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    Gay marriage proposal overturns reality

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    Stephen
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    Gay 'blessing tent' at Cardiff Mardi Gras

    We have become accustomed to gay rights taking precedence over the right to express the Christian faith.  Whether you are a counsellor like Gary McFarlane, or Christian hoteliers like Peter and Hazelmary Bull, or a registrar like Lilian Ladele, you will find that the law no longer upholds the Christian faith when it runs up against the new legal steamroller of homosexual equality.

    But now gay rights is about to over-rule reality.  Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone MP announced in the safety of the Liberal Democrat 2011 annual conference that pairs of homosexuals will be able to enter into a marriage.  A consultation on the mechanics but not the principle will begin in March 2012.  The proviso that they will only be able to ‘marry’ at a registry office and not in church is carefully designed to silence opposition from the mainstream denominations – and also from Muslims.

    Christians must still oppose this measure and point out the enormity of what is being done.  Human Society has understood marriage to be the union of a man and a woman for 6,000 years.  With the exception of the decadent West, it is still understood like that all over the world.  What the Government is proposing is a seismic shift in the definition of marriage. 

     

    It is easy enough to demonstrate the absurdities of the idea.  Are two men both going to be ‘bridegrooms’?  Lesbian couples often call each other ‘brides’ as in ‘the brides wore matching dresses’ or ‘one of the brides wore a dress and the other a tuxedo.’  We recently reported on two of the more ludicrous recent civil partnerships.  And when they are married, will one call him/her-self the ‘husband’ and describe the other as his / her wife?  Or will they both be ‘husbands’ or both ‘wives’?  Or will they risk an epidemic of nausea by each pretending to be ‘the spouse’ of the other?

    Are the Government seriously expecting these sham marriages to be recognised as the real thing when the parties travel overseas?   And what of civil partnerships?  Are they to be abandoned or retained?

    The deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg wrote: “I support gay marriage. Love is the same, straight or gay, so the civil institution should be the same, too. All couples should be able to make that commitment to one another.”

    But love is not the same, Nick.  The love you have for your wife is expressed sexually.  The love you have for your brothers and sisters is not.  Homosexuals eroticise a love which should be platonic.  This is usually because of unmet needs in childhood, by a lack of affirmation from the parent of the same sex as a man or as a woman.  It is not pathological to be emotionally a nine-year old at the age of nine.  It is at the age of twenty-nine.

    Homosexuals need understanding, and they need healing for the underlying pathologies.  That healing may come from the psychiatric profession, but now that most of them have gone like dead fish with the politically-correct flow, the gap should be filled by the Church, ministering the saving and healing power of Jesus Christ.  However someone became gay, they do not have to stay gay.  That is a choice.

    Where this is headed is anyone’s guess.  Nine years ago, 41% of Scots agreed with gay marriage.  That displays a shocking enough lack of connection with the reality of life.

    But today, after just five years of civil partnerships being conducted in the UK, including in Scotland, that figure has risen to 61% in favour.  If public opinion can be swayed like that by a new law combined with the preaching of politicians and the media, how long will it be until all but a remnant in Scotland, and in the UK for that matter, are in favour of enshrining in law what God describes as an abomination and of overturning the natural created order?  On a dispassionate reading, Sodom was like that.  And can a Sodom-esque clamp-down on the freedom of speech of those who disagree be far behind?

    The Lord Jesus Christ said (in Mark 10:6-8) that from the beginning of the creation God made us male and female and that is why a man leaves his father and mother to cleave to his wife.

    So (1) Jesus believed in creation not in evolution,

    (2) He spoke of some kind of marital ceremony in which the wider society is approvingly involved and

    (3) He then said ‘they twain shall be one flesh’ and reinforced the point ‘so then they are no more twain, but one flesh’.
    And being one flesh is something a pair of homosexuals, two men or two women, can never be.  Between them they physically lack the complementary parts of the body necessary for that God-ordained one-flesh union, and their lack of physical complementarity speaks of a lack of emotional compatibility as well.  The author and physician David Reuben said ‘homosexuals are trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces.’

    Given that a marriage has to be consumated to be valid in law, how are two people who do not possess between them the full set of parts of the anatomy necessary for such an act supposed to do that?  Or will that requirement be thrown away?

    None of these arguments will make any difference to the Governments’ gay rights juggernaut.  Facts don’t matter in a post-modern society.  But Christians have the right, indeed the duty, to witness to the truth in season and out of season, (and it is very much out of season right now). 

    READ: Gen 2:23-24, 19:1-25 (see esp v19); Isaiah 1:9; Mark 10:6-8; Romans 1:24-27; I Cor 6:9-11; Rev 22:14-15.

    PRAY: For this nation to wake up and come to its senses.  For righteousness in the Queen’s ministers or for them to be replaced with men after God’s heart.  For compassion and healing for those suffering from same-sex attraction.  We have no power or might against the forces of the gay rights lobby in government and the media, but our eyes are on the Lord of heaven and earth who can send a miracle to a praying, believing, active people.

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    Paedophiles ‘not sick’, say academics

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    Stephen
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    No attempt is made to restrict the age of those attending homosexual events, not even on the Crimestoppers stall at the Cardiff 'Mardi Gras'

    A pro-paedophilia group and several academics have launched an offensive for the normalization and legalization of paedophilia in America.

    On August 17 of this year, the pro-paedophilia group B4U-ACT sponsored an event in Baltimore, USA, attended by researchers, professors, mental health professionals, and “minor-attracted persons” (MAP, a euphemism for “adults who crave sex with children”).

    Chris Banescu, who reported on the event, says:
    ‘Referring to Judeo-Christian moral principles and values as “cultural baggage of wrongfulness” and an adult’s desire to sexually molest a child as “normative,” these predators with Ph.D.s are hell-bent on destroying key moral boundaries and critical societal norms that protect innocent children from pathological and dangerous adults.’

    The individuals, who included academics from Johns Hopkins University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the London School of Economics, consider adult molestation of children not as a sexual perversion but as normal.

    Among the statements made and positions taken at the conference were these:
    •”We are not required to interfere with or inhibit our child’s sexuality.”
    •”Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult.
    •An adult’s desire to have sex with children is “normative.”

    Banescu says those present already ‘advocate for the declassification of pedophilia as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).’

    In the early 1970s, Peter Tatchell, who contributed to the British paedophile campaigning book ‘Betrayal of Youth’, and other homosexuals, put political pressure on the APA to declassify homosexual attraction as a psychiatric disorder.  They brought no evidence, but turned up remorselessly to disrupt meetings and browbeat APA officials until the Association gave in.

    Forty years later, the same slippery slope has descended to pressure for the declassification of paedophilia from the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. After all, Jacob Breslow, Graduate Student in Gender Research at the LSE, in the paper he presented at the Baltimore meeting, said: Allowing for a form of non-diagnosable minor attraction is exciting (and) a step that follows historically and theoretically from the removal of homosexuality (from the DSM) .  Abstracts Here.

    These are the early stages, but watch this space.

    Petition for freedom of speech

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    Stephen
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    September 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists are pressuring PayPal to cut off the accounts of pro-family Christian organizations that oppose the homosexual political agenda and uphold sexual morality, and PayPal is showing signs that it may capitulate to their demands.

    The homosexual organization behind the effort, All Out, claims that such organizations as Tradition, Family, and Property, and Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), as well as pro-family Christian activist Julio Severo, promote “hate, violence, and intolerance” and are “extremist.”

    “Thanks to PayPal, its (sic) easier than ever to send and receive money across currencies and continents – but it is also PayPal’s responsibility to make sure this technology doesn’t fall in the wrong hands. Anti-LGBT extremists all over the world are currently using PayPal to fundraise for their dangerous cause,” writes All Out.   “Not only is it against PayPal’s rules to promote promote ‘hate, violence, [and] racial intolerance,’ hate groups also damage PayPal’s brand and credibility. We ask that PayPal join the fight against online hate and immediately shut down the accounts of anti-LGBT extremist groups using the service.”

    All Out says that is has collected almost 35,000 signatures on its online petition.

    According to the European homosexual news service PinkNews, PayPal has responded by stating, “We take very seriously any cases where a user has incited hatred, violence or intolerance because of a person’s sexual orientation.”
    Although it adds, “we also take into account the rights of free speech and freedom of religion,” PayPal reportedly goes on to note, “we regularly review organisations and websites that use our service, and stop working with those that break our Acceptable Use Policy.”

    LifeSiteNews.com has created its own online petition at the website ProFamilyFreedom.net, which states: “I protest the attack by homosexual organizations on Christian activists Julio Severo, Americans for Truth About Homosexualty (AFTAH), and Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP). I encourage PayPal to affirm the right of pro-family organizations to use its service and to reject attacks on the Christian faith and other religions that uphold sexual morality and defend family values.”

    The campaign has originated in the US, but could easily transfer this side of the water.  Please sign the petition to stand up for religious values, conscience and free speech.

     http://profamilyfreedom.net/

    Rain on Time At Cardiff Mardi Gras

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    Stephen
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    We held a worthwhile witness at the Cardiff Mardi Gras on Saturday 3rd September 2011.  Though we were few, we were a happy few, a band of brothers, and those who were not there will feel themselves, if not accursed, at least having missed an opportunity.  But thank you to all those who were praying; and those who prayed for rain, as I did, can feel especially blessed – the rain arrived just as we finished the witness.

    'Poppers' on sale outside the Mardi Gras

    We gave out around 1,000 leaflets explaining that through the saving and healing grace of Jesus Christ it is possible to walk away from the homosexual lifestyle and homosexual desires.

    But in response to Christ’s question: ‘Wilt thou be made whole?’ (John 5:6) so many chose to say, ‘No, thanks, I’m fine as I am.’  Even the testimony of Peter, who left the homosexual life by the power of the Gospel, could not convince them.  In an age when we are supposed to listen to one another’s ‘stories’ his story was one they simply refused to hear.

    Isopropyl Nitrite drugs, known as ‘poppers’, which are supposed to offer sexual enhancement, were openly on sale outside the venue.  There is an obsession with sexual activity in the homosexual network, and poppers are commonly sniffed, despite their bland description as ‘room odourisers’.

    Peter and Judy sharing the Gospel

    Our leaflets were deemed such a threat that after an hour, the organisers sent out stewards to persuade people to bin them rather than read them.  Clearly there is a limit on how open-minded those attending Cardiff Mardi Gras are allowed to be.  Undaunted, we switched to sharing the Gospel and had some good conversations.  One young lady decided to sing two lines from Tom Robinson’s song ‘Sing if you’re glad to be gay’ continuously for around an hour in an attempt to put us off, in which quest she failed.  We had to admire the staying power of her vocal chords, even if the musicality was less than wonderful.  No-one else appeared as glad as she was, so she sang alone.  Ironically, Tom, who wrote the song as a homosexual, decided he would be gladder still heterosexual, and he is now married with two children.

    What was rather disturbing was that the age of teenagers coming along seems to be decreasing and their numbers increasing.  The Government’s school sex education in its ‘relationships’ guise is now overwhelmingly pro-gay, and parents seem to lack the moral courage to stand up to it.  It is well established that young people can go through a adolescent pseudo-homosexual phase.  The overwhelming majority grow out of it, but if it is reinforced by an affirmative message from the authorities, it can become cemented in place and hard to shake off.  ‘Never label yourself as “gay”‘ was the message we had for these young people.
    'Drag Queens' at Cardiff Mardi Gras

    We caught a camp gay activist telling a group of very young children, probably 11 or 12, that 10% of the population are gay, so we stood up to him.  How dare he lie to them like that?  Alfred Kinsey only achieved that figure by including sexual perverts and criminals, including paedophiles, in his surveys.

    The true figure, discovered in the NATSAL Survey in Britain and in the Smith study in Chicago, is around 1%, slightly more for men, and slightly less for women, but the number of people in the UK population reporting a same-sex encounter in the last five years has more than doubled from 1% to 2.6% from 1990 to 2000.  The number of currently active homosexuals will be fewer, and NATSAL 2000 found about 1 per cent of 16–24-year-olds had had one or more new same sex partners in the previous year.

    As shattered familes and sexual abuse are classic features of most gay life stories, and in the face of relentless promotion of homosexuality by the media and our political elite, don’t be expecting that 1% figure to drop any time soon.

    PRAY: Thank God for protection at the Cardiff Mardi Gras and for this opportunity to witness and evangelise.  Pray that someone has taken a leaflet or heard a word that will lead to them finding salvation and healing at the foot of the Cross of Jesus Christ.  The sower went forth to sow.  And even if no seed found fertile ground this time, please pray that at the very least we may have turned over the soil, allowed some light in, for someone else to sow the seed of faith in the future.

    Time to Speak of Freedom

    By
    Stephen
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    CARDIFF MARDI GRAS:
    TIME TO SPEAK OF FREEDOM

    (This is the text of the leaflet (or tract) 1,000 of which were handed out at the 2011 Cardiff Mardi Gras.)

    Leaflet for 2011 Mardi Gras

    This is a leaflet for intelligent, open-minded people, exploring the spiritual side of human sexuality.
    There can be no doubt about it, spirituality and religious faith are vitally important.
    Everyone is looking for something to fulfill them. In this leaflet we try to answer the important questions of life in a positive, life-affirming way.  It’s time to speak of freedom!

    Michael Glatze totally self-identified as gay from the age of 13.  He founded a media outreach group for young gays.  He never questioned his same-sex desires.  He questioned everything except his homosexuality.  He simply assumed that he had been born like it.

    But the death of his own father made Michael look at his own health and literally put the fear of God into him.  He even began to question his sexuality, something he was told never to do.  Just looking at ex-gay websites felt like he was breaking some kind of unwritten law.  It was like a taboo subject, like a form of social control.

    ‘I believed in things that made no sense’
    As soon as Michael began noticing the nature of his desires and believing they could change, the realisation, he says, ‘became very religious’.
    ‘When I started moving through the process of seeking God’s will, and trying to understand what that meant, I was buying less into things I had long believed.  I had believed in things that made no sense – they held no weight.’  He saw the life he was living was a fraud.
    Michael found a sense of freedom.  He also began making up his own mind: ‘When I started to read the Gospels and specifically what Jesus wrote, that’s when I started to gain an understanding of what was actually happening to me – the notion of a new life.’
    He says: ‘ In the Gospels, Jesus was giving up his life for my sake – giving me a new life.’

    Campaigning lesbian questioned her life
    Charlene Cothran was a campaigning lesbian for 29 years, organising and participating in marches, editing a gay periodical and lobbying for gay rights.
    Like Michael, she experienced for herself the power struggles within gay relationships – so much so that her close friend was shot dead by that woman’s lesbian ex- lover.  Charlene witnessed some of the violence that led up to the murder and said afterwards: ‘I stood at the very gates of hell’,
    ‘Oh my God!’ is a common expression of surprise but by the grace of God, Charlene began to question her life and knew that God was asking her whether she would give him her heart and soul.  And that’s what she did.

    ‘We were NOT born this way’
    Charlene says: ‘Know that we were NOT born this way. This myth was fashioned by the gay establishment as a basis for changing laws in favour of gay rights.
    ‘Do not resist God’s call on your life; get alone with God and let him minster the truth directly to you.  Accept Jesus Christ – enjoy your life to a new degree, without the burden of sin and with all God’s promises on your side.  Break free.
    ‘It’s possible to have a better time than you did in the clubs, in the parks, better than all those secret encounters with folks whose names you’ve long forgotten.’

    What did Jesus say about human sexuality?
    When Jesus spoke about sexual morality, he quoted from the two first chapters of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, about heterosexual ‘one flesh’ marriage!
    ‘Have you not read’, Jesus asked, ‘That he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?  And said: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh?’ (Gospel of Matthew Chapter 19)
    So Jesus taught heterosexuality.  And that ‘one flesh’ union the Bible speaks of is something only a man and a woman can achieve.  Our private parts are designed by God for each other, just as he designed man and woman for each other spiritually and emotionally as well.

    Trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces
    In the words of psychiatrist Dr David Reuben, gays and lesbians are ‘trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces’.
    Try as they might, a man can never be ‘one flesh’ with another man, and a woman can never be ‘one flesh’ with another woman.  That search for what has never existed might explain the rampant promiscuity in the gay world, orders of magnitude greater than among heterosexuals, even according to homosexual researchers.

    Messing up the body God gave us
    And of course the promiscuity brings in its wake a raft of sexually-transmitted diseases.  Gay men are now the main reservoir for syphilis and rectal gonorrhoea.  It is a disgrace that children are now being told in our schools that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality.
    According to the surveys, fewer than 2% of adults are homosexual, although you would think it was more from the noise the media make about it.  But around 25% of adolescents can be confused about their sexuality.  Most grow out of that phase but some can be persuaded that it is their ‘true identity’, and once in, it is hard to get free.  So never label yourself as gay.
    It’s time to speak of freedom, freedom from unnatural desires and freedom from sin.  As Michael Glatze and Charlene Cothran showed, a ‘gay identity’ is a lie.  They walked away from it by the power of Jesus Christ.

    Jesus, friend of sinners,  is tough on sin
    You will hear Jesus described as ‘friend of sinners’ but that’s not because he ever condoned sin.  It’s because He showed sinners the error of their ways and said that through him they could get right with God.  Jesus’s first words in his public ministry were ‘The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the Gospel.’  (Mark 1:15)
    Jesus is tough on sin and tough on the causes of sin. He condemned those who lead the young astray by saying they should have millstones tied around their necks and be thrown into the sea.

    So homosexuals are going to hell?
    All sinners are going to hell.  God’s Commandments can never be repealed: sin is worshipping anything other than God, blasphemy, pride, disrespect to parents and those in authority, murder, stealing, lying, adultery, envy, lust and all sexual sin – not just sodomy.  To break any of God’s Commandments is to stand condemned.
    But we are bringing good news!  If you repent of all you have done wrong, believe and call out to Jesus for mercy, He will forgive you.  In Jesus, who never sinned, God became one of us, and died on the Cross to reconcile to God all who would believe in Him.  When He was crucified, Jesus took our evil deeds – our sins – upon Him and clothed us in his righteousness.
    However far we have gone away from God, He will welcome us back if we recognise that we have done wrong and are ready to put things right.  ‘For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.’
    ‘All’ means you too, but Jesus has the power to forgive you and give you a new life.  Turn from your sins, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.  Jesus gave his life on the cross so that all those who believe in Him could be justified before God by faith in His once-for-all sacrifice of Himself.

    Ye shall be free indeed
    But it did not end in his death.  Jesus rose from the dead and Christians live in His risen life, through the power of the Holy Spirit whom Jesus sends.
    We have seen that men and women have been released from homosexual desires.  No-one has to stay gay.  Every person identifying as gay or lesbian can walk away to freedom through belief in the Lord Jesus Christ.  ‘If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.’
    After he rose from the dead, Jesus ascended into heaven, and now has the right to rule over all the kingdoms of the world.  Not only is Jesus King, but He is also the righteous judge.  One day He will return in judgment, to redeem his own and condemn the wicked and the unbelievers. How will you stand in that day?

    ‘The way, the truth and the life’
    You can’t cover your own sin, only Jesus Christ is the way to heaven.  He said: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’  He also said:  ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’  That promise still stands today.
    Bible quotations, from the Authorised Version: Matt 19:4-6; John 3:16, 8:36, 14:6; Romans 3:23, 10:13.

     

    Gay Marriage Threat Worsens

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    The Scottish Government has started a consultation with the intention of legalising same-sex marriage on the same day as a Conservative MP called for churches to be banned from celebrating marriages at all if they banned similar services for gays.

    The Scottish consultation (find it HERE), ‘The Registration of Civil Partnerships / Same-Sex Marriage – A Consultation’, ends on 9th December.

    Inside the Scottish Parliament

    The SNP government has already prejudiced the consultation.  In the introduction to the paper, deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon, says: “The Scottish government is choosing to make its initial views clear at the outset of this consultation.

    “We tend towards the view that religious ceremonies for civil partnerships should no longer be prohibited and that same sex marriage should be introduced so that same sex couples have the option of getting married if that is how they wish to demonstrate their commitment to each other.

    “We also believe that no religious body or its celebrants should be required to carry out same sex marriages or civil partnership ceremonies.”

    The proposals come just as the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey has disclosed that the proportion of Scots thinking that homosexuals have the right to ‘marry’ has increased from 41% in 2002 to 61% in 2010.  The proportion disagreeing has gone down from 29% to 19% over the same period.

    Attitude has followed the law.  The authors observe: ‘Much of this shift in attitudes has occurred during the last five years – that is, since the introduction of civil partnerships in December 2005, which thus appears to have had a considerable impact on attitudes.’

    In response, we should say, firstly, that allowing such ceremonies to take place in church would allow homosexual activists their first step to having the Church honour their distorted relationships.  Respect from the Church is one of only two measures missing for them, their having won everything else.

    (The other missing link in the gay rights chain is a full hate-crimes law to forbid adverse comment on their activities and lifestyle.  Under ‘hate-crimes’, Section 74 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 extended hate-crimes legislation in the United Kingdom to homosexuality, but a ‘freedom of expression’ clause inserted against the UK Governments’ wishes allowed ‘discussion or criticism of sexual conduct or practices, or the urging of persons to refrain from or modify such conduct or practices.’)

    Secondly, it is easy to say at this point that religious bodies and ministers would not be forced to carry out same sex marriages or civil partnership ceremonies, but those behind the legislation (the civil servants and gay rights activists in the corridors of power, not necessarily the minister) will be back within a year or two calling on simple logic and the demands of equality to remove that concession.

    The Chief Constable of Sussex leads the Brighton Gay Pride March as the Union Jack is desecrated

    And right on time to prove this very point, step forward the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hove, one Mike Weatherley.   He has called for churches to be banned from holding marriages if they won’t also carry out civil partnerships for homosexuals.

    Mr Weatherley’s constituency lies in Brighton and Hove which has the most same-sex households in the UK.  In a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, published today, he said:

    ‘Several campaigns are currently calling for, variously, the creation of a right to a Marriage for same-sex couples and the creation of a right to a Civil Partnership for opposite-sex couples. Such proposals may seemingly be the next logical step in the campaign for equality but, if enacted, would still leave us with a messy compromise. As long as religious groups can refuse to preside over ceremonies for same-sex couples, there will be inequality. Such behaviour is not be tolerated (sic)  in other areas, such as adoption, after all.’

    The shape of things to come...

    The UK Government, like its Scottish counterpart, is already preparing to bring forward legislation to allow civil partnerships to be conducted on religious premises, something specifically banned in the Civil Partnership Act 2004.  This intention on its own shows how equality legislation advances by a Fabian process of creep.

    Gay activists probably hope Mr Weatherley’s extreme intervention will shift the parameters of debate so that the UK Government’s proposal (and for that matter that of the Scottish Parliament) looks reasonable.  But instead he has let the cat out of the bag, and shown us what will be done if not under this adminstration then when Labour return to power.

    PRAY: Thank God for revealing the true intentions of the anti-Christian homosexual movement and pray that the churches will take note and arise to tell the governments north and south of the border that we will not accept this attack on the Church of Jesus Christ, that no-one has the authority to over-ride what God has stated in Scripture.

    READ: Mark 10:6  (Jesus answered: …) 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.

    Outreach at Cardiff ‘Mardi Gras’

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    The annual Cardiff ‘Gay Mardi Gras’ is taking place in Bute Park on Saturday 4th September.  It largely consists of a mixture of politically-correct and indecent stalls with a stage on which some lack-lustre acts (the organisers can’t or won’t name even one) will perform.

    There will be a Christian Voice outreach outside, which we call an evangelistic prophetic witness: standing up against this ungodly event and at the same time using it as a spring board for evangelism.  Apart from those suffering from same-sex attraction, quite a few young heterosexual young people, mainly girls, come to the Mardi Gras in the misguided notion that it is cool and harmless.  I hope and pray the redeemed will come and share testimony with the lost, for the furtherance of the Kingdom of God.

    We shall meet at the gates to Bute Park in North Road opposite Boulevard de Nantes at 11.30am on Saturday 3rd September.  MAP HERE.  There is car parking in North Road outside the park.  We shall evangelise with leaflets and in one-to-one conversations from about 12 noon to say 3pm or 4pm or whatever you can manage.  If you are a bit late, or have to leave early, that is not a problem.

    In 2006, this writer was arrested, thrown in the clink for four hours and charged with a public order offence by South Wales Police.  There was massive publicity, SWP were sued for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution and they settled out of court.  An officer we met at the event in 2007 said SWP learnt their lesson after that.  So this will be an entirely peaceful and legal witness with good conversations expected and by the grace of God miraculous conversion on the devil’s doorstep.

    Even in this time of cut-backs to services, Cardiff City Council are sponsoring the Mardi Gras, maybe because Cllr Rodney Berman, leader of Cardiff Council, is himself openly homosexual and according to Pink News among the top 50 influential homosexuals in Britain in 2009 (he was 46th).  Earlier this year, Cllr Berman joined a failed campaign to keep open a seedy gay pub in Cardiff.

    PRAY: (1) Pray for a peaceful, lively, blessed and successful Gospel outreach on Saturday week. May souls be saved from the day of wrath and welcomed into His kingdom, by His precious blood.
    (2) But much as we want to reach out to sinners with the Gospel of grace, pray that this event is a financial disaster and that, as in 2008, it is washed out!
    May the Lord grant all who are coming along travelling mercies and may He bless all our efforts for His name’s sake.

    READ: Ezek 33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. … 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? (KJV)
    2Tim 4:2  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
    Jude 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

     

    CCF: Serving God and Mammon

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    Stephen
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    ‘No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’ Matthew 6:24

    Last months’s Christian Voice newsletter carried an article about David Cameron’s party for gay activists in 10 Downing Street.  We also reproduced the full text of his speech.

    Mr Cameron’s determination to force sodomy on Africa was also printed in Pink News, which was understandably delighted, and in the London Evening Standard.  The Press Association syndicated the story world-wide, so it hardly suffered from inadequate or biased reporting.

    Whatever one’s view on the rights and wrongs of using foreign aid to co-erce the governments of poorer nations to legalise vice, or indeed to change policy in any direction, the bare facts were undeniable.

    Mr Cameron’s declaration of intent has led us to call a meeting next month, to record a VIDEO and post a PETITION, all with a hope that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the end of October will tell Mr Cameron that the white man does not know best and that his neo-colonialism is not acceptable in the modern world.

    We circulated details of the video, petition and meeting by e-mail to our members and supporters and wider afield, in the hope that there would be an international reaction against what we see as David Cameron’s cultural imperialism.

    One e-mail recipient, a member indeed of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, decided to complain closer to home, and e-mailed its leadership, hoping to elicit their support in bringing some prophetic witness to bear inside the Conservative Party itself.  He received the most extraordinary response.

    A spokesman from the Conservative Christian Fellowship replied:

    ‘Sadly the report you refer to is both sensational and unhelpful.  As I understand it the British Government’s approach to supporting Human Rights in Africa hasn’t changed since the 1948 UN Declaration Human Rights. Something I am sure all Christians can comfortably sign up to.’

    Our correspondent, taking this plain if ungrammatical denial on trust, then understandably berated Christian Voice:

    ‘Where did you get your information?’ he fumed.  ‘If it was from the homosexuals, I would beware of listening to people who are against both the Gospel and the Conservative party.’

    I dislike having to criticise fellow Christians in public, and would not do it at all without first having e-mailed the CCF myself (and received no reply).  Nevertheless, an organisation which its Patron, Gary Streeter MP, says has ‘made an impact’ and ‘stood up for Christian values’ and which claims to be ‘a vibrant Christian witness within the Conservative Party’, turns out to be less committed to Christian values and the cause of the Gospel than to the Conservative Party in whose headquarters it is based.

    In point of fact, it is so dedicated to putting a brave face on the less-than-Christian antics of the Coalition Government that it is prepared to twist the truth.  Fair enough, to describe a report as ‘sensational and unhelpful’ is not to say it is untrue, although that was what they intended and it was the impression taken away by their member.  But to go on to say that British Government policy towards homosexuality has not changed in sixty-three years and that the Government is doing only that which Christians cannot fail to support is a barefaced, risible, outright lie.

    True enough, we do not know what the leaders of the CCF have been saying privately to Mr Cameron.  They may, for all we know, have been protesting with all their strength.  But their public response hardly gives an inkling that they have any misgivings about his pro-gay foreign aid policy whatsoever.  Denying it actually exists, following a well- publicised and undisputed speech from the Prime Minister himself is certainly not a promising start.

    It may be that some aspiring young things see their membership of the CCF coupled with enthusiastic support of their party as a stepping-stone to eventual membership of the House of Commons.  ‘When I get there, or when I become a minister, or when I become Prime Minister, then I’ll speak out and make a real difference,’ they might think.
    But it doesn’t work like that:

    Luke 16:10  He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

    We are tested on our faith at every stage.  By working hard to advance our employer’s or the party’s cause by honest means, by making ourselves useful, being diligent at every turn, we can certainly earn the right to be listened to.  That is how we advance, not by defending the indefensible.

    Matt 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
    When we put the demands of God, his kingdom and righteousness second, the problems start.  Not only can we not serve God and another master at the same time, but the Apostle James points out:

    Jas 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

    Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

    And indeed, as James suggests, that kind of thinking, ‘Just wait till I get into power then I’ll show them,’ leaves out the power of God to raise up one and pull down another.  It forgets his power to bestow favour in the eyes of men.

    Joseph in Egypt certainly did not think like the CCF appear to.  He did not flinch from acting properly when his boss’s wife tried to seduce him.  Today that would be seen as a forgivable bit-on-the-side but the Godly men of old viewed adultery as a betrayal.  For resisting wickedness Joseph was thrown into prison, and that might have been the end of him, had not the Lord granted him favour because of his faithfulness first with the prison governor and then with Pharaoh himself:

    Gen 39:21  But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

    Acts 7:10  And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

    Joseph was not the last to be granted favour by God for his faithfulness to the Law of the Lord.  Samuel was not afraid to tell Eli that the Lord’s judgment was to fall on his house.  Despite this, or because the Lord knew what kind of fearless young man Samuel was to be, in the previous chapter we read:

    1Sam 2:26  And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.
    Daniel stood up for righteousness, refusing to eat meat dedicated to idols.  He managed by diligence and study and by his willingness to learn to make himself useful in the service of the king, but without compromising his beliefs.  So we read:

    Dan 1:9  Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
    God bestows favour on the faithful.  Proverbs says:

    Prov 12:2  A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
    And in the Gospels we read:

    Luke 2:52  And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
    Peter risked unpopularity by standing up on the Day of Pentecost and giving his great sermon with all its condemnation of those who crucified Jesus and encouragement to turn to the risen Jesus and be saved.  It was straight-down-the-line no-holds-barred full-on evangelism.  And it was honoured by God, in the numbers saved and bestowing of favour with men.  The believers, we read, were:

    Acts 2:47  Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

    When we look at the example of the prophets we see men, even men in the Court, who risked their lives by telling kings things they did not want to hear.

    Nathan admonished David for his adultery and murder of Uriah: ‘Thou art the man’, he told him, chillingly (2Sam 12:7), in what I believe was a public rebuke, in the light of the public consequences which Nathan said would follow.  It is certain that David’s sin was public knowledge and Nathan’s condemnation of it was more than a quiet word in private.

    The prophet Isaiah did not shrink from public condemnation of national sins.  Even as a young man, he was denouncing the princes in king Uzziah’s administration for taking bribes and perverting judgment (Isa 1:23).  And despite this (or because of it once again!) we see the Lord giving Isaiah a glittering career in the heart of government even under unrighteous king Ahaz (2Chr 28:1) and being unafraid to pronounce judgement on king Hezekiah for his stupidity in showing the Babylonian ambassador all his wealth (Isa 39:6).

    Not all the prophets were as high up as Nathan and Isaiah, but not one of them flinched from his duty to tell it as God saw it.  They were well-versed in the scriptures, meditating in the law of God (Josh 1:8, Psa 1:2, 119:15 &c) and through that knowing the mind of God.  They were not men-pleasers but devoted to God.  They and the Apostles set their sights, not on climbing the greasy pole of earthly preferment, but on what the Epistle to the Hebrews describes as ‘a better resurrection’ (Heb 11:35) and Paul portrays as a ‘crown of righteousness’ (2Tim 4:8).

    We cannot serve both two masters, and these events sadly show that when we try, truth falls alongside faithful witness.  That ought to be a lesson to us all.

    Let us pray that Christians in political parties put Jesus Christ and His kingdom before their party and their miniature earthly empire. We cannot serve two masters.

    EU PROMOTING GAY RIGHTS IN AFRICA

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    Please sign our PETITION to Save Africa from Sodomy!  A 300,000 Euro grant for the promotion of gay rights in Cameroon has led to a diplomatic rift, Christian Voice has discovered.  It predates David Cameron’s declaration, exposed on this blog, that he will use British aid to promote homosexuality in Africa and the Caribbean.  The European Union gave the grant in January to a group of pro-gay organisations led by Cameroon’s Association to Defend Homosexuals (ADEFHO).But Cameroon’s Foreign Minister Henri Eyebe Ayissi immediately summoned the head of the EU delegation in Cameroon, Raoul Mateus Paula, for a ten minute meetingto protest against the funding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) groups that “violate the laws of Cameroon.”The award of the grant has also prompted calls for the arrest of lawyer Alice Nkom who founded ADEFHO.  However, it appears the Cameroon Government may itself have recognised ADEFHO as long ago as 2003.

    The grant award will no doubt make Alice Nkom wealthy and increase her visibility but if anything it has created a more hostile environment for homosexuals in Cameroon.  In January, three men were arrested in Cameroon and charged with committing homosexual acts.

    In August 2011, another three were arrested for acts of gross indecency in a car.

    PRAY that Almighty God will reveal the extent of the European Union’s attempts to undermine Christian morality in Africa.  Ask your MEP (Find him/her here with email address) how much money the EU has given to Africa for sexual rights and reproductive rights over the last ten years.

    Atheist Starkey Digs a Hole

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    It was with a mixture of disbelief and amusement that I heard atheist historian David Starkey tell Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis on 12th August that the main cause of the riots in England last week was the spread of black culture.  ‘The whites have become black’, he said.

    He gave examples of Jamaican patois (‘innit’, ‘dat’, ‘dem’) ‘which has intruded in England’ to illustrate his point of ‘profound cultural change’.

    Starkey went on to voice a silly assertion that David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, whose parents are from Guyana, was ‘an architypical successful black man’ but if you heard him speak ‘you would think he was white’.

    Starkey was challenged by author Dreda Say Mitchell, who also has Caribbean parentage and also speaks with received pronunciation, and by the author of ‘Chavs’, Oxford educated, white, well-spoken Owen Jones.

    Starkey has a mini-point, which probably did not warrant a full airing on Newsnight, but it was clumsily and ignorantly made.  And as a militant atheist he would be unable to provide an objective source of the very concepts of right and wrong on which his argument depended.

    Perhaps Starkey doesn’t mix with people enough, for his line of thinking, that a small minority of Jamaican gangsters define ‘black culture’, is as absurd as saying that the South and East London gangsters of the fifties and sixties or for that matter the punk rockers of the eighties defined ‘white culture’.  There are and were different white cultures and different black cultures.

    However, leaving aside the criminals who exist in every place, the most significant aspects of black culture as a whole, in Africa and in the Caribbean, are those of a Christian respect for God and for elders and a defense of Christian values in the family.  While it is true that some young men of Caribbean origin in the UK have embraced rather too enthusiastically the decadent sixties culture of Britain, their underlying culture, and overwhelmingly that of black Africans, is rooted in a strong defence of Christian morality, of sexual fidelity and modesty.

    Because of their God-fearing base, Caribbean and African cultures are also strongly opposed to homosexuality, something which the homosexual Starkey, an ‘Honorary Associate’ (if there can be such a thing) of the National Secular Society, and a supporter of the late Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality (they don’t need one these days), who has described himself as an “excessively enthusiastic advocate of promiscuity“, will also find less than appealing.

    In fairness, Starkey has also warned of a tyrannous new morality based on aggressive promotion of gay rights in which Christians are persecuted.   But he is a fool in the Biblical sense, and if he were informed by Christian theology on the unity of the human race he would not have made such a fool of himself on Newsnight.

    PRAY: Sometimes there are people who we think ‘ought’ to be saved and others who are so repulsive we find it hard to love them enough to want their salvation.

    David Starkey may well fall into the latter category but he is still made in the image of God and he still needs the intrusion of the Holy Spirit and the saving grace of Jesus Christ to reveal to him his sin and his need of forgiveness and acceptance as an adopted son of the Father.  From that he will find that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Prov 1:7) and move from ever learning to the knowledge of the truth (2Tim 3:7).

    If you can find sufficient charity in your heart (and you should) please pray for him.

    SNP in ‘Bigot’ Row

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    The SNP is possibly the least ‘gay-friendly’ political outfit north of the border but a row has blown up in it after a group of SNP MSPs stepped out to protect freedom of conscience over same-sex ‘marriage’.

    SNP MSP John Mason took the lead, tabling a motion at Holyrood stating that no person or organisation should be forced to be involved or to approve of same-sex marriage.

    That seems resaonable, but a homosexual SNP MEP has insulted his party colleagues calling them ‘bigots’ (of course)

    The Daily Express reports    : ‘Nationalist MEP Alyn Smith joined opposition leaders in berating four SNP MSPs for their “mean” and “angry” stance on gay weddings.’

    The ill-tempered outburst comes just ten weeks after the Church of Scotland voted to allow homosexual men and women to become ministers.

    Perhaps it is worth reminding ourselves of what the Lord Jesus Christ said about human sexuality:

    Mark 10:6  But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 10:7  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;  10:8  And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

    And becoming one flesh, in all the beauty and mystery of sexual intercourse, is something a pair of gays or a couple of lesbians can never do.  In the words of Dr David Reuben, they are ‘trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces’.

    What a pity the Church of Scotland did not vote to minister the saving and healing power of Jesus Christ to people suffering from same-sex attraction.

    Perhaps there are a few names even in the Kirk which have not defiled their garments; the  Lord Jesus would say ‘they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.’ (Rev 3:4)  They may also need a law passed a little like that which John Mason proposes.


    CAMERON NEEDS ‘PROPER MORALS’

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    David Cameron has identified the causes of the riots and looting this week in Britain.  It is a lack of responsibility, which comes from a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing, a lack of proper ethics, a lack of proper morals.  It is as much a moral problem as a political problem, he has said.  (Also see below for that section of his comments.)We must give him full marks for stating the blindingly obvious.  People behave well for one of two reasons; either they have the fear of God before their eyes, or the fear of the long arm of the law.  In other words, either an internal or an external moral compass is necessary for good behaviour.

    But who defines ‘good behaviour’?  Can we all agree that looting shops is wrong?  Someone is bound to say that by profiteering on dairy products the supermarkets are stealing from us.  Someone else will point to the way Members of Parliament milked the expenses system.  If something was within the rules, was it morally right?  David Cameron thinks forcing African countries to legalise sodomy is morally right.  He believes the deliberate killing of a helpless infant in its mother’s womb is morally acceptable, but agrees with Canon Giles Fraser (who also thinks sodomy is morally right) that robbing a Malaysian student, Mohammed Ashraf Haziq, caught up in the riots by pretending to help him is morally wrong.

    Were those who did such a thing convinced they were right, or wrong?  Do they know the difference between right and wrong, and who defines it for them?  Years ago, an advert for Pepe Jeans carried the line: ‘I know the difference between right and wrong; I prefer wrong.’  But we may have moved on even from that amoral outburst.  For someone, what is held to be wrong by a majority may be thought right for them.  Such is moral relativism, or post-modern thinking, and we can now see where it leads.  In a sense, the lawlessness which has so shocked us in recent days has been brewing for a decade – or for even longer.

    David Cameron blames the parents (‘a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing’), but does he realise that 50% of children are growing up in Britain without their natural father?

    Who is responsible for that if it isn’t the politicians who legalised no-fault divorce on demand in the 1960s, legalised sodomy and pornography, brought in moral-free sex education around the same time and pushed condoms at teenagers just because they hated Christian morality? 

    And who is equally responsible if not the present Coalition Government which allows all of that to continue on its life-destroying way, not seeing any of it as an offence against ‘proper morals’?

    What does David Cameron expect single mums to do when confronted by an aggressive teenager or a younger child who threatens to call childline or social services if she so much as lays a finger on him?  Instead of trying to undermine African morality he should be learning from those societies where respect for elders, in keeping with the Biblical model, still exists.

    Our society needs proper morals, but where are these found if not in the pages of Holy Scripture?  Who defines proper morality if not Almighty God?  Atheist activists have forced God out of public life to the extent that to express a Christian viewpoint is to run the risk of dismissal from a public sector job – or the Conservative Party.

    Without God, there can be no objective right or wrong.  Atheist relativism means the rioter has as much right to his morality as Cameron has to his or me to mine.  Without God, there is no solid rock from which any politician can criticise anyone else.

    Yes, we suffer from a lack of proper morals, but David Cameron shows no evidence of diagnosing that he and his political pals are as much in need of it as the robbers of poor Mohammed Ashraf Haziq.  Nor that he and his moral relativism is a huge part of what he describes as the sickness of Britain.

    PRAY: The Bible says:

    1Tim 2:1  I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2  For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.  3  For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;  4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

    And yet the prophets of old were vehement in their criticism of kings and their policies in days of old.  How do we balance these two?  By realising that if we pray for those in authority God may want us to do something for him and witness to them.

    So please pray for David Cameron and write to your MP (names and emails here) of the need for the UK to return to the Biblical word of God and ask him/her to convey your thoughts to the Prime Minister.

    From the No10 website (same link as above):
    Question
    Prime Minister, you have said that parts of Britain are sick.  What is the cure in your view, and what do you say to people who say that part of the cure is more police, not fewer, more prison places, not fewer?

    Prime Minister
    When I say parts of Britain are sick, the one word I would use to sum that up is irresponsibility.  The sight of those young people running down streets, smashing windows, taking property, looting, laughing as they go, the problem of that is a complete lack of responsibility, a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing, a lack of proper ethics, a lack of proper morals.  That is what we need to change.  There is no one trigger that can change these things.  It’s about parenting, it’s about discipline in schools, it’s about making sure we have a welfare system that does not reward idleness.  It is all of those things.
    Now, of course we want to get the maximum out of the police budget to put the most police we have on the streets.  Of course we want to get value for money out of everything that we do.  But let’s not ignore the fact that what we’re seeing on our streets is actually a lack of responsibility.  It is as much a moral problem as a political problem.  That’s what we’re seeing, that’s what we need to deal with, and I think the whole country feels that way and recognises this is a problem for our society and one we have to cure and deal with.

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    David Cameron’s Speech to the Gays

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    Full Text of Speech given to assorted homosexual activists 22nd June 2011

    You‘re all extraordinarily welcome here at Number 10 Downing Street.

    I‘m just sorry that because of the uncertainty over the weather, that while we‘re out, we‘re not out in the garden, like we were last year, I‘m afraid.

    Ever since the government held drought talks, it hasn‘t stopped raining.

    It‘s great to have this reception here today. I was just thinking, someone told me that if Sir Ian McKellen was here, I could say I had the Queen and Prince Phillip here for lunch yesterday, Sir Ian today. Who can say they‘ve had two of Britain‘s most prominent queens over in 48 hours?  (Cue raucous ribald laughter.)

    I think we‘ve got a lot to celebrate in Britain when it comes to issues for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Recently, Britain was named the best place for gay equality in Europe. I don‘t think that means we should be complacent.

    I think it is a huge testament to the work of the last government and I believe what this government has done as well. It‘s great to see politicians from all parties here. But I just want to say one thing that made me very proud in the House of Commons today, it was a Conservative member of parliament who stood up and congratulated the government on the reception for a section of society that wouldn‘t have happened years ago. Iain Stewart asked that question. I‘m proud he asked that question, I‘m proud I was able to answer it, it shows that all organisations can change.

    There‘s a couple of things the government has done that I think have moved this agenda forward, which I want to mention. The first is actually laying the groundwork for having civil partnerships in religious institutions. I think that is a good step forward and I‘m glad that it‘s happening. I also think wiping the slate clean for consensual sexual offences for gay men, that is something we promised as a coalition and we have delivered. Another thing is the huge survey that is being carried out on transgender issues.

    I think frankly though we have other areas where we could improve. But there are three I just wanted to mention tonight, that I think we should really focus on, not just as a government but as a country.

    The first is the issue of homophobia in sport, and I think it‘s great that tonight, in Number 10, we‘ve got representatives and governing bodies of almost every single sport that I can think of, here signing a charter saying it‘s time to put an end to homophobia and trying to give sports stars who want to come out the confidence to come out.

    It‘s a huge honour to have here in Number 10 Downing Street not just Gareth Thomas, not just Ben Cohen, who is doing great campaigning work, but also a great heroine of mine – and in Wimbledon week, amazing to get her here – Billie Jean King.

    But frankly there‘s a lot more we need to do. There is an absolutely tiny number of sports personalities who have felt able to come out and we should be doing far more for those who don‘t feel comfortable enough to do that. And that links to the second issue that I want to mention and that is the issue of homophobic bullying in schools, which is still a huge problem in our country.

    And frankly, the two issues are interlinked because young people need role models and if we don‘t have enough role models, enough positive role models, then behaviour won‘t change. So I think that while government clearly has a huge role, in making sure we tackle bullying, in making sure headteachers have the powers they need and making sure we address the issue properly, it‘s not just a government problem or a legal problem, it‘s a societal problem. Sport has a massive influence.

    The third issue, where I think we are making progress as a government, and I think an area where we have the ability to make progress, is the fact that gay people can be appallingly treated in other parts of the world, particularly in Africa.

    Now, we‘ve had to make a lot of difficult decisions as a government and we‘ve had to make lots of tough decisions but I‘m very proud of the fact, in spite of the fact that it‘s not always popular, we have made the difficult, but I believe the right, decision, to maintain a commitment to 0.7 per cent of our national income going in aid to the poorest countries by 2013. It‘s a huge commitment for Britain to make, alone in the world. Everywhere is breaking their promises … we are keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world. And I think this is right morally because as a rich country, we should be helping the poorest people in the world.

    But it also has a spin-off benefit of giving us some moral authority in the world to talk to other leaders and governments about our relationship with them and what we expect from them. I‘m very proud of the fact we [put] huge pressure on the leader of Malawi about an issue in that country but I‘m convinced we can do more. We have got the ability to speak to African leaders, African governments, about this issue that I know concerns everyone here tonight. And it concerns me.

    REJECT CAMERON’S CULTURAL IMPERIALISM

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    SIGN THE PETITION to Save Africa from Sodomy.

    David Cameron has pledged to use foreign aid as a lever for pressuring Africa to accept gay rights and legalise sodomy.

    The Prime Minister‘s comments were made on 22 June as he hosted his second Downing Street reception for the perverted axe-grinders who call themselves the ‘LGBT community’, including one man known for staging pornographic events.

    FULL TEXT OF CAMERON’S SPEECH HERE

    The Prime Minister said that a spin-off benefit‘ of giving foreign aid is that it allows the Government to have a say in what happens in the world‘s poorest countries. He said: ‘We have got the ability to speak to African leaders, African governments, about this issue that I know concerns everyone here tonight. And it concerns me.’

    During the course of the evening Mr. Cameron spoke with pride of the Government‘s accomplishment on homosexual issues but emphasized that they have a long way still to go in addressing the ‘societal problem of homophobia.’

    Cameron outlined other areas where he hoped to see improvement and he urged homosexuals in sport to ‘come out.’

    Guests at the reception included Billie Jean King, Gareth Thomas, Ben Cohen and Kieron Richardson, in addition to a number of homosexual rights campaigners such as Ben Summerskill, the chief executive of Stonewall.

    Cameron‘s speech was preceded by a performance from the London Gay Men‘s Chorus.

    At the beginning of his talk the Prime Minister tried to be funny, saying, ‘It‘s great to have this reception here today. I was just thinking, someone told me that if Sir Ian McKellen was here, I could say I had the Queen and Prince Phillip here for lunch yesterday, Sir Ian [McKellen] today. Who can say they’ve had two of Britain‘s most prominent queens over in 48 hours?’

    READ: Lev. 18:22; 20:13; Deut. 23:17; Ps. 2:10-12, 59:7; Prov. 6:16-18, 14:34, 20:26; Isaiah 5:20-23, 10:1-4; Ezek. 16:49-50; Micah 2:1-2; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27, 13:3; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; 1 Tim. 1:9-10; 1 Pet. 2:14; 2 Peter 2:18-19; Jude 1:7

    PRAY: Proverbs 6:16-18 declares that the Lord hates a heart that devises wicked plans and feet that are swift in running to evil. After inviting this collection of perverts and social totalitarians to 10 Downing Street, there can be no question that David Cameron has set his feet to run after evil and his heart to devise wicked plans.

    The only thing worse than Mr. Cameron devising wicked plans for this country, however, is that he intends to export his schemes to Africa.  Locked in a colonial timewarp, he thinks the white man knows far better than those he regards as ignorant black savages.

    Pray that he is brought to his knees in repentance for his behaviour and that this will be the last of such meetings held at 10 Downing Street.

    Pray also that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October will send a message to Cameron and other wealthy white liberals that cultural imperialism, holding the poor to ransom until they legalise godless Western depravity, is simply unacceptable in the modern world.

    WRITE: to (or e-mail) your MP to protest at the Prime Minister’s proposed use of aid to Africa as a vehicle for forcing poor nations to accept wickedness.  Also complain at his attempts at humour, the distasteful comments about HM the Queen in particular.

    SEE OUR NEW VIDEO (recorded in Kenya) and
    SIGN THE PETITION to Save Africa from Sodomy.

    HOW TO WRITE TO YOUR MP

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    Houses of Parliament

    These are the rules for writing any letter or email to your MP:

    1 Ask your MP to ask a question of the minister responsible.  This ensures you will get a reply.  Never write to a minister direct.  It makes your MP look redundant.  Kill two birds with one stone.
    2 Be precise.  Do not ramble.  State the matter in the first paragraph and make each point concisely.  I always try to say everything on one well-spaced page.  If you go to three pages, you have lost the game.
    3 Be patient.  Assume your MP knows nothing about the case, so explain carefully (but precisely!)
    4 Be accurate.  Do your own research or rely on a group like Christian Voice who check everything.
    5 Be legible.  If your handwriting is not up to it, type it or email and spell-check.
    6 Be calm.  No ranting and raving, no over-the-top comments, no snide remarks.
    7 Ask your MP to agree with you if the occasion arises.  This could be your question (see 1).
    8 Keep to one subject.  If two things are on your mind, write two letters, a couple of days apart.

    Letters are always written to your MP at: House of Commons, LONDON, SW1A 0AA

    Emails can also be sent.  You need to know either your MP’s name or your Parliamentary Constituency.  Both of these, together with email addresses may be found here on the Parliament website.  If you know neither your MP nor your constituency you can simply type your postcode in a box.  In fact, that is the easiest way to get staight to his/her contact details.
     

    ‘Gays Are Just Fine’: Trinity College Dublin

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    ‘Molly Malone wheels her wheelbarrow outside Trinity College Dublin. Secular values have displaced Christian virtue in Dublin’s ancient seat of learning.’

    The motion before the Trinity College Dublin University Philosophical Society on Thursday 21st October was “This House Believes That The Gay Rights Movement Has Undermined Family Values”.

    Stephen Green proposed the motion with the support of four students, who all spoke well. The opposition speakers were adequate but not inspired.

    But when it came to a vote, not one person apart from the proposers could be found to support the motion. Abraham would have as much trouble pleading for this seat of learning, founded by Elizabeth I, as he had trying to find ten righhteous men in Sodom. While Islam targets the universities, academia, both sides of the Irish Sea , is taking a secularist chain-saw to the Christian branch it sits on.

    Text of Speech given by Stephen Green

    University Philosophical Society in Trinity College, Dublin.

    “This House Believes That The Gay Rights Movement Has Undermined Family Values”.

    It’s a great pleasure and a privilege to be invited to debate at the University Philosophical Society here in Trinity College , Dublin . We have been thoroughly spoilt by your hospitality, which is surely not what the Apostle Paul meant when he told the Colossians:

    Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. ( Col 2:8)

    We shall hear a lot of humanistic vain deceit from the opposition tonight. They will attempt to say that family values are all about love and acceptance, and that gay rights does not undermine those at all.

    Well, I’ve encountered precious little love and acceptance from gay rights aficionados down the years, but I guess the tolerant just can’t tolerate intolerance of the tolerance of evil. And they won’t accept that some can’t accept that some things are just not acceptable.

    But in any case, family values go further than love and acceptance, important as those are in any family. Family values include self-respect, self-restraint and self-denial. They include decency, modesty, chastity and fidelity. They carry with them a regard to the future, and a contract with and across the generations.

    These are the opposite of the values of homosexuality, which are typified by hedonism, vanity, immorality, an obsessive permissiveness, promiscuity and a destructive individualism. As one honest homosexual wrote: ‘Promiscuity is what bonds the homosexual community together.’ Most particularly, the lack of procreative ability of a pair of homosexuals typifies their lack of care for the future.

    That is partly why Jesus Christ said:

    Matt. 19:4 Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

    5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

    6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh.

    And being one flesh is something a pair of homosexual men or women can never do – they lack between them the complementary parts of the body required for true sexual intercourse. They are trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces.

    I’ve got news for you – every one of us here is the result of the union of a human egg and a human sperm, and although I haven’t checked the medical books recently, they used to say that the human egg comes from a woman and the sperm from a man.

    True, you will find lesbians who had children when they were heterosexual – so people can swop around – or who engage the services of a man. In my country a pair of lesbians can now jointly put themselves down as mothers on a child’s birth certificate. Can a nation last long which legislates a lie?

    In the seventies a generation adopted the values of homosexuality. They decided that virginity was something to be disposed of as quickly as possible, that modesty was inhibiting, that for a woman, carrying a clutch of condoms did not mean you were a tart, that staying faithful did not matter any more.

    And look at the United Kingdom today. Around a half of children are not growing up with their natural father. Respect for God and for our neighbour is at rock-bottom. Older people and women go in fear of their lives on many of our estates. A lad will be kicked to death for his mobile phone, or even just for the wrong look. Without a father, teenagers turn to the gang for their identity, young men lack self-discipline, and young women look for love in the arms of whatever boy will have them.

    And just look at our culture. Who would have thought just two years and five days ago that a pair of radio presenters would have humiliated an elderly actor with sexual jokes about his grand-daughter. That is what Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross did to Andrew Sachs on 18th October 2008. We are daily growing more brutal, more coarse and more crass as a society.

    The Gay Liberation Front of the seventies aimed at the abolition of the family. They hated its values. But at least they were honest. Even today, among those campaigning for gay marriage, you will find those who want to ‘transform’ it to reflect gay values. They want everyone to have open marriages, because they cannot do fidelity.

    Taking various census findings and surveys of homosexual life, The Family Research Council in America found that, even with all the current pressures to have affairs and divorce, around 60% of couples married in the 60s and 70s had been able to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. Only 5% of homosexual couples had stayed together that long. 70% of couples married in the 80s were still together after 10 years, a feat achieved by a mere 14% of gays.

    85% of married women and 76.5% of married men reported sexual fidelity in a study by McWhirter and Mattison. Only 4.5% of homosexual men could say the same. Other studies note the staggering levels of promiscuity amongst homosexual men. Bell and Weinberg found that 43% of white male homosexuals had sex with 500 or more partners. Paul Van de Ven et al found the same: ‘”the modal range for number of sexual partners ever [of homosexuals] was 101-500.” In addition, 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent had between 501 and 1,000 partners. A further 10.2 percent to 15.7 percent reported having had more than one thousand lifetime sexual partners.’

    Thank God that there are men and women who have walked away from that lifestyle through the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is no sin so big he cannot forgive it, and no life so damaged he cannot transform it. Of course in today’s politically-correct world, that kind of healing work is, to borrow from a son of this city, ‘The ministry which dare not speak its name.’

    McWhirter and Mattison reported that, in a study of 156 males in homosexual relationships lasting from one to thirty-seven years, only seven were monogamous, and ‘all couples with a relationship lasting more than five years have incorporated some provision for outside sexual activity in their relationships.’ According to McWhirter and Mattison, ‘most homosexual men understood sexual relations outside the relationship to be the norm and viewed adopting monogamous standards as an act of oppression.’

    ‘A Canadian study of homosexual men who had been in committed relationships lasting longer than one year found that only 25 percent of those interviewed reported being monogamous. According to study author Barry Adam, “Gay culture allows men to explore different…forms of relationships besides the monogamy coveted by heterosexuals.”‘

    If the Opposition would find some honesty, they would admit that The Gay Rights Movement Has Undermined Family Values and they would celebrate the fact.

    But they won’t, so they won’t. Will you?

    (And the answer was ‘No, we won’t’)

     

    Peter Tatchell – What a Hypocrite!

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    Stephen
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    Peter Tatchell is accused of hypocrisy for his Channel 4 hatchet job on the Pope (The Trouble with the Pope) on the eve of the latter’s visit to Britain .  But what of The Trouble with the Tatchell?

    Tatchell complains about the scandal of priests abusing mainly teenage boys, but he himself has argued for the elimination of ages of consent, he sees nothing wrong with adult/child sexual encounters and said in a paedophile campaigning book that it is court appearances and societal pressures that cause a victim to have anxiety over child sexual abuse, rather than the abuse itself.

    Catholic writer Damian Thompson     provides compelling evidence that Peter Tatchell cannot even be trusted to report accurately on his subject, and that is even before he begins to mention the homosexual abuse scandal.

    But in the campaigning book ‘Betrayal of Youth’, edited by the Vice-Chairman of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange, and published in 1986, Tatchell wrote that children need:

    ‘protection against self-destroying feelings of guilt and anxiety which are so often stirred up by sexual encounters outside the ages of consent precisely because they are illicit and regarded as shameful.  It is usually this social shame, more than the sexual act itself, which harms young people.  The psychological scars of court cases and societal disapproval often remain long after the actual sexual encounter is forgotten.’ (BOY p118)

    The editor of ‘Betrayal of Youth’ wrote helpfully: ‘Readers will by now be aware that all the contributors to this study agree that we should be working towards the day when when children’s rights are recognized and accepted. … The mere fact of an adult having consensual sex with a child should not of itself be construed as an abuse.’  (Middleton W in ‘Betrayal of Youth’ page 179)

    In the same book, Tatchell asked: ‘What purpose does it (the age of majority) serve other than reinforcing a set of increasingly quaint, minority moral values left over from the Victorian era?’

    His views don’t seem to have changed.  In 1997, Tatchell wrote to the Guardian to say: ‘Several of my friends – gay and straight, male and female – had sex with adults from the ages of nine to 13. None feel they were abused. All say it was their conscious choice and gave them great joy.’

    Last year, in an article headed ‘Don’t Criminalise Young Sex‘, he wrote: ‘If sex at 14 is consensual, and no one is hurt or complains, is criminalisation in the public interest? Is it in the 14-year-old’s interest? It is fair?’

    On his website, Peter Tatchell argues for a sexual consent law which accommodates the requirements of a fourteen-year-old boy he calls Lee who has been ‘having sex with boys since the age of eight and with men since he was 12.’ Lee says he ‘likes men in their 20s or 30s. They are more experienced and serious.’

    Tatchell comments: ‘The age of consent laws don’t make it easy for Lee to have a stable gay relationship.’ According to Lee, and Tatchell does not bat an eyelid at this: ‘The law is stupid. If I know what I’m doing and I’m not harming anyone else, I should be allowed to have sex with who I want.’

    Tatchell, who has not masked his approval of the anonymous casual  sex prevalent in the homosexual world, was even invited to a Christian event this year, the Greenbelt Festival.

    Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today: ‘There can be no doubt that the Catholic Church did wrong and did immense damage to its reputation and to the cause of Jesus Christ with whom people inevitably identify it with, by covering up such scandals, moving priests on and failing to address the anguish of the victims.

    ‘As an organisation which upholds the Protestant settlement of the United Kingdom , you will not normally find Christian Voice defending the Pope.  But it is impossible to keep silent in the face of Peter Tatchell’s hypocrisy.  He is the man leading the charge against the Catholic Church for the sexual abuse perpetrated by a minority of its priests.  And yet he sees nothing wrong in adults and children having sex together as such.  He is on record speaking with no sense of criticism of 9-year-olds having sex with adults.  And even where there is abuse, he blames the stigma imposed by society and the court system for the trauma victims suffer rather than the sexual activity itself.

    ‘Nor does Tatchell confront the elephant in the room which is that ordinary homosexual men who fancy teenagers, as many do, have infiltrated an institution which gives them privileged access to exactly that group of targets.  Frankly, how secularist and homosexual campaigners and especially paedophilia apologists like Tatchell can keep a straight face when condemning the Catholic Church for abuses caused by their own gay ‘brothers’ is truly amazing.’

    SEE OUR ARTICLE: THE RC GAY SEX SCANDAL – ABUSE OF THE TRUTH

    The RC Gay Sex Scandal – Abuse of the Truth

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    The first bit of misinformation to nail in the ‘paedophile priests’ story is that all the abuse is actually ‘paedophile’, in that it is being perpetrated on little children.  The majority of the perpetrators (reports vary from two-thirds to 90%) appear to have been sexually interested in teenage boys rather than primary-school children.  And that 13-17 pubertal age-group happens to be the one which a good number of homosexual men will readily admit attracts them.

    The second canard is the contention that sex scandals in the church are derived from celibacy and not from homosexuality.  In other words, that it is the Roman Catholic Church’s rule that its priests must be celibate which turns them into rampaging abusers.  The figures don’t bear this out.

    Something between 4% and 6% of priests in the US Roman Catholic Church are reckoned to be abusers.   (The New York Times, 12/01/2002, found 1.8% of priests involved, and four out of five victims were male.)  Christian Voice is not upholding celibacy amongst priests; both Testaments assume those ministering in either Temple or Church are married.  Furthermore, we read in the Bible that believers in general, not a subset, are ‘a kingdom of priests’.  But to be fair, if celibacy were at fault, why do around 95% of Roman Catholic priests manage to avoid interfering with those in their charge?

    On the other hand, homosexual men seem attracted like wasps around a jam jar to paid and voluntary positions involving proximity to teenage boys.  The Paedophile Information Exchange which existed as a campaigning group in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s had men with a wide range of sexual preference, from small children up to teenagers.  According to its last Chairman, two of the group’s executive were in voluntary work with children; one as a scoutmaster, the other as a Sunday-School teacher.  (Smith S in ‘Betrayal of Youth’ pages 242-243)

    The vicious campaign to force the US Scouts movement to allow homosexual men to serve as scout leaders was only partly for hurt feelings of being discriminated against  (and even then it was because ‘the gays’ did not like the assumption that they weren’t safe around young boys).  The real reason was to open up the recruiting pool.

    Apart from the Scout Movement, teaching and the Church are other professions attractive to predatory homosexuals.   (incidentally, although teaching has had more than its fair share of sexual predators, no-one is pointing fingers at the profession as a whole.)  And in the Church, the one denomination which requires its men not to be married is an obvious choice.

    Secularists are constantly telling the Church to move with the times, to be reconciled to modern evils like abortion and gay rights.  US lesbian columnist Tammy Bruce writes this about the Roman Catholic Church: ‘The institution may not have adapted to the feminist and gay civil-rights movements, but the priesthood sure did.  The result of all that reconciling is what we’re dealing with today – predatory gay priests seducing adolescent boys.’ (Bruce T, The Death of Right and Wrong, 2003 Three Rivers Press, New York p47)

    The sexual abuse scandal seems to have been at its peak from the 1960s to the 1980s.  These were decades, according to the Washington Post, when more than half of the priests surveyed by the Council of the National Federation of Priests identified a ‘homosexual subculture’ in their diocese or seminary.  (Hanna Rosin, Priest Survey: Gay Cliques Exist, Washington Post, 16/08/2002) In his book Goodbye Good Men, investigative reporter Michael Rose documented the homosexual infiltration of the American Catholic hierarchy.  Some orthodox men told him they left the seminary after suffering sexual harassment by homosexual faculty members and students, while others were drummed out as ‘too rigid’ after they admitted to being opposed to homosexuality. (Bruce T, op cit, pp225-226)

    And still those secularist journalists berate the church in general and the Church of Rome in particular to be less dogmatic about sexual mores and subjects like abortion and homosexuality.  Christian Voice is not an apologist for Roman Catholicism, but it rather seems on the subject of the evils of sodomy in its seminaries, and faced with the problem of sexually-compulsive gay men swamping them, that successive popes have not been nearly dogmatic enough.

    Tammy Bruce asks: ‘Why have these damaged gay men joined the priesthood, only to betray their vows to God and to society?  How have they dared to destroy the lives of children in their selfish effort to obtain sexual satisfaction?  The answer lies partly with them and partly with our society, since these malignant narcissists have been brought up and developed by our rotting culture.  … The abuse of children by Catholic priests, I contend, is the most perfectly clear microcosm of the conscious and subconscious agenda of the left to make society – all of it – look like them.  In this instance, it is gay men, and the Gay Establishment, using the church for their gratification while simultaneously blaming the church for what certain gay men have inflicted.’  (Bruce T, op cit, p224)

    Child Sex Supporter Tatchell to Speak at Greenbelt

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    The Greenbelt arts festival, ‘rooted within a Christian tradition which is world-affirming, politically and culturally engaged, … that embraces instead of excludes,’ has invited a supporter of under-age sex and homosexual ‘cruising’ to speak this year (2010)

    Peter Tatchell, who contributed to the campaigning paedophile book Betrayal Of Youth, published in 1986 and edited by a Paedophile Information Exchange committee-member, will join a line-up which includes pro-abortion ex-MP Clare Short and Leftist American theologian Stanley Hauerwaus at Cheltenham racecourse over August bank-holiday.

    CHILDREN HAVE ‘A RIGHT TO HAVE SEX’

    Last year, the heretical homosexual bishop from New Hampshire, Gene Robinson, took the stage at Greenbelt . But inviting someone who believes that a child has the right to a sex life is a rather more dramatic step down the ladder which leads to total depravity.

    Betrayal Of Youth was part of a campaign to abolish all ages of consent, destroy the responsibilities of parents for their children, deny any ill-effects on children of interference by paedophiles, and withal to make it easier for paedophiles to gain sexual access to children.

    One of Tatchell’s co-contributors, ‘out’ paedophile Roger Moody, had earlier had the brilliant idea of switching the argument away from the rights of adults to have sex with children, towards the rights of children to have sex with adults, or with whoever or whatever they wanted. He wrote: ‘the only people who have the right to kid’s rights – are the kids themselves.’ So at a stroke, paedophiles were talking the language of The Rights Of The Child.

    Unlike many of his co-contributors Peter Tatchell is not a paedophile, but his article, ‘Questioning Ages of Majority and Ages of Consent‘, certainly served their purpose. In it he said: ‘In a fully democratic and egalitarian society, there can be no question of adults usurping the rights of young people by keeping them in a state of ignorance, fear and guilt, or by resort to arbitrary and autocratic laws which deny them responsibility for decisions affecting their lives.’

    14-YEAR-OLD LEE ‘LIKES MEN IN THEIR 20s OR 30s’

    Even today, on his website, Peter Tatchell argues for a sexual consent law which accommodates the requirements of a fourteen-year-old boy he calls Lee who has been ‘having sex with boys since the age of eight and with men since he was 12.’ Lee says he ‘likes men in their 20s or 30s. They are more experienced and serious.’

    Tatchell comments: ‘The age of consent laws don’t make it easy for Lee to have a stable gay relationship.’ According to Lee, and Tatchell does not bat an eyelid at this: ‘The law is stupid. If I know what I’m doing and I’m not harming anyone else, I should be allowed to have sex with who I want.’

    It rather goes without saying that this is not in accordance with the Biblical witness. It is also fairly certain that parents, even those irresponsible enough to take their children to Greenbelt in the first place, do not want to drive back from Cheltenham only to hear their twelve-year-old son or daughter claim they have a right to a gay sex life.

    The most wishy-washy liberal Christian parents probably do not want their adolescent children looking up Peter Tatchell on the internet when they arrive home and telling them not to usurp their rights to decide what they want for their lives or where they wish to go cruising for anonymous sex. As the American College of Paediatricians has pointed out, introducing teenagers to the idea that they might be homosexual is detrimental, wrongly affirming feelings they would otherwise grow out of.

    GREENBELT IS ‘INCLUSIVE’

    Greenbelt says it is ‘inclusive’, which means ‘accepting of all, regardless of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, background or belief.’ The key words in that disingenuous statement are ‘sexuality’ and ‘belief’. What Christian event would not be open regardless of ethnicity? What family event, as this is, would not welcome both men and women of whatever background? But ‘sexuality’ and ‘belief’? Does that ‘all’ accept and embrace the sexuality and beliefs of 14-year-old Lee and his 30-year-old boyfriend?

    A planet-hugging ‘global justice’ atmosphere pervades at Greenbelt , according to reports. This year, Greenbelt has a ‘new eco-spirituality worship venue’. Greenbelt’s partners are Christian Aid and the Methodist Church. For both of those, salvation is worked out by buying Fairtrade coffee and the UK Government is judged solely by how much taxpayers’ money it gives in overseas aid. How the money is spent is largely immaterial. The assuaging of comfortable western consciences is all that matters. With their long-range binoculars, Greenbelt and its partners ignore their own land, where culturally every day is just a bit more secularist, sexualised, crass and brutal than the one before, to agonise over conditions in the Gaza Strip.

    ‘NOTHING WRONG’ WITH ANONYMOUS CASUAL SEX

    When Anglican Mainstream’s Lisa Nolland pointed out to Greenbelt that Peter Tatchell sees nothing wrong with anonymous casual sex like homosexual ‘cruising’, she received this response: ‘Every year Greenbelt hosts speakers with varying and sometimes contrasting views on a whole range of subjects.’ No, it doesn’t. It only invites those of a liberal, socialist, pacifist, grindingly politically-correct disposition. Dissenting, radical, Biblical, Christ-centred voices are collectively persona non-grata.

    But have they gone too far with Tatchell? His profile on the Greenbelt website has been watered down by a worried management. It started off a couple of months ago by calling him ‘a militant queer rights campaigner.’ When Mainstream started asking questions, this was sanitised to ‘best known as a controversial campaigner on issues of sexual freedom and human rights.’ On further reflection, the new Greenbelt Festival Director, Gawain Hewitt, decided Tatchell was merely ‘campaigning for human rights, democracy and global justice … driven by a love for humankind.’ Yes, he is still ‘campaigning to complete the struggle for gay and lesbian equality in the UK ‘, but now Peter ‘also works in solidarity with human rights activists in many other countries’.

    HUMAN RIGHTS ‘R’ US

    So human rights is Peter Tatchell’s forte. That is very Greenbelt . Even completing the struggle for gay and lesbian equality to the extent of forcing Christians to shut up and stop criticising them may well accord with Greenbelt philosophy. But viewing human rights to include those of fourteen-year-old boys to have sex with adult men? For some reason, Greenbelt haven’t yet owned up to that aspect of their guest’s profile.

    PRAY: That Christians start forming their opinions on the word of God which is the Bible rather than on fashionable liberal trends. Pray that the Body of Christ will start acting worthy of His name. Pray that we stop being one-dimensional and start witnessing for the whole of the Gospel, politically-incorrect though it may be in Britain today. Pray that Greenbelt will withdraw their invitation to Peter Tatchell.

    WRITE: To the Festival Director, Gawain Hewitt at: Greenbelt Festival, All Hallows on the Wall, 83 London Wall, LONDON , EC2M 5ND . You can email info@greenbelt.org.uk or phone: 020 7374 2760 or 020 7374 2755.

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