people.” Sales went up.
As we went to press, Apple did a bit of transgender promoting having previously joined the refugee ban protests.
For years we have had celebrities indulging in “virtue signalling”. Bob Geldof wanted to ‘Feed the World’. Singer Lily Allen apologised to a refugee in the Calais jungle. Bono too has been to refugee camps and organised ‘Live8′. He was rewarded with a seat at last weekend’s Munich Security Conference.
Activism Marketing
But we needed another term for brand promotion on the back of social activism. Mathew Dixon, director at brand specialist Hudson Walker, has now coined the term ‘Activism Marketing’ to describe the phenomenon. “It is clear a major change is afoot. Welcome to uber-politicised retail. Forget Sex. Activism is what will make or break a brand in 2017,” he says.
Dixon goes on: “The real challenge around activism marketing is how much to actually promote the philanthropic aspect to a campaign – how much can you tell everyone how generous you are, without it looking insincere? But likewise, what is the point of making a grand gesture or donation and not letting the world know about it? After all, a business has to sell product at the end of the day. The answer probably comes from how deeply embedded these values are within the company culture.”
Alex Holder, writing in the Guardian, is less generous: “Companies are now attempting to outdo each other with major acts of generosity, but there’s a catch; they’ll do good as long as they can make sure their customers know about it. There is no room for humility when a brand does a good deed.”
Starbucks and AirBnB “are helping refugees because it sells milky lattes and cheap holiday accommodation”.
Holder quotes marketing expert Will Fowler, creative director of Headspace. “Our activism is currently mediated by brands,” he says. “Brands are allowing people to pat themselves on the back without them personally having to sacrifice anything.”
Divisive
There is certainly a market into which activism marketing can sell. We were deluged with hostile tweets after our article on AFC Bournemouth. Many tweeters thought it was just great that a football club should finance a youth gay group. Many supported transgender photographer Steve ‘Sophie’ Cook. Those people are Tonner Doll’s market. Buy this doll instead of that doll and a liberal-minded parent can be rewarded with a warm, fuzzy, smug feeling.
But for companies, hazards await. An activism marketing campaign is of its nature divisive. You have to be sure your market is in tune with that activist cause. Starbucks probably have it right. They reckon not many latte drinkers care about the indigenous labour-base. On the other hand, they may have misjudged the mood. And it matters. Get it wrong, and you can alienate as many people as you attract.
We can but pray Tonner Dolls will find that out.
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