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    Homosexuals not born that way

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    Dr Lawrence Mayer
    Dr Lawrence Mayer: Homosexuals are not born that way.
    Dr Lawrence Mayer: Homosexuals are not born that way.

    A review of scientific data concludes homosexuals are not ‘born that way’.  Additionally, many other commonly held ideas about gender and sexuality lack scientific support.

    The report, by Dr Lawrence S. Mayer and Dr. Paul R. McHugh, is published in the fall (autumn) 2016 edition of The New Atlantis.

    It is titled Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences.

    It presents biological, psychological, and social science evidence to conclude:

    (1) homosexuals are not ‘born that way’,
    (2) they experience adverse health outcomes which can not entirely be attributed to social stigma, and
    (3) people can not have a innate gender different from their biological one.

    Dr Paul McHugh
    Dr Paul McHugh

    The authors are highly qualified and hugely experienced. Dr Mayer is the scholar in residence in the Department of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a statistics and biostatistics professor at Arizona State University.

    Dr McHugh was the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital for 25 years. He is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

    The authors considered more than 200 peer-reviewed studies related to human sexuality. They found that understandings of sexual orientation and gender identity as “innate” rather than fluid are “not supported by scientific evidence.”

    Acts 17:11 (The Bereans) were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 

    ’Sexual Orientation’ ‘not innate’

    In part one, on ‘Sexual Orientation’, the authors say:

    ‘The understanding of sexual orientation as an innate, biologically fixed property of human beings — the idea that people are “born that way” — is not supported by scientific evidence.
    ‘While there is evidence that biological factors such as genes and hormones are associated with sexual behaviors and attractions, there are no compelling causal biological explanations for human sexual orientation. …
    ‘Longitudinal studies of adolescents suggest that sexual orientation may be quite fluid over the life course for some people, with one study estimating that as many as 80% of male adolescents who report same-sex attractions no longer do so as adults … .
    ‘Compared to heterosexuals, non-heterosexuals are about two to three times as likely to have experienced childhood sexual abuse.

    ’Adverse health and mental health’

    In part two, ‘Sexuality, Mental Health Outcomes, and Social Stress’, they conclude:

    ‘Compared to the general population, non-heterosexual subpopulations are at an elevated risk for a variety of adverse health and mental health outcomes.
    ‘Members of the non-heterosexual population are estimated to have about 1.5 times higher risk of experiencing anxiety disorders than members of the heterosexual population, as well as roughly double the risk of depression, 1.5 times the risk of substance abuse, and nearly 2.5 times the risk of suicide.
    ‘Members of the transgender population are also at higher risk of a variety of mental health problems compared to members of the non-transgender population. Especially alarmingly, the rate of lifetime suicide attempts across all ages of transgender individuals is estimated at 41%, compared to under 5% in the overall U.S. population.
    ‘There is evidence, albeit limited, that social stressors such as discrimination and stigma contribute to the elevated risk of poor mental health outcomes for non-heterosexual and transgender populations.’

    Not ‘born that way’

    In part three, Gender Identity, they come down firmly against the ‘born that way’ mantra:

    ‘The hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human beings that is independent of biological sex — that a person might be “a man trapped in a woman’s body” or “a woman trapped in a man’s body” — is not supported by scientific evidence.
    ‘According to a recent estimate, about 0.6% of U.S. adults identify as a gender that does not correspond to their biological sex.
    ‘Compared to the general population, adults who have undergone sex-reassignment surgery continue to have a higher risk of experiencing poor mental health outcomes. One study found that, compared to controls, sex-reassigned individuals were about 5 times more likely to attempt suicide and about 19 times more likely to die by suicide.’

    ’Little scientific evidence’

    The authors express particular concern for the current fashion for putting children on gender reassignment pathways:

    ‘Children are a special case when addressing transgender issues. Only a minority of children who experience cross-gender identification will continue to do so into adolescence or adulthood.
    ‘There is little scientific evidence for the therapeutic value of interventions that delay puberty or modify the secondary sex characteristics of adolescents, although some children may have improved psychological well-being if they are encouraged and supported in their cross-gender identification. There is no evidence that all children who express gender-atypical thoughts or behavior should be encouraged to become transgender.’

    The idea that homosexuals suffer 'social stigma' is not really founded in reality, at least in the decadent West
    The idea that homosexuals suffer ‘social stigma’ is not founded in reality, at least in the decadent West (Photo taken at London ‘Pride’)

    ’Fix minds, not genitalia’

    Writing on the report, Dr Michael Brown said the authors of the report would be castigated rather than its findings challenged:

    ‘When it comes to Dr. McHugh, he committed the cardinal sin of opposing sex-change surgery during his tenure at Johns Hopkins Hospital, which is why that surgical procedure was dropped under his leadership. But he did this based on years of interaction with those who identified as transgender, interviewing them before and after surgery, ultimately concluding that, “We psychiatrists … would do better to concentrate on trying to fix their minds and not their genitalia”.’

    Luke 5:31 And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

    The report is already being attacked by homosexual activists and is unlikely to make it into the mainstream media.

    Its common-sense conclusions that there’s no scientific support for thinking homosexual feelings and attractions are innate, that the negative mental health outcomes of homosexuals cannot be blamed on ‘homophobia’, that homosexuals are not born that way and that “sex reassignment surgery” is not the best treatment for gender confusion would inform policy-makers, if the latter were in any sense concerned about public health rather than how their policies play with homosexual lobbyists.

    Prov 14:12 (cf 16:25) There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

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    Twitter-sphere goes daffy over Daley

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    Tom Daley with his bronze medal from London 2012. He was expected to win gold in Rio.
    Tom Daley with his bronze medal from London 2012. He was expected to win gold in Rio.

    In his book ‘Rules for Radicals’, Saul Alinsky said the establishment’s over-reaction to what we do has an impact greater than our initial action.

    We are the radicals now and we just illustrated that principle.

    My tweets at Twitter.com/UKCV about Caster Semenya and especially about Tom Daley’s flop in the diving have led to 20,000 hits on our website, agitation from homosexuals, some of whom have tried to sign us up to gay websites, and to this ministry being noticed by the modern great and good.

    To be honest, Daley has made so much of his sodomistic relationship with Dustin Lance Black that he cannot escape being, as the latter might put it, ‘called out’ about it.

    Apparently, Daley ‘can’t wait to start a family’ with Black, whom he describes emetically as his ‘fiancé’. Oh, please. Someone tell Tom that to ‘start a family’ without surgical intervention you need sexual intercourse, and two men can’t do that.

    They will have to get a girl involved somehow and the resulting child will be that of one or the other, not both of them. And how selfish is it of Daley to deprive a child of its mother?

    Daley won synchronised bronze on his own, according to the Daily Telegraph
    Daley won synchronised bronze on his own, according to the Daily Telegraph

    DALEY WAS GOING FOR GOLD

    Tom Daley was one of Team GB’s great gold medal hopes, having achieved bronze in London 2012.

    Just days before the Rio Olympics started, Daley said: ‘I’m going into this Olympic Games for a gold medal.’

    Well, he achieved a bronze with Dan Goodfellow in the men’s synchronised 10m platform.  Astonishingly, as Felicity Morse noted in iNews, newspaper coverage of the medal was all about Daley.

    ‘A quick glance at the front pages on Tuesday and you’d be forgiven for thinking Tom Daley took home a bronze medal for Team GB all on his own,’ she wrote.

    GOODFELLOW OUT OF THE PICTURE

    His diving partner was even left out of the picture completely in the Daily Telegraph. Goodfellow’s mother, Sharon, (@goodfellowshar1) tweeted to Nick Sutton, editor of the BBC News Website: ‘Aug 8 @suttonnick I am very surprised by this photo. Is it for real? I am Dan’s mum.’

    The Daily Mail left Goodfellow out of the picture as well.
    The Daily Mail left Dan Goodfellow out of the picture as well.

    The Daily Mail did the same: ‘Tom’s leap to Olympic joy’, they wrote, ignoring Goodfellow completely. It was as if Daley had done it all on his own.

    When it came to doing it on his own for real in the individual event, Daley was in the lead and in line for gold. After leading the field he crashed out in last place. The failure was described as ‘shocking’ by the Mail. So what scrambled his mind on the second day? My tweet provocatively suggested turning gay had not done him ‘any favours’.

    TWITTER-SPHERE GOES INTO OVERDRIVE

    The twitter-sphere went mad. The ‘gays’ were incensed. We were not ‘loving’, they suggested.  Two of the victorious GB women’s hockey team were ‘married’ to each other, they said.  Of course, the two women concerned  are not married, merely gay-married.  Another said Daley had ‘given young, gay people a role model’.  Not young people, just ‘young gay people’.  The ‘gays’ are very proud of Daley, his failure has hurt them and any criticism of him as a homosexual is beyond the gay pale.

    Oscar Wilde said there was only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that was not being talked about.  We were talked about for sure.  Adrian Hilton’s much-viewed conservative website Archbishop Cranmer pontificated.  J.K. Rowling tweeted.  Baroness Barker retweeted some LibDem candidate.  The Huffington Post reported. The US homosexual magazine Advocate got in on the act.  Even the UK-based Metro paper reported J.K. Rowling’s comments, adding that my tweet was ‘vile’. A tiny bit over-the-top, possibly?

    Caster Semenya comes first, as expected, in her women's 800m semi-final.
    Caster Semenya comes first, as expected, in her women’s 800m semi-final.

    CASTER SEMENYA CHEATED GENUINE WOMEN

    As to Caster Semenya, after her/his predictable victory in the women’s 800, she/he said about her/his critics: ‘Sport is all about uniting people and not discriminating. I feel sorry for them’.  Well, actually, women’s sport is ‘about’ discriminating against men, Caster, and your internal testes give you an unfair testosterone-fueled advantage.

    Intersex is a terrible affliction.  We have great sympathy for Caster.  But at the same time, in the interests of fairness and equity, she/he should not be competing in women’s events.  Caster should feel sorry, not for the critics, but for the genuine women she/he cheated out of Gold, Silver and Bronze medals, or even places, in the women’s 800m.

    Athletics chiefs, including the Court for Arbitration in Sport, should act immediately in the case, reallocate the medals and ban intersex athletes from women’s events.

    STAYING GAY IS A CHOICE

    Going back to Tom Daley, he was seduced into sodomy by an older man, not very long after the untimely death of his beloved father.  You don’t need a degree in psychology to work out what’s going on there.  But even now, he could repent of all his sin (just like we all have to do) trust in Jesus and walk away from the homosexual lifestyle, like so many have before him.  Becoming gay might or might not be a choice.  Staying gay definitely is.  And who knows, by transforming his mind (al la Romans 12:2) by the grace of God and by the infilling of the Holy Spirit Tom Daley might improve his diving as a result.

     

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    Sorry Caster Semenya, you aren’t a woman

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    Caster Semenya
    Caster Semenya holds the South African flag after testosterone-suppressing drugs pushed her into second place in the women’s 800m in London in 2012.

    P.P.S. Caster Semenya won the women’s 800m in Zurich in 1:56:45, as expected, on 1st September 2016, to win the Diamond League.

    P.S. Caster Semenya won the Olympic women’s 800m, as expected, in 1:55:28 on 21st August 2016.

    Tom Fordyce, writing on the BBC’s website, said Semenya’s Olympic win would ignite previous controversy about the athlete.

    So it proved, with Britain’s Lynsey Sharp, Canada’s Melissa Bishop and Joanna Jozwik from Poland all saying the testosterone-fueled Semenya has an unfair advantage.

    SEMENYA HAS INTERNAL TESTES, NOT OVARIES

    Semenya was sadly born ‘intersex’, with physical characteristics typically associated with both men and women.  Externally, one assumes ‘she’ looks like a woman.  But Semenya lacks a womb or ovaries, and it is the latter which produce the female hormones oestrogen and progesterone.

    Instead, according to Mike Hurst in the Australian Daily Telegraph, Semenya has internal testes.  These are doing what they do and generating the male hormone testosterone.  Women, especially athletes, do produce that hormone but at a maximum level less than a tenth that of the maximum for a man.

    Caster Semenya ‘self-identifies’ as a woman but might equally ‘self-identify’ as a man. It’s a matter of choice.  But men’s races would be more difficult for Semenya to win. Kenya’s David Rudisha won the 2016 Olympic men’s 800m in a time of 1:42.15.  Women’s races are an easier touch.

    DIAGNOSED WITH HYPERANDROGISM

    Fordyce says Semenya made no public comment after a gold-medal-winning performance at the world championships in Berlin seven years ago, and neither have officials. Semenya won the 800m by the biggest margin in history.  The athlete has tried not to release much information.  Nevertheless, details of internal organs have emerged.  It is also conceded there is a resulting diagnosis of hyperandrogenism, which leaves testosterone levels far in excess of the vast majority of women.

    Testosterone is the principal male sex hormone. It promotes among other physical effects muscle mass and strength. Women athletes do have testosterone, but at much lower levels than men. IAAF decided post-Berlin that an intersex athlete with the condition had an unfair advantage over the other women competing.  It is like an in-built performance-enhancing drug.

    Caster Semenya's physique betrays high testosterone levels.
    Caster Semenya’s physique betrays the high testosterone level of the intersex condition which gives her/him an unfair advantage over genuine women athletes.

    IAAF THRESHOLD RULE CHALLENGED

    Four years ago, the IAAF decided that if a competitor had around three times higher levels of testosterone than naturally occured in 99% of female athletes, that competitor could not compete.  Even that ‘three times’ threshold looks absurdly high.

    Caster Semenya took medication to suppress testosterone levels, and her/his results dropped back.  In London, in 2012, she/he had to settle for silver.

    Then another intersex athlete, Indian sprinter Dutee Chand, challenged the IAAF’s hyperandrogenism regulations. The Court for Arbitration in Sport ruled in July 2015 that the IAAF had failed to provide enough evidence that testosterone improved female performance.

    Dutee Chand, on the world stage, is actually not that fast.  All sorts of factors affect running speed.  I’ll never beat Kelly Holmes.  (And don’t throw Phil 4:13 at me either.)  But elite men as a group run faster than elite women, and that is down to their testosterone levels.  In its controversial decision, the CAS suspended the hyperandrogenism regulations until July 2017 to give the IAAF time to gather evidence.

    Caster Semenya comes first, as expected, in her women's 800m semi-final.
    Caster Semenya comes first, as expected, in an 2016 Olympic women’s 800m semi-final.

    UNFAIR TO GENUINE WOMEN

    In the meantime, Chand, Semenya and any other intersex athletes are free to compete without medication.  Fordyce writes that Semenya’s subsequent results have been remarkable. She has not been ‘remotely challenged’ in races since (July 2015), he writes.

    We can all agree Caster is made in the image of God and should be treated with due respect.  The real question is, should an intersex person with her/his characteristics be allowed to compete in women’s sports events?

    Should we just close our eyes to the immediate and obvious disadvantage of true women lining up against someone with male internal organs built like a brick outhouse?  Who should the athletics authorities be fair to?  Athletic events are staged around the Bibilical assumption that God ‘made them male and female’.  There is no intermediate ‘intersex’ category.

    LEVEL PLAYING FIELD DEMANDED BY THE ALMIGHTY

    ‘We separate men and women into categories because we want women to be able to win some competitions,’ says Eric Vilain, professor of human genetics at UCLA and consultant to the IOC medical commission. ‘There is 10 to 12% difference between male and female athletic performance.’  But he says IAAF have  been set an impossible task.  The article in which he is quoted also says women’s sports will not survive if the CAS ruling stands.

    Simple justice dictates if an athlete comes along with a genetic condition that does not fit into the male/female divide, then sadly he/she should only be able to compete against men, not against women.  To allow intersex athletes to compete in women’s events is unfair to genuine women athletes.

    Caster Semenya (in jeans) at her 'traditional' wedding to Violet
    Caster Semenya (in jeans) in a ‘traditional wedding’ to Violet Raseboya

    The word of God demands a ‘level playing field’: Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD’S: all the weights of the bag are his work.

    The same will also apply if a man-woman ‘transgender’ athlete demands to compete.  And there will be the same outcry from sexual politics activists.  Athletics has to take a stand now.

    CASTER MARRIED A WOMAN

    The story gets murkier.  According to South Africa’s Sport24 website, Caster Semenya ‘married’ a woman last December in what was described as a ‘traditional’ wedding ceremony.

    Semenya and her/his long-time girlfriend, Violet Raseboya, held the ceremony in Ga-Dikgale in the Capricorn District of Limpopo.

    The website says: ‘According to reports, Semenya and Raseboya got engaged in May last year.  Semenya was quick to dispel those reports, saying, “There is no wedding. Don’t believe the rumours you read in the news,” according to the Sowetan website.

    ‘However, according to the Daily Sun website, Semenya, 24, sent her parents to Raseboya’s family in Polokwane to negotiate lobola (dowry).

    ‘An insider revealed at the time that both families were happy to negotiate lobola, with Semenya’s family paying R25,000 (around £1,400).’  Dowry in Africa is paid by the man’s family to the woman’s.

    That fits, because sadly, Caster Semenya, you are not a woman.

    YOU CAN RUN ON FOR A LONG TIME

    One day, Caster Semenya’s times will be deleted and medals re-allocated.  That will be sad at a personal level, but the athlete is knowingly employing an unfair advantage over genuine women.  That is contrary to justice.

    As the song goes:

    ‘You can run on for a long time,
    ‘Run on for a long time,
    ‘Run on for a long time,
    ‘Sooner or later God’ll cut you down.’  (Johnny Cash – view on youtube.)

     

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    Prayer for Cabinet appointments

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    Permanent Under-Secretary Simon McDonald welcomes Boris Johnson to the Foreign Office last night.
    Permanent Under-Secretary Simon McDonald welcomed Boris Johnson to the Foreign Office last night.

    Last night, new Prime Minister Theresa May made six senior appointments, covering the three great offices of state (Chancellor, Home Office, Foreign Office), and created two new post-Brexit positions.  Continue to pray for her appointments today.

    BORIS JOHNSON

    The most astonishing appointment last night was that of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary.  Mr Johnson is said to have had wide experience dealing with foreign governments promoting the capital city as Mayor of London.  He is much better disposed to Russia than his predecessor and apparently speaks five languages fluently, including German and Russian.

    The latter will be especially useful as he pursues what we pray will be a more positive engagement with Russia than that taken by his predecessor.  (Although never under-estimate the power of the PUS – see the picture.  Sir Simon Fraser, Mr McDonald’s predecessor, has already said “highly professional people” will surround Mr Johnson as he takes on the role.  Sir Humphrey?

    Mr Johnson, like Theresa May, is pro-Israel.  The BBC reports: ‘In 2015, Mr Johnson had to cancel planned public events in the West Bank because of security fears after he criticised backers of a boycott on Israeli goods, and he has previously described Hilary Clinton – US presidential hopeful – as having “a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital.”‘

    British sanctions against trade with Russia must be ended and Russian efforts to bring stability to Syria supported.  We can pray that Boris, with a great-grand-father from Moscow, will have nothing to do with the posturing of the world elite which needs to see Russia as the big enemy and President Vladimir Putin as an aggressor and a threat.

    A more positive engagement will help as Mr Johnson tries, as we hope he will, to find the reasons behind Russia’s new anti-evangelism law and argue against it from an informed and friendly position.

    Write to your MP.  Ask him/her to congratulate the new Foreign Secretary on your behalf and to ask him to pursue a positive engagement with Russia, lift sanctions and let you know what discussions he has with Russian officials about Russia’s new anti-evangelism law, which, of course, concerns you.

    PHILIP HAMMOND

    I prayed yesterday and I am still praying that Philip Hammond would leave the government completely, because of his stance on Syria and Russia (see below).  Mr Johnson taking his place at the Foreign Office was a spectacular and unexpected part-answer to that prayer.

    Mr Hammond, with his ‘Assad must go’ rhetoric, showed himself both ignorant of reality in Syria, and in thrall to the US-driven elites of this world. I made a video on this topic last October with an emphasis on Syrian Christians: Syria – Sense and Compassion.  Do take a look – it’s less than 4 minutes.

    Mr Hammond was also part of ‘Project Fear’ with his view that it would take longer than World War II to leave the European Union.

    In the event, he has been made Chancellor of the Exchequer, which is a promotion.  Pray for him to have the great wisdom and vision that job needs at any time, but especially at this time.  I still pray that the Lord will intervene and that he will not be there long.

    MICHAEL FALLON

    Mr Fallon retains the post of Secretary of State for Defence.  He was part of the ‘Assad must go’ triumverate (with Mr Cameron and Mr Hammond) and the same arguments apply to him as apply to Mr Hammond.  It was a spectacularly ignorant and stupid line originated by William, Lord, Hague, totally driven by the desire of the US to destablise that country for financial and strategic reasons – Russia has bases in Syria.

    It has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and drove the migration disaster of last summer, in which thousands of Islamic State activists were able to infiltrate European Union nations.

    The United Kingdom needs a Defence Secretary able to stand up to the US in NATO and end the current policy of military build-ups and sabre-rattling at the Russian border.  Make no mistake, such things are planned by the elite for their benefit, not ours.  A top insider, Craig Breedlove, former head of NATO, was at the Bilderberg meeting in Dresden last month.  And a series of leaked emails published in RT show how keen he has been to push the Obama administration into agitating in Ukraine and aggression against Russia.

    I am praying that Mr Fallon has a change of heart and becomes a man of peace, whose strength is in the Lord.  His voting record is good on the issues that matter.  He voted against ‘gay marriage’ and against doctor-assisted dying, for instance.  But he voted for military intervention against President Assad’s forces in Syria.  if the Lord will not change his heart, will the Lord replace Mr Fallon as well.

    Write to your MP (a separate letter with a different date will be best) and ask him/her to ask the Secretary of State for Defence to pull British forces out of NATO’s aggressive current confrontation with Russia.

    AMBER RUDD

    The new Home Secretary was, like Mr Hammond and Mr Fallon, a ‘Remainer’ who voted against having a referendum at all.  She also voted for ‘gay marriage’ and, like Mr Fallon, for military action in Syria.  That vote, mercifully, was lost.  She abstained on doctor-assisted dying.  Her voting record goes back no further than 2010, because that was when she first became MP for Hastings and Rye.

    Amber Rudd stands in need of our prayer as she takes charge of this vital office of state.  We should especially pray against the introduction of intrusive surveillance measures and the use of real or imagined threats to curtail civil liberties.

    DAVID DAVIS

    Thank the Lord that the veteran parliamentarian has become the new Secretary of State for Brexit, or whatever it will be called.  This is an inspired appointment, as apart from a lapse when he voted for Masstrict, Mr Davis has been constantly opposed to the EU, as he has to measures like ‘gay marriage’.

    The ‘kings of the earth’ are even now working out ways to prevent Brexit.  Both US Secretary of State John Kerry and Tony Blair have said it could be ‘reversed’ or walked back’.

    So Mr Davis will need much prayer as he negotiates the UK’s exit with the European Unions’s Commission and/or Council of Ministers (they are currently fighting a turf war over which will handle the talks).  He will need to invoke Article 50 quickly and be unafraid to pull out of the Single Market completely if that requires accepting freedom of movement.

    Freedom of movement was perhaps the biggest factor persuading people to leave the EU, because of the problems it brings.  It is not a matter of hospitality, it is a matter of social cohesion and security, as I showed in this video.

    Mr Davis should remember the four reasons why the Germans will back down: Mercedes, Audi, Volkswagon and BMW.  Other countries trade with the EU without being in the Single Market, the USA and India, to name just two.

    Write to your MP (separate letter!) and ask him/her to congratulate the Secretary of State for Brexit on his appointment and wish him well.  Ask your MP to ask him to invoke Article 50 immediately and to be ready to leave the Single Market completely if freedom of movement is demanded as a condition of remaining in it.

    LIAM FOX

    Liam Fox has been appointed Secretary of State for International Trade, a new and significant office in Theresa May’s new Cabinet.

    Dr Fox will be responding to nations across the world who are now queuing up to do trade deals with the UK.  He reputedly knows the United States very well, but Commonwealth countries are obvious new trading partners.  It was encouraging to see Ghana preparing a trade delegation.  The European Union has caused much hardship across Africa and developing countries in other parts of the world by dumping food aid, knowingly depressing prices and impoverishing local farmers.

    There is an opportunity here for us to do more for fair trade than just buying tea and coffee.  We should also pray that overseas aid becomes much smarter.  I’m anxious to be in touch with those who know best how fair trade principles could form the bedrock of Dr Fox’s approach, and let us pray that he will have great success.  Let us pray that Brexit re-establishes Britain as a newly-free, global, outward-looking trading nation, one built this time on fairness and justice, not on deception and exploitation.

    Write to your MP (yet another separate letter!) and ask him/her to congratulate the Secretary of State for International Trade on his appointment and wish him well in it.  Ask your MP to ask the Secretary of State how fair trade principles will inform his dealings with developing nations.

    LASTLY

    Lastly, look out for chattering classes and the Twitter-sphere expressing ‘alarm’ and ‘concern’ over the elevation of Boris, David Davis and Dr Fox.  Such will mean they are good appointments!  We should never put our trust in princes, but Theresa May (be sure to put an ‘h’ in her name) has shown she was true when she said ‘Brexit means Brexit’.  Those of our readers who supported Remain should also be praying the Lord uses the Brexit vote and this new administration for his glory and to advance his Kingdom on earth.

    Mrs May will be familiar with these two prayers from the Anglican Morning Prayer service in the Book of Common Prayer.  They can apply to an individual or a nation and they spoke to me vividly this morning:

    A Collect for Peace.
    O God, who art the author of peace and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom; Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies; that we, surely trusting in thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

    A Collect for Grace.
    O Lord, our heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day; Defend us in the same with thy mighty power; and grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger; but that all our doings, being ordered by thy governance, may be righteous in thy sight; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

     

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    Sodomite Superhead Stripped of Schools

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    Liam Nolan addresses the Conservative Party Conference, possibly in 2012.
    Liam Nolan addresses the Conservative Party Conference, possibly in 2012.

    A much feted self-styled ‘superhead’ will be stripped of the schools in Birmingham under his command following the discovery of financial mismanagement, but is extraordinarily going to keep his job as headteacher, according to reports.

    Liam Nolan pleaded with the General Teaching Council to keep his job after a conviction for a homosexual offence at the Midlands Sandwell Valley beauty spot in 2007.  Three of his school governors quit in protest. Later Nolan invited Sir Ian McKellen to promote sodomy at the original Perry Beeches school in Great Barr, Birmingham in 2009, leading to a Christian Voice street witness outside the school.

    Nolan subsequently fronted a Stonewall conference encouraging teachers to follow his example.  It was called ‘Education for all’ with the subtitle ‘challenging homophobia and supporting young people.’

    The Guardian reports Nolan and his Perry Beeches Academies Trust will be stripped of the five academies he runs as chief executive.

    The Education Funding Agency investigated only after whistleblower allegations about the financial connection between Nolan and a supply company, Nexus Schools Ltd.  The EFA Report found ‘Nexus Schools Ltd’ received £1.3m from the Government and paid another company, ‘Liam Nolan Ltd’, £160,000 over two years to add to his £120,000 per year salary as head teacher.

    The Birmingham Mail reports that Liam Nolan has stepped down as the Academies Trust’s chief executive following a call from Birmingham Councillor Brigid Jones for the trustees to consider their positions.

    David Cameron opening Liam Nolan's Perry Beeches III Academy.
    David Cameron opening Liam Nolan’s Perry Beeches III Academy.

    But the same paper later reported that Nolan was set to keep his job as headteacher.

    The BBC reports that politicians from Michael Gove, as Education Secretary, and David Cameron praised Liam Nolan.  The Prime Minister even invited the stalwart Labour supporter to address the Conservative Party Conference then opened his third academy, Perry Beeches III.  This was despite their knowing about Nolan’s promotion of sodomy at Perry Beeches and his conviction for outraging public decency by a jury at Wolverhampton Crown Court in June 2007 where he was fined £1,000 with £1,500 costs.  The man he was with was fined £250.  At the time Nolan described himself as ‘gay’ and said he was ‘in a relationship’.

    Nolan’s willingness to engage with the academy programme made him the Government’s poster-boy.  But now that his sexual immorality has spilled over into financial mismanagement, critics are pointing out that the academies idea is open to anyone who wants to make a quick buck to take advantage of the system.

     

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    Schools gay propaganda in RE

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    Councillor Tony Orgee
    Councillor Tony Orgee

    Children in Cambridgeshire are to indoctrinated with pro-sodomy propaganda following a decision by the local Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE), chaired by Cllr Tony Orgee (left).

    The leaflet will promote the teaching of ‘gender identity’ and ‘sexuality’ in religious education in the County.

    Both are ‘protected’ characteristics under the Equality Act 2010 and public authorities in England and Wales, which includes county councils responsible for education, have a duty under Section 149 of the Act to promote them.

    The Committee, which includes a Mormon and a Muslim, approved the leaflet at its meeting on 4th February but has not yet openly published it.  It was due to be discussed at pro-sodomy charity Stonewall’s first inter-faith seminar on 25th February and the news report said it ‘contains advice about handling issues around
    gender identity and sexuality in RE, together with a range of resources for teachers’.

    SACRE chairman and Cambridgeshire County Councillor Tony Orgee (Conservative) said: “Religion is about how people live their lives and raises questions about what it is to be human. It encompasses a diversity of views about the ethical ideals that guide human behaviour and why these are followed.

    “All religions therefore present a range of beliefs and practices relevant to issues relating to human sexuality
    and gender identity. This new leaflet crystallizes the importance of adhering to these values – it will be an invaluable teaching aid.”

    What Cllr Orgee did not say is that religion is first and foremost about how people search for whatever they see as divine and that not one world religion endorses sodomy as a legitimate behaviour.

    Homosexual Councillor Ed Cearns
    Homosexual Councillor Ed Cearns

    Tory-run Cambridgeshire County Councillor Ed Cearns, Liberal Democrat, a fellow member of SACRE, added: “I am delighted this leaflet has been produced to coincide with LGBT history month.

    “As a former RE teacher, I understand … the vital work of fostering an understanding of the harm caused by homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying.”

    One would have thought that any bullying was harmful, but propaganda such as the SACRE leaflet is not about stopping bullying – it may even add to it – but about promoting perversion.

    Cllr Cearns is himself homosexual.  He was on the Rainbow Radio show on http://cambridge105.fm/ on the 20th of this month talking about ‘being gay in the council and LGBT History Month’ (which is February, of course – you knew that).

    Interestingly, Cllr Cearns said publishing the leaflet was part of something called “the Stonewall Education Index”.  He meant its ‘Education Equality Index‘ which is a league table of education authorities which are doing the most to promote perversion.  Cambridgeshire County Council is third, after Bath & North East Somerset Council and Hertfordshire County Council.  All three are Conservative-controlled.

    Cllr Cearns is a very committed gay activist.  He popped up when the LGBT ‘history month’ bandwagon rolled into Cambridge at the end of last year, complete with ‘lessons for local primary school children and workshops for youth workers, faith workers and librarians.’

    And when Cambridgeshire County Council failed to fly the homosexual ‘rainbow’ flag from Shire Hall in February 2014, it was Cllr Cearns who led the complaints.  He was rewarded when the flag was flown for the first time this year.  No doubt an OBE will follow in due course, for ‘services to diversity’.

    Councillor Robin Page
    Councillor Robin Page

    One person who will receive no such honour, nor would he welcome it, is farmer, journalist and political activist Robin Page.  The former ‘one man and his dog’ television presenter is also a fiercely independent councillor for South Cambridgeshire District Council.  When that outfit flew the rainbow flag in February 2013, he blogged:

    “The event is pathetic and makes the council a PC laughing stock. In fact it shows a lack of respect to the rest of society.  What about those who are celibate – who have achieved much throughout history – is a flag being raised for them?

    “Then of course we could have a flag celebrating vegans? And what about a flag celebrating the achievements of all those with irritable bowel syndrome?  I want to be part of a community – not a division in a conglomerate of divisions.”

    Conservative Tony Orgee, who as well as being on the Cambridgeshire SACRE as a County Councillor is also chair of South Cambs, described Mr Page’s comments as “very disappointing”.  There’s a surprise.

     

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    Men ‘have better sense of direction’

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    PhD Candidate Carl Pintzka
    Researcher and PhD candidate Carl Pintzka

    Men have a better sense of direction than women, a Norwegian study has found.

    Men consistently performed better than women during way-finding tasks in a virtual environment which they had just learned.

    Using fMRI brain-scanning, the researchers saw that men in the study took several shortcuts, oriented themselves more using cardinal directions and used a different part of the brain than the women in the study.

    To find out if the difference was down to cultural factors or sex-specific hormones, the researchers gave some of the women a small dose of testosterone under their tongue. Several of them were then able to orient themselves better in the four cardinal directions.

    “Men’s sense of direction was more effective. They quite simply got to their destination faster,” says Carl Pintzka, a medical doctor and PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)’s Department of Neuroscience.

    The men and women studied a virtual maze
    The men and women studied a virtual maze and were then set tasks. Men’s routes in blue, women’s routes in red. Credit: NTNU

    Eighteen men and 18 women first took an hour to learn the layout of a maze before the scanning session began. In the MRI scanner, they were given 30 seconds for each of the 45 navigation tasks. One of the tasks, for example, was to “find the yellow car” from different starting points.

    The men solved 50 per cent more of the tasks than the women.

    Pintzka concludes that women and men have different navigational strategies. Men, he found, use cardinal directions during navigation to a greater degree.

    “If they’re going to the Student Society building in Trondheim, for example, men usually go in the general direction where it’s located. Women usually orient themselves along a route to get there, for example, ‘go past the hairdresser and then up the street and turn right after the store’,” he says.

    The study shows using cardinal directions is more efficient because it is a more flexible strategy. The destination can be reached faster because the strategy depends less on where you start.

    The fMRI brain images showed both men and women using large but different areas of the brain when they navigate. The men used the hippocampus more, whereas women used their frontal areas to a greater extent.
    “That’s in sync with the fact that the hippocampus is necessary to make use of cardinal directions,” says Pintzka.

    Depressingly, he has to explain his findings in evolutionary terms. He suggests:

    'Men are faster at finding the house' - Credit - fololia
    ‘Men are faster at finding the house’ – fotolia

    “In ancient times, men were hunters and women were gatherers. Therefore, our brains probably evolved differently.”

    What if our brains were designed differently by Almighty God and that men and women have simply decided to do those things for which we are better suited for our mutual benefit?

    It is surely less plausible that our brains followed our activities than that our activities followed our brains.

    Interestingly, other researchers have documented that women are better at finding objects locally than men. “In simple terms, women are faster at finding things in the house, and men are faster at finding the house,” Pintzka says.

    The results support the Biblical model that men and women have complementary strengths and work together rather than the feminist doctrine popular in government and the broadcast media that the sexes have identical abilities and are in competition with each other.

    The directional sense findings are part of Pintzka’s doctoral thesis on how the brain functions differently in men and women. Let’s pray his funding continues.

    Cornwall Council in discrimination case

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    Exeter County Court

    A local council has won a secret trial after being sued for discrimination by a father under the Human Rights Act.

    The father, whom we cannot name, is opposed to same-sex marriage and abortion and is suing Cornwall Council after its social services department intervened to prevent contact between him and his son, now five.

    He alleges that they discriminated against him on the grounds of his beliefs after a social worker interrogated him about his opposition to abortion and gay-marriage.

    COURT HEARING OUTCOME

    A court hearing held on 23rd October decided that the case should be held at its substantive hearing in December in secret rather than in open court.  Cornwall Council wanted the hearing to be in secret.  The father, known to this ministry, wanted it to be heard in the open, so that the media, including Christian Voice, could report on it.

    The father says the social worker voiced ‘concerns’ to do with his faith that were ‘insurmountable’ and told him that because of his unacceptable ‘beliefs’, openly posted on a blog, it was the social worker’s ‘duty’ to ensure that he never saw his son again.  He has not seen his son for two and a half years.

    The father, who is separated from the child’s mother, initially referred his son to social services because of concerns that the mother was not keeping to a written agreement about contact.

    PUBLIC SUPPORT

    At previous hearings the father defeated two applications to strike out his claim, which began in March 2014, and two applications for summary judgment against him.

    The father told Christian Voice: ‘Whether you agree with the social worker’s decision or not, it is surely wrong that such an important issue as this should be decided in a secret trial.  The issue to be decided is whether social workers should be allowed to deprive a child of one of his parents because that parent holds strong moral Christian beliefs which differ from those of the Government.’

    There was a good degree of support from the public, particularly from the claimant’s church.

    JUDGE CONSIDERED REPRESENTATIONS

    The circuit judge hearing the application was His Honour Judge Cotter QC. HHJ Cotter heard, considered, then dismissed representations from the media.

    READ: Exod 23:6; Lev 19:15; Deut 1:17; 1Kings 3:28; 1Chron 18:14; Job 37:23; Psalm 82:3, 89:14; Prov 31:4-5; Isa 59:4,14; Ezek 45:9; John 7:24; Acts 23:35; Romans 13:4; Rev 20:4.

    PRAY: that justice may be done and may be seen to be done in this case.  Pray also for wisdom for the father and for Christian Voice in the matter of an appeal.

     

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    Evangelist in Court

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    Northampton Magistrates Court where Bill edwards is on trial on 19th and 20th November 2015
    Northampton Magistrates Court where evangelist Bill Edwards is on trial twice this month: on 19th and 20th November 2015

    STOP PRESS 20/11/2015:

    CASE ON THURSDAY 19th DROPPED!

    CASE ON FRIDAY 20th DROPPED IN RETURN FOR BIND-OVER ORDER!

    PRAISE THE LORD!

    BUT WHY WERE THESE CASES EVER BROUGHT?

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    Another Christian evangelist is in court on alleged public order offences.

    Bill Edwards, well-known to this ministry for his tireless efforts for the Gospel, is to face magistrates in Northampton twice this month, on 19th November and then again the following day, 20th November.  The cases will both be heard at 10.00am at Northampton Magistrates Court, Campbell Square, Northampton, NN1 3EB.  Both charges have been laid under the Public Order Act 1986.

    PRAYER IMPORTANT

    Mr Edwards has told Christian Voice he values prayer more than actual physical presence.  He said: ‘Obviously I will be glad of support by Christians at either of the court cases but it is a very long way for folk like you to come and prayer for the Lord’s help is, of course, more important.’

    Despite that, members local to Northampton will surely want to support him, and those who can reach the court will wish to demonstrate how serious their prayers are by being there in person.

    LOCAL MP COMPLAINED

    The first charge relates to a peaceful protest Bill Edwards carried out outside the house of local MP Andrea Leadsom (Conservative) in the village of Slapton on 18th July.

    Mr Edwards said: ‘I did not expect to be arrested and planned after an hour to move to another village for door to door evangelism. I did try to inform Northamptonshire Police beforehand about the protest but was unable to get through in time before I left home.  I told Mrs. Leadsom why I was there and spoke to her husband and children and their friends.’  He is charged under Sections 4A and 5 of the Public Order Act.

    ARRESTED AT SCHOOL

    The following day the evangelist is charged under Sections 5 and 6 of the Act. Mr Edwards told us: ‘The second arrest and charge occurred after I carried a banner against homosexuals outside a primary school in Brackley on July 21st. There was a great deal of anger and physical opposition from certain people and again I was surprised with the outcome.  Both of my banners employed words of Scripture.’

    A personal note:

    Evangelists like Bill Edwards are rare.  They often do things others of us wouldn’t.  I should probably content myself with writing to my MP or asking to lobby him at the House of Commons.  I am not sure, even if he refused to meet me, that I should protest outside his home.  If I did, of course, I should expect him to have a thicker and more avuncular skin than the average person and should be extremely surprised if he were to call the police.

    As for the school, I know how liberal many parents are these days and have myself been shouted at when trying to encourage parents to protect their children from homosexual propaganda.  In that situation, one really would expect the school’s head teacher to call the police, but would expect the police to defuse the situation on their arrival rather than start arresting people.

    On the other hand, for some years now the police have been arresting evangelists for so-called ‘homophobic’ language, to the extent that even the National Secular Society became embarrassed by the negative publicity around assaults on our freedom of speech and joined the Christian Institute to call for a change in the law.

    But despite that high-profile joint campaign by the National Secular Society and the Christian Institute to draw the teeth of the Public Order Act by removing the word ‘insulting’ from the list of behaviours it made illegal, nothing has actually changed.  The police appear to carrying on with ‘business as usual’.

    That is why, although Bill Edwards’ approach might differ from my own (although I too was arrested under the same Act of Parliament for witnessing outside Cardiff ‘Mardi Gras’ in 2006), I am honoured to stand with him and to show the magistrates that at least one of his brothers in Christ supports him enough to turn up on the day.

    READ: Deut 31:6; Psalm 103:6; Jer 1:17, 5:14; Luke 12:11-12; Acts 4:18-20; Rom 10:8; 3John 1:17.

    PRAY: Thank the Lord for evangelists who are prepared to risk arrest for preaching the Gospel. Pray that Bill Edwards finds favour with the magistrates.  Pray for his solicitor, Michael Phillips, to be a good and effective advocate.  Pray for much support from local Christians.  Pray for Bill Edwards, as he says, ‘that the Lord will be glorified whatever the outcomes … and that I may witness a good confession against the homofascism and antichrist attitude of the authorities of our country.’

    SUPPPORT: Come to Northampton Magistrates Court, Campbell Square, Northampton, NN1 3EB at 10.00am on Thursday 19th and Friday 20th November.

     

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    What is the Gender Pay Gap?

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    David Cameron working out the gender pay gap.
    David Cameron working out the gender pay gap.

    The UK Government is going to force firms to reveal the bonuses they pay to men and to women.

    Apparently, in the UK, a woman on average earns around 80p for every £1 earned by a man. The Government will also make it a legal requirement for every company with more than 250 employees to publish the difference between the average pay of their male and female employees.

    Earlier this year, business hit a target for the percentage of women on company boards. That was set at twenty-five percent by government adviser Lord Davies. Be in no doubt he will want that to go to fifty percent.

    Our Prime Minister, Mr Cameron, has said: “You can’t have true opportunity without equality. There is no place for a pay gap in today’s society and we are delivering on our promises to address it.”

    Maria Miller MP, who chairs the Commons Women and Equalities Committee chimed in, launching an inquiry by her committee into government strategy on reducing the difference between what women and men are paid.

    Mrs Miller said unequal pay was predominantly a problem that affected women over forty and that measures already announced by the government did not account for this group.

    I saw a video recently in which one Mike Buchanan was pointing to research indicating that having loads of women on company boards impacted negatively on their profitability.

    GOD CREATED THE MAN TO WORK AND THE WOMAN TO HELP HIM

    But I think my disquiet is more with the principle that gender pay equality is either achievable or desirable.

    You see, in the beginning, God created the man, gave him some work, and then created the woman to be a helper for him. The pattern of a man as the head of the household, providing outside the home and women caring within it is still one which chimes with people and to which they aspire.

    Even in what we regard as the most primitive societies, women stay near the camp, keeping their home smart, gathering stuff, looking after the children, while the men go out and hunt.  The women usually cook what the men bring back.

    Most women, in all the surveys I have seen, would rather be at home looking after their children than out at work. But sadly we have too many single-parent families today, and most of those are headed by a mother, and in two-parent households, governments have organised things so that today so many families need two incomes to survive.

    GENDER PAY GAP IS A MYTH

    I also want to suggest that this ‘gender pay gap’ might actually be a myth. After all, it’s illegal to pay a man more than a woman for doing an equivalent job.

    So how do the Government come up with their 80% figure? Well, they just take a average of what every man earns and compare it with the average of what every woman earns, then round it up to the nearest 10%.

    But men do more dirty and dangerous jobs, that pay more – and kill many of them. Many women – probably too many for the government’s liking – actually want to bring up their own children. Taking time out of a career inevitably impacts on earning ability.

    And when you read about the real differences between men and women, you find that men are more driven and focused on achievements, while women are more concerned with relationships.

    Lastly, if more men than women prioritise work, as the figures seem to show, won’t that, coupled with natural testosterone-fueled ambition, impact on relative earnings?

    NEGATIVE PAY-GAPS

    According to the Office for National Statistics, the gender pay gap is actually 9.4% for full-time employees. It only rises to 19.1% (not 20%) when part-time employees are included. And for part-time employees, they say, ‘the higher rate of pay for women than men results in a ‘negative’ gender pay gap’. The Government are not campaigning to address that problem, or seeking to raise the pay of young men to equal that of young women.

    According to the Guardian newspaper, there is a negative gender pay gap among the young. ‘The pay gap is low or slightly reversed among 18 to 39-year-olds, but the gap for hourly earnings grows from the age of 40 onwards, reaching its highest point for women in their 50s’, said the paper. This is precisely the point where women are taking time out of their career for family reasons and men are nearing the peak of theirs.

    The Government protest that after decades of equal pay acts, Britain still has the sixth-highest pay gap between men and women in the EU. But even this claim is highly simplistic.

    The European Commission say: ‘A high pay gap is usually characteristic of a labour market which is highly segregated, meaning that women are more concentrated in a restricted number of sectors and/or professions (e.g. Czech Republic, Estonia and Finland), or in which a significant proportion of women work part-time (e.g. Germany and Austria)’. Both of those, to a certain extent, would apply to the United Kingdom.

    The BBC’s Mark Easton asked ‘which jobs have more women than men‘, and he linked to a 2012 report from the House of Commons Library. (Click on the PDF to see the full report).

    Another pay gap is never talked about.  It is the gap between what people earn in the private sector and in the public sector.  According to ONS: ‘Private sector earnings have remained consistently at around 85% of public sector earnings since 2009.’

     

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    ‘Putin’ makes Elton John’s Day

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    Elton John promoting sodomy.
    Elton John promoting sodomy through his ‘Aids Foundation’.

    Sir Elton John was on the receiving end of a prank this week after expressing a desire last Sunday to lobby Russia’s President Vladimir Putin over Russia’s antipathy to advancing the cause of sodomy.

    The singer had already been promoting gay rights in Ukraine, where he was on tour.

    Two days later, Sir Elton had switched from saying the president’s stance was ‘ridiculous’, ‘isolating and prejudiced’ to praising him for ‘reaching out’ by apparently phoning the ageing pop star out of the blue.

    The only problem was, the president’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters that reports of a conversation were “not true”.

    “I don’t know who spoke to Elton John but President Putin did not speak to him,” he said.  “… most importantly we didn’t receive any proposals to meet.”

    He added: “If the president does get such a signal from Elton John, the president has always been open to discuss any… human rights problems, any issues. He is always ready to clarify the real situation.”

    The ‘real situation’ is that Russia has passed a law outlawing homosexual propaganda to protect its young people.

    ‘Wonderful moment’ in Elton’s life

    'Vovan' (right) and 'Lexus'
    ‘Vovan’ (right) and ‘Lexus’

    The next day, one Vladimir Krasnov, known as “Vovan”, admitted that he made the call with his sidekick Alexei Stolyarov, known as “Lexus”.

    Vovan told the BBC and Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, “Alexei has excellent English so he played Dmitry Peskov and translated our conversation. And I was Vladimir Putin.”

    “It turned out that Elton John was really expecting that call, so he really believed he was talking to the people we said we were,” he said, adding that the singer had been in a London recording studio at the time of the call.

    The recording and a transcript were gleefully added to the Russia Today website.

    Sir Elton told the pranksters that he was ‘extremely honored’ to be called.  ‘It is a great privilege to be able to speak to one of the most influential people in the world. It’s amazing,’ he continued.

    The singer concluded the call by saying to Lexus, “Please thank him for his time and tell him he’s made my day. It’s a very wonderful moment in my life.”

    “He really believed he was talking to the people we said we were,” said Vladimir Krasnov, known as “Vovan”.

    Propaganda point

    Russian President Vladimir Putin
    Russian President Vladimir Putin

    By Thursday, the musician was putting a brave face on his discomfort, saying he still wanted to speak to President Putin and then deciding to make a propaganda point out of it.

    On his Instagram account, John posted a picture of a man with a bloodied face, whom we were to assume had acquired the injury from someone opposed to sodomy. John said: “Pranks are funny. Homophobia, however, is never funny.”

    What is even less funny is authority figures like teachers telling children there is nothing wrong with being homosexual and encouraging them to turn a transient phase which they would otherwise grow out of into an ‘orientation’ which they will never shake off.

    It also isn’t funny when entertainers use their considerable following to promote a pro-sodomy agenda.

    We can but pray that Vladimir Putin will continue to keep Russian young people safe from the machinations of campaigning homosexuals like Elton John.

    Tory Mayoral Primary could favour ‘gay’ candidate

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    Homosexual millionaire Ivan Massow supports the gay AIDS lobby group the Terrence Higgins Trust
    Homosexual millionaire Ivan Massow supporting the gay AIDS lobby group the Terrence Higgins Trust

    The Conservative Party’s decision to hold an open primary to select its London Mayoral candidate could favour the homosexual candidate, it has been claimed.

    In a sense, a millionaire homosexual like Ivan Massow would be the perfect fit for today’s modern Tories.

    But he faces opposition from Zac Goldsmith, who, although also a millionaire, is resolutely heterosexual and a strong eurosceptic.  Goldsmith is MP for Heathrow flight-path constituency Richmond Park in Surrey.  He is also an environmentalist and, as one might imagine, is fiercely opposed to a third runway at Heathrow.

    To add a little more spice, Mr Goldsmith recruited former Conservative MP and gay marriage opponent Nick de Bois as his campaign manager when he asked his Richmond Park constituents whether he should run for Mayor.

    Now, London voters who have been registered as members of the Tory party for at least three months will be able to participate in the primary election in an online ballot, according to Mr Massow.

    Crucially for Mr Massow, non-Tory voters will also be able to participate in the online ballot if they are already registered to vote in London and pre-register for the online primary.  Individual candidates will be allowed to spend up to £100,000 in the nominating process, according to reports.

    Mr Massow, who declared his intention to run for mayor in May, said he was “delighted” at the news of the primary.

    “I’ve spent the last almost year working towards a mayoral bid knowing the only way I could win it is with this primary,” he told City A.M.

    “This blows the competition wide open. Had it been just Conservative members it would have been very difficult for me to have beaten Zac [Goldsmith], who’s very popular in west London, where most Conservative members live.

    “My pitch to the party is a broader appeal.”

    Footballer Sol Campbell is also expected to stand, as is Andrew Boff, leader of the Conservative Group on the London Assembly.

    The primary is expected to be held in September.

     

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    ‘Homophobia a sign of extremism’

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    Rt Hon Nicky Morgan MP

    Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State of Education, the one with a gay activist from Stonewall (Conservative activist Luke Tryll) as her first appointed advisor, is in the news again.

    She is telling teachers to report children who exhibit negative attitudes to homosexuality to the thought police.

    They are going to grow up to be terrorists, apparently.

    Even the teachers’ unions, so often bastions of progressive attitudes, are not amused by this new imposition of subjective workload.

    The BBC reported:

    ‘The education secretary was speaking as schools in England and Wales were issued with a guide to identifying pupils in danger of radicalisation.

    ‘She said attacking core British values or being extremely intolerant of homosexuality were examples of behaviour that could raise the alarm.

    ‘Ms Morgan said it was “a safeguarding” issue comparable to protecting children at risk from gangs or sexual abuse.’  Yes, really.  Homophobia is that bad.

    Asked on BBC’s Radio 4 Today Programme to come up with an example of behaviour that might be a cause for concern, she said: “Sadly, Isis are extremely intolerant of homosexuality.”

    ‘Sadly?’  Is Nicky Morgan carrying a bit of a candle for ISIS?  Would she love them better if, despite all their land-grabbing, slaughter, extortion and rape they had applied for a float in the London Gay Pride parade?

    As it happens, Muslims in general are ‘extremely intolerant of homosexuality’.

    Is the Government with this initiative taking the first tentative steps to rounding up all Muslim children and sending them and their families off to the Muslim land of their heritage?  I doubt that.

    What instead we are seeing is a desire to grab hold of Christian children and force some politically-correct attitudes into them.  The Trojan Horse affair, which started with a Muslim takeover of schools in Birmingham  has been used to give Ofsted new guidelines which are now being used against Christian schools.

    It will be the same here.  There is already a drive to sneak homosexual propaganda into schools on the pretext of ‘tackling homophobic bullying’.  This counter-terrorism slant is just a bit of window-dressing to make pro-sodomy indoctrination a bit more acceptable.

    In reality, it won’t be a Muslim child who will be picked on.  Instead, look out for the first story of a child of Christian or working-class parents being reported to the police for ‘homophobia’ and then taken into ‘care’ by Social Services.

     

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    Ashers Bakery guilty of ‘discriminating’

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    The Politically-motivated cake was baked by another firm.
    The Politically-motivated cake was baked by another firm.

    A judge in Belfast has found that a bakery discriminated against a homosexual by refusing to bake a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage.

    Ashers Baking Company, which is owned and run by the McArthur family, who are Christians, declined an order from a gay rights activist asking for a cake featuring the Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with a slogan saying ‘Support Gay Marriage’.

    Marriage between people of the same sex is illegal in Northern Ireland.  In April 2014 the Stormont Assembly rejected a Sinn Fein motion to change the definition of marriage for the third time in eighteen months.  In April 2015 the Assembly rejected yet another Sinn Fein motion for ‘gay marriage’.

    Gareth Lee
    Gareth Lee

    Despite that, the judge found Ashers Bakery had discriminated against one Gareth Lee on the grounds of sexual orientation as well as his political beliefs.

    The cake was baked and iced by another firm.  Cllr Andrew Muir (Alliance Party) cut the cake in an event held by ‘QueerSpace’ last year.

    Damages of £500 have already been agreed between the law firms representing Ashers and Mr Lee.

    The case was brought by Northern Ireland’s Equality Commission.

    Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuiness tweeted: “Asher’s bakery judgement a good result for equality, gay people have for far too long been discriminated against. We and the law on their side.”

    But unionist politicians disagreed.

    DUP MLA Paul Givan, who has proposed that lawmakers in the Northern Ireland Assembly introduce a “conscience clause” as a result of the Ashers case, said many Christians would view the ruling as “an attack” on their religious convictions.

    Jim Allister MLA condemned the ruling.
    Jim Allister MLA has condemned the ruling along with Democratic Unionist Party politicians.

    “What we cannot have is a hierarchy of rights, and today there’s a clear hierarchy being established that gay rights are more important than the rights of people to hold religious beliefs,” Mr Givan added.

    His party colleague David McIlveen tweeted: “Utterly sickened that a Christian owned business has been hauled over the coals for refusing to promote something that is not legal in NI.”

    Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said it was “a dark day for justice and religious freedom in Northern Ireland”.

    Speaking outside Belfast County Court ahead of the ruling, Ashers general manager Daniel McArthur said: “We happily serve everyone but we cannot promote a cause that goes against what the Bible says about marriage.

    “We have tried to be guided in our actions by our Christian beliefs.”

    Christian campaigners will be looking not just to the Stormont Assembly but also to the UK Government to ensure business peoples’ Christian conscience is supported.

    See 11th July 2014: Ashers Baking ‘Discriminated’

     

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    Green Party could legalise ‘three-way marriages’

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    Natalie Bennett launching the GreenParty's 'LGBTIQ' manifesto in Soho with Peter Tatchell (l)
    Natalie Bennett launching the GreenParty’s ‘LGBTIQ’ manifesto in Soho with Peter Tatchell (l)

    The leader of the Green Party has said she would be open to discussing the possibility of legalising three-way ‘marriages’.

    Natalie Bennett made her comments at the launch of her Party’s ‘LGBTIQ’ manifesto (That’s ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual, transggender, intersex and queer’ apparently) in Soho, London.

    Ms Bennett said she was “open to further discussion and consultation” on the issue after being asked whether the Greens would support group civil partnerships and marriages by a Pink News reader who said he was living with two boyfriends in a stable long-term relationship.

    She said: “At present, we do not have a policy on civil partnerships involving more than two people.”  But since Green Party policy is made up by its members, all that could change overnight.

    The Green Party is easily at the libertarian end of the spectrum on social issues, but fanatically authoritarian on anything the affects climate change, the environment, or animals.  One of its policies is to ban rabbit hutches.

    Ms Bennett was accompanied in Soho by fellow Australian and homosexual activist Peter Tatchell, a Green Party supporter.

     

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    Holy Sexuality Conference Cancelled

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    After over 40,000 people signed a petition, the Holy Sexuality Conference in London was cancelled.
    After over 40,000 people signed a petition, the Holy Sexuality Conference in London was cancelled.
    The Holy Sexuality Conference in London was cancelled after 40,000 dissenters signed a petition calling for its cancellation.

    The “Holy Sexuality” Conference in London was cancelled after 40,000 people signed a petition calling for its abandonment.

    Dubbed the “Gay Cure Summit” by GayStarNews, the 5-day conference was to be held from 21-25 April and aimed at helping people who struggle with unwanted same-sex attraction. According to the advert:

    “This conference will be invaluable for those who are struggling with their sexuality or for those who wish to find out more about issues surrounding sexuality and same sex attraction to reach out to others.”

    The three people supposed to speak at the event were Americans Mike Carducci, Wayne Blakely, and Danielle Harrison. These speakers explained that they found “redemption, victory, healing and freedom from their [homosexual] lifestyle.”

    The conference was organized by the Seventh Day Adventist Church, a Christian organization that believes homosexuality is a sin and breaks God’s Commandment.

    Kirsten Lundquist, the communications and media director of South England Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, was disappointed by the decision to cancel the conference, saying:

    “Seventh-day Adventists are a people of peace who believe in hope and dialogue. However, it appeared that rather than drawing people together the conference had the potential to divide. The Adventist Church recognises that the individuals invited to speak at the Holy Sexuality Conference have compelling life stories to share but equally appreciate that there are those who take a different point of view.”

    The entire statement can be found in this article.

    However, many people took offense at the goal of the conference, saying that promoting the idea of curing homosexuality is “dangerous.” The UK Council for Psychotherapy even described “conversion theory” as abuse.

    The conference was also denounced by political figures. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said:

    “If anything needs curing, it is the outdated belief that being gay is wrong or something to be ashamed of. Sexuality is not an illness but an inherent part of who you are.”

    In an article on Change.org, human rights activist Omar Kuddus called for the Government to refuse visas to people who seek to cure people of gay desires. Kuddus started the petition to cancel the Holy Sexuality conference, and he believes the Government should protect gay people from those who want to cure them.

    “We are disappointed that in a society that values freedom of speech and divergence of opinion that there are those whose wish it is to silence individuals who hold a different point of view to their own.”

    That same week, a similar event called The Transformation Potential Conference took place in Westminster. It was held by Core Issues, a Christian ministry organization. Although more than 13,000 people signed a petition to cancel it, nevertheless the talks were held on 14 April.

    Ukip candidate Alan Craig, former leader of the Christian Peoples Alliance, was set to speak at this conference. However, organizers asked him to step aside so the issues discussed at the seminar would not be “associated with any one political party.”

    Omar Kuddus also fought for the cancellation of this conference, believing these events are harmful to those who attend them. In a statement to the Evening Standard, Kuddos said:

    “You don’t expect two gay cure conferences to take place in London at all, especially in the same week. I find it diabolical someone representing the group is allowed to preach hate in England. At the end of the day that is what conversion therapy is – sexuality is not a choice.”

    The irony in this is that the very people who claim Christians want to “silence” gay people are the very ones who cancel conferences and want to refuse visas to people coming to speak at these events. They are the ones trying to silence differing opinions, embodying a tactic that prohibits free speech and cancels conferences.

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    ‘Naz and Matt’ gay campaigner ‘selfish and deluded’.

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    Hampstead Heath, near West Hampstead, is used by homosexual men to make anonymous sexual contacts.
    Hampstead Heath, a stone’s throw from West Hampstead, where Dr Nazeem Mahmood lived.

    A homosexual campaigner is today concluding a walk from London to Birmingham.

    Matthew Ogston has walked from West Hampstead in London to Handsworth in Birmingham, finishing today, to publicise his new charity ‘Naz and Matt’ campaigning against what he calls ‘gay conversion therapy’ and for parents to accept their children’s homosexuality against their religious principles.

    Mr Ogston was the homosexual boyfriend of one Dr Mahmood, a specialist in cosmetic procedures, who fell from the balcony of his penthouse in West Hampstead on 30th July 2014.

    An inquest heard that Dr Mahmood took his own life just two days after confiding in his Muslim mother for the first time about his sexuality.

    The court was told she suggested he saw a psychiatrist to find a ‘cure’ when he revealed his sexuality.

    My view is that Ogston is selfish and deluded.

    Matthew Ogston. Credit: Birmingham Mail
    Matthew Ogston

    Any death is a tragedy, and Dr Mahmood’s is no exception. Suicide is the biggest cause of death for young men in Britain today. Given that, to blame Dr Mahmood’s suicide on his mother’s failure to embrace her son’s perverted lifestyle is far too convenient. There could have been any number of reasons aggregating in his mind.

    Matthew Ogston is deluded, claiming to hear Dr Mahmood’s voice from “beyond the grave” telling him specifically to set up a campaigning charity.

    He is also selfish, showing no sensitivity to Dr Mahmood’s family, who will rightly feel great shame over their son’s suicide and emotional problems and must be dismayed that his death is now being dragged through the mud in public as a political football.

    It is undeniable that men and women have walked away from homosexual attractions through the power of the Christian Gospel. Whether Islam is any help in such a process is open to debate, but the Christian faith offers enormous support to those seeking to reach their emotional potential. No-one has to “stay gay”.

    Sandwell Valley is next-door to Handsworth, Alan Ogston's destination.
    Sandwell Valley is next-door to Handsworth, Matthew Ogston’s destination.

    Mr Ogston is quoted as saying: “Being gay is loving someone, it’s not a disease, there’s nothing to be cured, it’s about love nothing else should matter.”  A father and son or two brothers normally express their love without feeling the need to interfere with each other.  No, ‘being gay’ is not just ‘about love’, it’s about emotional disorder, sexual abuse and perverting God’s created order.

    By a strange coincidence, West Hampstead  is just a stone’s throw from one homosexual cruising area, and Handsworth borders onto another.  Most homosexual male couples engage in activities outside their primary relationship, for reasons which need not detain us at this moment.  Just saying …

     

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    Tories boast about ‘gay marriage’

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    GayWeddingConservative Manifesto page 46:

    “We will champion equal rights and correct past wrongs.  Our historic introduction of gay marriage has helped drive forward equality and strengthened the institution of marriage. But there is still more to do, and we will continue to champion equality for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people. We will build on the posthumous pardon of Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing, who committed suicide following his conviction for gross indecency, with a broader measure to lift the blight of outdated convictions of this nature. Thousands of British men still suffer from similar historic charges, even though they would be completely innocent of any crime today. Many others are dead and cannot correct this injustice themselves through the legal process we have introduced while in government. So we will introduce a new law that will pardon those people, and right these wrongs.”

    The Tories are actually proud of wrecking the institution of marriage!  And they want to do more.

    David Cameron counting the ways 'gay-marriage' has destroyed real marriage.
    David Cameron counting the ways ‘gay-marriage’ has destroyed real marriage.

    They want in particular to tear up the convictions for men convicted of sodomy and gross indecency.  No doubt that will benefit some of the older political class.

    On page 63 of their manifesto they say:

    “We will outlaw groups that foment hate with the introduction of new Banning Orders for extremist organisations.”

    Don’t let’s be fooled that this just means Islamic groups.  It means any group the Government doesn’t like.  If you are Christian Voice or Abort 67 (cannot think of any other groups really upsetting the apple-cart just now – your suggestions please?) then stand by for dawn raids and all your equipment being confiscated.

    At her coronation on 2nd June 1953, Her Majesty the Queen took an oath to “Maintain the laws of God and the True Profession of the Gospel”.  That oath is binding on her ministers, who, according to Romans 13, are also ‘ministers of God’ to us ‘for good’.

    Ask your Conservative candidate if he/she agrees with the manifesto on these points.  Do they support ‘gay marriage’?  If any do, what Christian can possibly vote for them?

    Street preacher convicted – and now acquitted!

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    Michael Overd with his wife Rachel outside Taunton Magistrates Court in 2012.
    Street preacher convicted.  Michael Overd with his wife Rachel outside Taunton Magistrates Court when he was acquitted in 2012.

    STOP PRESS:

    Michael Overd’s appeal was heard at Taunton Crown Court, Shire Hall, Taunton, Somerset TA1 4EU on Friday 11th December 2015 at which he was acquitted when the prosecution’s case collapsed.

    All you need to know is in our YouTube video ‘Street Preaching is Legal‘ !

    Original report from 23rd March 2015:

    A street preacher has been convicted over ‘homophobic’ sermons, the BBC reports.

    Michael Overd was preaching in Taunton, Somerset, in June and July 2014.

    He was cleared of a second similar charge and another of causing “racially-aggravated” harassment aimed at Muslims. During the case, Mr Overd told the judge he must be born again.

    The charges were brought under the Public Order Act.

    We were pleased to support Michael Overd when he faced similar charges and was acquitted at Taunton Magistrates Court in 2012.

    Mr Overd, 50, was fined £200 and ordered to pay compensation of £250 and costs of £950 totalling £1,400 at Bristol Crown Court.

    Sentencing, judge Shamim Qureshi told Mr Overd he “knew full well the power of words to hurt”.  We understand the Muslim judge came down from Birmingham to sit in the case, and it was when he referred to Christianity and Islam as joint Abrahamic faiths that Michael Overd urged him to repent and be born again.

    He was told to pay £250 to his ‘victim’, Darren Chalmers.  Mr Overd said the judgement was “flawed” and told the judge he would have to “answer to the same God”.

    After the failed case in 2012, the police began looking for complaints against the long-standing Taunton preacher again last year, appealing in a local newspaper for the public to record him making “offensive remarks”.  A number of witnesses said they could not remember what Mr Overd said, just that it was ‘offensive’.

    Support for the principle of street preaching came from the Bishop of Peterborough, Rt Rev Donald Allister, who said we should have freedom to express our views, provided it were done in a Christian manner.

    A campaign by the Christian Institute to remove the word ‘insulting’ from the Public Order Act was meant to stop preachers being prosecuted, but the police have just switched to charging them with ‘threatening and abusive’ behaviour instead.

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    Judge Qureshi

    Intriguingly, the judge had reserved judgement, which indicates he wanted to take advice from those higher up.

    Judge Qureshi told the preacher he seemed to enjoy testing the laws on free speech to their limits.  He said: “In my view he enjoys coaxing people into asking him questions so that he can reply loudly into the microphone to answer them.

    Mr Overd had “double standards”, the judge said, ‘believing he was right and everyone else was wrong’, according to the BBC, although that does not seem to indicate ‘double standards’, merely settled views.  The complainant, Darren Chalmers, appears to have contrary views to Mr Overd which are just as settled.

    “He happily shouts out the negative points in any other religion,” said the judge, without acknowledging that the negative points in Islam are not very hard to find.

    Asked after the case whether he would tone down his sermons, Mr Overd said: “I follow my Lord and leader, so I won’t tone down.”

    Mr Overd had faced two charges of using threatening and abusive words, and a third of causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress.  Only one charge succeeded.

    We understand Michael Overd is being advised to appeal to the Crown Court.

    PRAY: Thank God for Michael Overd and pray the Lord will bless him and grant District Judge Qureshi in the case repentance and faith in Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

     

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    Scottish registrars given ‘conscience clause’

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    The Scottish Parliament chamber
    The Scottish Parliament chamber

    The Scottish Government has given registrars a conscience clause not to take part in ‘gay marriage’ ceremonies.

    The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 provides that local authorities must provide a registrar to conduct a same-sex ‘marriage’ but does not say that every individual registrar is obliged to participate.

    A spokesperson for the Scottish Government told the homosexual website PinkNews.co.uk: “Each local authority must provide an authorised registrar to conduct a marriage or civil partnership in the area chosen by the couple, regardless of that couple’s sexual orientation. It is a matter for local authorities to manage the provision of that service.

    “There is no opt-out for individual registrars included in the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014.

    “However, we have been clear that we expect local authorities to handle with sensitivity any registrar who objects to carrying out a same sex marriage on the basis of their religion or belief.”

    Naturally, if the expression does not fall too awkwardly, the pro-gay National Secular Society is upset.  It’s homosexual president, Terry Sanderson, complained: “The Scottish Government is putting local authorities in an invidious position of having to decide individually whether it is OK for religious registrars to discriminate against gay couples.

    “There should be a clear policy to guide them and that policy should be that gay couples are entitled to equal treatment from all registrars.”

    But Sanderson goes on to argue that the conscience of Christian registrars is increasingly being supported by the European Court of Human Rights.

    Lilian Ladele
    Lilian Ladele

    Referring to the case of Lilian Ladele, who was sacked by the London Borough of Islington after she voiced concerns about participating in civil partnerships, he declared: “The court said that any policy aimed at restricting religious opt outs should have been agreed before any case is brought.

    “Local authorities will have to make a very strong case for not allowing religious registrars to refuse to even administer same-sex marriages, let alone carry out ceremonies. If Lillian Ladele brought her case today, she would probably win.”

    Indeed, a Christian registrar who was previously dismissed by Central Bedfordshire Council after refusing to conduct same-sex weddings was reinstated last year.

    Margaret Jones, a senior deputy registrar at Bedford register office, was sacked by her employers after confirming that she would be unwilling to conduct same-sex weddings on the basis of her Christian beliefs.

    Margaret Jones
    Margaret Jones

    However, Ms Jones was offered her job back after an internal appeal hearing in August last year (2014) found her employer had not taken a “balanced view” of her beliefs.

    The tribunal overturned the decision by Central Bedfordshire Council, noting Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance “[encourages] employers and employees to find reasonable solutions to religion or belief issues at work”.

    That outcome also had the National Secular Society convulsed by impotent fury, writing to the Council asking it to ‘clarify’ its position regarding employees’ requests to opt out of part of their job requirements.

    Margaret Jones declined the job reinstatement offer, but Stephen Evans, National Secular Society campaigns manager, raged: “Discriminatory acts have a moral significance beyond the deprivation of the relevant service and the fact that other registrars could conduct the ceremonies is irrelevant.”

    This may be no more than a faint glimmer of good news, but welcome as the homosexual juggernaut rumbles on.

     

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