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Kenya’s Reproductive Healthcare Bill

15 August 2020

The Kenyan senate has published a call for memoranda on the Reproductive Health Bill.

Memorandum to the Senate of Kenya on the Reproductive Healthcare Bill.

The Senate in the Parliament of Kenya is calling for written memoranda by email on the Reproductive Healthcare Bill currently before it.

This submission comes from Christian Voice, a research and prayer group based in the UK.

We believe It will be of value to the Republic of Kenya to hear from those with experience of how legalised abortion has operated in the UK and the Western world. Law-makers also need to know how legalised abortion has led to disrespect for human life and restrictions on freedom of assembly.

This is also a spiritual matter and we are able to bring the Biblical witness to bear on the debate.

NOT A ‘WOMEN’S ISSUE’

The first thing to observe is that abortion is not a ‘women’s issue’. Just as some feminists try to browbeat men out of the debate, other men absolve themselves of responsibility. Neither argument holds water. There may be issues, particular cancers perhaps, which affect just men, or just women. However, even there these matters affect those around them. In ‘Psychology Today’, Liz Stillwaggon Swan PhD writes:

‘Abortion is distinct from all of these issues in one special regard: It involves the life of a human being other than the woman. … It’s not just about the woman at all. It’s crucially also about the developing fetus inside the woman. I find it very misguided, and even disingenuous, to refer to abortion as a women’s issue for this very reason.’

As it happens, the Gallop polling organisation in the US found women were more likely to identify as pro-life (51%) than men (46%). Women were less likely to be pro-abortion (43%) than men (46%).

However, that slight gender difference hardly matters because elective abortion is a matter of human rights, crucially of the right to life.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states in Article 3: ‘Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.’ Furthermore, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), Article 10 – Right to life, declares: ‘States Parties reaffirm that every human being has the inherent right to life …’

ABORTION AS HEALTH CARE?

This baby at six weeks already has a beating heart. Abortion involves two human beings, one of whom is dependent on the other.

It is similarly disingenuous to propose that abortion is merely ‘health care’. By including a clause legalising abortion in a ‘Reproductive Healthcare Bill’ this is precisely what Nakuru Senator, Susan Kihika, has done.

Again, Dr Swan writes that the ‘notion that “abortion is health care” is misguided … abortion is not on par with access to toxin-free tampons if for no reason other than the former involves two human beings, and the latter involves only one.’

She goes on: ‘It’s not at all clear why the question of whether or not to end a human life would be considered “a health care issue,” at least not to me. (Bernie) Sanders argues that “a woman has a right to control her own body,” which misses the point – the other body.’

Dr Swan does not quite say it, but the reason why those in favour of it try to present abortion as ‘health care’ is actually quite simple. They do it to shift the parameters of the debate. It is a calculated mis-use of language for political ends.

THE PROPOSED ABORTION CLAUSE

Clause 26 of the Reproductive Healthcare Bill seeks to legalise abortion carried out by a doctor, nurse or midwife acting alone, that is, by just one ‘trained health professional.’ It lays down no gestational age limit, meaning abortion could be carried out up to birth. It lays down no requirement to anaesthetise a baby about to be killed. It would amount to one of the most extreme abortion enactments anywhere in the world. It says:

‘PART V – TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY

‘26. (1) A pregnancy may be terminated by a trained health professional where in the opinion of the trained health professional—
‘(a) there is need for emergency treatment;
‘(b) the pregnancy would endanger the life or health of the mother; or
‘(c) there exists a substantial risk that the foetus would suffer from a severe physical or mental abnormality that is incompatible with life outside the womb.’

The phrase ‘incompatible with life outside the womb’ is not defined.

THE UK ABORTION ACT 1967

The grounds for an abortion in the Kenya Reproductive Healthcare Bill bear an uncanny resemblance to those in the UK’s Abortion Act 1967. The authors even euphonise abortion as ‘termination of a pregnancy’, just as in the 1967 UK Act. Of course the UK Act insists on two doctors (not just one and not nurses or midwives) agreeing to an abortion.

The UK Act also speaks in its text of ‘medical termination of pregnancy’ rather than ‘abortion’. Firstly, it allows it if ‘the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family.’

Tragic ectopic baby in his amniotic sac, sadly removed to save his mother's life. — Tragic ectopic baby in his amniotic sac, sadly removed to save his mother’s life.

Secondly, it also allows abortion ‘to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.’

We agree an abortion could be carried out to save the life a pregnant woman, which is the third ground. This could occur, for instance, in the case of an ectopic pregnancy, or if the mother were to develop a life-threatening condition.

However, the fourth ground is ‘if the child … would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped.’ In the UK we insist on ramps and special public toilets for the disabled, but we try to kill them before they are born.

‘MENTAL HEALTH’ OF MOTHER

The proposed Kenya Bill would allow abortion if ‘the pregnancy would endanger the life or health of the mother.’ The UK Act speaks of the ‘physical or mental health’ of ‘the pregnant woman’ or ‘any existing children of her family.’

It is good the Kenya Bill describes ‘the pregnant woman’ as ‘the mother’ because that is what she is. She is already the mother of the child she is nurturing in her womb. The Bill does not however define ‘health’, so that word could be interpreted in the courts, if it ever came before them, in a wide rather than a narrow sense. In the meantime, when such a mother arrives at a Marie Stopes clinic, she will of course find there a trained nurse who will agree that her mental health is in danger from carrying her baby to term.

THE UK EXPERIENCE

Marie Stopes abortion ‘clinic' in south London – we killed 595 unborn children, legally, every day in 2018 in GB. In America, they murder 3,700 each day. — Marie Stopes abortion ‘clinic’ in south London – we killed 595 unborn children, legally, every day in 2018 in GB. In America, they murder 3,700 each day.

In the UK, there were 207,384 abortions for women resident in England and Wales in 2019, the highest yearly number since the Abortion Act was introduced. There were also 640,370 live births in England and Wales in 2019. Just over 75% of all pregnancies made it into the world as a live baby. 73% of abortions were medically induced and 27% conducted surgically. In 2009, 40% were medical and 60% surgical.

The UK Government reports that 98% of all abortions in 2019 ‘were reported as being performed because of a risk to the woman’s mental health.’ Either the UK has discovered a strange psychological condition in pregnant women which can only be cured by abortion or these were ‘social’ abortions, carried out for convenience.

In the UK, Christian Concern reveals abortion provider British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has recently been caught sending medical abortion pills by post to a woman who rang them up claiming she wanted to end her pregnancy to maintain her ‘beach body’.

WOMEN’S ATHLETICS

On Saturday 15th August 2020 a story appeared on the BBC website reporting that just over 4% of elite British sportswomen have had abortions because they felt a baby would adversely affect their sporting careers.

One said: ‘I was 21. I knew life would be over for me doing what I wanted to do in my sport.’

Three years ago, American former Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross revealed she had a termination a day before leaving for the 2008 Beijing Games. She won a gold medal in the 400m relay and bronze in the individual event.

She later said ‘every female athlete she knew’ had had an abortion but the issue was ‘not talked about’. She felt she had ‘helped other women’ by speaking publicly about it.

Would she end the life of an unrelated human being just to win a medal? Then why do that to her own child? Yes, it is true a man would never face the same problem, but that argument gets us nowhere. There is something very sick about women’s athletics in countries which permit abortion if a child can be literally sacrificed for a sporting career.

Shockingly, the BBC’s reporter, Sonia Oxley, did not even acknowledge there was a right-to-life issue involved. The humanity of the baby did not occur to Ms Oxley.

HARDENED HEARTS

So we see that enacting abortion has changed the way people think about human life in the West. The prophet Isaiah said to the Lord:

Isa 26:9b … when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.

Conversely, when they are not, the people learn wickedness. The unnamed athlete mentioned above said: ‘It was a very easy decision to make. The day after the operation, I won a race.’ Legalising abortion in the West has hardened our hearts. We find ourselves making an ‘easy decision’ to put our own child to death. What have we become?

Kenya can expect a similar outcome if abortion is legalised at all, let alone in the extreme form proposed by the Reproductive Healthcare Bill. Kenyan babies will be killed in the womb simply for someone’s convenience. That ‘someone’ need not be the child’s mother. It could be the baby’s father, whose illicit affair would be exposed by the birth of a baby, pushing his child’s mother into an abortion she will regret, if she has a shred of humanity, to the end of her life..

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION

Furthermore, the UK Abortion Act has resulted in Christians being denied their lawful rights of assembly.

Peaceful pro-lifers witness outside the Marie Stopes abortion facility before being banned by Ealing Council.

Christians have been banned from witnessing outside an abortion facility in Ealing, West London. Ealing Council implemented a 100-metre exclusion zone at the Marie Stopes centre.

The Good Counsel Network had been holding vigils outside the clinic. The council imposed a public spaces protection order (PSPO) in April 2018 after failed attempts to find a compromise between the Christian protesters and pro-abortion groups. The latter had staged counter-demonstrations. Both the entirely peaceful witness and the noisy counter-demonstrations had taken place on a grassy area on the opposite side of the road from the Maria Stopes facility.

Nevertheless, three Court of Appeal judges dismissed a bid to overturn the ban on protests directly outside the facility.

GESTATIONAL TIME-LIMIT

The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 1990 lowered the gestation limit for abortions from 28 weeks to 24 weeks. This was at that time the accepted point at which a baby was considered ‘viable’ outside the mother’s body. The Act came into effect on 1 April 1991.

However, even at that time, the record for a premature birth had already been set by James Elgin Gill, born in Ottawa, Ontario, on May 20, 1987, delivered around 128 days early or at 21 weeks gestation. He remains, so far as we are aware, the world’s most premature baby. James was born so early he was expected to die at birth or, if he survived, to have multiple and severe handicaps. James beat all the odds, growing to be a healthy adult.

With no gestational limit specified in the Kenya Reproductive Health Bill babies could be killed well after the time when they could survive, albeit with medical assistance, outside the womb.

DEPENDENCY

However, this issue of ‘dependency’ is not the only way of looking at gestational time-limits. Of course a baby depends on the mother who is carrying and nurturing him.

Moreover, if we apply the utilitarian principle that those dependent on others have no right to life, where would society end up? It would lead to a mentality of the survival of the strongest and may the devil take the hindmost.

In truth, in human society, each of us is dependent on others. Furthermore, Christian ethics demand society should establish a principle that the weakest should be looked after by the strongest, even sacrificially. As the Lord Jesus himself said:

John 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

This is the altruism of‘women and children first’. It cannot be that ‘reproductive health’ is the only sphere when this Godly principle is set aside.

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Ironically, campaigns for legalised abortion are intensifying just at a time when we know more than ever about human development pre-birth. No reasonable person can deny that every child in the womb of whatever gestational age is a human being. If that is so, then killing any one of them is a crime and a sin which cries to heaven.

We read in scripture that when Cain killed his brother Abel,

Gen 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother’s keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.

The number of those murdered in the womb in the UK since 1968 to date total almost 10 million. That is an appalling amount of blood which has cried to heaven.

HOW WE GROW

This author is not a doctor, but an engineer. That means he takes an interest in how things work. We are all now aware that from day one of our life, at that miraculous moment of conception, before our cells even start dividing and specialising, all genetic information is laid down, from gender to blood group. It’s sobering to think that each one of us is unique and that we all started life like that.

This tiny but recognisably human baby was just 10 weeks gestation when he had to be removed to safe the life of his mother.

Human Life International reports that just over three weeks after conception, dear reader, your own heart began to beat. It won’t stop until the day you die. Three weeks later, your skeleton, reflexes and all major organs were present. Two weeks after that and all your organs were working (except for your lungs, obviously) and your brain waves could be detected. All you had to do now was grow, sustained by the food coming from your mother via the placenta which separated you from her.

At ten weeks you could make a fist, feel and respond to touch and jump up and down in your mother’s womb with co-ordinated movements. You were tiny, dependent and vulnerable, but perfectly formed. And in today’s wicked Western world, expendable, allowed by law to be ripped agonisingly from what should be the safest place on God’s earth, and flushed away as human refuse.

FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE

Clearly we recognise our common humanity in the baby in the womb. And if we weren’t human when we were there, what were we?

The Psalmist was given an astonishing insight into human development in the womb three thousand years ago (‘lowest parts of the earth’ is Hebrew poetic language):

Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. 14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. 15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

TERMINOLOGY

We should briefly look at terminology because abortion depends upon euphemisms and using language to obscure rather than to clarify.

Firstly, ‘termination of pregnancy’. When a pregnancy is, to use the expression, ‘terminated,’ a real, live and in most cases sentient human being loses his or her life. If the ‘termination’ was deliberate, what word do we normally use for ending the life of an innocent human being?

Secondly, ‘foetus’ or ‘fetus’ (US). This is the Latin for ‘offspring.’ People only use the Latin word ‘foetus’ when they are embarrassed about killing a child in what should be the safest place on God’s earth. However, at ante-natal clinics in the UK, a pregnant mother who smokes will be advised to stop smoking ‘for baby’, never ‘for foetus’.

Never ‘part of a woman’s body’. A baby of eight weeks gestation, just a month younger than the typical age for abortion

Thirdly, ‘choice’ as in ‘pro-choice’. This usage pretends that exercising a ‘choice’ to kill another human being is morally acceptable. Some ‘choices’ are simply not morally valid. This is one of them. And what ‘choice’ does the baby have?

‘My body’. A baby is never ‘part’ of his mother’s body. He has his own body and his own blood group. His blood never mixes with his mother’s. He is separated from her by the placenta. You may have some rights over your own body. You have no rights over another’s..

‘Uterus’ instead of ‘womb.’ ‘Uterus is Latin for womb. But ‘uterus’ seems to put it at arms length. An abortionist will refer to the ‘contents of your uterus,’ when speaking to a young mother rather than about ‘the baby in your womb’. The latter usage could mean a lost sale.

CULTURAL IMPERIALISM

Western governments and UN bodies and a phalanx of NGOs are doing their best to impose anti-life policies on countries around the world. We shall see below that pro-abortion lobbyists in Kenya are funded from outside the country. Furthermore, even abortions currently performed illegally in Kenya are susbsidised by the West. It is a form of cultural imperialism.

Governments promote the legalisation of abortion by using strings attached to overseas aid. This means trying to bribe poorer countries to force anti-child policies like abortion, sterilisation and chemical contraception on vulnerable populations whose children are their most valuable resource.

Then there are the NGOs who finance pro-abortion and pro-sodomy lobby groups within destination countries in the developing world. If there are not enough local ‘civil society’ groups of their liking they set up new ones.

FUNDING PRO-SODOMY GROUPS

The Sigrid Rausing Trust, based in the UK, is heavily pro-gay and pro-abortion. They gave the so-called ‘National Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission’ in Kenya £180,000 during 2016-2019.

The unrelated but still pro-homosexual Kenya Human Rights Commission received £100,000 from Sigrid Rausing in one year (2019) alone. Sigrid Rausing also fund the ‘Gay & Lesbian Coalition of Kenya’ through an East African pro-sodomy funding body called UHAI-EASHRI which in turn receives all its money from the West.

Not one African pro-sodomy NGO is locally-funded. Every single one receives its money from Western foundations and governments.

FUNDING ABORTION GROUPS

The Kenya Federation of Woman Lawyers (FIDA) is financed by Western pro-abortion NGO's. — The Kenya Federation of Woman Lawyers (FIDA) is financed by Western pro-abortion NGO’s.

Sigrid Rausing have given the Federation of Women Lawyers – Kenya (FIDA-Kenya) £715,000 from 2009-2018. FIDA-Kenya campaign to legalise abortion in Kenya alongside the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR).

The latter is a pro-abortion US NGO which set up an ‘Africa regional office’ in Nairobi in 2011, specifically to target Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.

The US-based MacArthur Foundation gave CRR $6,097,500 between 1992 and 2016. CRR also receives grants from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, the Packard Foundation and the enormously wealthy Ford Foundation.

The West has a death-wish. We are not replacing our population. A pensions crisis is in the making. We shed the blood of innocents made in the image of God and wonder why our young people are shooting and knifing each other. Who would export – and who in their right mind would import – such a mentality?

MARIE STOPES

Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK) operate openly all over Kenya by pretending they only offer contraception and post-abortion care.

However, a young British doctor, Linden Stocker, admitted taking part in illegal abortions in Kenya. Dr Stocker wrote this on the website of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2011: ‘Whilst I was in Kenya I managed to organise spending 2 days a week at the Marie Stopes clinic in Kisumu. … They perform safe, completely illegal abortions for a cost equivalent of about £30.’

The cost in Kenya of a Marie Stopes abortion has since risen to around 10,000 Kenya Shillings. MSK is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Marie Stopes International, just ahead of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) as the world’s biggest abortionist. Moreover, KSh 10,000 is a fraction of the true cost of an MSK abortion. Marie Stopes abortions in Africa are heavily subsidised by the West. The UK Government leads the rest of the world with a grant to MSI in 2018 of £48 million of taxpayers’ money.

MONEY TO BE MADE

Marie Stopes Kenya - Clinic in Malindi. MSK stays open in Kenya by pretending they only offer contraception and post-abortion care. Marie Stopes abortion clinics operate openly all over Kenya. — Marie Stopes Kenya – Clinic in Malindi. MSK stays open in Kenya by pretending they only offer contraception and post-abortion care.
Marie Stopes abortion clinics operate openly all over Kenya.

Among the supporters of abortion who will be filing memoranda with the Kenya Senate are some for whom this is an ideological issue. But there will be others, like Marie Stopes International, like IPPF, for whom there is money to be made out of killing the innocent. The Bible says:

Deut 27:25 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And in another place:

Proverbs 6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, …

IPPF made US$111.9 million in 2018, US$163.7 million in 2019. Marie Stopes International turned over a colossal £296.8 million in 2018. It is a registered UK charity. However, shockingly, the entire business of both IPPF and MSI is built around slaying the innocent unborn.

LAND POLLUTED WITH BLOOD

In Old Testament times, the Canaanite pagan deities demanded human sacrifice. People even sacrificed their own children by throwing them into the fiery mouth of the Molech idol. The Lord told Moses:

Lev 18:21 And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.

The Almighty told the people of Israel to have nothing to do with these pagan rites:

Exod 23:24 Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

However, as time went by, the Israelites turned away from the Lord and took part in these self-same rituals. The Bible records:

Psalm 106:37 Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils. 3 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.

NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN

It is an important principle that the shedding of innocent blood pollutes the land and brings judgment on a nation which legalises it. The prophet Jeremiah spoke the word of the Lord about the people of Judah:

Jer 32:35 And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.

Innocent blood. Hands and feet of an African-American baby aborted at 9 weeks. The American dollar shown in the photo is an inch and a half across. — Innocent blood pollutes the land. Hands and feet of an African-American baby aborted at 9 weeks. The American dollar shown in the photo is an inch and a half across.

Human sacrifice, the shedding of blood of their sons and daughters, caused the entire nation to sin. We may regard the people of those times as primitive. We may think we should never do such a thing. But king Solomon wrote:

Eccl 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

They appeased ‘the gods’ with their human sacrifices; they thought things would go well with them if they did it. We sacrifice our babies for convenience, or for our lifestyle. We saw above that 98% of abortions in the UK are done for such reasons. We think things will go well with us if we get rid of the thing, the tiny person, causing us inconvenience or embarrassment. There is truly no new thing under the sun.

OBEDIENCE BRINGS BLESSING

If abortion remains illegal, it brings its blood-guiltiness on the individuals involved. They need to repent and make themselves right with God. Christians believe the way to do that is through believing in the forgiving power of the saving blood of Jesus.

However, if abortion is legalised, the blood-guiltiness descends on the whole nation:

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

The nations which forget God end up in a hell of their own making. By legalising abortion in 1967, Britain placed herself under the judgment of God. We sowed a wind and now we reap a whirlwind, where respect for life and for elders has vanished. Kenya must learn from the UK’s terrible mistake. The word of the Lord to Israel resounds down the ages. Obedience brings blessing:

Lev 26:3 If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; 4 Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. 5 And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. 6 And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

God promises economic success together with peace internally and internationally to the nation which keeps his commandments. But legalised abortion, the taking of the most innocent of lives, brings down his judgment.

NOT A TIME TO INCUR THE WRATH OF GOD

This is an unprecedented time. Covid-19 would have wreaked havoc in any case, as people cut back on travel and spending. Hospitality, travel and tourism would have taken a huge hit. But the various lockdown measures which governments around the world have found themselves enacting are going to bring economic devastation which will be felt for years, even decades.

In the midst of such an economic environment, Kenya will need the wisdom of God and the blessing of the Almighty to survive, let alone to thrive.

This is simply not a time – if there is ever a time – to be spitting in the face of God. It is not a time to be incurring the wrath of the Almighty. It is a time for seeking the Lord, leaning on his ageless wisdom, turning to him in repentance, crying before the Lord, fasting and praying for his mercy and gracious provision:

Joel 2:18 Then will the LORD be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

We must always remember these words of Solomon:

Psalm 127:1 A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

We pray that Kenya will resist the temptation to mimic the immoral self-destructive West and maintain its laws prohibiting abortion and (for that matter) sodomy, defend the innocent and vulnerable and trust in the Lord for the living of the challenging days ahead.

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Eleven nations condemn UNFPA, ICPD25 and Nairobi Summit

Stephen

19 November 2019

Ambassadors of eleven nations held a press conference to condemn the ICPD25 Nairobi Summit and UNFPA

A joint statement by eleven nations on the last day of the UNFPA Summit in Nairobi condemned UNFPA without mentioning the UN population agency by name.

The UN’s Fund for Population activities had hoped the jamboree would pass off without controversy. They wanted to counter ‘the push-back’ against homosexuality and abortion in the developing world. They would be disappointed.

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(All our links open automatically in a new tab, on desktops & laptops, anyway.)

Press conference

Firstly, the United States, flanked by ambassadors from Brazil, Belarus, Egypt, Haiti, Hungary, Libya, Poland, Senegal, St. Lucia, and Uganda, held a press conference on 14th November 2019.

The US Special Representative for Global Women’s Health, Valerie Huber read a Statement. This reminded ‘both those gathered and those watching’ of the original aims of ICPD. The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) was held in Cairo in 1994. Its stated objectives and actions seem dated now. They saw ‘critical challenges and interrelationships between population and sustained economic growth’. They placed it ‘in the context of sustainable development.’

Before the Statement, the Press Conference heard from Kenyan MPs Hon Chris Wamalwa, and Hon Jennifer Shamalla. Although Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy William Rutu steered clear of abortion and homosexuality when opening and closing the Summit respectively, these two MPs gave the press corps both barrels.

Parallel Conference

Secondly, Kenya Christian Professionals organised their own conference and also issued a statement. International ambassadors also addressed one session.

According to C-Fam, ‘The parallel conference included a high-level intergovernmental event with government representatives of the United States, Hungary, Poland, Brazil, Kenya and the Holy See Nuncio. They affirmed their governments commitment to policy that foster strong families and protects unborn life and criticized UNFPA for going beyond the mandate established at the ICPD 25 years ago.

This article on LifeSite News is also worth reading.

Taking Cairo too far

The concern of the Eleven was that UNFPA and the Scandinavian nations behind the 2019 Nairobi Summit were taking the 1994 Cairo Declaration too far.

A pre-summit document from UNFPA spoke of an ‘ambition’. This was ‘how countries can move towards universal access to sexual and reproductive health and rights’. That would be ‘an essential part of universal health coverage’.

‘Sexual rights’ is shorthand for liberalising laws against homosexuality, while ‘reproductive rights’ refers to abortion.

1994 Cairo Declaration

Helpfully, UNFPA itself carries the original 1994 Cairo Declaration on its website. There are three mentions of ‘reproductive health’. All are in the context of family planning. But national governments must respect ‘their own national and cultural identity, values and tradition’.

There is no mention of ‘reproductive rights’, ‘sexual health’ or ‘sexual rights’ in the Cairo Declaration at all. Consequently there is no ‘reproductive right’ to abortion’. However the Declaration was not explicitly pro-life. It called upon national Governments ‘to reduce the need for abortion by providing universal access to family planning information and services.’

Contraception increases abortion

The Declaration blithely assumes that ‘access to family planning information and services’ reduces ‘the need for abortion’. However, that is simply not true.

Eighteen years before Cairo, British abortionist Dr Judith Bury, of Brook Advisory Centres, let the cat out of the bag. In 1981 she said “…women…have come to request [abortions] when contraception fails. There is overwhelming evidence that, contrary to what you might expect, the provision of contraception leads to an increase in the abortion rate.”

Comprehensive Sexuality Education

The Nairobi Summit was also promoting what is termed ‘Comprehensive Sexuality Education’ or CSE. This assault on the innocence of children figures nowhere in the Cairo Declaration.

Indeed, education in the Declaration had one single purpose. It was set solely in the context of increasing the wellbeing of women and girls. It would do that by bettering their health-care and developing their opportunities. Yes, it spoke of the feminist mantra of ‘women’s empowerment’. But ‘sex education’ of any kind was not there.

ICPD Program of Action

The UNFPA draw heavily on the ICPD Program of Action. This document, parallel to the Cairo Declaration, runs to 296 pages. It does contain references to ‘reproductive rights’ but these are nowhere defined, let alone to include a supposed ‘right’ to abortion. Indeed, the Government of Honduras entered a reservation in the document to clarify matters. It said the terms “‘reproductive rights’ and ‘sexual rights'” … “do not include ‘abortion’ or ‘termination of pregnancy’.”

There is no reference to ‘legalisation of abortion’ or ‘legal abortion’. Indeed, the Programme states:
‘7.24 Governments should take appropriate steps to help women avoid abortion, which in no case should be promoted as a method of family planning, and in all cases provide for the humane treatment and counselling of women who have had recourse to abortion.’

Consensus

The Program of Action was passed by consensus. It was then ‘endorsed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in its resolution 49/128 of December 19, 1994.’ ‘Consensus’ is important in interantional law. If enough nations agree on something it begins to have a certain standing.

Therefore the 2019 Statement of the Eleven nations clarifies this point. ‘UN Member States were able to join consensus because the ICPD Program of Action preamble paragraph 1.15 made clear that the conference did not create any new international human rights, and that “the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Programme of Action is the sovereign right of each country, consistent with national laws and development priorities, with full respect for the various religious and ethical values and cultural backgrounds of its people, and in conformity with universally recognized international human rights”.’

Ambiguous terms

When it came to the ‘rights’ element in the context of ‘consensus’ the Eleven did not hold back. ‘We are also concerned about the content of some of the key priorities of this Summit. We do not support references in international documents to ambiguous terms and expressions, such as sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), which do not enjoy international consensus, nor contemplates the reservations and caveats incorporated into the Cairo outcome.

‘In addition, the use of the term SRHR may be used to actively promote practices like abortion. There is no international right to abortion; in fact, international law clearly states that “[e]veryone has the right to life” (e.g. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights). ‘

No transparency

The 2019 Statement also condemned the Nairobi Summit for lack of transparency and inclusiveness. Cairo ‘was negotiated and implemented with and by the entire UN General Assembly membership’. In contrast, ‘only a small handful of governments were consulted on the planning and modalities of the 2019 Nairobi Summit’. (Mostly it was the Scandinavians.)

It follows, ‘outcomes from this summit are not intergovernmentally negotiated, nor are they the result of a consensus process. As a result, they should not be considered normative, nor should they appear in future documents as intergovernmentally-agreed language.’

Pro-family and pro-life nations will no doubt be on the alert for any sign of UNFPA language creeping in international documents. UNFPA will never bring its works to the light of the full UN. The Statement of the Eleven is clear. Without such universal acceptance, ‘no ICPD follow-on document has consensual weight or standing amongst governments.’

The value of Trump

It is worth saying that such a statement would never have been possible if Hilary Clinton had been elected President of the United States in 2016, the Statement of the Eleven would never have happened. It is only because of the staunch pro-life stand of the Trump administration that the 2019 Nairobi Summit was so roundly condemned.

So Almighty God plays a long game, and we should praise his name for all he did during the Summit. We were able to give out around 2,000 pro-life leaflets peacefully to delegates queuing for the Summit. Most were distributed on the opening day, Tuesday. And when we do the little things, we can leave it to the Lord to work miracles. The Statement of the Eleven is one of those things only God can organise.

Just remember, there is all to pray for as the US elections 2020 come ever closer.

Dan 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:

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Ghana: Beyond foreign aid

Stephen

4 November 2019

Jeremy Hunt with Ghana foreign minister Honorable Shirley Ayorkor Botchway

Ghana is leading the way in Africa in encouraging self-sufficiency. The West-African nation is emerging as one of five or six real powerhouses on the continent. It’s ‘Beyond aid’ proposals aim to add value to natural resources rather than just ship out raw materials, to modernise agriculture, reduce corruption and transform education.

UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt MP was on a five-day, five-nation tour of Africa in April and May 2019. He started in Senegal on 29th April, went to Ghana on the 30th, Nigeria on 1st May. He then flew to Ethiopia before rounding off his trip in Kenya.

Describing the countries as having five of the fastest-growing economies on the continent, he told the Today programme, ‘When a Brexit agreement finally unties the UK from the EU, the UK government is looking to boost trade with Africa.’

Mr Hunt’s main goal

This is what Mr Hunt said about his main goal: ‘There is a central purpose [to the visit] which is to change the motor of our relationship with African countries from one based on aid to one based on enterprise and prosperity. I’m a big supporter of the 0.7% [aid] target and there are many African countries where that is desperately needed, like the DRC with its Ebola outbreak. But there are other countries, like Senegal, where I was yesterday, where the UK is about to overtake France and become the biggest international investor, Ghana, where I am today, where they have a national strategy which they call the “Beyond aid” strategy. And I think sometimes China, with its big infrastructure projects, is better in the eyes of African countries, in tapping into the future, and their excitement about the opportunities of the future.

‘To do this, I want to set out the stall for the UK to be the new partner of choice across Africa.’

Foreign Aid problems

It is worth saying Mr Hunt’s comment about being a ‘big supporter’ of the current Government policy of 0.7% aid target (spending 0.7% of gross national income on aid) is not popular with Conservative party members. It could come under challenge in a forthcoming leadership election.

A jaundiced view would be that, apart from actual emergencies like an Ebola outbreak, or a real failure of a major harvest, external aid depresses local prices for the commodities despatched and impoverishes local traders and farmers.

At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November 2011, British Prime Minister David Cameron said the United Kingdom would consider cutting off aid to any country that failed to recognize gay rights. Then President John Atta Mills pledged to never initiate or support any attempt to legalise homosexuality in Ghana. He said Mr Cameron ‘does not have the right to direct other sovereign nations as to what they should do especially where their societal norms and ideals are different from those that exist’ in Britain.

Financing anti-Christian NGOs

Rather than the blunt threat of cutting off aid, there is a more subtle approach. Much UK foreign aid aims to export evils like sodomy, abortion and feminism through NGOs to the developing world. Pro-gay and pro-abortion NGOs in African countries are completely financed from the West. Even when projects are ostensibly neutral, there will be an underlying ‘equality’ element. The UK is one of the worst funding culprits, although an LGBT advocacy group in Ghana known as the Solace Initiative started with funding from Canada.

Ghana’s vision of doing without foreign aid may bring unexpected benefits. Paradoxically, Mr Cameron’s 2011 pitch may have provided a much-needed spur for the initiative.

Ghana without aid

In a press release on the official Ghana.gov website, journalist Sule N. Jotie starts by referring to ‘the natural wealth God gave Ghana which, if prudently exploited and managed, will lift Ghana beyond foreign aid.’ Clearly, the Ghanaian Government, like most of sub-Saharan Africa is not afraid to give the Almighty the thanks and glory.

Jotie continues: ‘Since the 1960s, the country has depended on aid from developing partners for her development.

‘African countries that gained independence in the 1950s and 60s were faced with many challenges—infrastructural deficit and lack of skilled labour, among others. To accelerate their development, the newly-independent African countries relied so much on assistance from their development partners to fund their development needs.

As the Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia rightly put it: “Development aid was born out of the need to accelerate post-colonial development. Aid (grants, loans and projects and technical assistance) was to help fill the savings-investment gap, the technical capacity gaps and the development finance gaps in order to promote growth and development.”

‘Indeed, Ghana falls among that group of African countries that have relied on foreign aid to fund its development since 1957, in spite of the country’s wealth in natural resources – cocoa, gold, timber, oil and gas, bauxite and manganese, among others.’

Use of tariffs

The West has been happy to take the resources tariff-free and re-export the finished products back to Africa. For example, the EU has zero tariffs on import of raw cocoa and coffee beans, but imposes tariffs on finished products. As a result, Germany makes more money from processed coffee than the whole of the African continent earns from exporting coffee beans.

However, after taking office on 7th January 2017, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said: ‘We want to build a Ghana beyond aid; a Ghana which looks to the use of its own resources. We want to build an economy that is not dependent on charity and handouts, but an economy that will look at the proper management of its resources as the way to engineer social and economic growth in our country.’

Adding value

Jotie goes on: ‘Evidence on the ground suggests that Government’s One District, One Factory project is encouraging investment across the length and breadth of Ghana, a positive sign of the beginnings of value addition to the country’s resources to move the economy from one reliant on production and export of raw material to a value-added industrialised economy.

‘In that regard, Ghana’s cocoa, timber, gold, bauxite, diamond and manganese will have to be refined and value added before exportation by which more jobs would be created.’

The government is already working towards an Integrated Bauxite/Aluminium Development Authority to smelt the nation’s bauxite deposits. With its substantial iron ore and manganese deposits in the Western and Northern regions an integrated steel industry could serve the needs of the country and region and obviate the import of steel from the West..

Ghana is believed to have up to 5 to 7 billion barrels of petroleum in reserves, the sixth largest in Africa and 25th largest proven reserves in the world. Ghana also has up to 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in its reserves. It is no surprise the President intends to establish petro-chemical industries to take advantage of the growth of the oil and gas industry.

Agriculture

The Government launched a ‘Planting for Food and Jobs’ initiative last year aimed at increasing food sufficiency, reducing food imports and creating jobs for the youth.

The Minister for Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, says the use of labour, improved seeds and fertilizers combined with increased extension service delivery had resulted in the production of an additional 485,000 metric tonnes of maize, 179,000 metric tonnes of rice and 45,200 metric tonnes of vegetables with a total value of £180 million.

The Government is also planning an irrigation policy for the north, challenged by the Sahel regions of West Africa which have the same conditions like northern Ghana but export fruits and vegetables to Ghana from irrigated farms.

Corruption and Education

Digitisation of national ID cards, drivers license and vehicle registration, business registration, e-commerce and the introduction paperless port operations are aimed at reducing revenue leakages and ensuring faster turnaround in customs processing and clearance of goods. The Government hope the monies released will help finance the country’s development agenda instead of relying on foreign aid.

Across Africa, high school education is privately-funded. However, the Akufo-Addo administration is implementing a Free Senior High School programme to drive its socio-economic activities rather than importing a skilled human workforce.

Christian faith

Both the President and his finance minster, Ken Ofori-Atta, are devout Christians in a nation where 70% of the population share the Christian faith.. They have even proposed building a national interdenominational cathedral in Accra. But the Government is strongly in need of private finance for its Beyond Aid projects and the proposed cost has been criticised. Equally, it shows the administration has a heart of worship.

Ghana’s plan is dramatic and ambitious. The questions remains, despite Jeremy Hunt’s fulsome praise: will the West actually allow it? A firm reliance on the Almighty and the power of our risen Saviour will be needed if the dream of Ghana Beyond Aid is to be realised.

READ: Deut 16:19, 28:13; Josh 1:8; 1Sam 2:30; 1Chron 29:11; Job 5:11; Psalm 29:11, 33:12, 47:9; Prov 9:10, 14:34, 16:7,12; Isa 45:23, 55:5; Micah 6:8; Matt 5:16; Phil 2:7-10; Rev 15:4.

PRAY: That Christian leaders across Africa will lead their nations in the ways of righteousness and peace, follow the Lord, and seek prosperity through his name
Pray the UK will help Ghana and other African nations to move ‘beyond aid’, to see it as an opportunity to British entrepreneurs and not as a threat to industry here. Well, they won’t do it through altruism, will they?

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Kenya to host LGBT funding meeting

Stephen

7 June 2019

Later this month (June 2019) the east African nation of Kenya will host a meeting bringing together international donors of the continent’s anti-Christian lobby groups and the LGBT and Prostitution NGOs they fund, Christian Voice has learned. More about this below.

Anti-sodomy law upheld

The high-level meeting comes just weeks after Kenya’s High Court ruled against campaigners seeking to overturn a decades-old law banning sodomy. The BBC was of course, disappointed by the ruling.

Three judges rejected claims that the law violated the new constitution, which guarantees equality, dignity and privacy.

The penal code criminalises ‘carnal knowledge against the order of nature’. Such activity is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.

Campaigners and western commentators such as the BBC complain the law dates back to the colonial era but struggle to find any convictions for what they euphemistically describe as ‘gay sex’ in Kenya.

Pro-sodomy lobby group

In such a socially conservative country it comes as something of a surprise to find a specific pro-sodomy lobby group.

But Kenya actually has a handful, of which the wealthiest is the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. (NGLHRC). This NGO led the action to overturn the law. Its leader said the legislation ‘gave rise to a climate of homophobia.’

Of course it does. The whole point of the law is to prevent homosexual activity. It also discourages lesbianism. Meanwhile, any idea that men or women can change sex is met with incredulity not just in Kenya but across Africa as a whole.

Njeri Gateru is Executive Director of NGLHRC in Kenya

Trying to use the law to change public opinion is common in the West and activists had hoped it might gain a foothold in Kenya and spread out wider.

This explains the exasperation of Njeri Gateru, co-founder and executive director of NGLHRC and her complaints about ‘prejudice’.

In March this year the Court of Appeal in Nairobi upheld a 2015 High Court decision compelling the Non-Governmental Organizations Coordination Board to officially register the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) as an NGO. In December 2012 they held an inaugural Gay and Lesbian Awards in Nairobi’s City Hall.

It is not illegal in Kenya to identify oneself as homosexual.

Western money

Swedish heiress Sigrid Rausing, based in the UK, is at the forefront of LGBT funding worldwide.

In common with other anti-Christian NGOs across Africa, the NGLHRC depends on international support. It raises little money from Kenyans. It is funded by Western foundations such as the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Trustees include Swedish heiress Sigrid Rausing herself and Establishment mzee Andrew Puddephatt.

The Trust’s website confirms: ‘SRT has supported NGLHRC since 2017. Total funds received to date: £110,000 . Current grant: £180,000 over 3 years. Grant start: 1st August 2018.’

That is mega-money. The average salary in Nairobi is currently around £6,500 per annum.

Substantial funding

Furthermore, NGLHRC claims support from ‘partners‘ such as the International Bar Association, Stonewall UK, Amnesty International and the US Department of State.

The NGLHRC 2016 accounts also reveal substantial funding from all these other wealthy overseas donors:

• Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
• COC Netherlands
• Diakonia (Faith-based Swedish grant distributor)
• East African Sexual Health and Right Initiative (UHAI-EASHRI)
• Heinrich Böll Stiftung Foundation (HBF)
• HIVOS (Netherlands)
• Open Society Foundations (George Soros)
• PITCH Project (Partnership to inspire, transform and connect HIV response)
• The European Union
• Tides Foundation (San Francisco, US)
• United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
• The Canadian High Commission in Nairobi

Ford Foundation & KHRC

NGLHRC is not the only Kenyan NGO advocating for gay rights to have received overseas funding. The not-to-be-confused-with Kenya Human Rights Commission has also been in the money. Nairobi-based KHRC was founded in 1992 and began by advocating for genuine human rights.

In 2011 it moved into pro-sodomy lobbying and the cash started pouring in. The US-based Ford Foundation gave the Kenya Human Rights Commission a cool $1m in 2012. In 2015-2016, Ford Foundation gave KHRC another $1.5m. Also in 2016, Open Society Foundations gave KHRC £160,000.

George Kegoro, head of the Kenya Human Rights Commission, in full flow.

Revolvy says The Swedish International Development Agency, Christian Aid, Trocaire, Danish International Development Agency, United Nations Development Programme, UNIFEM and Canadian International Development Agency have also given the KHRC substantial funds.

Headed by George Kegoro, KHRC has a current staff of fifteen. Its website says: ‘KHRC will continue to engage in national and regional advocacy on the protection and realization of the rights of LGBTI persons.’

Moreover, KHRC also criticised the Kenya High Court ruling, saying it ‘legitimises homophobia by upholding a colonial culture of exclusion, discrimination and violence against minorities’.

Proxy war

There is a proxy spiritual war going on here in which Western Christians are not even engaging.
The overseas money has enabled NGLHRC to employ six full-time staff as at 2016. They include: ‘three lawyers: Mr Eric Gitari (Executive Director), Ms. Njeri Gateru (Head of Legal Affairs), and Ms. Imani Kimiri (Security Officer).’

NGLHRC specifically names the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Foundation as enabling them to hire ‘an Accounting Officer, Ms. Annet Njoki, Ms. Cori Arudi … Office Administrator and … a Media and Communications Consultant, Ms. Kari Mugo.’ The cash also allows the publication of a professional website, glossy reports and extensive lobbying efforts.

In a nation which outlaws homosexual practice, ‘in 2016, we had two student volunteers interning with us from the University of Nairobi Law School; Faith Gaitho and Chan Mubanga.’

The ‘Commission’ website even openly names its ‘seven-person Advisory Board that meets quarterly’ as Mr. George Gachara, Mr. David Kuria, Ms. Muthoni Njogu, Ms. Beryl Ogutu, Mr. John Mathenge, Ms. Louiza Kabiru and Mr. Binyavanga Wainaina.

Answer to local prayer

Kenyan Christians prayed and witnessed outside court

Consequently, it was an answer to much local prayer in Kenya that the court ruled against such a well-funded group. Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians put in much labour of prayer and spiritual warfare. Kenyan Christians also witnessed outside the court.

Catholic bishop Alfred Rotish told Reuters news agency outside the court: ‘We cannot be another Sodom and Gomorrah’. Indeed the overwhelming majority of Christian and Muslim groups support the current law. The Kenyan attorney-general himself argued against decriminalisation.

What did the judges say?

The judges dismissed the argument that a ban on unnatural practices contravened the 2010 constitution, which protects all citizens’ privacy and dignity.

Judge Roselyne Aburili (centre) and her colleagues courageously upheld Kenya's anti-sodomy law. — Judge Roselyne Aburili (centre) and her colleagues courageously upheld Kenya’s anti-sodomy law.

Presiding judge Roselyne Aburili declared to a packed courtroom: ‘We find the impugned sections [of the penal code] are not unconstitutional’.

She also found that allowing sodomy would ‘open the door for same-sex unions’. In her commentary she added that there was ‘no conclusive scientific proof that LGBTQ people are born that way.’

The judges ruled that while they respected changes to laws on homosexuality in other countries, it was the court’s duty to respect prevailing Kenyan values.

June funding conference

Undaunted, later this month, donors and immorality NGOs will come together in a major bi-annual conference held in a secret location in Nairobi. The ‘Africa Donors Meeting’ will bring grantmakers together from Monday, 17th June to Tuesday 18th. Then from Wednesday, 19th to Friday 21st June, the ‘Changing Faces Changing Spaces Conference’ is billed as ‘Africa’s largest convening of the continent’s LGBTI and sex worker movements and donors.’

This is the seventh such conference. We read on the Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) website: ‘The CFCS VI Africa Donors Meeting in 2017 brought together 75 grantmakers from 35 organizations, representing a diversity of public and private foundations, individual and corporate funders, and government agencies, embassies, bilateral and multilateral agencies.’

Its report says it enabled ‘African activists to strategise, network, plan and reflect on achievements
and challenges pertinent to our movements’. 200 participants came including 35 donor agencies. This is big business for the African immorality movement.

The 2019 conference, costing participants between US$440 – US$2,500 is private and even secretive. Its Eventbrite page answers a FAQ on sharing about it on social media like this: ‘No! Please note that this is a non-public meeting, intended to be shared only with those who are participating in person. We request that participants respect this guidance by refraining from sharing photos, location check-ins, or other updates on social media.’

Indigenous funding?

GPP was itself founded in only 2009, as was its member fund UHAI EASHRI. Uhai is kiswahili for ‘life’ while EASHRI stands for ‘East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative’. Its website claims that ‘UHAI is Africa’s first indigenous activist fund for sex workers and sexual and gender minorities.’

It distributes money across anti-Christian groups in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.

But its claim to be an ‘indigenous activist fund’ is, as you may have guessed, economical with the truth. UHAI is solely funded by Western largesse.

A publicity still from the Baring Foundation website on its funding of immorality in East Africa.

LGBT Funding

For example, on 9th February 2018 the Baring Foundation gave UHAI EASHRI, 4 grants totaling £760,000. It went to: ‘Supporting civil society organisations working with and for lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women and trans and gender diverse communities in East Africa.’

Sigrid Rausing Trust ‘has supported UHAI since 2013. Total funds received to date: £670,000
Current grant: £390,000 over 3 years; Grant start: 1st June 2017.’ They too confirmed ‘UHAI provides grants and capacity support to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) and sex worker organisations in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.’

The UK-based homosexual donations charity Give-Out has also provided money to UHAI-EASHRI.

Addresses:

One website says UHAI EASHRI operates out of offices at: 3rd Floor, Suite 5, Rosami Court, Muringa Rd., Kilimani P.O. BOX 7144-00300, Nairobi.
KHRC is at Gitanga Road opp. Valley Arcade Shopping Center, P.O Box 41079-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
NGLHRC is at: Mpulla House, # 4 Arboretum Drive, (off State House Road), Nairobi, Kenya
P.O BOX 52695- 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Ford Foundation: Rahimtulla Towers, Hill Ln, PO Box 41081, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya,
Open Society Kenya Office: 1st Floor, ACS Plaza, Lenana Road, P O Box 2193-00202, Nairobi
Open Society also has offices in Kampala and Dar es Salaam.

Scripture and Prayer

READ: Eccl 10:19; Job 4:8; Psa 2:1-12, 5:4,9, 7:9, 52:7, 94:23; Prov 1:16, 4:17, 10:2, 16:2; Isa 59:7; Jer 1:16; Mic 3:11; Mal 3:15-18; Matt 16:18; Mark 7:21-23; Acts 1:8; Rom 1:26-32; Eph 6:12; 2Tim 1:7; 1John 5:19; Rev 2:26, 4:11, 20:6.

PRAY: 1 Thank God for the Kenya High Court ruling. Thank God for the prayers of Christ’s faithful people which made it possible. Praise him for righteous judges. Thank God that even in the face of extravagant Western funding of pro-immorality NGOs, his righteousness has prevailed.

2 The Africa Donors Meeting: Firstly, Pray the Lord reveals its location. Secondly, pray for a great witness outside the venue. Thirdly, pray for confusion over its proceedings and repentance among its participants.

3 On the legal front, pray firstly for a law to prohibit money from overseas donors funding organisations promoting illegal and immoral practices in Kenya. Local offices of such organisations should be shut down. Both Ford Foundation and Open Society have offices in Nairobi. Secondly, pray for the Kenyan Parliament also to pass a law to prevent persons from publishing propaganda for illegal and immoral practices.

Western pressure

It would be interesting to know what funds Her Majesty’s Government has sent over the last five years to African NGO’s promoting LGBT rights. Also, what political pressure has the UK Government and others put on the Kenyan Government about Kenya’s laws preventing sodomy and abortion?

We urge Christians worldwide to pray against the neo-colonialism of the UK and other Western nations. It is built on the racist assumption that the white man is more civilised and advanced than Africans. He isn’t. The West is decadent and ripe for the judgment of Almighty God:

Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

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Abortion ship blocked as pressure builds

Stephen

24 February 2017

Pressure to legalise abortion is growing world-wide, thanks to international funding led by financier George Soros, Christian Voice has discovered.

The billionaire is behind moves to repeal a pro-life constitutional amendment in the Republic of Ireland. He is almost certainly also involved with a Dutch abortion boat run by the ‘Women on Waves’ group.

The financier also funded the presidential campaign of Republican contender John Kasich. The Ohio Governor repaid Soros by vetoing the state’s ‘fetal heartbeat’ bill.

Guatemala Police block abortion yacht

A Guatemalan guard faces members of Women on Waves (Reuters)

Today, news broke that police in Guatemala have blocked a yacht offering abortion pills. Accordingly, Women on Waves, run by Dutch national Rebecca Gomperts, may not disembark the vessel. Police are also preventing anyone boarding. President Jimmy Morales deployed the army. A spokesman said it would defend “human life and the laws of our country” by preventing the group from carrying out abortions.

Reuters reports that the abortifacient dispensed ‘combines two medicines, mifepristone and misoprostol’. The news agency said: ‘It is more than 90 percent effective for women up to 10 weeks pregnant’.

The boat takes women out to international waters to administer the drug. It only docks in countries where abortion is illegal. But it is as much a publicity stunt as a ‘pro-choice’ facility.

Where does the money come from?

Women on Waves is coy about where the money comes from. Nevertheless, this document from a court dispute gives some details. It says Women on Waves ‘has received grants from organizations including the Global Fund for Women (United States), the Mondrian Foundation (Netherlands), and the Mama Cash Foundation (Netherlands)’.

The cabin of the Women on Waves yacht (Reuters)

To add to the mix, the Dutch humanist HIVOS group gave money towards a film about Women on Waves. Mama Cash, a source of money for anti-Christian projects worldwide, was also listed. The Soros Open Society says it provides joint funding with HIVOS. Where you find HIVOS you will usually find Soros. The world of antichrist funding groups is highly incestuous.

Moreover, a highly revealing website for women’s ngos in Kyrgystan confirms the point. It lists Hivos, Soros Foundation-Kyrgyzstan, Open Society Foundation and Mama Cash as donors. Joining them are the California-based Global Fund For Women, the American Hunt Alternatives Fund and Urgent Action Fund. The latter always pops up promoting abortion or feminism in the developing world. Lastly, the Democracy Commission of the Embassy of the USA and the European Union help fund the Kyrgystan feminists. President Trump and Brexiteers kindly note.

Campaign to repeal Ireland’s Eighth Amendment

Meanwhile, abortionists are agitating in Ireland. The Republic passed the pro-life ‘Eighth Amendment’ of the Constitution of Ireland in 1983 by a two to one majority. The Amendment gives explicit recognition to the right to life of an unborn child. Accordingly, it effectively introduced a constitutional ban on abortion.

Strike4Repeal activists have similarities to previous Soros initiatives

But there is pressure to repeal the Amendment. Activists feel emboldened by the Republic’s vote to allow ‘gay marriage’ in 2015. They believe the times they are a-changing enough to secure a majority to scrap ‘the Eighth’. Nevertheless, there is hostility to them. Strangely enough, an LGBT group is among their opponents.

As part of the campaign, a group of girls who do not appear to have done much work are calling for a ‘strike of women.’ No doubt the mainstream media will give ‘Strike4Repeal‘ huge publicity on 8th March 2017.

But who is funding Strike4Repeal? LifeSiteNews reports: Soros’ New York City-based Open Foundations document focuses on repealing the pro-life Eighth Amendment’. Consequently, he will give ‘heavy funding for the Abortion Rights Campaign, Amnesty International Ireland, and the Irish Family Planning Association. Above all, Soros intends they will “work collectively on a campaign to repeal Ireland’s (Eighth) constitutional amendment.”

Soros fingerprints

But does Strike4Repeal receive Soros money? Firstly, any group like that needs money to carry out its campaign. Secondly, there are parallels between the modus operandi of Strike4Repeal and previous Soros agitations. He funded Pussy Riot and Femen who adopt similar poses (albeit bare-breasted in the case of Femen) and shock tactics. He was behind protests against Donald Trump’s inauguration. Thirdly, a Soros’ foundations document says ‘legalization of same-sex “marriage” presents “valuable and timely opportunities to advance the (pro-abortion) campaign.”’ Fourthly, it just has Soros fingerprints all over it.

One thing we can be certain of. Pro-abortion movements, like pro-sodomy ngos, do not spring up in countries out of the blue. They are rarely indigenous. There is always money from external affluent western ‘philanthropists’ behind them. If it is not Soros it is Hivos, or Mama Cash. If not them, Ford Foundation or Gates Foundation step in. Or Carnegie. Or the Rockefeller or Tides Foundaton. Similarly, the Atlantic Philanthropies may contribute. Or the Gulbenkian Foundation.

Prayer points

Please pray at this time particularly for Guatemala and the Republic of Ireland to stand firm against the abortionist assault. The Bible says: Proverbs 16:12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

We read that only Christ will bring in perfect government, but that does not mean earthly governments should not try to rule by God’s standards: Hebrews 1:8 But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

As to the antichrist NGOs, the Bible says: Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.

The Bible says of king Ahaz: 2Chr 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

The passage is speaking about child sacrifice. Abortion is our modern version of it. Many nations including Great Britain are now polluted because of this shedding of innocent blood. Israel did the same, as the Psalmist declares: Psalm 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood. So pray also for repentance in those nations who have legalised this abomination, for the slaughter to stop.

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Prof hounded for support of Belize anti-sodomy law

Stephen

20 May 2014

STOP PRESS 21st May 2014: Professor Bain has been sacked as head of CHART.

A university professor is being hounded by Caribbean homosexual advocacy groups for speaking in support of the Belize anti-sodomy law.

Thirty-three ‘gay’ advocacy and civil rights groups want the University of the West Indies (UWI) to fire Professor Brendan Bain from his position as head of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training (CHART) Initiative, claiming his expert testimony in Belize represents a conflict of interest.

They say his testimony in the case brought by one Caleb Orozco in an attempt to overturn Belize’s anti-sodomy law has ‘destroyed their trust in him’. The sub-text is that they all want Jamaica, Belize and other Caribbean Commonwealth members to legalise sodomy.

In his testimony, Professor Bain said that the risk of contracting HIV is significantly higher among men who have sex with men (MSM). He said this was true for Belize, as well as other countries, including those that have repealed the law that criminalises ‘anal sex’.

Responsibility to assess behaviours

According to Bain, some public health practitioners and agencies “have hypothesised that decriminalising the practice of anal intercourse among consenting adults would lead to a reduction in the incidence rate of HIV infections among MSM”. However, he said that to date, published data have not substantiated that hypothesis.

“As a physician and public health practitioner, one of my responsibilities is to assess behaviours for their impact on health and well-being,” Professor Bain said in his written testimony.

“When something is beneficial, such as exercise, good nutrition, or adequate sleep, it is my duty to recommend it. Likewise, when something is harmful, such as smoking, overeating, alcohol or drug abuse, and unsafe sexual behaviour, it is my duty to discourage it. Together with promoting individual responsibility, it is clear that environments that enable individuals to make and practice safe and healthy choices must be provided at family, community and governmental levels,” he said.

Bain added that another of his responsibilities as a public health practitioner is to assess the cost of behaviour, not just to the individual ‘actor’ but also to the community. “There are some private behaviours, either carried out by individuals or between consenting adults, that may either be helpful or of little adverse consequence to other persons in the community,” he said.

“Behaviours that are helpful to individuals and to the community are to be encouraged. On the other hand, there are instances in which private behaviours result in considerable public cost due to illness, with accompanying loss of productivity and social disruption and the prospect of premature death. The public cost of these private behaviours must be acknowledged and actively reckoned with,” Bain argued.

“The risk to MSM and their intimate sexual partners is not just to their physical health. The adverse physical and physiological consequences of STIs (including HIV) in MSM create significant and avoidable financial costs to individuals, households and governments. These important considerations must be included when considering whether to give public approval to risky behaviours such as are often practised by MSM,” Bain stated.

HAART AIDS Treatment costs UK NHS £1.5bn / year

Such a view is so obviously true as to seem uncontroversial in normal times. Since Highly-Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment (HAART) became available for those with HIV in the UK, ‘gay’ men have thrown responsible behaviour, caution (and their condoms) to the wind. The number of people living with HIV and having HAART treatment was almost 78,000 in 2012 and is likely to be over 85,000 today in 2014. Each one costs the Health Service £18,000 per year, according to AVERT. The total cost of HAART treatment is therefore £1,500,000,000 (£1.5 billion) per year and rising.

But Professor Bain’s opinion prompted the lobby groups to write to UWI Vice-Chancellor Professor Nigel Harris expressing displeasure with Bain’s testimony and asking for his dismissal. They did not claim that what he said was untrue, only that they had ‘lost confidence’ in him. Prof Harris is now considering the matter. The churches in Jamaica have rallied behind Professor Bain, but we can be sure that American universities with educational and financial links to UWI will be lobbying Professor Harris incessantly to try to force him to sack the honest Professor.

The condemnation of Professor Bain is being led by the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, a well-funded grant-giving outfit with a huge board of directors seeking to advance the cause of street-children, drug-users, prostitutes and, of course, homosexuals. The CVC has wide international connections to groups advancing the gay cause, including to UNAIDS. We have so far been unable to discover who funds CVC, but wealthy US groups like the Ford Foundation and Arcus are likely culprits.

Government and University figures attend Caribbean pro-homosexual meetings

Astonishingly, in a region where only the Bahamas has decriminalised sodomy, pro-homosexual advocacy meetings are regularly held across the Caribbean, and are routinely attended by government ministers or representatives of UWI.

An estimated 600 Belizeans turned out in San Ignacio on July 10, 2013 to oppose the inclusion of 'sexual orientation' in the country's gender policy. — An estimated 600 Belizeans turned out in San Ignacio on July 10, 2013 to oppose the inclusion of ‘sexual orientation’ in the country’s gender policy.

The Rt Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister and Chair of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS, opened the ‘Caribbean Consultation on Justice for All and Human Rights Agenda’, in Kingston, Jamaica, in April 2014. Naturally, Dr. Carolyn Gomes, Executive Director of the Caribbean Vulnerable Communities Coalition, attended. Prof. Archibald McDonald, Vice Principal of the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies called for ‘social inclusion’ of homosexuals and an ‘end to stigma’. The notorious campaigning Australian homosexual activist, Justice Michael Kirby, delivered the keynote address. The Consultation was coordinated by UNAIDS, which one might expect, but also, astoundingly, by the Government of Jamaica and the University of the West Indies.

Timothy M Shaw, PhD, Director, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies-St. Augustine attended ‘A Conversation on the Commonwealth and LGBTI Advocacy‘ in 2009.

By the grace of God, Caribbean churches are beginning to respond. Church leaders in Jamaica rallied to defend their island’s anti-sodomy law last year and have also given strong support to Professor Bain, a committed Christian. In Central America Belize Action, led by the courageous Pastor Scott Stirm, is fighting a superb campaign against pro-sodomy initiatives from the Belize government which seems to have given up all hope that the country’s courts will uphold the law in the Orozco case.

Section 53 of Belize’s criminal code states that “every person who has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any person or animal shall be liable to imprisonment for 10 years”.

Please pray for Professor Brendan Bain to know the peace and strength of Christ at this time and for the Church across the Caribbean to stand firm holding their governments to account as ministers of God.

Romans 13:3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: 4 For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil.

Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

Psalm 12:8 The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

Homosexual Activisits Pressure Belize

Robin

6 April 2014

United States human rights activists are pressuring the central American country of Belize to relax its policies on homosexuals.

The United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) has issued a challenge to the government of Belize before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), saying that the Belizean government must implement ways to protect its LGBTI community.

When one looks closer at the demands, however, it becomes clear that the issue is not merely about protecting homosexuals. Rather, UNIBAM is aggressively targeting those who dissent from the gay rights agenda.

UNIBAM is insisting that government punish those who commit “speech crimes” and “hate crimes” against LGBTI people. They claim violations have been made against LGBTI citizens in the areas of education, health, and employment.

On 28th March, the State of Belize was summoned to Washington DC, to appear before IACHR after UNIBAM petitioned for a rights hearing. Caleb Orozco, Executive Director of UNIBAM, led the charge by citing various “crimes” against gay people, none of which were supported by official documentation. In addition, he praised the government of Belize for continuing to enact the revised gender policy, which defines sexual orientation as “diverse,” and classifies contraceptives as a “public good.”

This revised gender policy is being pushed forward by the National Women’s Commission of Belize (NWC) and funded by the UN. Neither the public nor religious leaders were consulted on its passage. It was essentially passed in secret by gay rights activists in Belize.

Mr Orozco has been given money by Freedom House, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization. Although not directly connected with the US government, Freedom House is in turn supported with $250,00 gifts by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State. By following the money, we see that this is another instance of neocolonialism, whereby developing countries are being pressured by the West to make homosexuality the norm.

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Scotland will give asylum to Ugandans

Stephen

1 March 2014

Ugandan homosexual activists have learnt well from Western pro-sodomy propaganda. — Ugandan homosexual activists have learnt from Western pro-sodomy propaganda in their use of rainbow colours and moving the debate away from sex and onto ‘love’.

An independent Scotland will give asylum to Ugandans who consider themselves persecuted by anti-gay laws, reports The Herald.

Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s Minister For External Affairs, has written to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague detailing the Scottish Government’s gesture to welcome “any Ugandan” persecuted by the new laws.

He also intends to raise the matter with Ugandan ministers at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this summer.

Unless William Hague follows suit, the measure would need Scottish independence before coming into force. It is however unlikely that the ‘No’ camp will use the announcement in the independence debate, so entrenched is the pro-homosexual position in British politics and media.

Humza Yousef. What tartan is that? — Humza Yousaf. Which tartan is that? If not Clan Yousaf, can anyone shed any light?

Humza Yousaf, 29, was elected via the Mixed Member Proportional Representation from the Party List. He has been a spokesman for Islamic Relief. Having a soft spot for sodomites is not normally an Islamic trait.

In his letter Mr Yousaf urges Mr Hague “to offer asylum to any Ugandans who feels threatened or persecuted by the legislation”, adding that “Scotland will play her part in providing asylum for those seeking refuge from this draconian legislation”.

He adds that during the Games “no one from any part of the Commonwealth who visits Scotland will be under any doubt about our values as a welcoming, open and tolerant society”.

But not tolerant of African values or Christian virtue, of course.

The announcement raises questions. Nigeria, the biggest country in Africa, and also a Commonwealth member, has a recently-enacted law which also outlaws homosexual propaganda. Will Humza extend Scotland’s offer to Nigerians?

Africans are resourceful people and not devoid of acting skills. It is easy to claim to be homosexual and impossible to disprove. Scotland can look forward to a flood of applications for asylum if independence goes through.

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President signs anti-homosexual bill

Stephen

24 February 2014

President Museveni of Uganda has defied the United States by giving his approval to a bill outlawing homosexual propaganda, we are happy to report.

President Obama had threatened a cooling in what he described as “our valued relationship” should Uganda enact the bill, passed by the Ugandan Parliament.

Uganda receives some $400 million in aid annually from the United States, which now has to decide whether to show its displeasure by punishing ordinary Ugandans for their leaders’ disobedience to the wishes of Uncle Sam.

Such an outcome is highly unlikely. Museveni has called Obama’s bluff. And ‘ordinary Ugandans’ are delighted.

The new law allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of “aggravated homosexuality” and also criminalises the “promotion” of homosexuality”, reports the BBC.

The bill passed by parliament in December made it a crime not to report homosexuals, which would have made pastoral counselling difficult, but this clause has been removed from the legislation signed by the president.

Much prayer was mobilised in Uganda and across the world, including in neighbouring Kenya.

The Bill follows similar legislation in Nigeria, passed in reaction to pro-homosexual moves in the Commonwealth leaders meeting in October 2012.

Obama threatens Uganda over homosexuality

Stephen

19 February 2014

Threatened by Obama: President Yoweri Museveni

President Obama has given President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda a veiled threat of a reduction in aid should the President enact a law prohibiting the promotion of homosexuality, reports Fox News.

President Obama warned Uganda on Sunday that its plans to clamp down on proselytisation by homosexuals would “complicate our valued relationship.”

Obama maintained that the United States stands for ‘the protection of fundamental freedoms and universal human rights’ and ‘believes people everywhere should be treated equally’.

“That is why I am so deeply disappointed that Uganda will shortly enact legislation that would criminalize homosexuality,” Obama said in a written statement issued from Southern California, where he was spending the weekend. “The Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, once law, will be more than an affront and a danger to the gay community in Uganda. It will be a step backward for all Ugandans and reflect poorly on Uganda’s commitment to protecting the human rights of its people. It also will mark a serious setback for all those around the world who share a commitment to freedom, justice and equal rights.

“Enacting this legislation will complicate our valued relationship with Uganda,” he added.

President Museveni said last week that he plans to sign the new legislation, which also prescribes life imprisonment for acts of “aggravated homosexuality.” Those acts are defined as sex acts where one of the partners is infected with HIV, sex with minors or the disabled and repeated sexual offenses among consenting adults.

Uganda has been heavily targeted by Western homosexuals both in sex tourism and with cultural pressure.

Ugandan lawmakers passed the Bill in December. It enjoys broad support among Christian clerics and lawmakers who say it is needed to deter Western homosexuals from ‘recruiting’ Ugandan children.

It is also needed to curtail the pro-homosexual activities of a raft of foreign agencies, including the Open Society, funded by billionaire George Soros, which now has an office in Kampala, the American Ford Foundation, the Dutch humanist organisation HIVOS and North American and European government aid departments.

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President Obama (l) and Jason Collins (r)

The United States is Uganda’s largest donor, sending more than $400 million in aid annually in recent years. If Museveni signs the bill, the U.S. is expected to find ways to register disappointment over the law by withdrawing some or all of that aid.

Nigeria last month increased penalties against unnatural acts.

Obama supports same-sex marriage and his administration eliminated the Clinton-era ban on openly gay service in the military.

For his State of the Union address last month, Obama sat openly-homosexual basketball player Jason Collins with first lady Michelle Obama.

Simon and Jane MacOnyango have mobilised prayer in neighbouring Kenya.

Obama has also complained about a Russian law banning gay propaganda, and made sure prominent homosexual athletes were on the U.S. delegations to the Sochi Olympics.

Prayer has been mobilised across Uganda and in next-door Kenya, where minister Simon MacOnyango said:

‘The Church (The Body of Christ) should keep Uganda in prayers so that President Yoweri Museveni will resist this external pressure and make the right choice for the people of Uganda. Why should President Obama use his countrymen’s taxes to dangle a carrot to promote sin in another sovereign nation?’

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Landmark Courtcase To Challenge Constitutionality of Belize’s Anti-Homosexuality Laws

Christian Voice

2 May 2013

Western nations are attempting to strong-arm the central American nation of Belize into accepting the LBTG agenda in a landmark court case that could have ramifications for the entire region.

The case will be heard by the Supreme Court of Judicature next Tuesday and centres on the constitutionality of Section 53 of the Belize Criminal Code, which outlaws “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any person or animal.”

This law, which has been in place since 2003, imposes up to 10 years imprisonment on those who violate it. The nation’s Immigration Act also prohibits prostitutes and homosexuals from immigrating to the nation.

Belize is part of the Commonwealth realm and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. It is a constitutionally Christian nation and the only country in Central America that prohibits homosexual activity. Belize also has the distinction of being the only nation in the region that did not sign the United Nations 2011 document on gay rights.

The government of Belize has come under increasing fire from the Obama administration in general and from former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in particular. In 2011, the White House issued a presidential memorandum condemning “discrimination, homophobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBT status or conduct,” and said that US agencies in countries such as Belize should “vigorously advance” the promotion of gay rights. Belizean Prime Minister Dean Barrow reiterated that Belize would not change its anti-homosexuality stance, saying that if President Obama wishes to punish states by removing foreign aid for continuing such practice then “they will have to cut off their aid”.

As Belize has stood firm in the midst of foreign pressure, the LGBT lobby changed their tactic and turned to the courts. A case was filed before the country’s Supreme Court in September 2010 by the United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM). It is being supported by the International Commission of Jurists, the Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association, and the Human Dignity Trust. It is being opposed by Belize Council of Churches and Evangelical Association of Churches, along with the Belizean Government, on the grounds that overturning the law will be a slippery slope for introducing ‘gay marriage’ and other practices.

A spokesman for the churches, Pastor Scott Stirm, claimed

They are trying to push this issue as a human rights issue. And there is an international, global agenda that is pushing homosexuality and abortion.

UNIBAM receives support from the U.S. in the name of human rights. But we will not allow them to legalize this lifestyle so that they have free course to go into the schools and teach our kids their lifestyle.’

If UNIBAM is unsuccessful in the case which begins next week, they plan to take the fight all the way to the Caribbean Court of Justice.

When asked about the case, Robin Phillips, spokesman for Christian Voice, commented, “From our perspective in the West, Section 53 of the Belize Criminal Code seems unnecessary and even harsh, and I certainly do not advocate putting homosexuals in jail. However, the government of Belize believes that laws criminalizing unnatural acts function as effective “gatekeepers” by keeping at bay measures such as gay marriage, gay adoption, etc. Given the trajectory of how things have gone in Britain after the laws prohibiting sodomy were removed from the statute books, it’s hard not to have some sympathy with this position. The collateral effects of the gay rights agenda, in terms of the erosion of liberty and the public threats, were only possible once homosexuality became legalized in Britain. The rulers in Belize are not stupid and are aware of this dangerous trajectory.”

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Bill Gates and the New Malthusians

Robin

15 August 2012

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first eugenics conference, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation put on a family planning conference this summer.

The conference, which began on 11 July and was co-hosted by the UK Department for International Development, included among its coalition partners such organizations as Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes International, and the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA).

From Hard Eugenics to Soft Eugenics

The original conference that Bill Gates wished to commemorate was titled The First International Eugenics Congress. It was convened in London from 24-29 July, 1912, and was presided over by Leonard Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin. The conference was dedicated to Charles Darwin’s half-cousin Francis Galton (1822–1911). Galton invented the term Eugenics to describe his theory that man could be perfected through strategic breeding. His ideas that certain races are genetically superior to other races had a profound impact on later Nazi theorists.

The 1912 conference included an exhibit by the American Breeders’ Association, whose former president, Harry Laughlin, proposed to eradicate the “inferior” members of society through compulsory sterilization. The conference featured a presentation from Bleeker van Wagenen, who gave a report on the progress of sterilization laws in the United States and advocated compulsory sterilization as a means for improving the human gene pool.

Early 20th century Eugenics theory was often accompanied by the notion that economics can be improved by decreasing the surplus population. Such ideas were based on the theories of Thomas Malthus (1766 –1834) who suggested that the poor were draining the world’s recourses. One of Malthus’s solutions for reducing the surplus population was to introduce policies specifically designed to bring death to large numbers of peasants. For example, he encouraged poor people to move near swamps, because he knew that they would catch diseases there and begin dying off.

The conference that the Gates Foundation put on to commemorate The First International Eugenics Congress included no calls for forced sterilization, but Bill and Malinda Gates did pledge hundreds of millions of dollars to improve access to contraception in the developing world. Following in the footsteps of early 20th century social engineering theory, they echoed Malthus by suggesting that we have an economic responsibility to ensure that there are fewer people. Wendy Wright has rightly called this the “latest effort to blame children for poverty and women’s troubles.”

Bill Gates is quick to repudiate his dependence on Malthus. In an interview with PBS, he told Moyers that “The one issue that really grabbed me as urgent were issues related to population” and he shared how originally he “thought that the Malthusian principles applied at least in the developing countries.” Gates went on to say how he came to understand that “essentially Malthus was wrong” and that alternatives to Malthus’s doomsday scenarios included raising wealth, improving health and educating women.

But we should not be too quick to assume that Bill and Melinda Gates have completely abandoned their earlier Malthusian framework. On the contrary, Mr and Mrs Gates have both frequently drawn attention to the economic ramifications of there being too many people. This was made explicit by Melinda Gates in 2011 when she commented that “Government leaders…are now beginning to understand that providing access to contraceptives is a cost-effective way to foster economic growth…”

So what exactly is the relation between contraception and economic growth? The connection is simple: fewer people = more resources. This may not be the hard eugenics of Malthus, but it certainly involves what Andressen Blom and James Bell have appropriately termed “soft negative eugenics.” In an article for The American Thinker last June, Blom and Bell define soft eugenics as follows:

“for economic reasons governments should use taxpayer dollars to underwrite the decisions of citizens to pursue recreational sexual activity. The underlying economic assumption is that the prospective children of the poor citizens likely to utilize such government-funded programs would be likely to hamper economic growth if they are born.”

Decreasing the Surplus Population

This is not the first time that Bill and Malinda Gates have ventured into population control. At the Technology, Entertainment and Design 2010 Conference, Bill Gates gave a talk in which he suggested that the solution to global warming is to have fewer people.

This is part of a new groundswell of interest in population control which posits a direct relationship between global warming and the amount of people on the earth. The Microsoft founder reduced our planet’s problem to a simple equation: CO2=P x S x E x C CO2 (total population-emitted CO2 per year) = P (people) x S (services per person) x E (average energy per service) x C (average CO2 emitted per unit of energy).

The goal, Gates said, was to “get this down to zero.” Referring to P(eople) specifically, he said, “Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, healthcare, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”

That’s right. Rather than leading to more life, which was the original purpose of vaccines and healthcare, their great advantage in Gates’ mind is that they can lead to fewer people. While this is obviously true when it comes to contraception, it is hard to understand how vaccination is specifically related to a decrease in the population. (But hold onto that thought.)

The Gates Foundation are certainly doing all they can to decrease what it sees as surplus population. In May of this year, they gave a grant of $100,000 to researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill to develop a new type of ultrasound which has been described as a “non-invasive, reversible form of birth control for men.” Already tested on animals, it would make a man infertile for up to six months. Nine other grants were given to other scientists attempting to create new forms of contraception.

Forced Sterilization

One of the coalition partners in last month’s conference was Planned Parenthood, whose founder Margaret Sanger hoped to “assist the race towards the elimination of the unfit.” Similarly, Marie Stopes International, who also had a prominent presence at the conference, was started by a woman who advocated for “the sterilization of those totally unfit for parenthood [to be] made an immediate possibility, indeed made compulsory.” (To read more about forced sterilization in the 20th century, see my article ‘Social Engineering and the Dark Side of American Liberalism.’)

But while these organizations previously supported forced sterilization, surely no one in the West still thinks that the poor and ‘feeble minded’ ought to be subjected to compulsory sterilization, right? Well, not so fast. Consider the following facts:

The Gates Foundation lists the World Health Organization as being one of its ‘Key Partners’ even though the forcibly sterilized thousands of women in the ‘90s under the pretence of providing vaccination services. (Could this have something to do with why Gates has explicitly linked vaccination to issues of population control?)
Bill Gates father, William H Gates Sr, was head of the abortions and eugenics group Planned Parenthood, an organization birthed out of the American Eugenics Society, and strongly influenced his son.
The Gates Foundation has given a fortune to abortionists since 1998, $33,306,829 to International Planned Parenthood alone. IPPF supports China’s coercive ‘one-child’ policy. More on Gates Foundations donations HERE (but figures should be checked against the Gates Foundation website).
The Gates Foundation has partnered with the United Nations Populations Fund (UNFPA) which also supports China’s one-child-only policy and frequently appeals to global warming as a reason to curb the human population.
The London conference that the Gates Foundation put on last month was co-hosted by the UK’s Department for International Development, which has given aid money to India despite warnings that it would be used to forcibly sterilize poor women. (See ‘UK aid helps to fund forced sterilisation of India’s poor.)
In its autumn 2009 edition (Issue 10), Salvo magazine reported that the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has come up with a new way to reduce poverty: reduce poor people. The campaign, which has been supported by Bill Gates, does so by supporting and funding coercive sterilization, contraception and abortion campaigns.
The Gates Foundation supports the organization Save the Children, which has been a major pusher of the population control agenda through issuing false propaganda against pregnancy. (See the LifeSiteNews article ‘Major children’s charity criticized for pushing population control agenda.)

The Hidden Truth About Vaccines and Forced Sterilization

Rather than leading to more life, which was the original purpose of vaccines and healthcare, their great advantage in Gates’ mind (at least according to his remarks at the Technology, Entertainment and Design 2010 Conference) is that they can lead to fewer people. While this is obviously true when it comes to contraception, it is hard to understand how vaccines are specifically related to a decrease in the population.

The connection between vaccines and population control becomes clearer if we consider an event that occurred in the early 1990’s. The World Health Organization, working under the control of the UN, launched a campaign to vaccinate millions of people in Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines against tetanus. The project was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank, the UN Development Programme, and the US’s National Institutes of Health.

Tetanus is a potentially lethal infection caused by external wounds or cuts from things like rusty nails. There is nothing unusual in tetanus inoculations, which are routine in the Western World. But there was something that didn’t quite add up about these particular vaccinations.

For one thing, the WHO was choosing to only vaccinate females. For another thing, the girls they chose to vaccinate are primarily those between the ages of 15 and 45 (in Nicaragua the age range was 12-49.)

It wasn’t just disease experts who noticed that something was amiss. After all, it doesn’t take a great deal of intelligence to know that men and boys are more prone to wounds from cuts and rusty nails than ladies. So why was the WHO only choosing to vaccinate girls of child-bearing age?

To make matters more suspicious, the vaccination protocols were calling for multiple injections — three within three months and a total of five altogether. However, tetanus vaccinations provide protection for ten years or more, so why this call for multiple inoculations?

These were the questions that Comite Pro Vida de Mexico, a Roman Catholic lay organization, began asking and why they decided to have some vaccine samples tested.

The tests revealed that the tetanus vaccine contained human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). hCG is a natural hormone that is secreted during the initial stages of pregnancy. When this hormone is combined with the tetanus toxoid carrier, it tricks the body into thinking that hCG is an invading enemy, with the result that a woman’s body begins producing anti-hCG antibodies, making it impossible for her to ever maintain a pregnancy.

After a number of labs exposed that the vaccine was really a life-time birth control shot, WHO officials tried to keep things quiet and continued administering the anti-fertility injections. It was only after the courts intervened that the WHO was forced to stop administering the vaccine. Unfortunately, by then the damage had already been done and thousands of girls in Nicaragua, Mexico and the Philippines had been rendered permanently infertile. The scandal made it all the way up to the Philippines Supreme Court. To quote from an article on Lifesite news,

LifeSiteNews.com reported that in 1995, the Catholic Women’s League of the Philippines won a court order halting a UNICEF anti-tetanus program because the vaccine had been laced with B-hCG, which when given in a vaccine permanently causes women to be unable to sustain a pregnancy. The Supreme Court of the Philippines found the surreptitious sterilization program had already vaccinated three million women, aged 12 to 45. B-hCG-laced vaccine was also found in at least four other developing countries.

Was the 1990s tetanus scandal simply a medical blunder? Hardly! For 20 years prior to the incident, WHO researchers had been actively involved in creating anti-fertility vaccines utilizing hCG tied to tetanus toxoid as a carrier. This was publically documented in medical journals from the 70s through to the 90s.

What could possibly have motivated the World Health Organization to knowingly, but covertly, sterilize thousands of women in third world countries? While we do not have sufficient information to answer this question for definite, the answer could have something to do with the fact that population control is once again a growing public concern among the world’s elite. Consider that

Population control seems to be the pet topic among those men who control much of the world’s wealth. Not only Bill Gates but also Warren Buffett and Ted Turner have all spoken publically in favour of drastically reducing the human species, and supported programs designed to eliminate the excess in babies. For example, in 1996, Ted Turner stated that, “A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
In an interview with the New York Times in 2009, Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg alluded to the fact that abortion is all about getting rid of certain types of people that we do not want around: “Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”
Echoing comments made by the Optimum Population Trust in 2007, The London School of Economics suggested in 2009 that the best way to combat global warming is to reduce the surplus population through contraception and abortion. Their logic is simple: more people = more polluters.
A 2007 report, written by specialist Professor Barry Walters for the Australian medical journal, called for couples with more than two children to be charged a lifelong tax to offset their extra offspring’s carbon dioxide emissions. Parents would be charged $5,000 a head for every child after their second, and an annual tax of up to $800.
In a 1981 interview, Thomas Ferguson of the United States Department Office of Population Affairs, commented that “we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it…”
College professors and leaders frequently cite the Georgia Guidestones to in arguing that that we should “maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.” To achieve that, the human population would have to be thinned by 90%.
The Anglo-Dutch financial empire has been and still is committed to reducing the world’s population from the present 6.7 billion, to under 2 billion persons. This has been stated repeatedly in the post-war period by such leading spokesmen as Lord Bertrand Russell, Julian Huxley, and World Wildlife Fund founders Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and the still-living Prince Philip, who has reiterated many times his desire to see the human population thinned.
Robert McNamara of the World Bank has said, “Excessive population growth is the greatest single obstacle to the economic and social advancement of most of the societies in the developing world.”
An initiative for the United Nations ECO-92 Earth Charter reads, “The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction of numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger has said “World population needs to be decreased by 50%.”
Friends of the Earth founder, David Brower, has stated, “That’s the first thing to do, start controlling the population in affluent white America, where a child born to a white American will use about fifty times the resources of a child born in the black ghetto.” “Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license…. All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing.”
President Obama’s top science and technology advisor, John P. Holdren, has advocated the possibility of a “planetary regime” that would use a “global police force” to enforce totalitarian measures of population control, including forced abortions, mass sterilization programs conducted via the food and water supply, as well as mandatory bodily implants that would prevent couples from having children.
The Secretary of State for International Development, Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, is a hard-line pro-abortionist in his ideal job. In November 2010 he proposed to “hard-wire” abortion and contraceptive services into overseas development programmes. In December 2010 this came to fruition as he announced plans to spend an extra £2.1 billion on programmes including abortion and contraception, drawing a rebuke from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. The Governments’ abortion policy is now an integral part of their foreign aid packages.

WRITE: To your MP and ask your MP to protest to the Secretary of State for International Development about the way that Government money was used last month to commemorate the legacy of 20th century Eugenics. Your MP’s address is House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. If you do not know who your MP is or wish to email your MP instead, click here to go direct to the UK Parliament’s list of MPs.

PRAY: That the Lord will continue to expose the evil being promoted by family planners and population control advocates. Pray that the plans of Bill and Melinda Gates will be channelled towards life rather than death. Pray that legislators overseas will become alert to the evil enclosed in the Trojan Horses of aid from the Gates Foundation and the UK Government. Pray that God will grant Andrew Mitchell a spirit of repentance or remove him and that the UK’s pro-abortion policy will not stand.

Pray for Belize to stand firm

Stephen

30 November 2011

A Constitutional challenge has been mounted in Belize to the laws which currently make unnatural acts a criminal offence. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for early in December (2011). We are calling for a mobilization of the church in prayer across the world for our brethren in Belize. If Belize is rolled over by the homosexual juggernaut, the rest of the Caribbean could easily follow.

The Constitution of Belize (formerly British Honduras) was settled in 1981. It acknowledges the supremacy of God, stresses human rights, freedom and the family. No-one has claimed before now that men suddenly have an inalienable right to commit acts of sodomy and gross indecency under it, especially as it says: ‘freedom is founded upon respect for moral and spiritual values and upon the rule of law’.

The law suit has been filed by an organisation called UNIBAM. UNIBAM is short for United Belize Advocacy Movement, which hides behind concern about HIV/AIDS but is nothing more than a shameless homosexual rights group. UNIBAM’s court case is fronted by the former UK Labour Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith QC, and has drawn condemnation from churches in Belize.

There has been outrage in Belize at the grant of a substantial sum of money to UNIBAM by the Embassy of the United States of America.

The US Embassy website admits that its grant to UNIBAM is for pro-gay propaganda. In their own words, the project: ‘will increase public awareness about homophobia while creating a safe space for HIV prevention work. The organization will organize a national debate on homophobia and human rights. Other initiatives will include the distribution of wrist bands to raise awareness of the issue, prevention education sessions among LGBT population, and the airing of public service announcements.’ View HERE.

Both UNIBAM and another pro-gay group, the Alliance Against Aids (AAA) are totally funded from abroad. The people of Belize themselves are overwhelmingly opposed to homosexuality. In the case of AAA, their money comes mainly from HIVOS, the wealthy Dutch Humanist body. Caleb Orozco, the founder and head of UNICAM, claims to have “‘friends in high places’ politically and in the media.” Homosexual View HERE.

UNIBAM has also received money from the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA (see page 7 of this link):

The churches in Belize are mobilizing, having filed an application to join the action. They have held a seminar, and Belize Action has been set up to oppose UNIBAM.

Dean Barrow, the Prime Minister of Belize, has come out against the move, according to a report from the ‘gay travelers network’, who are very interested in having a new exotic location in which to corrupt local youth for a dollar or two. The same website reveals that, astonishingly, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association is backing UNICAM:

Here is the CLA ‘About us’ page: http://www.commonwealthlawyers.com/AboutUs.asp#Secretariat

Even this pro-gay BMJ article reveals that homosexual practices are dangerous and unsanitary. For a more detailed look, supported by research done by homosexual doctors, this scholarly article shows the implications for health and morals in Belize from decriminalising these acts of perversion.

Meanwhile, right across the Caribbean Sea in Barbados, Wikipedia is wittering on about ‘LGBT rights’ or the lack thereof, the Attorney General is laying down the law, but Ambassador to the USA John Beale is sounding a bit wet, while some dreadful fat lesbian wants Barbados to cash in on gay sex tourism.

African nations have reacted with fury and defiance to pressure from David Cameron and other leaders of decadent Western nations to decriminalise sodomy. Nigeria is poised to outlaw gay marriage, according to The Guardian (UK). A more balanced and informative article was in the Nigeria Sun newspaper. The British High Commissioner in Lagos, Andrew Lloyd, is furious. ‘Britain and other western countries would not tolerate any law that prescribes punishment for gays’, said Mr Lloyd.

Despite what the Guardian says about other African countries scrapping anti-gay laws, it’s all the other way. Zambia and Zimbabwe have said they will not enact gay rights, according to a UK homosexual paper. (Although we cannot imagine what possessed Morgan Tsvangirai to say he now believes ‘gay rights are human rights’.)

Ghana’s President John Atta Mills said he will never enact laws which will ‘destroy the moral fibre of society’, while John Nagenda of the Ugandan Presidential Office said “Uganda is, if you remember, a sovereign state and we are tired of being given these lectures … “If they must take their money, so be it,” he concluded.

Malawi’s governmental spokesperson Patricia Kaliati said that it was “unfortunate” that Britain was considering “pro-gay strings” to aid, adding that homosexual acts are illegal in Malawi. She noted that such laws are a legacy of British rule, reported Nyasa Times, but the laws were and are entirely consistent with African moral values, even though Britian is now sinking into a swamp of immorality and perversion, where homosexuals are now persecuting Christians.

Tanzania’s foreign affairs minister Bernard Membe said: “Tanzania will never accept Cameron’s proposal because we have our own moral values. Homosexuality is not part of our culture and we will never legalize it. Tanzania is ready to end diplomatic ties with Britain if it imposes conditions on the assistance it provides to pressurize for adoption of laws that recognize homosexuality. We are guided by our tradition. We have families of a mother, a father and children. What Cameron is doing might lead to the collapse of the Commonwealth.”

The President of Zanzibar, Ali Mohamed Shein, said that Islamic and Zanzibari culture abhors gay and lesbian activities. “We cannot compromise our deeply rooted culture or [allow] something which [is] completely against our religion. Let them cut off aid,” he said.

The fact is, the UK has to get rid of its aid budget, which is not so much about helping poorer nations as making our politicians look good. If mothers die in childbirth in an African nation because the UK denied that country aid on a gay whim, it will not look good on David Cameron’s CV. So their ‘lectures’, as Uganda described them, are mere posturing.

But back to the subject. The threat to Belize is real. Please pray for the Church in Belize to be granted wisdom, resources and favour with the judges, pray for confusion in the homosexual camp, and please sign our Save Africa from Sodomy Petition (if you have not already done so).

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Commonwealth ignores gay rights

Stephen

31 October 2011

Gay rights activists were left disappointed this weekend as the Commonwealth ignored their demands to legalise homosexual acts.

Calls from Australia and Canada at the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Western Australia, echoing William Hague’s earlier speech to the Commonwealth People’s Forum, were opposed by African, Asian and Caribbean nations. Only Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom have enacted full gay rights. India’s High Court legalised sodomy and gross indecency in 2009, and South Africa has legalised homosexual activity in line with their pro-gay constitution, but both have stopped way short of the kind of measures which have seen Christians targeted by homosexual activists in the United Kingdom.

This positive outcome is a victory for righteousness and comes after Christian Voice organised a campaign of prayer throughout the Commonwealth. Christian Voice also exposed Michael Kirby, the Australian delegate who put down the motion to legalise unnatural acts, as an obsessive homosexual.

We give God the glory that David Cameron was left blustering on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that he would use foreign aid to enforce his view, but admitting that any country’s position on gay rights was just ‘one of the things that will determine our aid policy’ and recognising that ‘they are in a different place to us on this issue’, suggested by Andrew Marr as ‘some sort of bizarre Western fetish’. You can watch the interview until 5th November 2011.

The reality is that Britain must get rid of its overseas aid budget somewhere. If it refuses to give aid to those African and Caribbean nations which view sodomy with disgust, it is a bit stuck. However, in the past it has used aid ‘creatively’ to support projects aimed at softening up populations to accept immorality and feminism.

The Department for International Development is targeting its aid to fewer countries. Its website says: ‘Our resources and impact will be concentrated on 27 countries which account for three quarters of global maternal mortality and nearly three quarters of global malaria deaths: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tajikistan,Tanzania, Uganda,Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.’

If International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell takes out all the countries which criminalise sodomy, he will be left with Burma, the Congo, India, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, South Africa and Tajikistan. But even then, public displays of homosexuality are a cultural taboo in pretty well all of them. Those committing homosexual acts in Congo, for example, are prosecuted under public decency laws. So are the children of current British aid recipients going to be denied secure schooling, vaccination, safe drinking water and improved sanitation? Does Cameron want women to die in pregnancy and childbirth and newborn babies to die needlessly without British aid?

Actually, African voices are beginning to voice the idea that foreign aid does more harm than good and if it is going to be attached to pro-gay strings the argument is made all the stronger. A good argument is made that foreign aid is there to make our politicians look caring for their own political advantage.

By a picture of a smirking Mitchell, the DfID website also says it wants to ‘help 10 million more women get access to modern family planning’. Mitchell is one of the House of Commons’ most pro-gay and pro-abortion MPs. As ‘modern family planning ‘ means abortion, and as the British Government is going to use foreign aid to campaign for that as well as for gay rights, these aid recipients are better off without it.

Love and tolerance = hate and violence

Stephen

25 October 2011

PICT0300 — Police protecting Christians from homosexuals during a 'gay pride' march in Brighton in southern England.

Legalising homosexual acts leads to a tyranny against those who disagree with gay rights, as shown in this shocking video showing violence from homosexuals against Christians on 13th Agust 2011 in Brisbane, Australia.

Australians in Brisbane should have the fear of God after the floods which devastated it earlier this year, but here are gays flaunting their sin as Sodom and assaulting Christians preaching the Gospel. Ironically, the homosexual rally against which the Christians were witnessing called for tolerance and was promoted by ‘Equal Love’.

In the United Kingdom, we have had similar homosexual violence against Christians and we are now seeing persecution of Christians at work and in business in the name of ‘equality’ and ‘diversity’.

The latest case in Britain involves housing manager Adrian Smith, demoted for not backing gay marriage. Smith, a practising Christian, has had his pay slashed because he said on his private Facebook page that that allowing gay weddings in churches was ‘an equality too far’.

Sodomy and gross indecency between men were only decriminalised in the United Kingdom in 2003, but already our public sector is awash with cases where Christians have been sacked for things like refusing to conduct ‘gay civil partnerships’, being unable to help gays with their sex lives or for not placing children to be adopted by homosexuals.

British Catholic adoption agencies have been closed down by our ‘sexual orientation regulations’ and Christian public sector workers are now afraid to express any view against homosexuality. The aggressive ‘gay lobby’ rules in Parliament, the Courts and Town Halls up and down the land, imposing its immorality on the rest of society.

Two homosexual men even used Government money to sue Christian hoteliers who refused to give them a double bed – and won.

We post this ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting this weekend (28^th to 30^th October 2011), and pray that African, caribbean and Asian Commonwealth nations will stand against the motion being moved by Australian homosexual activist Michael Kirby.

We call for compassion for all those caught in sexual sin. The Church should be ministering the saving and healing grace of Jesus Christ to these unfortunate individuls. Equally, human rights include no right to commit acts against nature. The experience of the United Kingdom and Australia, to say nothing of the USA, shows what inevitably happens to those nations which legalise unnatural acts.

Commonwealth homosexual activist exposed

Stephen

21 October 2011

The Australian delegate who is trying to pressurise African and Caribbean nations to decriminalise sodomy at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is an obsessive homosexual, Christian Voice has discovered.

Michael Kirby, part of the Australian delegation and a retired Australian High Court judge, has been promoting homosexuality since he named one Johan van Vloten, a non-believer, as his ‘long-term partner’ in 1999. Despite claiming to be an Anglican, he has publicly attacked his own Archbishop of Sydney, called fellow Christians ‘God-botherers’ in a video on the TEDxSydney Youtube Channel, and denounced believers at the so-called ‘Parliament of the World’s Religions‘ in December 2009.

He is an advocate of sex education based on promiscuity with condoms, thinks prostitutes are merely ‘sex workers’ and would force the legalisation of both prostitution and homosexuality world-wide.

He has called for the State to apologise to homosexuals and for the Church to apologise for its ‘non-acceptance’ of homosexuality (but not, oddly enough, for its ‘non-acceptance’ of adultery, thieving and perjury). For Kirby, mere tolerance for sodomy and its practitioners is not enough. He demands acceptance, claiming, against the growing evidence of those released from homosexuality, that the science is ‘settled’ and that homosexuality is ‘genetic’, a position he must know that no geneticist actually accepts.

As a practising homosexual, Kirby has made no end of speeches promoting the homosexual cause. Some are listed on the SaltShakers webiste HERE. He promotes homosexuality fanatically, in the UN and other world bodies like UNAIDS.

In any other walk of life, someone who could not stop banging on about some aspect of his life would be regarded as a crushing bore. But Kirby has been garlanded with awards and honorary degrees around the world.

Now just because you are paranoid it does not mean they are not out to get you. But for Kirby, anyone who disagrees with him in any way – is motivated by ‘hate’. The reality is, he has no moral high ground from which to make such a charge.

In 2006 Michael Kirby described fellow celebrity lawyer John Marsden, a drug-user and self-described promiscuous homosexual, glowingly as ‘a pioneer for openly gay people in the law’. He went on to hail him as a ‘an example of courage … to homosexual people and other minorities in Australia’.

Michael Kirby is astonishingly on the board of the Kinsey Institute and constantly eulogises Alfred Kinsey, a pervert who included prison inmates and paedophiles in his research, as well as sexual experiments done on children, to ‘prove’ his contention that 10% of the population were homosexual (the true figure, even in the decadent West, is around 1%) and that children could – and should – experience sexual pleasure.

Nor does the fact that Kirby has a long-term partner mean that they have necessarliy been sexually faithful to each other. We just don’t know. But in the majority of homosexual couples, one or the other or both have sexual contacts outside their relationship. Fidelity is not a concept which has any relevance in homosexual life.

The founder of Liberty Chrisitian Ministries, Christopher Keane, in his testimony ‘Choices’, has said that:

in the many years that he lived the gay lifestyle, truly monogamous gay relationships are all but impossible, and that those relationships which he encountered that had a semblance of monogamy were very often a facade. Many in those relationships were sleeping around behind their partners’ backs; or there was an arrangement where both partners agreed to stay together while ‘permitting’ the other partner to have sex on the side.

Kirby says it is ‘ridulous and wicked’ to deny homosexuals the right to marry. On the contrary, it is ‘ridulous and wicked’ to allow it. Wicked because it flies in the face of the ordinance of Almighty God, endorsed by the Lord Jesus, that marriage is between one man and one woman. Ridiculous because a marriage must be consumated in law to be valid. How can a pair of homosexuals, lacking between them the complementary parts of the anatomy necessary for such an act of sexual intercourse, possibly do that?

Kirby pretends that African attitudes to homosexuality were introduced by colonialists. The truth is that homosexuality and other sexual immorality has been contrary to African attitudes for generations. The irony is, Kirby’s motion at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October 2011 is a shameless attempt at neo-colonialism, where rich white nations use threats of withdrawal of foreign aid to browbeat those less wealthy than themselves.

Motions at the Commonwealth meetings are only passed if they are agreed by consensus. If the African, Caribbean and Asian Commonwealth nations stand together for truth and morality, Kirby’s self-serving motion will deservedly fail.

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Commonwealth must resist pro-sodomy call

Stephen

19 October 2011

ebme1 — Do African nations really need gay pride marches? This sad and depraved scene took place in London.

CANBERRA, Australia — An official says leaders of former British Empire countries will be asked next weekend to legalize homosexuality.

Australian delegate Michael Kirby told Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio yesterday that the agenda includes a recommendation to legalize homosexuality. Kirby claims countries have a difficult time educating populations about safe sex while also banning ‘gay sex’.

Leaders of 53 Commonwealth countries will meet in the Australian city of Perth over the weekend of 28th to 30th October 2011 for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. As motions are determined by consensus, the Australian initiative will most likely get nowhere, but it is part of the pressure being exerted by the white donor nations on those they regard as less ‘enlightened’.

Australian activist Rob Lake says most Commonwealth countries outlaw homosexuality and the response to the recommendation would ‘test their human rights commitment’.

The truth about HIV/AIDS

Firstly, Kirby’s claim is both self-serving and contradictory. For years sodomy advocates have told the rest of us that HIV/AIDS is not a ‘gay disease’ and did not predominantly affect the homosexual network. Now Kirby admits that it does. So what is the truth?

In fact, HIV/AIDS is a bloodbourne disease which needs to get into the bloodstream direct or through an open wound.

So, firstly, the rectum is easily torn during sodomy, and the rectal wall is only one cell thick. It is perfectly designed to extract water from bodily waste, so viruses of all sorts can be absorbed straight into the blood-stream during the unnatural act of sodomy.

Secondly, if sexually-transmitted diseases go untreated, they can leave lesions through which HIV can travel during normal sexual intercourse. Thirdly, reuse of hypodermic needles following inadequate sterilisation can transmit HIV in some countries’ medical establishments. Chastity before marriage, faithfulness in marriage and good medical practice, which may need better funding, are much more effective than condoms in stopping HIV/AIDS.

Legalising homosexual acts will increase gay tourism

Legalising sodomy would only make matters worse, and will also lead to more of the horrors of gay tourism which already corrupt children in parts of Africa, the Caribbean and Asia. Despite what Mr Lake and other ‘health’ and ‘human rights’ activists say, there is no human right to commit unnatural sexual acts in any human rights document. Homosexual attraction is not inbuilt. Both men and women have been released from it.

Sidney MG 01 — Lesbian aggression at Sidney Mardi Gras; one of the less indecent photos on the Mardi Gras website.

Let us look at the countries leading the pro-sodomy charge. In Australia, the Sydney ‘Mardi Gras‘ has, according to its website, been taken up with enthusiasm by the city. It, like every Mardi Gras and Gay Pride everywhere in the world, is an annual display of Western depravity and obscenity.

_46014419_jake_pride — Activists promoting pro-gay teaching in schools

The UK hosts numerous homosexual events and promotes sodomy to school-children as young as five. Every political party is now in favour of gay rights, none more so than the one headed by David Cameron, our ‘Conservative’ Prime Minister, who is so obsessed by homosexuality he wants homosexuals to be allowed to get ‘married‘ and has threatened African nations that he will withdraw foreign aid unless they legalise the Western vice of sodomy.

Cameron’s proposals have led to a Petition to Defend Marriage, and a Christian Voice campaign to Save Africa from Sodomy, which includes a seperate Petition on the subject linked to a hard-hitting video.

Call to resist Western depravity

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:

‘Those Commonwealth nations who still respect morality and the sovereignty of Almighty God have to stand together against the cultural imperialism of rich white countries. Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand still have a colonialist mindset in which the white man knows best. Well perhaps Britain and the rest, where immorality in public policy is leading to a breakdown of society and even to violence on the streets, need to take some lessons in decency and respect from African, Caribbean and Asian nations.

‘I live in a country which has been rushing along a godless road to destruction for the past fifty years. Britain legalised sodomy, abortion, divorce-on-demand and pornography in the 1960s. Today Britain is described as brutal and broken even by leading politicians like David Cameron himself.

‘The nation which took the Gospel around the world is now intent on exporting our peculiar brand of wickedness.

‘Our experience in Britain shows that legalising sodomy leads to full gay rights, recognised homosexual partnerships and then ‘gay weddings’, hate crimes laws designed to prevent pastors speaking the truth about human sexuality, and an aggressive homosexual lobby which allows no dissent in political parties or in the corridors of power.

‘In Britain, it has led to hoteliers being forced to let rooms to pairs of homosexuals and forced those who oppose sodomy out of public-sector jobs. Ours is a society going to a libertarian hell on earth where the rights of people to practice their Christian faith are openly trampled on.

‘And if activists want to talk about human rights, let them explain away the fact that in England and Wales, 189,574 children were killed by abortion in 2010 alone. Every single day of the year, on average, over 500 unborn children are being torn out of what should be the safest place on God’s earth in the United Kingdom. Where is their human right to life? For some amazing pictures of life – and death – before birth, click HERE

‘Truly, David Cameron has no moral high ground at all from which to lecture non-white Commonwealth nations about ‘human rights’.

‘I hope and pray that those nations will stand together to tell Australia and Britain a few home truths about basic morality.’

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Debunking the Palestine Lie

Robin

22 September 2011

The video below is a useful resource for debunking some of the common myths about a Palestinian state that are currently being perpetuated by the media and by America’s President Obama.

CCF: Serving God and Mammon

Stephen

15 August 2011

‘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.

CAMERON NEEDS ‘PROPER MORALS’

Stephen

11 August 2011

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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