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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The former Co-op Bank chairman, who oversaw the organisation’s near collapse, has been caught using hard drugs.
The Rev Paul Flowers, 63, who it appears is also a Methodist minister, was filmed buying crack cocaine, crystal meth and ketamine, counting out hundreds of pounds in £20 notes days after appearing in front of MPs on the Treasury Select Committee to be questioned about the Co-operative Bank’s financial problems.
Earlier this year the Co-op was forced to pull out of its proposed takeover of the TSB branches of Lloyds-TSB because of a near £1bn hole in its accounts.
In an additional irony, Paul Flowers is himself homosexual and was outed as a drug user by a man he met on a gay dating site disgustingly called ‘Grindr’ in October. The man apparently objected to Flowers using drugs to take advantage of younger men at his parties.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Rev Flowers, who resigned from the bank in June after the disastrous state of its finances were revealed, texted: “I was “grilled” by the Treasury Select Committee yesterday and afterwards came to Manchester to get wasted with friends.”
In another message he apparently boasted that his plans were ‘turning into a two day, drug fuelled gay orgy!!!’
Paul Flowers boasted about the success of the Co-op Bank, saying it would be ‘easy to be smug’ in 2011, two years after it took over the Brittania Building Society and its toxic debts and two years before its financial problems came to light.
He has been suspended by the Methodist Church for three weeks and by the Labour Party, for whom he was a local councillor.
In 2005 the Co-op Bank terminated the bank account of Christian Voice as part of its ‘diversity’ policy objecting to ‘discriminatory pronouncements on grounds of sexual orientation’. The Co-op said the group was ‘incompatible with the position of the Co-operative Bank, which publicly supports diversity and dignity’.
The Co-op Bank’s self-styled and much-trumpeted ‘ethical’ stance has now come back to haunt it, with even the Daily Mirror putting the word in inverted commas in its report on the Flowers scandal. Both the Telegraph and the Mirror claim that Flowers’ drug habit was well known by Labour MPs at Westnminster, prompting the question: ‘How much did his colleagues at the Co-op know about his lifestyle – and did they care?’
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Now that the dust has settled on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, it is coming to be recognized as a massive mistake.
Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, has said that David Cameron pushed ‘gay marriage’ through “too quickly” and that it has been ‘damaging’ to the Tories.
Even David Cameron himself now reportedlybelieves that the speed with which he rushed the changes through Parliament was a political error, though there seems to be ambiguity on whether the Prime Minister said he actually “regretted” it.
However, there can be no doubt on one thing: it was a massive mistake.
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Claire Balding (r) with her ‘civil partner’ Alice Arnold
The lesbian BBC sports presenter Claire Balding and Peter Tatchell, ‘Outrage!’ leader and contributor to a 1980s paedophilia campaigning book, are joint second on the Independent’s 2013 ‘Pink List’ of 101 influential homosexuals.
Topping the list was a journalist by the name of Paris Lees, who was apparently born a man and has had a sex change.
Women’s Olympic boxing gold medal winner Nicola Adams MBE was fourth and Ruth Hunt, Deputy CEO of Stonewall, was fifth.
The judges included Ben Summerskill, Chief Executive of Stonewall, as well as a collection of Indy editors.
Matthew Parris, Sir Elton John, Stephen Fry and Sir Ian McKellen are among a celebrity-laden list of past or perhaps past-it campaigners, whom the Indy fervently hopes ‘don’t mind stepping aside to pass on the baton to those who campaign today’.
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They love ‘alternative’ views at Greenbelt, but not Biblical ones, of course. No-one was invited either in 2010 or 2012 to put the alternative view to Tatchell’s anti-Christian polemics.
Nor will there be an alternative view this year (August 2013), when Reverend Lucy Winkett who chairs the Amos Trust will launch, on behalf of the trust, the anti-Israel Kairos Britain network of Churches. (Sorry, the link has evaporated: so much for ‘Kairos Britain’ network!)
Kairos, also being launched in other countries around the world, sees Israel as an oppressive, unjust and racist nation which gives no rights to Palestinians. Kairos condemns Israel and denies any right for Israel to defend herself and to live on land rightfully her own.
They call for what they describe as an end to ‘oppression and injustice’ by Israel and for ‘justice’ for Palestinians but refuse to address the oppression of Christians in Gaza or the removal of human rights of women and young men or the summary executions in HAMAS governed areas.
Kairos has failed to notice, let alone condemn, the firing of 29,000 rockets into Israeli communities since 2000 or the suicide bombings which are now mercifully being prevented by the security fence. They don’t address the increasing teaching of hatred in Palestinian Arab schools.
Greenbelt are also hosting a number of other speakers who are anti-Israel, one of whom, Mark Braverman, calls Zionism ‘racism’. Many young people attend Greenbelt unaware that it is a sub-Christian campaigning front for grindingly politically-correct fashionable left-wing propaganda.
A group from Christians for Zion are so concerned about Greenbelt’s stance that they have organised a witness outside the festival on Sunday 24th August 2013
Greenbelt’s profiling of voices from Israel-Palestine has been long and consistent. From the early 1980s onwards we have sought to give a platform to voices from the region not usually heard on the global stage; voices struggling for peace and justice who advocate non-violent action and dialogue – both Israeli and Palestinian.
But have they actually had anyone pro-Israel? Er, no. And are the anti-Israel ‘voices’ ‘not usually heard’? Er, no, again. The world’s media is awash with them. Truth is the first casualty of Greenbelt’s propaganda war.
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The press fawn over a Russian homosexual activist.
Holding the Winter Olympics in Russia has turned into a jamboree for the professionally aggrieved.
Stephen Fry, described as an ‘actor, author and television presenter’ has written an open letter to Prime Minister David Cameron condemning what he describes as the “toxic mix of shaven headed thuggery and bigoted religion” currently ‘being used to demonise LGBT communities in Russia’. As if there are no shaven-headed homosexual thugs and bigots.
Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party, told Fry to “get over it”. David Cameron said he was against a boycott.
However, A Downing Street spokesman said the Government remained ”greatly concerned“ about restrictions on the promotion of sodomy in Russia and said Mr Cameron had raised the issue directly with President Putin. President Obama has also raised concerns, as well he might. He has also declined to meet President Putin. What with whistle-blower Snowden and now this attack on his nearest and dearest, it would make any President concerned to defend immorality flounce out of a summit.
The flurry of interest has arisen since Russia’s lower house of parliament, the Duma, passed a law prohibiting the provision of information about homosexuality to people under 18. A fine can be imposed for promoting the Western man’s vice.
Related? Griffin Fry
The WInter Olympics are due to be held in the Russian town of Sochi in February 2014.
By the way, has anyone else been struck by the uncanny similarlity between Stephen Fry and Nick Griffin? Can they by any chance be related? Or at least related to a common porcine ancestor? Not that we do evolution here.
Proving Godwin’s Law, that at some stage Nazi Germany will be mentioned in any online discussion, Fry got his over-the-top retaliation in first, saying:
“The 1936 Berlin Olympics proceeded under the exultant aegis of a tyrant who had passed into law an act which singled out for special persecution a minority whose only crime was the accident of their birth.
”Putin is eerily repeating this insane crime, only this time against gay Russians.
“I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler’s anti-Semitism. I for one, weep at seeing history repeat itself.”
I, for one, weep at the misuse of the comma, but I shan’t be writing to David Cameron about it..
More babies were born in the UK in 2011-12 than any year since 1972, says the Office for National Statistics, as reported by the BBC.
In all, 813,200 UK births were recorded in the year, said the ONS, contributing to population growth that was, in absolute terms, the highest in the European Union.
ONS estimates say the population of the UK grew by 419,900 to 63.7 million between June 2011 and June 2012.
There were 254,400 more births than deaths and 165,600 more people coming to the UK than leaving.
There were 517,800 migrants from overseas while 352,100 people left the country.
Population growth is highest in London with the South-East of England coming in second. Channel 4 has a useful map showing where population growth is highest.
After the low birth-rate a decade ago, births are on course to emulate the nineteen-eighties in around three years and to outstrip the sixties by 2020.
The difference is, in the sixties and eighties it was people of British origin having the babies. Now, that demographic group are averaging below 2 children per woman of child-bearing age, while all the headline-grabbing stuff is coming from immigrants whose cultures still celebrate fecundity.
One Simon Ross, of anti-growth pressure group Population Matters, was reported widely, not least in the Daily Mail (which also has an interesting population chart by age).
He whined: ‘Our growing population is the root of many of our most pressing problems, including a lack of housing, pressure on services and development threats to our countryside and green spaces.
‘These, together with consequent infrastructure investments and transport issues are increasing costs for everyone. Measures by the Government to limit net migration are to be welcomed. However, the Government should also promote the benefits to individuals and society of smaller families.’
That is actually nonsense. The greater pressure on housing is coming from allowing families to split up so nonchalantly through divorce on demand. Services and transport do not stand still. They increase with population. There is no benefit to society from smaller families. A more informed opinion came from Jonathan Portes, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
He said: “The medium to long-term benefits are substantial. The people who are being born now or the immigrants who are coming here now will help pay for our pensions and public services in the future.”
The danger is not increased population as such but the way our population is being skewed towards a particular religious group.
Dr Leon Moosavi of Liverpool University says the Muslim population in the UK grew from 1.5 million in 2001 to 3.0 million in 2011, from 2% of the total population to something between 4% and 5%. And they are not slowing down yet. If anything, those Muslims born here are even more culturally Islamic and productive of the next generation than their parents.
Vincent Cooper, writing for The Commentator, argues that on present population trends, Muslims will be in a majority in the UK by 2050. Many of our cities will suffer that fate a lot earlier. Ten years before that, the tipping point at which Muslims will form a majority in the House of Commons will arrive.
But let us not blame individual Muslims, let alone Muslim women, for having more children than the current 1.8 norm. They are simply doing what God designed their bodies to do. They are doing what Christians should be doing: Working hard and increasing in a land where they feel like the underdogs.
Centuries ago, before the time of Christ, the people of Judah were carried off to Babylon. What did the Prophet Jeremiah urge them to do? Sit around moping? Watch the skies for their deliverance? No, he told them to build, to plant, to increase and to pray:
Jer 29:4 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon; 5 Build ye houses, and dwell in them; and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them; 6 Take ye wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that ye may be increased there, and not diminished. 7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
What did the Lord Jesus tell his followers to do before his return? ‘Occupy till I come.‘ (Luke 19:13)
Our society has a death-wish. We kill our own children, we encourage families to fracture, we whisk children off into ‘care’ to be abused by paedophile rings, we celebrate sexual license, pornography and perversion, even allowing the practitioners of the latter to pretend to ‘marry’.
But the secularists who have engineered our present debauchery have a very short time in which to celebrate. Like every civilisation which has ploughed this furrow before, we shall go down the rubbish-chute of history, being taken over within a generation by a stronger, monogamous culture. That culture, on current trends, will be Islam.
If only it would be Christianity. But that depends on the Church finding some confidence in historical, traditional, red-blooded Christianity. The very future of the United Kingdom depends on whether Christian men will stand up to be counted.
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