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20 November 2012

What Obama’s Re-Election Tells us About America (Part 1)

On the surface, Obama’s re-election was a puzzle. With unemployment in America at 7.9%, food prices skyrocketing and the price of living at it’s highest in three years, all the odds were stacked against the incumbent. By all accounts, Romney should have sailed to an easy victory.

The common narratives to explain Obama’s re-election doesn’t really get to the root of things. Republicans are blaming Obama’s re-election on the fact that Romney was insufficiently conservative and too changeable, that the Obama campaign was better organized, that Romney had managed to alienate the Hispanic vote during the primaries, or that Hurricane Sandy deflected media focus away from Romney’s campaign in the final crucial days.

While all of these factors played a part, they don’t really get at the deeper spiritual and social issues which explain why the American electorate was so eager to give Obama another four years. In series of five blog posts I will seek to uncover some of those deeper issues and to ask, “What does Obama’s re-election tells us about America?”

Changing Spiritual Environment

America’s choice to re-elect Obama has huge spiritual significance because of what Obama symbolically represents. Never before have Americans chosen a national figurehead who was as openly hostile to the Christian faith.

Earlier this year David Barton did us a great service of putting together in one place a list of Obama’s acts of hostility to the Christian faith. I want to quote Barton’s list in full. (Click on the footnotes to see references substantiating that Obama or his administration actually did these things.) The fact that the United States decided to re-elect a President with this kind of track record says much about the changing spiritual environment of contemporary America.

1. Acts of hostility toward people of Biblical faith:

April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they “cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” ¹
February 2009 – Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in February 2011. ²
April 2009 – When speaking at Georgetown University, Obama orders that a monogram symbolizing Jesus’ name be covered when he is making his speech. ³
May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day (a day established by federal law) at the White House. ⁴
April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican; of course, the pro-life Vatican rejected all three. ⁵
October 19, 2010 – Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about “the Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an omission he has made on no less than seven occasions. ⁶
November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is “E pluribus unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal law. ⁷
January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand, but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be re-erected as ordered by the Court. ⁸
February 2011 – Although he filled posts in the State Department, for more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the public and from Congress. ⁹
April 2011 – For the first time in American history, Obama urges passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring. ¹⁰
August 2011 – The Obama administration releases its new health care rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception. ¹¹
November 2011 – Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial. ¹²
November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech. ¹³
December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries’ religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights. ¹⁴
January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis. ¹⁵
February 2012 – The Obama administration forgives student loans in exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion. ¹⁶

2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of Biblical faith:

June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery. ¹⁷
August 2011 – The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third century AD – a theory long taught by civilized nations across the world (except America). ¹⁸
September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains. ¹⁹
September 2011 – The Army issues guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that “No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.” ²⁰
November 2011 – The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity. ²¹
November 2011 – The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans. ²²
February 2012 – The U. S. Military Academy at West Point disinvites three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian. ²³
February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei). ²⁴
February 2012 – The Army orders Catholic chaplains not to read a letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read. ²⁵
April 2012 – A checklist for Air Force Inns will no longer include ensuring that a Bible is available in rooms for those who want to use them.²⁶
May 2012 – The Obama administration opposes legislation to protect the rights of conscience for military chaplains who do not wish to perform same-sex marriages in violation of their strongly-held religious beliefs.²⁷
June 2012 – Bibles for the American military have been printed in every conflict since the American Revolution, but the Obama Administration revokes the long-standing U. S. policy of allowing military service emblems to be placed on those military Bibles.²⁸

3. Acts of hostility toward Biblical values:

January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations. ²⁹
January 2009 – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional. ³⁰
March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit. ³¹
March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research. ³²
March 2009 – Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations. ³³
May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for abstinence-only education and replaces it with “comprehensive” sexual education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and abortions. ³⁴ He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets. ³⁵
May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal” activities. ³⁶
July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. ³⁷
September 16, 2009 – The Obama administration appoints as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual “equality.” ³⁸
July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion. ³⁹
August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence education programs. ⁴⁰
September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. ⁴¹
February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act. ⁴²
March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get abortions for victimized underage girls. ⁴³
July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military, reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March 1778. ⁴⁴
September 2011 – The Pentagon directs that military chaplains may perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act. ⁴⁵
October 2011 – The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is anti-abortion. ⁴⁶

4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:

May 2009 – While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of Ramadan. ⁴⁷
April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the Muslim community. ⁴⁸
April 2010 – The Obama administration requires rewriting of government documents and a change in administration vocabulary to remove terms that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists, terrorists, radical Islamic, etc. ⁴⁹
August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and condescendingly of Christianity. ⁵⁰
August 2010 – Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero, while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being denied permission to rebuild at that location. ⁵¹
2010 – While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this White House avoids traditional Biblical holidays and events but regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010 statements on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha. ⁵²
October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern Christians’ access to the White House. ⁵³
February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for Korans being burned by the U. S. military, ⁵⁴ but when Bibles were burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the right thing to do. ⁵⁵

PRAY: that the Lord would have mercy on America and strengthen His church during this time of virulent opposition to the gospel.

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Cameron’s ‘gays’ to paedophilia link

Stephen

10 November 2012

CameronSchofield — Philip Schofield ambushes David Cameron with ‘the list’

David Cameron’s inadvertant link between homosexuality and paedophilia has sent the media into a bit of a damage-limitation exercise.

In a live interview earlier this week, This Morning presenter Phillip Schofield handed the Prime Minister a card with a list of names on it drawn from the internet, saying that they were people Mr Cameron knew and asking whether he would be talking to them.

Mr Schofield was wrong to dignify gossip in such a way and no-one being interviewed appreciates an ambush. A furious Mr Cameron, who did not look at the names, replied:

“There is a danger, if we’re not careful, that this could turn into a sort of witch-hunt, particularly against people who are gay and I’m worried about the sort of thing you are doing right now – giving me a list of names that you’ve taken off the internet.”

The media attention focused on Mr Schofield, who was scolded for the ‘schoolboy error’ of misjudging a camera angle and showing some eagle-eyed viewers the top two Tory names on his list.

Nobody in the world of media wants to talk even about the possibility of links between homosexuality and paedophilia, or to confuse the public by separating paedophiles into those attracted to adolescents (usually referred to as ‘pederasts’) and those attracted to pro-pubertal children (true paedophiles).

Uncomfortable as it is to admit, Mr Cameron was correct in his slip of the tongue. There is indeed a link between homosexuality and sexual attraction to children.

Those campaigning for the legalisation of paedophilia have always been male homosexuals. The founders of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), Paedophile Action for Liberation (PAL), the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) and the New Zealand based Aotearoa Man-Boy Love Association (AMBLA) were all adult male homosexuals. Ian Dunn, who helped set up PIE, was a leading light in the Scottish Minorities Group, an early homosexual activist group. The Campaign for Homosexual Equality had the abolition of all ages of consent as one of its aims.

It all seemed wonderfully sexually liberated to these activists in the 1970s and early 1980s. PIE even published a book in 1982 called ‘Betrayal of Youth’ (BOY) campaigning against ages of consent, and edited by their Vice-Chairman. Peter Tatchell contributed a chapter to Betrayal of Youth: ‘Questioning Ages of Majority and Ages of Consent’. There has never been any suggestion that Peter Tatchell was or is himself a paedophile, but he helped their cause with his expressed desire to abolish ages of consent.

But if paedophilia is a minority interest in the homosexual world, pederasty is widespread. A cult of youth is a mainstream part of homosexual culture, where magazines with names like ‘Boyz’ and websites are filled with pictures of attractive young men.

In their 1979 book ‘The Gay Report’, Jay and Young, two American homosexuals, revealed that 73% of their fellows had at some time had sex with boys 16-19 or younger. One reported “My lover and I are into many young boys 13-18 years old …” There is no reason to suppose that with lowering of ages of consent and generally more liberal attitudes to under-age sex that today’s homosexual men have suddenly become less inclined to adolescent boys.

The UK Home Office carried out research on cases of indecent assault in 1973, and were able to distinguish between ages of victim as follows. Out of 802 convictions for indecent assault on males, we find the following:

Age of victim: 0-4 5-9 10-11 12-15 16-17 18-20 21+ All 0-15
% of cases: 3.1 32.5 18.6 33.9 4.9 2.8 4.2 88.1%

It is quite common for apologists for homosexuality to assert that ‘heterosexual men are more likely to be paedophiles’, so we need briefly to examine this claim.

For the same year that the Home Office did their research into indecent assault, they also published the figures for assaults on females. There were 3,006, and the ages broke down as follows:

Age of victim: 0-4 5-9 10-12 13-15 16-17 18-20 21+ All 0-15
% of cases: 3.2 24.8 15.4 26.2 7.1 7.8 15. 5 69.6%

Leaving aside for a moment the paedophile/pederast distinction, the total assaults on under-16 males were 18.55% of all convictions (88.1 x 802 / 3808), and those on under-16 females were 54.94% of all convictions (69.6 x 3006 / 3808) . We must assume for the sake of the argument that all the assaults were carried out by men, and also assume, to be generous, that there are 1.5% of men in the UK population who are sadly homosexual.

Then we can say that the 1.5% who are homosexual were responsible for 18.5% of assaults, and the 98.5% who are heterosexual were responsible for 55%, meaning that a homosexual in the statistics was (18.55/1.5) / (54.94/98.5) = 22 times more likely to offend than a heterosexual.

But this is not the whole picture. If heterosexuality is the ability to enter into a complete loving and sexual relationship exclusively with an adult of the opposite sex, then the men convicted of the offences on girls under 16 were not up to the mark either. Jimmy Savile committed his staggering litany of abuse against pubescent girls because he was emotionally unable to form a normal relationship with a woman. He was not ‘heterosexual’ by any reasonable definition.

We must thank Messrs Schofield and Cameron for giving us the opportunity to talk about an issue which is too often kept under wraps, and which has implications wider than their immediate focus at a time when homosexual activists from groups like Stonewall are demanding ever more rights and acceptance.

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Jeremy Hunt’s abortion view ‘untenable’

Stephen

10 October 2012

LII8wks — Baby in its amniotic sac eight weeks from conception

Jeremy Hunt’s view that the abortion limit should be halved to 12 weeks is untenable, says the National Director of Christian Voice.

The Health Secretary said he believed there is a moral case for cutting the current time limit of 24 weeks.
“Everyone looks at the evidence and comes to a view about when they think that moment is, and my own view is that 12 weeks is the right point for it,” Mr Hunt told The Times.

Mr Hunt, who was appointed to his post last month, denied that his view on abortion was based on religious belief.

He said: “It’s just my view about that incredibly difficult question about the moment that we should deem life to start. I don’t think the reason I have that view is for religious reasons.”

LII20wks2 — David Steel and Yvette Cooper would allow the legalised killing of this unborn child 20 weeks after conception

Prime Minister David Cameron, Culture Secretary Maria Miller and Home Secretary Theresa May backed a reduction of four weeks, to twenty weeks, but Mr Cameron stressed there were no plans to bring legislation forward.

Some Christian groups have urged their members to write and thank Mr Hunt, Mrs May and Mrs Miller but Anthony Ozimic of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said any move to reduce the abortion limit was doomed to failure. “There is a large pro-abortion majority in parliament which will ensure that any time-limiting amendments are rejected while using the opportunity to push for pro-abortion amendments,” he said.

“The real political debate about abortion in the UK should focus – as it does elsewhere in the world – on the right to life of all unborn children and on the way governments bankroll abortion access at home and abroad.”

Andrew Stephenson of Abort67 agreed. A Parliamentary debate “may allow the pro-aborts to slip in amendments to make access to abortion easier.” He said a reduction might save a few babies from death but pointed out that well over 90% of abortions take place in the first trimester (13 weeks and below) in any case.

drop — A baby in its amniotic sac less than a month after conception, sadly removed because it was growing ectopically, in the mother’s fallopian tube. Abortion can always be allowed to save the life of the mother – but not her lifestyle!

On a positive note, Mr Stephenson said:

“Any attack on the abortion industry is a good thing. This puts them on the defensive and causes them to speak. If you have listened to the abortion advocates speak you will know that they always provide us with new openings to expose how deceptive and corrupt they really are. We want them to keep speaking!

“It also shows that there is growing discontent for the status quo. When MPs feel they can stand up for issues that would have previously been considered too contentious they must know that things are changing; over 63% of people (and increasing) in a recent poll support a total ban on abortion.”

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said:

“I am totally perplexed by Mr Hunt’s logic. Why should we ‘deem life to start’ at twelve weeks when all organs are in place at eight weeks, the baby’s heart is already beating four weeks after conception and all genetic material is there when sperm meets egg? His view is simply untenable.” (See link here.)

Mr Hunt’s remarks drew a predictable tirade of abuse from abortionists and their supporters.

Lord Steel, the unrepentant architect of the Abortion Act 1967, responsible for the deaths of over 6 million British children, “expressed his dismay” while shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper described Mr Hunt’s remarks as “chilling”.

“David Cameron needs to make sure his health secretary doesn’t distort medical evidence and does not impose his own view on women about their health,” she said.

Stephen Green responded:

LII16wks1 — Child in the womb at 16 weeks gestation – an entirely separate human being from his mother.

“All but a handful of abortions are carried out on perfectly healthy women who just find this new human being growing inside them inconvenient. As for medical evidence, Yvette Cooper merely needs to look at the wonderful new catalogue of images of children in the womb. And if she wants something really ‘chilling’, she could take a look at the results of abortion.” The results of abortion – pictures here.

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Aussie MPs reject ‘gay marriage’

Stephen

19 September 2012

AussieGay — The rainbow diversity flag has had a welcome setback.

In a landmark vote, Australian MPs have overwhelmingly rejected a bill which would have legalised ‘gay marriage’ reports Agence France Press.

The House of Representatives voted down the bill to legalise marriage between same sex couples by 98 to 42, with Labour Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition conservative leader Tony Abbott both voting against it.

Only 2 out of 30 Queensland MPs voted to change the definition of marriage, with many making powerful arguments against the innovation.

During the days of debate on the bill, one senator lost his parliamentary post after referring to sex with animals.

Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi asked what the next step would be if the government redefined marriage so that two people of the same sex could ‘marry’.

“The next step, quite frankly, is having three people or four people that love each other being able to enter into a permanent union endorsed by society,” he told the Senate.

“There are even some creepy people out there… (who) say it is okay to have consensual sexual relations between humans and animals. Will that be a future step?”

Former Liberal Party leader Malcolm Turnbull described Mr Bernardi’s comments as “hysterical, alarmist, offensive”.

The Liberal leader Tony Abbott said Mr Bernardi offered to resign his position as his parliamentary secretaryand he had accepted.

Mr Abbott is said to be a staunch Catholic and opinion polls suggest he could become prime minister when an election is held next year.

“I’ve known Cory for a long time. He’s a decent bloke with strong opinions,” said Mr Abbott, but he said his comments had been ill-judged.

“They are views that I don’t share,” Abbott told reporters. “They are views which I think many people will find repugnant.”

In the UK, Ulster Unionist peer Lord Maginnis resigned from the Ulster Unionist Party last month after similar remarks.

Australia does not permit gay marriage, though some states allow civil unions.

Gay rights activists called the decision a “slap on the face,” ABC News reported.

Astonishingly, in view of her vote against gay marriage, Aussie premier Julia Gillard is supporting an Australian bid to host the 2014 homosexual rugby world cup – if anyone can believe such an event actually takes place.

Almighty God appears to think there is a link between sodomy and bestiality, as the book of Leviticus states:

Lev 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Lev 18:23 Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

Update: The Australian Senate has followed suit a day later, voting 41 to 26 against redefining marriage.

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Mark Steyn on Hate Speech

Robin

17 September 2012

The European courts are currently having to navigate through an increasingly complex network of rights, and to adjudicate between competing rights and desires when they bump up against each other.

As I was reflecting on this, Daniel Hannan reminded me of an amusing anecdote that Mark Steyn shared last year. After discussing the absurdities in hate crime legislation, Steyn pointed out how the exact same words can simultaneously be legal or illegal depending on who the perceived victim happens to be. He writes,

…the very same words can be proof of two entirely different hate crimes. Iqbal Sacranie is a Muslim of such exemplary “moderation” he’s been knighted by the Queen. The head of the Muslim Council of Britain, Sir Iqbal was interviewed on the BBC and expressed the view that homosexuality was “immoral,” was “not acceptable,” “spreads disease,” and “damaged the very foundations of society.” A gay group complained and Sir Iqbal was investigated by Scotland Yard’s “community safety unit” for “hate crimes” and “homophobia.”

Independently but simultaneously, the magazine of GALHA (the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association) called Islam a “barmy doctrine” growing “like a canker” and deeply “homophobic.” In return, the London Race Hate Crime Forum asked Scotland Yard to investigate GALHA for “Islamophobia.”

Got that? If a Muslim says that Islam is opposed to homosexuality, Scotland Yard will investigate him for homophobia; but if a gay says that Islam is opposed to homosexuality, Scotland Yard will investigate him for Islamophobia.

Two men say exactly the same thing and they’re investigated for different hate crimes.

That was taken from Mark Steyn’s article ‘Gagging us Softly.’ The value of his article goes beyond merely drawing attention to the absurd situations which arise when the right of free speech is qualified by the right of minority groups not to be criticized. Steyn also shows a more sinister agenda at work once Westerners grow comfortable having the state micro-regulate their public discourse.

Mark Steyn

Across almost all the Western world apart from America, the state grows ever more comfortable with micro-regulating public discourse—and, in fact, not-so-public discourse: Lars Hedegaard, head of the Danish Free Press Society, has been tried, been acquitted, had his acquittal overruled, and been convicted of “racism” for some remarks about Islam’s treatment of women made (so he thought) in private but taped and released to the world. The Rev. Stephen Boissoin was convicted of the heinous crime of writing a homophobic letter to his local newspaper and was sentenced by Lori Andreachuk, the aggressive social engineer who serves as Alberta’s “human rights” commissar, to a lifetime prohibition on uttering anything “disparaging” about homosexuality ever again in sermons, in newspapers, on radio—or in private e-mails. Note that legal concept: not “illegal” or “hateful,” but merely “disparaging.” Dale McAlpine, a practicing (wait for it) Christian, was handing out leaflets in the English town of Workington and chit-chatting with shoppers when he was arrested on a “public order” charge by Constable Adams, a gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community-outreach officer. Mr. McAlpine had been overheard by the officer to observe that homosexuality is a sin. “I’m gay,” said Constable Adams. Well, it’s still a sin, said Mr. McAlpine. So Constable Adams arrested him for causing distress to Con¬stable Adams….
In such a climate, time-honored national characteristics are easily extinguished. A generation ago, even Britain’s polytechnic Trots and Marxists were sufficiently residually English to feel the industrial-scale snitching by family and friends that went on in Communist Eastern Europe was not quite cricket, old boy. Now England is Little Stasi-on-Avon, a land where, even if you’re well out of earshot of the gay-outreach officer, an infelicitous remark in the presence of a co-worker or even co-playmate is more than sufficient. Fourteen-year-old Codie Stott asked her teacher at Harrop Fold High School whether she could sit with another group to do her science project as in hers the other five pupils spoke Urdu and she didn’t understand what they were saying. The teacher called the police, who took her to the station, photographed her, fingerprinted her, took DNA samples, removed her jewelry and shoelaces, put her in a cell for three and a half hours, and questioned her on suspicion of committing a Section Five “racial public-order offence.” “An allegation of a serious nature was made concerning a racially motivated remark,” declared the headmaster, Antony Edkins. The school would “not stand for racism in any form.” In a statement, Greater Manchester Police said they took “hate crime” very seriously, and their treatment of Miss Stott was in line with “normal procedure.”…
Restrictions on freedom of speech undermine the foundations of justice, including the bedrock principle: equality before the law. When it comes to free expression, Britain, Canada, Australia, and Europe are ever less lands of laws and instead lands of men—and women, straights and gays, Muslims and infidels—whose rights before the law vary according to which combination of these various identity groups they belong to.

Nick Clegg in ‘Bigotgate’ row

Stephen

12 September 2012

A red-faced Nick Clegg has had to withdraw remarks he was going to make branding opponents of gay marriage “bigots”.

A draft of his speech, circulated to the press in advance of Mr Clegg’s speech to be given to a gathering of homosexual activists last night, had the atheist Deputy Prime Minister saying:

“Continued trouble in the economy gives the bigots a stick to beat use with, as they demand we ‘postpone’ the equalities agenda in order to deal with ‘the things people really care about’.”

An hour later, aides were scrambling around trying to recall the press release, and releasing a sanitised version in which ‘the bigots’ was replaced by ‘some people’

The row brings to mind Gordon Brown’s ‘Bigotgate’ when he described a lifelong Labour supporter, Mrs Gillian Duffy, who happened to mention Eastern Europeans in an exchange on the economy, as ‘just a bigoted woman’.

At the reception, Nick Clegg said:

Gordon Brown Takes The Labour Campaign To North West — Contempt for ordinary people – Gordon Brown was embroiled in his own ‘Bigotgate’ scandal after an exchange on the economy and immigration with Labour supporter Gillian Duffy.

‘I am a little bit surprised to see cameras outside the gates for the slightly obscure reason that they expect me to use a word about opponents of gay marriage that I had no intention of using, would never use. It is not the kind of word that I would use.’

Really? Mr Clegg’s speech writers would not write in a word which they knew he would never use. And homosexual rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, among the guests at last night’s reception in central London, said: ‘Quite clearly, some people who oppose same-sex marriage do so because of personal prejudice and intolerance.’

Lord Carey of Clifton said:

‘There will be many Christians and non-Christians who will be highly offended to be called bigots. People who oppose same-sex marriages are doing so on the basis of deeply-held beliefs and we should not be treated in such a way.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said:

‘In a sense, we should be encouraged that Nick Clegg has considered resorting to name-calling, because people normally do that when they realise they have lost the argument. Marriage is God’s holy institution and man may not change its definition. Marriage involves love and committment, but at its heart is its sexual expression, being ‘one flesh’ as the Bible puts it. At the moment, a marriage must be conusmmated to be valid in law, and consummation involves an complete act of ordinary sexual intercourse.

‘Between them, a pair of homosexuals lack the full set of necessary equipment for that act. Mr Clegg has so far failed to offer the necessary redefinition of the key concept of consummation in a homosexual context. And any such redefinition will affect marriage for everyone. The Government have received 228,000 responses to their consultation, the majority of them against it, and they are blindly pushing on regardless.

‘Those in favour of ‘gay marriage’ say that if two people love each other they should be allowed to get married. Does that apply to a brother and a sister, or a uncle and his niece?’ Nick Clegg has failed to address that point as well. He and David Cameron have lost the argument and lost their own consultation.

‘The fact that they are still stubbornly set on pushing ahead with the destruction of marriage and their proposed use of insulting language shows a contempt for ordinary people as deep as that held by their predecessors.

‘The dictionary definition of bigot is ‘One who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.’ Without wishing in any way to insult him, that sounds a fair description of Nick Clegg.’

A No 10 source said: “The prime minister is committed to getting gay marriage through by 2015.”

More on this story:

BBC News

Cristina Odone in the Daily Telegraph

The Guardian

READ: Matt 19:4 And (Jesus) answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

PRAY: That God continues to sow confusion amongst the Government on this issue. Pray also that David Cameron and Nick Clegg repent and pull back from their ungodly position.

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Reshuffle: ‘Unlikely to offer Real Change’

Robin

8 September 2012

Despite all the hype about the Prime Minister’s reshuffle, it is unlikely to offer any real change to the anti-Christian policies and social totalitarianism pursued by the present Government, Christian Voice has claimed.

This is the first time the ministerial posts have changed since the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties formed a coalition government in May 2010. (A list of all the news posts can be seen on Parliament’s website or at the Downing Street website.)

Christian Voice is glad that pro-abortion Andrew Mitchell lost his job at the Department of International Development (DfID). In November 2010 he proposed to “hard-wire” abortion and contraceptive services into overseas development programmes. In December 2010 this came to fruition as he announced plans to spend an extra £2.1 billion on programmes including abortion and contraception, drawing a rebuke from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. Thanks to Andrew Mitchell, the Governments’ abortion policy is now an integral part of their foreign aid packages. Mr Mitchell now takes up a job as Chief Whip, which one hopes will provide less scope for mischief.

The loss of Andrew Mitchell from the DfID is a mixed blessing, however, since the Department will receive Lynne Featherstone, formerly Equalities Minister. In her former post, Lynne Featherstone was belligerent in promoting the pro-homosexual agenda and stomping out common law freedoms. With Featherstone at the DfID, expect foreign aid to be increasingly used as a lever to pressure poorer countries to pass gay rights measures.

Ms. Featherstone will be working under Justine Greening, the new Secretary of State of DFID and formerly Economic Secretary to the Treasury. Ms Greening is skeptical on homosexual issues and although she has voted pro-abortion as much as Mr Mitchell, we pray that she will not be quite as passionate about spreading the culture of death worldwide.

Theresa May stays at the Home Office and is expected still to support the ‘gay marriage’ agenda, even though her department has lost the Equalities portfolio.

Helen Grant MP, Anne Widdecombe’s successor in Maidstone, is the new Minister for Women and Equalities, replacing Lynne Featherstone, but reporting now to Maria Miller, the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Maria Miller immediately said she would support ”gay marriage’ and has asked for ‘dialogue’ with pro-sodomy groups. Her appointment is a set-back.

JonesDavid — High flyer. Christian MP the Rt Hon David Jones, pictured here with the Prime Minsiter, Rt Hon David Cameron, has been promoted to Secrtary of State of Wales

The highest-profile fall in the reshuffle has been that of homosexual MP Nick Herbert, who stepped down from his role as minister for the police. Although tipped for promotion, he tweeted: ‘Decided to step down from Govt. Honoured to have worked with police & driven big reforms. Will focus on new ideas & protecting countryside.’

Another bit of good news is that David Jones (Clwyd West) is the new Secretary of State for Wales. He is fairly pro-life, anti-gay rights and anti-blasphemy.

Altogether, it seems unlikely that we should expect any improvement in the anti-family, pro-homosexual policies pursued by the present government, but we can but follow the Biblical injunction to pray for them.

READ: 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.

PRAY: That the Government will realise they are under the authority of God, that they need to start doing good and stop doing evil.

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‘Sorry’ is the hardest word for Nationwide

Stephen

21 July 2012

NationwideAGM 001 — The Nationwide AGM was held on Thursday 19th July at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester.

A leading building society is finding it impossible to apologise to five people insulted at a dinner it bankrolled last November.

The Nationwide Building Society sponsored the Stonewall homosexual lobby group’s awards dinner on 3rd November 2011. See the Stonewall report on the event here.

The awards were mainly to applaud people who had advanced the homosexual cause in some way.

Among the awards was an anti-award called ‘Bigot of the Year’ intended to insult and vilify a number of people particularly opposed to the gay rights agenda. Those shortlisted were the respected Sir Brian Souter, Bishop Arthur Roche, Bill Walker MSP, journalist Melanie Phillips, who was the eventual ‘winner’, and Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice.

Stonewall did not even have the courtesy to invite any of those shortlisted for this ‘Bigot of the Year’ award to the dinner. Perhaps they were afraid someone might answer back – bullies never like it when someone stands up to them. Or perhaps social intercourse is just not one of their strong points.

NationwideAGM 003 — Christian Voice members gave out leaflets about Nationwide’s involvement with Stonewall to the society’s members attending the AGM

The Nationwide’s position is that they are ‘not supportive of the vilification of individuals’ and that they ‘have made this clear to Stonewall’. They have pulled out of sponsoring future events of this kind. However, the Society remains as a member of Stonewall’s ‘Diversity Champions’ programme in which they go a lot further than merely treating all of their employees equally, to which no-one could object. Click ‘Sexual Orientation’ on the Nationwide link here.

Stephen Green is a Nationwide member and went along to the AGM in Manchester on 19th July 2012 to ask the Nationwide Board of Directors the following questions:

(1) How much of your members’ money did you vote to the Stonewall awards dinner?

(2) Did you know the nature of the event you were sponsoring, and were the names of all the awards disclosed to you in advance?

(3) Which Nationwide Board members attended the Stonewall awards dinner?

(4) Whether Nationwide support Stonewall’s aim of the redefinition of marriage?

(5) When will you apologise for bank-rolling an event which insulted and humiliated not just a humble Nationwide member like me, but respected public figures? and

(6) When will you be big enough simply to say sorry to the individuals concerned?

Graham Beale, Nationwide Chief Executive, supplied the answers:

(1) They gave £60,000 to Stonewall for the dinner (which did not stop the greedy lobby group from charging £180 a ticket) and they gave £5,000 as a prize to the ‘Community Group of the Year’ which turned out to be ‘UK Black Pride’.

(2) They didn’t find out the names of the awards until afterwards (which seems rather inept – and they must have known the name of the Community Group award in order to provide the prize).

(3) No Nationwide board members attended (very wise).

(4) Nationwide has no corporate position on the redefinition of marriage (unlike Starbucks and Ben & Jerry’s – but more of them at another time).

(5) No, they won’t apologise.

(6) Ditto.

Find here the text of the leaflet we gave out to Nationwide members outside the AGM

Earlier posts:

14th July 2012: Nationwide in ‘Bigot’ award challenge

4th November 2011: Stonewall ‘cowards’ call Melanie Phillips ‘Bigot of the Year’

Email contact for Nationwide Chief Executive, Graham Beale: gjbeale2@nationwide.co.uk

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The Church of England’s Foreign Secretary

Stephen

2 July 2012

Archbishops’ Council Europe Policy explained:

A single Church of England official was behind a pro-EU submission by the Archbishops’ Council to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee, Christian Voice has discovered.

Dr Charles Reed, described as the Church of England’s Foreign Policy Advisor, has sent out an email distancing the Archbishops from the comments in the submission. They did not make the remarks personally, he said. The submission, says Dr Reed, was prepared by the ‘Europe Bishops’ Panel’. It was then submitted by the ‘Mission and Public Affairs Council’, which is a sub committee of the Archbishops’ Council, direct to the Select Committee. In a subsequent email, Dr Reed clarified that neither Archbishop approved the submission, and he is ‘not aware that either (of the) Archbishops saw the submission’ before it went out in their name.

On his blog, modestly entitled ‘ethical comment’, Dr Reed is rather more bullish about the submission. He says he was encouraged by the opposition it drew in the pages of Eurosceptic publications. He writes:

‘You can always gauge how sensible ones (sic) comments are on Europe by the furore they create in certain quarters. The more sensible the comments, the more severe the tongue lashing.’

The first of Dr Reed’s sensible comments was the submission’s second paragraph in which he cast the UK as unequivocally ‘without credibility’ and ‘unreliable’ for exercising a veto last December 2011:

‘At the December 2011 European Council, the United Kingdom found itself not only without allies, but without credibility as a negotiating partner as it opposed measures which were intended to achieve broad policy goals which are fully in line with UK national interest. This exposed the domestic constraints on the British government and left its partners with the impression that it was an unreliable partner. An opportunity to show solidarity with partners was missed. The UK must work to rebuild trust with its EU partners.’

The origin of the ‘Europe Bishops’ Panel’ is a debate in the General Synod in July 2004 which endorsed a report by the Mission and Public Affairs Council and the ‘Council for Christian Unity’ entitled ‘The Church of England and Europe’.

The report set out ‘aims for work at all levels of the Church in the Europe of the new century’ among which were:

‘to work locally, nationally and internationally with other churches to ensure the most effective presentation of the Gospel, to join in debate and action for the future of Europe, the harmony and values of its people, and the building of peace and social justice in this continent and beyond’;

There was ‘particular emphasis upon sustainable development and tackling world poverty.’

The two leading lights of the Europe Bishops’ Panel emerged as the Rt Revd Christopher Herbert, Bishop of St Albans, and the Bishop of Guildford, the Rt Revd Christopher Hill. The latter was also the Chair of the Council for Christian Unity, the CofE’s ecumenical body, at the time of writing. The Panel appointed a secretary to give voice to their views. That secretary was Dr Charles Reed. This is what Dr Reed says about European policy on his blog:

‘For the Church the primary purpose of politics – even European politics – is the promotion of human flourishing and the conditions that are necessary to make this happen. On the whole the Church has over the years held that while it has reservations over certain characteristics of European integration – its democratic deficit etc – our propensity as humans created in the image of God to be creative, productive and responsible and generous beings is enhanced by pooling certain elements of national sovereignty in a common European project.’

So far so pan-European. According to its terms of reference, ‘The Panel is committed both to promoting and shaping an open and transparent Europe close to its citizens and to monitoring the EU institutions in so far as they affect Church life and practice.’

This mandate is interpreted freely. In 2008 the Europe Bishops’ Panel complained to the European Commission that ‘the EU Budget fails to provide sufficiently for the European common good.’ It went on: ‘Faced by the global challenge of climate change, the EU budget should be refocused in support of low carbon growth both within the EU’s border and beyond.’

Also in 2008, the Europe Bishops’ Panel appointed the first Church of England Representative to the European Union, the Revd Dr Gary Wilton. The Panel, at the hand of its secretary, Dr Reed, also sent a submission to a European Union Committee on climate change. Like the submission to the Commons Select Committee, it was sent under the name of the Archbishops’ Council.

Describing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme as ‘the jewel in the crown of the EU’s climate change programme’ the submission argued for more carbon trading and the ‘innovation necessary to achieve a low carbon and sustainable economy’ before going on to discuss which industries and sectors of the economy should be in the scheme and which should not, all from very practical points of view. Climate sceptics will not be impressed.

The submission is on the website of the Climate Justice Fund, a joint Tear Fund and Church of England enterprise set up in September 2009 following a General Synod resolution passed in 2008. The Fund is setting up projects to help African communities adapt to drought, and campaigning on climate change. The man in charge of it is Dr Charles Reed, now described on its website as the ‘International Development Secretary for the Archbishops’ Council’.

There may not be any reliance placed on scripture in reports from the Europe Bishops’ Panel, but they refer ‘to the integrity of God’s creation, the vocation of humanity to actively steward and care for creation, and the awareness that climate change is already impacting disproportionately on many of the world’s poorest communities.’

In 2010, this time in the name of the Archbishops’ Council, the House of Bishops’ Europe Panel (which appears to be the same thing as the Europe Bishops’ Panel) sent a submission to the European Commission on ‘EU 2020: a new strategy to make the EU a smarter, greener social market.’ They complained that the EU strategy was too materialistic. ‘The EU 2020 vision would be made easier if the vision for an economically efficient and innovative market economy is (sic) supplemented more clearly by policies for solidarity that extend across national borders to assist the most disadvantaged’, it said.

Dr Charles Reed describes himself as the Church of England’s Foreign Policy Advisor and as the International Development Secretary for the Archbishops’ Council. He is referred to in the Church of England’s Seven-Year Plan on Climate Change and the Environment as the Church’s International Policy Advisor, and elsewhere as being from the Church’s Mission and Public Affairs Council, which is a division of the Archbishops’ Council.

Dr Reed is a House of Lords staff member for the Bishop of Wakefield, where he becomes the Archbishops’ Council’s Parliamentary Adviser on Foreign Affairs. He is the Secretary of the Europe Bishops’ Panel, he writes their submissions, and via them, he establishes the position of the Archbishops’ Council, which the Archbishops themselves do not approve, and may not even see. Dr Reed also represents the Church of England on the Church and Society Commission of the Conference of European Churches.

Dr Charles Reed is in all but name the Church of England’s Foreign Secretary, but hardly anyone knows of him. He keeps in the background and lets others take the glory – or the blame – for what he writes. There will be different opinions on the various positions he brings the church to adopt, but no-one can doubt that Dr Reed wields considerable power and influence in our national church.

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Boris snubs Christian bus adverts

Stephen

13 April 2012

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The Conservative Mayor of London has banned London buses from carrying adverts promoting an ex-gay ministry.

Boris Johnson, who is running for re-election next month, told Transport for London to pull the adverts booked by two conservative Anglican groups within two hours of the story about the adverts appearing in the Guardian.

The ads were due to run on 24 buses on five routes and were booked on behalf of the Core Issues Trust whose leader, Mike Davidson, believes “homoerotic behaviour is sinful”.

Core Issues Trust funds “reparative therapy” for gay Christians, which it claims can “develop their heterosexual potential”. The campaign was also backed by Anglican Mainstream.

The advert was due to say: “Not gay! Post-gay, ex-gay and proud. Get over it!”

It was an obvious and timely send-up of the Stonewall homosexual lobby group’s bus adverts which say “Some people are gay – get over it!”

The Christian groups used the same black, red and white colour scheme as Stonewall and in a statement announcing the campaign accused it of promoting the “false idea that there is indisputable scientific evidence that people are born gay”.

Johnson, who contacted the Guardian to announce he was stopping the adverts within two hours of their contents becoming public, said: “London is one of the most tolerant cities in the world and intolerant of intolerance. It is clearly offensive to suggest that being gay is an illness that someone recovers from and I am not prepared to have that suggestion driven around London on our buses.”

The Christian groups insisted the advert had been cleared with Transport for London (TfL), which is chaired by the mayor. Davidson said: “I didn’t realise censorship was in place. We went through the correct channels and we were encouraged by the bus company to go through their procedures. They okayed it and now it has been pulled.”

CBS Outdoor, the media company that sells the bus advertising sites, said the ad had been passed for display by the Committee of Advertising Practice. It is understood TfL was due to make around £10,000 for allowing the adverts to run on about two dozen buses across five routes.

Mayor Johnson’s decision will fuel concerns over religious discrimination by showing that there is one rule for homosexual activists and another for Christians.

The move by Boris is also certain to be seen as anti-Christian by an electorate which includes a large number of evangelical Christians. Half of all Christians in London are black African or Caribbean and other fast-growing churches are heavily evangelical or pentecostal.

David Cameron does God – up to a point

Stephen

4 April 2012

David Cameron has quoted from the Gospel of Luke and spoken of ‘we’ Christians at a pre-Easter reception at Downing Street.

Tony Blair and Alastair Campbell famously didn’t ‘Do God’, but Mr Cameron is making rather a habit of it. As Easter Sunday approaches, Mr Cameron has decided to “do God” in public, as Alastair Campbell might say.

In December last year, the Prime Minster called for a return to Christian values during a service held in Westminster Abbey to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.

He said there were three reasons why the King James Bible was as relevant today as any point in its history.

“First, the King James Bible has bequeathed a body of language that permeates every aspect of our culture and heritage. Second, just as our language and culture is steeped in the Bible, so too is our politics.

“Third, we are a Christian country. And we should not be afraid to say so. Let me be clear: I am not in any way saying that to have another faith – or no faith – is somehow wrong.”

Now Mr Cameron has held a reception in Downing Street and quoted from the Gospel of Luke as he spoke of “we” Christians.

“This is the time when, as Christians, we remember the life, sacrifice and living legacy of Christ. The New Testament tells us so much about the character of Jesus; a man of incomparable compassion, generosity, grace, humility and love. These are the values that Jesus embraced, and I believe these are values people of any faith, or no faith, can also share in, and admire.

“It is values like these that make our country what it is – a place which is tolerant, generous and caring. A nation which has an established faith, that together is most content when we are defined by what we are for, rather than defined by what we are against. In the book of Luke, we are told that Jesus said, ‘Do to others as you would have them do to you’ – advice that when followed makes for a happier, and better society for everyone.”

He told the assembled guests that he welcomed a Christian “fightback”. He said: “I think there’s something of a fightback going on, and we should welcome that. The values of the Bible, the values of Christianity, are the values that we need.”

Interestingly, this is what Jesus said about marriage, which Mr Cameron wants to change into a ‘gay’ version:

Mar 10:6 “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said:

“The last verse, Mark 10:9, is normally taken to refer to individual marriages, which people in Britain today set aside as a routine. I’ve been on the receiving end of divorce on demand. Some fifty percent of marriages are now being put asunder because one party simply decides to walk out.

“But David Cameron wants to put asunder the whole institution of marriage as ordained in the beginning by God Almighty. In 2007 he voted for the Sexual Orientation Goods and Services Regulations which have been used against Christian hoteliers operating the values of the Bible, yet now he urges a ‘fightback’ against secularism.

“David Cameron voted to abolish the blasphemy laws in May 2008, which provided a foundation for a culture of respect for both God and man. In the same month he voted to allow animal/human hybrid embryos. A day later he voted to allow abortion – or the murder of children in the womb – at 16 weeks gestation, a time when every organ and every brain function is in place and operating. It was good that he quoted Christ’s ‘golden rule’ from Luke 6:13 (and Matthew 7:12) but he would not allow to be done to him what he allows to be done to children in the womb.

“It is a good beginning to call for Christian values and to urge a Christian fight-back, but Mr Cameron’s thinking needs to be joined up. He needs to be transformed by the renewing of his mind. How can he in all seriousness urge a ‘fight-back’ against the marginalisation of Christianity and against attempts to ban the wearing of crosses and crucifixes when the Home Office is fighting in the European Court to uphold exactly such a ban?

“David Cameron is right that the values of Christianity are the values that we need’ but he needs our prayers to realise that he cannot pick and choose from the Bible or from the teachings of the Lord. Yes, respect for property helps stop youth looting from shops. Yes, doing unto others as you would have them do unto you helps maintain order in society.

“But keeping a few of Christ’s commandments while breaking a raft of others is to break them all, as the Apostle James points out.

“A little like some of the church today, Mr Cameron overdoes the love and compassion of Christ, but shies away from his laws and judgments. But even then he is selective. He likes being compassionate to homosexuals to the extent of overturning God’s holy institution of marriage, but he doesn’t want a lot of compassion to be shown to last summer’s rioters, or for that matter to the disabled people being made redundant by Remploy.

“Napoleon liked religion when it maintained peace and order, and not when it challenged his assumed right to autocratic rule. Such a convenient approach seems to be catching to leaders.

“I repeat, David Cameron needs our prayers; and a few letters might not go amiss either.”

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Who ate the Queen’s halal nosh?

Stephen

28 November 2011

The Queen held a state banquet of halal food for the President of Turkey on 22nd November at which she assured him that HM Government would help Turkey join the European Union.
(1) Where and how and by whom were the animals slaughtered and cooked and which Muslim certifying authority approved it?
(2) Since when did it become HM Gvt policy to campaign for Turkey to join the EU? Actually, the answer to this is since at least 2007, when David Milliband visited Turkey. But it does not hurt to ask.
(3) Did no Christian on the guest list object to eating food sacrificed to an idol?
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So who ate the Queen’s Halal nosh? Unless he went for the vegetarian option, the Archbishop of Canterbury was among those who feasted on food sacrificed to the idol ‘Allah’ at the Queen’s table. When the Queen or the Archbishop are guests of the President of Turkey (as HM was in 2008 on her state visit) do their hosts serve up and sit down to meat slaughtered in the British way, ie stunned and with no incantations to their god, in deference to the sensibilities of their honoured guests? No, because the Turks take their religion seriously.

From the Court Circular:
‘The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh gave a State Banquet in honour of The President of the Republic of Turkey and Mrs. Gül at which The Prince of Wales, The Earl of Wessex, The Princess Royal and Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, The Duke of Kent, and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent were present.
‘The following had the honour of being invited:
‘Suite of The President of the Republic of Turkey and Mrs. Gül:
‘Mr. Ali Babacan (Deputy Prime Minister) and Mrs. Babacan, Mr. Ahmet Davutoglu (Minister of Foreign Affairs) and Mrs. Davutoglu, General Hulusi Akar (Deputy Chief of the General Staff) and Mrs. Akar, His Excellency Mr. Ünal Çeviköz (Ambassador from the Republic of Turkey) and Mrs. Çeviköz, Ambassador Naci Koru (Deputy Under-Secretary for Administrative and Financial Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Ambassador Koray Ertas (Chief of Cabinet to The President), and Ambassador M. Ferden Çarikçi (Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to The President).
‘Turkish Presidency Invitations:
‘Ms. Nursuna Memecan MP, Ms Ç. Münevver Ökten MP, Mr. Seyit Sertçelík MP, Mr. Aytug Atici MP, Mr. Tugrul Türkes MP, Mr. Mehmet Emre Gül, Mr. Murat Belge (Author and Academic), Dr. Nazan Ölçer (Art Historian, General Manager Sakip Sabanci Museum), Mr. Sedat Ergin (Columnist, Hürriyet Daily Newspaper), Mr. Erdal Safak (Editor in Chief, Sabah Daily Newspaper), Mr. Derya Sazak (Columnist, Millyet Daily Newspaper), Mr. Hakan Çelik (Editor in Chief, Posta Daily Newspaper), Mr. Rifat Hisarciklioglu (Chairman, Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey), Mr. Remzi Gür (Chairman, Gurmen Group), Mr. Ferit Sahenk (Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dogus Holding Company), Mr. Mehmet Ali Yalçindag (President of the Executive Board of Directors, Dogan Media Holding Company), Mr. Hamdi Akin (Chairman of the Executive Board, Akfen Holding Company), Mr. Mustafa Çikrikçioglu (Deputy Chairman, Turkish Union of Exporters), and Mr. Ali Kibar (Chief Executive Officer, Kibar Holding Company).
‘Specially attached to The President of the Republic of Turkey and Mrs. Gül:
‘The Hon. Mrs. Whitehead (Lady in Waiting), the Viscount Hood (Lord in Waiting) and the Viscountess Hood, Mr. David Reddaway (Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey) and Mrs. Reddaway, and Lieutenant Colonel Dan Rex (Equerry in Waiting).
‘Diplomatic Corps:
‘His Excellency the Ambassador of the State of Kuwait and Mrs. Al-Duwaisan, Her Excellency the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland (Ms. Barbara Tuge-Erecinska), Her Excellency the Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mrs. Jadranka Negodic), His Excellency the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic and Mrs. Ekaterini Simopoulou.
‘The Cabinet and Government:
‘The Prime Minister and Mrs. Cameron, the Leader of the House of Lords and the Lady Strathclyde, the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Mrs. Hague, the Secretary of State for the Home Department and Mr. Philip May, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and Mrs. Cable, the Secretary of State for Defence and Mrs. Hammond, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Hon. Mrs. Osborne.
‘Special Invitations:
‘The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Speaker (the Baroness D’Souza), the Earl Marshal (the Duke of Norfolk), the Lord and Lady Sharman, the Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, the Lord Chief Justice and the Lady Judge, the Baroness Hussein-Ece, the Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor of London and the Lady Mayoress, the Rt. Hon. Jack Straw MP and Ms. Alice Perkins, the Rt. Hon. Harriet Harman MP, Sir Augustine and Lady O’Donnell, General Sir Nicholas and Lady Houghton, Sir Mervyn and Lady King, Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen and Lady Dalton, Sir Peter and Lady Westmacott, Sir Julian and Lady Horn-Smith, Sir Jonathan and Lady Cunliffe, Sir Vernon Ellis, the Lord Mayor of Westminster (Councillor Susie Burbridge) and Mr. James Burbridge, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Baird, Major General and Mrs. George Norton, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Flint, Mr. Rahmi Koç, Mr. and Mrs. Ragip Balcioglu, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Dilley, Professor and Mrs. Mustafa Djamgoz, Dr. Kate Fleet, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Grun, Dr. and Mrs Franz Humer, Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Kleisterlee, Dr. Andrew Mango and Mrs. Benedict Mango, Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Olver, Mr. Richard Ottaway MP and Mrs. Ottaway, Mr. and Mrs. Hüseyin Ozer, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Popham, Ms. Suzan Sabanci Dinçer, Ms Elif Shafak and Mr. Eyup Can Saglik, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Swannell.’

Edmund Burke Would Not Be Pleased

Robin

4 November 2011

On this very day (4 November) in 1789, the Frenchman Charles-Jean-François Depont wrote to Edmund Burke MP, requesting that he endorse the Revolution that had just broken out in France.

Burke’s response to Charles-Jean turned into one of the most celebrated political tracts in history, and for good reason. Not only did Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France become a pillar of conservative political thought, but it stands alongside the works of Shakespeare and the King James Bible as being the greatest literary achievement in the English language.

Christian Voice did a biography of Edmund Burke in our January 2010 newsletter as part of our ongoing series of Christian heroes. (To join Christian Voice and receive our monthly newsletter, click HERE.) We explored Burke’s idea that true freedom can only be preserved by reverencing our ancestors. This is because liberty is not, according to Burke, a natural right of man but the product of tradition, family, and faith. As such, liberty is passed on in much the same way that property is transmitted, from one generation to another through inheritance.

To support this notion of liberty as an inheritance, Burke pointed to the great freedoms of the British tradition, showing that they had accumulated over a period stretching back to the Declaration of Rights, the Magna Charta and the entire network of common law freedoms preserved by the hereditary monarchy. He warned that the legacy of these liberties would not long abide a generation that was willing to cast off the heritage of their ancestors. At the same time, however, Burke did not advocate a static traditionalism; rather, whenever he wished to reform, it was in order to conserve. He understood the wisdom of Proverbs when it says, “Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set” (Prov. 22:28) and “My son, fear thou the LORD and the king: and meddle not with them that are given to change: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?” (Prov. 24:21-22)

If Burke had lived long enough to see our own age, I do not think he would be pleased. We live at a time when the common law foundations that have been transmitted to us by our ancestors are under constant attack. Consider that

The previous Government discussed a blueprint for “sweep[ing] away centuries of tradition” by turning the House of Lords into an elected chamber.
In the last part of the 20th century and early 21st century, Government pared down our Common Law freedoms at an astonishing rate, including the right not to be punished until a court has decided that the law has been broken, the right to private communication, the right to trial by jury, the right to silence, the right to demonstrate and protest, the right to travel without surveillance and the presumption of innocence. (See Robin Phillips’ article, ‘The Orwellian Legacy of Tony Blair‘)
In 2008, the BBC reported that the Justice Secretary was considering replacing the British constitution with a written document like that possessed by the United States.
In April 2007, Parliament functionally nullified key aspects of the Magna Carta in order to meet the demands of homosexual activists. (See Scott Lively’s article ‘Requiem for the Magna Carta.‘)

Edmund Bruke would not be pleased by these developments. In fact, in his critique of the revolutionary mentality, he warned against this very thing. He cautioned against overturning years of established precedent to meet the demands of the latest fad.

Burke would also not be pleased by the way the present Government has taken it upon itself to challenge centuries of Common Law by suggesting that the rules regulating the succession of the British throne should be changed. (See our earlier article ‘Christian Voice Takes Stand For Male Primogeniture‘.) The campaign against male primogeniture is only one example of our leaders pandering to those who are “given to change” or attempting to remove “the ancient landmark” that Proverbs 22:28 enjoins us not to remove. Some translations refer to this as a ‘boundary stone’, bringing to mind the image of a person trying to increase his property through dishonest manipulation. However, more is at stake in this verse than mere property rights, a point made by Duane Garrett in his commentary on Proverbs:

“To move a boundary stone was to attempt to seize land furtively. More is involved here, however, than real property. The boundary stone represented the ancient constitution of Israel, and to violate that heritage was to undermine the distinctive character of the land in Israelite society.

In our day, no less than in ancient Israel, there are those who are attempting attempted to tamper with our Christian Constitution, and undermining the distinctive character of our land in the process. Let us join our voices with those of Burke in opposing such innovations.

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Government Squashes Referendum Hopes

Robin

25 October 2011

cameron--300x300 — It will be increasingly difficult for Cameron to continue to present himself as a Eurosceptic

The motion to give the people of Britain a referendum on the EU was defeated in a vote of 483 to 111 after David Cameron ordered his MPs to vote against the proposal.

(How did your MP vote? Click HERE for surname order, or click HERE for constituency order. Both pages have links to the debate itself and for your MP’s email address.)

But while the coalition Government was successful in blocking the referendum (to read the text of the motion, see our earlier report), they have been significantly weakened after the largest backbench rebellion since they took power.

The outcome of yesterday’s vote was practically guaranteed after the Prime Minister invoked a mechanism known as the ‘three-line whip’, requiring MPs in Government jobs to follow the Prime Minister’s lead or lose their positions.

Despite the pressure from Downing Street, Tory MPs Stewart Jackson and Adam Holloway defied the Prime Minister’s whips and will consequently be resigning from their posts. They were joined by numerous backbenchers (see list below) in their insistence that the people of Britain have a right to a referendum.

‘Humiliation to the Government’

Referring to the 81 Tories who defied the Prime Minister, Labour leader Ed Miliband said the backbench rebellion was a “humiliation” to the Government. “If he can’t win the argument with his own backbenchers,” Miliband commented, “how can the country have confidence that he can win the arguments that matter for Britain?”

A Spokesman from Number 10 Downing Street defended the Prime Minister, saying, “It was important to take a strong lead – because Britain’s best interests are served by being in the EU.”

‘U-Turn’

Christian Voice accused David Cameron of making a ‘U-Turn’ after years of promoting himself as a Eurosceptic. Robin Phillips, press secretary for Christian Voice, commented, “He continually promises to change Britain’s relationship with Europe and even gave a ‘cast iron guarantee’ that his Government would support a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. After yesterday’s events, the image of Cameron as a Eurosceptic will be increasingly difficult to sustain.”

“But it is not just David Cameron that is guilty of making a U-turn” Phillips continued. “In the run-up to the last general election the Liberal Democrats campaigned for a referendum [see photo below from their campaign flier]. However, when faced with a choice of keeping to their promise, they have capitulated to David Cameron’s europhilia.

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Roll of Honour: MPs Who Voted ‘Yes’ to a Referendum

Mr Stuart Andrew (Con) (Pudsey)
Mr Steve Baker (Con) (Wycombe)
Mr John Baron (Con) (Basildon & Billericay)
Mr Andrew Bingham (Con) (High Peak)
Mr Brian Binley (Con) (Northampton South)
Mr Bob Blackman (Con) (Harrow East)
Mr. Peter Bone (Con) (Wellingborough)
Mr Graham Brady (Con) (Altrincham & Sale West)
Mr Andrew Bridgen (Con) (North West Leicestershire)
Mr Steve Brine (Con) (Winchester)
Ms Fiona Bruce (Con) (Congleton)
Mr Dan Byles (Con) (North Warwickshire)
Mr Ronnie Campbell (Lab) (Blyth Valley)
Mr Gregory Campbell (DUP) (East Londonderry)
Mr Douglas Carswell (Con) (Clacton)
Mr William Cash (Con) (Stone)
Mr Christopher Chope (Con) (Christchurch)
Mr James Clappison (Con) (Hertsmere)
Ms Rosie Cooper (Lab) (West Lancashire)
Mr Jeremy Corbyn (Lab) (Islington North)
Ms Tracey Crouch (Con) (Chatham & Aylesford)
Mr Jon Cruddas (Lab) (Dagenham & Rainham)
Mr John Cryer (Lab) (Leyton & Wanstead)
Mr Ian Davidson (Lab) (Glasgow South West)
Mr Philip Davies (Con) (Shipley)
Mr David T.C. Davies (Con) (Monmouth)
RH Mr David Davis (Con) (Haltemprice & Howden)
Mr Nick de Bois (Con) (Enfield North)
Ms Caroline Dinenage (Con) (Gosport)
RH Mr Nigel Dodds (DUP) (Belfast North)
RH Mr Jeffrey M. Donaldson (DUP) (Lagan Valley)
Mrs. Nadine Dorries (Con) (Mid Bedfordshire)
Mr Richard Drax (Con) (South Dorset)
Ms Natascha Engel (Lab) (North East Derbyshire)
RH Mr Frank Field (Lab) (Birkenhead)
Mr Mark Field (Con) (Cities of London & Westminster)
Ms Lorraine Fullbrook (Con) (South Ribble)
Mr Roger Godsiff (Lab) (Birmingham Hall Green)
Mr Zac Goldsmith (Con) (Richmond Park)
Mr James Gray (Con) (North Wiltshire)
Mr Chris Heaton-Harris (Con) (Daventry)
Mr Gordon Henderson (Con) (Sittingbourne & Sheppey)
Lady Hermon (UU) (North Down)
Ms Kate Hoey (Lab) (Vauxhall)
Mr George Hollingbery (Con) (Meon Valley)
Mr. Philip Hollobone (Con) (Kettering)
Mr Adam Holloway (Con) (Gravesham)
Mr Kelvin Hopkins (Lab) (Luton North)
Mr Stewart Jackson (Con) (Peterborough)
Mr Bernard Jenkin (Con) (Harwich & North Essex)
Mr Marcus Jones (Con) (Nuneaton)
Mr Chris Kelly (Con) (Dudley South)
Ms Andrea Leadsom (Con) (South Northamptonshire)
Mr Jeremy Lefroy (Con) (Stafford)
Mr Edward Leigh (Con) (Gainsborough)
Dr Julian Lewis (Con) (New Forest East)
Ms Caroline Lucas (Gre) (Brighton Pavilion)
Ms Karen Lumley (Con) (Redditch)
Mrs Anne Main (Con) (St Albans)
Mr. Steve McCabe (Lab) (Birmingham Selly Oak)
Mr Karl McCartney (Con) (Lincoln)
Mr Jason McCartney (Con) (Colne Valley)
Dr William McCrea (DUP) (South Antrim)
Mr John McDonnell (Lab) (Hayes & Harlington)
Mr Stephen McPartland (Con) (Stevenage)
Mr Patrick Mercer (Con) (Newark)
Mr Nigel Mills (Con) (Amber Valley)
Mr. Austin Mitchell (Lab) (Great Grimsby)
Mr James Morris (Con) (Halesowen & Rowley Regis)
Ms Anne Marie Morris (Con) (Newton Abbot)
Mr Stephen Mosley (Con) (City of Chester)
Ms Sheryll Murray (Con) (South East Cornwall)
Ms Caroline Nokes (Con) (Romsey & Southampton North)
Mr David Nuttall (Con) (Bury North)
Mr Matthew Offord (Con) (Hendon)
Mr Ian Paisley (DUP) (North Antrim)
Mr Neil Parish (Con) (Tiverton & Honiton)
Ms Priti Patel (Con) (Witham)
Mr Andrew Percy (Con) (Brigg & Goole)
Mr Mark Pritchard (Con) (The Wrekin)
Mr Mark Reckless (Con) (Rochester & Strood)
RH Mr John Redwood (Con) (Wokingham)
Mr Jacob Rees-Mogg (Con) (North East Somerset)
Mr Simon Reevell (Con) (Dewsbury)
Mr Laurence Robertson (Con) (Tewkesbury)
Mr Andrew Rosindell (Con) (Romford)
Mr Adrian Sanders (LD) (Torbay)
Mr Jim Shannon (DUP) (Strangford)
Mr Richard Shepherd (Con) (Aldridge-Brownhills)
Mr David Simpson (DUP) (Upper Bann)
Mr Dennis Skinner (Lab) (Bolsover)
Mr Henry Smith (Con) (Crawley)
RH Mr Andrew Smith (Lab) (Oxford East)
Mr John Stevenson (Con) (Carlisle)
Mr Bob Stewart (Con) (Beckenham)
Mr Gary Streeter (Con) (South West Devon)
Mr. Graham Stringer (Lab) (Blackley & Broughton)
Ms Gisela Stuart (Lab) (Birmingham Edgbaston)
Mr Julian Sturdy (Con) (York Outer)
RH Sir Peter Tapsell (Con) (Louth & Horncastle)
Mr Justin Tomlinson (Con) (North Swindon)
Mr Andrew Turner (Con) (Isle of Wight)
Mr Martin Vickers (Con) (Cleethorpes)
Mr Robin Walker (Con) (Worcester)
Mr Charles Walker (Con) (Broxbourne)
Ms Heather Wheeler (Con) (South Derbyshire)
Mr Craig Whittaker (Con) (Calder Valley)
Mr John Whittingdale (Con) (Maldon)
Mr Sammy Wilson (DUP) (East Antrim)
Dr Sarah Wollaston (Con) (Totnes)
Mr Mike Wood (Lab) (Batley & Spen)

Commonwealth homosexual activist exposed

Stephen

21 October 2011

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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MPs to Vote on EU Referendum

Robin

19 October 2011

BBC News reported that MPs have agreed to stage an historic debate on whether to hold a referendum on Britain’s future in the EU.

The day-long debate will occur next Monday and will culminate in MPs voting on whether to give the people of Britain a referendum.

Although originally scheduled for Thursday, Downing Street brought it forward to Monday amid fears that the party might use Cameron’s absence later in the week to stage a rebellion against his pro-EU policies.

All three political parties are putting pressure on their members to vote against the referendum and the BBC reported that conservative MPs may even be facing a three-line whip. This is a procedure that would require MPs in Government jobs to follow the Prime Minister’s lead or be threatened with losing their positions. If Europhile David Cameron does order his MPs to vote against the referendum, it would practically ensure its defeat.

Even if MPs vote in favour of the motion next Monday, David Cameron is not bound to enforce the result, although it could be politically dangerous for him not to.

The motion that MPs will vote on reads:

This House calls upon the Government to introduce a Bill in the next session of Parliament to provide for the holding of a national referendum on whether the United Kingdom:
A) Should remain a member of the European Union on the current terms;
B) Should leave the European Union;
C) Should re-negotiate the terms of its membership in order to create a new relationship based on trade and co-operation.

Tory back-benchers voted to hold the debate after more than 100,000 people signed a petition demanding a choice. Conservative MP David Nuttall articulated the case for the referendum when he said, “I believe that a referendum along these lines would allow the public to make clear their views about our current membership of the European Union.”

“It is 36 years since we last held a referendum and our relationship with what was then known as the Common Market and the European Union has changed out of all recognition.”

Pressure on David Cameron has been mounting ever since his 2009 U-turn on the Lisbon treaty referendum. If he chooses to use his weight to block the referendum in next week’s vote, he could force a mutiny within his own party.

Speaking of the prospect of Down Street intervention, Tory MP Bill Cash said it would be ‘beyond belief’, commenting,

“It would be quite extraordinary for the Prime Minister to prevent the British people from having their say on a European project that is quite clearly failing. We have protests and riots all over Europe, we have billions of pounds being poured into bailouts and we have a trade balance with the EU which has deteriorated by £40billion. For the Prime Minister to ask the Conservative Party to vote against asking people their views would be beyond belief.”

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PHONE your MP and ask how he intends to vote next week. Emphasize that we need a referendum since no one under the age of 54 has ever had a say on Britain’s relationship with the EU. Information on contacting MPs can be found here.

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Commonwealth must resist pro-sodomy call

Stephen

19 October 2011

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

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

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

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

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

The truth about HIV/AIDS

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

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

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

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

Legalising homosexual acts will increase gay tourism

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

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

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

_46014419_jake_pride — Activists promoting pro-gay teaching in schools

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

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

Call to resist Western depravity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Defend Marriage Petition

Stephen

30 September 2011

A petition to defend marriage is now up-and-running.

The text is simple:

‘We the undersigned believe that marriage was ordained by God to be the union of one man and one woman and that marriage between two persons of the same sex can not and should not be legalised by any earthly government.’

The UK Government has signalled its intention to legalise gay marriage so this matter is urgent and signing the petition is one vital way of standing up for Christ.

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The Westminster Declaration

Stephen

27 May 2010

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

Stephen

20 May 2010

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

Instructions: When you open the PDF type your MP’s name in the find box.If you cannot see the box go to the EDIT menu and select FIND. (Ctrl-F)

MPs’ voting records:

ABBOTT – BROOKE BROWN – CURTIS-THOMAS

DARLING – FRASER

GALE – HEYES

HILL – KUMAR

LADYMAN – MCNULTY

MEACHER – PURNELL

RAMMELL – SMITH

SNELGROVE – USSHER

VAIZEY – YOUNGER-ROSS

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