Gay rights activists were left disappointed this weekend as the Commonwealth ignored their demands to legalise homosexual acts.
Calls from Australia and Canada at the 2011 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Western Australia, echoing William Hague’s earlier speech to the Commonwealth People’s Forum, were opposed by African, Asian and Caribbean nations.  Only Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom have enacted full gay rights. India’s High Court legalised sodomy and gross indecency in 2009, and South Africa has legalised homosexual activity in line with their pro-gay constitution, but both have stopped way short of the kind of measures which have seen Christians targeted by homosexual activists in the United Kingdom.
This positive outcome is a victory for righteousness and comes after Christian Voice organised a campaign of prayer throughout the Commonwealth. Christian Voice also exposed Michael Kirby, the Australian delegate who put down the motion to legalise unnatural acts, as an obsessive homosexual.
We give God the glory that David Cameron was left blustering on BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that he would use foreign aid to enforce his view, but admitting that any country’s position on gay rights was just ‘one of the things that will determine our aid policy’ and recognising that ‘they are in a different place to us on this issue’, suggested by Andrew Marr as ‘some sort of bizarre Western fetish’. You can watch the interview until 5th November 2011.
The reality is that Britain must get rid of its overseas aid budget somewhere. If it refuses to give aid to those African and Caribbean nations which view sodomy with disgust, it is a bit stuck. However, in the past it has used aid ‘creatively’ to support projects aimed at softening up populations to accept immorality and feminism.
The Department for International Development is targeting its aid to fewer countries. Its website says: ‘Our resources and impact will be concentrated on 27 countries which account for three quarters of global maternal mortality and nearly three quarters of global malaria deaths: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tajikistan,Tanzania, Uganda,Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.’
If International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell takes out all the countries which criminalise sodomy, he will be left with Burma, the Congo, India, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, South Africa and Tajikistan.  But even then, public displays of homosexuality are a cultural taboo in pretty well all of them. Those committing homosexual acts in Congo, for example, are prosecuted under public decency laws. So are the children of current British aid recipients going to be denied secure schooling, vaccination,  safe drinking water and improved sanitation? Does Cameron want women to die in pregnancy and childbirth and newborn babies to die needlessly without British aid?
Actually, African voices are beginning to voice the idea that foreign aid does more harm than good and if it is going to be attached to pro-gay strings the argument is made all the stronger. A good argument is made that foreign aid is there to make our politicians look caring for their own political advantage.
By a picture of a smirking Mitchell, the DfID website also says it wants to ‘help 10 million more women get access to modern family planning’. Mitchell is one of the House of Commons’ most pro-gay and pro-abortion MPs. As ‘modern family planning ‘ means abortion, and as the British Government is going to use foreign aid to campaign for that as well as for gay rights, these aid recipients are better off without it.
David Cameron’s words “These countries are all on a journey”.
Does he know the destination – The christian does.
I totally agree, but I have to say that I am disgusted that our ‘Department for international Development’ is giving aid to what it describes as the ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’ – This is the Land of Israel that Britain promised in the Balfour Declaration & was ratified at the San Remo Agreement.
As Christians we should be pointing out that God will not bless those who curse Israel,which is what these people do, they are not really interested in a Palestinian State but are hell bent on destroying the State of Israel. We should not be playing into their hands! See Zech.12.V.3
Amen.
I wonder where all this is headed. Well did Jesus prophesy that in the last days, “iniquity shall abound and the live of many shall wax cold”.
May the Holy spirit empower you Stephen, even when men seem to be waxing cold.
The simple matter is, an homosexual act is not natural.whatever other feelings
gay people have towards each other .
They certainly should not be allowed to adopt other peoples children.
I take it from the above that in India and South Africa Christians like myself could still criticise homosexual behaviour without fear of being victimised, like in the UK?
well done Christian Voice Head and all supporting and working for the truth and Biblical teachings.we have the authority over sinning world, but this can be exercised only through prayers,christian voice you are doing great job by bringing such alarming sinful approaches to believers.God have mercy upon UK, Canada,Australia,and New Zealand,
The view is probably biblical, probably, because there is nowhere in the Bible where Xianity criminalizes any conduct, let alone homosexuality! The Bible, as I understand it, describes sins and in no way prescribes that sins be content for criminalization. I think that the Xian view must be able to make this distinction. If we do not we, end up in giving the correct information for public policy!
The statement is certainly not theological. A biblical teaching is always in context. This includes teachings on homosexuality. I think that the correct theological view is that homosexuality is sin; no theologian would term homosexuality a crime. We do not suggest that adultery is a crime. we know it is a sin.
More fundamentally, this stance is problematic. It seems to suggest that spiritual purity should be enforced by state law. And that may not be a biblical stand, even a theological one.
To the contrary, Sir.
The Bible certainly and emphatically lays down a civil law code to be administered by the state, beginning in Genesis 9, expounded in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy where Israel is told to be an example to every nation (see Deut 4:6-8), referred to in Job (see Job 31:11), the Psalms (see eg Ps 2, Ps 19, Ps 94:20 etc etc), Proverbs (see Prov 14:34) and Ecclesiastes (eg see Eccl 8:11) reinforced by the prophets (look at Isaiah 1:21, 42:1-4, MIcah 2:1, 4:2, Habbakuk 1:4), endorsed by the Lord Jesus (Matt 21:22; Luke 19:27; John 19:11) given weight by the Apostles (see Romans 13:1-6; 1Tim 2:1-6; 1Peter 2:13-17) and brought to fruition in Revelation (see Rev 5:10, 11:15, 20:6).
Any society which does not keep sodomy as a criminal offence endorses that sin corporately and ends up like Sodom, where law was turned on its head and righteous Lot was told not to be judgmental (see Genesis 19:9)! We know what happened to Sodom and Britain is heading down the same road. Our judgment could be by fire or perhaps to be taken over by Islam. So we warn African nations not to legalise western evils like sodomy and abortion lest they become like us, where sin and evil is paraded through the streets and the righteous are persecuted.
I am interested to note that the article above equates “immorality” (sodomy in the context of the article) with “feminism”
Many congratulations with the success you have had with your Commonwealth Heads of State campaign to oppose David Cameron’s pressure on states, to support Gay Rights.
I do have a problem with homosexuality being singled out as the sin above all sins (so to speak)
Does the bible grade sins?
Whilst i agree that we should stand against this practise and be given the freedom to disagree,let us not forget that homosexuality is no greater sin than adultary,fornication,stealing,lying etc..
The bible clearly tells us that ALL have fallen short, not just the homosexuals.
Dear Amanda,
You have it the wrong way round. We are reactive on this one, just as the Prophets were on the current sins of their times. It is not us singling out homosexuality, but the homosexual activists singling themselves out in demanding special rights and the overturning of millennia of law and custom. There are no marches for Liars’ Pride, no Thieves’ Mardi Gras, no pressure group of adulterers with their feet under the table in No10 Downing Street. Indeed, all have fallen short of the glory of God (and the saved are in gratitude for the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus) but only one set of sinners is demanding that both state and church must honour their sin as righteousness.
Stephen
You are perfectly right in your response to the above comment, homosexuality is not being singled out as the sin above all sins.
Harriet Harman’s Equality & Diversity Bill was not based on equality for homosexuals but positive discrimination in their favour to the detriment of everyone else especially Christians.
Amen to Mrs C SNOWDONE.
It says in Isiah: ‘The nation that shall not serve you (Israel) shall utterly perish’ – how history records this as nation-states from Imperial Russia to Nazi Germany have fallen, owing in one part to their treatment of Jews. Remember how they were portrayed in Fiddler On The Roof?
Homosexuality is abhorrent to God. (Deut) it is an unnatural act, against nature.The bible clearly states it is wrong for a man to lay with another man, and a woman to l ay with another woman.
Sodom and Gommorra was destroyed by fire because of it,and God clearly warns mankind in his word (The Holy Bible) of the consequences of it.
It is not for us to Judge people, it is for God, and Him alone. We are called to love the sinner, but hate the sin. and we are ALL sinners, as the Bible says.
Dear Ivy,
If, by ‘It is not for us to Judge people’ you mean the final judgment, then we agree, but if you mean that it is wrong to be a magistrate or the witness in a trial, then we part company. Of course we must make moral judgments and the Church must proclaim God’s righteousness and judgment as well as God’s lovingkindness, grace and mercy. It’s called being prophetic.
i think david cameron is medically unstable.he has no fear of God and he will perish in hell. How can he mount pressures on nations to legalise homosexuality. He must lack moral ethics
He certainly has no fear of God and lacks moral understanding, which makes his call for ‘proper morals’ after the riots here in August quite ironic. But we cannot accuse him of medical instability; he isn’t mad, just bad.
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