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Paedophiles ‘not sick’, say academics

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Stephen
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No attempt is made to restrict the age of those attending homosexual events, not even on the Crimestoppers stall at the Cardiff 'Mardi Gras'

A pro-paedophilia group and several academics have launched an offensive for the normalization and legalization of paedophilia in America.

On August 17 of this year, the pro-paedophilia group B4U-ACT sponsored an event in Baltimore, USA, attended by researchers, professors, mental health professionals, and “minor-attracted persons” (MAP, a euphemism for “adults who crave sex with children”).

Chris Banescu, who reported on the event, says:
‘Referring to Judeo-Christian moral principles and values as “cultural baggage of wrongfulness” and an adult’s desire to sexually molest a child as “normative,” these predators with Ph.D.s are hell-bent on destroying key moral boundaries and critical societal norms that protect innocent children from pathological and dangerous adults.’

The individuals, who included academics from Johns Hopkins University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the London School of Economics, consider adult molestation of children not as a sexual perversion but as normal.

Among the statements made and positions taken at the conference were these:
•”We are not required to interfere with or inhibit our child’s sexuality.”
•”Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult.
•An adult’s desire to have sex with children is “normative.”

Banescu says those present already ‘advocate for the declassification of pedophilia as a mental illness by the American Psychiatric Association (APA).’

In the early 1970s, Peter Tatchell, who contributed to the British paedophile campaigning book ‘Betrayal of Youth’, and other homosexuals, put political pressure on the APA to declassify homosexual attraction as a psychiatric disorder.  They brought no evidence, but turned up remorselessly to disrupt meetings and browbeat APA officials until the Association gave in.

Forty years later, the same slippery slope has descended to pressure for the declassification of paedophilia from the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. After all, Jacob Breslow, Graduate Student in Gender Research at the LSE, in the paper he presented at the Baltimore meeting, said: Allowing for a form of non-diagnosable minor attraction is exciting (and) a step that follows historically and theoretically from the removal of homosexuality (from the DSM) .  Abstracts Here.

These are the early stages, but watch this space.

Petition for freedom of speech

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Stephen
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September 15, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Homosexual activists are pressuring PayPal to cut off the accounts of pro-family Christian organizations that oppose the homosexual political agenda and uphold sexual morality, and PayPal is showing signs that it may capitulate to their demands.

The homosexual organization behind the effort, All Out, claims that such organizations as Tradition, Family, and Property, and Americans for Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), as well as pro-family Christian activist Julio Severo, promote “hate, violence, and intolerance” and are “extremist.”

“Thanks to PayPal, its (sic) easier than ever to send and receive money across currencies and continents – but it is also PayPal’s responsibility to make sure this technology doesn’t fall in the wrong hands. Anti-LGBT extremists all over the world are currently using PayPal to fundraise for their dangerous cause,” writes All Out.   “Not only is it against PayPal’s rules to promote promote ‘hate, violence, [and] racial intolerance,’ hate groups also damage PayPal’s brand and credibility. We ask that PayPal join the fight against online hate and immediately shut down the accounts of anti-LGBT extremist groups using the service.”

All Out says that is has collected almost 35,000 signatures on its online petition.

According to the European homosexual news service PinkNews, PayPal has responded by stating, “We take very seriously any cases where a user has incited hatred, violence or intolerance because of a person’s sexual orientation.”
Although it adds, “we also take into account the rights of free speech and freedom of religion,” PayPal reportedly goes on to note, “we regularly review organisations and websites that use our service, and stop working with those that break our Acceptable Use Policy.”

LifeSiteNews.com has created its own online petition at the website ProFamilyFreedom.net, which states: “I protest the attack by homosexual organizations on Christian activists Julio Severo, Americans for Truth About Homosexualty (AFTAH), and Tradition, Family, and Property (TFP). I encourage PayPal to affirm the right of pro-family organizations to use its service and to reject attacks on the Christian faith and other religions that uphold sexual morality and defend family values.”

The campaign has originated in the US, but could easily transfer this side of the water.  Please sign the petition to stand up for religious values, conscience and free speech.

 http://profamilyfreedom.net/

Israel needs prayer for UN summit

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Stephen
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The State of Israel needs much prayer for the UN Summit meeting next week.

Anti-Semitic Durban Declaration 10th Anniversary

On the 22nd, the UN is holding the tenth anniversary of the anti-Israel Durban Declaration but the UK, Canada and Israel have already announced they will not be attending and there is prayer and pressure for the US to follow them.

“That conference, and the anti-Semitic atmosphere in which it was held, was a particularly unpleasant and divisive chapter in the U.N.’s history. It is not an event that should be celebrated,” said Foreign Secretary William Hague.

The United States and Israel walked out of the original 2001 World Conference against Racism, held under U.N. auspices in Durban, South Africa, over Arab attempts to brand the Jewish state racist.  A follow-up conference in Geneva in 2009 also descended into chaos with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad prompting a walk-out when he called Israel a “cruel and repressive racist regime.”  (Reuters)

Palestinians may push for statehood at UN

The next day, Friday 23rd September, may see a showdown between Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Abbas planning to push for membership for a Palestinian state and Netanyahu arguing against it.

“Despite the pressures that we face, Palestine goes to the UN on the 23rd of this month to seek admission as a full member,” Abbas told Egyptian TV on Wednesday.

TheUnited States has threatened to veto the move if it is made in the UN Security Council, saying it would harm prospects for peace talks and that a Palestinian state can only result from negotiations with Israel. Britain has not yet made its position clear.

Confusingly, the Palestinian envoy to the UN said the Palestinian leadership has not yet decided whether to seek full membership and on Wednesday Abbas assured Saudi and European officials that he would  not press for statehood.

Israel is strengthening security in Judea and Samaria (the so-called ‘West Bank’) ahead of expected Palestinian violence to conincide with the UN move.

Turkey rattles its sabres but Greece is a friend in need

Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Tunisians last Thursday his country could have frigates and assault vessels in the eastern Mediterranean “at any time” to ensure freedom of movement. 

“Israel will not be able to move in the eastern Mediterranean as it wishes,” Erdogan said at a joint news conference with his counterpart, Interim Prime Minister Beji Caid el Sebsi. “It will see our determination in this regard.”

The comment follows the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador and  its other high-level diplomats from Ankara in the wake of the Mavi Marmara Gaza flotilla affair in May 2010 and raises the spectre of a possible maritime confrontation with the Israeli navy.

On the positive side, Israel and Greece have invoked their new, secret mutual defense pact to counter heavy Turkish sea and air movements in the eastern Mediterranean. They also agreed to share intelligence. Israel’s expanded cabinet of eight was called into session over the Turkish threat to its off-shore oil and gas rigs.

Three Faiths Forum appoints anti-Israel intifada supporter

Lastly, although many other stories could be brought to the light, the Three Faiths Forum has selected a student who called for a third intifada against Israel for its parliamentary leadership training.

On Twitter, Nadia Marques de Carvalho, who attends the London School of Economics, supports a violent uprising against Israel, and urges people to boycott the country, tweeting: “If I lost everything I had at the hands of Israel, I would become fearless. Most dangerous predator. Palestine, realise your strength.”

 The Three Faiths Forum website, which numbers Lord Carey of Clifton among its patrons, and is funded by Ealing Council among various wealthy trusts, says it ‘has worked to encourage harmony and confront prejudice for the last 14 years … and to encourage friendship, goodwill and understanding, especially between Muslims, Christians and Jews’

It is not readily clear how Ms de Carvalho’s appointment will assist those aims.

WRITE:  The Three Faiths Forum say on their contact page: ‘We would be pleased to hear from you’.  Write of email using the contact details below. 

Contact:  Three Faiths Forum
Star House
104 Grafton Road,
London NW5 4BA , UK
Phone 020 7482 9549, Fax 020 7485 4512, email: info@threefaithsforum.org.uk

PRAY: Into all the problems facing Israel.  Pray for the Durban Declaration to be abandoned, for Mr Abbas to give up on his statehood ploy, for peace in the seas in the Eastern Mediterranean and against anti-semitism wherever it rears its head.  Please pray also for Palestinian Christians, who face daily oppression from Muslims, and for Jews to recognise their Messiah, the only true hope for peace.

 

‘Megamosque’ sect can carry on

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Stephen
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In May 2011, Tablighi Jamaat won the right to stay on site with temporary planning permission for a further two years during which time they are required to put in a full planning application.

Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) are a controversial Islamic sect whose followers have been linked to a number of planned and actual terrorist atrocities.

The temporary mosque on the West Ham site

Christian Voice members have been meeting for prayer on the Greenway overlooking the site on the first Saturday of every month without fail since January 2007.  In that time we have seen architects and PR people sacked and general confusion, all in answer to prayer.  Tablighi Jamaat’s initial boast, of a mega-mosque operating in time for the London Olympics, now lies in tatters.  But we must press in the more.

The meeting is always a peaceful time of fellowship, worship and seeking the Lord in prayer and in His word.

PRAY: That there is a good turn-out with powerful prayer for our nation.  Pray that God will bless our nation with repentance and that His enemies, whether Secularist or Islamic, will be converted to the cause of Christ, or that their plans will come to nothing before our holy and awesome God.  Who is on the Lord’s side?  Come along and stand with us!

BEHOLD, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. (Isa 59:1)

(Check out other relevant Bible passages, find computer Bibles and download a one-year reading plan HERE)

Truro Sex Shop Approved

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Stephen
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The 'Mrs Palm' shop is next to school outfitters Trevails

Despite the best efforts of local campaigners, Christian Voice and the Christian Institute, whose representative spoke at the hearing last week, Councillors in Cornwall approved the ‘Mrs Palm’ sex-shop in Little Castle Street, Truro.  See previous Christian Voice story.  BBC report HERE.

Thirty Christian campaigners, who included Christian Voice members and the Cornwall Community Standards Association, attended the hearing. 

In April the High Court allowed a judicial review of Cornwall Council’s decision to grant the initial licence.

The sex-shop is next-door to a school outfitters

The Christian Institute, acting for Truro resident and former County Councillor Mrs Armorel Carlyon claimed that Cornwall Council disregarded relevant material relating to the suitability of the location, next-door to school outfitters Trevails, who organised a petition.

At the time the shop was already stocked and trading.

The owners of the shop immediately applied for a ‘waiver’ to trade without a licence in the interim which was granted by the council’s miscellaneous licensing committee.  The Christian Institute challenged that decision but failed to have it overturned.

At the new hearing on Wednesday 7th September, the licence was again approved by councillors  by a vote of 5 to 2.  Five Councillors, including the two women on the committee, Cllr Lisa Dolley (Vice-Chairman; Independent) and Cllr Liz Penhaligon (Conservative) failed to attend or vote.  The second licence allows the owner to sell co-called ‘adult’ DVDs.

We understand that Christian campaigners have vowed to fight on and are seeking the Lord for the next step.

 

Beckhams ‘irresponsible’ say Greens

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Robin
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The Beckhams were happy parents when Victoria gave birth to her fourth child this summer, but not everyone was thrilled by the birth of little Harper Seven.

In her article, ‘Beckhams a ‘bad example’ for families‘, Guardian journalist Tracy McVeigh reported that “according to a growing group of campaigners, the birth of their fourth child make the couple bad role models and environmentally irresponsible.”

Mc.Veigh cited the UK-based Optimum Population Trust, whose chief executive, Simon Ross, linked family size to carbon emissions, saying:

“The Beckhams, and others like London mayor Boris Johnson, are very bad role models with their large families. There’s no point in people trying to reduce their carbon emissions and then increasing them 100% by having another child.”

Forget that Europe is approaching a demographic crisis. Forget that the birth rates in the Western world are dipping below replacement level, while the Muslim populations continue to reproduce at unprecedented rates. For the virulent voices of the population control lobby, there is only one reality worth considering and it is this: less people = less polluters.

At least, that is what I argued in a recent article I wrote for the Charles Colson Center titled ‘Fourth Child Furor.’ In the article I explored some of the proposals that are being put forward for reducing the ‘surplus population’, including the following:

Dr. Barry Walters, a professor of obstetrics at the University of Western Australia, came up with an idea a few years ago. He suggested that those who refuse to use contraception should be levied with a climate-change tax. In a 2007 article in the Medical Journal of Australia,Dr. Walters proposed that such a tax be assessed on all couples having more than two children. He suggested an initial fine of $5,000 for each “extra” child when born, with another $800 assessed every year thereafter. However, parents could redeem themselves by using contraceptives or undergoing sterilization procedures, for which they would receive carbon credits.

Simon Ross, chief executive of the UK-based Optimum Population Trust, floated a similar idea in the furore over the Beckham’s fourth child.

Such ideas are nothing new, as Salvo Magazine has shown in their article ‘Baby Freeze: Is Population Control the New Solution to Global Warming?‘ Moreover, Salvo Magazine warned, what is at stake here is a “new religion of science” that “sees mankind as the curse, and scientists as the prophets pointing out the path of redemption. Like the prophets of old, the modern scientist-prophets know that salvation can never occur without sacrifice. The sacrifice they are calling for is simple: We must become fewer and poorer. Only then will the world will be saved from the environmental Armageddon that is fast approaching as a result of ‘reckless breeding’ (a term employed by Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger).”

The larger issue here is that radical environmentalists will stop at nothing when following through the implications of their most cherished presuppositions. This even includes an attempt to impose guilt on those who, like the Beckhams, decide to have more children than the Western average.

Further Reading

Beckhams a ‘bad example’ for families

Baby Freeze: Is Population Control the New Solution to Global Warming?‘

Social Engineering and the Dark Secret of the American Left

Fourth Child Furor

Bill Gates: Vaccines Can Help Decrease Surplus Population

Rage Against the Breeders

Sterilize the Unfit

 

ABORTION: KEEP WOMEN IN THE DARK

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Stephen
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Big Ben and the House of Commons

The House of Commons has voted to keep women in ignorance of the consequences of abortion.

An attempt by Nadine Dorries MP to take away from abortion providers their role in counselling women about to buy abortions was heavily defeated in the House of Commons today.

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In practice, the amount of counselling they actually do is minimal, as they have abortions to sell, but the Dorries amendment would have opened the way for pro-life charities to offer counselling.

Abortion providers feared that pregnant women would be less inclined to go ahead with the operations if they discovered they were actually carrying a child with a beating heart, and that they would consequently lose revenue.  (A baby’s heart starts beating three weeks from conception.)

A split developed between the original supporters of the amendment after Frank Field MP was persuaded by the health minister, Anne Milton, that the government would try to implement ‘the spirit’ of the proposal, and withdrew his support.

Anne Milton told MPs: “The government is supportive of the spirit of these amendments and we intend to bring forward proposals for regulations accordingly, but after consultation. Primary legislation is not only unnecessary but would deprive parliament of the opportunity to consider the detail of how this service would develop and evolve.”

Mrs Dorries hailed Milton’s undertaking as a victory. She told the BBC’s Norman Smith: “We lost the battle but we have won the war.”  But she criticised the involvement of arch-atheist and ex-MP Evan Harris, who lobbied Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, who persuaded David Cameron to withdraw his initial support for the amendment and to announce that health ministers and their parliamentary aides would vote against it.

MPs consequently voted by 368 votes to 118 (a majority of 250) to reject the amendment, but Mrs Dorries managed to win the support of three cabinet ministers – Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, Liam Fox, the defence secretary, and Owen Paterson, the Northern Ireland secretary.

It will now be up to pro-life peers in the House of Lords to try to carry the amendment.

The defeat was welcomed by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, Britains second-biggest abortionist after Marie Stopes. Ann Furedi, its chief executive, said: “Bpas is pleased to see Nadine Dorries’ amendment so overwhelmingly rejected. We look forward to being able to focus our efforts on the issues which pose a genuine problem for women considering ending a pregnancy.”  And also continiuing to make money from ending innocent lives.

Strangely, Mrs Dorries insisted that she did not want to restrict access to abortion. “I do not want to return to the days of back street abortionists,” she said. “I am pro-choice. Abortion is here to stay.”

PRAY: That it isn’t.  Pray that an MP someday soon will find the courage by the grace of God to bring before the House of Commons a Bill to repeal the Abortion Act 1967.  That has never been done in the 44 years since the Act passed into law.

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WRITE (or EMAIL): To your MP.  Simply ask your MP to ask the Health Minister how the Government intends to implement Nadine Dorries’ amendment.  Also ask your MP to assure you that he/she voted for Nadine’s amendment.

READ: Exod 23:7  Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
Deut 19:10  That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Deut 27:25  Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen
Jdg 13:7  But he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, neither eat any unclean thing: for the child shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
Psalm 106:36  And they (the Israelites) served their idols: which were a snare unto them. 37  Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils, 38  And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Luke 1:41  And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: 42  And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
(Note that Elisabeth was six months pregnant at this time, and Mary had only just conceived.)

To anyone who has been involved with abortion, or had an abortion, and is now deeply sorry and in anguish, and wishes it had never happened, the Lord Jesus says: (Mark 3:28) Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men.  Jesus went to the Cross so that the sins of every one who believes in him might be forgiven.  His disciple John wrote:
1John 2:1  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:  1John 2:12  I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his (Jesus’s) name’s sake. 

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DON’T PRAY FOR THOSE IN DEBT!

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Stephen
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A Christian group has been ditched by an umbrella group of advice lines for offering to pray for people with debt problems.

Christians Against Poverty (CAP) has been forced to leave AdviceUK, an umbrella group representing the interests of thousands of advice workers, after it was decided that praying was ‘incompatible’ with membership.

The decision has been described by campaigners as an ‘extraordinary curtailment of freedom of expression’. It follows a series of similar cases involving Christians whose freedoms have been curbed following the introduction of controversial equality laws.

Steve Johnson, chief executive of AdviceUK, described the offer of prayer by CAP as an ‘emotional fee’. Asked to explain what he meant, Mr Johnson replied that CAP was effectively expecting clients to ‘pay’ for their advice by agreeing to pray with the counsellors. ‘Advisers must not offer or impose their values,’ he added.

However, CAP has been a member of AdviceUK for six years and says it has never made prayer a condition of its free service.

In a statement, it said: ‘While CAP is committed to providing impartial help and advice to all members of society, as an expression of our care for clients we do offer to pray with people.

‘In discussions around ethos and purpose, AdviceUK made it clear that they saw any form of promotion of faith to be incompatible with membership criteria.

‘In order to protect the integrity of both organisations, it was amicably agreed that CAP would not continue to be an AdviceUK member.’

CAP said that its counselling service would be unaffected by AdviceUK’s decision. A spokeswoman added: ‘Given the right support, people can and will pay off what they owe.

‘We help people in debt regardless of age, gender, faith or background. In our most recent questionnaire of more than 1,000 clients, 88 per cent said that prayer was appreciated or OK.’

AdviceUK, which has 870 member organisations, boasts of being ‘in a unique position to influence Government departments and other bodies’. It says it ‘provides a voice to funders and supporters’.

Christians Against Poverty is hardly a group we should have expected to be thrust into the front line of defending the Christian faith in our land. Motivated by a Christian desire to help others, they have simply gone about doing good, taking no payment for their services, declining to become involved in politics. But prayer is a central part of their ministry, as you would expect of a Christian agency.

A common question asked of Christian Voice by secularists is ‘Why are you spending all your time protesting against what you see as evil?  Why aren’t you out helping the poor and needy?

Christians Against Poverty is doing exactly that, but even that is not good enough any more, except if they deny their faith and the Lord Jesus Christ.  No longer do our good works shine before these men, who will contrive to find something evil to say about Christians whatever we do.  Truly, every Christian agency and every church involved in social work is now in the front line.

READ: 1Sam 2:30  Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith … them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Luke 12:8  Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:
Matt 5:16  Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Titus 2:7  In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, 8 Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

PRAY: For Christians Against Poverty that they will stand strong. Pray that God will honour their stand and make them an even more powerful force to help people out of debt.

EMAIL: info@capuk.org to let CAP know you are praying for them.  If you want to invite CAP to speak at your church, email mattsanderson@capuk.org

EMAIL: steve.johnson@adviceuk.org.uk to protest at his treatment of CAP. You could also let him know you are praying for him!

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Rain on Time At Cardiff Mardi Gras

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Stephen
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We held a worthwhile witness at the Cardiff Mardi Gras on Saturday 3rd September 2011.  Though we were few, we were a happy few, a band of brothers, and those who were not there will feel themselves, if not accursed, at least having missed an opportunity.  But thank you to all those who were praying; and those who prayed for rain, as I did, can feel especially blessed – the rain arrived just as we finished the witness.

'Poppers' on sale outside the Mardi Gras

We gave out around 1,000 leaflets explaining that through the saving and healing grace of Jesus Christ it is possible to walk away from the homosexual lifestyle and homosexual desires.

But in response to Christ’s question: ‘Wilt thou be made whole?’ (John 5:6) so many chose to say, ‘No, thanks, I’m fine as I am.’  Even the testimony of Peter, who left the homosexual life by the power of the Gospel, could not convince them.  In an age when we are supposed to listen to one another’s ‘stories’ his story was one they simply refused to hear.

Isopropyl Nitrite drugs, known as ‘poppers’, which are supposed to offer sexual enhancement, were openly on sale outside the venue.  There is an obsession with sexual activity in the homosexual network, and poppers are commonly sniffed, despite their bland description as ‘room odourisers’.

Peter and Judy sharing the Gospel

Our leaflets were deemed such a threat that after an hour, the organisers sent out stewards to persuade people to bin them rather than read them.  Clearly there is a limit on how open-minded those attending Cardiff Mardi Gras are allowed to be.  Undaunted, we switched to sharing the Gospel and had some good conversations.  One young lady decided to sing two lines from Tom Robinson’s song ‘Sing if you’re glad to be gay’ continuously for around an hour in an attempt to put us off, in which quest she failed.  We had to admire the staying power of her vocal chords, even if the musicality was less than wonderful.  No-one else appeared as glad as she was, so she sang alone.  Ironically, Tom, who wrote the song as a homosexual, decided he would be gladder still heterosexual, and he is now married with two children.

What was rather disturbing was that the age of teenagers coming along seems to be decreasing and their numbers increasing.  The Government’s school sex education in its ‘relationships’ guise is now overwhelmingly pro-gay, and parents seem to lack the moral courage to stand up to it.  It is well established that young people can go through a adolescent pseudo-homosexual phase.  The overwhelming majority grow out of it, but if it is reinforced by an affirmative message from the authorities, it can become cemented in place and hard to shake off.  ‘Never label yourself as “gay”‘ was the message we had for these young people.
'Drag Queens' at Cardiff Mardi Gras

We caught a camp gay activist telling a group of very young children, probably 11 or 12, that 10% of the population are gay, so we stood up to him.  How dare he lie to them like that?  Alfred Kinsey only achieved that figure by including sexual perverts and criminals, including paedophiles, in his surveys.

The true figure, discovered in the NATSAL Survey in Britain and in the Smith study in Chicago, is around 1%, slightly more for men, and slightly less for women, but the number of people in the UK population reporting a same-sex encounter in the last five years has more than doubled from 1% to 2.6% from 1990 to 2000.  The number of currently active homosexuals will be fewer, and NATSAL 2000 found about 1 per cent of 16–24-year-olds had had one or more new same sex partners in the previous year.

As shattered familes and sexual abuse are classic features of most gay life stories, and in the face of relentless promotion of homosexuality by the media and our political elite, don’t be expecting that 1% figure to drop any time soon.

PRAY: Thank God for protection at the Cardiff Mardi Gras and for this opportunity to witness and evangelise.  Pray that someone has taken a leaflet or heard a word that will lead to them finding salvation and healing at the foot of the Cross of Jesus Christ.  The sower went forth to sow.  And even if no seed found fertile ground this time, please pray that at the very least we may have turned over the soil, allowed some light in, for someone else to sow the seed of faith in the future.

Time to Speak of Freedom

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Stephen
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CARDIFF MARDI GRAS:
TIME TO SPEAK OF FREEDOM

(This is the text of the leaflet (or tract) 1,000 of which were handed out at the 2011 Cardiff Mardi Gras.)

Leaflet for 2011 Mardi Gras

This is a leaflet for intelligent, open-minded people, exploring the spiritual side of human sexuality.
There can be no doubt about it, spirituality and religious faith are vitally important.
Everyone is looking for something to fulfill them. In this leaflet we try to answer the important questions of life in a positive, life-affirming way.  It’s time to speak of freedom!

Michael Glatze totally self-identified as gay from the age of 13.  He founded a media outreach group for young gays.  He never questioned his same-sex desires.  He questioned everything except his homosexuality.  He simply assumed that he had been born like it.

But the death of his own father made Michael look at his own health and literally put the fear of God into him.  He even began to question his sexuality, something he was told never to do.  Just looking at ex-gay websites felt like he was breaking some kind of unwritten law.  It was like a taboo subject, like a form of social control.

‘I believed in things that made no sense’
As soon as Michael began noticing the nature of his desires and believing they could change, the realisation, he says, ‘became very religious’.
‘When I started moving through the process of seeking God’s will, and trying to understand what that meant, I was buying less into things I had long believed.  I had believed in things that made no sense – they held no weight.’  He saw the life he was living was a fraud.
Michael found a sense of freedom.  He also began making up his own mind: ‘When I started to read the Gospels and specifically what Jesus wrote, that’s when I started to gain an understanding of what was actually happening to me – the notion of a new life.’
He says: ‘ In the Gospels, Jesus was giving up his life for my sake – giving me a new life.’

Campaigning lesbian questioned her life
Charlene Cothran was a campaigning lesbian for 29 years, organising and participating in marches, editing a gay periodical and lobbying for gay rights.
Like Michael, she experienced for herself the power struggles within gay relationships – so much so that her close friend was shot dead by that woman’s lesbian ex- lover.  Charlene witnessed some of the violence that led up to the murder and said afterwards: ‘I stood at the very gates of hell’,
‘Oh my God!’ is a common expression of surprise but by the grace of God, Charlene began to question her life and knew that God was asking her whether she would give him her heart and soul.  And that’s what she did.

‘We were NOT born this way’
Charlene says: ‘Know that we were NOT born this way. This myth was fashioned by the gay establishment as a basis for changing laws in favour of gay rights.
‘Do not resist God’s call on your life; get alone with God and let him minster the truth directly to you.  Accept Jesus Christ – enjoy your life to a new degree, without the burden of sin and with all God’s promises on your side.  Break free.
‘It’s possible to have a better time than you did in the clubs, in the parks, better than all those secret encounters with folks whose names you’ve long forgotten.’

What did Jesus say about human sexuality?
When Jesus spoke about sexual morality, he quoted from the two first chapters of the first book of the Bible, Genesis, about heterosexual ‘one flesh’ marriage!
‘Have you not read’, Jesus asked, ‘That he which made them at the beginning made them male and female?  And said: For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife and they twain shall be one flesh?’ (Gospel of Matthew Chapter 19)
So Jesus taught heterosexuality.  And that ‘one flesh’ union the Bible speaks of is something only a man and a woman can achieve.  Our private parts are designed by God for each other, just as he designed man and woman for each other spiritually and emotionally as well.

Trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces
In the words of psychiatrist Dr David Reuben, gays and lesbians are ‘trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces’.
Try as they might, a man can never be ‘one flesh’ with another man, and a woman can never be ‘one flesh’ with another woman.  That search for what has never existed might explain the rampant promiscuity in the gay world, orders of magnitude greater than among heterosexuals, even according to homosexual researchers.

Messing up the body God gave us
And of course the promiscuity brings in its wake a raft of sexually-transmitted diseases.  Gay men are now the main reservoir for syphilis and rectal gonorrhoea.  It is a disgrace that children are now being told in our schools that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality.
According to the surveys, fewer than 2% of adults are homosexual, although you would think it was more from the noise the media make about it.  But around 25% of adolescents can be confused about their sexuality.  Most grow out of that phase but some can be persuaded that it is their ‘true identity’, and once in, it is hard to get free.  So never label yourself as gay.
It’s time to speak of freedom, freedom from unnatural desires and freedom from sin.  As Michael Glatze and Charlene Cothran showed, a ‘gay identity’ is a lie.  They walked away from it by the power of Jesus Christ.

Jesus, friend of sinners,  is tough on sin
You will hear Jesus described as ‘friend of sinners’ but that’s not because he ever condoned sin.  It’s because He showed sinners the error of their ways and said that through him they could get right with God.  Jesus’s first words in his public ministry were ‘The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe the Gospel.’  (Mark 1:15)
Jesus is tough on sin and tough on the causes of sin. He condemned those who lead the young astray by saying they should have millstones tied around their necks and be thrown into the sea.

So homosexuals are going to hell?
All sinners are going to hell.  God’s Commandments can never be repealed: sin is worshipping anything other than God, blasphemy, pride, disrespect to parents and those in authority, murder, stealing, lying, adultery, envy, lust and all sexual sin – not just sodomy.  To break any of God’s Commandments is to stand condemned.
But we are bringing good news!  If you repent of all you have done wrong, believe and call out to Jesus for mercy, He will forgive you.  In Jesus, who never sinned, God became one of us, and died on the Cross to reconcile to God all who would believe in Him.  When He was crucified, Jesus took our evil deeds – our sins – upon Him and clothed us in his righteousness.
However far we have gone away from God, He will welcome us back if we recognise that we have done wrong and are ready to put things right.  ‘For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.’
‘All’ means you too, but Jesus has the power to forgive you and give you a new life.  Turn from your sins, call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.  Jesus gave his life on the cross so that all those who believe in Him could be justified before God by faith in His once-for-all sacrifice of Himself.

Ye shall be free indeed
But it did not end in his death.  Jesus rose from the dead and Christians live in His risen life, through the power of the Holy Spirit whom Jesus sends.
We have seen that men and women have been released from homosexual desires.  No-one has to stay gay.  Every person identifying as gay or lesbian can walk away to freedom through belief in the Lord Jesus Christ.  ‘If the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.’
After he rose from the dead, Jesus ascended into heaven, and now has the right to rule over all the kingdoms of the world.  Not only is Jesus King, but He is also the righteous judge.  One day He will return in judgment, to redeem his own and condemn the wicked and the unbelievers. How will you stand in that day?

‘The way, the truth and the life’
You can’t cover your own sin, only Jesus Christ is the way to heaven.  He said: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’  He also said:  ‘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.’  That promise still stands today.
Bible quotations, from the Authorised Version: Matt 19:4-6; John 3:16, 8:36, 14:6; Romans 3:23, 10:13.

 

Gay Marriage Threat Worsens

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The Scottish Government has started a consultation with the intention of legalising same-sex marriage on the same day as a Conservative MP called for churches to be banned from celebrating marriages at all if they banned similar services for gays.

The Scottish consultation (find it HERE), ‘The Registration of Civil Partnerships / Same-Sex Marriage – A Consultation’, ends on 9th December.

Inside the Scottish Parliament

The SNP government has already prejudiced the consultation.  In the introduction to the paper, deputy first minister Nicola Sturgeon, says: “The Scottish government is choosing to make its initial views clear at the outset of this consultation.

“We tend towards the view that religious ceremonies for civil partnerships should no longer be prohibited and that same sex marriage should be introduced so that same sex couples have the option of getting married if that is how they wish to demonstrate their commitment to each other.

“We also believe that no religious body or its celebrants should be required to carry out same sex marriages or civil partnership ceremonies.”

The proposals come just as the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey has disclosed that the proportion of Scots thinking that homosexuals have the right to ‘marry’ has increased from 41% in 2002 to 61% in 2010.  The proportion disagreeing has gone down from 29% to 19% over the same period.

Attitude has followed the law.  The authors observe: ‘Much of this shift in attitudes has occurred during the last five years – that is, since the introduction of civil partnerships in December 2005, which thus appears to have had a considerable impact on attitudes.’

In response, we should say, firstly, that allowing such ceremonies to take place in church would allow homosexual activists their first step to having the Church honour their distorted relationships.  Respect from the Church is one of only two measures missing for them, their having won everything else.

(The other missing link in the gay rights chain is a full hate-crimes law to forbid adverse comment on their activities and lifestyle.  Under ‘hate-crimes’, Section 74 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 extended hate-crimes legislation in the United Kingdom to homosexuality, but a ‘freedom of expression’ clause inserted against the UK Governments’ wishes allowed ‘discussion or criticism of sexual conduct or practices, or the urging of persons to refrain from or modify such conduct or practices.’)

Secondly, it is easy to say at this point that religious bodies and ministers would not be forced to carry out same sex marriages or civil partnership ceremonies, but those behind the legislation (the civil servants and gay rights activists in the corridors of power, not necessarily the minister) will be back within a year or two calling on simple logic and the demands of equality to remove that concession.

The Chief Constable of Sussex leads the Brighton Gay Pride March as the Union Jack is desecrated

And right on time to prove this very point, step forward the Conservative Member of Parliament for Hove, one Mike Weatherley.   He has called for churches to be banned from holding marriages if they won’t also carry out civil partnerships for homosexuals.

Mr Weatherley’s constituency lies in Brighton and Hove which has the most same-sex households in the UK.  In a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron, published today, he said:

‘Several campaigns are currently calling for, variously, the creation of a right to a Marriage for same-sex couples and the creation of a right to a Civil Partnership for opposite-sex couples. Such proposals may seemingly be the next logical step in the campaign for equality but, if enacted, would still leave us with a messy compromise. As long as religious groups can refuse to preside over ceremonies for same-sex couples, there will be inequality. Such behaviour is not be tolerated (sic)  in other areas, such as adoption, after all.’

The shape of things to come...

The UK Government, like its Scottish counterpart, is already preparing to bring forward legislation to allow civil partnerships to be conducted on religious premises, something specifically banned in the Civil Partnership Act 2004.  This intention on its own shows how equality legislation advances by a Fabian process of creep.

Gay activists probably hope Mr Weatherley’s extreme intervention will shift the parameters of debate so that the UK Government’s proposal (and for that matter that of the Scottish Parliament) looks reasonable.  But instead he has let the cat out of the bag, and shown us what will be done if not under this adminstration then when Labour return to power.

PRAY: Thank God for revealing the true intentions of the anti-Christian homosexual movement and pray that the churches will take note and arise to tell the governments north and south of the border that we will not accept this attack on the Church of Jesus Christ, that no-one has the authority to over-ride what God has stated in Scripture.

READ: Mark 10:6  (Jesus answered: …) But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 7  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8  And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

Outreach at Cardiff ‘Mardi Gras’

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The annual Cardiff ‘Gay Mardi Gras’ is taking place in Bute Park on Saturday 4th September.  It largely consists of a mixture of politically-correct and indecent stalls with a stage on which some lack-lustre acts (the organisers can’t or won’t name even one) will perform.

There will be a Christian Voice outreach outside, which we call an evangelistic prophetic witness: standing up against this ungodly event and at the same time using it as a spring board for evangelism.  Apart from those suffering from same-sex attraction, quite a few young heterosexual young people, mainly girls, come to the Mardi Gras in the misguided notion that it is cool and harmless.  I hope and pray the redeemed will come and share testimony with the lost, for the furtherance of the Kingdom of God.

We shall meet at the gates to Bute Park in North Road opposite Boulevard de Nantes at 11.30am on Saturday 3rd September.  MAP HERE.  There is car parking in North Road outside the park.  We shall evangelise with leaflets and in one-to-one conversations from about 12 noon to say 3pm or 4pm or whatever you can manage.  If you are a bit late, or have to leave early, that is not a problem.

In 2006, this writer was arrested, thrown in the clink for four hours and charged with a public order offence by South Wales Police.  There was massive publicity, SWP were sued for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution and they settled out of court.  An officer we met at the event in 2007 said SWP learnt their lesson after that.  So this will be an entirely peaceful and legal witness with good conversations expected and by the grace of God miraculous conversion on the devil’s doorstep.

Even in this time of cut-backs to services, Cardiff City Council are sponsoring the Mardi Gras, maybe because Cllr Rodney Berman, leader of Cardiff Council, is himself openly homosexual and according to Pink News among the top 50 influential homosexuals in Britain in 2009 (he was 46th).  Earlier this year, Cllr Berman joined a failed campaign to keep open a seedy gay pub in Cardiff.

PRAY: (1) Pray for a peaceful, lively, blessed and successful Gospel outreach on Saturday week. May souls be saved from the day of wrath and welcomed into His kingdom, by His precious blood.
(2) But much as we want to reach out to sinners with the Gospel of grace, pray that this event is a financial disaster and that, as in 2008, it is washed out!
May the Lord grant all who are coming along travelling mercies and may He bless all our efforts for His name’s sake.

READ: Ezek 33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. 9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. … 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? (KJV)
2Tim 4:2  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
Jude 1:22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

 

Oppose Sex-Shop in Cornwall

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Christian campaigners are praying for a large turn-out in St Austell on Wednesday 7th September for the hearing of a sex-shop application.

The meeting will be held in Restormel District Council Chamber, 39 Penwinnick Road, St Austell, PL25 5DR, at 10.00am. The sex-shop itself is in Little Castle Street, Truro, next to a shop selling school uniforms about 200 yards from the Cathedral.

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PRAY: For a large number of Christians and concerned parents and residents to attend the licensing committee on 7th September. That the Licensing Committee will overturn its previous decision and refuse a license for the sex-shop. Pray for the fear of God, or at least some consideration of the welfare of children, to inform the committee

WRITE: The time for formal objections having passed, write or email the members of the Miscellaneous Licensing Committee being respectful but firm in urging them to reject the proposal for a sex shop in Truro as inapproriate for the City and locality (Each is addressed ‘Dear Cllr SURNAME’):

Cllr Jim Flashman (Chairman) (Conservative: Kelly Bray)
West Prince Farm, Sevenstones, Callington, Cornwall, PL17 8HZ
Phone: 01579 350893, Mobile: 07976 253692
Email: jflashman@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Lisa Dolley (Vice-Chairman) (Independent: Redruth North)
8 Plain-An-Gwarry, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 1HU
Mobile: 07807 787280
Email: ldolley@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Russell Bartlett (Conservative: Gunnislake)
Bracken, 1 Myrtle Terrace, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, PL18 9ES
Phone: 01822 833681
Email: rbartlett@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Grenville Chappel (Independent: Falmouth Penwerris)
26 Grenville Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2NW
Mobile: 07799 143588
Email: gchappel@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr George Edwards (Liberal Democrat: Newquay Treloggan)
Flat 18, Chymedden, Trebarwith Crescent, Newquay, Cornwall, TR7 1TG
Phone: 01637 852251
Email: gedwards@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Steve Eva (Independent: Falmouth Arwenack)
34 Trescobeas Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2JG
Phone: 01326 311539, Mobile: 07974 812103
Email: seva@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Brian Hobbs (Liberal Democrat: Torpoint East)
41 Peacock Avenue, Torpoint, Cornwall, PL11 2EX
Phone: 01752 814575
Email: bhobbs@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Scott Mann (Conservative: Wadebridge West
3 Bethan Drive, Wadebridge, Cornwall, PL27 7RW
Phone: 01208 815561
Email: smann@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Mick Martin (Conservative: Lanivet)
Galorndon Core, Millpool, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL30 4HZ
Phone: 01208 821200
Email: mmartin@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Chris Pascoe (Liberal Democrat, Threemilestone and Gloweth)
Willow Green Farm, Threemilestone, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 9AL
Phone: 01872 263612, Mobile: 07971 573766
Email: chpascoe@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Liz Penhaligon (Conservative: Lelant and Carbis Bay)
Sovigo, 47 Upton Towans, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5BL
Phone: 01736 756939
Email: epenhaligon@cornwall.gov.uk

Cllr Christopher Rowe (Liberal Democrat: Penwithick)
Sanfernando, 78 Treverbyn Road, Carclaze, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 4EW
Phone: 01726 75835, Mobile: 07974 944683
Email: chrisrowe@sanfernando.fsnet.uk

Judicial Review

A previous decision in August 2010 by Cornwall Council’s Miscellaneous Licensing Committe, by seven votes to three, to grant a license to the sex-shop, ‘Mrs Palm’, was overturned on Judicial Review and the license quashed in June 2011 after an application from the Christian Institute on behalf of Truro resident and former County councillor Mrs Armorel Carlyon.

However, the owners of the sex-shop immediately applied for a ‘waiver’ to trade without a license in the interim and that was granted by the Council’s Miscellaneous Licensing Committee. An attempt by the Christian Institute to challenge the grant of the waiver by Judicial Review was refused by the High Court on Monday 22nd August 2011.

The result is that the ‘Mrs Palm’ sex-shop is open and trading already on the waiver in advance of the license re-hearing.

Inappropriate Location

The objectors say that the sex-shop is inappropriate in Truro, which is a Cathedral city popular with tourists and families and which already has an unlicensed ‘Ann Summers’ shop which sells mainly lingerie. They observe that Cornwall Council can lawfully set the ‘appropriate number’ of sex-shops in Truro at ‘Nil’ under the relevant Act of Parliament.

In any case, they say that right next-door to a school uniform outfitters is not an appropriate location for a sex-shop. Campaigners say that if a sex-shop can open in a Cathedral city next-door to a shop whose business depends on a regular traffic of school-children, such an establishment can open anywhere.

They have noted that Northamptonshire Council recently rejected a plan to convert a disused corner shop into a takeaway fish and chip shop, on the grounds that its location, in the vicinity of two schools, could undermine health policies. While health appears to a factor local authorities can take into consideration, moral issues are not listed among those which a council can take into account when deciding upon an application for a sex-shop.

Petition Presented

A 700-strong petition against the sex-shop was presented to theCouncil after being gathered by the owners of Trevails, the school outfitters shop. Many of their customers have expressed disquiet at having to walk past ‘Mrs Palm’ to buy school uniforms. 99 letters of objection were sent in.

Cornwall Council is Conservative-controlled with the support of the Independent Group (Cons 48 seats, LibDem 40, Ind 32) and the Chairman of the Council’s Miscellaneous Licensing Committee, Jim Flashman, is a Conservative. Elections to the Council will be held again in May 2013.

Orthodox Jews ‘blessed by God’

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A Christian group has described orthodox Jews as ‘blessed by God’ following revelations that their numbers are set to outstrip other Jews by the middle of the century.

The study, carried out by Dr Yaakov Wise of the University of Manchester, found that three out of every four Jewish births are now ultra-orthodox. The orthodox are currently 17 per cent of the UK Jewish population of 275,000 Jews, but will be in a majority by 2050. Similar trends are being observed in Israel and America.

Earlier this year, the Sunday Telegraph ran an article under the headline ‘Third of graduate women will be childless‘

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

‘There is a very simple reason why orthodox Jews are increasing at such a rate while the rest of Jewry is declining. The orthodox are observing God’s Biblical command in Genesis 1:28 to ‘be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth’ while the rest are ignoring it. Children are described in Psalms 127 and 128 as a heritage and reward of the Lord and as His blessing, so there is a sense in which orthodox Jews are being blessed by God.

‘Crucially, orthodox Jews reject artificial contraception, refusing to put a latex barrier between man and wife or to use hormonal poisons to wipe out women’s fertility. The rest of the Jewish population accept these evils and even permit the infanticide of abortion. It will astonish many that the State of Israel has become so enamoured of western immorality that abortion is legal there.

‘But westernism comes with the Pied Piper of Hamelin’s price-tag. It is anti-child, anti-growth, anti-life and ultimately anti-God. We are seeing this in Britain, where immigrant, especially Muslim, communities are dominating birth statistics while so many of the indigenous population can’t be bothered to have children or are simply leaving it too late.

‘And just as Israel had to give up Gaza and will be obliged to pull out of Judea and Samaria (the ‘Left-Bank’) because of the demographics of Muslim increase, so we shall have problems before long from fertile Islam in Britain.

‘The increase amongst orthodox Jews will come too late for Israel to save Judea and Samaria, and there is only hope for Britain if the Christian majority adopt a more positive view of children and start to see large families as God does, as a blessing, not as a curse.’

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SOROS FUNDS ‘BOMB LIBYA’ POLICY

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With full attribution to World Net Daily:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=333897
 
In their Article: Brace for another U.S.-Mideast war.  First Libya, now sources say next country warned of NATO attack. . . George Soros-funded doctrine with White House ties
 
The Libya bombings have been widely regarded as a test of a military doctrine called Responsibility to Protect.In his address to the nation in April explaining the NATO campaign in Libya, Obama cited the doctrine as the main justification for U.S. and international airstrikes against Libya.
 

Responsibility to Protect, or Responsibility to Act, as cited by Obama, is a set of principles, now backed by the United Nations, based on the idea that sovereignty is not a privilege but a responsibility that can be revoked if a country is accused of “war crimes,” “genocide,” “crimes against humanity” or “ethnic cleansing.”The term “war crimes” has at times been indiscriminately used by various U.N.-backed international bodies, including the International Criminal Court, or ICC, which applied it to Israeli anti-terror operations in the Gaza Strip. There has been fear the ICC could be used to prosecute U.S. troops.The Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect is the world’s leading champion of the military doctrine.

As WND reported, Soros is a primary funder and key proponent of the Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect.

Several of the doctrine’s main founders sit on boards with Soros.

WND reported the committee that devised the Responsibility to Protect doctrine included Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa as well as Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi, a staunch denier of the Holocaust who long served as the deputy of late Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat.

Also the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy has a seat on the advisory board of the 2001 commission that originally founded Responsibility to Protect.

The commission is called the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. It invented the term “responsibility to protect” while defining its guidelines.

The Carr Center is a research center concerned with human rights located at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Samantha Power, the National Security Council special adviser to Obama on human rights, was Carr’s founding executive director and headed the institute at the time it advised in the founding of Responsibility to Protect.

With Power’s center on the advisory board, the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty first defined the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.

Power reportedly heavily influenced Obama in consultations leading to the decision to bomb Libya.

Two of the global group’s advisory board members, Ramesh Thakur and Gareth Evans, are the original founders of the doctrine, with the duo even coining the term “responsibility to protect.”

As WND reported, Soros’ Open Society Institute is a primary funder and key proponent of the Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect. Also, Thakur and Evans sit on multiple boards with Soros.

Soros’ Open Society is one of only three nongovernmental funders of the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Government sponsors include Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Rwanda and the U.K.

(Note: Ask your MP – Email address HERE – to ask the appropriate Secretary of State how much money the UK has given to the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, from which budget is has come, what the grant(s) is intended to achieve and how this will be monitored.

There is an in-depth study on the funding of Responsibility to Protect HERE and more on how Soros switched from being pro- to anti-Gadaffi  and the implications of R2P on Israel HERE)

Board members of the group include former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, former Ireland President Mary Robinson and South African activist Desmond Tutu. Robinson and Tutu have recently made solidarity visits to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip as members of a group called The Elders, which includes former President Jimmy Carter.

Annan once famously stated, “State sovereignty, in its most basic sense, is being redefined – not least by the forces of globalization and international co-operation. States are … instruments at the service of their peoples and not vice versa.”

Soros: Right to ‘penetrate nation-states’

Soros himself outlined the fundamentals of Responsibility to Protect in a 2004 Foreign Policy magazine article entitled “The People’s Sovereignty: How a New Twist on an Old Idea Can Protect the World’s Most Vulnerable Populations.”

In the article, Soros said “true sovereignty belongs to the people, who in turn delegate it to their governments.”

“If governments abuse the authority entrusted to them and citizens have no opportunity to correct such abuses, outside interference is justified,” Soros wrote. “By specifying that sovereignty is based on the people, the international community can penetrate nation-states’ borders to protect the rights of citizens.

“In particular, the principle of the people’s sovereignty can help solve two modern challenges: the obstacles to delivering aid effectively to sovereign states, and the obstacles to global collective action dealing with states experiencing internal conflict.”

More George Soros ties

“Responsibility” founders Evans and Thakur served as co-chairmen with Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corp. charitable foundation, on the advisory board of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, which invented the term “responsibility to protect.”

In his capacity as co-chairman, Evans also played a pivotal role in initiating the fundamental shift from sovereignty as a right to “sovereignty as responsibility.”

Evans presented Responsibility to Protect at the July 23, 2009, United Nations General Assembly, which was convened to consider the principle.

Thakur is a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, which is in partnership with an economic institute founded by Soros.

Soros is on the executive board of the International Crisis Group, a “crisis management organization” for which Evans serves as president-emeritus.

WND previously reported how the group has been petitioning for the U.S. to normalize ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, the main opposition in Egypt, where longtime U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak was recently toppled.

Aside from Evans and Soros, the group includes on its board Egyptian opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei, as well as other personalities who champion dialogue with Hamas, a violent offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood.

WND also reported the crisis group has petitioned for the Algerian government to cease “excessive” military activities against al-Qaida-linked groups and to allow organizations seeking to create an Islamic state to participate in the Algerian government.

Soros’ own Open Society Institute has funded opposition groups across the Middle East and North Africa, including organizations involved in the current chaos.

‘One World Order’

WND reported that doctrine founder Thakur recently advocated for a “global rebalancing” and “international redistribution” to create a “New World Order.”

In a piece last March in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper, “Toward a new world order,” Thakur wrote, “Westerners must change lifestyles and support international redistribution.”

He was referring to a United Nations-brokered international climate treaty in which he argued, “Developing countries must reorient growth in cleaner and greener directions.”
In the opinion piece, Thakur then discussed recent military engagements and how the financial crisis has impacted the U.S.

“The West’s bullying approach to developing nations won’t work anymore – global power is shifting to Asia,” he wrote.

“A much-needed global moral rebalancing is in train,” he added.

Thakur continued: “Westerners have lost their previous capacity to set standards and rules of behaviour for the world. Unless they recognize this reality, there is little prospect of making significant progress in deadlocked international negotiations.”

Thakur contended “the demonstration of the limits to U.S. and NATO power in Iraq and Afghanistan has left many less fearful of ‘superior’ western power.”

 

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CCF: Serving God and Mammon

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‘No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’ Matthew 6:24

Last months’s Christian Voice newsletter carried an article about David Cameron’s party for gay activists in 10 Downing Street.  We also reproduced the full text of his speech.

Mr Cameron’s determination to force sodomy on Africa was also printed in Pink News, which was understandably delighted, and in the London Evening Standard.  The Press Association syndicated the story world-wide, so it hardly suffered from inadequate or biased reporting.

Whatever one’s view on the rights and wrongs of using foreign aid to co-erce the governments of poorer nations to legalise vice, or indeed to change policy in any direction, the bare facts were undeniable.

Mr Cameron’s declaration of intent has led us to call a meeting next month, to record a VIDEO and post a PETITION, all with a hope that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the end of October will tell Mr Cameron that the white man does not know best and that his neo-colonialism is not acceptable in the modern world.

We circulated details of the video, petition and meeting by e-mail to our members and supporters and wider afield, in the hope that there would be an international reaction against what we see as David Cameron’s cultural imperialism.

One e-mail recipient, a member indeed of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, decided to complain closer to home, and e-mailed its leadership, hoping to elicit their support in bringing some prophetic witness to bear inside the Conservative Party itself.  He received the most extraordinary response.

A spokesman from the Conservative Christian Fellowship replied:

‘Sadly the report you refer to is both sensational and unhelpful.  As I understand it the British Government’s approach to supporting Human Rights in Africa hasn’t changed since the 1948 UN Declaration Human Rights. Something I am sure all Christians can comfortably sign up to.’

Our correspondent, taking this plain if ungrammatical denial on trust, then understandably berated Christian Voice:

‘Where did you get your information?’ he fumed.  ‘If it was from the homosexuals, I would beware of listening to people who are against both the Gospel and the Conservative party.’

I dislike having to criticise fellow Christians in public, and would not do it at all without first having e-mailed the CCF myself (and received no reply).  Nevertheless, an organisation which its Patron, Gary Streeter MP, says has ‘made an impact’ and ‘stood up for Christian values’ and which claims to be ‘a vibrant Christian witness within the Conservative Party’, turns out to be less committed to Christian values and the cause of the Gospel than to the Conservative Party in whose headquarters it is based.

In point of fact, it is so dedicated to putting a brave face on the less-than-Christian antics of the Coalition Government that it is prepared to twist the truth.  Fair enough, to describe a report as ‘sensational and unhelpful’ is not to say it is untrue, although that was what they intended and it was the impression taken away by their member.  But to go on to say that British Government policy towards homosexuality has not changed in sixty-three years and that the Government is doing only that which Christians cannot fail to support is a barefaced, risible, outright lie.

True enough, we do not know what the leaders of the CCF have been saying privately to Mr Cameron.  They may, for all we know, have been protesting with all their strength.  But their public response hardly gives an inkling that they have any misgivings about his pro-gay foreign aid policy whatsoever.  Denying it actually exists, following a well- publicised and undisputed speech from the Prime Minister himself is certainly not a promising start.

It may be that some aspiring young things see their membership of the CCF coupled with enthusiastic support of their party as a stepping-stone to eventual membership of the House of Commons.  ‘When I get there, or when I become a minister, or when I become Prime Minister, then I’ll speak out and make a real difference,’ they might think.
But it doesn’t work like that:

Luke 16:10  He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

We are tested on our faith at every stage.  By working hard to advance our employer’s or the party’s cause by honest means, by making ourselves useful, being diligent at every turn, we can certainly earn the right to be listened to.  That is how we advance, not by defending the indefensible.

Matt 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
When we put the demands of God, his kingdom and righteousness second, the problems start.  Not only can we not serve God and another master at the same time, but the Apostle James points out:

Jas 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

And indeed, as James suggests, that kind of thinking, ‘Just wait till I get into power then I’ll show them,’ leaves out the power of God to raise up one and pull down another.  It forgets his power to bestow favour in the eyes of men.

Joseph in Egypt certainly did not think like the CCF appear to.  He did not flinch from acting properly when his boss’s wife tried to seduce him.  Today that would be seen as a forgivable bit-on-the-side but the Godly men of old viewed adultery as a betrayal.  For resisting wickedness Joseph was thrown into prison, and that might have been the end of him, had not the Lord granted him favour because of his faithfulness first with the prison governor and then with Pharaoh himself:

Gen 39:21  But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Acts 7:10  And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Joseph was not the last to be granted favour by God for his faithfulness to the Law of the Lord.  Samuel was not afraid to tell Eli that the Lord’s judgment was to fall on his house.  Despite this, or because the Lord knew what kind of fearless young man Samuel was to be, in the previous chapter we read:

1Sam 2:26  And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.
Daniel stood up for righteousness, refusing to eat meat dedicated to idols.  He managed by diligence and study and by his willingness to learn to make himself useful in the service of the king, but without compromising his beliefs.  So we read:

Dan 1:9  Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
God bestows favour on the faithful.  Proverbs says:

Prov 12:2  A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
And in the Gospels we read:

Luke 2:52  And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
Peter risked unpopularity by standing up on the Day of Pentecost and giving his great sermon with all its condemnation of those who crucified Jesus and encouragement to turn to the risen Jesus and be saved.  It was straight-down-the-line no-holds-barred full-on evangelism.  And it was honoured by God, in the numbers saved and bestowing of favour with men.  The believers, we read, were:

Acts 2:47  Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

When we look at the example of the prophets we see men, even men in the Court, who risked their lives by telling kings things they did not want to hear.

Nathan admonished David for his adultery and murder of Uriah: ‘Thou art the man’, he told him, chillingly (2Sam 12:7), in what I believe was a public rebuke, in the light of the public consequences which Nathan said would follow.  It is certain that David’s sin was public knowledge and Nathan’s condemnation of it was more than a quiet word in private.

The prophet Isaiah did not shrink from public condemnation of national sins.  Even as a young man, he was denouncing the princes in king Uzziah’s administration for taking bribes and perverting judgment (Isa 1:23).  And despite this (or because of it once again!) we see the Lord giving Isaiah a glittering career in the heart of government even under unrighteous king Ahaz (2Chr 28:1) and being unafraid to pronounce judgement on king Hezekiah for his stupidity in showing the Babylonian ambassador all his wealth (Isa 39:6).

Not all the prophets were as high up as Nathan and Isaiah, but not one of them flinched from his duty to tell it as God saw it.  They were well-versed in the scriptures, meditating in the law of God (Josh 1:8, Psa 1:2, 119:15 &c) and through that knowing the mind of God.  They were not men-pleasers but devoted to God.  They and the Apostles set their sights, not on climbing the greasy pole of earthly preferment, but on what the Epistle to the Hebrews describes as ‘a better resurrection’ (Heb 11:35) and Paul portrays as a ‘crown of righteousness’ (2Tim 4:8).

We cannot serve both two masters, and these events sadly show that when we try, truth falls alongside faithful witness.  That ought to be a lesson to us all.

Let us pray that Christians in political parties put Jesus Christ and His kingdom before their party and their miniature earthly empire. We cannot serve two masters.

EU PROMOTING GAY RIGHTS IN AFRICA

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Please sign our PETITION to Save Africa from Sodomy!  A 300,000 Euro grant for the promotion of gay rights in Cameroon has led to a diplomatic rift, Christian Voice has discovered.  It predates David Cameron’s declaration, exposed on this blog, that he will use British aid to promote homosexuality in Africa and the Caribbean.  The European Union gave the grant in January to a group of pro-gay organisations led by Cameroon’s Association to Defend Homosexuals (ADEFHO).But Cameroon’s Foreign Minister Henri Eyebe Ayissi immediately summoned the head of the EU delegation in Cameroon, Raoul Mateus Paula, for a ten minute meetingto protest against the funding of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) groups that “violate the laws of Cameroon.”The award of the grant has also prompted calls for the arrest of lawyer Alice Nkom who founded ADEFHO.  However, it appears the Cameroon Government may itself have recognised ADEFHO as long ago as 2003.

The grant award will no doubt make Alice Nkom wealthy and increase her visibility but if anything it has created a more hostile environment for homosexuals in Cameroon.  In January, three men were arrested in Cameroon and charged with committing homosexual acts.

In August 2011, another three were arrested for acts of gross indecency in a car.

PRAY that Almighty God will reveal the extent of the European Union’s attempts to undermine Christian morality in Africa.  Ask your MEP (Find him/her here with email address) how much money the EU has given to Africa for sexual rights and reproductive rights over the last ten years.

Atheist Starkey Digs a Hole

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It was with a mixture of disbelief and amusement that I heard atheist historian David Starkey tell Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis on 12th August that the main cause of the riots in England last week was the spread of black culture.  ‘The whites have become black’, he said.

He gave examples of Jamaican patois (‘innit’, ‘dat’, ‘dem’) ‘which has intruded in England’ to illustrate his point of ‘profound cultural change’.

Starkey went on to voice a silly assertion that David Lammy, MP for Tottenham, whose parents are from Guyana, was ‘an architypical successful black man’ but if you heard him speak ‘you would think he was white’.

Starkey was challenged by author Dreda Say Mitchell, who also has Caribbean parentage and also speaks with received pronunciation, and by the author of ‘Chavs’, Oxford educated, white, well-spoken Owen Jones.

Starkey has a mini-point, which probably did not warrant a full airing on Newsnight, but it was clumsily and ignorantly made.  And as a militant atheist he would be unable to provide an objective source of the very concepts of right and wrong on which his argument depended.

Perhaps Starkey doesn’t mix with people enough, for his line of thinking, that a small minority of Jamaican gangsters define ‘black culture’, is as absurd as saying that the South and East London gangsters of the fifties and sixties or for that matter the punk rockers of the eighties defined ‘white culture’.  There are and were different white cultures and different black cultures.

However, leaving aside the criminals who exist in every place, the most significant aspects of black culture as a whole, in Africa and in the Caribbean, are those of a Christian respect for God and for elders and a defense of Christian values in the family.  While it is true that some young men of Caribbean origin in the UK have embraced rather too enthusiastically the decadent sixties culture of Britain, their underlying culture, and overwhelmingly that of black Africans, is rooted in a strong defence of Christian morality, of sexual fidelity and modesty.

Because of their God-fearing base, Caribbean and African cultures are also strongly opposed to homosexuality, something which the homosexual Starkey, an ‘Honorary Associate’ (if there can be such a thing) of the National Secular Society, and a supporter of the late Tory Campaign for Homosexual Equality (they don’t need one these days), who has described himself as an “excessively enthusiastic advocate of promiscuity“, will also find less than appealing.

In fairness, Starkey has also warned of a tyrannous new morality based on aggressive promotion of gay rights in which Christians are persecuted.   But he is a fool in the Biblical sense, and if he were informed by Christian theology on the unity of the human race he would not have made such a fool of himself on Newsnight.

PRAY: Sometimes there are people who we think ‘ought’ to be saved and others who are so repulsive we find it hard to love them enough to want their salvation.

David Starkey may well fall into the latter category but he is still made in the image of God and he still needs the intrusion of the Holy Spirit and the saving grace of Jesus Christ to reveal to him his sin and his need of forgiveness and acceptance as an adopted son of the Father.  From that he will find that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom (Prov 1:7) and move from ever learning to the knowledge of the truth (2Tim 3:7).

If you can find sufficient charity in your heart (and you should) please pray for him.

SNP in ‘Bigot’ Row

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The SNP is possibly the least ‘gay-friendly’ political outfit north of the border but a row has blown up in it after a group of SNP MSPs stepped out to protect freedom of conscience over same-sex ‘marriage’.

SNP MSP John Mason took the lead, tabling a motion at Holyrood stating that no person or organisation should be forced to be involved or to approve of same-sex marriage.

That seems resaonable, but a homosexual SNP MEP has insulted his party colleagues calling them ‘bigots’ (of course)

The Daily Express reports: ‘Nationalist MEP Alyn Smith joined opposition leaders in berating four SNP MSPs for their “mean” and “angry” stance on gay weddings.’

The ill-tempered outburst comes just ten weeks after the Church of Scotland voted to allow homosexual men and women to become ministers.

Perhaps it is worth reminding ourselves of what the Lord Jesus Christ said about human sexuality:

Mark 10:6  But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. 10:7  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;  10:8  And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

And becoming one flesh, in all the beauty and mystery of sexual intercourse, is something a pair of gays or a couple of lesbians can never do.  In the words of Dr David Reuben, they are ‘trying to solve the puzzle with only half the pieces’.

What a pity the Church of Scotland did not vote to minister the saving and healing power of Jesus Christ to people suffering from same-sex attraction.

Perhaps there are a few names even in the Kirk which have not defiled their garments; the  Lord Jesus would say ‘they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.’ (Rev 3:4)  They may also need a law passed a little like that which John Mason proposes.


CAMERON NEEDS ‘PROPER MORALS’

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David Cameron has identified the causes of the riots and looting this week in Britain.  It is a lack of responsibility, which comes from a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing, a lack of proper ethics, a lack of proper morals.  It is as much a moral problem as a political problem, he has said.  (Also see below for that section of his comments.)We must give him full marks for stating the blindingly obvious.  People behave well for one of two reasons; either they have the fear of God before their eyes, or the fear of the long arm of the law.  In other words, either an internal or an external moral compass is necessary for good behaviour.

But who defines ‘good behaviour’?  Can we all agree that looting shops is wrong?  Someone is bound to say that by profiteering on dairy products the supermarkets are stealing from us.  Someone else will point to the way Members of Parliament milked the expenses system.  If something was within the rules, was it morally right?  David Cameron thinks forcing African countries to legalise sodomy is morally right.  He believes the deliberate killing of a helpless infant in its mother’s womb is morally acceptable, but agrees with Canon Giles Fraser (who also thinks sodomy is morally right) that robbing a Malaysian student, Mohammed Ashraf Haziq, caught up in the riots by pretending to help him is morally wrong.

Were those who did such a thing convinced they were right, or wrong?  Do they know the difference between right and wrong, and who defines it for them?  Years ago, an advert for Pepe Jeans carried the line: ‘I know the difference between right and wrong; I prefer wrong.’  But we may have moved on even from that amoral outburst.  For someone, what is held to be wrong by a majority may be thought right for them.  Such is moral relativism, or post-modern thinking, and we can now see where it leads.  In a sense, the lawlessness which has so shocked us in recent days has been brewing for a decade – or for even longer.

David Cameron blames the parents (‘a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing’), but does he realise that 50% of children are growing up in Britain without their natural father?

Who is responsible for that if it isn’t the politicians who legalised no-fault divorce on demand in the 1960s, legalised sodomy and pornography, brought in moral-free sex education around the same time and pushed condoms at teenagers just because they hated Christian morality? 

And who is equally responsible if not the present Coalition Government which allows all of that to continue on its life-destroying way, not seeing any of it as an offence against ‘proper morals’?

What does David Cameron expect single mums to do when confronted by an aggressive teenager or a younger child who threatens to call childline or social services if she so much as lays a finger on him?  Instead of trying to undermine African morality he should be learning from those societies where respect for elders, in keeping with the Biblical model, still exists.

Our society needs proper morals, but where are these found if not in the pages of Holy Scripture?  Who defines proper morality if not Almighty God?  Atheist activists have forced God out of public life to the extent that to express a Christian viewpoint is to run the risk of dismissal from a public sector job – or the Conservative Party.

Without God, there can be no objective right or wrong.  Atheist relativism means the rioter has as much right to his morality as Cameron has to his or me to mine.  Without God, there is no solid rock from which any politician can criticise anyone else.

Yes, we suffer from a lack of proper morals, but David Cameron shows no evidence of diagnosing that he and his political pals are as much in need of it as the robbers of poor Mohammed Ashraf Haziq.  Nor that he and his moral relativism is a huge part of what he describes as the sickness of Britain.

PRAY: The Bible says:

1Tim 2:1  I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; 2  For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.  3  For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;  4  Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

And yet the prophets of old were vehement in their criticism of kings and their policies in days of old.  How do we balance these two?  By realising that if we pray for those in authority God may want us to do something for him and witness to them.

So please pray for David Cameron and write to your MP (names and emails here) of the need for the UK to return to the Biblical word of God and ask him/her to convey your thoughts to the Prime Minister.

From the No10 website (same link as above):
Question
Prime Minister, you have said that parts of Britain are sick.  What is the cure in your view, and what do you say to people who say that part of the cure is more police, not fewer, more prison places, not fewer?

Prime Minister
When I say parts of Britain are sick, the one word I would use to sum that up is irresponsibility.  The sight of those young people running down streets, smashing windows, taking property, looting, laughing as they go, the problem of that is a complete lack of responsibility, a lack of proper parenting, a lack of proper upbringing, a lack of proper ethics, a lack of proper morals.  That is what we need to change.  There is no one trigger that can change these things.  It’s about parenting, it’s about discipline in schools, it’s about making sure we have a welfare system that does not reward idleness.  It is all of those things.
Now, of course we want to get the maximum out of the police budget to put the most police we have on the streets.  Of course we want to get value for money out of everything that we do.  But let’s not ignore the fact that what we’re seeing on our streets is actually a lack of responsibility.  It is as much a moral problem as a political problem.  That’s what we’re seeing, that’s what we need to deal with, and I think the whole country feels that way and recognises this is a problem for our society and one we have to cure and deal with.

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