Liverpool Care Pathway put to sleep

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29 July 2015

A controversial method of hastening death for terminally-ill patients has been scrapped, reports the BBC.

The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), developed by Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the Marie Curie cancer charity, involved the withdrawal of medication, food and fluids. Patients were sedated, starved and dehydrated to death.

In October 2012 figures released under the Freedom of Information Act showed that some two thirds of NHS trusts had received incentive payments for meeting “targets” for using the LCP, and that such payments totalled £12 million or more.

But now, England’s health watchdog, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), has put forward new draft guidance to improve the care of adults in their last few days of life.

The NICE proposals make no mention of lists or tick boxes, much criticised in the LCP approach.

But crucially, there are calls now for basic daily checks to make make sure patients are well hydrated and nourished, a radical departure from the LCP. Families should be encouraged to be more closely involved in care if appropriate and safe – for example helping to give loved ones sips of water – and there is a demand from NICE for clear communication and the involvement of patients and relatives in decisions.

Two years ago, a review chaired by crossbench peer Julia Baroness Neuberger called for the LCP to be scrapped. The review applied only to England.

Many hospitals in England apparently ditched the LCP but it has taken two years for NICE to come up with an alternative.

The Scottish Government announced in December 2013 that the LCP would be phased out.

In Northern Ireland the Liverpool Care Pathway remained, as at July 2014, according to the General Medical Council, one of ‘several tools to help deliver palliative and end of life care’, although a review of the use of the LCP was said by the Macmillan cancer charity to be taking place.

In Wales, an ‘Integrated Care Pathway (ICP) for the last days of life‘ was implemented in 2000, overhauled in 2010 and amended in 2012 ‘primarily to clarify issues around sedation, hydration and prescribing’.

An All-Wales Palliative Care Conference is to take place at Gregynog in Powys on 8th & 9th October 2015. The current ICP for Wales is downloadable HERE. It still retains the ‘check-box’ approach and the ‘pathway’ name, but hydration is a goal in it and there is no apparent specific mention of the withdrawal of food.

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‘Homophobia a sign of extremism’

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1 July 2015

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Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State of Education, the one with a gay activist from Stonewall (Conservative activist Luke Tryll) as her first appointed advisor, is in the news again.

She is telling teachers to report children who exhibit negative attitudes to homosexuality to the thought police.

They are going to grow up to be terrorists, apparently.

Even the teachers’ unions, so often bastions of progressive attitudes, are not amused by this new imposition of subjective workload.

The BBC reported:

‘The education secretary was speaking as schools in England and Wales were issued with a guide to identifying pupils in danger of radicalisation.

‘She said attacking core British values or being extremely intolerant of homosexuality were examples of behaviour that could raise the alarm.

‘Ms Morgan said it was “a safeguarding” issue comparable to protecting children at risk from gangs or sexual abuse.’ Yes, really. Homophobia is that bad.

Asked on BBC’s Radio 4 Today Programme to come up with an example of behaviour that might be a cause for concern, she said: “Sadly, Isis are extremely intolerant of homosexuality.”

‘Sadly?’ Is Nicky Morgan carrying a bit of a candle for ISIS? Would she love them better if, despite all their land-grabbing, slaughter, extortion and rape they had applied for a float in the London Gay Pride parade?

As it happens, Muslims in general are ‘extremely intolerant of homosexuality’.

Is the Government with this initiative taking the first tentative steps to rounding up all Muslim children and sending them and their families off to the Muslim land of their heritage? I doubt that.

What instead we are seeing is a desire to grab hold of Christian children and force some politically-correct attitudes into them. The Trojan Horse affair, which started with a Muslim takeover of schools in Birmingham has been used to give Ofsted new guidelines which are now being used against Christian schools.

It will be the same here. There is already a drive to sneak homosexual propaganda into schools on the pretext of ‘tackling homophobic bullying’. This counter-terrorism slant is just a bit of window-dressing to make pro-sodomy indoctrination a bit more acceptable.

In reality, it won’t be a Muslim child who will be picked on. Instead, look out for the first story of a child of Christian or working-class parents being reported to the police for ‘homophobia’ and then taken into ‘care’ by Social Services.

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Ashers Bakery guilty of ‘discriminating’

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19 May 2015

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The Politically-motivated cake was baked by another firm.

A judge in Belfast has found that a bakery discriminated against a homosexual by refusing to bake a cake with a slogan supporting same-sex marriage.

Ashers Baking Company, which is owned and run by the McArthur family, who are Christians, declined an order from a gay rights activist asking for a cake featuring the Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with a slogan saying ‘Support Gay Marriage’.

Marriage between people of the same sex is illegal in Northern Ireland. In April 2014 the Stormont Assembly rejected a Sinn Fein motion to change the definition of marriage for the third time in eighteen months. In April 2015 the Assembly rejected yet another Sinn Fein motion for ‘gay marriage’.

Despite that, the judge found Ashers Bakery had discriminated against one Gareth Lee on the grounds of sexual orientation as well as his political beliefs.

The cake was baked and iced by another firm. Cllr Andrew Muir (Alliance Party) cut the cake in an event held by ‘QueerSpace’ last year.

Damages of £500 have already been agreed between the law firms representing Ashers and Mr Lee.

The case was brought by Northern Ireland’s Equality Commission.

Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuiness tweeted: “Asher’s bakery judgement a good result for equality, gay people have for far too long been discriminated against. We and the law on their side.”

But unionist politicians disagreed.

DUP MLA Paul Givan, who has proposed that lawmakers in the Northern Ireland Assembly introduce a “conscience clause” as a result of the Ashers case, said many Christians would view the ruling as “an attack” on their religious convictions.

Jim Allister MLA condemned the ruling. — Jim Allister MLA has condemned the ruling along with Democratic Unionist Party politicians.

“What we cannot have is a hierarchy of rights, and today there’s a clear hierarchy being established that gay rights are more important than the rights of people to hold religious beliefs,” Mr Givan added.

His party colleague David McIlveen tweeted: “Utterly sickened that a Christian owned business has been hauled over the coals for refusing to promote something that is not legal in NI.”

Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said it was “a dark day for justice and religious freedom in Northern Ireland”.

Speaking outside Belfast County Court ahead of the ruling, Ashers general manager Daniel McArthur said: “We happily serve everyone but we cannot promote a cause that goes against what the Bible says about marriage.

“We have tried to be guided in our actions by our Christian beliefs.”

Christian campaigners will be looking not just to the Stormont Assembly but also to the UK Government to ensure business peoples’ Christian conscience is supported.

See 11th July 2014: Ashers Baking ‘Discriminated’

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‘Naz and Matt’ gay campaigner ‘selfish and deluded’.

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25 April 2015

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Hampstead Heath, near West Hampstead, is used by homosexual men to make anonymous sexual contacts. — Hampstead Heath, a stone’s throw from West Hampstead, where Dr Nazeem Mahmood lived.

A homosexual campaigner is today concluding a walk from London to Birmingham.

Matthew Ogston has walked from West Hampstead in London to Handsworth in Birmingham, finishing today, to publicise his new charity ‘Naz and Matt’ campaigning against what he calls ‘gay conversion therapy’ and for parents to accept their children’s homosexuality against their religious principles.

Mr Ogston was the homosexual boyfriend of one Dr Mahmood, a specialist in cosmetic procedures, who fell from the balcony of his penthouse in West Hampstead on 30th July 2014.

An inquest heard that Dr Mahmood took his own life just two days after confiding in his Muslim mother for the first time about his sexuality.

The court was told she suggested he saw a psychiatrist to find a ‘cure’ when he revealed his sexuality.

My view is that Ogston is selfish and deluded.

Matthew Ogston. Credit: Birmingham Mail — Matthew Ogston

Any death is a tragedy, and Dr Mahmood’s is no exception. Suicide is the biggest cause of death for young men in Britain today. Given that, to blame Dr Mahmood’s suicide on his mother’s failure to embrace her son’s perverted lifestyle is far too convenient. There could have been any number of reasons aggregating in his mind.

Matthew Ogston is deluded, claiming to hear Dr Mahmood’s voice from “beyond the grave” telling him specifically to set up a campaigning charity.

He is also selfish, showing no sensitivity to Dr Mahmood’s family, who will rightly feel great shame over their son’s suicide and emotional problems and must be dismayed that his death is now being dragged through the mud in public as a political football.

It is undeniable that men and women have walked away from homosexual attractions through the power of the Christian Gospel. Whether Islam is any help in such a process is open to debate, but the Christian faith offers enormous support to those seeking to reach their emotional potential. No-one has to “stay gay”.

Sandwell Valley is next-door to Handsworth, Alan Ogston's destination. — Sandwell Valley is next-door to Handsworth, Matthew Ogston’s destination.

Mr Ogston is quoted as saying: “Being gay is loving someone, it’s not a disease, there’s nothing to be cured, it’s about love nothing else should matter.” A father and son or two brothers normally express their love without feeling the need to interfere with each other. No, ‘being gay’ is not just ‘about love’, it’s about emotional disorder, sexual abuse and perverting God’s created order.

By a strange coincidence, West Hampstead is just a stone’s throw from one homosexual cruising area, and Handsworth borders onto another. Most homosexual male couples engage in activities outside their primary relationship, for reasons which need not detain us at this moment. Just saying …

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Street preacher convicted – and now acquitted!

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23 March 2015

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Michael Overd with his wife Rachel outside Taunton Magistrates Court in 2012. — Street preacher convicted. Michael Overd with his wife Rachel outside Taunton Magistrates Court when he was acquitted in 2012.

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Michael Overd’s appeal was heard at Taunton Crown Court, Shire Hall, Taunton, Somerset TA1 4EU on Friday 11^th December 2015 at which he was acquitted when the prosecution’s case collapsed.

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A street preacher has been convicted over ‘homophobic’ sermons, the BBC reports.

Michael Overd was preaching in Taunton, Somerset, in June and July 2014.

He was cleared of a second similar charge and another of causing “racially-aggravated” harassment aimed at Muslims. During the case, Mr Overd told the judge he must be born again.

The charges were brought under the Public Order Act.

We were pleased to support Michael Overd when he faced similar charges and was acquitted at Taunton Magistrates Court in 2012.

Mr Overd, 50, was fined £200 and ordered to pay compensation of £250 and costs of £950 totalling £1,400 at Bristol Crown Court.

Sentencing, judge Shamim Qureshi told Mr Overd he “knew full well the power of words to hurt”. We understand the Muslim judge came down from Birmingham to sit in the case, and it was when he referred to Christianity and Islam as joint Abrahamic faiths that Michael Overd urged him to repent and be born again.

He was told to pay £250 to his ‘victim’, Darren Chalmers. Mr Overd said the judgement was “flawed” and told the judge he would have to “answer to the same God”.

After the failed case in 2012, the police began looking for complaints against the long-standing Taunton preacher again last year, appealing in a local newspaper for the public to record him making “offensive remarks”. A number of witnesses said they could not remember what Mr Overd said, just that it was ‘offensive’.

Support for the principle of street preaching came from the Bishop of Peterborough, Rt Rev Donald Allister, who said we should have freedom to express our views, provided it were done in a Christian manner.

A campaign by the Christian Institute to remove the word ‘insulting’ from the Public Order Act was meant to stop preachers being prosecuted, but the police have just switched to charging them with ‘threatening and abusive’ behaviour instead.

Intriguingly, the judge had reserved judgement, which indicates he wanted to take advice from those higher up.

Judge Qureshi told the preacher he seemed to enjoy testing the laws on free speech to their limits. He said: “In my view he enjoys coaxing people into asking him questions so that he can reply loudly into the microphone to answer them.

Mr Overd had “double standards”, the judge said, ‘believing he was right and everyone else was wrong’, according to the BBC, although that does not seem to indicate ‘double standards’, merely settled views. The complainant, Darren Chalmers, appears to have contrary views to Mr Overd which are just as settled.

“He happily shouts out the negative points in any other religion,” said the judge, without acknowledging that the negative points in Islam are not very hard to find.

Asked after the case whether he would tone down his sermons, Mr Overd said: “I follow my Lord and leader, so I won’t tone down.”

Mr Overd had faced two charges of using threatening and abusive words, and a third of causing racially or religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress. Only one charge succeeded.

We understand Michael Overd is being advised to appeal to the Crown Court.

PRAY: Thank God for Michael Overd and pray the Lord will bless him and grant District Judge Qureshi in the case repentance and faith in Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

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Scottish registrars given ‘conscience clause’

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10 March 2015

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The Scottish Government has given registrars a conscience clause not to take part in ‘gay marriage’ ceremonies.

The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 provides that local authorities must provide a registrar to conduct a same-sex ‘marriage’ but does not say that every individual registrar is obliged to participate.

A spokesperson for the Scottish Government told the homosexual website PinkNews.co.uk: “Each local authority must provide an authorised registrar to conduct a marriage or civil partnership in the area chosen by the couple, regardless of that couple’s sexual orientation. It is a matter for local authorities to manage the provision of that service.

“There is no opt-out for individual registrars included in the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014.

“However, we have been clear that we expect local authorities to handle with sensitivity any registrar who objects to carrying out a same sex marriage on the basis of their religion or belief.”

Naturally, if the expression does not fall too awkwardly, the pro-gay National Secular Society is upset. It’s homosexual president, Terry Sanderson, complained: “The Scottish Government is putting local authorities in an invidious position of having to decide individually whether it is OK for religious registrars to discriminate against gay couples.

“There should be a clear policy to guide them and that policy should be that gay couples are entitled to equal treatment from all registrars.”

But Sanderson goes on to argue that the conscience of Christian registrars is increasingly being supported by the European Court of Human Rights.

Referring to the case of Lilian Ladele, who was sacked by the London Borough of Islington after she voiced concerns about participating in civil partnerships, he declared: “The court said that any policy aimed at restricting religious opt outs should have been agreed before any case is brought.

“Local authorities will have to make a very strong case for not allowing religious registrars to refuse to even administer same-sex marriages, let alone carry out ceremonies. If Lillian Ladele brought her case today, she would probably win.”

Indeed, a Christian registrar who was previously dismissed by Central Bedfordshire Council after refusing to conduct same-sex weddings was reinstated last year.

Margaret Jones, a senior deputy registrar at Bedford register office, was sacked by her employers after confirming that she would be unwilling to conduct same-sex weddings on the basis of her Christian beliefs.

However, Ms Jones was offered her job back after an internal appeal hearing in August last year (2014) found her employer had not taken a “balanced view” of her beliefs.

The tribunal overturned the decision by Central Bedfordshire Council, noting Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance “[encourages] employers and employees to find reasonable solutions to religion or belief issues at work”.

That outcome also had the National Secular Society convulsed by impotent fury, writing to the Council asking it to ‘clarify’ its position regarding employees’ requests to opt out of part of their job requirements.

Margaret Jones declined the job reinstatement offer, but Stephen Evans, National Secular Society campaigns manager, raged: “Discriminatory acts have a moral significance beyond the deprivation of the relevant service and the fact that other registrars could conduct the ceremonies is irrelevant.”

This may be no more than a faint glimmer of good news, but welcome as the homosexual juggernaut rumbles on.

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3-parent babies approved by UK Parliament

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4 February 2015

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Much prayer is needed for our General Election.

The UK Parliament has approved the creation of children with 3 biological parents in the hope of preventing mitochondrial diseases. See how your MP voted below.

382 MPs voted in favour and just 128 against. Those voting against represented the views of the public, who are opposed. You can read the debate HERE.

This link explains the objections: http://citizengo.org/en/17728-please-keep-uk-allowing-germline-genetic-modification-human-embryos-and-creation-3-parent?sid=MTY0NDA0MzE5NDkxNTc1

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How your MP voted:

AYES
Abrahams, Debbie
Adams, Nigel
Afriyie, Adam
Ainsworth, rh Mr Bob
Alexander, rh Danny
Alexander, rh Mr Douglas
Alexander, Heidi
Allen, Mr Graham
Andrew, Stuart
Arbuthnot, rh Mr James
Ashworth, Jonathan
Austin, Ian
Bailey, Mr Adrian
Baker, rh Norman
Baldwin, Harriett
Balls, rh Ed
Barclay, Stephen
Baron, Mr John
Barron, rh Kevin
Barwell, Gavin
Bayley, Sir Hugh
Beckett, rh Margaret
Begg, Dame Anne
Beith, rh Sir Alan
Benn, rh Hilary
Benyon, Richard
Beresford, Sir Paul
Berger, Luciana
Betts, Mr Clive
Bingham, Andrew
Blackman-Woods, Roberta
Blackwood, Nicola
Blenkinsop, Tom
Blomfield, Paul
Blunt, Crispin
Boles, Nick
Bottomley, Sir Peter
Bradley, Karen
Bradshaw, rh Mr Ben
Brady, Mr Graham
Brake, rh Tom
Brennan, Kevin
Bridgen, Andrew
Brine, Steve
Brooke, rh Annette
Brown, Lyn
Brown, rh Mr Nicholas
Brown, Mr Russell
Browne, Mr Jeremy
Bruce, rh Sir Malcolm
Bryant, Chris
Buck, Ms Karen
Buckland, Mr Robert
Burden, Richard
Burley, Mr Aidan
Burnham, rh Andy
Burstow, rh Paul
Burt, rh Alistair
Burt, Lorely
Byles, Dan
Byrne, rh Mr Liam
Cable, rh Vince
Cairns, Alun
Cameron, rh Mr David
Campbell, rh Mr Alan
Campbell, rh Sir Menzies
Campbell, Mr Ronnie
Carmichael, rh Mr Alistair
Carmichael, Neil
Carswell, Douglas
Caton, Martin
Chapman, Jenny
Clappison, Mr James
Clark, rh Greg
Clark, Katy
Clarke, rh Mr Kenneth
Clegg, rh Mr Nick
Clifton-Brown, Geoffrey
Clwyd, rh Ann
Coffey, Ann
Collins, Damian
Connarty, Michael
Cooper, rh Yvette
Corbyn, Jeremy
Crabb, rh Stephen
Creasy, Stella
Crockart, Mike
Crouch, Tracey
Cunningham, Alex
Cunningham, Mr Jim
Danczuk, Simon
Darling, rh Mr Alistair
Davey, rh Mr Edward
David, Wayne
Davidson, Mr Ian
Davies, David T. C. (Monmouth)
Davies, Geraint
De Piero, Gloria
Denham, rh Mr John
Dinenage, Caroline
Djanogly, Mr Jonathan
Dobson, rh Frank
Doran, Mr Frank
Dorries, Nadine
Doughty, Stephen
Duncan, rh Sir Alan
Dunne, Mr Philip
Eagle, Ms Angela
Efford, Clive
Ellis, Michael
Ellison, Jane
Ellman, Mrs Louise
Ellwood, Mr Tobias
Engel, Natascha
Evans, Chris
Evans, Graham
Fabricant, Michael
Fallon, rh Michael
Farrelly, Paul
Farron, Tim
Fitzpatrick, Jim
Flynn, Paul
Foster, rh Mr Don
Freeman, George
Freer, Mike
Gapes, Mike
Gardiner, Barry
Garnier, Sir Edward
Garnier, Mark
Gauke, Mr David
George, Andrew
Gibb, Mr Nick
Gilbert, Stephen
Gilmore, Sheila
Goodwill, Mr Robert
Gove, rh Michael
Graham, Richard
Grant, Mrs Helen
Green, rh Damian
Green, Kate
Greening, rh Justine
Greenwood, Lilian
Grieve, rh Mr Dominic
Griffith, Nia
Griffiths, Andrew
Gyimah, Mr Sam
Hague, rh Mr William
Hain, rh Mr Peter
Halfon, Robert
Hames, Duncan
Hamilton, Mr David
Hamilton, Fabian
Hammond, Stephen
Hancock, Mr Mike
Hands, rh Greg
Harman, rh Ms Harriet
Harper, Mr Mark
Harris, Rebecca
Harris, Mr Tom
Hart, Simon
Harvey, Sir Nick
Haselhurst, rh Sir Alan
Havard, Mr Dai
Healey, rh John
Heath, Mr David
Heaton-Harris, Chris
Henderson, Gordon
Hendry, Charles
Herbert, rh Nick
Heyes, David
Hilling, Julie
Hodge, rh Margaret
Hodgson, Mrs Sharon
Hollingbery, George
Hood, Mr Jim
Horwood, Martin
Hosie, Stewart
Howarth, rh Mr George
Howell, John
Hughes, rh Simon
Hunt, rh Mr Jeremy
Hunt, Tristram
Hunter, Mark
Huppert, Dr Julian
Hurd, Mr Nick
Irranca-Davies, Huw
Jackson, Glenda
James, Margot
Jamieson, Cathy
Javid, rh Sajid
Jenkin, Mr Bernard
Jenrick, Robert
Johnson, rh Alan
Johnson, Diana
Johnson, Gareth
Johnson, Joseph
Jones, Andrew
Jones, Graham
Jones, Mr Kevan
Jowell, rh Dame Tessa
Kendall, Liz
Kirby, Simon
Knight, rh Sir Greg
Kwarteng, Kwasi
Lamb, rh Norman
Lancaster, Mark
Lansley, rh Mr Andrew
Latham, Pauline
Lavery, Ian
Lee, Jessica
Lee, Dr Phillip
Leech, Mr John
Leslie, Charlotte
Leslie, Chris
Letwin, rh Mr Oliver
Lewell-Buck, Mrs Emma
Lewis, Brandon
Lewis, Dr Julian
Lilley, rh Mr Peter
Lloyd, Stephen
Llwyd, rh Mr Elfyn
Long, Naomi
Loughton, Tim
Love, Mr Andrew
Lucas, Caroline
Lucas, Ian
Luff, Sir Peter
Lumley, Karen
Mactaggart, Fiona
Mahmood, Mr Khalid
Malhotra, Seema
Mann, John
McCabe, Steve
McCarthy, Kerry
McCartney, Jason
McDonagh, Siobhain
McDonnell, John
McFadden, rh Mr Pat
McInnes, Liz
McKechin, Ann
McKenzie, Mr Iain
Mearns, Ian
Metcalfe, Stephen
Miliband, rh Edward
Miller, Andrew
Miller, rh Maria
Mills, Nigel
Milton, Anne
Mitchell, Austin
Moon, Mrs Madeleine
Moore, rh Michael
Mordaunt, Penny
Morgan, rh Nicky
Morrice, Graeme (Livingston)
Morris, Anne Marie
Morris, Grahame M. (Easington)
Morris, James
Mosley, Stephen
Mowat, David
Munn, Meg
Munt, Tessa
Murray, Ian
Murray, Sheryll
Nandy, Lisa
Newmark, Mr Brooks
Newton, Sarah
Nokes, Caroline
Norman, Jesse
O’Donnell, Fiona
Offord, Dr Matthew
Onwurah, Chi
Opperman, Guy
Osborne, rh Mr George
Osborne, Sandra
Ottaway, rh Sir Richard
Paice, rh Sir James
Parish, Neil
Paterson, rh Mr Owen
Penrose, John
Perkins, Toby
Perry, Claire
Phillips, Stephen
Phillipson, Bridget
Pickles, rh Mr Eric
Poulter, Dr Daniel
Powell, Lucy
Prisk, Mr Mark
Raab, Mr Dominic
Raynsford, rh Mr Nick
Redwood, rh Mr John
Reeves, Rachel
Reid, Mr Alan
Reynolds, Jonathan
Rifkind, rh Sir Malcolm
Riordan, Mrs Linda
Robathan, rh Mr Andrew
Robertson, Angus
Robertson, rh Sir Hugh
Robertson, John
Rotheram, Steve
Rudd, Amber
Russell, Sir Bob
Sanders, Mr Adrian
Sandys, Laura
Sawford, Andy
Seabeck, Alison
Shapps, rh Grant
Sheerman, Mr Barry
Shelbrooke, Alec
Simpson, Mr Keith
Skidmore, Chris
Skinner, Mr Dennis
Slaughter, Mr Andy
Smith, Angela
Smith, Chloe
Smith, Henry
Smith, Julian
Smith, Nick
Smith, Sir Robert
Soames, rh Sir Nicholas
Soubry, Anna
Spellar, rh Mr John
Spelman, rh Mrs Caroline
Spencer, Mr Mark
Stanley, rh Sir John
Stephenson, Andrew
Stewart, Bob
Stewart, Rory
Straw, rh Mr Jack
Stride, Mel
Stringer, Graham
Stuart, Ms Gisela
Stunell, rh Sir Andrew
Sturdy, Julian
Sutcliffe, Mr Gerry
Swales, Ian
Swinson, Jo
Swire, rh Mr Hugo
Tami, Mark
Thomas, Mr Gareth
Thornberry, Emily
Thornton, Mike
Thurso, rh John
Tomlinson, Justin
Tredinnick, David
Trickett, Jon
Truss, rh Elizabeth
Turner, Karl
Twigg, Derek
Twigg, Stephen
Tyrie, Mr Andrew
Umunna, Mr Chuka
Vaizey, Mr Edward
Villiers, rh Mrs Theresa
Walker, Mr Charles
Walker, Mr Robin
Ward, Mr David
Watkinson, Dame Angela
Watson, Mr Tom
Weatherley, Mike
Webb, rh Steve
Wheeler, Heather
White, Chris
Whiteford, Dr Eilidh
Whitehead, Dr Alan
Whittingdale, Mr John
Wiggin, Bill
Willetts, rh Mr David
Williams, Hywel
Williams, Roger
Williams, Stephen
Williamson, Gavin
Willott, rh Jenny
Wilson, Phil
Winnick, Mr David
Winterton, rh Ms Rosie
Wishart, Pete
Wollaston, Dr Sarah
Woodcock, John
Wright, Mr Iain
Wright, Simon
Yeo, Mr Tim
Young, rh Sir George
Zahawi, Nadhim

NOES
Aldous, Peter
Amess, Sir David
Anderson, Mr David
Baker, Steve
Banks, Gordon
Bebb, Guto
Bellingham, Mr Henry
Berry, Jake
Binley, Mr Brian
Blackman, Bob
Bone, Mr Peter
Brazier, Mr Julian
Bruce, Fiona
Burns, Conor
Burns, rh Mr Simon
Burrowes, Mr David
Campbell, Mr Gregory
Cash, Sir William
Chishti, Rehman
Chope, Mr Christopher
Clarke, rh Mr Tom
Coffey, Dr Thérèse
Colvile, Oliver
Crausby, Mr David
Cunningham, Sir Tony
Davies, Glyn
Davies, Philip
de Bois, Nick
Donaldson, rh Mr Jeffrey M.
Donohoe, Mr Brian H.
Doyle, Gemma
Doyle-Price, Jackie
Drax, Richard
Durkan, Mark
Elphicke, Charlie
Evans, Mr Nigel
Evennett, Mr David
Field, Mark
Flello, Robert
Francois, rh Mr Mark
Fuller, Richard
Gale, Sir Roger
Gillan, rh Mrs Cheryl
Glass, Pat
Glen, John
Goldsmith, Zac
Gray, Mr James
Grayling, rh Chris
Greatrex, Tom
Hanson, rh Mr David
Hayes, rh Mr John
Heald, Sir Oliver
Hemming, John
Hermon, Lady
Hillier, Meg
Hinds, Damian
Hoban, Mr Mark
Hoey, Kate
Hollobone, Mr Philip
Holloway, Mr Adam
Howarth, Sir Gerald
Jackson, Mr Stewart
Jones, rh Mr David
Jones, Mr Marcus
Jones, Susan Elan
Kane, Mike
Kaufman, rh Sir Gerald
Kawczynski, Daniel
Leadsom, Andrea
Lefroy, Jeremy
Leigh, Sir Edward
Lopresti, Jack
MacNeil, Mr Angus Brendan
Mahmood, Shabana
Main, Mrs Anne
Marsden, Mr Gordon
McCann, Mr Michael
McCartney, Karl
McCrea, Dr William
McGovern, Jim
McGuire, rh Dame Anne
McIntosh, Miss Anne
McPartland, Stephen
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Salmond’s Independent Scotland to promote gay rights

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'Equality Network' at Glasgow Gay Pride 2013 — ‘Equality Network’ at Glasgow Gay Pride 2013

Homosexuals in Scotland may only number around 1% of its population, but Alex Salmond is courting their votes in a final push for the ‘Yes campaign’, according to Pink News.

The First Minister told the ‘Equality Network’, a group of homosexual activists, that an independent Scotland would cement perversion in a new constitution.

Mr Salmond said: “Independence is a once in a lifetime opportunity to embed and enhance LGBTI rights. With Independence we will be able to enshrine LGBTI equality in a written constitution – ensuring our rights cannot be easily reversed by any government”. (‘Our rights’? What can that mean?)

“With a No vote we face the prospect of another Tory government committed to scrapping the Human Rights Act…It’s only with the full powers of an independent country that we can finally secure true equality for LGBTI people and a fairer society for all.”

The First Minister said the equality protections of a Scottish constitution would include: age, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, intersex status, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

In reality, the gay-friendly Conservatives are not going to repeal ‘gay marriage’ or the Equality Act whether the UK remains signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights or not. Mr Salmond is erecting an Aunt Sally. But it gets worse.

Alex Salmond at 'Pride House'. The homosexual 'Rainbow' flag flew over St Andrew's House during the Commonwealth Games 2014. — Alex Salmond being ‘gay-friendly’ at ‘Pride House’. The homosexual ‘Rainbow’ flag flew over St Andrew’s House during the Commonwealth Games 2014.

Mr Salmond went on: “With complete control over foreign policy and international development we will be able to make full use of diplomatic relations and actively promote LGBTI equality and human rights around the world.”

So Indy-Scotland will not lift a finger to help Christians in Iraq but will promote sodomy across the globe. The UK has been been bad enough at forcing its view through its aid budget down the throats of Africans, but under Mr Salmond, whips seem about to be replaced by scorpions.

Scotland will also give foreign homosexuals priority in asylum applications: “With independence we can have a new humane approach to asylum seekers and refugees in line with our values and commitment to upholding internationally recognised human rights. Our approach stands in stark contrast to Westminster’s aggressive approach that is best exemplified by their offensive ‘go home’ advertising campaign.

“Scotland has a very clear position on promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex rights both at home and abroad,” Mr Salmond concluded.

Christian Voice has remained neutral during the Scottish Independence debate, but Mr Salmond’s declaration now means that no Bible-believing Christian can vote for him or for independence, if it entails what its chief protagonist says it does.

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World Humanist Congress meets in Oxford

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24 July 2014

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The World Humanist Congress is meeting in Oxford from 8-10th August 2014.

The Congress meets every three years, bringing together activists from over forty countries under the auspices of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. Being ‘ethical’ is important to humanists, because they have constantly to repel charges that without God, they only have their own prejudices to base their ‘ethics’ upon.

This year, the British Humanist Association (‘BHA’) is hosting the World Humanist Congress. They are bringing together no fewer than seventy-seven speakers, from as far afield as Switzerland, America, Australia, India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Uganda and Greece. The speakers are headed by humanist philosopher A C Grayling, writer Taslima Nasrin, Philip Pullman, Author of ‘His Dark Materials’, and Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka.

Other speakers include Jim Al-Khalili OBE, President of the BHA, Labour Party Peer Joan Bakewell DBE, Richard Dawkins, who is Vice-President of BHA, PZ Myers, Associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris, who describes himself as ‘A godless liberal biologist’, Peter Tatchell, and Prof Peter Atkins, Roy Brown of the pro-abortion International Foundation for Population and Development.

Also speaking are Professor Ted Cantle, London Assembly member Tom Copley AM, Andrew Copson, who is Chief Executive of BHA, former RC chaplain Catherine Dunphy, Liz Lutgendorff, Chair of the Conway Hall Ethical Society, author Zoe Margolis, Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East, Maryam Namazie, Maajid Nawaz, the highly-paid co-Founder of Quilliam, in receipt of government grants to counter Islamic extremism, Prof Richard Norman, founder-member of the Humanist Philosophers Group and Vice-President of the British Humanist Association, journalist and broadcaster Nick Ross, and Guardian columnist Zoe Williams.

A number of speakers also have links to the National Secular Society, which is slightly more extreme even than BHA. Philip Pullman is a ‘honorary associate’ of NSS as is Professor Cantle, Richard Dawkins, Nick Cohen, Maryam Namazie and Maajid Nawaz.

According to the WHC website, P Z Myers ‘is an outspoken critic of creationism and intelligent design (for which he has “nothing but contempt”, saying that it is “fundamentally dishonest”)’. Prof Myers was featured in Ray Comfort’s video ‘Evolution vs God‘, trying in vain to think of evidence for evolution and claiming that human beings are fish.

See: Teach Children Creation, says report.

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Ashers Baking ‘Discriminated’

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11 July 2014

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A bakery firm in Northern Ireland is facing a discrimination case after refusing to bake a cake with a slogan supporting ‘gay marriage’

Ashers Baking Company, which is owned and run by the McArthur family, who are Christians, declined an order from a gay rights activist asking for a cake featuring the Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with a slogan saying ‘Support Gay Marriage’.

Marriage between people of the same sex is illegal in Northern Ireland. In April 2014 the Stormont Assembly rejected a Sinn Fein motion to change the definition of marriage for the third time in eighteen months.

The customer also wanted the cake to feature the logo of a Belfast-based campaign group called “Queerspace”.

The cake was ordered for a civic event in Bangor Castle Town Hall, County Down, to mark the invented ‘International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia’, ‘IDAHOT’ in May.

Cllr Andrew Muir campaigns for 'gay marriage' by cutting the 'QueerSpace' cake. — Homosexual Cllr Andrew Muir campaigns for ‘gay marriage’ by cutting the ‘QueerSpace’ cake.

The event, hosted by Councillor Andrew Muir, the openly-homosexual Mayor of North Down for the divisive Alliance Party, went ahead after another company provided a cake.

But now, six weeks after the event, the County Antrim firm has received a letter from a self-important quango called the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland.

The firm’s general manager, Daniel McArthur, said that his firm offered the customer a full refund, which was collected shortly after the order was refused.

“We thought that was the end of it, but approximately six weeks later we received a letter from the Equality Commission. The Equality Commission’s letter said that we had discriminated against the customer on the grounds of his sexual orientation.

“It asked us to propose how we would recompense the customer for this discrimination. It also said it would pursue legal proceedings if we didn’t respond within a seven-day time period,” Mr McArthur said.

The watchdog confirmed it is assisting the customer. In a statement, it said: “The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland provides advice and can provide assistance to people who complain to us that they have suffered unlawful discrimination.

“In this case the commission has granted assistance to the complainant, and has written to the company concerned on his behalf. The commission will consider any response before taking further action.”

Sammy Wilson, MP for East Antrim, presents the Newtownabbey Business Person of the Year to Colin McArthur of Ashers Bakery. — Sammy Wilson, MP for East Antrim, left, presents the Newtownabbey Business Person of the Year award to Colin McArthur of Ashers Baking Company.

But the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said the Equality Commission had overstepped the mark and the complaint highlighted the need for a “conscience clause” to protect Christians and others who have deeply held beliefs.

DUP MP Nigel Dodds said: “The case re-opens the debate about how exactly religious belief is respected within the United Kingdom and the need for someone’s conscience to be protected whilst ensuring that discrimination does not occur.”

Mr Dodds could point out that Ashers have not discriminated against the complainant on the grounds of his sexual orientation, although this should in conscience be their right.

They have instead objected to manufacturing a product carrying a contentious political message.

Ashers could equally have objected to producing icing depicting the Sesame Street’s ‘Bert’ and ‘Ernie’ out of respect for the copyright protection attached to those characters.

The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is now considering its next step.

Equality Commission for Northern Ireland:
Telephone: 028 90 500 600
Textphone: 028 90 500 589 Fax: 028 90 248 687
Equality House 7-9 Shaftesbury Square Belfast BT2 7DP

information@equalityni.org

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Ditch Christian School Assemblies says NGA

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3 July 2014

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The National Governors’ Association (NGA) has suggested scrapping Christian assemblies in state schools.

The NGA, which told Christian Voice that one-fifth of state school governing bodies are members, says staff are “unable or unwilling” to lead pupils in prayer and that worship is ‘meaningless’ to non-Christian schoolchildren.

In a policy statement, the body said schools were “not places of worship but places of education” and “the worship of a religion or religions in all schools should not be … compulsory.”

“Few schools can or do meet the current legislative requirement for a daily act of collective worship, partly because there isn’t space in most schools to gather students together and often staff are unable or unwilling to lead a collective worship session,” it said.

“There is also the added issue that worship implies belief in a particular faith – if the ‘act of worship’ is not in your faith then it is meaningless as an act of worship.”

The NGA said dropping collective Christian worship from schools’ remit would “not prevent them from holding assemblies that address a whole range of topics, including faith and belief.”

The Church of England said dropping Christian assemblies would “deny children the opportunity to experience something they wouldn’t experience elsewhere in their lives”.

In 2012, Welsh Evangelical Alliance National Assembly Liaison Officer Jim Stewart said of Christian worship in schools: “If this right were taken away from us it would lead to further marginalisation of Christianity in public life. This is not just something that is beneficial to us though – it is for the common good and other faith groups in Wales are supportive of it as are people who don’t have a particular faith.”

Naturally, the British Humanist Association and the National Secular Society welcomed the NGA’s comments, with the BHA saying schools should be “holding inclusive assemblies that forward the spiritual, moral, social and cultural development of all pupils and staff”.

However, it isn’t at all clear what ‘spiritual, moral, social and cultural’ values would qualify as ‘inclusive’ nor whom or what they could be founded on if not on the God who brought this nation victorious through two world wars.

It is no good appealing to ‘multi-culturalism.’ Even though Islam is the UK’s fastest-growing religion, its practitioners still only number 5% of the population. Our African and Caribbean populations are overwhelmingly Christian. Britain is not ‘multi-cultural’ in any meaningful sense.

For some fifteen hundred years, as they became converted, rulers in this nation increasingly rooted their laws and morality in what Almighty God revealed in the Bible, revering Jesus Christ as King of kings. This process culminated in the late-ninth-century law-code of King Alfred the Great, who based his ‘dooms’ on the laws of God in the Pentateuch, the five books of Moses.

In a country with such a rich Christian heritage, who defines what is ‘right’ and what is ‘wrong’ if not Almighty God? The school head? The school governors? On what basis?

A collective act of worship has been a statutory requirement in state schools since the Education Act 1944 stated that ‘the school day in every county school and every voluntary school shall begin with collective worship on the part of all the pupils in attendance’. The Act gave parents the right to withdraw their child, perhaps in favour of separate arrangements. The Education Reform Act 1988 reaffirmed that position and reinforced it, stating that the act of worship should be ‘mainly of a broadly Christian character’.

Children in state schools should engage in a collective act of worship because ours is constitutionally and demographically a Christian country. As we lose respect for the sacred, we lose respect for each other. Britain would become just a bit more brutal, crass and disrespectful as a result.

The elimination of school prayer would rank alongside amoral sex education and the silencing of any possibility of creation as a prime motivator of antisocial behaviour. It would be irrational for anyone to ask why God permits this or that outrage of violence in schools which have legislated God out of the door.

The National Governors’ Association cannot claim to represent anything approaching a majority of school governors. But if it is true that staff are unable or unwilling to conduct an act of Christian worship, the way is open for a local church to offer the services of its pastor, youth leader or another committed member of the congregation. So there is an opportunity in the present situation for closer relationships between schools and churches.

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Elton John – confused, crass and clueless.

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2 July 2014

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Elton John may never become any kind of Christian leader, but he still thinks he should be.

On Sunday, according to the Washington Times, the ageing celeb said ‘that Jesus Christ would support the idea of two gay priests tying the knot and that the celibacy vow among clergy is an “old and stupid” rule that should be abolished’.

Mr. John, who hopes to ‘marry’ his sodomite civil partner David Furnish some time next year, said gay clergy should be allowed to ‘marry’ and have sexual relationships.

“These are old and stupid things. If Jesus Christ was alive today, I cannot see him, as the Christian person that he was and the great person that he was, saying this could not happen,” he said.

Apparently, the greater and more ‘Christian’ one is on planet Elton, the more one agrees that the rectum is an appropriate receptacle for the male anatomy.

That only confirms Elton as confused, crass and clueless about the Christian faith.

The Lord Jesus cannot be described as a ‘Christian person’ and he is alive. He was and is the Son of God who ministered on earth as a Jewish Pharisee, upheld and taught the laws of God and died on a cross to bear the sins of as many as would believe in him, sexual sins like sodomy included.

There is little evidence that Elton John understands this and even less that he has repented of his acts of sodomy and/or gross indecency with David Furnish and countless others. His ignorance of the Lord Jesus knows no bounds:

“He was all about love and compassion and forgiveness and trying to bring people together, and that’s what the church should be about.”

Actually, the Jesus we read about in scripture, not the one who is a figment of Elton’s imagination, is ‘all about’ division:

Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire: 17 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

Luke 12:51 Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

John 7:40 Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, Of a truth this is the Prophet. 41 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall Christ come out of Galilee? 42 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was? 43 So there was a division among the people because of him.

John 9:16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

As to ‘love and compassion and forgiveness’, Elton, yes, the Lord Jesus will forgive all your sins if you turn to him, but if if you persist in your sin and go around promoting it in your pride and arrogance he will be a consuming fire.

The love of Christ is not some mawkish, sentimental endorsement of whatever goes, but a calling to repentance:

Mark 1:14 Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

2John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

Sir Elton told Sky News that ‘the global fight for gay rights was stalling’ and that he planned to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin in November.

“Globally, we seem to have gone backwards over the last 18 months,” he said. “I will see Putin and talk to him. I don’t know what good it will do though.”

Let us hope and pray that President Putin will tell Elton John the truth, that sodomy is a act of abuse, that homosexual desires are vile affections and that Jesus Christ can release him from his sinful life. Then their meeting, if it takes place at all, will have done some good.

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Prof hounded for support of Belize anti-sodomy law

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20 May 2014

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

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

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

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

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

Responsibility to assess behaviours

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

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

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

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

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

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

HAART AIDS Treatment costs UK NHS £1.5bn / year

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

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

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

Government and University figures attend Caribbean pro-homosexual meetings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We are a Christian country says Welby

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Justin Welby, has joined the fray over David Cameron’s Easter message by rebuffing the atheists who tried to say Britian is not a Christian country.

Defending Church of England faith schools in the context of the Muslim takeover of schools in Birmingham, Archbishop Welby said Christian faith was reflected in the “whole way we approach our national life”.

Archbishop Welby later wrote in his blog that it was a “historical fact” that UK law, ethics and culture were based on its teachings and traditions.

Returning to the debate, Archbishop Welby said the UK’s “systems of justice and health, the way we value people, the basic way we look at the human being and the dignity of the human being, reflects the values of Jesus Christ”.

“We are a deeply Christian country in that way,” he added.

The Archbishop added that he did not agree with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg’s claim that the Church would be better able to serve its own interests and those of the country if it was disestablished.

Christian Voice applauds Archbishop Welby for his comments. We are committed to defend Britain’s Protestant Christian heritage and the establishment of a national church is part of our Christian identity.

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Anti-Christian signatories all signed-up atheists!

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23 April 2014

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Professor Jim Al-Khalili got his British Humanist Association mates to sign the anti-Christian letter.

The signatories of a letter accusing David Cameron of ‘fostering alienation and division in our society’ by maintaining that Britain is a Christian country have all turned out to be signed-up atheists.

Research carried out by Christian Voice has revealed that every single one of the fifty-five signatories is a ‘Distinguished Supporter‘ of the British Humanist Association (BHA). Many are also an ‘Honorary Associate‘ of the National Secular Society (NSS), and a couple are involved with the so-called Rationalist Association.

Nowhere in their letter to the Daily Telegraph do they acknowledge that they are all BHA supporters or that the letter was organised by the BHA. The BHA admit on their website that their president organised it, but do not disclose that every signatory was already in their go-to bag, merely describing them as ‘public figures’. Even more worrying, no mainstream media picked up on that fact either.

The Daily Telegraph described the signatories as ’55 public figures from a range of political backgrounds’. Er, no, they aren’t. They are all atheists. The Guardian sycophantically referred to them as ‘more than 50 prominent public figures including novelists, diplomats, Nobel prize winners and playwrights.’ The Independent described them as ‘an alliance of public figures including scientists, novelists and politicians.‘ The BBC described them as ‘a group of public figures’ rather than the more accurate: ‘a group of atheist time-servers taking themselves too seriously.’

Why was that? Plainly the omission of any reference to the British Humanist Association and the corresponding ability of the organisation to drum up so many distinguished-sounding names so quickly while keeping itself in the background gave the letter its only possible credibility.

Here are the signatories (BHA supporters Sir Jonathan Miller and Richard Dawkins and a few others have since added their names):

Professor Jim Al-Khalil: BHA Distinguished Supporter and President, Theoretical physicist, Professor of public engagement in science at the University of Surrey, author and broadcaster.

Philip Pullman: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, atheist, author from Norwich, author of the trilogy His Dark Materials. Once said, ‘I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.’

Tim Minchin: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Australian musician, composer, songwriter, actor, comedian. Appeared in various TV shows.

Dr Simon Singh: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Science Writer, TV Director and Producer for BBC, lecturer, honorary associate of the Rationalist Association.

Ken Follett: BHA Honorary Member and BHA Distinguished Supporter. Parents are born-again Christians but rejected Christianity himself after becoming disillusioned. Writer and journalist.

Dr Adam Rutherford: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Science writer, editor, broadcaster.

Sir John Sulston: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Scientist, Nobel Prize winner, scientist father was an Anglican priest, brought up a Christian but lost faith as a teenager.

Sir David Smith: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Botanist, lecturer, campaigned against expansion of religious maintained schools.

Professor Jonathan Glover: BHA Distinguished Supporter, philosopher, writer of books on ethics.

Professor Anthony Grayling: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Master of New College of the Humanities, writer, philosopher, campaigns for euthanasia.

Nick Ross: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Journalist, TV Presenter known for presenting Crimewatch, Chair of Jill Dando Institute for Crime Science, Chair of Crimewatch.

Virginia Ironside: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Abortionist, writer, past agony aunt for the Daily Mirror but now writes a column for the Oldie.

Professor Steven Rose: BHA Distinguished Supporter, scientist, writer, born to Jewish parents.

Natalie Haynes: BHA Distinguished Supporter, comedienne, writer, human rights supporter. Writer of An Atheists Guide to Christmas.

Peter Tatchell: BHA Distinguished Supporter, homosexual, human rights campaigner, atheist, gay rights campaigner, Director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, contributor to paedophile book Betrayal of Youth.

Professor Raymond Tallis: BHA Distinguished Supporter, physician, philosopher, author, poet, favours assisted dying.

Dr Iolo ap Gwynn: BHA Distinguished Supporter, scientist, mountaineer, atheist and interested in the natural world.

Stephen Volk: BHA Distinguished Supporter, supernatural screenwriter, author, spiritualism researcher, interested in parapsychology.

Professor Steve Jones: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, professor of genetics, science writer, broadcaster, outspoken against creationism.

Sir Terry Pratchett: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, believer in euthanasia, fantasy fiction author, satirist. Raises awareness of dementia.

Dr Evan Harris: NSS Honorary Associate, ex-MP, supporter of euthanasia, abortion, homosexuality.

Dr Richard Bartle: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Professor of Computer Game Design at the University of Essex.

Sian Berry: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Green Party member and campaigner, politician, author, supporter of atheist bus campaign, contributor to The Atheists’ Guide to Christmas.

C J De Mooi: BHA Distinguished Supporter, President of the English Chess Federation, actor, professional quizzer and panellist on Eggheads, homosexual, supporter of gay rights.

Professor John A Lee: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Consultant Histopathologist at Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust, Professor of Pathology at Hull York Medical School, writer in the Lancet.

Professor Richard Norman: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, Professor of Moral Philosophy, founder-member of the Humanist Philosophers’ Group, contributor to BHA web resources.

Zoe Margolis: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, journalist, best-selling blogger, contributor to The Guardian and The Observer, ‘ambassador’ for the Brooks sexual health charity, pornographic author of Girl with a One-Track Mind.

Joan Smith: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, columnist, novelist and human rights activist, writes about feminism and human rights.

Michael Gore: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Brought up a Roman Catholic but abandoned the faith, promoter of Darwinism, naturalist.

Derek McAuley: Professor of Digital Economy, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Director of Horizon at the University of Nottingham, Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Lorraine Barratt: BHA trained celebrant and conductor of Humanist and non-religions funerals and baby ceremonies, atheist. Lives in Penarth, Wales. Resigned as a Welsh AM shortly after hosting a blasphemous poetry recital in the Assembly.

Dr Susan Blackmore: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, lecturer, broadcaster, visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth, Bristol, atheist.

Dr Harry Stopes-Roe: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, British philosopher, son of family planning pioneer Marie Stopes, past science lecturer.

Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC: BHA Distinguished Supporter, human rights layer, Jewish immigrant descendant, founded Bindmans law firm.

Adele Anderson: BHA Distinguished Supporter, transsexual, actress and singer in cabaret and musical theatre, writer, bought up as Anglican.

Dr Helena Cronin: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, LSE, explorer of evolutionary thinking, campaigner against maintained religion schools, an honorary associate of Rationalist International and of the Rationalist Association, wants Charles Darwin’s birthday to be a public holiday.

Professor Alice Roberts: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Anatomist, fanatical evolutionist, broadcaster, self-declared non-believer in life after death.

Professor Chris French: BHA Distinguished Supporter, Chartered Psychologist, sceptic Professor of Psychology, specialising in paranormal beliefs, editor of The Skeptic, Guardian writer.

Sir Tom Blundell: BHA Distinguished Supporter, British biochemist and science administrator, supported proposed bank holiday for Charles Darwin’s birthday, research interests include DNA repair.

Maureen Duffy: BHA Distinguished Supporter: Novelist, poet, playwright, used Freudian ideas and Greek mythology in her works, wrote lesbian novel The Microcosm. Homosexual activist and first president of the Gay Humanist Group.

Baroness Whitaker: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, Former civil servant, Labour life peer since, moved amendment to repeal the blasphemy law in Anti-Terrorism Bill.

Lord Avebury: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Lib Dem peer, founder Parliamentary Human Rights Group, Buddhist, ardent campaigner against blasphemy laws and for euthanasia.

Richard Herring: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, stand-up comedian, TV celebrity. Wrote Christ on a Bike – The Second Coming.

Martin Rowson: BHA Distinguished Supporter, writer, cartoonist for The Guardian, The Times, The Sindy, The Daily Mirror, The Spectator.

Tony Hawks: BHA Distinguished Supporter, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist, TV/radio panellist,

Peter Cave: BHA Distinguished Supporter, author, speaker, lecturer, chair Philosophers’ Group, scripted and presented BBC radio philosophy programmes.

Diane Munday: BHA Distinguished Supporter, abortionist, member of the Abortion Law Reform Association in 1960s, ex-magistrate, a director of the Rationalist Press Association.

Professor Norman MacLean: BHA Distinguished Supporter, biologist, Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Southampton University. Reared as an Exclusive Brethren.

Professor Sir Harold Kroto: BHA Distinguished Supporter, joint Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry, Professor of Chemistry, against expansion of religious maintained schools, raised Jewish.

Sir Richard Dalton: BHA Distinguished Supporter, former diplomat, business consultant, Associate Fellow of the Middle East Programme, author.

Sir David Blatherwick: BHA Distinguished Supporter, retired diplomat.

Michael Rubenstein: BHA Distinguished Supporter, publisher, writer, adviser on employment and discrimination law, Editor monthly Industrial Relations Law Reports.

Polly Toynbee: BHA Vice President and Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, writer, Guardian columnist, broadcaster, feature writer for Observer.

Lord O’Neill: BHA Distinguished Supporter, NSS Honorary Associate, Ex-Labour MP for Ochil, against ‘mixing religion and politics’.

Dan Snow: BHA ‘Distinguished Supporter’, avowed atheist, broadcaster, historian, should know better.

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Christian nursery worker sacked

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23 April 2014

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A Christian nursery worker is claiming unfair dismissal after losing her job because she said she told a lesbian colleague the Bible regards the practice of homosexuality as a sin.

Sarah Mbuyi said she made the comments only after being pressed on her beliefs by a colleague who initiated the conversation at Newpark Childcare in Highbury, north London, in January.

But the colleague gave her employers an different story and Sarah Mbuyi was called to an internal disciplinary hearing. The nursery directors instantly dismissed her for gross misconduct.

Mbuyi, who is claiming unfair dismissal on grounds of religious discrimination, said: “When I said ‘No, God does not condone the practice of homosexuality, but does love you and says you should come to Him as you are’, [her colleague] became emotional and went off to report me to my manager.”

She is being supported by the Christian Legal Centre. The story broke just days after the Prime Minister had urged Christians to ‘more evangelism’ and ‘to improve both the spiritual, physical and moral state of our country.’

Andrea Williams, the Christian Legal Centre’s director, said the government had “seriously let down” Christians and criticised David Cameron for attempting to “mould Christianity to his political agenda”. Mrs Williams said if the prime minister was “serious in his support for Christianity”, he would intervene in the case.

She went on: “Sharing Biblical truths out of genuine love and concern for colleagues is being outlawed in the workplace by a dominating cultural correctness.”

The story illustrates that the ‘acceptance’ and ‘tolerance’ demanded by homosexuals is not extended to their opponents.

They said they just wanted to be left alone to get on with their lives in private – unitl they achieved that.

Then they said they just wanted to be tolerated as a minority – unitl they achieved that.

They said they just wanted to be accepted as who they were by psychiatrists – unitl they achieved that.

Then they said they just wanted to be treated the same as everyone else in employment – unitl they achieved that.

Then they said they just wanted equal access to goods and services – unitl they achieved that.

They said they just wanted their disordered relationships to be recognised by the state – unitl they achieved that.

Then they said they just wanted to be married – unitl they achieved that.

Now we have the spectacle of Christians being hounded out of their jobs for expressing the Gospel upon which this nation is founded, or forced to act against their conscience. A ‘hate-crime’ law is operating clandestinely, clamping down on freedom of speech and freedom of expression.

And alongside the revelation that sharing a Biblical view in response to a question is ‘gross misconduct’, is not one of the most disturbing aspects of this case that a lesbian is working in a children’s nursery and no-one bats an eyelid?

Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

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Britain – Christian country or not?

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23 April 2014

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No10EasterRecep2014 — The 2014 Easter Reception at No 10 Downing Street

Senior Conservative politicians have hit back at claims by militant atheists that Britain is not a Christian country.

Attorney General Dominic Grieve and Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith told the Daily Telegraph modern Britain had “Christian heritage”.

Mr Grieve, a patron of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, said atheism had not made “much progress” in the UK.

Christian Heritage

“Many of the underlying ethics of society are Christian-based and the result of 1,500 years of Christian input into our national life,” he said.

“It is not going to disappear overnight. They [atheists] are deluding themselves.”

Mr Duncan Smith said claims that Britain was not a Christian country were “absurd” and ignored “both historical and constitutional reality”.

“It is arguably our Christian heritage, with its innate tolerance and inclusivity, that has ensured the freedom of all voices – religious or non-religious – to be heard and to be valued,” he said.

Division

The scathing comments follow a letter in the Daily Telegraph signed by a group of militant atheists, headed by Philip Pullman and Polly Toynbee, claiming that “we are a largely non-religious society” and that “constantly to claim otherwise fosters alienation and division in our society.”

“At a social level, Britain has been shaped for the better by many pre-Christian, non-Christian, and post-Christian forces,” they claimed. Maybe and maybe not. But the furious signatories, most of whom are closely associated with either the British Humanist Association or the National Secular Society, cannot bring themselves to agree that Christianity has done the most to make Britain great.

The atheists’ letter was in its turn a response to Prime Minister David Cameron’s hosting a reception for Christian leaders at 10 Downing Street and following up with a video and an article in Church Times earlier this month, all emphasising the importance of Christianity.

Reception at 10 Downing Street

At the reception, held on Wednesday 9th April, Mr Cameron said: “I’m proud to hold a reception for Christians here in Downing Street and proud to be a Christian myself and to have my children at a church school.” He went on: “I am proud of the fact we’re a Christian country and we shouldn’t be ashamed to say so.”

The Prime Minister set out three targets:

“The first is to expand the role of faith and faith organisations in our country.” This is the ‘Big Society’ again.

“Second thing is I hope we can do more to raise the profile of the persecution of Christians around the world. It is the case today that our religion is now the most persecuted religion around the world. I think Britain can play a leading role in this.”

The third thing, he said, mattered both to politicians and to church people: “What we both need more of is evangelism. More belief that we can get out there and actually change people’s lives and make a difference and improve both the spiritual, physical and moral state of our country, and we should be unashamed and clear about wanting to do that.”

Easter Message

In a short Easter message posted on YouTube a couple of days later, Mr Cameron spoke of how Christianity benefits the United Kingdom, saying that Easter is the most important date in the Christian calendar, and remembering seeing the places where Jesus Christ walked in the Holy Land.

He commended the “countless acts of kindness by those who believe in and follow Christ” as well as the broad social good done by ministries that serve the homeless and those in prison. He also reiterated his call to remember the persecuted Church around the world and affirmed that “religious freedom is an absolute, fundamental human right,” one which Britain is committed to “protecting and promoting.”

Healing power of the Church

In his article in Church Times, published on 16th April, Mr Cameron announced an £8 million grant to the church-based Near Neighbours programme and spoke of knowing the power of the Christian faith in his own life. “I have felt at first hand the healing power of the Church’s pastoral care,” he said, referring to the death of his son.

Speaking about the importance of Christianity, he said: “Some people feel that in this ever more secular age we shouldn’t talk about these things. I completely disagree. I believe we should be more confident about our status as a Christian country, more ambitious about expanding the role of faith-based organisations, and, frankly, more evangelical about a faith that compels us to get out there and make a difference to people’s lives.”

He concluded: “We can change the world and make it a better place. That to me is what a lot of the Christian message is about – and it is a confidence in our Christianity that we can all reflect on this Easter.”

Pray that the Prime Minister’s words become a reality in Government. Pray that his ‘doing God’ is not just a reaction to the electoral threat of UKIP. Pray that Mr Cameron will see the damage ‘gay marriage’ has done and will do to our society and our Christian heritage. Pray that Britain would indeed stand up for persecuted Christians around the world. Pray that the law will change to protect Christians evangelising and sharing their faith at work. Pray for a deeper understanding of our Christian heritage in the Church. Pray that God will confound his enemies.

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First race meetings on Good Friday

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18 April 2014

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The first horse race meetings with onsite gambling take place today at Lingfield and Musselburgh.

Kate Hills, spokeswoman for Lingfield owners Arena Racing, said: “One of the reasons we are having racing on Good Friday is it’s a day of leisure and people are looking for something to do.”

It is also an opportunity to make some money.

In the modern era, off-course betting shops first opened on Good Friday in 2008. Championship football matches will be held today, some shops will open. These are modern-day, secularist developments. As recently as 1986 the Daily Telegraph was not published on Good Friday.

In a sense it is rather appropriate to have gambling on the day we remember Christ’s crucifixion. The Roman soldiers cast lots for the coat of Jesus, fulfilling an Old Testament prophecy in Psalm 22.

It will be thoroughbreds racing today, but Christ entered Jerusalem as a king but riding on a donkey, again fulfilling an Old Testament prophecy:

Zechariah 9:9: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

As A N Wilson points out, even people of no faith used to recognise Good Friday as a day of solemnity.

A lot has changed in just a few years, a degree of respect for what is holy has been lost and our society has become more coarse and more crass along the way.

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‘Gay marriage’ is a farce

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29 March 2014

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The words of Jesus Christ are clear: Marriage is between and man and woman because God created us that way. ‘Gay marriage’ is a farce and a counterfeit.

In the name of inclusiveness, the first so-called ‘gay marriages’ are happening in England and Wales this weekend. The media and politicians are falling over themselves to congratulate homosexuals on ‘tying the knot’ in an orgy of sycophancy. BBC Radio 5 Live this morning even had a peer of the realm ‘proposing’ to his ‘partner’ on air.

The ‘yuk’ factor is overwhelming, and a woman referring to another woman as ‘my wife’ may result in gales of laughter, but we need to root our response in the word of God, that is, in the Bible.

The Lord Jesus Christ said this:

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

And becoming one flesh, in the full conjugal sense, is something a pair of women, or two men, can never do. Between them they lack the necessary parts of the anatomy to be achieve it. That is why they have to indulge in activities which fall short – to put it mildly – of the conjugal marital act.

The new law – the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act 2013 admits that a couple in a gay marriage cannot consummate their marriage and states they can only commit adultery with someone of the opposite sex. That may be a recognition that sexual fidelity has little relevance to homosexuality, but it is also shows that ‘gay marriage’ is a farce, a sham, a mockery of God’s holy institution.

Homosexuals were promised ‘equal marriage’ but instead they have been given joke marriage. But the pretense at marriage they will be celebrating this weekend is still a counterfeit which devalues real marriage.

Marriage has been redefined for everyone, against the wishes of the majority of people. ‘Gay marriage’ was in no party manifesto and there was no consultation on the principle of it. The Coalition 4 Marriage mustered 650,000 on their petition against ‘gay marriage’, Stonewall could not even manage a tenth of that.

Christian Voice has consistently opposed the homosexual agenda. We continue to oppose civil partnerships, on the grounds that the state should give no recognition to relationships built on perversion, but as civil partnerships convey all the benefits of marriage, Prime Minister David Cameron should have left it there.

The Apostle Paul, writing to the early church in Rome, spoke of those who become their own god:

Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature…

So homosexual desires are described as vile affections in the Bible.

It’s all bad news for our nation.

If you want to be blessed and safeguarded you don’t throw God’s righteousness in his face. You don’t turn what God calls evil into good, and turn what God made good into evil. Successive governments since the 1960s have consistently legislated away the laws of God, upon which this nation was built.

But ‘gay marriage’ is a massive step towards the social economy of Sodom. David Cameron and the rest of our leaders are responsible for casting our land away from the protection of the Almighty.

Only for the individual homosexual is there any good news and that is only in the saving grace of Jesus. His blood shed on the cross has the power to remove the stain of sin and the power of sin. No-one has to stay gay. However you became like that – and no geneticist will say that anyone is born like it – there is forgiveness, deliverance and healing in Jesus Christ.

And it isn’t just sexual sins and the sin of pride that can be forgiven by Jesus. He stands ready to forgive all who truly repent and will never turn anyone away. That is the true message of inclusiveness.

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Christian hoteliers to test discrimination laws

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17 March 2014

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Christian hoteliers to test discrimination laws - Jeff and Sue Green outside the Highland Moors Hotel — Christian hoteliers to test discrimination laws – Jeff and Sue Green outside the Highland Moors Hotel

A Christian couple hope to test equality laws in Strasbourg, reports the Sunday Telegraph.

Jeff and Sue Green own the 13 bedroom Highland Moors Hotel and Conference Centre in Llandrindod Wells, midWales. They had advertised that only married couples were allowed to take double rooms.

But at the end of last year they received a letter from the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s “legal enforcement team” informing them they could be guilty of discriminating against gay couples.

Jeff and Sue have now changed their policy to offer twin rooms only throughout the hotel, and have slanted their business towards catering for groups who are attending local events or hiring the conference centre. Jeff Green told Christian Voice that they had not actually turned anyone away, or had any actual enquiries from homosexuals wanting to book double rooms.

However, following the refusal of British courts to uphold the religious rights of other Christian B&B owners, they now plan to launch a legal case at the European Court of Human Rights.

Oddly enough, despite a report in Pink News four years ago that ‘gay-only’ hotels were to be investigated by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, hotels proclaiming that they only cater for homosexuals openly tout for business in the ‘gay-friendly’ resorts of Brighton, Bournemouth and Blackpool to this day.

Perhaps some Christians ought to try to book rooms in some of them …

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