Debunking the Palestine Lie
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.
UK Christian Constitution
Gay marriage proposal overturns reality
We have become accustomed to gay rights taking precedence over the right to express the Christian faith. Whether you are a counsellor like Gary McFarlane, or Christian hoteliers like Peter and Hazelmary Bull, or a registrar like Lilian Ladele, you will find that the law no longer upholds the Christian faith when it runs up against the new legal steamroller of homosexual equality.
But now gay rights is about to over-rule reality. Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone MP announced in the safety of the Liberal Democrat 2011 annual conference that pairs of homosexuals will be able to enter into a marriage. A consultation on the mechanics but not the principle will begin in March 2012. The proviso that they will only be able to ‘marry’ at a registry office and not in church is carefully designed to silence opposition from the mainstream denominations – and also from Muslims.
Christians must still oppose this measure and point out the enormity of what is being done. Human Society has understood marriage to be the union of a man and a woman for 6,000 years. With the exception of the decadent West, it is still understood like that all over the world. What the Government is proposing is a seismic shift in the definition of marriage.
It is easy enough to demonstrate the absurdities of the idea. Are two men both going to be ‘bridegrooms’? Lesbian couples often call each other ‘brides’ as in ‘the brides wore matching dresses’ or ‘one of the brides wore a dress and the other a tuxedo.’ We recently reported on two of the more ludicrous recent civil partnerships. And when they are married, will one call him/her-self the ‘husband’ and describe the other as his / her wife? Or will they both be ‘husbands’ or both ‘wives’? Or will they risk an epidemic of nausea by each pretending to be ‘the spouse’ of the other?
Are the Government seriously expecting these sham marriages to be recognised as the real thing when the parties travel overseas? And what of civil partnerships? Are they to be abandoned or retained?
The deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg wrote: “I support gay marriage. Love is the same, straight or gay, so the civil institution should be the same, too. All couples should be able to make that commitment to one another.”
But love is not the same, Nick. The love you have for your wife is expressed sexually. The love you have for your brothers and sisters is not. Homosexuals eroticise a love which should be platonic. This is usually because of unmet needs in childhood, by a lack of affirmation from the parent of the same sex as a man or as a woman. It is not pathological to be emotionally a nine-year old at the age of nine. It is at the age of twenty-nine.
Homosexuals need understanding, and they need healing for the underlying pathologies. That healing may come from the psychiatric profession, but now that most of them have gone like dead fish with the politically-correct flow, the gap should be filled by the Church, ministering the saving and healing power of Jesus Christ. However someone became gay, they do not have to stay gay. That is a choice.
Where this is headed is anyone’s guess. Nine years ago, 41% of Scots agreed with gay marriage. That displays a shocking enough lack of connection with the reality of life.
But today, after just five years of civil partnerships being conducted in the UK, including in Scotland, that figure has risen to 61% in favour. If public opinion can be swayed like that by a new law combined with the preaching of politicians and the media, how long will it be until all but a remnant in Scotland, and in the UK for that matter, are in favour of enshrining in law what God describes as an abomination and of overturning the natural created order? On a dispassionate reading, Sodom was like that. And can a Sodom-esque clamp-down on the freedom of speech of those who disagree be far behind?
The Lord Jesus Christ said (in Mark 10:6-8) that from the beginning of the creation God made us male and female and that is why a man leaves his father and mother to cleave to his wife.
So (1) Jesus believed in creation not in evolution,
(2) He spoke of some kind of marital ceremony in which the wider society is approvingly involved and
(3) He then said ‘they twain shall be one flesh’ and reinforced the point ‘so then they are no more twain, but one flesh’.
And being one flesh is something a pair of homosexuals, two men or two women, can never be. Between them they physically lack the complementary parts of the body necessary for that God-ordained one-flesh union, and their lack of physical complementarity speaks of a lack of emotional compatibility as well. The author and physician David Reuben said ‘homosexuals are trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces.’
Given that a marriage has to be consumated to be valid in law, how are two people who do not possess between them the full set of parts of the anatomy necessary for such an act supposed to do that? Or will that requirement be thrown away?
None of these arguments will make any difference to the Governments’ gay rights juggernaut. Facts don’t matter in a post-modern society. But Christians have the right, indeed the duty, to witness to the truth in season and out of season, (and it is very much out of season right now).
READ: Gen 2:23-24, 19:1-25 (see esp v19); Isaiah 1:9; Mark 10:6-8; Romans 1:24-27; I Cor 6:9-11; Rev 22:14-15.
PRAY: For this nation to wake up and come to its senses. For righteousness in the Queen’s ministers or for them to be replaced with men after God’s heart. For compassion and healing for those suffering from same-sex attraction. We have no power or might against the forces of the gay rights lobby in government and the media, but our eyes are on the Lord of heaven and earth who can send a miracle to a praying, believing, active people.
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Paedophiles ‘not sick’, say academics
A pro-paedophilia group and several academics have launched an offensive for the normalization and legalization of paedophilia in America.
On August 17 of this year, the pro-paedophilia group B4U-ACT sponsored an event in Baltimore, USA, attended by researchers, professors, mental health professionals, and “minor-attracted persons” (MAP, a euphemism for “adults who crave sex with children”).
Chris Banescu, who reported on the event, says:
‘Referring to Judeo-Christian moral principles and values as “cultural baggage of wrongfulness” and an adult’s desire to sexually molest a child as “normative,” these predators with Ph.D.s are hell-bent on destroying key moral boundaries and critical societal norms that protect innocent children from pathological and dangerous adults.’
The individuals, who included academics from Johns Hopkins University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the London School of Economics, consider adult molestation of children not as a sexual perversion but as normal.
Among the statements made and positions taken at the conference were these:
•”We are not required to interfere with or inhibit our child’s sexuality.”
•”Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult.
•An adult’s desire to have sex with children is “normative.”
Banescu says those present already ‘advocate for the declassification of pedophilia as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).’
In the early 1970s, Peter Tatchell, who contributed to the British paedophile campaigning book ‘Betrayal of Youth’, and other homosexuals, put political pressure on the APA to declassify homosexual attraction as a psychiatric disorder. They brought no evidence, but turned up remorselessly to disrupt meetings and browbeat APA officials until the Association gave in.
Forty years later, the same slippery slope has descended to pressure for the declassification of paedophilia from the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. After all, Jacob Breslow, Graduate Student in Gender Research at the LSE, in the paper he presented at the Baltimore meeting, said: Allowing for a form of non-diagnosable minor attraction is exciting (and) a step that follows historically and theoretically from the removal of homosexuality (from the DSM) . Abstracts Here.
These are the early stages, but watch this space.
Petition for freedom of speech
September 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists are pressuring PayPal to cut off the accounts of pro-family Christian organizations that oppose the homosexual political agenda and uphold sexual morality, and PayPal is showing signs that it may capitulate to their demands.
The homosexual organization behind the effort, All Out, claims that such organizations as Tradition, Family, and Property, and Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), as well as pro-family Christian activist Julio Severo, promote “hate, violence, and intolerance” and are “extremist.”
“Thanks to PayPal, its (sic) easier than ever to send and receive money across currencies and continents – but it is also PayPal’s responsibility to make sure this technology doesn’t fall in the wrong hands. Anti-LGBT extremists all over the world are currently using PayPal to fundraise for their dangerous cause,” writes All Out. “Not only is it against PayPal’s rules to promote promote ‘hate, violence, [and] racial intolerance,’ hate groups also damage PayPal’s brand and credibility. We ask that PayPal join the fight against online hate and immediately shut down the accounts of anti-LGBT extremist groups using the service.”
All Out says that is has collected almost 35,000 signatures on its online petition.
According to the European homosexual news service PinkNews, PayPal has responded by stating, “We take very seriously any cases where a user has incited hatred, violence or intolerance because of a person’s sexual orientation.”
Although it adds, “we also take into account the rights of free speech and freedom of religion,” PayPal reportedly goes on to note, “we regularly review organisations and websites that use our service, and stop working with those that break our Acceptable Use Policy.”
LifeSiteNews.com has created its own online petition at the website ProFamilyFreedom.net, which states: “I protest the attack by homosexual organizations on Christian activists Julio Severo, Americans for Truth About Homosexualty (AFTAH), and Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP). I encourage PayPal to affirm the right of pro-family organizations to use its service and to reject attacks on the Christian faith and other religions that uphold sexual morality and defend family values.”
The campaign has originated in the US, but could easily transfer this side of the water. Please sign the petition to stand up for religious values, conscience and free speech.
CCF: Serving God and Mammon
‘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’
David Cameron has identified the causes of the riots and looting this week in Britain. It is a lack of responsibility, which comes from a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing, a lack of proper ethics, a lack of proper morals. It is as much a moral problem as a political problem, he has said. (Also see below for that section of his comments.)We must give him full marks for stating the blindingly obvious. People behave well for one of two reasons; either they have the fear of God before their eyes, or the fear of the long arm of the law. In other words, either an internal or an external moral compass is necessary for good behaviour.
But who defines ‘good behaviour’? Can we all agree that looting shops is wrong? Someone is bound to say that by profiteering on dairy products the supermarkets are stealing from us. Someone else will point to the way Members of Parliament milked the expenses system. If something was within the rules, was it morally right? David Cameron thinks forcing African countries to legalise sodomy is morally right. He believes the deliberate killing of a helpless infant in its mother’s womb is morally acceptable, but agrees with Canon Giles Fraser (who also thinks sodomy is morally right) that robbing a Malaysian student, Mohammed Ashraf Haziq, caught up in the riots by pretending to help him is morally wrong.
Were those who did such a thing convinced they were right, or wrong? Do they know the difference between right and wrong, and who defines it for them? Years ago, an advert for Pepe Jeans carried the line: ‘I know the difference between right and wrong; I prefer wrong.’ But we may have moved on even from that amoral outburst. For someone, what is held to be wrong by a majority may be thought right for them. Such is moral relativism, or post-modern thinking, and we can now see where it leads. In a sense, the lawlessness which has so shocked us in recent days has been brewing for a decade – or for even longer.
David Cameron blames the parents (‘a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing’), but does he realise that 50% of children are growing up in Britain without their natural father?
Who is responsible for that if it isn’t the politicians who legalised no-fault divorce on demand in the 1960s, legalised sodomy and pornography, brought in moral-free sex education around the same time and pushed condoms at teenagers just because they hated Christian morality?
And who is equally responsible if not the present Coalition Government which allows all of that to continue on its life-destroying way, not seeing any of it as an offence against ‘proper morals’?
What does David Cameron expect single mums to do when confronted by an aggressive teenager or a younger child who threatens to call childline or social services if she so much as lays a finger on him? Instead of trying to undermine African morality he should be learning from those societies where respect for elders, in keeping with the Biblical model, still exists.
Our society needs proper morals, but where are these found if not in the pages of Holy Scripture? Who defines proper morality if not Almighty God? Atheist activists have forced God out of public life to the extent that to express a Christian viewpoint is to run the risk of dismissal from a public sector job – or the Conservative Party.
Without God, there can be no objective right or wrong. Atheist relativism means the rioter has as much right to his morality as Cameron has to his or me to mine. Without God, there is no solid rock from which any politician can criticise anyone else.
Yes, we suffer from a lack of proper morals, but David Cameron shows no evidence of diagnosing that he and his political pals are as much in need of it as the robbers of poor Mohammed Ashraf Haziq. Nor that he and his moral relativism is a huge part of what he describes as the sickness of Britain.
PRAY: The Bible says:
1Tim 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; 4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
And yet the prophets of old were vehement in their criticism of kings and their policies in days of old. How do we balance these two? By realising that if we pray for those in authority God may want us to do something for him and witness to them.
So please pray for David Cameron and write to your MP (names and emails here) of the need for the UK to return to the Biblical word of God and ask him/her to convey your thoughts to the Prime Minister.
From the No10 website (same link as above):
Question
Prime Minister, you have said that parts of Britain are sick. What is the cure in your view, and what do you say to people who say that part of the cure is more police, not fewer, more prison places, not fewer?
Prime Minister
When I say parts of Britain are sick, the one word I would use to sum that up is irresponsibility. The sight of those young people running down streets, smashing windows, taking property, looting, laughing as they go, the problem of that is a complete lack of responsibility, a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing, a lack of proper ethics, a lack of proper morals. That is what we need to change. There is no one trigger that can change these things. It’s about parenting, it’s about discipline in schools, it’s about making sure we have a welfare system that does not reward idleness. It is all of those things.
Now, of course we want to get the maximum out of the police budget to put the most police we have on the streets. Of course we want to get value for money out of everything that we do. But let’s not ignore the fact that what we’re seeing on our streets is actually a lack of responsibility. It is as much a moral problem as a political problem. That’s what we’re seeing, that’s what we need to deal with, and I think the whole country feels that way and recognises this is a problem for our society and one we have to cure and deal with.
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David Cameron’s Speech to the Gays
Full Text of Speech given to assorted homosexual activists 22nd June 2011
You‘re all extraordinarily welcome here at Number 10 Downing Street.
I‘m just sorry that because of the uncertainty over the weather, that while we‘re out, we‘re not out in the garden, like we were last year, I‘m afraid.
Ever since the government held drought talks, it hasn‘t stopped raining.
It‘s great to have this reception here today. I was just thinking, someone told me that if Sir Ian McKellen was here, I could say I had the Queen and Prince Phillip here for lunch yesterday, Sir Ian today. Who can say they‘ve had two of Britain‘s most prominent queens over in 48 hours? (Cue raucous ribald laughter.)
I think we‘ve got a lot to celebrate in Britain when it comes to issues for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Recently, Britain was named the best place for gay equality in Europe. I don‘t think that means we should be complacent.
I think it is a huge testament to the work of the last government and I believe what this government has done as well. It‘s great to see politicians from all parties here. But I just want to say one thing that made me very proud in the House of Commons today, it was a Conservative member of parliament who stood up and congratulated the government on the reception for a section of society that wouldn‘t have happened years ago. Iain Stewart asked that question. I‘m proud he asked that question, I‘m proud I was able to answer it, it shows that all organisations can change.
There‘s a couple of things the government has done that I think have moved this agenda forward, which I want to mention. The first is actually laying the groundwork for having civil partnerships in religious institutions. I think that is a good step forward and I‘m glad that it‘s happening. I also think wiping the slate clean for consensual sexual offences for gay men, that is something we promised as a coalition and we have delivered. Another thing is the huge survey that is being carried out on transgender issues.
I think frankly though we have other areas where we could improve. But there are three I just wanted to mention tonight, that I think we should really focus on, not just as a government but as a country.
The first is the issue of homophobia in sport, and I think it‘s great that tonight, in Number 10, we‘ve got representatives and governing bodies of almost every single sport that I can think of, here signing a charter saying it‘s time to put an end to homophobia and trying to give sports stars who want to come out the confidence to come out.
It‘s a huge honour to have here in Number 10 Downing Street not just Gareth Thomas, not just Ben Cohen, who is doing great campaigning work, but also a great heroine of mine – and in Wimbledon week, amazing to get her here – Billie Jean King.
But frankly there‘s a lot more we need to do. There is an absolutely tiny number of sports personalities who have felt able to come out and we should be doing far more for those who don‘t feel comfortable enough to do that. And that links to the second issue that I want to mention and that is the issue of homophobic bullying in schools, which is still a huge problem in our country.
And frankly, the two issues are interlinked because young people need role models and if we don‘t have enough role models, enough positive role models, then behaviour won‘t change. So I think that while government clearly has a huge role, in making sure we tackle bullying, in making sure headteachers have the powers they need and making sure we address the issue properly, it‘s not just a government problem or a legal problem, it‘s a societal problem. Sport has a massive influence.
The third issue, where I think we are making progress as a government, and I think an area where we have the ability to make progress, is the fact that gay people can be appallingly treated in other parts of the world, particularly in Africa.
Now, we‘ve had to make a lot of difficult decisions as a government and we‘ve had to make lots of tough decisions but I‘m very proud of the fact, in spite of the fact that it‘s not always popular, we have made the difficult, but I believe the right, decision, to maintain a commitment to 0.7 per cent of our national income going in aid to the poorest countries by 2013. It‘s a huge commitment for Britain to make, alone in the world. Everywhere is breaking their promises … we are keeping our promises to the poorest people in the world. And I think this is right morally because as a rich country, we should be helping the poorest people in the world.
But it also has a spin-off benefit of giving us some moral authority in the world to talk to other leaders and governments about our relationship with them and what we expect from them. I‘m very proud of the fact we [put] huge pressure on the leader of Malawi about an issue in that country but I‘m convinced we can do more. We have got the ability to speak to African leaders, African governments, about this issue that I know concerns everyone here tonight. And it concerns me.
REJECT CAMERON’S CULTURAL IMPERIALISM
SIGN THE PETITION to Save Africa from Sodomy.
David Cameron has pledged to use foreign aid as a lever for pressuring Africa to accept gay rights and legalise sodomy.
The Prime Minister‘s comments were made on 22 June as he hosted his second Downing Street reception for the perverted axe-grinders who call themselves the ‘LGBT community’, including one man known for staging pornographic events.
FULL TEXT OF CAMERON’S SPEECH HERE
The Prime Minister said that a spin-off benefit‘ of giving foreign aid is that it allows the Government to have a say in what happens in the world‘s poorest countries. He said: ‘We have got the ability to speak to African leaders, African governments, about this issue that I know concerns everyone here tonight. And it concerns me.’
During the course of the evening Mr. Cameron spoke with pride of the Government‘s accomplishment on homosexual issues but emphasized that they have a long way still to go in addressing the ‘societal problem of homophobia.’
Cameron outlined other areas where he hoped to see improvement and he urged homosexuals in sport to ‘come out.’
Guests at the reception included Billie Jean King, Gareth Thomas, Ben Cohen and Kieron Richardson, in addition to a number of homosexual rights campaigners such as Ben Summerskill, the chief executive of Stonewall.
Cameron‘s speech was preceded by a performance from the London Gay Men‘s Chorus.
At the beginning of his talk the Prime Minister tried to be funny, saying, ‘It‘s great to have this reception here today. I was just thinking, someone told me that if Sir Ian McKellen was here, I could say I had the Queen and Prince Phillip here for lunch yesterday, Sir Ian [McKellen] today. Who can say they’ve had two of Britain‘s most prominent queens over in 48 hours?’
READ: Lev. 18:22; 20:13; Deut. 23:17; Ps. 2:10-12, 59:7; Prov. 6:16-18, 14:34, 20:26; Isaiah 5:20-23, 10:1-4; Ezek. 16:49-50; Micah 2:1-2; Mark 10:6-9; Romans 1:26-27, 13:3; 1 Cor. 6:9-11; 1 Tim. 1:9-10; 1 Pet. 2:14; 2 Peter 2:18-19; Jude 1:7
PRAY: Proverbs 6:16-18 declares that the Lord hates a heart that devises wicked plans and feet that are swift in running to evil. After inviting this collection of perverts and social totalitarians to 10 Downing Street, there can be no question that David Cameron has set his feet to run after evil and his heart to devise wicked plans.
The only thing worse than Mr. Cameron devising wicked plans for this country, however, is that he intends to export his schemes to Africa. Locked in a colonial timewarp, he thinks the white man knows far better than those he regards as ignorant black savages.
Pray that he is brought to his knees in repentance for his behaviour and that this will be the last of such meetings held at 10 Downing Street.
Pray also that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in October will send a message to Cameron and other wealthy white liberals that cultural imperialism, holding the poor to ransom until they legalise godless Western depravity, is simply unacceptable in the modern world.
WRITE: to (or e-mail) your MP to protest at the Prime Minister’s proposed use of aid to Africa as a vehicle for forcing poor nations to accept wickedness. Also complain at his attempts at humour, the distasteful comments about HM the Queen in particular.
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HOW TO WRITE TO YOUR MP
- Houses of Parliament
These are the rules for writing any letter or email to your MP:
1 Ask your MP to ask a question of the minister responsible. This ensures you will get a reply. Never write to a minister direct. It makes your MP look redundant. Kill two birds with one stone.
2 Be precise. Do not ramble. State the matter in the first paragraph and make each point concisely. I always try to say everything on one well-spaced page. If you go to three pages, you have lost the game.
3 Be patient. Assume your MP knows nothing about the case, so explain carefully (but precisely!)
4 Be accurate. Do your own research or rely on a group like Christian Voice who check everything.
5 Be legible. If your handwriting is not up to it, type it or email and spell-check.
6 Be calm. No ranting and raving, no over-the-top comments, no snide remarks.
7 Ask your MP to agree with you if the occasion arises. This could be your question (see 1).
8 Keep to one subject. If two things are on your mind, write two letters, a couple of days apart.
Letters are always written to your MP at: House of Commons, LONDON, SW1A 0AA
Emails can also be sent. You need to know either your MP’s name or your Parliamentary Constituency. Both of these, together with email addresses may be found here on the Parliament website. If you know neither your MP nor your constituency you can simply type your postcode in a box. In fact, that is the easiest way to get staight to his/her contact details.
The Westminster Declaration
http://www.westminster2010.org.uk/declaration/
The was much said about the Westminster Declaration in Christian circles during the election. It attracted over 60,000 signatures, but drew fire from Protestant circles by being ecumenical. Leading signatories were Lord Carey (Former Archbishop of Canterbury ), Cardinal O’Brien (Catholic Church in Scotland ), Michael Nazir-Ali (Former Bishop of Rochester ), Steve Clifford (General Director, Evangelical Alliance) and Lyndon Bowring (Executive Chairman, CARE).
This is what it said:
THE DECLARATION
Protecting human life, protecting marriage, and protecting freedom of conscience are foundational for creating and maintaining strong families, caring communities and a just society. Our Christian faith compels us to speak and act in defence of all these.
OUR BELIEFS AND VALUES
As Christians we reaffirm historic belief in God the Father (who created us and gave us the blueprint for our lives together); in God the Son Jesus Christ our Saviour (accepting his incarnation, teaching, claims, miracles, death, resurrection and return in judgment); and in God the Holy Spirit (who lives within us, guides us and gives us strength). We commit ourselves to worship, honour and obey God.
As UK citizens we affirm our Christian commitment both to exercise social responsibility in working for the common good and also to be subject to all governing authorities and obey them except when they require us to act unjustly.
HUMAN LIFE
We believe that being made in the image of God, all human life has intrinsic and equal dignity and worth and that it is the duty of the state to protect the vulnerable. We will support, protect, and be advocates for such people û including children born and unborn, and all those who are sick, disabled, addicted, elderly, in single parent families, poor, exploited, trafficked, appropriately seeking asylum, threatened by environmental change, or exploited by unjust trade, aid or debt policies. We pledge to work to protect the life of every human being from conception to its natural end and we refuse to comply with any directive that compels us to participate in or facilitate abortion, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide, euthanasia, or any other act that involves intentionally taking innocent human life. We will support those who take the same stand.
MARRIAGE
We pledge to support marriage û the lifelong covenantal union of one man and one woman as husband and wife. We believe it is divinely ordained, the only context for sexual intercourse, and the most important unit for sustaining the health, education, and welfare of all. We call on government to honour, promote and protect marriage and we refuse to submit to any edict forcing us to equate any other form of sexual partnership with marriage. We commit ourselves to continue affirming what we believe as Christians about sexual morality, marriage, and the family.
CONSCIENCE
We count it a special privilege to live in a democratic society where all citizens have the right to participate in the political process. We pledge to do what we can to ensure our laws are just and fair, particularly in protecting vulnerable people. We will seek to ensure that religious liberty and freedom of conscience are unequivocally protected against interference by the state and other threats, not only to individuals but also to institutions including families, charities, schools and religious communities. We will not be intimidated by any cultural or political power into silence or acquiescence and we will reject measures that seek to over-rule our Christian consciences or to restrict our freedoms to express Christian beliefs, or to worship and obey God.
COMMITMENT
We call upon all those in UK positions of leadership, responsibility and influence to pledge to respect, uphold and protect the right of Christians to hold these beliefs and to act according to Christian conscience.
CANDIDATES HAD WESTMINSTER-LITE
General Election candidates were sent a slimmed-down version of the Declaration, isolating Christian liberties. Most Christian lobby groups working in Parliament have now retreated into defending this last piece of land as the tide of unrighteousness has flooded in.
The Westminster 2010 organisers say: ‘We did not ask candidates to sign the Westminster declaration itself, but only to make the pledge to “respect, uphold and protect the right of Christians to hold and express Christian beliefs and act according to Christian conscience”. ‘
Their website lists those candidates who made that pledge. Christian Voice has extracted the successful candidates who signed, and also those who refused. It is shocking that so few MP’s – just 57 – could bring themselves to promise to maintain Christian liberties, and that 16 – real enemies of the Gospel – went out of their way to refuse to sign.
These 57 candidates, returned as MP’s, signed the Westminster 2010 Pledge:
- Nigel Adams, Selby and Ainsty (Con)
- Peter Aldous, Waveney (Con)
- Harriett Baldwin, West Worcestershire (Con)
- Sir Alan Beith, Berwick-upon-Tweed (LibDem)
- Henry Bellingham , North West Norfolk (Con)
- Bob Blackman, Harrow East (Con)
- Peter Bone, Wellingborough (Con)
- Graham Brady, Altrincham and Sale West (Con)
- Steve Brine, Winchester (Con)
- Fiona Bruce, Congleton (Con)
- Neil Carmichael, Stroud (Con)
- Jenny Chapman, Darlington (Lab)
- Alex Cunningham, Stockton North (Lab)
- Philip Davies, Shipley (Con)
- Jim Dobbin, Heywood and Middleton (Lab)
- Nigel Dodds, Belfast North (DUP)
- Jeffrey Donaldson, Lagan Valley (DUP)
- Charlie Elphicke, Dover (Con)
- Bill Esterson, Sefton Central (Lab)
- Michael Fallon, Sevenoaks (Con)
- Tim Farron, Westmorland and Lonsdale (LibDem)
- Mary Glindon, North Tyneside (Lab)
- Robert Goodwill, Scarborough and Whitby (Con)
- Richard Graham, Gloucester (Con)
- James Gray, North Wiltshire (Con)
- Robert Halfon, Harlow (Con)
- Richard Harrington, Watford (Con)
- Rebecca Harris, Castle Point (Con)
- Oliver Heald, North East Hertfordshire (Con)
- Nick Hurd, Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner (Con)
- Margot James, Stourbridge (Con)
- David Jones, Clwyd West (Con)
- Liz Kendall, Leicester West (Lab)
- Andrea Leadsom, South Northamptonshire (Con)
- Jeremy Lefroy, Stafford (Con)
- Stephen Lloyd, Eastbourne (LibDem)
- Jonathan Lord, Woking (Con)
- Tim Loughton, East Worthing and Shoreham (Con)
- Peter Luff, Mid Worcestershire (Con)
- Mary MacLeod, Brentford and Isleworth (Con)
- Catherine McKinnell, Newcastle upon Tyne North (Lab)
- Graeme Morrice, Livingston (Lab)
- Stephen Mosley, City of Chester (Con)
- David Mowat, Warrington South (Con)
- Ian Murray, Edinburgh South (Lab)
- Caroline Nokes, Romsey and Southampton North (Con)
- Ian Paisley Jnr, North Antrim (DUP)
- John Redwood, Wokingham (Con)
- Andrew Selous, South West Bedfordshire (Con)
- Jim Shannon, Strangford (DUP)
- Nicholas Soames, Mid Sussex (Con)
- Bob Stewart, Beckenham (Con)
- David Ward, Bradford East (LibDem)
- Steve Webb, Thornbury and Yate (LibDem)
- John Whittingdale, Maldon (Con)
- Sammy Wilson, East Antrim (DUP)
- Nadhim Zahawi, Stratford-on-Avon (Con)
These 16 candidates, returned as MP’s, refused to sign the Westminster 2010 Pledge:
- James Arbuthnot, North East Hampshire (Con)
- Norman Baker, Lewes (LibDem)
- Nick Clegg, Sheffield , Hallam (LibDem)
- Ian Davidson, Glasgow South West (Lab)
- Tom Harris, Glasgow South (Lab)
- Mark Hendrick, Preston (Lab)
- Eric Joyce, Falkirk (Lab)
- Caroline Lucas, Brighton , Pavilion (Green Party)
- Kerry McCarthy, Bristol East (Lab)
- Meg Munn, Sheffield , Heeley (Lab)
- Pamela Nash, Airdrie and Shotts (Lab)
- Stephen Phillips, Sleaford and North Hykeham (Con)
- Andrew Smith, Oxford East (Lab)
- Jo Swinson, East Dunbartonshire (LibDem)
- Alan Whitehead, Southampton, Test (Lab)
- Jenny Willott, Cardiff Central (LibDem)
WRITE: If you live in the Constituency of any of these MP’s, write to congratulate them or take them to task as appropriate. If your MP is not on the list, write to him/her and ask why he.she did not sign the Westminster Pledge.
THERESA MAY WILL NOT SUPPORT CHRISTIANS
One MP who did not sign the Westminster2010 Pledge was the new Home Secretary, Theresa May. Amongst her constituents are Mike and Susanne Wilkinson, who are now threatened with legal action by a pair of homosexuals who were turned away from their guest house in Cookham. We understand that Theresa May sent them a letter telling them that as they broke the law (the Sexual Orientation Regulations 2007), they must face the consequencies.
In a move reminiscient of the Vicar of Bray, who had a living a few miles downstream of Cookham on the River Thames, after voting against sodomy at 16, voting against adoption by gays, abstaining on the Sexual Orientation Regulations and voting for freedom of speech to criticise sodomy, she has refused to support her constituents. She will not even argue for a change in the law to protect Christian conscience.
PRAY: For Mike and Susanne Wilkinson. May they use every weapon the good Lord sends in resisting the claim against them. May they expose Theresa May for the opportunistic turn-coat she is. May they build a Christian alliance in Maidenhead for the whole Gospel.
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How Your MP Voted
Click below to see how your MP voted on the issues that matter.
For an analysis of how we decide the ‘ideal vote’ go to Britain in Sin.
Find your MP from your constituency HERE
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MPs’ voting records:
ABBOTT – BROOKEBROWN – CURTIS-THOMAS
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Cameron ‘Hypocrite’ Over Church Schools
A leading Christian lobby group has accused Conservative leader David Cameron of hypocrisy over his support for Church Schools and Christian charities.
In a video posted on YouTube by the Conservative Christian Fellowship, which exists to promote the Conservative Party amongst the faithful, Cameron says he is ‘amazed’ at just how much Church is doing in social work. ‘Wherever there is a need you are there,’ he gushes. Christians are ‘caring for the vulnerable, helping to build a strong society.’ The Church’s values, according to Cameron, lie at the heart of the Britain he wants to see. He wants a thriving voluntary sector and to give charities stability, treating faith-based charities well. ‘I want them to go on doing what they do,’ says Cameron.
This is the same David Cameron who voted for the Sexual Orientation Regulations in 2007, which disrupted church-based adoption charities, forcing almost all of them to close rather than place vulnerable children with homosexuals.
Cameron goes on to laud faith schools. ‘Good schools with high standards of discipline are vital,’ he says. There are some excellent faith schools and we learn he chose one for his daughter. But the same man who says he values their work and wants a new generation of academies told a homosexual audience in an interview for ‘Attitude’ magazine in January that he wants to force faith schools to jettison their values and teach that sodomy is as normal and natural as heterosexuality.
Earlier this month the Conservatives boasted of how many ‘gay’ candidates they would be fielding at the election, including current front-bencher Alan Duncan, who once joked that he would kill someone who defended the Christian view that marriage is between one man and one woman, and members of the Cameron inner circle.
In February, his spokesman Michael Gove told Andrew Marr and millions of BBC radio listeners that he would not tolerate schools which allowed into the classroom the view that the universe was created.
“To my mind you cannot have a school which teaches creationism” he said. “And one thing that we will make absolutely clear is that you can not have schools that are set up which teach people things which are clearly at variance with what we know to be scientific fact.”
Finally, David Cameron says in his video that ‘strong relationships’ are vital for society and that it is wrong that ‘couples are rewarded for splitting up’. He would ‘recognise marriage in the tax system’. Does that mean that the man who voted for Civil Partnerships in 2004 will reward those counterfeits of marriage as well?
Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said:
‘David Cameron needs to recognise that Christian social work arises from the Gospel. Our values are Gospel values. We feed the hungry at our Saviour’s command. And the same Saviour is also King of kings. His laws value holiness, chastity, fidelity, honesty and respect for God and man. These values are absent from those of the homosexuals whose vote he is also trying to court.
‘If faith-based schools are not to be allowed to point out the problems with evolutionary theory and the questions it cannot answer, such as how birds evolved nest-building, and how birds survived before they got it right, then is he intending to preside over a totalitarian government that bans scientific debate?
‘And if Christians are to be forced to toe the secularist pro-gay, pro-fornication line in sex education classes, then where does religious freedom lie in the Cameron order of priorities?
‘David Cameron is trying simultaneously to run with the hare of Christianity and hunt with the hounds of secularism. The man who voted on 6th May 2008 to allow wicked men to insult Jesus Christ wants Christians to fall in with his secularist ideas before they receive funding and he wants the failed tenets of secularism to dominate what we can teach. Just like Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg, Cameron will take what he wants from the Christian Church, but trample underfoot our challenging vision of a society which honours God in the Lord Jesus Christ.
‘I hope and pray Christians will see through the hypocrisy of David Cameron and only vote for those Tory candidates who fear the Lord and repudiate the secularist, pro-gay views of their leader.’
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I Promise Not to Vote Tory, Labour, Libdem, or BNP
Our good friends at Premier Radio are running a campaign ‘My Promise to Vote’. They urge listeners to complete a form to be sent to the Speaker and MPs. It says: ‘I promise to vote in the 2010 General Election using my Christian conscience to decide which party to support’.
The only problem is, by using that formula, voting along party lines, the Christ-centred believer rules out each one of the three main parties. To start with, each of them is fundamentally secularist and pro-gay. Atheist Nick Clegg, David Cameron with his pro-sodomy kitchen cabinet and the anti-family Gordon Brown have gone out of their way in the last three months to court the perverted vote. Clegg and Cameron were interviewed in turn for ‘Attitude’ magazine then Brown hosted a party at No10 for ‘Schools Out’. In the process, all three told decent people not to vote for them or their parties.
Next, each is pro-EU, favouring that bastion of Antichrist which refused to put God into its constitution and is now pressing hard Europe-wide for policies enforcing ‘equality and diversity’. Not one of the three main parties is pro-life, although individual members may be. And each is stupidly pro-Islam, not seeing that Islam is not just Antichrist, denying His divinity, His incarnation and His resurrection, but anti-secularist as well.
WHO WOULD JESUS HAVE IN HIS CABINET?
Outside England, Plaid Cymru in Wales are secularist in outlook, although individually many of their AM’s opposed blasphemy in the Welsh Assembly. The Scottish Nationalists have endorsed Islamist Osama Saeed as a candidate for Glasgow Central but are not nearly as pro-sodomy as their rivals. In Northern Ireland, the Ulster Unionists have allied themselves with the Conservatives, which makes them difficult for Christians to vote for. It is fair to say the Democratic Unionist Party, despite its recent problems, returns the highest number of God-fearing MP’s to Westminster of any political party, certainly in proportion to its size.
So what now? ‘Who would Jesus vote for?’ is often asked. ‘Who would the King of kings have in His cabinet?’ is the better question. The qualification is that rulers should be ‘able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness’ as we read in Exodus 18:21. That narrows it down considerably. If Christians were only to vote for men who displayed Exodus 18:21 qualities, men whom their Saviour and King would approve, men who could stand in His holy hill, we should be hard-pressed to find any suitable candidates, fewer still if their party allegiance defines them.
We are not saying there are not some really good, God-fearing Labour and Conservative MP’s and candidates, and even the odd righteous LibDem. But they have to renounce all the secularist immoral baggage of their respective party leaders before they can stand before Christians and ask for our vote.
A PARTY CHRISTIANS CAN SUPPORT? ER, NO.
One minor party is actively seeking the Christian vote. The British National Party has a leaflet out showing that all three main parties support the war in Afghanistan, abortion and teaching five-year-olds about homosexuality. It quotes scripture. It says that to support either Labour, the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats is incompatible with Christianity. It observes we must all stand before the judgment seat of Christ and give an account for our actions.
So far so good. Then it says ‘there is only one political party that Christians can support without betraying the Lord Jesus Christ.’ And which is that sole repository of righteousness? It’s the British National Party, apparently. A covering letter from one Jim Clift even tackles the charge of racism levelled against it. In February this year, ‘the BNP membership voted to allow non-white UK citizens to become members,’ he says. ‘This nailed and buried, once and for all, the lie that today’s BNP members are all racists.’
Well, firstly the BNP changed its rules only in the teeth of a pending injunction from the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Secondly, its members may not ‘all’ be racists, but a large proportion are, right to the top. The party may now be anti-Islam (they have noticed that Muslims are often brown-skinned people) but it has never been Christian and has always been fiercely anti-Israel. Its press officer believes in evolution and that black people are less highly evolved than whites.
Thirdly, Jim Clift is seriously asking Christians to support a party that up until a few weeks ago would not accept half of all Christian worshippers in London as members? Er, no thanks, Jim.
SO WHO CAN WE SUPPORT?
The BNP, having said, in the context of Tony Blair’s lies to take us to war in Iraq, ‘Jesus Christ forbad lying (Matt 19:18)’ are themselves economical with the truth. It is not true that ‘there is only one political party that Christians can support without betraying the Lord Jesus Christ,’ as they claim. (That party’s the BNP, if you were wondering.)
UKIP for a start are doing a fairly good job, standing against political correctness, against compulsory sex education and the EU, for example. We are taking a close look at them and their policies and in the meantime we are wishing their candidate Nigel Farage well as he tries to unseat the widely disliked John Bercow in Buckingham. (For that matter, who isn’t?)
The Christian People’s Alliance are a national party and it is eminently possible to support them in good conscience in the seats they are contesting. The English Democrats too are worth a second look.
Finally, the Christian Party is gearing up to fight 120 seats nationwide, including the Western Isles, Barking and Dagenham. In Barking its leader George Hargreaves goes head to head with the BNP’s Nick Griffin trying to unseat the minister for child abuse, Labour’s pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-blasphemy, anti-Christian Margaret Hodge. They are a party Christians can support as they honour the Lord Jesus Christ as King of kings.
Let us pray that the Lord raises up candidates for Christians to vote for in good conscience. Voting for the wicked only encourages them. Give us someone to vote for – then we’ll promise to vote!
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Tories Boast About Their Gay Candidates
The Conservative Party has published a list of its homosexual candidates standing for election this year. The Tories have 20 ‘out’ gay candidates, with 11 happy to be named.
The party has three professing homosexual MPs – Nick Herbert, Alan Duncan and Greg Barker – with a further 5 of the 11 likely to be elected.
One of the 11 is a woman. Millionairess Margot James is standing for Stourbridge, and is a prominent advisor to David Cameron. She would form a ‘sisterhood’ with Labour’s pensions minister Angela Eagle, currently the only lesbian in the House of Commons. Candidate Nick Boles is also a member of Cameron’s inner circle.
MANY STANDING FOR WINNABLE SEATS
According to the homosexual news site Pink News, ‘gay political commentator Iain Dale has speculated that the Conservatives have between 20 and 30 out gay candidates, with many standing for winnable seats.’
The Times estimated that if the Tories win a majority of ten, they will have slightly more ‘out’ gay MPs than Labour currently has. The shock for Christian voters is that the Conservatives are actually proud of having people standing who define themselves by their sexual perversion.
In response to criticisms of his recent pro-gay statements in ‘Attitude’ magazine,’David Cameron’s Correspondence Unit’ is now boasting that the Party has ‘three openly gay members’ of its front bench and that ‘David has made clear that he is proud that the Party fully supported civil partnerships.’ Last year Cameron apologised for his party’s introduction of Section 28, which banned the promotion of sodomy in the classroom, and this year he echoed Nick Clegg by calling for faith schools to be forced to teach that homosexuality is natural and harmless. Cameron then went further and announced he would offer political asylum to African homosexuals.
THE ELEVEN CANDIDATES
Already MP’s:
- Greg Barker, Bexhill and Battle
- Alan Duncan, Rutland and Melton
- Nick Herbert, Arundel and South Downs
- In winnable seats:
- Margot James, 52, Stourbridge
- David Gold, 37, Eltham
- Nick Boles, 44, Grantham
- Iain Stewart, 27, Milton Keynes South
- Mark Coote, 49, Cheltenham
Less likely to win:
- Nick King, 44, Mid Dorset and North Poole
- Matthew Sephton, 34, Salford and Eccles
- Simon Nayyar, 42, Hackney South and Shoreditch
Not listed:
- Mike Freer, standing for Finchley & Golders Green
Being mentioned as potential candidates: Previous Falmouth candidate Ashley Crossley, blogger Iain Dale, actor Adam Rickitt, and Tory Central Office hack Dan Ritterband.
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Cameron Wants Open Door to African Gays
The Conservative Party leader has offered asylum to African homosexuals in an interview with a homosexual magazine.
Writing in Attitude, David Cameron also agreed with Nick Clegg, who wrote in the same magazine last month that faith schools should teach that sodomy is ‘normal and harmless’. Cameron, in his turn, promised ‘ground rules’ to force church schools to ‘teach equality’ and that there was ‘nothing wrong with being gay’.
TORIES ‘NOW SUPPORT GAY EQUALITY’
‘I think we can look gay people in the eye and say: “You can now back us – because we now support gay equality”,’ Cameron gushed.
He even urged the Church of England to embrace gay rights. Displaying ignorance of Christian theology and totalitarian arrogance, he called on Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, to follow in his footsteps. ‘I don’t want to get into a huge row with the Archbishop here, but the Church has to do some of the things that the Conservative Party has been through,’ he said. ‘Sorting this issue out and recognising that full equality is a bottom-line, full essential.’
But it is Cameron’s approach to asylum which has drawn the headlines. He told his homosexual audience: ‘If you are fleeing persecution and that fear is well-founded, then you should be able to stay.
‘As I understand it, the 1951 Convention [on the rights of refugees] doesn’t mention sexuality, but because it mentions membership of a social group, that phrase is being used by the courts, rightly, to say that if someone has a realistic fear of persecution they should be allowed to stay.’
‘If you have a legitimate fear of persecution, then it seems to me that it is a perfectly legitimate reason to stay,’ he said.
CAMERON WOULD LET HOMOSEXUALS TO GIVE BLOOD
Mr Cameron also called for an end to the ban on gays giving blood, saying: ‘Logic would dictate that it’s time to change.’ The ban was introduced to stop HIV/AIDS being transmitted, mainly to haemophiliacs, in the 1980s.
Homosexual men remain the largest reservoir of HIV in the UK and have gone back to unsafe sexual practices since the introduction of HAART – Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Treatment – which makes it possible to live with AIDS.
The blood-borne disease AIDS/HIV is also very prevalent amongst homosexual African men, according to a study in the Lancet reported in the homosexual news service Pink News. They are ten times more likely to have the disease than their straight counterparts, in a continent ravaged by the disease because of unsafe medical practices. By a peculiar co-incidence, that news broke just as Cameron’s interview was being published.
SODOMY ABHORRENT TO AFRICANS
Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice said today:
‘It is absolute nonsense to pretend that African homosexuals are a ‘social group.’ Homosexuality is abhorrent to Africans, homosexuals are rare and ‘gay pride’ parades are viewed with disgust on the continent, as a result of higher standards of sexual morality. Sodomy is seen very much as a white mans’ game. That we even allow gays to adopt children in the UK is met by Africans with incomprehension.
‘But Africans are very resourceful, and some will be adept at passing themselves off as homosexual just to gain entry to what they think is a land where the streets are paved with gold. They will find the reality very different.
‘Coupled with Cameron’s politically-correct but irresponsible call for those who practice buggery to be allowed to give blood, and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS especially amongst homosexuals in Africa, and Cameron could just as well be calling for more HIV/AIDS patients, putting further strain on the NHS. It costs over half-a-million pounds to treat each AIDS patient with HAART over the remainder of his life. And the risk of contamination to blood stocks from the raft of exotic diseases routinely carried by homosexual men is very real.
CAMERON: ‘NOTHING WRONG WITH SODOMY IN SCHOOLS’
‘As to forcing schools to teach that sodomy is normal and harmless, or in Cameron’s words, ’embedding’ it and saying that there is ‘nothing wrong with it’, the influence of his pro-gay kitchen cabinet is evident, and also totally out of step with what the majority of parents expect of their children’s schools.
‘There is no commitment from Cameron to give asylum to Christians fleeing persecution, which is what a Christian country should do. But I guess as Cameron is a secularist, clearly wanting to drive the United Kingdom into some secularist utopia, asylum in his eyes should be given to those who despise the laws of Almighty God at the expense of those who honour them.
‘We have the sad spectacle of the main political party leaders trying to be ‘gayer than thou’, falling over themselves to court the vote merely of a perverted one percent of the population. That should make decent people unable to vote for any of them.
TRAVELLING THE ROAD OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH
‘We are close to living in the days of Lot , where homosexuality was approved and promoted and even forced on visitors, while faith in God and righteousness were persecuted. I am just praying for Christian candidates to stand for righteousness in the coming general election to give a voice to those of us who do not want the UK to travel the road of Sodom and Gomorrah.’
PRAY: For the Lord to raise up Christian candidates and provide the finances needed for them to fight an election campaign so as to be elected. Pray for mercy for this land and judgment on anti-Christ politicians like Nick Clegg and David Cameron. May their political houses fall.
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Army Chaplain’s New Creed: ‘We Don’t Believe’
The senior chaplain at Sandhurst military academy has dropped the Apostles’ Creed from Anglican services saying it might offend religious minorities.
The Daily Mail reported on 31st January that centuries of religious tradition have been sacrificed for the sake of political correctness.
Reverend Jonathan Gough dropped the Christian declaration of faith in God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit when he took office last month.
A fellow Chaplain said it had been removed ‘to stop upsetting cadets who do not believe in God’. This is despite the fact that attendance is not compulsory. Non-believing Sandhurst cadets can and do opt out of church.
The Ministry of Defence said the Creed had been withdrawn from services at the Royal Memorial Chapel to make the church ‘more inclusive’. Figures showing how the massive increase of attendance at church by cadets from other faiths and none since the service was made more ‘inclusive’ by hiding what Christians believe have not yet been released.
A senior member of the Chapel yesterday said the decision to cut the affirmation of faith was ludicrous. He said: ‘It’s a disgrace. Nobody was told and everybody has been left shocked and angry. It’ just an attempt to be “right on”.’
The Creed, which forms part of the Morning and Evening Prayer services, found in the book of Common Prayer, begins: ‘I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried’. It goes on to speak of His Resurrection and Ascension and the Final Judgment.
Theologian Dr Richard Bell, from Nottingham University , said ‘The Creed is the central plank of the Church of England service. If you give up on that you are effectively giving up on God. Frankly I’m appalled by this decision.’
Sir Richard Dannatt, the current Chief of the General Staff, is unlikely to be enthusiastic about Mr Gough’s revisionism. Sir Richard is a practising evangelical Christian. In October 2006 , he was reported as being concerned by the decline in Christian values in Britain that had allowed Islamic extremism to flourish. He told the Daily Mail: ‘It is said we live in a post-Christian society. I think that is a great shame. The Judaic-Christian tradition has underpinned British society. It underpins the British Army.. … Threats now are not territorial but to the values of our society.’ He was uncompromising when asked about the allegiance of Muslim soldiers. ‘If they are prepared to take the Queen’s shilling they will go wherever the mission requires them to go,’ he said. That does not sound like a man who would want any Christian service watered down in the army so as not to offend those who are highly unlikely ever to hear it.
Mr Gough, 46, is a former secretary for ecumenism for Archbishop of Canterbury. His only comment has been: ‘I had many options to choose from.’ The Chaplain General, Rev David Wilkes, a Methodist, has said that non-Christian chaplains will eventually be commissioned, a move which would shake the Christian underpinning to which General Dannatt referred. At present, only Christian chaplains can be full-time and hold officer status. All others are civilian.
Former army officer Patrick Mercer MP, whose father was Bishop of Exeter, called for the Creed to be returned. Mr Mercer, who trained at Sandhurst , said: ‘If you go to an Anglican Church service you expect to hear an Anglican service. I think the good reverend is being a little too precious.’
An Army spokesman said it was common practice to alter the service from time to time, although only the General Synod of the Church of England has that power. ‘The people who are angry should sit down with Reverend Gough for a cup of tea,’ a spokesman said. He did not say whether that approach had met with success in any of the Army’s current theatres of war.
PRAY: With secularists now at war against the Church, the last thing we need is to be cut down by ‘friendly fire’. Pray that those intent on destroying the Christian foundations of our society will find no place in the Church and especially not in the Chaplaincy. Soldiers will not respect weak men who lack confidence in their beliefs. Pray that the Christian Faith will continue to underpin our armed forces.
Springer Opera Rears its Ugly Head Again
A musical described as ‘filth and blasphemy’ which died on its disastrous theatre tour in 2006 is to be exhumed.
A group of students at St Andrew’s University plan to stage Jerry Springer the Opera as part of a arts festival called ‘On the Rocks’ running from 19th to 26th April.
The blasphemous show, written by militant atheist Stewart Lee, features Jesus Christ as a nappy-wearing sexual deviant, describes Mary as a victim of rape, says the birth of Jesus was because ‘the condom split’, ridicules the sacrament of holy communion, scorns the crucifixion wounds of Jesus, casts Almighty God as an ineffective old fool who needs Jerry Springer’s shoulder to cry on, and finally presents Springer as an alternative saviour. It is awash with sexual depravity and disgusting language.
When the show went on its 23-week tour in 2006, Christian campaigners leafleted the audience at virtually every show at every venue, and some venues saw leaflet campaigns weeks in advance, informing theatre-goers just how dreadful it was. As a result of the bad publicity, only one theatre ( Newcastle ) was even one-third full, every theatre lost thousands of pounds, and the producers, Avalon, lost £500,000. Stewart Lee said the show was ‘ruined’ for him. Perhaps audiences did not want to be evangelised on a night out, or perhaps they did not wish to sit through an evening of filth. Either way, the Christians gave God the glory for the wreckage.
St Andrew’s is the birthplace of the Scottish Reformation, where Patrick Hamilton, George Wishart and Henry Forrest were martyred for their faith. It was desecrated in December 2004, when students staged the blasphemous play ‘Corpus Christi’ in the Crawford Arts Theatre (now ‘the Barron’). The play casts the Lord Jesus and His disciples as a gang of homosexuals, with all the promiscuity and depravity of that lifestyle being portrayed in gutter language.
Christian Voice mounted a witness for every performance of the play. The treasurer of the Crawford resigned, a matinée was cancelled and despite the heavy security there were protests, including a proclamation of the Gospel, inside the theatre.
Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:
‘St Andrew’s University is fast building a reputation as a place where civilised behaviour has been forgotten. Ridiculing Jesus Christ will bring shame and God’s judgment on what should, with all its history, be a devout seat of learning, not a cess-pit.
‘If this show cast Mohammed as a sexual deviant, it would never see the light of day. But those staging Jerry Springer the Opera are too cowardly to have a go at Islam. They know that Christians do not resort to violence and they think they will get away with it.
‘However, God is big enough to look after Himself, which should fill all concerned with fear. There are no atheists on a sinking ship; it is all, “God save us!” But if God can work miracles of deliverance, He can also bring judgment against the wicked.
‘Quite apart from the insult to the Lord Jesus Christ which staging this show is all about, it also hurts Christian people when their Lord and Saviour is ridiculed. It is just as if a member of our own family were insulted. Civilised people do not set out to insult and hurt others. But Britain is changing, and the Ross/Brand affair was just one example of the sad fact that people in our society are becoming daily more crass, more coarse and less interested in the feelings of others.
‘How long will it be before the message that it is now acceptable in Scotland to insult people’s religious beliefs reaches the terraces of Ibrox and Celtic Park?’
‘We must pray that this show is cancelled, but if it is not, may the Lord bring Christian people out on the streets of St Andrew’s to witness and evangelise at all the events during the ‘On the Rocks’ arts week. If many sinners repent and turn to Jesus Christ, some good will yet come from this evil.’
ASA Says ‘No God’ Bus Claim Can’t Be Proved
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that the humanists behind the newly-launched bus advertisement which claims there is ‘probably no God’ can’t substantiate their claims.
The ad, the brainchild of comedy writer Ariane Sherine, says: ‘There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life’.
But Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, and 325 others, complained to the Advertising Standards Authority. Many complaints said the ads were offensive. Stephen Green and others said the advertisements broke the ASA’s codes on substantiation and truthfulness.
The ASA website says: ‘Advertisements are not allowed to mislead consumers. This means that advertisers must hold evidence to prove the claims they make about their products or services before an ad appears.’
But in a ruling today, the ASA says the claim that there is probably no God is ‘not capable of objective substantiation’. It says further that the complaints were not ‘serious’ or ‘widespread’ enough.
Stephen Green said today:
‘If the ASA had thought the humanists could provide evidence for their claim, they would have asked them for it. As they know there is no evidence for the proposition that ‘there is probably no God’, they have let their secularist friends off the hook. ‘I debated this issue secularists five times in recent days, and despite repeated challenges, they could not once come up with anything to back up their claim that there is ‘probably no God’.
‘The ASA have finessed Code 7.1, which says a ad should not mislead or be likely to mislead, ruling it would not be likely to mislead, so avoiding the thornier question of whether it actually does mislead. Which it does.
‘On ‘taste and decency’, the ASA have simply taken a subjective decision to dismiss the complaints of offensiveness. On planet ASA, complaints from people of faith are not given the same weight as those from secularists. But what do you expect when the ASA Council is appointed and run by a campaigning homosexual, Chris, Lord, Smith of Finsbury?’
Last year the ASA ruled against Sandown Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster when the church published an advertisement ‘The Word of God against Sodomy’ against Belfast Gay Pride. That ad, decided the ASA, breached its code on decency (offensiveness) after receiving just 4 complaints. But they allowed that the ad was a legitimate expression of opinion when dismissing another part of the complaint.
Last week, it ruled against an advertorial Christian Voice placed in the New Statesman, after just one solitary complaint that a prediction that every Government initiative on teenage sexuality would increase teenage infertility could not be substantiated.
Stephen Green commented: ‘The ASA upholds or breaks its rules as it goes along. It all depends on who is being complained about. They get 326 complaints and decide the bus ads were not causing serious or widespread offence. They get a mere 4, and say Sandown’s ad was. They allow Sandown to express an opinion, but not Christian Voice. They excuse the secularists from the need to provide evidence for a categorical statement, claiming it is impossible to do, but they say Christian Voice needs hard evidence for a future prediction, which really is impossible.
‘We always knew the ASA was just another tool of the politically-correct secularist establishment, but here’s the proof. Their ruling is a good example of how the deck is stacked against Christians today, and the Church needs to wake up to the anti-Christian agenda right now. The good news is we now know that when the secularists decided to say: “There is probably no God”, they had no reason for making that absurd claim, and time has not helped them come up with one. The bad news is that if Christians don’t start standing up for their Faith and their Saviour soon, we shall see religious liberties trampled on, and the secularists will take us further down the road to their hell on earth.’
NOTES for Editors:
The CAP Code, which the ASA administers, says:
‘SUBSTANTIATION
‘3.1 Before distributing or submitting a marketing communication for publication, marketers must hold documentary evidence to prove all claims, whether direct or implied, that are capable of objective substantiation.
‘Relevant evidence should be sent without delay if requested by the ASA or CAP. The adequacy of evidence will be judged on whether it supports both the detailed claims and the overall impression created by the marketing communication.’
DECENCY
‘5.1 Marketing communications should contain nothing that is likely to cause serious or widespread offence. …’
‘TRUTHFULNESS
‘7.1 No marketing communication should mislead, or be likely to mislead, by inaccuracy, ambiguity, exaggeration, omission or otherwise.’
ASA Outlaws Prediction and Opinion
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled against Christian Voice for predicting that Government initiatives on teenage sexuality, including the HPV vaccine, will increase infertility among the young.
The ASA Council said that our ‘Advertorial’ in the New Statesman earlier this year, which was headlined ‘VIOLENT CRIME – SOWING AND REAPING’, breached ASA codes on principles, substantiation and truthfulness.
The text of the advertorial said: “There is a Biblical principle that we reap what we sow. It applies to nations as well as to individuals. What politicians sow, the people reap. When politicians sow evil, the people reap misery, and the poorest reap it the worst”. The ad went on to describe the detrimental impact of government policies and legislation on society. It included the text “Now we have the disaster of teenage infertility. Every government initiative, including the HPV vaccine, will increase it, but as all the targets revolve around pregnancy, no-one in power knows how many young people they are making sterile and nobody cares”.
The officials demanded ‘robust, scientific evidence that the HPV vaccine caused infertility in teenagers’, missing the point that it is the encouragement of promiscuity in Government teen sex initiatives which spreads the infections which do the damage, not the vaccine.
Their draft ruling says: ‘the claim “Every government initiative, including the HPV vaccine, will increase it [teenage infertility]” was a statement of fact that was capable of substantiation.’ Christian Voice say requiring the substantiation of a future prediction in an opinion piece is preposterous and an infringement of freedom of speech. The ASA subsequently ruled that the British Humanist Association did not have to substantiate their contention that ‘There’s probably no God.’ (See p1)
Earlier this year, the ASA found an advertisement against Belfast Gay Pride placed by Sandown Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster to be ‘offensive’ and ‘indecent’ for declaring the Biblical position that the practice of sodomy was an abomination.
However, the ASA also said the Sandown ad was ‘representative of the beliefs of a specific group and indicative of their opinion only’, a principle they would not extend to Christian Voice.
Stephen Green said:
‘It is a good job the Advertising Standards Authority was not around when the Old Testament was written, or we would be missing half the Christmas story. The ASA would have wanted Isaiah to substantiate his claim that ‘a virgin shall conceive and shall bear a son’ (Isa 7:14). They would have demanded ‘robust, scientific evidence’ that virgins can conceive.
‘The Prophet’s predictions of the fall of Jerusalem and of Christ’s crucifixion would have gone the same way. As for nations beating swords into ploughshares, and the wolf dwelling with the lamb, the ASA would have banned him from ever repeating such an unsubstantiated claim.
‘But you don’t need to be an Old Testament prophet to see that teenage pregnancy has risen as sex education and the distribution of condoms have gathered pace.
‘Nor do you need divine powers of prediction to see that teenage infertility is now a bigger problem than teenage pregnancy. Doctors know that condoms do not 100% stop sexually-transmitted infections, yet teen sex experts are still pretending they do. It is common sense that a condom only covers part of one part of the anatomy, while the most worrying STI’s are skin-borne or carried both ways by vaginal secretions. That is why genital warts, which are caused by HPV, are on the rise, and both sexes have those for life.
‘It is simple common sense to realise that with the HPV vaccine, girls will think they are covered against everything, especially if they are on the pill as well, so promiscuity will rise and there will be even more Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia cases and even more infertility.
‘It is preposterous for the ASA to think they can outlaw Christian freedom of speech and free expression of opinion. The ASA may not like the fact that sodomy is an abomination in holy scripture, but they cannot alter it. Nor can their officials change God’s word that sex outside marriage brings judgment. The Free Presbyterian Church will not back down, and by God’s grace neither shall we. We shall keep telling Government and the teen sex industry that they are betraying young people in this country and that only God’s ways of chastity and fidelity will halt the rise in teenage pregnancies and infertility.’
