The ‘climate change’ industry, while posing with virtuous concern, is actually being used to undermine our rights to a free, prosperous and healthy family life. There are certainly reasons to be suspicious of the motives behind this all pervasive movement.
Psalm 127:3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. (KJV)
Climate changes!
The climate has always changed as deep ice and tree ring records show and as abundant evidence from art and literature attest. During the Roman occupation of the first century grapes were grown in the north of England. By contrast, as reported by the BBC, on the Thames in the early nineteenth century revelers enjoyed a ‘frost fair’ for several days and the ice was so thick an elephant could be witnessed marching, “across the river alongside Blackfriars Bridge”.
Clearly, changes in extreme weather are a regular fact of history. We are, again, in the midst of a warm period similar to that enjoyed by the invading Romans and our native wine industry is reported to be making good business. That is as may be, but ordinary explanations for historic environmental change such as this offer no opportunity for exploitation. The morbid fear of imminent disaster generated by the ‘climate change’ cult and the freedom culling proposals offered to offset that fear are, on the other hand, an opportunist’s dream.
Imagine the means for control this movement, if conceded willingly, will afford the unscrupulous. Our freedoms will be all but abolished and draconian laws drafted and restrictions placed in terms of excessive taxation, freedom of movement, a carnivorous diet, market choice, energy consumption and of course the reduction or total denial of the right to reproduce. Such freedoms are already being eroded.
1 Timothy 4:3: Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. (KJV)
Children: blight or blessing?
In a sane society that affirms life and understands its immeasurable value, children are understood, without question, to be a wonderful gift of God. But in the climate change cult, children are a blight and not a blessing. As a result social media is seeing a steady rise in ‘anti-natalist’ groups who favor gradual decline and eventual extinction over the hopeful prospect of building a family. In another ‘trending’ BBC article we read how people like Nancy, a vegan and animal rights enthusiast, are adopting this nihilistic and morbid view. She groans:
“I feel that it is selfish to have children at this time …the reality is that the children being born into the world are creating more destruction for the environment.”
This antichrist spirit would abolish the blessing of children on an altar of false virtue. There are many defenders of this unseemly view and fewer more influential than the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. In the latest edition of British Vogue magazine (in which Meghan is guest editor) Harry rather emphatically endorses this spirit on his exclamation, “two maximum!” when asked if there might be more children on the way after little Archibald. As quoted from British Vogue, Harry went on:
“But I’ve always thought: this place is borrowed …and, surely, being as intelligent as we all are, or as evolved as we all are supposed to be, we should be able to leave something better behind for the next generation.”
Private jets for Sussex royals.
Well perhaps we should, but will there be much of a ‘next generation’ to leave something better for if this insanity continues unabated? According to unverified ‘palace sources’ the Duke and Duchess are speculating adoption instead of a second child, perhaps to ‘save the planet’ and offset the production of carbon-heavy human beings. Meanwhile, as reported in the Daily Mail, the Royals appear undeterred by similar qualms over private jets while taking back-to-back holidays in Ibiza and Nice.
Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (KJV)
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! (KJV)
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Rt Hon Stephen Barclay MP signs the order to ensure Brexit will happen on Halloween
Rt Hon Stephen Barclay MP signs the order to ensure Brexit will happen on Halloween
Over the weekend, Rt Hon Stephen Barclay MP made absolutely sure Brexit will now happen on 31st October, come what may.
The BBC did not highlight the story and nor did the Remain-supporting Guardian. Perhaps they reckoned their readers would not like the story.
It was left to the Brexiteer Daily Express to headline the event. The paper reported:
‘The Brexit Secretary signed a commencement order to bring the UK out of the European Union in a landmark do or die pledge’.
Withdrawal Act 2018 now all in force
The commencement order brought all the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 into force. MPs voted the Act through last September. Section 1 says simply: ‘The European Communities Act 1972 is repealed on exit day.’ ‘Exit Day’ was originally 31st March 2019. However, after Mrs May’s two extensions to Article 50, it shifted to 31st October.
The European Communities Act was the 1972 legislation which enabled laws from EU rulemakers to be installed automatically in the UK. It took the UK formally into the EEC, Euratom, and the European Coal and Steel Community.
Its repeal under Section 1 of the 2018 Act means the UK will directly control our policies from 1st November 2019. Existing laws made at the behest of the EU will remain in force until specifically repealed. But no new EU laws can apply to the UK starting from All Saints’ Day.
Needed a Minister to sign an Order
The very last section of the 2018 Act laid out the conditions for its Section 1 to come into force. It simply said; 25 (4) ‘The provisions of this Act, so far as they are not brought into force by subsections (1) to (3), come into force on such day as a Minister of the Crown may by regulations appoint; and different days may be appointed for different purposes.’
In other words, some sections of the 2018 Act, dealing with preparations, came into force immediately. Section 1 was a key provision which needed a Minister of the Crown to bring into force.
Theresa May refused to let Mr Barclay sign the order.
No further extension past Halloween
Boris Johnson has given the go-ahead, and immediately tweeted his pleasure at the move.
He tweeted: “We are leaving the EU on October 31st. The signing of this document means we will take back control of our laws on Brexit day.”
Signing the Order means there cannot now be any further extension to Exit Day. As Steve Baker MP said: “It is absolutely totemic. It shows a transformation in the approach, that Boris Johnson is willing to leave on a fixed date with no question of extension. It’s the do-or-die pledge in black and white. It’s not merely symbolic.
“Once it’s signed that’s it, the UK is leaving. Theresa May did not bring the repeal of the European Communities Act on a fixed date because she was always willing to extend.”
Government of national unity squabbles
Meanwhile, Remain MPs were seen squabbling over the weekend about who if anyone could form an alternative ‘government of national unity’ in the event that Boris Johnson’s administration loses a vote of no confidence in September.
The BBC love all the Remainy gossip. So they reported at length on the latest stupidity. Jo Swinson MP, who is the leader of the Liberal Democrats (14 MPs) put forward two veteran MPs. Either the longest-serving man or woman could become Prime Minister, she said. They are Kenneth Clarke and Harriet Harman. Kenneth Clarke jumped at the idea, but there has been no discernible word from Ms Harman.
However, Jeremy Corbyn made a not unreasonable response. ‘Under normal constitutional processes in Britain, when a government collapses, the leader of the opposition is called on to form a government.’
It was ‘not up to Jo Swinson to decide who the next prime minister is going to be’, he added.
Labour won’t support the LibDem’s idea, and they won’t support him.
Psalm 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
No one to form an alternative
It all means if a vote of no confidence is carried, there will be no-one else able to form a government. Under the rules of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, if there is no successful vote of confidence in a government within fourteen days of a successful vote of NO confidence, a general election must be held. The Prime Minister decides the date. No 10 has said it would be held in early November, after ‘Exit Day’.
But could a vote of no confidence succeed? With a majority of just one, it only needs one Conservative MP to vote with Labour, or two to abstain, for the vote to carry and the fourteen day countdown to start.
However, any Tory MP not voting with the whip against that motion would never stand for the Tories again. It would an act of political suicide, ‘taking one’ for the Remain team.
All will lose their seats if a no confidence vote goes through. We should therefore expect many if not all of them to abstain. So Jeremy Corbyn winning a no confidence vote is by no means a done deal.
We’ll leave comment on the No Deal scare report which also came out over the weekend to another day. The end result of the weekend’s events is the United Kingdom will leave the European Union on on All Hallows E’en 2019. Don’t expect any agreement with the EU by then. Even if there were, Jacob Rees-Mogg is a savvy Leader of the House. He is unlikely to put before the House any motion on a withdrawal deal which could be highjacked and amended by Remainers.
Jer 29:7 And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
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Not just Boris Johnson but the House of Commons now faces a Brexit Dilemma.
Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP, front-runner of the Tory leadership candidates
Ten Conservative MPs are in the race to become their party’s leader and our next prime minister.
Ten Leadership Candidates
The candidates are:
Environment Secretary Michael Gove
Health Secretary Matt Hancock
Former Chief Whip Mark Harper
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt
Home Secretary Sajid Javid
Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
Previous Leader of the House Andrea Leadsom
Former Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey
Previous Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab
International Development Secretary Rory Stewart
Brexit votes
Only four opposed the ‘May Deal’, Mrs May’s ‘Withdrawal Agreement’ with the EU. They are Mark Harper, Boris Johnson, Esther McVey and Dominic Raab. All four voted ‘No’ in the first two ‘Meaningful Votes’ held on 15th January and 12th March.
Nevertheless, all four caved in and voted for ‘Meaningful Vote 3′ on 29th March. (But then again, so did Jacob Rees-Mogg.)
The other six leadership candidates all voted ‘Aye’ in each MV. Out of the six, Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom are the only two who can also be regarded as Brexiteers. The other four are Remainers.
Brexit Strategy
So far as we can piece together, Jeremy Hunt’s big idea is to carry on with the Theresa May strategy of trying to get the House of Commons to accept some kind of withdrawal agreement. Michael Gove would ‘kick the can down the road’ by seeking yet another Article 50 extension for negotiations.
Esther McVey, Dominic Raab and Boris Johnson have all pledged to take the UK out of the EU on 31st October. All, especially Miss McVey (Mrs Philip Davies), appear keen on No Deal if necessary. She and Mr Raab have said they would call a halt to the current session of Parliament if the Commons starts to get silly.
That is a process known as ‘to prorogue’ Parliament. Some say it is so politically unacceptable it just won’t happen. The retort would be that Parliament trying to thwart the will of the people is undemocratic. Such a process would involve the Queen. Her Majesty is the only person who can actually prorogue Parliament. But HM acts on the advice of her ministers.
The Metro reports Mr Stewart said of Boris: ‘If he tried to force no deal through he wouldn’t be able to.’ But Boris doesn’t need to ‘force’ anything. If the new Prime Minister does nothing, brings forward no motions or ‘MV’s’, No Deal happens by default on All Hallows Eve. That is the law.
Mr Stewart and Matt Hancock have both ruled out leaving on WTO terms.
Launch platforms
At the launch platforms, Mr Hancock said: ‘I offer an emotionally-charged platform to improve lives that is rooted, rooted in objective fact.’ What did he possibly mean?
Esther McVey pledged to ‘sack’ every Remainer in the cabinet prior to the 31st October leaving date if she became Prime Minister.
Sajid Javid pitched himself implausibly as an outsider, Mr Gove showed up as the sensible one, and Dominic Raab tried to come across as the tough guy who will get it done.
Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson both stressed unity and both linked delivering Brexit and defeating Jeremy Corbyn.
Life and abortion
Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP.
Brexit is the big issue, but not the only one. The media have observed that Jeremy Hunt is pro-life. Indeed he voted to reduce the time limit on abortion to 12 weeks in 2008. Apparently he has promised Amber Rudd he would not be a pro-life premier. That was necessary to garner her support, so it seems. Why do women such as this Amber, Anna Soubry, Diana Johnson (author of the ‘decriminalise abortion completely’ bill), Jess Phillips etc so hate other women they want to bereave them of their children?
On this abortion issue Mr Hunt sadly failed to oppose Diana Johnson’s Abortion Bill. The House has voted for it twice, on 13th March 2017 & 23rd October 2018. The Bill went to the back of the private member’s bill queue. It is now in the long grass. The two votes were only symbolic. Nevertheless, one should expect a pro-life MP to oppose such an evil all the way. Of the ten leadership candidates, only Andrea Leadsom and Rory Stewart did that, in the 2018 vote.
At the other end of life, a bill to legalise euthanasia (‘doctor-assisted dying’) came along in September 2015. Those voting ‘No’ to it were Gove, Harper, Hunt, Johnson and Leadsom. The others abstained. Esther McVey was not an MP between 2015 and 2017.
Leadership Candidates on Sodomy
As Mayor of London, Boris Johnson showed himself relentless pro-gay. He supported every pro-sodomy initiative there was, as well as London ‘gay pride’. He opposed pro-marriage initiatives, such as the ex-gay bus adverts proposed by Core Issues Trust in 2012 as the BBC reports here.
Previously, he was saying ‘If gay marriage was OK – and I was uncertain on the issue – then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.’ In the year 2000 he was accusing ‘left-wing local authorities’ of going about ‘to waste taxpayers’ money on idiotic and irrelevant homosexual instruction.’ It is easy to see why some say he blows with the wind.
‘No Outsiders’
Only Esther McVey voted against same-sex ‘marriage’ in 2013 and Andrea Leadsom abstained. All the others voted for it (except Boris, who was Mayor of London). Nevertheless, Michael Gove, Mark Harper and Jeremy Hunt at least voted in December 2009 to exempt churches from the requirement to hire gays and lesbians.
Recently, Esther McVey has spoken up for the parents in the No Outsiders row, setting herself at odds with Government policy and Education Secretary Damian Hinds, who has declared war on parents. To see more, this brilliant article on Spiked Online sets out the issue very clearly indeed.
Just to show what we are up against, the Guardian reports comments by Angela Rayner MP. She is Labour’s shadow education secretary. She said Miss McVey’s arguments in favour of letting parents take young children out of LGBT education were “illegal, immoral and deeply dangerous”. Dangerous to whom or to what? To activists’ plans and the LGBT agenda. But Ms Rayner was not finished:
“Esther McVey is not fit to be a candidate for PM and not fit to be an MP,” she said. Wow.
Crime and morality
In recent days, the media have been awash with stories of the candidates taking narcotics when they were younger.
All this must be a sign of the times. It is also a sign of the times that Mr Johnson’s philandering is greeted by shrugs. His first marriage ended because of an affair with the childhood friend who would become his second wife. Now, after 25 years, and three more (documented) affairs, one of which led to Boris fathering an illegitimate child, his second wife has filed for divorce. It is all very modern and amicable.
Meanwhile, says the Daily Express, Boris is shacked up with his girlfriend, one Carrie Symonds.
Peace in the world
Permanent Under-Secretary Simon McDonald welcomes Boris Johnson to the Foreign Office.
It took just three days for Boris to switch from a friendly pro-Russian stance to the Foreign Office line when he became Foreign Secretary in July 2016.
The current occupant, Jeremy Hunt, has continued the anti-Russian rhetoric. Only last month he described the state-owned Russian television channel RT as a ‘weapon of disinformation’. Well, RT may not have a lot complementary to say about the UK, or the US for that matter. Nevertheless, despite that, on world affairs this author finds RT to be more trustworthy than the BBC.
Jeremy Hunt has spoken up for persecuted Christians overseas. He initiated the report by the Bishop of Truro, which we shall cover in due course. However, when the Christians are in Syria, and being persecuted by the jihadists the UK sponsored who are now holed up in Idlib province, Mr Hunt wants the Syrian Government and their Russian allies to go easy on the terrorists who are oppressing them.
All except Rory Stewart (who abstained) and Boris (who was not in the House) voted for war against Syria in August 2013. By the grace of God, David Cameron lost that vote. On the more limited operation against Islamic State, all the leadership candidates except Esther McVey (not in the House) voted ‘Aye’ on 2nd December 2015. An amendment calling for peace and reconstruction in Syria was defeated by 179 votes on the same night before the main motion went through with a majority of 174. See the Hansard report.
Foreign aid
Two leadership candidates have floated the idea of reallocating the money the UK currently sends as foreign aid. Dominic Raab would redirect £500m to create an international wildlife fund. Esther McVey is more radical. She would halve the current £14bn aid budget, directing £4bn to schools and £3bn to the police.
The UK’s commitment to spend 0.7% of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign aid is now written into our law. That means there is a scramble to dispose of the money as the end of each financial year approaches. Moreover, 38% of the aid budget goes straight to UN agencies.
The 0.7% target means the UK is second only to the United States in the sheer amount of money we spend on foreign aid. But their £25bn is a far smaller proportion of GPD than our £14bn. We are the only member of G7 to meet the 0.7% target, laid down by the UN. Aid is becoming seen as neo-colonial. The UK uses foreign aid too often to promote immorality abroad. It can also depress local commodity prices, causing local hardship. African nations like Ghana are now moving ‘beyond aid’ with a smarter approach to adding value to their raw materials. The days of foreign aid may be drawing to a close.
Latest Brexit News
HRH The Duke of York. Photo by Aaron McCracken/Harrisons
In the latest development in Parliament, Labour last night lost a motion which tried to grab control of proceedings on 25th June in order to bring in a Bill preventing a ‘No Deal’ Brexit on Halloween. The vote was 309 to 298. Seventeen Labour MPs abstained and ten voted against their leadership. Eleven Tory MPs abstained and ten voted with the Opposition. Thank God for his grace and mercy.
Meanwhile, further revelations have emerged from the memoirs of Paul-Henri Spaak about how the architect of the EU ignored public opinion. If you don’t know this name, you simply must click here for our article in which we ask if the EU was a Christian project or a Catholic plot. The answer may surprise you.
Finally, according to the Daily Express, the Duke of York is happy with Brexit. Asked by ITV news if UK entrepreneurs would succeed outside the EU he replied: ‘I see no reason why not. Businesses we see could be successful either inside a large internal market, or operating in an even larger external market.’ He stressed the ‘even larger’.
Prince Andrew made the comments during an event organised by Pitch@Palace, a business-oriented charity the Duke of York founded to support entrepreneurs and help them expand their projects.
Who to pray for?
Who should we pray for to be elected? The one who terrifies the EU is Dominic Raab. When we factor in their stance on other issues, the strongest pro-family Brexiteer is Esther McVey. Frankly, the two most likely to be sent by the MPs for decision among Tory Party members are Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. Mr Hunt is the Remainers’ favourite, while Mr Johnson is being cast as the only one who can save the Party.
Of the two, Boris is the most likely to win the Conservative activists’ votes and become Prime Minister. But all is in the hand of the Lord:
1Sam 2:7 The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
Dan 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
Lord, grant repentance
When it becomes clearer who will be elected,‘who to pray for’ will take on a different meaning. It will no longer be ‘which of the leadership candidates’ do we petition the Lord to favour, but ‘Lord, grant repentance.’ We’ll be praying for the most likely candidate and then the successful one to walk in God’s ways and to be as hard as nails on a Halloween Brexit. Another thing a new prime minister can and should do is sack Damian Hinds and appoint Esther McVey as Education Secretary. The Bible says keeping God’s commandments brings a blessing on the nation and on the one who leads:
Deut 11:22 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him; … 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you:
Above all, pray for all these candidates, indeed for your own MP, to acknowledge God and learn righteousness as the Almighty sees it:
Prov 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
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Emma Hardy MP, sponsor of today's 'No Outsiders' meeting in the Palace of Westminster.
Emma Hardy MP, sponsor of today’s ‘No Outsiders’ meeting in the Palace of Westminster.
Head teachers are gathering in a meeting today in Westminster to defend gay lessons in the wake of parental protests around pro-gay propaganda being given to primary school children.
The meeting is organised by the National Association of Head Teachers and hosted by Emma Hardy (Labour) MP for Hull West and Hessle. Homosexual activist Andrew Moffat, creater of ‘No Outsiders’ will attend.
‘Opportunities’ from New Regulations
Under a heading ‘School leaders’ parliamentary briefing on Relationships Education and equality’, the NAHT web page says:
‘Primary school leaders in some areas of the country have been the targets of campaigning, protests and abuse relating to their commitment to equality and diversity. LGBT+ inclusion has been the focus of these protests. Protesters have argued that this learning should not happen in primary schools and parents should be able to withdraw their children from it.
‘On 11 June, school leaders on the front line will provide first-hand accounts of the challenges and opportunities that the announcement of the new regulations has meant for them, within our school communities.
‘This briefing will take place on Tuesday 11 June from 3pm to 4pm in Committee Room 9 in the main House of Commons building.’
‘No Outsiders’ activist attending
Andrew Moffat (holding the 6-colour ‘diversity’ rainbow umbrella) leading the Birmingham Gay Pride parade last month.
‘Speakers will include:
‘Paul Whiteman – NAHT general secretary
Emma Hardy – MP for Hull West and Hessle
Nazir Afzal – former Crown Chief Prosecutor for North West (video contribution. This is the guy who was supposed to be ‘mediating’ between Parkfield School and the parents.)
Sara Khan – lead commissioner, Commission for Countering Extremism. (So if you stand up for your child against LGBT propaganda you are now an ‘Extremist’)
David Isaac – chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. (Gay activist and previous head of Stonewall. Here he is giving a lecture; look out for 13:50 and 1:06:10)
Jono Baggaley – CEO of the PSHE Association. (Only to be expected.)
Steve Edmonds – director of advice and guidance, National Governors Association. (What did he have to say?)
Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson – head teacher at Anderton Primary School, Birmingham. (Site of latest protests.)
Andrew Moffat – deputy head teacher, Parkfield Primary School, Birmingham. (Gay activist. Not a tecaher.)
Simon Kidwell – head teacher at Hartford Manor Primary School in Northwich, Cheshire. (What’s going on there in Northwich?)
Dean Taylor – president, NAHT Wales and head teacher in Newport.
Rob Partington – head teacher, New Moston Primary School in Manchester, and Stonewall training partner. (Parents in Manchester beware.)
‘If you would like to attend this critical briefing, please RSVP to organising@naht.org.uk.’
Prayer
Please pray for confusion in this meeting. May the Lord’s enemies be scattered!
Psalm 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Isa 41:16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
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The 'National Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission' in Kenya is awash with LGBT funding from Western donors.
The ‘National Lesbian and Gay Human Rights Commission’ in Kenya is already awash with LGBT funding from Western donors.
Later this month (June 2019) the east African nation of Kenya will host a meeting bringing together international donors of the continent’s anti-Christian lobby groups and the LGBT and Prostitution NGOs they fund, Christian Voice has learned. More about this below.
Three judges rejected claims that the law violated the new constitution, which guarantees equality, dignity and privacy.
The penal code criminalises ‘carnal knowledge against the order of nature’. Such activity is punishable by up to 14 years in prison.
Campaigners and western commentators such as the BBC complain the law dates back to the colonial era but struggle to find any convictions for what they euphemistically describe as ‘gay sex’ in Kenya.
Pro-sodomy lobby group
In such a socially conservative country it comes as something of a surprise to find a specific pro-sodomy lobby group.
But Kenya actually has a handful, of which the wealthiest is the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. (NGLHRC). This NGO led the action to overturn the law. Its leader said the legislation ‘gave rise to a climate of homophobia.’
Of course it does. The whole point of the law is to prevent homosexual activity. It also discourages lesbianism. Meanwhile, any idea that men or women can change sex is met with incredulity not just in Kenya but across Africa as a whole.
Njeri Gateru is Executive Director of NGLHRC in Kenya
Trying to use the law to change public opinion is common in the West and activists had hoped it might gain a foothold in Kenya and spread out wider.
This explains the exasperation of Njeri Gateru, co-founder and executive director of NGLHRC and her complaints about ‘prejudice’.
In March this year the Court of Appeal in Nairobi upheld a 2015 High Court decision compelling the Non-Governmental Organizations Coordination Board to officially register the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) as an NGO. In December 2012 they held an inaugural Gay and Lesbian Awards in Nairobi’s City Hall.
It is not illegal in Kenya to identify oneself as homosexual.
Western money
Swedish heiress Sigrid Rausing, based in the UK, is at the forefront of LGBT funding worldwide.
In common with other anti-Christian NGOs across Africa, the NGLHRC depends on international support. It raises little money from Kenyans. It is funded by Western foundations such as the Sigrid Rausing Trust. Trustees include Swedish heiress Sigrid Rausing herself and Establishment mzee Andrew Puddephatt.
The Trust’s website confirms: ‘SRT has supported NGLHRC since 2017. Total funds received to date: £110,000 . Current grant: £180,000 over 3 years. Grant start: 1st August 2018.’
That is mega-money. The average salary in Nairobi is currently around £6,500 per annum.
Substantial funding
Furthermore, NGLHRC claims support from ‘partners‘ such as the International Bar Association, Stonewall UK, Amnesty International and the US Department of State.
The NGLHRC 2016 accounts also reveal substantial funding from all these other wealthy overseas donors:
• Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice
• COC Netherlands
• Diakonia (Faith-based Swedish grant distributor)
• East African Sexual Health and Right Initiative (UHAI-EASHRI)
• Heinrich Böll Stiftung Foundation (HBF)
• HIVOS (Netherlands)
• Open Society Foundations (George Soros)
• PITCH Project (Partnership to inspire, transform and connect HIV response)
• The European Union
• Tides Foundation (San Francisco, US)
• United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
• The Canadian High Commission in Nairobi
Ford Foundation & KHRC
NGLHRC is not the only Kenyan NGO advocating for gay rights to have received overseas funding. The not-to-be-confused-with Kenya Human Rights Commission has also been in the money. Nairobi-based KHRC was founded in 1992 and began by advocating for genuine human rights.
In 2011 it moved into pro-sodomy lobbying and the cash started pouring in. The US-based Ford Foundation gave the Kenya Human Rights Commission a cool $1m in 2012. In 2015-2016, Ford Foundation gave KHRC another $1.5m. Also in 2016, Open Society Foundations gave KHRC £160,000.
George Kegoro, head of the Kenya Human Rights Commission, in full flow.
Revolvy says The Swedish International Development Agency, Christian Aid, Trocaire, Danish International Development Agency, United Nations Development Programme, UNIFEM and Canadian International Development Agency have also given the KHRC substantial funds.
Headed by George Kegoro, KHRC has a current staff of fifteen. Its website says: ‘KHRC will continue to engage in national and regional advocacy on the protection and realization of the rights of LGBTI persons.’
Moreover, KHRC also criticised the Kenya High Court ruling, saying it ‘legitimises homophobia by upholding a colonial culture of exclusion, discrimination and violence against minorities’.
Proxy war
There is a proxy spiritual war going on here in which Western Christians are not even engaging.
The overseas money has enabled NGLHRC to employ six full-time staff as at 2016. They include: ‘three lawyers: Mr Eric Gitari (Executive Director), Ms. Njeri Gateru (Head of Legal Affairs), and Ms. Imani Kimiri (Security Officer).’
NGLHRC specifically names the Heinrich Böll Stiftung Foundation as enabling them to hire ‘an Accounting Officer, Ms. Annet Njoki, Ms. Cori Arudi … Office Administrator and … a Media and Communications Consultant, Ms. Kari Mugo.’ The cash also allows the publication of a professional website, glossy reports and extensive lobbying efforts.
In a nation which outlaws homosexual practice, ‘in 2016, we had two student volunteers interning with us from the University of Nairobi Law School; Faith Gaitho and Chan Mubanga.’
The ‘Commission’ website even openly names its ‘seven-person Advisory Board that meets quarterly’ as Mr. George Gachara, Mr. David Kuria, Ms. Muthoni Njogu, Ms. Beryl Ogutu, Mr. John Mathenge, Ms. Louiza Kabiru and Mr. Binyavanga Wainaina.
Answer to local prayer
Kenyan Christians prayed and witnessed outside court
Consequently, it was an answer to much local prayer in Kenya that the court ruled against such a well-funded group. Evangelical and Pentecostal Christians put in much labour of prayer and spiritual warfare. Kenyan Christians also witnessed outside the court.
Catholic bishop Alfred Rotish told Reuters news agency outside the court: ‘We cannot be another Sodom and Gomorrah’. Indeed the overwhelming majority of Christian and Muslim groups support the current law. The Kenyan attorney-general himself argued against decriminalisation.
What did the judges say?
The judges dismissed the argument that a ban on unnatural practices contravened the 2010 constitution, which protects all citizens’ privacy and dignity.
Judge Roselyne Aburili (centre) and her colleagues courageously upheld Kenya’s anti-sodomy law.
Presiding judge Roselyne Aburili declared to a packed courtroom: ‘We find the impugned sections [of the penal code] are not unconstitutional’.
She also found that allowing sodomy would ‘open the door for same-sex unions’. In her commentary she added that there was ‘no conclusive scientific proof that LGBTQ people are born that way.’
The judges ruled that while they respected changes to laws on homosexuality in other countries, it was the court’s duty to respect prevailing Kenyan values.
June funding conference
Undaunted, later this month, donors and immorality NGOs will come together in a major bi-annual conference held in a secret location in Nairobi. The ‘Africa Donors Meeting’ will bring grantmakers together from Monday, 17th June to Tuesday 18th. Then from Wednesday, 19th to Friday 21st June, the ‘Changing Faces Changing Spaces Conference’ is billed as ‘Africa’s largest convening of the continent’s LGBTI and sex worker movements and donors.’
This is the seventh such conference. We read on the Global Philanthropy Project (GPP) website: ‘The CFCS VI Africa Donors Meeting in 2017 brought together 75 grantmakers from 35 organizations, representing a diversity of public and private foundations, individual and corporate funders, and government agencies, embassies, bilateral and multilateral agencies.’
Its report says it enabled ‘African activists to strategise, network, plan and reflect on achievements
and challenges pertinent to our movements’. 200 participants came including 35 donor agencies. This is big business for the African immorality movement.
The 2019 conference, costing participants between US$440 – US$2,500 is private and even secretive. Its Eventbrite page answers a FAQ on sharing about it on social media like this: ‘No! Please note that this is a non-public meeting, intended to be shared only with those who are participating in person. We request that participants respect this guidance by refraining from sharing photos, location check-ins, or other updates on social media.’
Indigenous funding?
GPP was itself founded in only 2009, as was its member fund UHAI EASHRI. Uhai is kiswahili for ‘life’ while EASHRI stands for ‘East African Sexual Health and Rights Initiative’. Its website claims that ‘UHAI is Africa’s first indigenous activist fund for sex workers and sexual and gender minorities.’
It distributes money across anti-Christian groups in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
But its claim to be an ‘indigenous activist fund’ is, as you may have guessed, economical with the truth. UHAI is solely funded by Western largesse.
A publicity still from the Baring Foundation website on its funding of immorality in East Africa.
LGBT Funding
For example, on 9th February 2018 the Baring Foundation gave UHAI EASHRI, 4 grants totaling £760,000. It went to: ‘Supporting civil society organisations working with and for lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women and trans and gender diverse communities in East Africa.’
Sigrid Rausing Trust ‘has supported UHAI since 2013. Total funds received to date: £670,000
Current grant: £390,000 over 3 years; Grant start: 1st June 2017.’ They too confirmed ‘UHAI provides grants and capacity support to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) and sex worker organisations in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.’
One website says UHAI EASHRI operates out of offices at: 3rd Floor, Suite 5, Rosami Court, Muringa Rd., Kilimani P.O. BOX 7144-00300, Nairobi.
KHRC is at Gitanga Road opp. Valley Arcade Shopping Center, P.O Box 41079-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
NGLHRC is at: Mpulla House, # 4 Arboretum Drive, (off State House Road), Nairobi, Kenya
P.O BOX 52695- 00100, Nairobi, Kenya
Ford Foundation: Rahimtulla Towers, Hill Ln, PO Box 41081, 00100, Nairobi, Kenya,
Open Society Kenya Office: 1st Floor, ACS Plaza, Lenana Road, P O Box 2193-00202, Nairobi Open Society also has offices in Kampala and Dar es Salaam.
Scripture and Prayer
READ: Eccl 10:19; Job 4:8; Psa 2:1-12, 5:4,9, 7:9, 52:7, 94:23; Prov 1:16, 4:17, 10:2, 16:2; Isa 59:7; Jer 1:16; Mic 3:11; Mal 3:15-18; Matt 16:18; Mark 7:21-23; Acts 1:8; Rom 1:26-32; Eph 6:12; 2Tim 1:7; 1John 5:19; Rev 2:26, 4:11, 20:6.
PRAY: 1 Thank God for the Kenya High Court ruling. Thank God for the prayers of Christ’s faithful people which made it possible. Praise him for righteous judges. Thank God that even in the face of extravagant Western funding of pro-immorality NGOs, his righteousness has prevailed.
2 The Africa Donors Meeting: Firstly, Pray the Lord reveals its location. Secondly, pray for a great witness outside the venue. Thirdly, pray for confusion over its proceedings and repentance among its participants.
3 On the legal front, pray firstly for a law to prohibit money from overseas donors funding organisations promoting illegal and immoral practices in Kenya. Local offices of such organisations should be shut down. Both Ford Foundation and Open Society have offices in Nairobi. Secondly, pray for the Kenyan Parliament also to pass a law to prevent persons from publishing propaganda for illegal and immoral practices.
Western pressure
It would be interesting to know what funds Her Majesty’s Government has sent over the last five years to African NGO’s promoting LGBT rights. Also, what political pressure has the UK Government and others put on the Kenyan Government about Kenya’s laws preventing sodomy and abortion?
We urge Christians worldwide to pray against the neo-colonialism of the UK and other Western nations. It is built on the racist assumption that the white man is more civilised and advanced than Africans. He isn’t. The West is decadent and ripe for the judgment of Almighty God:
Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
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!
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Andrew Moffat, author of No Outsiders and assistant head at Parkfield is in line for the Global Teacher Prize
Andrew Moffat, author of No Outsiders and assistant head at Parkfield
The notorious homosexual activist embedded as a teacher in a Birmingham primary school is to lead the city’s gay pride parade on Saturday 25th May, reports GayStarNews.
Andrew Moffat and ‘No Outsiders’
Andrew Moffat acts as assistant head at Parkfield Coimmunity School in Birmingham’s Alum Rock Road area. There he devised the ‘No Outsiders’ homosexual propaganda programme for use in primary schools. The activist has united local parents and the mainly-Muslim community against him.
In a direct challenge to parents, Gay Pride organisers have dedicated the whole event to supporting ‘No Outsiders.’ In addition they invited the activist himself to lead the parade. HSBC Bank are sponsoring the event. The theme is ‘Love out Loud’ according to an accommodation site dedicated to the ‘pink pound’.
Pages 8-9 of the ‘Pride Guide 2019’ (Click here to view) reveal that the parade will start at Victoria Square at 12 noon. From there it will aim for New Street. At the end it will take a left along the High Street. At Pandora Jewellery the parade will turn right into Carrs Lane. After a right turn into Moor Street it will head south to the ‘gay village’ around Hurst Street.
Christian Witness
The witness will be outside Pandora Jewellery in the High Street B4 7SH from 11am.
A Christian witness will assemble outside Pandora Jewellery from 11am. The aim will be to impact those parading with the truth of the Gospel. The fact that the parade is giving such prominence to both ‘No Outsiders’ and Andrew Moffat shows how important having gay propaganda in schools is to them.
And of course Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for Education is all in favour of it, as we have reported.
Make a date to join the witness on Saturday from 11 am and stand up for righteousness and the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who alone can forgive and deliver those caught up in the homosexual lifestyle.
3John 1:7 Because that for his name’s sake they went forth … (KJV)
Protests spread
Jess Phillips arguing for ‘equality’ outside Anderton Park School
Protests against ‘No Outsiders’ have been spreading. The latest Birmingham primary school to see a mass truancy over Andrew Moffat’s monster is Anderton Park Primary in Birmingham.
On Monday 20th May 2019, six hundred children were kept away from classes. Here’s a report from the BBC. It reveals gay activists turning up at the school with rainbow flags to counter-protest. That again shows how important gay propaganda in schools is to them.
Click here for the Daily Mirror’s report. You will see the local MP Jess Philips flatly refusing to support the parents. The Honourable Member for Yardley is totally sold out to the LGBT agenda
For that matter, she is also a Remainer, supporting a second referendum. The Guardian has a video clip of her in the House of Commons saying she is ‘not scared’ of Leave voters. It is a peculiar thing to say, and she is barely articulate, but it leads us to our last point.
Similarities with Brexit
Which is the similarities between the RSE row and the Brexit debate. Those in power think they can simply ignore the people. With Brexit, the people voted to leave the European union. In 2017, the two major parties stood on manifestos which promised to deliver Brexit, Undaunted, politicians from each of them, from Theresa May down, are striving for any form of Remain.
Similarly, parents of faith or goodwill do not want their children indoctrinated with pro-sodomy attitudes. Education Secretary Damian Hinds, Amanda Spielman (head of Ofsted) and teachers unions think it is ‘vital’ they are. They are fully set on using Relationships and Sex Education for LGBT propaganda.
Moreover, in both cases the elite are finding out there is a limit to how far the people can be patronised and ignored. With Brexit, watch out for the Leave vote on Thursday 23rd May 2019. With Relationships and Sex Education, the education establishment are aghast as the protest spread.
Proverbs 25:5 Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness.
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Will Israel Folau wear an Australian rugby shirt again?
Will Israel Folau wear an Australian rugby shirt again?
Australian rugby legend Israel Folau has been sacked by Rugby Australia for posting Christian beliefs on social media. Another Aussie rugby player has also been in trouble for celebrating Christ’s resurrection.
Both New South Wales Waratah’s star Israel Folau and Queensland Red’s Samu Kerevi posted over Easter on Instagram.
Sinners need to repent
It is Israel Folau who has attracted most of the wrath. His post gave a list of sinners drawn from the Apostle’s Paul’s first epistle to the Corinthians with a warning that ‘Hell awaits you’ and an admonition ‘Repent! Only Jesus saves.’
Here’s the offending Bible passage. The apostle uses two different Greek words to describe passive and active sodomites respectively. Moreover he says the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit liberated those caught up in these sins:
1Cor 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (KJV)
Meme lists eight sinners
On 4th April 2018, again on Instagram, another user asked him what God’s plan for homosexuals was. Israel Folau replied ‘HELL. Unless they repent of their sins and turn to God.’ He cited his Christian faith when explaining his views in a column for PlayersVoice. Rugby Australia’s CEO, Raelene Castle, said that they accepted Folau’s position, though they did not agree with his views. He would not be sanctioned by the organisation.
Israel Folau posted this ‘meme’ but did not even mention homosexuals in the accompanying copy.
One year later, on 10th April 2019, Mr Folau posted the widely-available image (of a kind known as a ‘meme’) on Instagram. Despite listing seven other sinners along with ‘homosexuals’, the media found gay activists rather than drunks and fornicators to condemn the post.
The next day, Rugby Australia announced their intention to terminate his contract ‘in the absence of compelling mitigating factors’.
Dismissal upheld
According to the BBC, a three-person panel has now found the full-back guilty of a ‘high level breach’ of RA’s player code of conduct. The panel has upheld the dismissal.
Israel Folau has won 62 caps for Australia, playing mainly at full back. He has scored 32 tries in a six-year international career. In the domestic competition, he has scored an astonishing 300 points from 60 tries for Waratahs over the same period. As it happens, he became Super Rugby’s top try scorer just before the current row began.
Izzy Folau is widely regarded as Australia’s current best player. He was seen as crucial to any Australian hopes of a good showing in this autumn’s rugby world cup. And he refuses to back down.
Indeed, New Zealand commentator Bill Ralston wrote: ‘With him gone, the Aussies will inevitably blame any defeat they suffer at the hands of the All Blacks on his absence.’
‘Anachronistic’ attitudes
It takes two New Zealand All Blacks to bring down Israel Folau.
Mr Ralston went on to say Mr Folau’s ‘attitudes reflect what the clergy have been saying for the past couple of thousand years and it is only in more recent, sinful times that they have become anachronistic.’
He asked several of his gay friends how they felt about Folau’s eight Instagram commandments. ‘Most simply rolled their eyes. They know what the God squad think of them already. “Who cares?” seems to be their common response.
‘Well, the Australian Rugby Union obviously cares because it’s firing him for it. Is it an overreaction; an attempt to compensate for rugby’s macho past? The tragedy from a Rugby World Cup perspective is that Folau was the Wallabies’ great hope.
‘I guess what he posted could be seen as hate speech but, seriously, these days, does anyone take offence at being told they are “destined for hell”? As an agnostic idolater, I am not worried or offended. I doubt if the gay community is, either.
‘First, he did not advocate violence, he did not ridicule or abuse in a conventional sense. He simply posted a religious warning that any of those eight groups of folk were going to hell. To be hurt by that, you would have to believe in hell in the first place.’
Of course homosexuals may play
Quite. Moreover never has Israel Folau said homosexuals, nor for that matter drunks, thieves, liars and adulterers, should not play rugby until their day of judgment. If they are up to it, that is.
Gareth Thomas
Disbelief in hell did not stop a host of twitter users taking to the ether. Welsh rugby player Gareth Thomas, who simultaneously retired from international rugby and ‘came out’ in 2009, tweeted: ‘I don’t write this with hate or anger after Israel Folau’s comments. I write with sympathy. To everyone who reads it, don’t be influenced by his words. Be the better person and be YOU. Whoever YOU is.. Hell doesn’t await YOU. Happiness awaits YOU.’
No over-statement there, Gareth.
Moata Tamaira, whoever he or she is, did not ‘mind Israel Folau being a Christian in the privacy of his own home (or church) but could he not flaunt it everywhere? Like, there could be kids, you know?’
Well, yes, Moata, there could be. Responsibility towards the next generation is just one reason us Christians feel obliged to exercise our prophetic duty.
Building a ‘new inclusive society’
One Adam Thomson decided: ‘It has become painfully clear that Israel Folau just doesn’t belong in the game of Rugby Union. His continued spread of religious fanatical bigotry is beyond dangerous to the values of the game, and to the new inclusive society we are working so hard to build.’
Thanks, Adam, for sharing what is really behind the outrage. It’s to do with being seen as politically correct. In 2013, the Australian Rugby Union started an ‘inclusion policy’ to ‘stamp out homophobia throughout rugby in Australia’. There would be ‘anti-homophobia programs for young players, along with high-profile players taking a leading role in public awareness campaigns.’ Christians, of course, are not ‘included’ in the new inclusive society.
The announcement was timed to coincide with the countdown to something called the ‘Bingham Cup’, known as the gay Rugby World Cup, which was held in Sydney in August 2014. Israel Folau supported the Bingham Cup, as it happens.
ARU chief executive Bill Pulver said, ‘Obviously, it’s consistent with other policies we have to eliminate all forms of discrimination and treat everybody with respect and dignity.’
Same-sex ‘marriage’
Mr Pulver even went so far as to endorse same-sex ‘marriage’ in his ARU capacity in a vote in Australia in November 2017.
Israel Folau wrote in his 2018 article: ‘I didn’t agree with Bill Pulver taking a stance on the same-sex marriage vote on behalf of the whole organisation, but I understand the reasons behind why he did.’
I think we all do. It’s that political correctness again. This side of the world, England rugby No8 Billy Vunipola supported Israel Folau with an Instagram post which said: ‘Man was made for woman to pro create that was the goal no?’ He was issued with a formal warning by the Rugby Football Union for this ‘homophobic comment.’ He was also summoned to talks by the RFU.
Samu KereviCommitted Christian Samu Kerevi captains Queensland Reds
Thank you Jesus
Meanwhile, fellow rugby star Samu Kerevi has apologised for ‘offending’ fans after declaring ‘I love Jesus’ in an Easter Instagram post.
The Queensland Reds captain shared a Bible verse on his Instagram account. The Fijian-born sports star posted a picture of him from a recent match with the caption: ‘For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.’
The 25-year-old added: ‘Thank You Jesus for dying on the cross for me. I love you Jesus.’
The Daily Mail headlined the story: ‘This is Australia in 2019: Rugby star apologises for “offending fans” after declaring “I love Jesus”.’
The irony was, most fans supported Mr Kerevi. Just a minority questioned ‘whether he would show publicly declare his support for gay Australians.’
No backing down
Even in his ‘apology’, the rugby ace did not back down. Mr Kerevi dedicated it to ‘anyone that I have offended in giving praise to our God on a weekend that we take off to celebrate his sacrifice for you and I’.
A spokesman for Queensland Rugby declined to comment ‘as Kerevi had quoted a text from the Bible celebrating Easter’.
READ: Luke 14:27,33; John 3:16, 7:7, 15:8; 1Cor 6:9-11; Eph 6:13; Phil 3:8,14, 4:13; 2Tim 4:2: Rev 7:13-14..
PRAY: For justice as God sees it. Thank God for the stand of men like Messrs Folau, Kerevi and Vunipola. Praise God for their Christian faith. Izzy Folau is a man prepared to walk away from rugby for his Christian faith. He is an example to us in that regard. And at a time when Christians feel obliged to apologise just for posting resurrection truth, pray for Christians in sport, pray for confusion amongst those using sport to promote wickedness and out of that, repentance.
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In the Christian Voice May Newsletter we predicted the UK would not avoid the elections to the European Parliament. David Liddington has just confirmed exactly that. And that’s not all. Secure your copy now by joining Christian Voice.
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Brexit
We lead on Brexit, where madness has taken hold of our politicians. We went to press last Thursday 2nd May, before the results of the English local council elections were in.
As we know, a week is a long time in politics. Right now, even a few days is a long time. Nevertheless, one prediction we made has already come true.
We said: ‘The Foreign Secretary has said it is an ‘absolute priority’ for the government to leave the EU by 23rd May to avoid having to take part in European elections. But it is not going to happen.’
Just two days ago, as our newsletter was being printed, Mrs May’s deputy David Liddington MP confirmed the Government had run out of time to get any kind of deal through. He said: ‘The UK will have to hold European elections’.
We also predict the Conservatives’ talks with Labour will fail. We say: ‘And make no mistake about the function of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition. It is not there to bail out the Government. It is there to oppose, to call to account, to be elected into government itself. Above all, Jeremy Corbyn does not want his fingerprints on Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement, thank you very much.’
Divorce
We report on how the Government has ignored 80% of respondents to its divorce consultation, who wanted the concept of fault to stay. It will go, along with any ability to contest a divorce. But we point out that the ‘substantive issues’ of property and residence of children is already decided on a no-fault’ basis.
We also explain the differences in Scottish divorce law from that in England & Wales and Northern Ireland. Furthermore, we observe that people have a desire for justice. Above all, it’s the divorce itself, not the acrimony, as the Government have been persuaded by the divorce industry, which does the damage to the prospects for children.
Finally, we show how the Government proposals will reduce marriage to a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. Every marriage will last until one party says, ‘You’re dumped’.
As with the Brexit issue, we give relevant scripture references, prayer points and show how to write to your MP.
Relationships and Sex Education
The Government also ignored respondents to their Relationships and Sex Education consultation. Their new guidelines have now been passed by both houses of Parliament. They come into force in September 2020. We acknowledge the single good point about them: Schools ‘must’ consult parents.
However, the Government determination for schools to promote deviant lifestyles trump rights of parents. These were set out in the House of Lords by Lord Mackay of Clashfern. You will want to read his masterly analysis. You’ll also be encouraged that there are men like Rev Dr William, Lord McCrea, in Parliament, standing up and quoting scripture.
But we are clear that parents now have only the nuclear option of removing their children if schools simply will not listen to them. Moreover, we cannot leave it all to the Muslims. So this author will gladly come to your church to set out the issues from a scriptural perspective and encourage pastors and parents to ‘fight for your sons and daughters.’
Christians under fire
We have articles on how Christians are being sacked for expressing orthodox views both here and the other side of the world. A rugby player and a teaching assistant are dismissed. Meanwhile, the gay lobby have been flexing their muscles over Evan Robert’s chapel in Wales. You’ll want to read about that. On the bright side, you’ll be encouraged by the force for Christ that is the group of Pacific Islands.
Beyond Foreign Aid
The faith of the President of Ghana will also encourage you, as we urge you to pray into Ghana’s godly attempts to break free of foreign aid. God honours those who honour him, and Ghana has refused to allow the UK to decide its policy on homosexuality.
Indeed, David Cameron’s threats to make aid dependent on pro-sodomy policies surely acted as a spur to the Ghanaians to do without it and move ‘beyond aid’. But will the West allow Africans to add to value to raw materials like aluminium and iron ore and cocoa and coffee beans?
Major abortion conference
However, the other side of Africa feminists and pro-abortionists are gearing up for a major conference in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. It’s 25 years after the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo in 1994. Now United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) are convening the Nairobi Summit.
In the Newsletter, we commend the UNFPA for its efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation. However, we take serious issue with its ‘women’s empowerment’ agenda. It sounds good, but it’s based on lies and aims to divide women from men. Reality check: most of us live in families! The other emphasis is on ‘reproductive rights’. Yes, that’s code for abortion on demand. Much prayer will be needed, and we give scripture references and action targets here as well.
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