John Craven was arrested for quoting the Bible after two gay teenagers asked what his views were on homosexuality.
A Christian preacher won £13,000 last week in compensation after being arrested and held in custody for 19 hours simply for quoting the Bible.
The arrest occurred three years ago when John Craven was preaching in Manchester city centre. Two teenagers approached the street preacher to ask what he thought of homosexuality. Craven read from Revelation 21:8, which says that sinners will be burned in a lake of fire. He also quoted John 3:16 and said that “Whilst God hates sin, he loves the sinner.”
Following Craven’s response the boys began kissing each other in front of Craven and making “obscene gestures.” Soon the youths called a mounted policeman, claiming that Craven’s comments had “insulted” them and caused them “harassment and distress.”
The policeman arrested Craven for possibly committing a public order offence. The officer allegedly took Craven “roughly by the arm” and told him that he was under arrest. The officer did not ask for Craven’s name or address and handled him roughly.
Craven was taken into custody, and remained in a jail cell for about 15 hours. He did not receive food, water, or medication for his rheumatoid arthritis.
This event happened in 2011. On March 29th Craven was finally awarded his £13,000 compensation after a three-year legal battle against the Manchester Police. This battle has cost the public purse approximately £50,000. Mr. Craven won his damages under the Human Rights Act.
“I never intended to cause anyone harassment, alarm or distress. I preach the gospel, which means good news and the love of God for all.
“At the end of the day God loves everybody, but homosexuality is a sin and I am not going to contradict the word of God.”
Police Superintendent Alan Greene could not go into detail, but admitted “We can acknowledge that we did make mistakes and kept the claimant in custody for too long.”
This is just one of several incidents involving the persecution of Christians in Britain. In one of our other articles, we have listed several examples of the rising totalitarianism that is spreading over Britain. Christianity is coming under fire, which results in Christians being marginalized and prohibited from freely expressing their religious views. But this victory gives us some encouragement to Christians who boldly proclaim their faith.
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But our main concern about the Co-op bank itself is the way it discriminates strongly against those Christians who take their faith seriously. See: http://www.repentuk.com/coop.html
They continued to sponsor Manchester Pride in 2013 as the scale of the group’s financial disaster unfolded.
Although it will be their ineptitude as a financial institution which will make all the headlines, if the bank had followed Christian principles of diligence when it took over Brittania Building Society, if it had followed the Biblical advice to choose able men such as fear God to run it, rather than a homosexual drug-taker, if it had noticed that the Bible says ‘thou shalt not steal’ before overcharging mortgagees and those mis-sold payment protection insurance and interest rate hedging products, if its bosses had not succumbed to pride and greed when wanting to take over TSB branches from Lloyds, it would not be in the position it is now.
If the Co-op had concentrated more on balancing the books according to Christian principles and less on politically-correct posturing it would not be in the mess it is in today.
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Warren Middleton, also known as John Parratt, was given a 12 month sentence in July 2011 after being convicted of having indecent images of children.
Middleton was the editor of Betrayal of Youth, a notorious paedophile campaigning manual to which Peter Tatchell contributed a chapter on ‘Questioning Ages of Majority and Ages of Consent’. Middleton was also vice-chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange, known as PIE.
Betrayal of Youth was published in 1986, just three years after Peter Tatchell lost to Simon Hughes in the Bermondsey bye-election. The bye-election did not go well. Tatchell was disowned by then Labour leader Michael Foot and Hughes highlighted Tatchell’s militant homosexuality.
Afterwards, Tatchell complained of ‘a witch-hunt’. An exasperated Neil Kinnock, who would win the Labour leadership election in October, was variously reported as saying ‘The trouble with Peter is, he can’t tell the difference between a witch and fairy’ or “I’m not in favour of witch hunts, but I do not mistake bloody witches for fairies.” Tatchell has since joined the Green Party, where witches and fairies are made more welcome.
Also jailed in 2011 were the leader of PIE, Steven Smith, aka Steven Freeman, John Morrison, Middleton’s flat-mate, one Barry Cutler, and Leo Adamson, a member of the PIE executive who was also involved in the 1970s with ‘Gay Youth.’
the court was told that more than 5,000 images were found on three discs at the Putney home shared by Parratt and Morrison after a police raid in July 2008.
Steve Smith’s history of PIE, as published in Betrayal of Youth, can be found HERE. Steven Smith was also jailed twenty years earlier, in 1991, for child porn offences.
Jailed earlier were PIE executive members David Joy of Loughborough, and David Bremner, a PhD from Clapton, E London.
Interestingly, who was the Barrister who defended Steven Smith in 1991 and came out with the rather lame line that ‘Smith and the others would not have published the magazine if the police had warned them it was in breach of the law’?
It’s the same barrister who served on the Gay Rights Sub-Committee of the National Council for Civil Liberties when Patricia Hewitt and Harriet Harman were in charge in the 1970’s and 1980’s alongside his ‘learned friend’ Geoffrey Robertson QC and paedophiles David Bremner, Michael Burbidge, Keith Hose and Tom O’Carroll.
Here is a clue: He was the first openly-gay barrister, championed by homosexuals, to be appointed a High Court Judge, in 2002.
Here is another: It’s the same man who set up the Conspiracy to Corrupt Public Morals group to defend Tom O’Carroll in 1979. How nice to know he was still prepared to accept a brief to defend a pal of his old fellow sub-committee-members 12 years later.
The same newspaper also reports how the Chairman of the National Council for Civil Liberties in the 1970’s and 1980’s also sprang to the defence of PIE, both in campaigning terms and by acting for Bremner when he was convicted with David Joy in 1984.
He is now the Chief Coroner for England and Wales, Peter Thornton.
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United States human rights activists are pressuring the central American country of Belize to relax its policies on homosexuals.
The United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) has issued a challenge to the government of Belize before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), saying that the Belizean government must implement ways to protect its LGBTI community.
When one looks closer at the demands, however, it becomes clear that the issue is not merely about protecting homosexuals. Rather, UNIBAM is aggressively targeting those who dissent from the gay rights agenda.
UNIBAM is insisting that government punish those who commit “speech crimes” and “hate crimes” against LGBTI people. They claim violations have been made against LGBTI citizens in the areas of education, health, and employment.
On 28th March, the State of Belize was summoned to Washington DC, to appear before IACHR after UNIBAM petitioned for a rights hearing. Caleb Orozco, Executive Director of UNIBAM, led the charge by citing various “crimes” against gay people, none of which were supported by official documentation. In addition, he praised the government of Belize for continuing to enact the revised gender policy, which defines sexual orientation as “diverse,” and classifies contraceptives as a “public good.”
This revised gender policy is being pushed forward by the National Women’s Commission of Belize (NWC) and funded by the UN. Neither the public nor religious leaders were consulted on its passage. It was essentially passed in secret by gay rights activists in Belize.
Mr Orozco has been given money by Freedom House, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization. Although not directly connected with the US government, Freedom House is in turn supported with $250,00 gifts by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State. By following the money, we see that this is another instance of neocolonialism, whereby developing countries are being pressured by the West to make homosexuality the norm.
The words of Jesus Christ are clear: Marriage is between and man and woman because God created us that way. ‘Gay marriage’ is a farce and a counterfeit.
In the name of inclusiveness, the first so-called ‘gay marriages’ are happening in England and Wales this weekend. The media and politicians are falling over themselves to congratulate homosexuals on ‘tying the knot’ in an orgy of sycophancy. BBC Radio 5 Live this morning even had a peer of the realm ‘proposing’ to his ‘partner’ on air.
The ‘yuk’ factor is overwhelming, and a woman referring to another woman as ‘my wife’ may result in gales of laughter, but we need to root our response in the word of God, that is, in the Bible.
The Lord Jesus Christ said this:
Mark 10:6-8 ‘From the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
And becoming one flesh, in the full conjugal sense, is something a pair of women, or two men, can never do. Between them they lack the necessary parts of the anatomy to be achieve it. That is why they have to indulge in activities which fall short – to put it mildly – of the conjugal marital act.
The new law – the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act 2013 admits that a couple in a gay marriage cannot consummate their marriage and states they can only commit adultery with someone of the opposite sex. That may be a recognition that sexual fidelity has little relevance to homosexuality, but it is also shows that ‘gay marriage’ is a farce, a sham, a mockery of God’s holy institution.
Homosexuals were promised ‘equal marriage’ but instead they have been given joke marriage. But the pretense at marriage they will be celebrating this weekend is still a counterfeit which devalues real marriage.
Marriage has been redefined for everyone, against the wishes of the majority of people. ‘Gay marriage’ was in no party manifesto and there was no consultation on the principle of it. The Coalition 4 Marriage mustered 650,000 on their petition against ‘gay marriage’, Stonewall could not even manage a tenth of that.
Christian Voice has consistently opposed the homosexual agenda. We continue to oppose civil partnerships, on the grounds that the state should give no recognition to relationships built on perversion, but as civil partnerships convey all the benefits of marriage, Prime Minister David Cameron should have left it there.
The Apostle Paul, writing to the early church in Rome, spoke of those who become their own god:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature…
So homosexual desires are described as vile affections in the Bible.
It’s all bad news for our nation.
If you want to be blessed and safeguarded you don’t throw God’s righteousness in his face. You don’t turn what God calls evil into good, and turn what God made good into evil. Successive governments since the 1960s have consistently legislated away the laws of God, upon which this nation was built.
But ‘gay marriage’ is a massive step towards the social economy of Sodom. David Cameron and the rest of our leaders are responsible for casting our land away from the protection of the Almighty.
Only for the individual homosexual is there any good news and that is only in the saving grace of Jesus. His blood shed on the cross has the power to remove the stain of sin and the power of sin. No-one has to stay gay. However you became like that – and no geneticist will say that anyone is born like it – there is forgiveness, deliverance and healing in Jesus Christ.
And it isn’t just sexual sins and the sin of pride that can be forgiven by Jesus. He stands ready to forgive all who truly repent and will never turn anyone away. That is the true message of inclusiveness.
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Ulrike Lunacek is the author of the Lunacek Report
We have just finished updatingour pageabout the persecution of Christians in Britain. We would encourage our visitors to read this articlewhich surveys the challenges Christians in Britain have had to face since the time of the Viking invasions to the present day.
This report was written for our newsletter in 2011 but has now been expanded to include some of the more recent cases of persecution against British Christians.
In reviewing these cases, Christian Voice has become concerned that the incessant attention given to “hate crimes” against LGBT people is obscuring the more severe intolerance happening on a regular basis against believers.
The Lunacek-Report calls on EU Member States to “register and investigate hate crimes against LGBTI people,” yet seems “less concerned about the hate crimes that actually do take place in Europe.”
J.C. von Krempach cites two examples of hate crimes, which were both committed by homosexual groups, not committed against them. The first incident on 2nd February was against Cardinal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, the Archbishop of Madrid, who was attacked by a mob of topless females shouting “abortion is sacred.”
The second incident occurred on January 24th. A peaceful ball event—called the “Akademikerball”—held at Vienna was attacked by a “left-extremist mob.” This was the third time this event has been attacked by such groups, under the pretense that the people who attend these balls are “Nazis.” The intruders carried banners and shouted their slogan, “You can have our hate.” Over two thousand police officers were eventually able to get rid of the militants, but not before the protesters had damaged shops and set cars of fire, inflicting approximately 1 million Euros in damage
Unfortunately, the participants in the latter attack were supported by the Austrian “Green Alternative” Party, which Mrs. Lunacek, the author of the Lunacek-Report, represents. While she is upset about hypothetical hate crimes being committed against homosexuals, she makes no apologies for the hate crimes actually committed by members of the party she supports.
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Jeff and Sue Green own the 13 bedroom Highland Moors Hotel and Conference Centre in Llandrindod Wells, midWales. They had advertised that only married couples were allowed to take double rooms.
But at the end of last year they received a letter from the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s “legal enforcement team” informing them they could be guilty of discriminating against gay couples.
Jeff and Sue have now changed their policy to offer twin rooms only throughout the hotel, and have slanted their business towards catering for groups who are attending local events or hiring the conference centre. Jeff Green told Christian Voice that they had not actually turned anyone away, or had any actual enquiries from homosexuals wanting to book double rooms.
However, following the refusal of British courts to uphold the religious rights of other Christian B&B owners, they now plan to launch a legal case at the European Court of Human Rights.
Oddly enough, despite a report in Pink News four years ago that ‘gay-only’ hotels were to be investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, hotels proclaiming that they only cater for homosexuals openly tout for business in the ‘gay-friendly’ resorts of Brighton, Bournemouth and Blackpool to this day.
Perhaps some Christians ought to try to book rooms in some of them …
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Targeted schools. Saltley School’s head teacher, Mr Bains, resigned last year after a critical Ofsted report and a campaign against him instigated by Islamist governors.
A Muslim plot to take over schools in Birmingham and Bradford shows how good they are and how poor Christians are at advancing their respective world-views.
Operation Trojan Horse, as the Islamic scheme is called, involves identifying schools in predominantly Muslim areas which are struggling. For each school, a group of parents committed to Islam is built up.
Next comes a campaign to elect one or more faithful Muslims to the school governing body.
After that, the head teacher is undermined by the use of complaints to local MPs and education authorities as well as by identifying “weak and disgruntled staff” who can cause problems for the head with Ofsted.
A letter containing the details of the Muslim schools take-over plot came to light after it was leaked to the National Association of Head Teachers.
Muslim Campaign secures leadership changes in schools
It claims responsibility for leadership changes at four schools, Adderley Primary, Saltley School, Park View School and Regents Park Community Primary School.
The inspectors’ statement appears to confirm claims in the letter that the group has “caused a great amount of organised disruption in Birmingham and as a result we have our own academies and are on the way to getting rid of more head teachers and taking over their schools”.
The letter, seen by the BBC, targets another 12 schools in Birmingham, and was also sent to a contact in Bradford.
It urges the recipient to use Ofsted reports to identify schools in predominantly Muslim areas which are struggling and adds: ”Operation ‘Trojan Horse’ has been very carefully thought through and is tried and tested within Birmingham, implementing it in Bradford will not be difficult for you.”
Schools ‘corrupting their children with sex education’
It states that parents could be encouraged to turn against the leadership team if they are told the school is “corrupting their children with sex education, teaching about homosexuals, making their children pray Christian prayers and [carrying out] mixed swimming and sport”.
Needless to say, the revelations have sent the politicians into a spin, with Liam Byrne, Labour MP for Hodge Hill, holding ‘urgent talks’ with Ofsted, City Council officials, the office of Michael Gove and DfE officials.
“These are deeply disturbing allegations, which is why Ofsted has been called in,” he said.
The chastening point for Christians will be that the inbuilt corruption in sex education and the pro-sodomy teaching which is now mandated by the Equality Act 2010, not to mention the pro-evolution slant of biology, affect Christian children as well, but that Christian parents have in the main shown not the slightest inclination to protect them from such ungodly influences.
Secularists and Muslims advancing their world-views
It may well be that Christian parents have always assumed that schools are much as they were when they went to school or that, believing in shared cultural values, they put too much trust into schools, teachers, experts and those in authority, even those in sex education promotion groups and working parties.
It has been obvious for some time that Secularists are far better at advancing their world-view than Christians, and it comes as no surprise given what we know of Islamic ambitions of world dominance to discover that Muslims are interested in advancing their world-view as well.
As the letter states: “We have an obligation to our children to fulfil our roles and ensure these schools are run on Islamic principles.”
Do Christians even know what a Christian world-view is?
But do Christians know what Christian principles are, apart from ‘love’? We speak above of a secularist world-view, and of a Muslim world-view, but do Christians even know what a Christian world-view is? Do Christians even know we have one?
Do we know that the ‘earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein’? (Psalm 24:1)
Are we aware that ‘Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people’? (Prov 14:34)
Do we know that we are to teach the ways of the Lord ‘diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up’? (Deut 6:7)
Have we read that as much as parents should ‘provoke not your children to wrath’ that we have a responsibility to ‘bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord’? (Eph 6:4), to ‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it’ (Prov 22:6)
Do we ‘go in the strength of the Lord GOD’ and ‘make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only’? (Psalm 71:16).
Are we certain to say of God ‘Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth’? (Psalm 119:142).
Or do we think that Jesus has swept away all the Old Testament to replace it with a ‘law of love’ that requires us to give in to evil, roll over and let our children take their chance?
Do we personalise away the injunction to go about ‘Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ’? (2Cor 10:5)
Have we remembered that providing for our families includes defending and protecting them: ‘But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel’? (1Tim 5:8)
Advance the Christian faith
The Muslims behind ‘Operation Trojan Horse’ are simply doing what they should do as Muslim parents; make sure their children are being taught according to their faith.
Yes, there are Christian academies doing great work, but Christians could and should have been getting themselves onto school governing bodies and removing ungodly head teachers not just by ‘praying them out’ but by seeking God for what to do themselves. It isn’t ‘unsporting’ or not quite ‘British’ to fight for what is right and advance the Christian faith in every avenue of life!
And we can surely think of a more positive and imaginative name for such a campaign than ‘Operation Trojan Horse’!
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Dominic Crouch, bullied to death after a homosexual role-play game.
School children will be taught that not all pornography is bad and act out scenes as homosexuals if teachers follow sex education guidance just issued by the Department for Education.
The Times says that it is the first time for 14 years that advice on sex education has been updated. The guidance currently in use makes no reference to issues such as internet safety or “sexting” using mobile devices.
However, rather than just update the advice to warn about those topics, the new guidelines have included pro-gay propganda and taken a sexual libertarian slant.
The guidelines were drawn up by Brook Advisory, the PSHE Association and the Sex Education Forum, all of which are pro-contraception, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual and frankly pro-promiscuity.
Although supported by the Department for Education, the new guidelines do not have legal force. But many teachers will assume they come down from authority and those who were already inclined that way will seize upon them to justify their position to worried parents.
One of the resources recommended to teachers, an e-magazine from the Sex Education Forum, advises teachers to “teach in a non-judgmental way” about pornography and tells them: “Pornography is hugely diverse — it’s not necessarily ‘all bad’.”
Last year Ofsted published a report saying that sex education was taught badly (whatever they mean by that) in between a third and half of schools and said that secondary schools should teach about the influence of pornography on students’ understanding of healthy sexual relationships.
It also says that sex education must not deal only with heterosexual relations. “Teachers should never assume that all intimate relationships are between opposite sexes. All sexual health information should be inclusive and should include LGBT people [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] in case studies, scenarios and role-plays.”
The advice ignores the dynamics of the playground. A pupil acting out a gay role-play will have that stigma attached for the rest of his school life. It will give bullies a weapon and could cement the idea in an adolescent mind that he or she might indeed be homosexual.
The guidance is a recruiting-sergeant for the homosexual world and is certain to bring misery and possibly death in its wake.
On 18 May 2010, Dominic Crouch committed suicide by jumping off the roof of a six-storey block of flats near his school in Cheltenham. He was 15. In the note he left his family, he wrote: “Dear Family, I’m so so sorry for what I’m about to do. I have been bullied a lot recently and had a lot of shit made up about me that ain’t true.”
It emerged that Dominic had taken up a dare to kiss another boy on a school trip during a game of spin the bottle. Some participants recorded the game on their mobile phones and the images circulated. Dominic, who was dyslexic and found it difficult to formulate a quick retort, became the butt of jokes when he returned to St Edward’s after the trip.
The Stonewall homosexual campaign group jumped on the idea of ‘homophobic bullying’ and started putting it about that Dominic might have been homosexual, something he and his family always denied. Stonewall even persuaded his father, Roger, to go around schools on a non-bullying mission and made him ‘hero of the year‘ on 3rd November 2011, the night Melanie Phillips was named ‘bigot of the year’ at the ceremony hosted by Stephen K Amos. Weeks later, in December 2011, Roger Crouch committed suicide as well.
Let us pray that the authors of this guidance do not end up with blood on their hands.
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Ugandan homosexual activists have learnt from Western pro-sodomy propaganda in their use of rainbow colours and moving the debate away from sex and onto ‘love’.
An independent Scotland will give asylum to Ugandans who consider themselves persecuted by anti-gay laws, reports The Herald.
Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s Minister For External Affairs, has written to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague detailing the Scottish Government’s gesture to welcome “any Ugandan” persecuted by the new laws.
He also intends to raise the matter with Ugandan ministers at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer.
Unless William Hague follows suit, the measure would need Scottish independence before coming into force. It is however unlikely that the ‘No’ camp will use the announcement in the independence debate, so entrenched is the pro-homosexual position in British politics and media.
Humza Yousaf. Which tartan is that? If not Clan Yousaf, can anyone shed any light?
Humza Yousaf, 29, was elected via the Mixed Member Proportional Representation from the Party List. He has been a spokesman for Islamic Relief. Having a soft spot for sodomites is not normally an Islamic trait.
In his letter Mr Yousaf urges Mr Hague “to offer asylum to any Ugandans who feels threatened or persecuted by the legislation”, adding that “Scotland will play her part in providing asylum for those seeking refuge from this draconian legislation”.
He adds that during the Games “no one from any part of the Commonwealth who visits Scotland will be under any doubt about our values as a welcoming, open and tolerant society”.
But not tolerant of African values or Christian virtue, of course.
The announcement raises questions. Nigeria, the biggest country in Africa, and also a Commonwealth member, has a recently-enacted law which also outlaws homosexual propaganda. Will Humza extend Scotland’s offer to Nigerians?
Africans are resourceful people and not devoid of acting skills. It is easy to claim to be homosexual and impossible to disprove. Scotland can look forward to a flood of applications for asylum if independence goes through.
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President Museveni of Uganda has defied the United States by giving his approval to a bill outlawing homosexual propaganda, we are happy to report.
President Obama had threatened a cooling in what he described as “our valued relationship” should Uganda enact the bill, passed by the Ugandan Parliament.
Uganda receives some $400 million in aid annually from the United States, which now has to decide whether to show its displeasure by punishing ordinary Ugandans for their leaders’ disobedience to the wishes of Uncle Sam.
Such an outcome is highly unlikely. Museveni has called Obama’s bluff. And ‘ordinary Ugandans’ are delighted.
The new law allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality” and also criminalises the “promotion” of homosexuality”, reports the BBC.
The bill passed by parliament in December made it a crime not to report homosexuals, which would have made pastoral counselling difficult, but this clause has been removed from the legislation signed by the president.
Much prayer was mobilised in Uganda and across the world, including in neighbouring Kenya.
The Bill follows similar legislation in Nigeria, passed in reaction to pro-homosexual moves in the Commonwealth leaders meeting in October 2012.
President Obama has given President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda a veiled threat of a reduction in aid should the President enact a law prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality, reports Fox News.
President Obama warned Uganda on Sunday that its plans to clamp down on proselytisation by homosexuals would “complicate our valued relationship.”
Obama maintained that the United States stands for ‘the protection of fundamental freedoms and universal human rights’ and ‘believes people everywhere should be treated equally’.
“That is why I am so deeply disappointed that Uganda will shortly enact legislation that would criminalize homosexuality,” Obama said in a written statement issued from Southern California, where he was spending the weekend. “The Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, once law, will be more than an affront and a danger to the gay community in Uganda. It will be a step backward for all Ugandans and reflect poorly on Uganda’s commitment to protecting the human rights of its people. It also will mark a serious setback for all those around the world who share a commitment to freedom, justice and equal rights.
“Enacting this legislation will complicate our valued relationship with Uganda,” he added.
President Museveni said last week that he plans to sign the new legislation, which also prescribes life imprisonment for acts of “aggravated homosexuality.” Those acts are defined as sex acts where one of the partners is infected with HIV, sex with minors or the disabled and repeated sexual offenses among consenting adults.
Uganda has been heavily targeted by Western homosexuals both in sex tourism and with cultural pressure.
Ugandan lawmakers passed the Bill in December. It enjoys broad support among Christian clerics and lawmakers who say it is needed to deter Western homosexuals from ‘recruiting’ Ugandan children.
It is also needed to curtail the pro-homosexual activities of a raft of foreign agencies, including the Open Society, funded by billionaire George Soros, which now has an office in Kampala, the American Ford Foundation, the Dutch humanist organisation HIVOS and North American and European government aid departments.
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President Obama (l) and Jason Collins (r)
The United States is Uganda’s largest donor, sending more than $400 million in aid annually in recent years. If Museveni signs the bill, the U.S. is expected to find ways to register disappointment over the law by withdrawing some or all of that aid.
Nigeria last month increased penalties against unnatural acts.
Obama supports same-sex marriage and his administration eliminated the Clinton-era ban on openly gay service in the military.
For his State of the Union address last month, Obama sat openly-homosexual basketball player Jason Collins with first lady Michelle Obama.
Simon and Jane MacOnyango have mobilised prayer in neighbouring Kenya.
Obama has also complained about a Russian law banning gay propaganda, and made sure prominent homosexual athletes were on the U.S. delegations to the Sochi Olympics.
Prayer has been mobilised across Uganda and in next-door Kenya, where minister Simon MacOnyango said:
‘The Church (The Body of Christ) should keep Uganda in prayers so that President Yoweri Museveni will resist this external pressure and make the right choice for the people of Uganda. Why should President Obama use his countrymen’s taxes to dangle a carrot to promote sin in another sovereign nation?’
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Druids invoked the ‘spirit of water’ at the end of the Paralympic Games in 2012, Christian Voice can reveal.
In an astonishing pagan ceremony, former army medic and whisky promoter Rory MacKenzie spoke words from a Druid ritual composed by Philip Shallcrass (known as ‘Greywolf’ in the British Druid Order) and Emma Restall Orr (‘Bobcat’).
The ceremony was broadcast live to 750 million people worldwide during the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympics. There was no Christian content, no acknowledgement of Almighty God or of his Son, the King of kings, the Lord Jesus Christ. Instead, MacKenzie said:
‘I call upon the spirit of Autumn. The spirit of water, of the ebb and flow of emotion; of open seas and running streams, of cleansing rain; spirit of the evening sun, of twilight and of Autumn. ‘I call upon the spirit of Winter. The spirit of earth, of the womb of creation; of the night and the snows of winter, deep roots and ancient stones. ‘I call upon the spirit of Spring. The spirit of air, the breath of life; of sunrise, and of new life and of new growth. ‘I call upon the Spirit of Summer. The spirit of fire, of energy of passion; spirit of the noonday sun, the heat of summer, vitality and abundance. ‘My friends, let the festival commence!
The Paralympic closing ceremony
In a video of the ceremony and the ‘festival’, a group of men with flame-throwers can be seen moving about before the olympic flame was passed out. MacKenzie, shaven-headed, sporting a man-bag and clad in a peculiar leather jacket and shorts to expose his artificial lower leg and establish empathy with the paralympians, continued:
The circle is unbroken, The ancestors awoken. May the songs of the Earth and of her people ring true. Hail to the Festival of the flame of root and branch, tooth and claw, fur and feather, of earth and sea and sky
In a separate development, a document has come to light showing that the flooding of much of the Somerset Levels was planned by the EU and environmentalists in the Environment Agency and exacerbated by Government cuts and broken promises. To take just one example, Chris, Lord Smith promised dredging of the rivers last year, but nothing happened.
In a typically sensationalist piece the Daily Mail says the Environment Agency preferred water voles to people, but ironically, many water voles have themselves been drowned. In a further twist, the numbers of voles – the iconic ‘ratty’ in the Wind in the Willows – are seriously down because of predation by mink released from fur farms by animal rights fanatics in the 1980s and 1990s.
The last few weeks have broken all records for rainfall in southern England in particular. Even David Cameron has spoken on the flooding being ‘of Biblical proportions’. Henley-on-Thames councillor David Silvester claimed the flooding was God’s punishment for the passing into law of ‘gay marriage’.
But ‘gay marriage’ can only be seen in such a light as the last straw on the back of an already overladen camel. We bow to the god of environmentalism on the Levels, we invoke demonic pagan spirits in the Olympics, we pass a raft of legislation against the laws of God, and then we are surprised when God allows the most extreme weather for a century to afflict our shores.
Let us be under no illusion. The Almighty is Lord over the weather. he can send or withhold the rain. The Lord Jesus calmed the storm on Lake Galilee. Even if we baulk at the idea of God actually sending the 2014 storms, do we not believe that he can protect a city or a nation?
But if that city or nation deliberately sets its face by its deeds against the Almighty, do we think he will still keep watch over them?
Psalm 127:1 A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
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A UKIP Councillor has been sacked for comments linking the recent floods with ‘gay marriage’.
Henley-on-Thames councillor David Silvester was suspended by the party on 19 January after blaming David Cameron for the floods and storms which have hit England and Wales.
UKIP initially said Mr Silvester’s views were “not the party’s belief” but defended his right to state his opinions.
But after protests from the party’s LGBT group he was suspended. Today he was expelled.
His house has been pelted with eggs and had a six-colour homosexual rainbow flag draped on it.
Ironically, Mr Silvester left the Conservative Party over David Cameron’s determination to force ‘gay marriage’ through Parliament. He made similar remarks during his time as a Conservative. He remains a Henley Town Councillor. UKIP, it must be said, opposes gay marriage and Councillor Sylvester has been accused of using party facilities to promote his views.
But was he right to make the link?
In Egypt, God sent hail on Egypt as one of the ten plagues:
Exod 9:23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Elijah prayed for a drought and then prayed for rain upon God’s instruction:
1Kings 18:1And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth. 2 And Elijah went to shew himself unto Ahab. And there was a sore famine in Samaria.
King Ahab blamed Elijah for the drought, although the prophet put him right about where the real responsibility lay:
1Kings 18:17 And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? 18 And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
Solomon heard from the Lord himself that God was both responsible for adverse weather and could be prevailed upon to lift it, but only as a result of heartfelt national repentance:
2Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
The Psalmist said that all our protection schemes and counter-terrorist measures are a waste of effort unless God himself is watching over us as a corporate group:
Psalm 127:1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
So Mr Silvester is not out on a Biblical limb but soundly in accord with Scripture in principle. God can bring disaster on a land as a result of disobedience to his laws, rulers do bear responsibility, and they should lead the people, not into sin, but to repentance if they want stability and prosperity on their watch.
Whether the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act 2013 is enough on its own to move the Lord to send storms and floods, whether it was the last straw after all the other legislation passed in our land in rebellion from God over the last sixty years, or whether the storms have just been an over-the-top part of our natural weather cycle and, in the case of the Somerset levels, bad management, only God knows.
But he was right to remind us that Goid is not mocked. The words of 2Chr 7:14, Psalm 127:1 and a host of other scriptures remain to warn us that we cannot expect God’s blessing as a nation, a family, a business or as an individual, if we hold his laws in contempt and walk in rebellion from him.
As for UKIP, many Christians will be wondering whether they are the haven of free speech and the natural home for disaffected Bible-believers that they seemed.
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The six-colour rainbow ”diversity’ flag on display at a homosexual rally.
A rainbow flag has been raised in Leicester to mark the beginning of February as ‘Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans History Month’.
The flag was raised on Monday by Labour Councillor Manjula Sood, a previous Lord Mayor of Leicester, and currently assistant Mayor and Vice Chair of Equal Opportunities, Education and Social Services for Leicester City Council
She said: “The city council is committed to celebrating Leicester’s diversity.”
How celebrating sodomy will increase a sense of city cohesion within Leicester’s Christian and Muslim communities was not stated.
Cllr Sood is Leicester City’s only female Asian elected councillor, a position held since 1996. She is of course a Hindu with strong links to India. According to her biography, she has partaken in the last three International Women’s Day.
Councillor Manjjula Sood
Cllr Sood is very busy promoting diversity. She is Trustee and an Executive Director for the Leicester Council of Faiths, Vice Chair and Women’s Officer for the local Constituency Labour Party, Member of Asian Refuge Shelter, Member of the Afro-Caribbean Working Party (what has she to offer there?) Member of the Children and Young Persons scrutiny committee, Member of the Leicester Domestic Violence forum, naturally, Member of the Faith Regeneration Advisory Group, engaged with developing a multi religion centre in Leicester (very New Age, that) and Member of the Inter Faith Network UK since 1995.
The rainbow flag is also flying outside Leicestershire police headquarters in Enderby, as well as County Hall in Glenfield.
Leicestershire’s assistant chief constable Steph (sic) Morgan, who speaks on LGBT issues for the Association of Chief Police Officers, explained away his and the council’s flying of the flag like this: “Flying the rainbow flag together in this way is a symbol of our joint commitment to the LGBT community locally and is part of ongoing work with our local authority partners to create a just and fair society for all.
“As national LGBT strategic policing lead, I was pleased to see 10 police forces, including Leicestershire police, featured in the Stonewall 100 Index of gay-friendly employers in January 2013.”
Concentrating on such divisive issues as being ‘gay-friendly’ may explain why the police now have no time to investigate internet fraud and why there seem to have been so many recent financial scandals involving senior police officers.
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Russian President, Vladimir Putin, told homosexuals to leave children alone.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent shockwaves through the western world when he announced that homosexual propaganda will not be welcome in the 22nd Winter Olympics being held in Sochi next month.
In a rare interviewwith BBC’s Andrew Marr, President Putin outlined his position. “We don’t have a ban on non-traditional sexual relations,” he said. “We have a ban on promoting homosexuality and paedophilia among minors.”
The Russian president added, “You can feel free in your relationships but leave children in peace.”
Putin’s comments echo a talk he gave in Finland (below) where he explained his concern about children being affected by homosexual propaganda. This concern found expression in a law last June prohibiting homosexual propaganda to children under 18.
Gay rights activists throughout the world have gone hysterical, calling for a boycott on the Olympic games and accusing Russia of persecuting homosexuals. Stephen Fry is among the growing host of celebrities joining together to condemn Russia.
While homosexuality was against the law during the era of the Soviet Union, it is completely legal in Russia today. What is illegal is the aggressive promotion of homosexual values. As President Vladimir Putin has said:
“I want everyone to understand that in Russia there are no infringements on sexual minorities’ rights. They’re people, just like everyone else, and they enjoy full rights and freedoms.”
Russia’s stance against homosexual propaganda is rooted in the country’s historic Christian heritage. Since the collapse of communion there has been a revival in the Russian Orthodox Church and a gradual resurgence (if fleeting and selective) of traditional Christian values.
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Christian Voice created significant controversy on social media through defending traditional marriage
Social media outlets exploded throughout 2013 with discussion of the resources Christian Voice provided to defend real marriage.
Building on our 2012 briefing paper The Trivialization of Matrimony, we devoted much of last year to publishing resources for Christians to better understand the issues surrounding same-sex ‘marriage.’ (A select list of those articles can be found at the end of this post.)
Little did we realize that our stand would reverberate throughout the internet. Our 2013 articles on marriage are still being debated through social media such as Facebook.
Below are some of the most controversial articles we published that were featured on Facebook, together with the hundreds of comments people left. To view the comments on any one article, click ‘comments’ on the bottom of each embedded post. Feel free to join in the ongoing discussions.
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Chris Teoh (left) and homosexual activist Ivan Hinton, had their ‘marriage’ overturned.
Australia’s High Court has overturned legislation allowing gay marriage in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), reports the BBC.
The ACT parliament passed a bill in October making the territory the first part of Australia to legalise same-sex weddings.
But the national government challenged the decision, saying it was inconsistent with federal law, which specified in 2004 that marriage was between a man and a woman. The court said the issue should be decided by parliament – which in September 2012 voted down gay marriage legislation.
It appears that the ACT legislators, and the activists who led a rush to ‘marry’ in the Territory, were attempting to ‘bounce’ Australia into federal-wide gay marriage. However, the result is that 27 tearful couples who ‘married’ since the law came into effect last weekend will now have their unions declared invalid.
In a statement, the Australian Christian Lobby, which opposes gay marriage, said: “Marriage between a man and a woman is good for society and beneficial for governments to uphold in legislation.
“It is about providing a future for the next generation where they can be raised by their biological parents, wherever possible,” the statement said, adding that “it is now time to move on”.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who leads a Liberal-National coalition, opposes same-sex marriage. Last year, a bill allowing same-sex marriage was voted down in both houses of Australia’s national parliament.
In April, New Zealand became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to legalise gay marriage. Gay marriage is also legal in countries including the United Kingdom (from next year), Canada, France, Argentina, and South Africa, and some US states.
The Bible specifies that marriage is between a man and a woman, so Australia’s parliament stands on surer ground than the others mentioned. Jesus Christ took human sexuality right back to the way God made us when he said:
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Becoming ‘one flesh’ speaks of an emotional and spiritual bond which is expressed at a physical level in the conjugal act. Two men or two women can never become ‘one flesh’, lacking between them the necessary complentary parts of the anatomy. They cannot be married.
Leviticus, which forms part of God’s revealed law code, condemns adultery, child sacrifice, homosexual acts and bestiality in consecutive verses:
Lev 18:20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her. 21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. 22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. 23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
It is important for us to remember that Jesus Christ has the title of King of kings. God demands to rule in the affairs of men:
Psalm 103:19 The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
Interestingly, after God warns the people of Israel against the sins listed above, he says:
Lev 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: 25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
God brought judgment on the Canaanites. What will he do to Britain, to Canada, to France and New Zealand? The Bible singles out the lawmakers for criticism. In the words of the prophet Micah:
Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
While the Psalmist says:
Psalm 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
Psalm 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
Sadly, when a civilisation is overthrown, it is not only the leaders who perish. We all suffer. That is why the public good demands that Christians stand up, like the Australian Christian Lobby have done, like, with God’s grace and help, we are doing, and warn them from the word of God:
Ezekiel 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
If we do not warn, we are like Ezekiel’s famous watchman, who saw trouble coming and did not warn the people:
Eze 33:6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.
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Since the Olympic diver Tom Daley announced he was ‘in a relationship’ ‘with a guy’ the papers have been in a frenzy to find out the identity of the mystery ‘boyfriend’.
Our suspicions that it would turn out to be an older man have now been confirmed by a number of tabloids.
The individual concerned is American screenwriter and gay rights activist Dustin Lance Black who at 39 is more than twice Daley’s age. It was Black who encouraged Daley to make his ill-considered video announcement.
Dustin Black in campaigning mode
The Daily Mirror reports that the diver ‘looks up to’ Black whom he met in March. It would not be a stretch of the imagination to wonder if Black is filling the void left by Daley’s late father, Robert, who died tragically two years ago at the age of just 40. The diver was devoted to his father, who never saw his son fulfill his dream of competing at the Olympic Games – and winning a medal.
Writing on Eurosport, Desmond Kane said: ‘In his private moments, Daley must feel like he has been shorn of his support network. The trademark smile must hide a lot with his mum being forced to deal with such ongoing grief. It all remains very raw.’
The Mirror also said that Daley and Black have fallen for each other’. If Daley is having a sort of adolescent crush compensating for his dreadful loss, Dustin Black probably cannot believe his luck. He has been able to initiate a teenage boy into sexual activities he probably would not even have known about this time last year.
A teenage crush on a teacher or classmate of the same sex is not uncommon, but the great majority grow out of such desires and progress to heterosexuality. The danger comes when authority figures or role models signal that such feelings are indicative of an inate ‘orientation’. For this reason as well as concern for his own development, it is encouraging at least that Tom Daley has refused to identify as ‘gay’ and has said he is still attracted to girls.
In April 2010 the American College of Pediatricians cautioned “educators about the management of students experiencing same-sex attraction or exhibiting symptoms of gender confusion.”
A press release explained:
‘The College reminds school superintendents that it is not uncommon for adolescents to experience transient confusion about their sexual orientation and that most students will ultimately adopt a heterosexual orientation if not otherwise encouraged. For this reason, schools should not seek to develop policy which “affirms” or encourages these non-heterosexual attractions among students who may merely be experimenting or experiencing temporary sexual confusion. Such premature labeling can lead some adolescents to engage in homosexual behaviors that carry serious physical and mental health risks.’
The Apostle Paul warned believers In Corinth that those engaged in homosexual activity would not ‘inherit the kingdom of God.’ In a perceptive following verse, he reminded these early Christians that some of them had not only been forgiven their sins but actually delivered from what the Bible describes as ‘vile affections’ by the power of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit:
1Cor 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
The fact remains that, as the Lord Jesus himself said:
Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
And despite all the campaigning for ‘gay marriage’ by people like Justin Black, becoming ‘one flesh’, in the full emotional and conjugal sense implied by the Lord Jesus, is something a pair of homosexual men or women can never do.
Please pray for Tom Daley (and other young people experiencing similar emotional turmoil) that his homosexual feelings will indeed be transient and that he will grow out of them. Pray that God will protect him from the diseases inherent in unnatural activity and that the Almighty will send people across his path to lead him onto the true way.
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Male brains are wired front to back, with few connections bridging the two hemispheres. In females, the connections criss-cross between left and right
US researchers at the University of Pennsylvania scanned the brains of nearly 1,000 men, women, boys and girls and found striking differences, reports the BBC.
The “connectome maps” reveal the differences between the male brain (seen in blue) and the female brain (orange)
Male brains are wired front to back, with few connections bridging the two hemispheres. In females, the connections criss-cross between left and right.
These differences might explain why men, in general, tend to be better at learning and performing a single task, like cycling or navigating, whereas women are more equipped for multitasking, say the researchers in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
The same volunteers were asked to perform a series of cognitive tests, and the results appeared to support this notion.
Women scored well on attention, word and face memory, and social cognition. Men performed better on spatial processing and sensori-motor speed.
Researcher Dr Ruben Gur said: “It’s quite striking how complementary the brains of women and men really are.
“Detailed connectome maps of the brain will not only help us better understand the differences between how men and women think, but it will also give us more insight into the roots of neurological disorders, which are often sex related.”
On the same day, under a headline ‘Britain ravaged by sexism: women know your place!’ the Daily Telegraph reported that nearly four in 10 Brits believe women should not work in a range of jobs including soldier, pilot, mechanic or surgeon, suggesting sexism is still “prevalent” in the workplace.
Some 40 per cent of the UK population also believe men should not do jobs such as midwife, nurse, nanny or beautician, the study of 2,026 adults found.
Among the least trusted professionals are male nannies, female electricians, male primary school teachers and female bus drivers, the study by WorldPay Zinc, a payment processing firm, revealed.
Geraldine Wilson, managing director of WorldPay Zinc, said: “People in Britain are prone to stereotyping men and women based on their gender. Strong opinions on which jobs are for men and which are for women still exist, as do beliefs that men are better in stereotypically masculine roles such as plumber and electrician, whilst women make better nurses and florists. Both sexes are still being held back from pursuing occupations that might not be seen as suitable for their gender.”
Throughout the survey men “expressed more dated opinions and attitudes than women”, voicing a lack of trust in both men and women doing jobs not historically associated with their gender. Only 56 per cent of men believe that women should be free to do any job they like. Similarly, only 52 per cent of men think that men should be able to become beauticians, nannies or midwives.
In the Bible, men did the heavy lifting and the fighting while midwives were female and women cared for all children until boys left the care of their mother and began to learn their father’s business at the age of 12 or 13. The girls stayed under their mother’s care but under their father’s authority.
In addition, God gave leadership roles to men:
Exod 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
And the Prophet Isaiah condemned a society in which men had relinquished their leadership roles:
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.
So perhaps the minority who would restrict jobs according to sex are driven, not by sexism and dated opinions, but by scriptural truth and up-to-date science.
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