Obama: Put Not Your Trust in Princes

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23 October 2008

In fertility amongst the young will rise as a result of the decision by the Government to make sex education compulsory in all schools, a Christian group has said.

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

‘There seems to be an assumption that children are powerless in the face of their emotions to stop having sex, but that at the height of passion they can be trusted to carry out contraceptive procedures. The evidence actually shows the opposite.

‘All sex education encourages experimentation, and schools are effectively corrupting children behind their parents’ backs, interfering with children’s natural modesty, grooming them for sex. If any teacher starts telling seven-year-olds about sex, or telling adolescents that there is nothing wrong with sodomy, parents ought to be down at that school, demanding that teacher be sacked.

‘Peculiar people in Government and the teen sex industry seem to like the idea of children fornicating, so much so that they do nothing to support the majority of young people who are not sexually active.

‘Sex education should be done in the family, and should concentrate on building a lifestyle of chastity – in other words, encouraging virginity in both sexes. That is not the same as abstinence, which carries connotations of giving up chocolate for Lent. Chastity is a lifestyle attitude.

‘Teenage pregnancy has risen as sex education and the distribution of condoms have gathered pace. The morning-after abortion pill depressed the figures slightly, but the underlying trend is still there as the latest abortion figures show.

‘But a bigger problem is now teenage infertility. Doctors know that condoms do not 100% stop sexually-transmitted infections, yet teen sex experts are still pretending they do. It is common sense that a condom only covers part of one part of the anatomy, while the most worrying STI’s are skin-borne or carried both ways by vaginal secretions. That is why genital warts are on the rise, and both sexes have those for life.

‘Now with the HPV vaccine, girls will think they are covered against everything if they are on the pill as well, so there will be even more Gonorrhoea and Chlamydia cases and even more infertility. But as all the Government targets revolve around pregnancy, no-one in the corridors of power cares how many kids become infertile. Indeed, if that stops them getting pregnant, they might even welcome it.

‘Government and the teen sex industry are betraying young people in this country. They should get prepared for a new rise in teenage pregnancies and infertility as a result of today’s decision. As for individual young people, the message is stark in today’s climate, where 10% have had STIs which lead to infertility and chronic conditions. If you want to have children, and if you don’t want an unpleasant wedding present, stay a virgin, and marry a virgin.’

Scouts Accused of ‘Grooming’ Children

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The Scout Association was today accused by a Christian group of harming the children in its care by grooming them for sex.

Christian Voice said the Association’s advice, ‘Promoting good sexual health within Scouting’, was ‘bleak’ and a travesty of the original aims of the Scouting Association. The group is urging a complete rethink by the Association, whose patron is Her Majesty the Queen.

Boys and girls barely out of their cub scout units could be referred under the guidance to sex clinics where they would be given condoms. Simon Carter, head of media at the Scouts, refused to give Christian Voice a lower age limit for the children who could be so advised. In a statement, Chief Scout Peter Duncan said: ‘We must realistic and accept that around one-third of young people are sexually active before 16.’

Incredibly, the Scouting Association expects scout leaders to take time out from their traditional activities to research the contact details of local contraceptive services and sexual health (VD or STD) clinics. Scout leaders are advised to meet up with Government teen sex activists and to know where scouts and their girlfriends can find supplies of the abortifacient morning-after pill and pregnancy testing.

‘If asked,’ it says, ‘you should try to provide details of local emergency contraception provision, which you can obtain from the local Teenage Pregnancy Coordinator.’

The factsheet ‘Promoting good sexual health within Scouting’ even suggests taking a unit of Explorer Scouts (aged 14-18) down to the local Venereal Disease clinic. There is ‘no need’ to seek written parental consent, it says, blithely, advising leaders simply to tell the Scouts’ parents or carers that it is going to happen.

In a reference to the Fraser Guidelines, the guidance says ‘an adult in Scouting may give advice without the parents’ knowledge and consent’ if ‘the adult cannot persuade the young person to inform his or her parents.’ Then in a Q&A section, which clearly betrays the fear of the Scouting HQ that Scout leaders will be less than happy with the guidance, the guidance says ‘many young people will want to talk to someone who is not their teacher or parent. Sometimes an adult in Scouting will be the easiest person to approach.’

Church-based scout groups are told not to let their faith get in the way of sending children to anti-Christian agencies such at the fpa and Brook Advisory for information. ‘Religion,’ the Scouting Association Fact Sheet says, ‘should not be a barrier to providing appropriate advice’. Scout leaders may also ride roughshod over the children’s religious beliefs, including those of Christians and the Muslim girls featured heavily on the Scout website. While lip service is paid to ‘respect’ for ‘everyone’s religion and cultural beliefs’, ‘all young people are entitled to appropriate advice and information,’ it says.

A web-page on the scouting web-site (www.scouts.org.uk/shis ) shows that part of that ‘appropriate advice and information’ is where to get an abortion, with weblinks to both Marie Stopes and British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the ‘big two’ abortion providers in Great Britain. Links are also given to the Terrene Higgins Trust, which promotes homosexuality, and to websites claiming that condoms protect against all sexually-transmitted diseases funded either by the Government or contraceptive providers.

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

‘We have sadly grown used to schools corrupting children behind their parents’ backs, but now scout leaders are coming under pressure to do it as well. While Peter Duncan throws up his hands despairingly about the one-third of children he claims are sexually active, he is doing nothing to support the two-thirds who aren’t.

‘The Scouts have traditionally emphasised good works and the health benefits of an outdoor life. By encouraging premature sex, they are putting all of that at risk.

‘Scout leaders should be teaching boys the virtues of chastity and chivalry, emphasising self-control and self-respect, showing them the value of caring for themselves and for others and of having respect for young women. Girls in the Scouts need to hear about the virtue of modesty and the value of their virginity.

‘Instead, Scout leaders are going to send boys along to sex clinics and shove their pregnant girlfriends into the grasping clutches of abortionists. By promoting the condom culture, they will make it inevitable that the current rates of teenage pregnancy, abortion, sexual-transmitted disease and consequent infertility amongst the young will increase. On top of that, they are preparing boys for sexual advances from predatory homosexuals including some who may be drawn to positions in the scout movement itself. Their advice falls little short of grooming children for sex. “Be prepared” never included that.

‘Ironically, the Scout Movement may well do what its Child Protection Policy specifically rules against, by exposing the young people in its care to all the physical, sexual and emotional harm associated with illicit sexual activity. Such harm can range from feelings of inadequacy that he or she is not sexually active to pregnancy, the emotional scars of abortion, and the contracting of sexually-transmitted diseases, chronic conditions such as genital warts and those which result in infertility which condoms are powerless to prevent.

‘Young people deserve better than this bleak assumption that they are no better than farmyard animals. The Scouting hierarchy appear to have stumbled on the challenge of the teenage sex problem, and like rabbits caught in the headlights, the only people they thought of approaching were those in the teen sex industry who have a vested interest in keeping young people sexually active. They should have spoken to pro-life and pro-family groups as well. But their inexperience in this field does not excuse them. A word from the Lord about millstones around necks comes to mind. They should revise their advice drastically. In the meantime, Christians involved in scouting, churches associated with scout groups and parents should make very clear their complete opposition to these disgraceful developments.’

Last year the Girl Guides started a similar programme called ‘Get Wise’ to teach about ‘sexual health’. The programme appears to have sunk into embarrassed obscurity, but the organisation’s website has a page called ‘fit for life’ which promotes new age treatments such as aromatherapy, colour therapy (whatever that might be) and yoga. Unlike the Scouts, there are no links to abortionists, although there is one weblink to the fpa and another to a Government url astonishingly called ‘www.playingsafely.co.uk’, as if sex is just an adolescent recreational activity. The link is redirected straight to a suggestive NHS website called condomessentialwear.co.uk.

The Scouting Association advice comes as figures show the number of sex offenders is on the increase.

Bendy-Bus toTake Dawkins’ Message Off-Road

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Richard Dawkins is so concerned that the atheist message is dying on its feet that he is to fund a humanist evangelistic campaign, Christian Voice has learned.

But in a twist which will have Christians in gales of laughter, the advertising campaign, which will be based on the catchy slogan ‘There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and get on with your life,’ is to be stuck on bendy-buses.

Apparently, an atheist blogger named Jon Worth came up with the idea, but his fellow humanists, not known for their generosity, wouldn’t stump up the cash. Now Richard Dawkins, whose anti-Christian zeal knows little bounds, is to finance the doomed venture.

Should the ads be placed on London ‘s Bendy-Buses, it would be a highly-appropriate move since these have proved to be a danger to the public and are due for the chop under new Mayor Boris Johnson.

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

‘How funny that Richard Dawkins is so scared of the threat which evangelical Christianity poses to atheism and his beloved Darwinism that he has to fund a campaign to attack God. He really is the nearest thing atheists have to an evangelist while his belief in non-belief is held with a fervour which many religious people would do well to emulate, so long as they don’t make themselves look as inept as he so often does, poor man.

‘I should be surprised if a quasi-religious advertising campaign like this did not attract graffiti. People don’t like being preached at. Sometimes it does them good, but they still don’t like it. The advertising space on a bendy-bus is just the right height as well. But the graffiti artists, and indeed the atheist advertisers will have to be quick or the bendy-buses will be off the road in Boris’s purge, taking the anti-God message with them. Bendy-buses, like atheism, are a danger to the public at large.

‘It occurs to me that the addition of just a few words from Psalm 14 would make the entire message Biblical: “The fool hath said in his heart …” ‘

Cannibal Chef Should Face Death Penalty

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19 October 2008

The life sentence handed down to Anthony Morley, who killed his homosexual lover, then cooked and ate parts of him, has led to a call for the reintroduction of the death penalty for those cases where verdicts are reached on the basis of overwhelming evidence.

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

‘Many people might have little regard for Morley’s victim, Damian Oldfield. They would point to the violence endemic in the homosexual network, the desire amongst some homosexuals for ‘rough trade’, and they will say that such a thing was bound to happen. And in truth, this is not the first murder from a homosexual pick-up, and it won’t be the last.

‘Yet Damian Oldfield, despite the psychological flaws which drove him to seek casual sexual encounters, was a man made in the image of God. That makes the abuse he wreaked on himself worse, but it does not negate the sanctity of his life. The Bible says ‘a life for a life’ because only the life of the murderer can restore the wrong that has been done when innocent blood is shed.

‘Morley openly confessed to his crime, and the evidence of it was overwhelming as well. This was not a run-of-the-mill “beyond reasonable doubt” conviction. In such a case, the need for justice and the requirements of compassion for a victim and his family cry out for Morley to be executed.

‘In the Christian understanding, upon which our laws are or should be based, the death penalty was given to mankind for perpetuity under God’s covenant with Noah. That covenant was sealed with the sign of the rainbow (Genesis 9:12-13).

‘I don’t like the idea of putting a man to death any more than the worst humanistically-minded liberal. But the other day I saw a glorious rainbow and it reminded me that God’s institution of the nation state and of true justice is still in force. We need to remember that putting a properly-convicted murderer to death is a righteous act, not something to be ashamed of.

‘The Bible verse says: “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6, AV) and it goes on to explain why: “for in the image of God made He man.”

‘In the sixties, with the abolition of the death penalty in 1965 and the Abortion Act 1967, Parliament took the death penalty away from the guilty, by the state, where it belongs, and imposed it upon the innocent, in the family, where it does not. Both measures were against public opinion and in opposition to the laws of God.

‘Banning abortion coupled with the reintroduction of the death penalty for murderers convicted on overwhelming evidence would send out a signal of the true worth of innocent human life. It would rebound in a more compassionate society, and that is a blessing we need urgently today.’

Lloyd Webber Buries Superstar in Eurovision Quest

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19 October 2008

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s decision to write the song and front a Eurovision talent show for the BBC and his announcement that he will not be back until 2010 to find a Dorothy for the Wizard of Oz means he has abandoned his attempt to resurrect the resurrection-less Jesus Christ Superstar as a result of pressure from Christians, a Christian pressure group said today.

Following the ‘Oliver’ series, the composer, made Baron Lloyd-Webber in 1997, said he wanted to work on finding talent for a new show of which he is composer or producer. ‘Superstar’ was his first choice to fit the bill. But following Eurovision, he will now be concentrating on a sequel to Phantom of the Opera instead.

That will demand his full attention until 2010, he says, when he will see if the BBC and its talent show formula search for a Dorothy to dance down the yellow-brick road will drop gold into the Lloyd Webber coffers.

As recently as April this year, Lloyd Webber said he wanted to cast Jesus as a follow-up to ‘How do you solve a problem like Maria’ for The Sound of Music and the ‘I’d do anything’ casting of Nancy and Oliver for the musical Oliver.

The prospect of the BBC auditioning pop hopefuls in front of Andrew Lloyd Webber for the role of Jesus led Christian Voice to promise Jerry Springer the Opera-style protests and evangelism if the project went ahead. A BBC insider admitted: “Some Christian groups are bound to have a problem with Andrew telling people, ‘You could be Jesus.’ ”

Jesus Christ Superstar caused protests from Christians during its 1970s West End run by portraying Jesus Christ as a mere man, a tormented character buffeted by events. It ended with Him being laid in the tomb and there was no resurrection.

Auditions would have been held across the country and the judges, including Lloyd Webber, who would have been at each venue, faced the prospect of the queues of pop wannabe’s being leafleted outside and young evangelists getting access to the audition room itself.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today: “I give credit to Almighty God for this success. The BBC and Andrew Lloyd Webber have clearly buried the idea of Superstar as a result of our witness putting the fear of God into them. This shows how important it is for Christians to stand up for their Saviour, so that blasphemous shows, which bring the righteous judgment of God on us all, are not put on in our land.

“Credit is due to BBC bosses and Lord Lloyd-Webber, who appear to have taken this matter seriously, and to have found another outlet for their talents. Whether they can save the UK from nul-point oblivion in Eurovision is another matter; maybe they should get on their knees and seek divine guidance. Certainly, as we survey the social wreckage of our once-great nation, its only hope lies in the incarnate Son of God, the crucified, risen, ascended, glorified Lord of lords, Jesus Christ.

Betterware Burnt by Voodoo Candle

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13 October 2008

Betterware have removed two products from sale in a victory for Christian witness. The housewares firm has stopped selling its voodoo candle and voodoo gingerbread set in an embarrassing turn-around.

The action follows a quick-fire prayer campaign by Christian Voice following a news item on Premier Christian Radio featuring just one concerned mother. Christian Voice members responded to an E-Alert by emailing the CEO of Betterware, Ken Wolfe, and writing to the chairman Andrew Cohen and his wife Wendy, who run the Betterware Foundation.

They specifically prayed against the evil influence of the products and the idea that witchcraft is just a bit of fun.

The product description for the voodoo gingerbread candle was particularly bad. ‘Do you have issues with an ex?’ it asked. ‘Someone has wronged you?’ ‘Now you can get your own back.’ ‘Get your revenge’. The candle had five wicks: one on the forehead, one on the heart, one on a hand, one on a foot and one in what appeared to be the genital area. It came in a coffin-shaped box, while a disclaimer said jokingly: ‘Betterware take no responsibility should anything bad happen!’

The voodoo gingerbread pastry set had rolling pin, mat, cookie cutter and recipe card. It said ‘don’t stick pins in people, eat them’. Both products have now been taken off sale, after a week-long campaign by Christian Voice activists. It is thought that some Betterware agents were deeply unhappy at selling products based on hate and the infliction of harm.

Stephen Green of Christian Voice said: ‘This episode shows how vigilant we must be, but also the power of prayer and the effectiveness of Christian witness. We give God all the glory for changing the hearts of Mr Wolfe and Mr & Mrs Cohen, so our members can be sure they have prayed with the mind of God.’

Violent Crime – Sowing and Reaping

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1 October 2008

By the grace of God, Christian Voice was able to send the message below to all those attending the Labour Party conference. We pray for repentance in the heart of the Queen’s Ministers and up and down our United Kingdom.

There is a Biblical principle that we reap what we sow. It applies to nations as well as to individuals. What politicians sow, the people reap. When politicians sow evil, the people reap misery, and the poorest reap it the worst.

The Divorce Reform Act 1969 and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 introduced divorce on demand and no-fault settlements. The ease with which Parliament said marriages could break up sowed the idea that the promises made in marriage did not matter. The people have reaped a covenant-breaking mentality in which being divorced against your will or any kind of justice is taken for granted and the sum of human misery is increased.

Around that time, the state began to encourage teenagers to have sex with the only moral message being to use a condom. That resulted in profits to manufacturers and an explosion of teenage pregnancy. Now we have the disaster of teenage infertility. Every government initiative, including the HPV vaccine, will increase it, but as all the targets revolve around pregnancy, no-one in power cares about those young people they have made sterile.

An increase in the size of the state meant heavier taxation, and big business wanted a feminised, non-unionised work-force. So mothers were driven out of the home into paid employment. That bit of sowing increased the pressure on families and the poorest reaped it the hardest.

Taken together, these anti-Christian measures mean around half of children are now growing up without their father. Parliament has just said fathers aren’t even needed in families. How is a mother on her own supposed to restrain an adolescent son? How is she supposed to know what her teenage children are doing between the end of the school day and the time she gets home from work? Is it any wonder we are reaping massive disaffection among the young, showing itself in drunkenness, drug-taking, illicit sex and lawlessness?

And with the abolition of the death penalty in 1965 and the Abortion Act 1967, Parliament removed the death penalty from the guilty, by the state, where it belongs, and imposed it on the innocent within the family, where it does not. With those two measures, our politicians sowed the belief that innocent human life, made in the image of God, has no value.

We are now reaping a shocking callousness and brutality in society of which the growing trend of violent deaths of teenagers is the starkest evidence. And it is among the most disadvantaged sections of society that these deaths are having the greatest impact.

No doubt the parliamentary reformers of the sixties were carried away with secularist motives, determined to destroy the family and overturn the hated Christian morality, but did none of them stop to think, or care, that ordinary people, those they were supposed to represent, would be the hardest hit when society broke down?

The prophet Isaiah pronounced woe on those who call good ‘evil’ and evil ‘good’. And woe on today’s politicians, who are so in love with their own importance they cannot humble themselves and seek the Lord. Rather than reject the sixties secularist paradigm, they stumble around trying to put sticking-plaster on burst arteries. March offenders around hospital wards, have metal detectors in clubs and continue to embrace evil, with the mayor, the police and armed forces parading at the head of London ‘s annual display of immorality.

If God has mercy on us, He will remove from office those intent on evil, and replace them with men after His own heart. If not, we shall continue to descend into a mutual hell-on-earth of the politicians’ making. A nation which has just legislated that Christ may be blasphemed is not one which can expect to enjoy His blessing. So our message to those in power is the same as it was in the days of the prophets, and the same as in the days when God incarnate walked this earth as the Lord Jesus Christ: Everything you try in opposition to God will fail. Repent, turn to Christ, stop doing evil, start doing good.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. (Micah 2:1)

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, (Matt 6:33)

CV Meetings in Northern Ireland

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25 September 2008

CHRISTIANS OF NORTHERN IRELAND : LIFT UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET (Isa 58:1)!

Stephen Green of Christian Voice is visiting Northern Ireland to set out his vision of a Christian society at a time when the politics of Northern Ireland is creating fresh challenges and opportunities for witness.

Thursday 9th October 2008, 8pm – Christian Meeting
Independent Methodist Church , Queen’s Parade, OMAGH , BT79 0DJ

Friday 10th October 2008, 8pm – Christian Meeting
Independent Methodist Church , Doury Road , BALLYMENA , BT43 6JD

Saturday 11th October 2008, 7.30pm – Christian Meeting
Townsend Street Presbyterian Church, BELFAST , BT13 2ES

Sunday 12th October 2008, 11.30am – Morning Service
Independent Methodist Church , Duncastle Road ,
New Buildings, LONDONDERRY , BT47 2QT

Sunday 12th October 2008, 6.30am – Evening Service
Free Methodist Church , Gregg Street , LISBURN , BT27 5AW

Stephen Green says: ‘These are new and demanding times for Northern Ireland, and during my visit to the Province I shall be encouraging Christians to lift up their voices and call for repentance and a turning back to Jesus Christ, who is King of kings and Lord of lords.

‘The old certainties, it seems to me, are changing, and Christians need to be aware where the new threats are coming from. Who would have thought, for instance, that the first civil partnership would be registered in Northern Ireland, or that Ulster’s primary school children would be the first in the UK to have their innocence destroyed through mandatory sex education? There are moves afoot to impose the horrors of legal abortion on the Province. Will the Church have the conviction to stand against that?

I have a vision of a society where God’s law is preferred to secular ideas, and where there is peace and tranquillity. In such a society, individuals have responsibilities, married couples stay married, they bring up Godly children, perversion is not paraded through the streets, the State wields the sword of true justice, and God’s blessing is poured out. As the Psalm says:

“That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets. Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.” Psalm 144:12-15 (KJV)

Lift Up thy Voice Like a Trumpet

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I have been much challenged by Isaiah 58:1 recently, and the prophetic duty of the church in Ezekiel 33 to sound the trumpet of warning. I have realised as well that the spate of knife and gun crime amongst the young has come just 40 years after the 1968 implementation of the Abortion Act 1967. In the Bible 40 years seems to speak of testing and judgment (Jonah 3:4). Much more evil was sown in the sixties as well, and I believe we are now reaping the results.

We were able to place an ‘advertorial’ at very low cost in ‘The House’ magazine which went last week to everyone at the Labour Party Conference. It is appended below. Does it strike a chord with you?

VIOLENT CRIME – SOWING AND REAPING

There is a Biblical principle that we reap what we sow. It applies to nations as well as to individuals. What politicians sow, the people reap. When politicians sow evil, the people reap misery, and the poorest reap it the worst.

The Divorce Reform Act 1969 and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 introduced divorce on demand and no-fault settlements. The ease with which Parliament said marriages could break up sowed the idea that the promises made in marriage did not matter. The people have reaped a covenant-breaking mentality in which being divorced against your will or any kind of justice is taken for granted and the sum of human misery is increased.

Around that time, the state began to encourage teenagers to have sex with the only moral message being to use a condom. That resulted in profits to manufacturers and an explosion of teenage pregnancy. Now we have the disaster of teenage infertility. Every government initiative, including the HPV vaccine, will increase it, but as all the targets revolve around pregnancy, no-one in power cares about those young people they have made sterile.

An increase in the size of the state meant heavier taxation, and big business wanted a feminised, non-unionised work-force. So mothers were driven out of the home into paid employment. That bit of sowing increased the pressure on families and the poorest reaped it the hardest.

Taken together, these anti-Christian measures mean around half of children are now growing up without their father. Parliament has just said fathers aren’t even needed in families. How is a mother on her own supposed to restrain an adolescent son? How is she supposed to know what her teenage children are doing between the end of the school day and the time she gets home from work? Is it any wonder we are reaping massive disaffection among the young, showing itself in drunkenness, drug-taking, illicit sex and lawlessness?

And with the abolition of the death penalty in 1965 and the Abortion Act 1967, Parliament removed the death penalty from the guilty, by the state, where it belongs, and imposed it on the innocent within the family, where it does not. With those two measures, our politicians sowed the belief that innocent human life, made in the image of God, had no value.

We are now reaping a shocking callousness and brutality in society of which the growing trend of violent deaths of teenagers is the starkest evidence. And it is among the most disadvantaged sections of society that these deaths are having the greatest impact.

No doubt the parliamentary reformers of the sixties were carried away with secularist motives, determined to destroy the family and overturn the hated Christian morality, but did none of them stop to think, or care, that ordinary people, those they were supposed to represent, would be the hardest hit when society broke down?

The prophet Isaiah pronounced woe on those who call good ‘evil’ and evil ‘good’. And woe on today’s politicians, who are so in love with their own importance they cannot humble themselves and seek the Lord. Rather than reject the sixties secularist paradigm, they stumble around trying to put sticking-plaster on burst arteries. March offenders around hospital wards, have metal detectors in clubs and continue to embrace evil, with the mayor, the police and armed forces parading at the head of London ‘s annual display of immorality.

If God has mercy on us, He will remove from office those intent on evil, and replace them with men after His own heart. If not, we shall continue to descend into a mutual hell-on-earth of the politicians’ making. A nation which has just legislated that Christ may be blasphemed is not one which can expect to enjoy His blessing. So our message to those in power is the same as it was in the days of the prophets, and the same as in the days when God incarnate walked this earth as the Lord Jesus Christ: Everything you try in opposition to God will fail. Repent, turn to Christ, stop doing evil, start doing good.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. (Micah 2:1)

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, (Matt 6:33)

London Zoo ‘Gay Sunday’

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A group of Christian activists met at the St Mark’s entrance to Regent’s Park on Sunday 14th September to witness against London Zoo’s bizarre ‘Gay Sunday’ event.

It was not long before the Parks Division of the Metropolitan Police asked us to stop giving out leaflets because they were causing some homosexuals ‘alarm and distress’ contrary to Section 5 of the Public Order Act 1986. Apparently, the limits on freedom of speech stop in ‘the Met’ at the point when homosexuals are having their feathers ruffled.

We stood our ground and the police backed down, giving each of us a ‘stop and search’ notice instead (although no-one was searched) and warning us not to go inside the Royal Park (where it seems anything more than breathing needs Her Majesty’s permission). So we praised God for His intervention and carried on leafleting and evangelising.

There were fewer homosexuals going in than last year, and although they had a discount, this time they had no fenced-off areas. But this meant the full depravity of the homosexual lifestyle was imposed on everyone, and the effect on children at this family venue formed the substance of our hard-hitting leaflet to which ‘the gays’ took such offence.

We had some good conversations again, and we just pray that the seed of the word of God will have taken root in someone’s heart. The leaflet also attacked evolutionism, and as the Zoological Society of London is a hotbed of Darwinism it confronted man’s arrogance in more ways than one.

READ: Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Gen 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. Gen 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. Gen 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Gen 2:24 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

Note: The last verse is the one the Lord Jesus quoted in Mark 10 in His definitive ruling on human sexuality. Try as they might, a pair of homosexuals can never be ‘one flesh’. They know that, and it witnesses against them.

Cardiff Mardi Gras Squelches to a Halt

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Cardiff01 — No go: Coopers Fields turned into a quagmire

A homosexual event planned for Cardiff squelched to a halt this weekend. Heavy rain through Friday reduced the Coopers Fields area of Bute Park to quagmire.

Members of Christian Voice, a Christian prayer and lobby group, met on Thursday evening to pray for the annual evangelistic outreach for the event. They also prayed that God would visit financial disaster on the organisers, who were charging an entrance fee for the first time, after a lack of support for the normal free event.

But Friday’s deluge of rain over South East Wales meant the entire event had to be cancelled.

The evangelism moved to Queens Street in central Cardiff , where the top of Churchill Way was closed off by a local bar for an alternative homosexual party.

But with tickets at £15 a piece, the venue was struggling to entice custom as heavy showers continued to drive in.

Cardiff02 — Evangelistic hot dogs heat up the Gospel

Meanwhile, a bigger evangelistic team than ever before gave out leaflets entitled: ‘Cardiff Pride: what would Jesus say?’

Homosexual activists showed their normal regard for the freedom of speech by demanding that local police stop the witness, but the police simply asked for a copy of the leaflet and allowed the witness to continue.

Cardiff04 — Not every alcopop activist is impressed

PRAY: Praise the Lord for the deluge which left the Cardiff ‘Gay Pride’ committee with no option but to cancel their show. Pray that the message that Jesus Christ saves sinners will enter into just one heart as a result of our outreach.

The Families in Your Church May Not Be Safe

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Churches should be aware of the threat posed by social workers steeling children from their parents, Christian Voice has warned.

Secret family courts continue to forcibly remove hundreds of children from their parents throughout the UK every year. The children are then put up for adoption and prevented from seeing their biological parents, many of whom have not committed any abuse.

Last June Christian Voice reported on a number of cases of children being ‘freed for adoption’ in order to meet targets.

Freeing for adoption was first introduced in England and Wales under the Adoption Act 1976, following the Report of the Departmental Committee on the Adoption of Children chaired by Sir William Houghton in 1972. The Children Act 2004 later established secret family courts to oversee the removal of children from their birth parents. These courts use contempt of court laws to prevent parents going public with their stories.

In addition to the thousands of children removed from their parents every year, the family courts also send parents to prison for contempt of court because of breaching a contact order. A Parliamentary question last year revealed that the judges in family courts regularly send more than 200 people a year to prison, in strict secrecy with no public hearing at all.

SECRET COURTS

The secrecy of the family courts means that if an MP does his democratic duty to check out a constituents’ heart-rending tale of social service child-snatching, he will be held in contempt of court, as would the parent approaching their MP for help. Nick Cohen reported in the Observer that in one case a judge’s ruling ‘meant that it was a contempt of court to tell the solicitor general, who is responsible for the honest functioning of the legal system, and the Minister for Children, who is responsible for the welfare of children, about an alleged miscarriage of justice involving a child.’

The secret courts also prevent parents who are accused of abuse from calling in witnesses in their defence. Parents who are unable to afford a lawyer, or who are refused legal aid, are prevented from asking a lay adviser to help.

Ian Joseph, Ex-Kent County Councillor and author of the book Forced Adoptions, reported on his website that, ‘A couple I helped recently had their baby removed the same day it was born! The distraught mother was told that she was blameless, but that her partner, the baby’s father, some years previously had been accused by his ex-wife of violence towards her in a custody dispute. No charges were ever brought by anyone but this unproved accusation was enough for the horrified mother to see her baby taken by social services with a view to adopts. After several court cases a second baby was born and threatened with the same fate…’

Official figures show that in 100 cases, low family income was the main justification for removing children from their parents. Newspapers have also reported on cases where social services targeted children because the parents are were ‘not clever enough.’ In some cases, a mother’s ‘troubled childhood’ has been used as evidence that her children should be removed.

In 21% of all cases where a child needs protection, the reason is allegedly because of ‘emotional abuse.’ While emotional abuse is on the rise (in 1997 it only accounted for 14% of cases), no one quite understands what it actually means. According to the Enfield local authority, emotional abuse includes ‘swearing’, ‘conditional love’ or ‘discriminatory remarks’. The Nottingham council defines it as ‘an ingrained pattern of interaction . . . which it is essential to observe and understand over time’. ‘Right now, it looks as though around 6,000 people stand accused of abuse, or potential abuse, that no lawyer can even define’ complained Camilla Cavendish in The Times.

‘From the time’ wrote Sue Reid in the Daily Mail, ‘a child is named on a social services care order until the day they are adopted, the parents are breaking the law – a crime punishable by imprisonment – if they tell anyone what is happening to their family. Anything from a chat with a neighbour to a letter sent to a friend can land them in jail.’

READ: Deut. 1:17; Lev. 19:15; 1 Sam. 2:10; Prov. 24:23-25; Is. 5:20-23; 10:1-4; Mic. 2:1-2; Jn. 7:24 1 Tim. 5:21; James 3:17.

PRAY: Pray for the numerous families being torn apart to satisfy Government’s adoption targets. Pray this issue remains high profile in the media, despite all the social services and secret courts are doing to keep it quiet.

WRITE: to your MP and make any of the following points

The family courts should be opened up to trial by jury.
The laws should be changed to remove the gag currently placed on parents who have suffered in the family courts. Only the workings of the homeland security service, MI5, are guarded more closely than those of the family courts. As High Court judge Mr Justice Munby told MPs last year: ‘It seems quite indefensible that there should be no access by the media, and no access by the public, to what is going on in courts where judges are, day by day, taking people’s children away.’ In any organ of a democratic society, transparency not secrecy is the key to positive reform.
Social workers should stop targeting parents with learning difficulties. According to a BBC News report, ‘It is increasingly common for people with learning difficulties to have children. However, researchers found that in 50% of cases [where parents had learning difficulties] children were being taken from their natural parents.’
The family courts should no longer allow alleged cases of ‘Manchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy’ to count as evidence against a parent. The controversial disorder allegedly compels mothers to make up illnesses in her child, or even to purposely harm him to attract attention to herself. MSBP was first ‘discovered’ by Professor Sir. Roy Meadow, a controversial paediatrician who was later struck off the medical register for giving ‘misleading and incorrect’ testimony in the case of Sally Clark, a mother wrongly jailed for killing her two infant sons. Professor Meadow was found guilty of serious professional misconduct. However, Dr. Meadow’s scientifically unproved theory continues to be the basis by which scores of mothers have been sent to prison while hundreds more have had their children removed for adoption. Some doctors question whether the syndrome even exists. Nick Cohen wrote in the Observer, that ‘One case [of alleged ‘Manchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy’] involved a couple in Essex who had taken the baby to hospital because of a bump on his head. They were accused of attacking him. They managed to find medical evidence which proved their innocence, but it was too late: the boy had been adopted. No appeal. No redress. The child was lost.’

ADVICE FOR CHURCHES

Churches should be aware that if they call or alert social services to a problem in a family, the parents are very likely to lose their children and any future children as a result. Criminal activity should be reported to the police, but for anything else, consider how you can best support the family within the church.
If children within your church are targeted by social workers:
Urge the parents contact Christian Voice immediately. We can put them in touch with others who have been down this road and won and who are only too happy to offer advice to those in a similar plight.
If parents within your church are asked to take their children to the hospital for a ‘checkup’ on Friday afternoon, never agree. Social workers arrange that intentionally to keep the parents waiting until 5 or 6 pm so they can remove the children after it is too late to seek legal help until Monday, by which time it is often too late.
If a family within your church has been threatened with having their children removed, the parents should teach their children to make reverse charge calls at public phone boxes and the parents should help them to memorise their phone number. That way, if they are taken away, contact will never be lost.
Parents within your church should be advised to never sign any documents social workers present to them, even if the social workers say they have to. Many people don’t realise it, but social workers have absolutely no power unless they are working specifically under a court order issued by a judge. Parents always have the opportunity to contest such orders in court either before or after they are given.
Parents within your church should be advised to never agree for their children to go into foster care even for a temporary period, because in the eyes of the courts this is equivalent to admitting abuse.
Parents within your church should be advised to never give social workers more information than the bare minimum. They will use any information they can against the parents. This means that parents should avoid writing letters to social workers, even when they are very upset and feel like they have to.
Parents within your church should be warned that if social workers ask to look at medical records, the parents should always write to their doctor and request that the records be kept strictly confidential.
If a family within your church is having problems with social workers, they should be advised to obtain copies of social services’ records about your child. Instructions about how to request the records can be found HERE.

Charles Speaks for the Poor on GM Crops

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Support for the Prince of Wales has come from a Christian prayer and lobby group over the matter of GM crops.

Charles in GM ‘disaster’ warning http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7557644.stm

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

‘Prince Charles’s timely intervention should be heeded. Firstly, the development and cultivation of GM crops is not about helping food supply, it is not being done for altruistic motives, it is being carried out by multi-national companies for money, and it will lead to strangulation of the means of production, putting poorer farmers out of business.

‘Secondly, the environmental disaster His Royal Highness predicts is as a direct result of mankind playing God, interfering in systems about which we can never have anything more than flawed and limited knowledge.

‘It is not enough for the Government to say that safety is their top priority. Who can trust them, especially as the employees of Monsanto and other agrochemical companies rotate around as Government advisors?

‘The comment from the anti-monarchy group “Republic” is the oddest response, saying “Prince Charles is quickly making his position as heir to the throne untenable with his meddling in politics.” No he isn’t, he is speaking up for respect for the complexity of our environment, against man’s arrogance, and for the world’s poor. I guess “Republic” would not understand any of that.

‘In the past, Christian Voice has not been slow to criticise the Prince of Wales and his sons for activities which have brought their family into disrepute. But in this matter, the more the Prince of Wales articulates what is on the hearts of ordinary people and in the heart of God, the better.’

Nanny State Turns Nasty

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HOME SECRETARY CALLS FOR HUGE EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT INTO FAMILY LIFE

Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, announced plans to identify children as young as 5 as potential criminals.

In what the Times has called ‘a huge expansion of state intervention in family life’, Ms. Smith said that parents who are not looking after their children properly should be made to sign contracts forcing them to exercise more control.

‘I believe it is about identifying families in which you are going to intervene at an early stage, where you will expect certain behaviour and if that does not happen there will be sanctions.’

Read full article HERE.

WRITE: Identifying children who might become criminals or parents who might become abusive goes against one of the fundamental pillars of our judicial system: that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Ms Smith’s proposals are chilling, especially when we remember that last year Fran Lyon, a Northumberland mother, was told by social services that her first child would be taken from her within 30 minutes of birth and handed over to the local authority simply because she might harm the child after it was born. In another case, reported in the Daily Mail, one mother’s son was adopted on the grounds that there was a chance she might shout at him when he was older.

If Ms. Smith’s plans go through, we can expect to see an increase of cases where children are removed from parents on the basis of ‘risk’ rather than actual abuse. Write to your MP opposing these measures.

LICENSED TO HUG

The relationship between adults and children is becoming increasingly sullied with suspicion and fear as a result of child protection laws, a recent study has shown.

The study, conducted by the independent think-tank Civitas, found that youngsters are increasingly at risk as responsible adults are afraid to intervene and help them for fear of being labeled as pedophiles.

‘Since the establishment of the Criminal Records Bureau in 2002, more than a third of British adults have had to get a certificate to say they are safe to be near children, and the numbers affected are increasing’ warns the study. Soon a quarter of all British adults will have to pass the ‘paedophile test’ before being allowed to interact with any child except their own.

Titled ‘Licensed to Hug’, the report reveals that since 2002 the Criminal Records Bureau has conducted 15 million CRB checks, costing the taxpayer over half a billion pounds. Those who have not been certified as ‘safe’ are often afraid to comfort a toddler who fell over, intervene in a playground fight, assist a lost child or offer basic first aid to someone else’s child in a public park. The report cites the case of Cleveland coastguard Paul Waugh, who climbed down a cliff in high winds to rescue a child and then resigned after being severely reprimanded for breaching health and safety regulations.

The report cited another example of a woman who could not kiss her daughter goodbye on a school trip because she had not been vetted.

The Civitas report calls for the torrent of politically correct child protection laws, which treat every adult as a potential child-abuser, to be relaxed.

The Home Office said that from October 2009, a new Independent Safeguarding Authority would be created to tighten the rules even further. It will require any adult coming into contact with children their work or voluntary groups to be investigated.

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HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT CITIZENS BRANDED CRIMINALS BY CRB ‘MISTAKE’

The Criminal Records Bureau has mistakenly identified hundreds of innocent citizens as criminals.

The CRB was set up by the Government to give background checks for people working with children.

In a damaging expose of government inefficiency, the Telegraph revealed that in the year leading up to February 2008, 680 people were issued with incorrect information after being vetting by the CRB.

‘People applying to take up jobs as teachers, nurses, childminders and even those volunteering to work with youth groups are likely to have been among those falsely accused of wrongdoing by the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)’ revealed Christopher Hope in the Daily Telegraph. Caroline Gammell reported the case of Amanda Hodgson, a 36-year-old, law-abiding mother of three, who was told that she had a ‘criminal past’’ after she applied for a post as a welfare assistant at her local primary school. ‘She was told she had a criminal record stretching back 18 years, including three convictions for assaulting police officers, and the only way to clear her name was to get her fingerprints checked against every unsolved crime in the country.’

In another case, a mother was told that she cannot take her son to school anymore until her details have been checked by the Criminal Record Bureau. Jayne Jones had been taking her 14-year-old epileptic son to school every day in a taxi, along with equipment that is required whenever he has a fit. She said: ‘It’s crazy that I have to be CRB checked before I can ride in a taxi with my own son.’

The government is currently planning a colossal expansion of the CRB, in which one in every four of the adult population in England will have to be vetted and registered on the CRB’s database.

GOVERNMENT PLANS MASSIVE SURVEILLANCE OF CHILDREN

In addition to expanding the CRB database, Government is planning to massively increase its surveillance of children, according to a report produced by the activist organizations ‘Action on Rights for Children’, ‘Liberty’, ‘Open Rights Group’ and ‘No2ID.’

Every 14-year-old child in England and Wales will be on the planned database. It will contain data on everything from the child’s exam results to difficulties within the family.

Journalist Henry Porter raised concerns about the project by pointing out that ‘by the time they all reach adulthood, the databases will have merged to give the state complete access to their most personal information. No child will be able to escape his past, or the judgment and watchfulness of the bureaucrats who may decide their destiny.’ (Read Mr. Porter’s entire article HERE)

Totalitarian Britain

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‘In the 12 months to 31 May 2006 the Government passed 3,621 separate pieces of legislation. Yes, that is more than 100 new sets of rules and regulations for each day of the year. To give an idea of the sheer weight of these regulations I sampled 10 per cent of the Government’s regulatory output for the 12 months to 31 May 2006, counted the pages and then factored them up. It came to a shocking figure: 72,400 pages of legislation and 26,200 pages of explanatory notes – a total of 98,600 pages of official bum…. If the pages were laid out end to end they would stretch for 18 miles.’ Ross Clark, from his book How To Label A Goat

‘I must confess I had always taken Jefferson’s aphorism [‘the price of freedom is eternal vigilance’] to mean that we must be eternally on our guard against any erosion of our freedom. It now seems I was wrong; or at least, I’m at odds with the Government, which evidently believes that the price of freedom is that we should be under constant surveillance.’ Rory Bremner

GRANDFATHER ACCUSED OF RUNNING STREET BUSINESS WHEN HE PUT A ‘FOR SALE ’ SIGN IN CAR

67-year-old grandfather, Victor Abrahams, was fined for running a street business when he put a ‘for sale’ sign in his Ford Escort.

A property manager from Brent, North London , Mr. Abrahams fell foul of a new code introduced by the local council on April 4, 2007.

When told he would have to pay a £100 fine, he asked: ‘why is the for-sale sign in my car window any different from a delivery van with the name and phone number of the company on the side?’ Mr. Abrahams asked. ‘Or why is it different from a driving instructor’s car that has the name and details of the driving school on the side? Surely if I’m offering goods for sale, so are they.’

Read full article HERE.

LIVING IN A ‘SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY’ COSTS £20 BILLION, SAYS NEW REPORT

The cost of living in a ‘surveillance society’ now costs the taxpayer £20 billion according to a new report.

The figure includes £19 billion for the planned ID card system and £500 million for CCTV cameras.

The report was conducted by the TaxPayers’ Alliance and has renewed concerns about Governments habit of spying on its citizens.

David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, said: “This is yet further damning evidence of Big Brother’s expensive tastes. ID cards, CCTV, the DNA database and other measures are a huge waste of taxpayers’ money on policies that undermine freedom and are utterly ineffective in fighting crime or terrorism.’

Currently the UK has only 1% of world’s population but 20% of its CCTV cameras: one for every 15 citizens.

Read full article HERE.

BROWN’S DETENTION PLAN IS ‘ ATTACK ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS’ SAYS MP

Shadow security minister, Baroness Neville-Jones, has criticised Gordon Brown’s plans to extend the maximum time in which a terror suspect can legally be detained without a charge.

The plan, which passed the Commons by just nine votes in June, would lengthen the period of detention from 28 days to 42 days. It is now being considered by the House of Lords, which are expected to reject it.

The Baroness commented that: ‘It represents yet another attack, on the part of the government, without justification, on fundamental democratic rights and freedoms that have underpinned our society for centuries.’

According to the Terrorism Act 2000, 48 hours is the maximum length of time in which somebody can be arrested and held without a warrant. The Criminal Justice Act 2003 extended the time that a person could be held for up to 14 days. The Terrorism Act 2006 then extended the time a person could be held without a trial from 14 days to 28 days.

In the important debate over detention limits, we should not overlook the colossal abuses which already occur under the present law, pointed out Christopher Booker in the Sunday Telegraph. Take the case of Ian Thornhill, who was detained for 700 days without being convicted, all because officials had made amistake. Mr. Booker wrote that ‘Although he was innocent – the arrogant officials had made a colossal blunder – he and his brother were locked up as Class A prisoners, with terrorists and mass-murderers. For two years they were subjected to appalling physical ill-treatment. Court hearings degenerated into farce. Eventually, because HM Customs didn’t have a shred of evidence to link them to the crime (for which someone else was imprisoned), they were set free. Although they were wholly innocent, the state had kept them in prison not for 42 days but for more than 700. Yet, by a bizarre quirk of the law, though their lives and businesses had been destroyed, they were not entitled to a penny of compensation.’

MAN ARRESTED FOR DEFENDING HIS HOME AGAINST TEENAGE GANG

A 65-year-old father has been arrested for trying to defend his home.

The trouble began when a gang of teenagers began throwing stones at the house of Sydney Davis. Having had his windows smashed five times in the last eight months, Mr. Davis dialled 999.

The retired builder then waited for the police while his wife and two sons hid behind the sofa as the attack continued.

When, after two hours, the police were still failing to show up, Mr. Davis decided to take action himself. Grabbing a piece of wood from a broken-up sofa lying in his front garden, Mr. Davis chased the gang down the street.

At that moment the police arrived, only to let the gang run away. The officers then proceeded to handcuff and arrest Mr. Davis, who faces a potential prison term of six months if he is convicted.

Read full article HERE.

READ: Ps. 2:10-12; 59:7; Prov. 1 Prov. 4:34; 6:16-18; 20:26; Is. 5:20-23; Is. 10:1-4; Micah 2:1-2; Rom. 13:3; 1 Pet. 2:14; 2 Peter 2:18-19;

PRAY: The totalitarian approach to law currently being pursued by our lawmakers and courts is only a symptom of a far greater problem: the rejection of God’s law as the only basis upon which a nation can be governed. William Penn once said, ‘Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.’ The people of Britain are certainly growing alarmed at the increasing tyranny of our leaders, yet they are stubbornly refusing to embrace the only solution. Pray that the Lord would use the erosion of our liberties as a wake-up call to bring the people of Britain to their knees. (2 Chron. 7:13-14)

Two Homosexuals Just Can’t Be ‘One Flesh’

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As homosexuality and the church’s attitude to it comes into the news again, the leader of a Christian prayer and lobby group has taken a rather anatomical look.

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

‘The injunctions against homosexual activity in scripture are not to do with promiscuity, although that it an inevitable part of both male and female homosexuality.

‘No, ‘thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind’ is as clear as ‘thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife,’ and ‘neither shalt thou lie with any beast’ which are the neighbouring verses in Leviticus 18. It is as crazy to say that faithful homosexuality is allowed as faithful adultery or faithful bestiality.

‘Again, when the Apostle Paul describes homosexual desires as ‘vile affections’ in Romans 1, he makes no exceptions for those who really sincerely think that is ‘how they were born’.

‘It is impossible for anyone with a scrap of common sense to equate the sexual dead-end of homosexuality with the life-giving God-given institution of marriage.

‘Civil Partnerships, or any homosexual pairings, are a grotesque parody of marriage. The Lord Jesus repeated the words of Genesis when He said ‘a man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the twain shall be one flesh.’ Becoming one flesh is something a pair of homosexuals can never do. They are simply not physically and emotionally complementary like a man and a woman are.

‘Even the parts of the body argue against any view that homosexuality is on a par. Frustrated by their inability to enjoy sexual intercourse, homosexuals either press into perverted use a part of the anatomy perfectly designed for the extraction of water from solid bodily waste, or they engage in mutual masturbation. Neither is in any way endorsed or sanctioned by Almighty God or commons sense.

‘Homosexuals need our pity and the saving and healing power of Jesus Christ; they don’t need well-meaning but error-strewn attempts to make them feel that something which God describes as an abomination is in any way acceptable. The loving way to deal with their problem is tough, but then the path to life was ever narrow.”

South Wales Echo Apologises for Jesus Insult

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The South Wales Echo has apologised for an article insulting the Bible and suggesting that Jesus Christ could have been homosexual.

The apology was printed in the Echo last week, just two weeks after the original and on the same page. A website version of the article, by the out-of-touch Dan O’Neill, has also been taken down and internet search engines no longer refer to it.

The apology came after Christians mounted a quick-fire protest against the article last week. Members and supporters of Christian Voice gave out leaflets to those going in to work at Cardiff ‘s leading firm of solicitors, Hugh James, who associated themselves with the web article. Following that, they occupied the Media Wales administration offices reception area just around the corner, singing hymns, before meeting with Simon Farrington, a senior managing editor at the Echo.

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

‘Media Wales’s gracious apology and the elimination of the offending article from the website is a victory for decency and shows newspapers can uphold civilised standards of behaviour.

‘The fact that Media Wales is part of the mighty Trinity Mirror group means the apology is also a testimony to the power of prayer and the effectiveness of Christian witness, for both of which we give all the glory to Almighty God.

‘Of course the article should never have been published, but I am sure that lessons have been learned and a similar outrage will not happen again. I trust that other papers and media will also take notice and exercise better editorial control over the looser cannons in their journalistic ranks. Even after the abolition of the blasphemy laws, Christians will not tolerate insults against their Lord and Saviour.’

But not everyone is pleased at the apology and the disappearance of the article from the web. Atheist bloggers are apoplectic and one of them started a petition, which attracted the attention of fewer than 150 armchair Jesus-hating zealots in five days.

Stephen Green continued: ‘In petition terms 150 signatures is next to nothing. It is so much easier to sign a petition than put yourself out to stand in the street witnessing. So easy, in fact, that some of the do-badders have signed twice, just to be sure!

‘Interestingly, the sad character who started the petition asks Media Wales to do something which he himself could not find the guts to do: blaspheme and insult Jesus Christ in public. He attended a party held by secularist zealots earlier this year to celebrate the passing of the blasphemy laws: http://www.secularism.org.uk/bbbparty.html

‘The funny thing was, it was held at a secret location, for fear of Christian protests! The Jesus-haters gathered in private in some hotel in London and blasphemed to each other, something they could safely have done at any time during the last thirty years.

‘Christian Voice pointed this out a month before it happened and the cowards still did not fess up the location: https://www.christianvoice.org.uk/Press/press081.html

‘So this is a bad day for atheism and a bad day for blasphemy, but a good day for righteousness. Yet again, the Lord has triumphed over His enemies.’

‘Overwhelming Evidence’ Alone Should Convict Murderer

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Following the acquittal of Barry George on his retrial for the murder of Jill Dando, a Christian group is calling for murderers only to be convicted on ‘overwhelming evidence’.

The call follows the reduction of the whole-life sentence on David Beiber, who was convicted of the murder of PC Ian Broadhurst on 26th December 2003 on what the Court of Appeal later described as ‘overwhelming evidence.’

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

‘Barry George spent 8 years of his life in jail for a crime he did not commit. That is a state-sponsored wickedness. He was convicted on the barest of circumstantial evidence, but the verdict was deemed at the time to be “beyond reasonable doubt”.

‘Far from his story providing an argument against capital punishment, it actually speaks volumes against our rejection of divine standards of evidence in favour of the humanistic invention of “beyond reasonable doubt”. George’s imprisonment is obviously less than the ultimate penalty but was still a life-destroying punishment to inflict on an innocent man.

But the reduction of the whole-life tariff on Beiber was also criticised. Green said:

‘Beiber’s conviction was upheld by the Appeal Court who said it was based on overwhelming evidence. In that case, Beiber should have been executed.

‘In the Christian understanding, upon which our laws are or should be based, the death penalty was given to mankind for perpetuity under God’s covenant with Noah. That covenant was sealed with the sign of the rainbow (Genesis 9:12-13).

‘The Bible verse says: “Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6, AV) and it goes on to explain why: “for in the image of God made He man.”

‘The reintroduction of the death penalty for murderers convicted on overwhelming evidence would send out a signal of the true worth of innocent human life, and overwhelming evidence means the testimony of at least two eye-witnesses, or the equivalent in forensics.’

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