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Government Squashes Referendum Hopes

It will be increasingly difficult for Cameron to continue to present himself as a Eurosceptic

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

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

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

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

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

‘Humiliation to the Government’

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

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

‘U-Turn’

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

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

What You Can Do

WRITE: to your MP. Check the Roll of Honour below and if your MP is not in the list, ask him or her why! Point out that it has been 36 years since the people of Britain were consulted. Back then the people of Britain were told that they were merely entering a Common Market.

Sign our online petition:

 JOIN: Christian Voice to receive our monthly newsletter and learn about how you can be involved in the guerrilla campaign we will be waging to convince MPs on the dangers of EU membership.

Further Reading

Peradventure there be 111 righteous within the city…

EU referendum: Rebels lose vote in Commons

Look what I found on the Lib Dem website

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

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

Love and tolerance = hate and violence

Police protecting Christians from homosexuals during a 'gay pride' march in Brighton in southern England.

Legalising homosexual acts leads to a tyranny against those who disagree with gay rights, as shown in this shocking video showing violence from homosexuals against Christians on 13th Agust 2011 in Brisbane, Australia.

Australians in Brisbane should have the fear of God after the floods which devastated it earlier this year, but here are gays flaunting their sin as Sodom and assaulting Christians preaching the Gospel.  Ironically, the homosexual rally against which the Christians were witnessing called for tolerance and was promoted by ‘Equal Love’.

In the United Kingdom, we have had similar homosexual violence against Christians and we are now seeing persecution of Christians at work and in business in the name of ‘equality’ and ‘diversity’.

The latest case in Britain involves housing manager Adrian Smith, demoted for not backing gay marriage.  Smith, a practising Christian, has had his pay slashed because he said on his private Facebook page that that allowing gay weddings in churches was ‘an equality too far’.

Sodomy and gross indecency between men were only decriminalised in the United Kingdom in 2003, but already our public sector is awash with cases where Christians have been sacked for things like refusing to conduct ‘gay civil partnerships’, being unable to help gays with their sex lives or for not placing children to be adopted by homosexuals.

British Catholic adoption agencies have been closed down by our ‘sexual orientation regulations’ and Christian public sector workers are now afraid to express any view against homosexuality.  The aggressive ‘gay lobby’ rules in Parliament, the Courts and Town Halls up and down the land, imposing its immorality on the rest of society.

Two homosexual men even used Government money to sue Christian hoteliers who refused to give them a double bed – and won.

 We post this ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting this weekend (28th to 30th October 2011), and pray that African, caribbean and Asian Commonwealth nations will stand against the motion being moved by Australian homosexual activist Michael Kirby

We call for compassion for all those caught in sexual sin.  The Church should be ministering the saving and healing grace of Jesus Christ to these unfortunate individuls.  Equally, human rights include no right to commit acts against nature.  The experience of the United Kingdom and Australia, to say nothing of the USA, shows what inevitably happens to those nations which legalise unnatural acts. 

 

The tyrant is dead, long live the tyrant

Jewish commentator Daniel Greenfield has posted an article about Libya on his blog.  Here are some edited highlghts with our links:

Despot: Colonel Gadhafi with Gordon Brown

‘The tyrant is dead, and the head of Libya’s Transitional National Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil,  (who was also Gaddafi’s former Justice Minister), has declared that Libya has been liberated.

‘What a glorious day it is when a country is liberated from its justice minister by its justice minister. If only Gaddafi had been quicker on the ball, he could have staged a revolution against himself and liberated the country from himself.

‘But don’t pop the champagne corks just yet. Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, who liberated Libya from himself, has also declared that it will be governed under Islamic law and that laws which contradict Islam will be abolished.

‘What can the Libyan people look forward to? In Egypt, a fellow who said something about Islam on Facebook got sentenced to three years of hard labor. Egypt, lest we forget, is a moderate Muslim state. How can you tell Egypt is a moderate Muslim state? He didn’t get the death penalty, the way he would have in Pakistan.

‘Westerners who are always on the prowl for moderate Muslims might take caution from his example. The difference between a moderate Muslim and an immoderate one, is the difference between three years of hard labor for saying the wrong thing on Facebook… and the death penalty. Instead of searching for moderate psychopaths, we might be better off asking whether we really need psychopaths at all.

‘Blasphemy laws in the Muslim world are not really about cartoons of exploding turbans and the free press, those are things that don’t exist and never really existed anyway. They’re a convenient way to keep down uppity minorities. Back when there were still Jews living in the Muslim world, charges of blasphemy were a common way of depriving them of their property or their lives. Today Christians are the main target– for as long as they’re around.

‘The Arab Spring which overthrew a moderate Tunisian government put an end to the last vestiges of tolerance. And Islamists have already been gathering outside the synagogue in Tunis and chanting the usual cheerfully peaceful slogans about the Battle of Khaybar. Which is the Muslim equivalent of snapping a Nazi salute and yelling, “See you in Auschwitz.”

‘Back in Libya there is no Jewish community, and a foolishly optimistic fellow who traveled to rebuild the synagogue there was quickly told where he could shove his liberty, fraternity and equality.

‘The Gaddafi regime was a money-grubbing totalitarian mafia, and it will be replaced by a totalitarian money-grubbing mafia, many of whose members will be alumni of the original mafia. Whoever runs the new mafia, whether it’s a “moderate” like Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, Gaddafi’s old justice minister, who wants to abolish all laws that contradict Sharia, or an immoderate, like Abdel Hakim Belhadj, commander of the Tripoli Military Council who’s also a veteran of the local Al-Qaeda franchise.

Happier days: Gadhafi meets Barack Hussein Obama

‘The death of Gaddafi does not mean a new era of human rights, only a transition to a new tyranny. The robed maniac was not the first king, sultan, bey and tyrant to be brought down by an armed mob and some foreign backed revolutionaries. This is how it has always been. The tyrant delivers his patriotic speeches, leers into the camera, alternately panders to the mob or shoots it down, and passes down power to his son.

‘What brought down Gaddafi, Mubarak and the rest of them was not the mythical popular awakening, but well-funded domestic revolutions with international backing and training, and international pressure backed by bombing raids.

‘The tyrant is dead, long live the tyrant.’

Witness Success at Pro-Abortion Conference

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Fetus

Christian Voice carried out a successful lobbying of the Marie Stopes Global ‘Safe’ Abortion Conference on Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th October 2007 .  We leafleted those going in to the conference (sad to see so many African and Asian faces and hear Eastern European accents) and passers-by all day Tuesday.  We were there again on the Wednesday.  Christian Voice National Director Stephen Green ended up preaching as the abortionists and hangers-on were coming out, from Psalm 106:37-39, Proverbs 6:17 and Deuteronomy 27:25, 30:19 for conviction of sin, and Ephesians 1:7 and 1John 1:7 to show them how the blood of Jesus Christ could wash away the innocent blood from their hands.

So we were there when it started, and there when it ended, and they knew.  The leaflets accusing the conference organisers of cultural imperialism and branding Marie Stopes the racist eugenicist she was were taken into the meeting.  The police imposed no conditions whatsoever on our witness (not wanting to give any excuse for anyone to get arrested and have their picture in the papers, perhaps).  So all went well and as is normal at our events, entirely peacefully.

But commenting afterwards on possible attempts at amendments to the Governments’ ‘Human Tissue and Embryos Bill’, Stephen Green said:

‘The idea being promoted by certain parts of the pro-life movement of reducing the weeks limit on abortion is doomed.  The last time David Alton tried that, in 1990, it blew up in his face.  A limit of 24 weeks was voted in, at the top end of pro-lifers’ fears, while pro-death MPs drove a cart and horses through it by getting an exception for handicap – even minor cases like cleft pallet – up to birth.

‘We saw it on Sunday trading as well.  When the people of God stand firm on the principles of God, from the word of God, trusting in the power of God, He honours that and works miracles.  When we go for expediency and compromise, He turns His face from us.  And we never learn our lessons (Luke 16:8b).  God does not call for a bit less legalised killing of innocents, He wants none at all.  And He expects His prophets to proclaim His word, not their own ideas.  (Jer 14:14)  So expect all the effort being put into reducing the weeks to result in nothing, or maybe just a two-week reduction, with massive further liberalisation including just one doctor’s signature instead of two, and the legalisation of DIY back-street abortion kits.

‘This year has been the Wilberforce bicentenary.  On Saturday it will be 40 years from the passing of the Abortion Act 1967.  40 years in the eyes of God is a time of testing, of judgment, and this United Kingdom is ripe for judgment, just as it was then, profiting from the capture, buying and selling of fellow human beings.  It took Wilberforce 40 years to see slavery outlawed.  Did he bring in compromised Bills, to ban a bit of the slave trade, or do it more comfortably?  No, he went for abolition of the trade straight away, then the practice of slavery itself.  The pro-life lobbyists need to wake up and smell the breakfast beverage.  Forget compromise, stand for abolition.  The day in which one of our pro-life MPs brings in a Bill to repeal the 1967 Abortion Act, will be the day we start counting down with Wilberforce.’

Read: Deut 27:25, 30:19; Psalm 106:37-39, Psalm 139; Prov 6:17; Jer 2:34, 14:14; Micah 6:7-8; Luke 1:8-45; Gal 1:15; Eph 1:7 and 1John 1:7

Footnote:
Channel 4 newsreader Jon Snow pulled out of chairing a session at the Marie Stopes Abortion conference, after being inundated by critical emails, saying he would be ‘out of the country’.  His place was taken by Sue McGregor of Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’.  The coming together at the same conference of ‘Sooma’ and a Nicaraguan delegate bemoaning that country’s heroic new anti-abortion law should remind those with long memories of the masterpiece of self-parody run on Woman’s Hour a few years ago.  It lauded their latest feminist icon, a tractor-driving, abortion-inducing grandmother from, you’ve guessed it, Nicaragua .  Anyone tuning in to Woman’s Hour for a recipe for home-made chutney?  Ah, those were the days.

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Commonwealth homosexual activist exposed

Obsessive: Michael Kirby admiring a picture of himself

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alfred Kinsey - exposed as a pervert, eulogised by Kirby

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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Life before birth – death before birth

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Baby in Amniotic Sac

 

 

 

 

Some awesome photos of what we look like in the womb.

But be warned: there are some pictures further down the page of the effects of abortion.

The baby on the top left is in its amniotic sac.  It was removed from the mother because it was ectopic – growing in one of her fallopian tubes.  They can get blocked naturally or as the result of an infection like Chlamydia.  The age of the baby is probably four weeks.  Its heart started beating three weeks from conception.  So did yours.

The baby on the top right above is eight weeks from conception.  Everything is now perfectly formed.  We all looked like this at one stage – some of us a bit darker, of course.  All we have to do now is grow.

Incidentally, the baby grows the amniotic sac itself, not the mother.  Her womb is there simply to support and protect the baby.  Even in the placenta, the blood of mother and baby never mix.  Nutrients and waste pass in opposite directions from one to the other through the placenta by osmosis.  How clever is that?

The picture below is of a baby eleven weeks from conception.  Most abortions are done at this sort of age.

11 weeks from conception

No abortionist will tell a mother honestly what her baby looks like at that age.  To give an idea of the scale, the person on the right is holding the feet of a baby which was aborted.  They have been cleaned up for the picture.

Feet of 12-week-old baby

Here is where it gets a unpleasant, but you need to know the truth. Below will be more photos of aborted African-American babies.  A lot of abortions are carried out on black women in the States, for some reason.  We’ll be adding them to this page in a day or two, so please come back.

The terrible results of a vacuum abortion. Severed arms of aborted African-American baby of seven weeks gestation

MPs to Vote on EU Referendum

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

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

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

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

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

The motion that MPs will vote on reads:

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

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

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

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

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

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

SIGN THE PETITION at The People’s Pledge to register your support of a referendum. Also sign the Express’s e-petition.

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

Further Reading

The People’s Pledge

This Crusade Can Help Free Britain From EU Tyranny

The Daily Express’s e-petition

Daniel Hannan’s Eurosceptic Articles

Extraordinary Powers Granted to European Police

European Union Articles at Robin’s Readings & Reflections

Conservatives ordered to vote against EU referendum

 

 

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Christian School Hit by Homosexual ‘Hate Crime’

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Scott Lively is author of The Pink Swastika

American homosexual activists have taken their agenda to a new level of ‘domestic terrorism’ with acts of vandalism against Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

The violence, which resulted in damaged doors and windows having to be boarded up, occurred on the morning of 15 October, the day the school had scheduled a talk from Dr Scott Lively, author of The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality and the Nazi Party.

Dr Lively’s speech, sponsored by the Naperville-based organization, Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality, proceeded as planned.

One of the pieces of concrete thrown through the window had a note attached to it that read: “This is just a sample of what we will do if you don’t shut down Scott Lively and AFTAH … Quit the homophobic (expletive)!”

Other bricks had the words ‘Shut down Lively’ written on them in addition to obscene phrases.
Hours after the attack an email was sent to AFTAH President Peter LaBarbera by someone claiming responsibility for the crime and threatening more violence against the school. It read:

‘In the early morning hours of October 15th, we put two chunks of concrete through the glass windows and doors of the Christian Liberty Academy…. We did this because at 6 p.m. today they will be hosting an event organized by the homophobic hate group Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, that [sic] will be presenting an award to Scott Lively.”

‘These chunks of concrete were thrown through these windows and doors for two reasons: to show that there is a consequence for hatred and homophobia in our community and to directly cause this event to be shut down. If this event is not shut down, and the homophobic day trainings do not end, the Christian Liberty Academy will continue to be under constant attack.”

Peter LaBarbera, head of AFTAH, commented that if the vandalism had been against a pro-gay group there would have been a hate crime probe.

“We see the homosexual agenda is becoming so arrogant in its growing power,” LaBarbera commented, “but we’ve never seen this before, what we would call ‘homofascism’ being raised to the level of domestic terrorism.”

“A lot of Christians cower in fear before the power and influence of the homosexual lobby. It’s not helpful. If you demonstrate you can be intimidated, you reward the bully. The ‘gay’ bully has been rewarded enough times, so many times they think they can get their way. We hope more churches will refuse to be bullied and will stand up to tell the truth about the homosexual agenda.”

His words were echoed by Dr Lively who said, “I don’t want to be overly dramatic, but I believe this incident may represent a turning point in the culture war. The claim of responsibility and threat of future violence by the ‘gay’ militants, ala Islamist terrorists, is unprecedented.”

Dr Lively, the author of five books and president of the California-based Abiding Truth Ministries, has long been an object of hatred among militant homosexualualists.

PRAY: Thank the Lord for the courage demonstrated by Dr Lively and the AFTAH. Calvin Lindstrom, pastor of Christian Liberty, was asked how the church was responding to the attack, and he answered, “In prayer. The Lord is our ultimate defender, and we trust the Lord will give us safety and will bring whoever did this to justice.” Their example is worthy for us to follow. May we also turn immediately to God in prayer when faced with troubles.

 

Commonwealth must resist pro-sodomy call

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

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

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

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

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

London Gay Pride March

The truth about HIV/AIDS

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

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

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

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

Legalising homosexual acts will increase gay tourism

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

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

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

Activists promoting pro-gay teaching in schools

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

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

Call to resist Western depravity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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Christian Voice Takes Stand For Male Primogeniture

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News that David Cameron is supporting changes to the laws regulating the crown’s succession was met with a firestorm of protest by lobby group, Christian Voice.

The activist organization claimed that the current laws, which give preference to firstborn males, are rooted in the Bible and cannot be changed without seriously compromising the integrity of the monarchy.

In a public announcement on 18 October, Christian Voice pledged to take all possible action to block the proposed changes, which seek to amend the 1701 Act of Settlement.

The group also said that they were putting together a Parliamentary Briefing Paper outlining the legal and scriptural reasons for maintaining the current rules.

The present laws of succession, rooted in traditions going back at least to the time of the Norman invasion, were condemned by David Cameron last week as ‘an anomaly’ that allegedly helps to ‘enshrine male superiority.’

Although the previous Labour government supported a change to the rules, it was not until the lead-up to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton that the issue was again thrust into the national limelight. Policy makers began to point out that if the royal couple’s first-born child happens to be female, it would be unfair to deprive her of the throne. Leicester East MP Keith Vaz even went so far as to argue that the present rules constitute a case of ‘sex discrimination.’

Robin Phillips, press secretary for Christian Voice, commented today, “Fairness isn’t the pertinent issue here. An hereditary monarchy is already about as unfair as you can get. If we were to alter the succession rules in order to not ‘discriminate’ against firstborn females, then it would be hard to answer those who are using similar arguments to suggest that the monarchy should be completely abandoned. A representative of the anti-monarchy group Republic recently wrote me saying, ‘once we concede the principle that the throne should be open to women, the debate will raise a lot more questions: why not a second born daughter? Why not someone else’s daughter? So, we are looking forward to this debate to enable us to highlight the unfairness of the hereditary principle in and of itself.’ If we begin pandering to the idol of equality and political correctness, we may find that we have inadvertently unlocked a Pandora’s box that can only culminate in ceding ground to those republicans who wish to dissolve the monarchy completely.”

Phillips pointed out that “Critics of male-preference primogeniture often speak about it as a simple matter of getting the Commonwealth countries to agree to amend the Act of Settlement. What they normally fail to take into account is that the Act of Settlement was only legal in the first place because it was rooted in centuries of English common law. Tampering with the common law in order to meet the demands of political correctness is something that William Blackstone warned against back in the 1760s when he wrote his Commentaries on the Laws of England.

When asked about the Queen having ‘let it be known’ that she supports such a change, Mr Phillips replied, “Her Majesty the Queen is certainly free to support the present proposals if she so desires. However, we must not forget that her fundamental obligation remains to be ‘ever mindful of the Law and the Gospel of God as the Rule for the whole life and government of Christian Princes.’ Her primary responsibility as our sovereign is to conform the monarchy to the standards of God’s laws. We will be arguing in our briefing paper that scripture supports male preference primogeniture and we trust that Her Majesty the Queen will take our arguments seriously.”

The Prime Minister will raise the issue for discussion at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting later this month. If his proposals are eventually implemented, then a first-born daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge could become Queen.

Further Reading

Gender Equality Takes Centre Stage
 

Evangelism opportunity at Anglesey Mardi Gras

Beaumaris on a typical Welsh morning!

PLANS to stage next year’s North Wales Mardi Gras in an Anglesey town have been rightly attacked by the leader of a local church, according to the Holyhead and Anglesey Mail.

Reverend Philip Evans, of Oasis Ministries in Beaumaris, said the event should not be held in the town as it was “a promotion of gay rights”.

The organiser of the Mardi Gras, Alan Jones, responded: “The church has a right to object to the Mardi Gras and we respect their right to peaceful protest, but we will carry on regardless.  We won’t be put off and we won’t be upset by the criticism.  We will welcome them if they want to attend and will treat them civilly.”

 

Gay parades are aggressive and intimidating

That would be a first.

“The event does not promote homosexuality,” claimed Mr Jones, “It’s an event for everyone which brings the gay community and the straight community together.”

That would be another first.  Every Gay Pride and homosexual Mardi Gras is there to promote homosexuality and gay rights and to intimidate and de-sensitize ordinary people.  The pictures on this page are of other ‘Pride’ or ‘Mardi Gras’ events in England and Wales.

The event, said the paper, is planned to take place from 27th to 29th April, 2012.  For more information, they advised to visit www.northwalesmardigras.com which carries thanks to various ‘drag queens’ with indecent names and to two Anglesey hotels, Tre-Ysgawen Hall at Capel Coch, Llangefni, and the Victoria Hotel at Menai Bridge.  If the webpage is correct, these are venues to be avoided by decent people.

Parading their sin - You would need a heart of stone not to weep for the poor souls caught up in sodomy.

Mr Evans is intending to lead an evangelistic witness at the Beaumaris Mardi Gras, if it goes ahead: “We think the best thing is for it not to take place, but we want to be there if it does,” he said. “Homosexuality is a choice people make and people can change.  God would help them to be as He intended them to be.”

Christian Voice fully intends to stand with Mr Evans in a concerted evangelistic outreach and witness.  Last April 2011, tucked away in the Mona Showground, the participants were isolated from any criticism or evangelism.  Next year, the narrow streets of Beaumaris are perfect for preaching and one-to-one conversations, so we can share the good news of Jesus Christ, and let these sad and damaged people know that Jesus releases not just from the stain of sin but from the power of sin.  Make a note of the date, all you evangelists out there!

 

Mosque defeated in Dudley

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Dudley MegaMosque Elevation
Dudley MegaMosque Elevation
Dudley MegaMosque Elevation
Dudley MegaMosque Elevation

Following our article on the lawlessness of Islam and why mosques are bad news for the Queen’s peace, at last some good news.

A planning application for a ‘megamosque’ in Dudley, named ‘The Pride of Dudley’ by those behind the application, was refused last month (September 2011).

Despite last minute alterations and changes to the design by the applicant, members of the Development Control Committee unanimously refused the multi-million pound proposal from Dudley Muslim Association, calling it “characterless”, “featureless”. “inappropriate” and an “alien feature”, according to Dudley News.

Dr Kurshid Ahmed, chairman of the town’s Muslim association, said the decision was “Islamophobic”.

In some further good news, Dudley Council says it plans to start proceedings to take back control of the site, which was sold to the DMA on condition that the Council should buy it back  in the absence of an approved plan by 2008.

A mosque proposal has also been defeated in Maidenhead.  However, a proposal for a mosque in Green Lane, Dagenham, was approved by the Labour-controlled council in March, possibly under the impression that it would be a ‘community centre‘.

Conclusion: We are in touch with a planning lawyer (Gavin Boby) who assures us that it is possible to stop mosques at the planning stage if we know about the application early enough.  If any of our members feel called to keep a weather-eye open for such applications by devoting an hour or two a week to various council websites, please let us know.  Likewise if you want Stephen to come to your church and share about Islam and how we can seek the Lord to oppose it and win!

P.S. It was reported in 2014 that planning permission was granted for the Dudley Hall Street Mosque, but as at September 2025 it is not clear if the mosque was ever built.

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“180” Abortion Video

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(Courtesy of http://180movie.com/ and shared here with permission)

Defend Marriage Petition

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

The text is simple:

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

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

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And for that very reason we do not advocate or support signing petitions on the No10 or other Gvt websites …

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Mosques mean criminality

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Mosque being built in Reading
Mosque being built in Reading

New figures for the  numbers of Muslims in prison have revealed the shocking connection between Islam and criminality.

Despite being less than 5% of the population at the time of writing, Muslims represented 12 percent (9795) of the prison population in England and Wales in 2008, according to the latest available figures.

Muslim gangs are running many prisons, according to a BBC report.  In high security prisons, Muslim percentages are well above average.   In 2008, Muslim prisoners accounted for 34 percent of prisoners in HMP Whitemoor, in Cambridgeshire, and about 24 percent of inmates in HMP Long Lartin, in Worcestershire.

Ironically, Muslim criminals enforce a strict Islamic code in many of our prisons: people can be beaten up for eating pork or listening to western music.  Inmates are being recruited into Islam and Muslim lags are being radicalised.

Britain is not alone: In Belgium the figure is 16% (12.8% Moroccans, 3.1% Turks) (EUMAP), 35% (NEWS) in Denmark 20% (NEWS).  French prisons have between 50% and 70% Muslims (NEWS, NEWS, NEWS) whilst in Norway the figure is over 30% (NEWS) and in Spain 70% (NEWS).  Not even Switzerland escapes, with 57.8% Muslims in Champ-Dollon prison alone (Champ-Dollon PDF).  See HERE for the source of that information and more figures.

“The connection between criminality and Islamism is very tight in Europe,” said Michael Radu, a terrorism analyst at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.  See Islamic radicalization feared in Europe’s jails.

Now it’s very hard for us in these islands, with our strong Christian heritage, to get into our minds that a mosque in an area can promote criminality. We are used to religion being a force for good. It’s a real scandal when a priest is caught molesting a choir-boy, a vicar committing adultery or a pastor failing to account for funds. People say they expect better from a Christian and they are right. The example of Jesus Christ leads Christians to peace and to keeping the law.

You don’t find Christians in prison for running illegal betting syndicates, manufacturing drugs, organising prostitution rackets,using violence to protect their interests.  But it is not at all out of the ordinary for Muslims to be involved in these activities. You can do all of that and still be a ‘good Muslim’. Sadly, the example of Mohammed, who according to the Islamic scriptures was a brigand, a murderer, a torturer, a slave-owner and a rapist, who changed the rules to suit himself and taught his followers to lie in the cause of Islam leaves plenty of scope.  See HERE

That is why the building of a mosque will lead to an increase in criminality in an area.  Radicalisation does not just bring the threat of terrorism, it brings the prospect of protection rackets and prostitution for the reason that Muslims – and radical Muslims in particular – despise non-Muslims and the indigenous population of the land.  We are viewed as fair game to be plundered for the increase of Islam, whilst young un-attached non-Muslim females are seen as little more than the booty of war.

The disturbing reality of Muslim gangs grooming non-Muslim girls was exposed earlier this year.  We shall return to this topic which gives added impetus to our prayer against the proposed ‘megamosque’ in West Ham.

Figures of Muslims in British jails:

2003: 6,136 (8%)
2004: 6,571 (9%)
2005: 7,246 (10%)
2006: 8,243 (11%)
2007: 8,864 (11%)
2008: 9,785 (12%)

Carry on Preaching, say police

 After an initial flurry in which two intellectually-challenged policemen from the Lancashire Constabulary told the owner of a Christian cafe in Blackpool that displaying this Bible texts was a breach of public order laws, the police have now apologised.

Jamie Murray, the owner of the Salt and Light coffeehouse, uses a set of DVDs that display the words of the New Testament on a screen on the cafe’s back wall.

Apparently, two officers from Lancashire Constabulary told Mr Murray that a member of the public had complained about ‘homophobic material’ and sid he was in breach of section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986.

The police, as the Christian Institute pointed out, ‘got the law wrong’. The cafe can carry on displaying the word of God. There is no need, as some are arguing, for a change in the law to remove the word ‘insulting’ from the Public Order Act.  Atheists are certainly in favour of such a change because of the embarrassment they feel in the face of each new episode of anti-Christian police persecution.

But as Ann Widdecombe has pointed out, in every case the police have had to back down and pay compensation to those falsely arrested or charged.

With all the pressures from secularists are and the government to legalise gay marriage, the demands of our time in the fields of abortion and sex education, but a continued threat of civil action against Christian hoteliers, surely we have more important things to concern us.

The police are slow learners, but there will come a time when the lowliest officer on the beat actually knows the law and the judgement of thank you Lord Justice Sedley in the case of Alison Redmond-Bate (1999).

The message is clear: ‘Carry on Preaching’!

You would need a heart of stone …

… not to cry – or is it not to laugh?

As the Government announces its intention to legislate a lie and allow two men or two women to ‘marry’, here are two of the most ludicrous recent civil partnerships which are already bringing marriage into disrepute.

The first is the Star-Trek-themed bash in Swansea where two middle-aged women, one of whom accompanied by her two young sons, became ‘civil partners’.  In other words, at least one of the pair was a fully-functioning heterosexual before deciding to be a lesbian.

The Daily Mail, in all seriousness, reported: ‘46-year-old Anita’s children threw themselves into looking good for their mother’s big day.’  Now either Anita was one of the one-in-six adults currently living in sin, or she was married, in which latter case, she would have had a rather more Godly ‘big day’ before these two boys were born.

The second is the civil partnership between two male-female transsexuals in Cambridge, one of whom served as mayor of the City and the other as his consort.

The Cambridge News reported:  ‘The ceremony at Shire Hall only took a few minutes and was attended by two witnesses who threw confetti over the happy couple.

‘Antoinette Jackson, chief executive of the city council, said: “Jenny and Jennifer had a great year when they were mayor and mayoress, and we’d like to wish them all the best on their happy day.” ‘

 

Debunking the Palestine Lie

The video below is a useful resource for debunking some of the common myths about a Palestinian state that are currently being perpetuated by the media and by America’s President Obama.

Forced adoption: how the Lord must grieve

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Christian Voice is currently preparing a major feature for our upcoming newsletter on the evils of forced adoptions in Britain.  As our report was being prepared, news broke about another heartrending story.

Sam, 23, had her baby Angela removed from her in 2009 when Social Services concluded she was psychologically damaged and therefore unfit to be a mother. Social workers have also threatened to remove any future children Sam bears. However, independent psychologists who analysed Angela have said she is fine.

Christian Voice has been in touch with Ted Jeory, the journalist from the Express who covered the story, and he reports that Sam is still waiting for a verdict that will determine whether she is allowed to have her daughter back.

The trouble started on the very day Sam gave birth to Angela in late 2008. Because Sam had grown up with 12 sets of foster parents, social services believed she must be psychologically scarred and so they placed her and her newborn in a family assessment unit with drug users and alcohol abusers.

Six months into the observations social workers claimed that mother and daughter were not bonding sufficiently and that Angela should be placed in care.

Last year Sam asked the European Court of Human Rights to intervene, after she had exhausted all ordinary legal channels.

“It killed me and it still does,” she was quoted by the Express as saying.

“I was treated like a criminal in there. I really didn’t feel I was given any help and they wanted me to fail. They said I wasn’t bonding and that she was losing weight. I’d had post-natal depression but I was bonding with her.

“She was and is so special to me. I still have nightmares about the day they took her from me. She was clinging to me, she knew something was wrong, she was upset.

“I had to put her into the social worker’s car and she started screaming. I wasn’t allowed to do anything. They just made crystal-ball predictions without giving me a chance. I wanted another assessment but they refused.”

When will this evil of social workers stealing children stop?

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Gay marriage proposal overturns reality

Gay 'blessing tent' at Cardiff Mardi Gras

We have become accustomed to gay rights taking precedence over the right to express the Christian faith.  Whether you are a counsellor like Gary McFarlane, or Christian hoteliers like Peter and Hazelmary Bull, or a registrar like Lilian Ladele, you will find that the law no longer upholds the Christian faith when it runs up against the new legal steamroller of homosexual equality.

But now gay rights is about to over-rule reality.  Equalities minister Lynne Featherstone MP announced in the safety of the Liberal Democrat 2011 annual conference that pairs of homosexuals will be able to enter into a marriage.  A consultation on the mechanics but not the principle will begin in March 2012.  The proviso that they will only be able to ‘marry’ at a registry office and not in church is carefully designed to silence opposition from the mainstream denominations – and also from Muslims.

Christians must still oppose this measure and point out the enormity of what is being done.  Human Society has understood marriage to be the union of a man and a woman for 6,000 years.  With the exception of the decadent West, it is still understood like that all over the world.  What the Government is proposing is a seismic shift in the definition of marriage. 

 

It is easy enough to demonstrate the absurdities of the idea.  Are two men both going to be ‘bridegrooms’?  Lesbian couples often call each other ‘brides’ as in ‘the brides wore matching dresses’ or ‘one of the brides wore a dress and the other a tuxedo.’  We recently reported on two of the more ludicrous recent civil partnerships.  And when they are married, will one call him/her-self the ‘husband’ and describe the other as his / her wife?  Or will they both be ‘husbands’ or both ‘wives’?  Or will they risk an epidemic of nausea by each pretending to be ‘the spouse’ of the other?

Are the Government seriously expecting these sham marriages to be recognised as the real thing when the parties travel overseas?   And what of civil partnerships?  Are they to be abandoned or retained?

The deputy prime minister and leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg wrote: “I support gay marriage. Love is the same, straight or gay, so the civil institution should be the same, too. All couples should be able to make that commitment to one another.”

But love is not the same, Nick.  The love you have for your wife is expressed sexually.  The love you have for your brothers and sisters is not.  Homosexuals eroticise a love which should be platonic.  This is usually because of unmet needs in childhood, by a lack of affirmation from the parent of the same sex as a man or as a woman.  It is not pathological to be emotionally a nine-year old at the age of nine.  It is at the age of twenty-nine.

Homosexuals need understanding, and they need healing for the underlying pathologies.  That healing may come from the psychiatric profession, but now that most of them have gone like dead fish with the politically-correct flow, the gap should be filled by the Church, ministering the saving and healing power of Jesus Christ.  However someone became gay, they do not have to stay gay.  That is a choice.

Where this is headed is anyone’s guess.  Nine years ago, 41% of Scots agreed with gay marriage.  That displays a shocking enough lack of connection with the reality of life.

But today, after just five years of civil partnerships being conducted in the UK, including in Scotland, that figure has risen to 61% in favour.  If public opinion can be swayed like that by a new law combined with the preaching of politicians and the media, how long will it be until all but a remnant in Scotland, and in the UK for that matter, are in favour of enshrining in law what God describes as an abomination and of overturning the natural created order?  On a dispassionate reading, Sodom was like that.  And can a Sodom-esque clamp-down on the freedom of speech of those who disagree be far behind?

The Lord Jesus Christ said (in Mark 10:6-8) that from the beginning of the creation God made us male and female and that is why a man leaves his father and mother to cleave to his wife.

So (1) Jesus believed in creation not in evolution,

(2) He spoke of some kind of marital ceremony in which the wider society is approvingly involved and

(3) He then said ‘they twain shall be one flesh’ and reinforced the point ‘so then they are no more twain, but one flesh’.
And being one flesh is something a pair of homosexuals, two men or two women, can never be.  Between them they physically lack the complementary parts of the body necessary for that God-ordained one-flesh union, and their lack of physical complementarity speaks of a lack of emotional compatibility as well.  The author and physician David Reuben said ‘homosexuals are trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces.’

Given that a marriage has to be consumated to be valid in law, how are two people who do not possess between them the full set of parts of the anatomy necessary for such an act supposed to do that?  Or will that requirement be thrown away?

None of these arguments will make any difference to the Governments’ gay rights juggernaut.  Facts don’t matter in a post-modern society.  But Christians have the right, indeed the duty, to witness to the truth in season and out of season, (and it is very much out of season right now). 

READ: Gen 2:23-24, 19:1-25 (see esp v19); Isaiah 1:9; Mark 10:6-8; Romans 1:24-27; I Cor 6:9-11; Rev 22:14-15.

PRAY: For this nation to wake up and come to its senses.  For righteousness in the Queen’s ministers or for them to be replaced with men after God’s heart.  For compassion and healing for those suffering from same-sex attraction.  We have no power or might against the forces of the gay rights lobby in government and the media, but our eyes are on the Lord of heaven and earth who can send a miracle to a praying, believing, active people.

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