Elton John may never become any kind of Christian leader, but he still thinks he should be.
On Sunday, according to the Washington Times, the ageing celeb said ‘that Jesus Christ would support the idea of two gay priests tying the knot and that the celibacy vow among clergy is an “old and stupid” rule that should be abolished’.
Mr. John, who hopes to ‘marry’ his sodomite civil partner David Furnish some time next year, said gay clergy should be allowed to ‘marry’ and have sexual relationships.
“These are old and stupid things. If Jesus Christ was alive today, I cannot see him, as the Christian person that he was and the great person that he was, saying this could not happen,” he said.
Apparently, the greater and more ‘Christian’ one is on planet Elton, the more one agrees that the rectum is an appropriate receptacle for the male anatomy.
That only confirms Elton as confused, crass and clueless about the Christian faith.
The Lord Jesus cannot be described as a ‘Christian person’ and he is alive. He was and is the Son of God who ministered on earth as a Jewish Pharisee, upheld and taught the laws of God and died on a cross to bear the sins of as many as would believe in him, sexual sins like sodomy included.
There is little evidence that Elton John understands this and even less that he has repented of his acts of sodomy and/or gross indecency with David Furnish and countless others. His ignorance of the Lord Jesus knows no bounds:
“He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and trying to bring people together, and that’s what the church should be about.”
Actually, the Jesus we read about in scripture, not the one who is a figment of Elton’s imagination, is ‘all about’ division:
Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.
Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:
John 7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. 41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? 42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? 43 So there was a division among the people because of him.
John 9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
As to ‘love and compassion and forgiveness’, Elton, yes, the Lord Jesus will forgive all your sins if you turn to him, but if if you persist in your sin and go around promoting it in your pride and arrogance he will be a consuming fire.
The love of Christ is not some mawkish, sentimental endorsement of whatever goes, but a calling to repentance:
Mark 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.
Sir Elton told Sky News that ‘the global fight for gay rights was stalling’ and that he planned to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin in November.
“Globally, we seem to have gone backwards over the last 18 months,” he said. “I will see Putin and talk to him. I don’t know what good it will do though.”
Let us hope and pray that President Putin will tell Elton John the truth, that sodomy is a act of abuse, that homosexual desires are vile affections and that Jesus Christ can release him from his sinful life. Then their meeting, if it takes place at all, will have done some good.
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Immigration levels are more than twice what David Cameron projected for the last year.
According to an official report released Thursday, immigration into Britain increased by 27% last year.
In fact, net immigration is currently twice Mr Cameron’s target goal of reducing immigration to “tens of thousands.” The results show that a net total of 201,000 EU citizens immigrated to the UK, as compared to the 158,000 immigrants last year.
The already strained relationship between the EU and Britain has been further weakened by these findings, with many people believing that immigration policy will not changeunless Britain secedes from the EU.
In 2013, a total of 526,000 people moved to the UK and 314,000 left, which resulted in the net figure of 212,000 immigrants. This is an increase from the 177,000 immigrants in 2012.
The ONS report further shows that the total number of people coming into the UK increased 5%, with 43,000 more EU citizens and 11,000 fewer non-EU citizens arriving. According to the Office for National Statistics, 125,000 of those immigrants came to find work, up from 95,000 in 2012.
In an Express report, Alan Murad, Deputy Campaign Manager of ‘Get Britain Out’ warned:
‘These figures demonstrate that while we remain in the EU we are completely powerless to control immigration to Britain. Unless Britain leave the EU the Government will continue to have no say on the hundreds of thousands of migrants entering the UK from EU countries every year. This is putting enormous pressure on our public services, presents a real threat to British jobs and is a major risk to our economic recovery.’
UKIP leader Nigel Farage condemnedDavid Cameron for “breaking a solemn promise to the British people to get net annual immigration down to the tens of thousands.” Mr. Farage further commented on immigration, which he called “one of the most important political issues,” saying that Mr Cameron “refuses to take back control of our borders in respect of more than 400 million people from more than two dozen countries on continental Europe.”
Mr Cameron recently “launched a full-blown attack” against Farage, saying that Farage is essentially an elite citizen who seeks to “‘destroy the Conservative party.'”
In addition to the changes mentioned above, there was a 150 percent increase in people coming from Romania and Bulgaria into the UK, even before work restrictions were lifted in January. The numbers increased from just 9,000 in 2012 to 23,000 in 2013. Approximately 70 percent of these immigrants came to find work.
Other increases came from countries like Poland (from 11,000 to 102,000), Italy (from 9,000 to 42,000), and Bulgaria (from 7,000 to 18,000).
Chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee Keith Vaz said: “Controlling EU migration is impossible without reform. It is clear that the Government’s aim is unrealistic and unachievable. The Government should drop its target now.”
Interestingly, reports in The Telegraph and BBC News UK say that net migration remains unchanged at 212,000 per quarter, although that number is still twice that of the Government’s target of less than 100,000 immigrants a year.
However, later on in the BBC News article, the reporter mentions the same figures as the other articles: 201,000 EU citizens migrated to the UK as long-term citizens, a statistical increase of 43,000 over the previous year. How does net migration remain the same if it increased by 43,000 people? Apparently the “movements of other categories of people” cancelled this effect, causing the net migration numbers to remain unchanged.
Mr Cameron is now drawing up new immigration laws to counteract UKIP and ameliorate anger over this rise in EU immigrants moving to Britain.
Not even David Cameron can reduce the number of immigrants to Britain, as long as immigration laws in the EU remain unchanged.
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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.
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.
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.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Justin Welby, has joined the fray over David Cameron’s Easter message by rebuffing the atheists who tried to say Britian is not a Christian country.
Defending Church of England faith schools in the context of the Muslim takeover of schools in Birmingham, Archbishop Welby said Christian faith was reflected in the “whole way we approach our national life”.
Archbishop Welby later wrote in his blog that it was a “historical fact” that UK law, ethics and culture were based on its teachings and traditions.
Returning to the debate, Archbishop Welby said the UK’s “systems of justice and health, the way we value people, the basic way we look at the human being and the dignity of the human being, reflects the values of Jesus Christ”.
“We are a deeply Christian country in that way,” he added.
The Archbishop added that he did not agree with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s claim that the Church would be better able to serve its own interests and those of the country if it was disestablished.
Christian Voice applauds Archbishop Welby for his comments. We are committed to defend Britain’s Protestant Christian heritage and the establishment of a national church is part of our Christian identity.
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Park View Academy spent money on loudspeakers used to call students to Islamic prayers.
The initial investigation of an alleged “Islamic takeover plot” of a Birmingham school has widened to include 25 different schools.
When we first reported on this in our earlier article ‘Muslim schools take-over plot revealed‘, we had no idea how far this plot extended. Since news first broke, the Birmingham City Council has received over 200 reports concerning this inquiry.
The reports involve both primary and secondary academies and consist of calls and emails from staff, parents, and governors.
The allegationsmade by school teachers include the bullying of non-Muslim staff members, separating boys and girls during classes and assemblies, and banning sex education.
This concern was first raised last November when an anonymous letter known as “Operation Trojan Horse” emerged, outlining the hard-line Muslim plot attempting to take over UK city schools, four of which were apparently infiltrated. This letter encourages parents to rebel against school leaders if the schools are “corrupting their children with sex education, teaching about homosexuals, making their children pray Christian prayers and [carrying out] mixed swimming and sport.”
The instructions in the letter advocate more emphasis on Islamic studies as well as gender segregation in classrooms. The letter additionally says that the goal is to “ensure these schools are run on Islamic principles.”
A key part of the investigation is to determine whether or not the plot is genuine. Sir Albert Bore, the leader of Birmingham City Council, does not believe it is. But he does think that “there are issues…to look at carefully—issues perhaps around how a governing body behaves, perhaps what is said and done around the school.” His concern was that community relations could be in danger of falling apart.
One school governor also thinks the letter and surrounding allegations are a hoax. In addition, Tahir Alam from Park View Education Trust called the investigation a “witch hunt” that was based on “all sorts of false allegations.”
Birmingham city council’s chief executive, Mark Rogers, attributed these allegations not to a Muslim plot but to “cultural traditions” in immigrant communities that are at odds with England’s national school curriculum.
In response to these reports, Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education, instructed Ofsted inspectors to fail any schools in which religion is “getting in the way of learning and a balanced curriculum.” These investigations come partly because of accusations that Mr. Gove has shown a “shocking degree” of complacency with school policies.
Next month the results from the investigation will be published, and they are predicted to show that students are being proselytized with conservative Islamic ideas . If this is true, governors and head teachers who are found “inadequate” on these grounds could be dismissed immediately.
Last week Michael White, a former UK school teacher, revealed that some teachers were aware of the plot over 20 years ago but dismissed him instead of doing anything about it. White said that the Local Education Authority (LEA) listened to his claim but “didn’t want to exchange one set of problems for another.”
Khalid Mahmood, a Birmingham MP, said that for at least eight years the council knew about these claims but did not act for fear of “appearing anti-Muslim.” The height of the scandal is at Birmingham’s Park View Academy, where it is claimed that £70,000 was used to purchase loudspeakers to call pupils to Islamic prayers.
Despite the mounting evidence, authorities continue to downplay the seriousness of this case because of its so-called sensitive nature. As one reporter noted, nobody involved “wants to be called an ‘Islamaphobe’ or a racist, nor do they wish to be labelled a right wing conspiracy theorist.”
Even more unfortunate is that some potential whistle-blowers are afraid of losing their jobs if they come forward with what they know. If people fear that speaking out against Muslim infiltration of their school policies could cost them their careers, how can we hope for any change to take place? Moreover, as British leaders are anxious to show themselves to be multicultural, it is unlikely that Ofsted will be able to actually fail schools in which the religion of Islam is entrenched.
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili got his British Humanist Association mates to sign the anti-Christian letter.
The signatories of a letter accusing David Cameron of ‘fostering alienation and division in our society’ by maintaining that Britain is a Christian country have all turned out to be signed-up atheists.
Research carried out by Christian Voice has revealed that every single one of the fifty-five signatories is a ‘Distinguished Supporter‘ of the British Humanist Association (BHA). Many are also an ‘Honorary Associate‘ of the National Secular Society (NSS), and a couple are involved with the so-called Rationalist Association.
Nowhere in their letter to the Daily Telegraph do they acknowledge that they are all BHA supporters or that the letter was organised by the BHA. The BHA admit on their website that their president organised it, but do not disclose that every signatory was already in their go-to bag, merely describing them as ‘public figures’. Even more worrying, no mainstream media picked up on that fact either.
The Daily Telegraph described the signatories as ’55 public figures from a range of political backgrounds’. Er, no, they aren’t. They are all atheists. The Guardian sycophantically referred to them as ‘more than 50 prominent public figures including novelists, diplomats, Nobel prize winners and playwrights.’ The Independent described them as ‘an alliance of public figures including scientists, novelists and politicians.‘ The BBC described them as ‘a group of public figures’ rather than the more accurate: ‘a group of atheist time-servers taking themselves too seriously.’
Why was that? Plainly the omission of any reference to the British Humanist Association and the corresponding ability of the organisation to drum up so many distinguished-sounding names so quickly while keeping itself in the background gave the letter its only possible credibility.
Here are the signatories (BHA supporters Sir Jonathan Miller and Richard Dawkins and a few others have since added their names):
Professor Jim Al-Khalil: BHA Distinguished Supporter and President, Theoretical physicist, Professor of public engagement in science at the University of Surrey, author and broadcaster.
Philip Pullman: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, atheist, author from Norwich, author of the trilogy His Dark Materials. Once said, ‘I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.’
Tim Minchin: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Australian musician, composer, songwriter, actor, comedian. Appeared in various TV shows.
Dr Simon Singh: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Science Writer, TV Director and Producer for BBC, lecturer, honorary associate of the Rationalist Association.
Ken Follett: BHA Honorary Member and BHA Distinguished Supporter. Parents are born-again Christians but rejected Christianity himself after becoming disillusioned. Writer and journalist.
Dr Adam Rutherford: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Science writer, editor, broadcaster.
Sir John Sulston: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Scientist, Nobel Prize winner, scientist father was an Anglican priest, brought up a Christian but lost faith as a teenager.
Sir David Smith: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Botanist, lecturer, campaigned against expansion of religious maintained schools.
Professor Jonathan Glover: BHA Distinguished Supporter, philosopher, writer of books on ethics.
Professor Anthony Grayling: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Master of New College of the Humanities, writer, philosopher, campaigns for euthanasia.
Nick Ross: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Journalist, TV Presenter known for presenting Crimewatch, Chair of Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science, Chair of Crimewatch.
Virginia Ironside: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Abortionist, writer, past agony aunt for the Daily Mirror but now writes a column for the Oldie.
Professor Steven Rose: BHA Distinguished Supporter, scientist, writer, born to Jewish parents.
Natalie Haynes: BHA Distinguished Supporter, comedienne, writer, human rights supporter. Writer of An Atheists Guide to Christmas.
Peter Tatchell: BHA Distinguished Supporter, homosexual, human rights campaigner, atheist, gay rights campaigner, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, contributor to paedophile book Betrayal of Youth.
Professor Raymond Tallis: BHA Distinguished Supporter, physician, philosopher, author, poet, favours assisted dying.
Dr Iolo ap Gwynn: BHA Distinguished Supporter, scientist, mountaineer, atheist and interested in the natural world.
Stephen Volk: BHA Distinguished Supporter, supernatural screenwriter, author, spiritualism researcher, interested in parapsychology.
Professor Steve Jones: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, professor of genetics, science writer, broadcaster, outspoken against creationism.
Sir Terry Pratchett: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, believer in euthanasia, fantasy fiction author, satirist. Raises awareness of dementia.
Dr Evan Harris: NSS Honorary Associate, ex-MP, supporter of euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality.
Dr Richard Bartle: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Professor of Computer Game Design at the University of Essex.
Sian Berry: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Green Party member and campaigner, politician, author, supporter of atheist bus campaign, contributor to The Atheists’ Guide to Christmas.
C J De Mooi: BHA Distinguished Supporter, President of the English Chess Federation, actor, professional quizzer and panellist on Eggheads, homosexual, supporter of gay rights.
Professor John A Lee: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Consultant Histopathologist at Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, Professor of Pathology at Hull York Medical School, writer in the Lancet.
Professor Richard Norman: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, Professor of Moral Philosophy, founder-member of the Humanist Philosophers’ Group, contributor to BHA web resources.
Zoe Margolis: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, journalist, best-selling blogger, contributor to The Guardian and The Observer, ‘ambassador’ for the Brooks sexual health charity, pornographic author of Girl with a One-Track Mind.
Joan Smith: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, columnist, novelist and human rights activist, writes about feminism and human rights.
Michael Gore: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Brought up a Roman Catholic but abandoned the faith, promoter of Darwinism, naturalist.
Derek McAuley: Professor of Digital Economy, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham, Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Lorraine Barratt: BHA trained celebrant and conductor of Humanist and non-religions funerals and baby ceremonies, atheist. Lives in Penarth, Wales. Resigned as a Welsh AM shortly after hosting a blasphemous poetry recital in the Assembly.
Dr Susan Blackmore: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, lecturer, broadcaster, visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth, Bristol, atheist.
Dr Harry Stopes-Roe: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, British philosopher, son of family planning pioneer Marie Stopes, past science lecturer.
Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC: BHA Distinguished Supporter, human rights layer, Jewish immigrant descendant, founded Bindmans law firm.
Adele Anderson: BHA Distinguished Supporter, transsexual, actress and singer in cabaret and musical theatre, writer, bought up as Anglican.
Dr Helena Cronin: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE, explorer of evolutionary thinking, campaigner against maintained religion schools, an honorary associate of Rationalist International and of the Rationalist Association, wants Charles Darwin’s birthday to be a public holiday.
Professor Alice Roberts: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Anatomist, fanatical evolutionist, broadcaster, self-declared non-believer in life after death.
Professor Chris French: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Chartered Psychologist, sceptic Professor of Psychology, specialising in paranormal beliefs, editor of The Skeptic, Guardian writer.
Sir Tom Blundell: BHA Distinguished Supporter, British biochemist and science administrator, supported proposed bank holiday for Charles Darwin’s birthday, research interests include DNA repair.
Maureen Duffy: BHA Distinguished Supporter: Novelist, poet, playwright, used Freudian ideas and Greek mythology in her works, wrote lesbian novel The Microcosm. Homosexual activist and first president of the Gay Humanist Group.
Baroness Whitaker: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, Former civil servant, Labour life peer since, moved amendment to repeal the blasphemy law in Anti-Terrorism Bill.
Lord Avebury: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Lib Dem peer, founder Parliamentary Human Rights Group, Buddhist, ardent campaigner against blasphemy laws and for euthanasia.
Richard Herring: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, stand-up comedian, TV celebrity. Wrote Christ on a Bike – The Second Coming.
Martin Rowson: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, cartoonist for The Guardian, The Times, The Sindy, The Daily Mirror, The Spectator.
Tony Hawks: BHA Distinguished Supporter, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist, TV/radio panellist,
Peter Cave: BHA Distinguished Supporter, author, speaker, lecturer, chair Philosophers’ Group, scripted and presented BBC radio philosophy programmes.
Diane Munday: BHA Distinguished Supporter, abortionist, member of the Abortion Law Reform Association in 1960s, ex-magistrate, a director of the Rationalist Press Association.
Professor Norman MacLean: BHA Distinguished Supporter, biologist, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Southampton University. Reared as an Exclusive Brethren.
Professor Sir Harold Kroto: BHA Distinguished Supporter, joint Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry, against expansion of religious maintained schools, raised Jewish.
Sir Richard Dalton: BHA Distinguished Supporter, former diplomat, business consultant, Associate Fellow of the Middle East Programme, author.
Sir David Blatherwick: BHA Distinguished Supporter, retired diplomat.
Michael Rubenstein: BHA Distinguished Supporter, publisher, writer, adviser on employment and discrimination law, Editor monthly Industrial Relations Law Reports.
Polly Toynbee: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, writer, Guardian columnist, broadcaster, feature writer for Observer.
Lord O’Neill: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Ex-Labour MP for Ochil, against ‘mixing religion and politics’.
Dan Snow: BHA ‘Distinguished Supporter’, avowed atheist, broadcaster, historian, should know better.
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Sarah Mbuyi said she made the comments only after being pressed on her beliefs by a colleague who initiated the conversation at Newpark Childcare in Highbury, north London, in January.
But the colleague gave her employers an different story and Sarah Mbuyi was called to an internal disciplinary hearing. The nursery directors instantly dismissed her for gross misconduct.
Mbuyi, who is claiming unfair dismissal on grounds of religious discrimination, said: “When I said ‘No, God does not condone the practice of homosexuality, but does love you and says you should come to Him as you are’, [her colleague] became emotional and went off to report me to my manager.”
She is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre. The story broke just days after the Prime Minister had urged Christians to ‘more evangelism’ and ‘to improve both the spiritual, physical and moral state of our country.’
Andrea Williams, the Christian Legal Centre’s director, said the government had “seriously let down” Christians and criticised David Cameron for attempting to “mould Christianity to his political agenda”. Mrs Williams said if the prime minister was “serious in his support for Christianity”, he would intervene in the case.
She went on: “Sharing Biblical truths out of genuine love and concern for colleagues is being outlawed in the workplace by a dominating cultural correctness.”
The story illustrates that the ‘acceptance’ and ‘tolerance’ demanded by homosexuals is not extended to their opponents.
They said they just wanted to be left alone to get on with their lives in private – unitl they achieved that.
Then they said they just wanted to be tolerated as a minority – unitl they achieved that.
They said they just wanted to be accepted as who they were by psychiatrists – unitl they achieved that.
Then they said they just wanted to be treated the same as everyone else in employment – unitl they achieved that.
Then they said they just wanted equal access to goods and services – unitl they achieved that.
They said they just wanted their disordered relationships to be recognised by the state – unitl they achieved that.
Then they said they just wanted to be married – unitl they achieved that.
Now we have the spectacle of Christians being hounded out of their jobs for expressing the Gospel upon which this nation is founded, or forced to act against their conscience. A ‘hate-crime’ law is operating clandestinely, clamping down on freedom of speech and freedom of expression.
And alongside the revelation that sharing a Biblical view in response to a question is ‘gross misconduct’, is not one of the most disturbing aspects of this case that a lesbian is working in a children’s nursery and no-one bats an eyelid?
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
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Attorney General Dominic Grieve and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith told the Daily Telegraph modern Britain had “Christian heritage”.
Mr Grieve, a patron of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, said atheism had not made “much progress” in the UK.
Christian Heritage
“Many of the underlying ethics of society are Christian-based and the result of 1,500 years of Christian input into our national life,” he said.
“It is not going to disappear overnight. They [atheists] are deluding themselves.”
Mr Duncan Smith said claims that Britain was not a Christian country were “absurd” and ignored “both historical and constitutional reality”.
“It is arguably our Christian heritage, with its innate tolerance and inclusivity, that has ensured the freedom of all voices – religious or non-religious – to be heard and to be valued,” he said.
Division
The scathing comments follow a letter in the Daily Telegraph signed by a group of militant atheists, headed by Philip Pullman and Polly Toynbee, claiming that “we are a largely non-religious society” and that “constantly to claim otherwise fosters alienation and division in our society.”
“At a social level, Britain has been shaped for the better by many pre-Christian, non-Christian, and post-Christian forces,” they claimed. Maybe and maybe not. But the furious signatories, most of whom are closely associated with either the British Humanist Association or the National Secular Society, cannot bring themselves to agree that Christianity has done the most to make Britain great.
The atheists’ letter was in its turn a response to Prime Minister David Cameron’s hosting a reception for Christian leaders at 10 Downing Street and following up with a video and an article in Church Times earlier this month, all emphasising the importance of Christianity.
Reception at 10 Downing Street
At the reception, held on Wednesday 9th April, Mr Cameron said: “I’m proud to hold a reception for Christians here in Downing Street and proud to be a Christian myself and to have my children at a church school.” He went on: “I am proud of the fact we’re a Christian country and we shouldn’t be ashamed to say so.”
The Prime Minister set out three targets:
“The first is to expand the role of faith and faith organisations in our country.” This is the ‘Big Society’ again.
“Second thing is I hope we can do more to raise the profile of the persecution of Christians around the world. It is the case today that our religion is now the most persecuted religion around the world. I think Britain can play a leading role in this.”
The third thing, he said, mattered both to politicians and to church people: “What we both need more of is evangelism. More belief that we can get out there and actually change people’s lives and make a difference and improve both the spiritual, physical and moral state of our country, and we should be unashamed and clear about wanting to do that.”
Easter Message
In a short Easter message posted on YouTube a couple of days later, Mr Cameron spoke of how Christianity benefits the United Kingdom, saying that Easter is the most important date in the Christian calendar, and remembering seeing the places where Jesus Christ walked in the Holy Land.
He commended the “countless acts of kindness by those who believe in and follow Christ” as well as the broad social good done by ministries that serve the homeless and those in prison. He also reiterated his call to remember the persecuted Church around the world and affirmed that “religious freedom is an absolute, fundamental human right,” one which Britain is committed to “protecting and promoting.”
Healing power of the Church
In his article in Church Times, published on 16th April, Mr Cameron announced an £8 million grant to the church-based Near Neighbours programme and spoke of knowing the power of the Christian faith in his own life. “I have felt at first hand the healing power of the Church’s pastoral care,” he said, referring to the death of his son.
Speaking about the importance of Christianity, he said: “Some people feel that in this ever more secular age we shouldn’t talk about these things. I completely disagree. I believe we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country, more ambitious about expanding the role of faith-based organisations, and, frankly, more evangelical about a faith that compels us to get out there and make a difference to people’s lives.”
He concluded: “We can change the world and make it a better place. That to me is what a lot of the Christian message is about – and it is a confidence in our Christianity that we can all reflect on this Easter.”
Pray that the Prime Minister’s words become a reality in Government. Pray that his ‘doing God’ is not just a reaction to the electoral threat of UKIP. Pray that Mr Cameron will see the damage ‘gay marriage’ has done and will do to our society and our Christian heritage. Pray that Britain would indeed stand up for persecuted Christians around the world. Pray that the law will change to protect Christians evangelising and sharing their faith at work. Pray for a deeper understanding of our Christian heritage in the Church. Pray that God will confound his enemies.
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Jayden Wray’s vitamin deficiency was to blame for the broken bones which led to him being taken ‘into care’.
The much-trumpeted legal reforms announced today will not end the secrecy and injustice which surrounds the Family Court.
The plan includes new time limits for cases where children are taken into care, which could work against parents struggling to meet demands placed upon them by social services departments.
Ministers said the changes would put the welfare of children at the centre of the system. But that is what they have always said. The suspicion is that the welfare of the system itself is paramount.
Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division, said the changes were the biggest in a lifetime. But they will not end the cosy relationship of social workers, Cafcass officials, paid ‘experts’ and child panel solicitors.
Crucially, they will not end the cloak of secrecy imposed on all dealings in the Family Courts. No-one may speak outside of what occurs inside on pain of imprisonment. This mafia-like omerta allows injustice to flourish. Justice can only happen when it is seen to be done. We are told the secrecy is imposed to protect the child. In reality, it is there to protect the system.
Care cases will be completed in six months in a single Family Court, which replaces the current three-tier court system in family cases. Although it could be good that cases are followed through by a single judge – assuming he or she is not corrupt – this time-scale will increase the sense parents have of their children being rushed into the adoption process against their wishes – the so-called ‘freed for adoption’ mechanism.
There are also supposed to be limits placed on the amount of expert evidence that can be used in cases involving children, only being permitted when it is ‘necessary to resolve the case justly’. Whether that will end the careers some experts have made out of backing up social workers with spurious observations and biased conclusions, or whether coaches and horses will be driven through it, remains to be seen.
Just yesterday, a distraught mother put up this comment on an older story on our website:
‘Please can you help me get my daughter back from social services? My daughter was kidnapped in 2011 when she was age 11.a teacher and s.s said I hit my daughter. I did not and never have. Police came and took her away. The next day she was taken to a children’s hospital where a doctor lied and made a false report saying she had unexplained bruises. She did not have any bruises.’
The Jayden Wray case exposed how dangerous it is these for parents to take a child to hospital. Jayden had brittle bones from rickets but doctors and social workers demanded the parents confess that they had caused Jayden’s injuries.
Clive Coleman, legal correspondent, BBC News, said: ‘Babies, toddlers and teenagers going through care proceedings have been removed from their parents for their own well being’. Sometimes they are. But in too many cases, when parents cannot explain a bruise a child acquired in the garden, or the child suffers from a mystery illness, they are removed, and even when the mistake is found, social workers will not return the child and fabricate evidence.
Short of death, there is no penalty more draconian than for the state to take people’s children from them.
Our readers or their churches are certain to come into contact with parents whose children have been taken from them by social services.
We are constantly told that homosexuals are the sort of people the Lord Jesus would have ‘been alongside’ as they are on the ‘margins of society’? Are they really? No, they are in the media, in diversity departments and government, with their feet under the table at No10, feted to the skies.
Would you like to know who really are on the margins of society? It is parents who feel totally inadequate and overwhelmed in the face of a machine which grinds them to powder in its quest to assume their function and to strip their children from them.
We should be standing with them, praying with them, showing how God hates injustice, fighting with them to have their children returned.
Kate Hills, spokeswoman for Lingfield owners Arena Racing, said: “One of the reasons we are having racing on Good Friday is it’s a day of leisure and people are looking for something to do.”
It is also an opportunity to make some money.
In the modern era, off-course betting shops first opened on Good Friday in 2008. Championship football matches will be held today, some shops will open. These are modern-day, secularist developments. As recently as 1986 the Daily Telegraph was not published on Good Friday.
In a sense it is rather appropriate to have gambling on the day we remember Christ’s crucifixion. The Roman soldiers cast lots for the coat of Jesus, fulfilling an Old Testament prophecy in Psalm 22.
It will be thoroughbreds racing today, but Christ entered Jerusalem as a king but riding on a donkey, again fulfilling an Old Testament prophecy:
Zechariah 9:9: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.
As A N Wilson points out, even people of no faith used to recognise Good Friday as a day of solemnity.
A lot has changed in just a few years, a degree of respect for what is holy has been lost and our society has become more coarse and more crass along the way.
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It is coming to something when the Russian Foreign Minister is more believable than your own.
Four days ago, The Rt Hon William Hague, talking about the unrest in Eastern Ukraine, said, ‘There can’t really be any real doubt that this is something that has been planned and brought about by Russia. … violation of the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine … There has to be a clear and united international response.’
Back in March, President Obama said ‘Make no mistake, neither the United States nor Europe has any interest in controlling Ukraine.’ (Was that before or after US officals were overheard discussing who they wanted to install as Ukrainian president?) That video is admittedly published by Russia Today but those are his words.
In contrast, the Russian Foreign Minister has denied that Russia has stoked up the problems. And the truth is, Russia did neither fund nor organise the pro-EU demonstrations and take-over of government in Kiev, ousting pro-Russian President Yanakovich in the process, which started the Ukraine crisis in the first place.
We have already reported how Western NGO’s financed the ‘Maidan Square’ protest movement. But Christian Voice has discovered that millions of dollars have been pouring into Ukrainian NGO’s and ‘civil society’ organisations for the last couple of years. Principal donors include the Open Society Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.
The Foundation Centre lists over $18 million of grants by US NGO’s to Ukrainian ‘civil society’ recipients. The breakdown can be seen by clicking on each recipient. To take one example, the Open Society Foundation for Ukraine – directly fingered in the pro-EU rioting – received over $535,000 jointly from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the National Endowment for Democracy. The Civil Society Institute, an EU sock-puppet, got $450,00 dollars. An Open Society front organisation, the Ukrainian Step by Step Foundation, was given $1,527,000. An organisation called Ednannia was given the most money, $1,550,000.
One grant of $250,000 from Mott to Ednannia was ‘to foster the development of community foundations in Ukraine.’ Indeed, one can read the whole grant profile (three-quarters of the way down this page) and be none the wiser what Ednannia actually do, apart from ‘social action’. The Mott Foundation’s own website says it especially likes ‘the development of community foundations’
What are those? Well, a click on the link reveals that they are ‘Rooted Locally, Growing Globally’ and are favoured for being ‘local leaders of positive change’. Call us cynical, but if positive change involves taking up arms, storming government buildings, ousting elected governments and trying to join the European Union by force, then it looks less than desirable.
Even Chatham House, an elitist body itself, admits that NGO’s in countries like Ukraine are funded entirely from the Western elite and almost entirely disconnected from ordinary people. Pretending to be ‘democratic’, they could not be less empowered with any semblance of a popular mandate.
William Hague said on Monday that the EU summit would focus on “how we support democratic institutions and the elections in Ukraine”. The EU’s idea of doing that is apparently funding exactly those NGO’s Chatham House identifies as the least democratic and overturning elected officials in sovereign states by force. It was Orwellian newspeak from Mr Hague.
The Bible says: Exodus 18:21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:
How many of members of the British Establishment would pass that test? Would William Hague?
What a sorry state we are in, when HM Foreign Secretary is the least believable man in Britain.
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John Craven was arrested for quoting the Bible after two gay teenagers asked what his views were on homosexuality.
A Christian preacher won £13,000 last week in compensation after being arrested and held in custody for 19 hours simply for quoting the Bible.
The arrest occurred three years ago when John Craven was preaching in Manchester city centre. Two teenagers approached the street preacher to ask what he thought of homosexuality. Craven read from Revelation 21:8, which says that sinners will be burned in a lake of fire. He also quoted John 3:16 and said that “Whilst God hates sin, he loves the sinner.”
Following Craven’s response the boys began kissing each other in front of Craven and making “obscene gestures.” Soon the youths called a mounted policeman, claiming that Craven’s comments had “insulted” them and caused them “harassment and distress.”
The policeman arrested Craven for possibly committing a public order offence. The officer allegedly took Craven “roughly by the arm” and told him that he was under arrest. The officer did not ask for Craven’s name or address and handled him roughly.
Craven was taken into custody, and remained in a jail cell for about 15 hours. He did not receive food, water, or medication for his rheumatoid arthritis.
This event happened in 2011. On March 29th Craven was finally awarded his £13,000 compensation after a three-year legal battle against the Manchester Police. This battle has cost the public purse approximately £50,000. Mr. Craven won his damages under the Human Rights Act.
“I never intended to cause anyone harassment, alarm or distress. I preach the gospel, which means good news and the love of God for all.
“At the end of the day God loves everybody, but homosexuality is a sin and I am not going to contradict the word of God.”
Police Superintendent Alan Greene could not go into detail, but admitted “We can acknowledge that we did make mistakes and kept the claimant in custody for too long.”
This is just one of several incidents involving the persecution of Christians in Britain. In one of our other articles, we have listed several examples of the rising totalitarianism that is spreading over Britain. Christianity is coming under fire, which results in Christians being marginalized and prohibited from freely expressing their religious views. But this victory gives us some encouragement to Christians who boldly proclaim their faith.
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But our main concern about the Co-op bank itself is the way it discriminates strongly against those Christians who take their faith seriously. See: http://www.repentuk.com/coop.html
They continued to sponsor Manchester Pride in 2013 as the scale of the group’s financial disaster unfolded.
Although it will be their ineptitude as a financial institution which will make all the headlines, if the bank had followed Christian principles of diligence when it took over Brittania Building Society, if it had followed the Biblical advice to choose able men such as fear God to run it, rather than a homosexual drug-taker, if it had noticed that the Bible says ‘thou shalt not steal’ before overcharging mortgagees and those mis-sold payment protection insurance and interest rate hedging products, if its bosses had not succumbed to pride and greed when wanting to take over TSB branches from Lloyds, it would not be in the position it is now.
If the Co-op had concentrated more on balancing the books according to Christian principles and less on politically-correct posturing it would not be in the mess it is in today.
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United States human rights activists are pressuring the central American country of Belize to relax its policies on homosexuals.
The United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM) has issued a challenge to the government of Belize before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), saying that the Belizean government must implement ways to protect its LGBTI community.
When one looks closer at the demands, however, it becomes clear that the issue is not merely about protecting homosexuals. Rather, UNIBAM is aggressively targeting those who dissent from the gay rights agenda.
UNIBAM is insisting that government punish those who commit “speech crimes” and “hate crimes” against LGBTI people. They claim violations have been made against LGBTI citizens in the areas of education, health, and employment.
On 28th March, the State of Belize was summoned to Washington DC, to appear before IACHR after UNIBAM petitioned for a rights hearing. Caleb Orozco, Executive Director of UNIBAM, led the charge by citing various “crimes” against gay people, none of which were supported by official documentation. In addition, he praised the government of Belize for continuing to enact the revised gender policy, which defines sexual orientation as “diverse,” and classifies contraceptives as a “public good.”
This revised gender policy is being pushed forward by the National Women’s Commission of Belize (NWC) and funded by the UN. Neither the public nor religious leaders were consulted on its passage. It was essentially passed in secret by gay rights activists in Belize.
Mr Orozco has been given money by Freedom House, a U.S.-based non-governmental organization. Although not directly connected with the US government, Freedom House is in turn supported with $250,00 gifts by the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State. By following the money, we see that this is another instance of neocolonialism, whereby developing countries are being pressured by the West to make homosexuality the norm.
The words of Jesus Christ are clear: Marriage is between and man and woman because God created us that way. ‘Gay marriage’ is a farce and a counterfeit.
In the name of inclusiveness, the first so-called ‘gay marriages’ are happening in England and Wales this weekend. The media and politicians are falling over themselves to congratulate homosexuals on ‘tying the knot’ in an orgy of sycophancy. BBC Radio 5 Live this morning even had a peer of the realm ‘proposing’ to his ‘partner’ on air.
The ‘yuk’ factor is overwhelming, and a woman referring to another woman as ‘my wife’ may result in gales of laughter, but we need to root our response in the word of God, that is, in the Bible.
The Lord Jesus Christ said this:
Mark 10:6-8 ‘From the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
And becoming one flesh, in the full conjugal sense, is something a pair of women, or two men, can never do. Between them they lack the necessary parts of the anatomy to be achieve it. That is why they have to indulge in activities which fall short – to put it mildly – of the conjugal marital act.
The new law – the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act 2013 admits that a couple in a gay marriage cannot consummate their marriage and states they can only commit adultery with someone of the opposite sex. That may be a recognition that sexual fidelity has little relevance to homosexuality, but it is also shows that ‘gay marriage’ is a farce, a sham, a mockery of God’s holy institution.
Homosexuals were promised ‘equal marriage’ but instead they have been given joke marriage. But the pretense at marriage they will be celebrating this weekend is still a counterfeit which devalues real marriage.
Marriage has been redefined for everyone, against the wishes of the majority of people. ‘Gay marriage’ was in no party manifesto and there was no consultation on the principle of it. The Coalition 4 Marriage mustered 650,000 on their petition against ‘gay marriage’, Stonewall could not even manage a tenth of that.
Christian Voice has consistently opposed the homosexual agenda. We continue to oppose civil partnerships, on the grounds that the state should give no recognition to relationships built on perversion, but as civil partnerships convey all the benefits of marriage, Prime Minister David Cameron should have left it there.
The Apostle Paul, writing to the early church in Rome, spoke of those who become their own god:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature…
So homosexual desires are described as vile affections in the Bible.
It’s all bad news for our nation.
If you want to be blessed and safeguarded you don’t throw God’s righteousness in his face. You don’t turn what God calls evil into good, and turn what God made good into evil. Successive governments since the 1960s have consistently legislated away the laws of God, upon which this nation was built.
But ‘gay marriage’ is a massive step towards the social economy of Sodom. David Cameron and the rest of our leaders are responsible for casting our land away from the protection of the Almighty.
Only for the individual homosexual is there any good news and that is only in the saving grace of Jesus. His blood shed on the cross has the power to remove the stain of sin and the power of sin. No-one has to stay gay. However you became like that – and no geneticist will say that anyone is born like it – there is forgiveness, deliverance and healing in Jesus Christ.
And it isn’t just sexual sins and the sin of pride that can be forgiven by Jesus. He stands ready to forgive all who truly repent and will never turn anyone away. That is the true message of inclusiveness.
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Jeff and Sue Green own the 13 bedroom Highland Moors Hotel and Conference Centre in Llandrindod Wells, midWales. They had advertised that only married couples were allowed to take double rooms.
But at the end of last year they received a letter from the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s “legal enforcement team” informing them they could be guilty of discriminating against gay couples.
Jeff and Sue have now changed their policy to offer twin rooms only throughout the hotel, and have slanted their business towards catering for groups who are attending local events or hiring the conference centre. Jeff Green told Christian Voice that they had not actually turned anyone away, or had any actual enquiries from homosexuals wanting to book double rooms.
However, following the refusal of British courts to uphold the religious rights of other Christian B&B owners, they now plan to launch a legal case at the European Court of Human Rights.
Oddly enough, despite a report in Pink News four years ago that ‘gay-only’ hotels were to be investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, hotels proclaiming that they only cater for homosexuals openly tout for business in the ‘gay-friendly’ resorts of Brighton, Bournemouth and Blackpool to this day.
Perhaps some Christians ought to try to book rooms in some of them …
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George Soros has funded the Ukrainian street uprisings through the Open Society Institute.
George Soros: funded the violent Ukrainian street uprisings through his Open Society Institute.
Billionaire financier George Soros was behind the Ukrainian uprising which cost dozens of lives and toppled elected President Viktor Yanukovych, Christian Voice has learned.
Soros helped finance the so-called ‘Arab Spring’, and as long as go as 2011, Russia Today ran a story about Soros wanting to ‘do a Libya’ on Ukraine. It said the concerns were ‘openly voiced by Yulia Timoshenko in 2008.’ (Yulia Timoshenko co-led the Orange Revolution and was the first female Prime Minister of Ukraine.)
Infowars says: In response to the accusations leveled by Aleksandr Yefremov, the Soros Foundation “said in a special statement that all funds allocated for Ukrainian programs are being spent on the development of the open and democratic society and also for helping Ukrainian citizens, who suffered from the effects of the international financial crisis.”
But that’s not the whole story. Soros has set up and funded an organisation called Spilna Sprava, translated as “Common Cause,” through the Open Society Institute. According to Infowars, the ‘Open Society Institute, now known as Open Society Foundations (OSF), doles out grants to activist NGOs in central Europe attempting to undermine the Russian Federation.’
Spilna Sprava is mentioned in the 2009 annual report of the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF), an organization described as “an integral part of the Open Society Institute network (established by American philanthropist George Soros) that incorporates national and regional foundations in more than thirty countries around the world, including Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.” IRF cooperates with the International Monetary Fund and European banksters interested in “economic reforms” and “integration processes and trends” in Ukraine and Moldova.
Alexander Danilyuk, leader of Soros-financed Ukrainian pro-EU opposition group Spilna Sprava.
The pro-EU violence was not confined to ransacking government buildings and walking around with baseball bats. Russia Today claims that the former chief of Ukraine’s Security Service confirmed allegations that snipers who killed dozens of people during the violent unrest in Kiev operated from a building controlled by the opposition on Maidan Square. Russia Today may be a Putin-friendly news source, but the evidence they report seems to indicate that there is a lot more to the story of the Ukrainian uprising than is being told in the British and American press.
However, the BBC reports on an embarrassing tape which has come to light in which senior US officials discuss in a foul-mouthed exchange which opposition leader they would like to install in Ukraine.
The leader of Spilna Sprava, Alexander Danilyuk, fled Ukraine in early February and is now reportedly in the UK. He did not own up to Open Society funding of his far-right group in an interview he gave to Voice of Russia. His group, along with other pro-EU and crypto-fascist groups who comprise the ‘Maidan’ movement, succeeded in Mr Soros’s aim of toppling both the Ukrainian government and the democratically-elected president. Fears have been voiced in Israel that the unrest is now spilling over into anti-Semitism.
An ‘Open letter on the Future of Ukraine‘ was published last month and signed by a number of intellectuals, Eurocrats and globalsts. Arguing against Yanukovich and his desire to step away from the EU in favour of closer ties with Russia, it said:
The new authoritarians in Kyiv should know that there will be a high price to pay for their repressive policies and for abandoning the European aspirations of the people. It is not too late for us to change things for the better and prevent Ukraine from becoming a dictatorship. Passivity in the face of the authoritarian turn in Ukraine and the country’s reintegration into a newly expanding Russian imperial sphere of interests pose a threat to the European Union’s integrity
And also a threat to its expansionist plans, the business interests of George Soros, and the desire of American globalists to sideline Russia and undermine or annex its allies. Similar sentiments helped mobilise the medacious and tragic Western support of the Islamist rebels in Syria, a key Russian middle-eastern ally.
The letter was signed by former foreign ministers Ana Palacio of Spain and Bernard Kouchner of France, and Chris Stone and Aryeh Neier of the Open Society Institute of George Soros.
Timothy Garton Ash – globalist
Several of the signatories, including Timothy Garton-Ash, Professor of European Studies at Oxford, are also members of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) founded in 2007. The letter was also signed by the ECFR’s director, Blairite Mark Leonard.
The ECFR in turn has strong links with the globalist Bilderberg group and appears to be modelled on another globalist think-tank and collection of the rich and powerful, the American Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). We have analysed some of the linking personnel HERE.
Whether it has been Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria or now Ukraine, George Soros’s ability to foment unrest against governments that are not advancing his financial interests, are not ‘democratic’ enough or are too close to Russia through his Open Society funding of violent opposition groups is responsible for countless loss of life in every country in which he has meddled.
Let us pray that he, and the rest of the ‘Kings of the Earth’ spoken about in Psalm 2, will be brought to account. And let us pray that the Lord will raise up leaders in Ukraine not funded by East of West, but after his own heart.
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Father kicked to death for complaining about the noise from a party- The late Danny Walsh with his daughter.
A father was kicked to death in front of his family after complaining about a noisy house party, a court has heard.
Danny Walsh, 30, was walking past the house with his partner Katie Loosemore and their two-year-old daughter Layla May when he stopped to remonstrate.
He was worried the noise would wake neighbours with children — including a girl with a terminal illness.
But he was confronted by tenant Kelly Parsons, who screamed at him to leave, the jury heard.
When Mr Walsh returned to complain a second time he was attacked by Kelly’s brothers Ben and Sam Croft, who knocked him to the ground and kicked his head as he lay motionless, the court was told.
Danny suffered serious brain injuries and died hours later in hospital.
Gordon Aspden, prosecuting, told Lincoln Crown Court: “Mr Walsh made a fatal mistake — he decided to get involved.”
He said the Croft brothers “encouraged” each other to kick him — until they realised he was badly hurt.
He added: “He was unconscious, unresponsive and bleeding from the mouth. Attempts were made to rouse him but he didn’t wake up. The reason for that is simple. He was dying.”
The jury heard Sam Croft, 22, left the scene in Grantham in a car but Ben, 24, called an ambulance.
The brothers, of Barrowby, Lincs, both deny murder on July 28 last year. The trial continues.
Just a few years ago, such a story would have been a rarity. Now, thanks to the lack of respect for human life which successive governments have encouraged since the 1960s, it is common to hear of teenagers murdered for a mobile phone or a grandfather beaten to death for asking yobs to move on. Welcome to Brutal Britain.
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Targeted schools. Saltley School’s head teacher, Mr Bains, resigned last year after a critical Ofsted report and a campaign against him instigated by Islamist governors.
A Muslim plot to take over schools in Birmingham and Bradford shows how good they are and how poor Christians are at advancing their respective world-views.
Operation Trojan Horse, as the Islamic scheme is called, involves identifying schools in predominantly Muslim areas which are struggling. For each school, a group of parents committed to Islam is built up.
Next comes a campaign to elect one or more faithful Muslims to the school governing body.
After that, the head teacher is undermined by the use of complaints to local MPs and education authorities as well as by identifying “weak and disgruntled staff” who can cause problems for the head with Ofsted.
A letter containing the details of the Muslim schools take-over plot came to light after it was leaked to the National Association of Head Teachers.
Muslim Campaign secures leadership changes in schools
It claims responsibility for leadership changes at four schools, Adderley Primary, Saltley School, Park View School and Regents Park Community Primary School.
The inspectors’ statement appears to confirm claims in the letter that the group has “caused a great amount of organised disruption in Birmingham and as a result we have our own academies and are on the way to getting rid of more head teachers and taking over their schools”.
The letter, seen by the BBC, targets another 12 schools in Birmingham, and was also sent to a contact in Bradford.
It urges the recipient to use Ofsted reports to identify schools in predominantly Muslim areas which are struggling and adds: ”Operation ‘Trojan Horse’ has been very carefully thought through and is tried and tested within Birmingham, implementing it in Bradford will not be difficult for you.”
Schools ‘corrupting their children with sex education’
It states that parents could be encouraged to turn against the leadership team if they are told the school is “corrupting their children with sex education, teaching about homosexuals, making their children pray Christian prayers and [carrying out] mixed swimming and sport”.
Needless to say, the revelations have sent the politicians into a spin, with Liam Byrne, Labour MP for Hodge Hill, holding ‘urgent talks’ with Ofsted, City Council officials, the office of Michael Gove and DfE officials.
“These are deeply disturbing allegations, which is why Ofsted has been called in,” he said.
The chastening point for Christians will be that the inbuilt corruption in sex education and the pro-sodomy teaching which is now mandated by the Equality Act 2010, not to mention the pro-evolution slant of biology, affect Christian children as well, but that Christian parents have in the main shown not the slightest inclination to protect them from such ungodly influences.
Secularists and Muslims advancing their world-views
It may well be that Christian parents have always assumed that schools are much as they were when they went to school or that, believing in shared cultural values, they put too much trust into schools, teachers, experts and those in authority, even those in sex education promotion groups and working parties.
It has been obvious for some time that Secularists are far better at advancing their world-view than Christians, and it comes as no surprise given what we know of Islamic ambitions of world dominance to discover that Muslims are interested in advancing their world-view as well.
As the letter states: “We have an obligation to our children to fulfil our roles and ensure these schools are run on Islamic principles.”
Do Christians even know what a Christian world-view is?
But do Christians know what Christian principles are, apart from ‘love’? We speak above of a secularist world-view, and of a Muslim world-view, but do Christians even know what a Christian world-view is? Do Christians even know we have one?
Do we know that the ‘earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein’? (Psalm 24:1)
Are we aware that ‘Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people’? (Prov 14:34)
Do we know that we are to teach the ways of the Lord ‘diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up’? (Deut 6:7)
Have we read that as much as parents should ‘provoke not your children to wrath’ that we have a responsibility to ‘bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord’? (Eph 6:4), to ‘Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it’ (Prov 22:6)
Do we ‘go in the strength of the Lord GOD’ and ‘make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only’? (Psalm 71:16).
Are we certain to say of God ‘Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth’? (Psalm 119:142).
Or do we think that Jesus has swept away all the Old Testament to replace it with a ‘law of love’ that requires us to give in to evil, roll over and let our children take their chance?
Do we personalise away the injunction to go about ‘Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ’? (2Cor 10:5)
Have we remembered that providing for our families includes defending and protecting them: ‘But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel’? (1Tim 5:8)
Advance the Christian faith
The Muslims behind ‘Operation Trojan Horse’ are simply doing what they should do as Muslim parents; make sure their children are being taught according to their faith.
Yes, there are Christian academies doing great work, but Christians could and should have been getting themselves onto school governing bodies and removing ungodly head teachers not just by ‘praying them out’ but by seeking God for what to do themselves. It isn’t ‘unsporting’ or not quite ‘British’ to fight for what is right and advance the Christian faith in every avenue of life!
And we can surely think of a more positive and imaginative name for such a campaign than ‘Operation Trojan Horse’!
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Dominic Crouch, bullied to death after a homosexual role-play game.
School children will be taught that not all pornography is bad and act out scenes as homosexuals if teachers follow sex education guidance just issued by the Department for Education.
The Times says that it is the first time for 14 years that advice on sex education has been updated. The guidance currently in use makes no reference to issues such as internet safety or “sexting” using mobile devices.
However, rather than just update the advice to warn about those topics, the new guidelines have included pro-gay propganda and taken a sexual libertarian slant.
The guidelines were drawn up by Brook Advisory, the PSHE Association and the Sex Education Forum, all of which are pro-contraception, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual and frankly pro-promiscuity.
Although supported by the Department for Education, the new guidelines do not have legal force. But many teachers will assume they come down from authority and those who were already inclined that way will seize upon them to justify their position to worried parents.
One of the resources recommended to teachers, an e-magazine from the Sex Education Forum, advises teachers to “teach in a non-judgmental way” about pornography and tells them: “Pornography is hugely diverse — it’s not necessarily ‘all bad’.”
Last year Ofsted published a report saying that sex education was taught badly (whatever they mean by that) in between a third and half of schools and said that secondary schools should teach about the influence of pornography on students’ understanding of healthy sexual relationships.
It also says that sex education must not deal only with heterosexual relations. “Teachers should never assume that all intimate relationships are between opposite sexes. All sexual health information should be inclusive and should include LGBT people [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] in case studies, scenarios and role-plays.”
The advice ignores the dynamics of the playground. A pupil acting out a gay role-play will have that stigma attached for the rest of his school life. It will give bullies a weapon and could cement the idea in an adolescent mind that he or she might indeed be homosexual.
The guidance is a recruiting-sergeant for the homosexual world and is certain to bring misery and possibly death in its wake.
On 18 May 2010, Dominic Crouch committed suicide by jumping off the roof of a six-storey block of flats near his school in Cheltenham. He was 15. In the note he left his family, he wrote: “Dear Family, I’m so so sorry for what I’m about to do. I have been bullied a lot recently and had a lot of shit made up about me that ain’t true.”
It emerged that Dominic had taken up a dare to kiss another boy on a school trip during a game of spin the bottle. Some participants recorded the game on their mobile phones and the images circulated. Dominic, who was dyslexic and found it difficult to formulate a quick retort, became the butt of jokes when he returned to St Edward’s after the trip.
The Stonewall homosexual campaign group jumped on the idea of ‘homophobic bullying’ and started putting it about that Dominic might have been homosexual, something he and his family always denied. Stonewall even persuaded his father, Roger, to go around schools on a non-bullying mission and made him ‘hero of the year‘ on 3rd November 2011, the night Melanie Phillips was named ‘bigot of the year’ at the ceremony hosted by Stephen K Amos. Weeks later, in December 2011, Roger Crouch committed suicide as well.
Let us pray that the authors of this guidance do not end up with blood on their hands.
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