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‘Irresponsible’ Navy Puts Mother at Risk

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Stephen
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The Royal Navy’s decision to put a young mother at risk was condemned as ‘irresponsible’ tonight by a Christian prayer group a day after the woman in question, Faye Turney, was paraded on Iranian television and had an interview which was recorded hours before her capture published in a daily newspaper.

Mrs Turney, a Leading Seaman, was captured by Iranian forces last Friday along with 14 sailors from HMS Cornwall after boarding a vessel in the Shatt Al-Arab waterway.

Last night she was pictured clad in a Muslim head-dress and smoking a cigarette before speaking on camera. Despite UK Government insistence that the sailors had been on the Iraqi side, Mrs Turney was shown confessing to being in Iranian waters, raising concerns that some kind of pressure had been applied to her. She was the only one of the sailors who was broadcast and the only woman amongst those seized.

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

‘It seems beyond doubt that psychological pressure has been brought to bear against Mrs Turney, possibly by playing on her natural motherly desire to return to her three-year-old daughter. The Iranians must have read the article in Wednesday’s Independent and even if they had not already discovered Mrs Turney’s maternal status in questioning, they would not be slow in using that to their purpose.’

In the article, Mrs Turney, 26, admits she is missing seeing her little girl grow up. Journalist Terri Judd said, ‘When I encountered her on the deck on HMS Cornwall, the first subject she talked about was Molly – a theme she returned to often during our numerous conversations.’

Mrs Turney spoke of the excitement of piloting the Navy’s inflatable speedboats and of the possible dangers of the mission. ‘But it was Molly, her three-year-old daughter, that she spoke of most,’ wrote Terri Judd. ‘She described the guilt of leaving behind her “bubbly, head-strong” little girl to be looked after by her husband Adam, also serving in the Navy but based in Plymouth . But she believed emphatically that this sacrifice would give her daughter every opportunity in life.’

Stephen Green continued:

‘Mrs Turney’s husband is a Petty Officer, the naval equivalent of a sergeant. It is certain that he has work to do in Plymouth , so the reality is that Molly is in some kind of day-care. Although I realise that the Government has ensured through the crippling burden of taxation that all but the best-off families now need two incomes to survive, even the wages of a leading seaman cannot possibly compensate for the lack of a mother’s day-to-day love, care and sheer presence in a child’s life.

‘A more civilised age would also set more value on Mrs Turney’s duty to be at her husband’s side in his demanding job. When the Bible speaks of Eve as a ‘help meet’ for Adam it gives recognition not just to a deep human need but to the reality of a healthy male-female relationship.

‘As for the Admiralty, their conduct in placing a woman, let alone a young mother, in such danger is as irresponsible as it is politically correct. They have put the mother of a three-year-old at risk, and on top of that have allowed her to be captured by Muslim men who are known to hold women in utter contempt.

‘It isn’t clever, it isn’t modern, it isn’t liberated for this country’s menfolk to expect our women to fight for us, it is barbaric and an insult to the next generation for whom they should be caring. I am ashamed to be part of a nation which separates young mothers from their children and exposes them to harm in battle all to appease the god of equality.

I am praying for the sailors’ release, and especially for Mrs Turney to be reunited with her husband and her daughter. I shall also pray the Navy ensures she does not leave her daughter again, and that other young mothers in the Navy – and it would be interesting to know how many there are – will be brought home. May God have mercy on us for exposing our women to such danger and for abandoning a generation of infants to the vagaries of childcare.’

Dudley Mosque Refused Planning Permission

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Stephen
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Dudley residents were celebrating tonight as the local planning committee refused permission for a huge mosque in the city centre.

The mosque would have been built on industrial land close to the heart of Dudley. Local Christians were concerned about security issues, community cohesion, and the Islamicisation that would have followed building the centre.

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

‘I am delighted that this mosque application has fallen at its first hurdle. It had started off claiming to be ‘the pride of Dudley.’ It had a minaret that would have made it the tallest building in Dudley, an important spiritual statement for Muslims with strong political overtones. Even the latest project had a minaret of some 65′.

‘One of the reasons Christians should be celebrating tonight is that the refusal of planning permission for the mosque has shut the door on the British National Party in Dudley. The BNP was set to exploit any granting of planning permission in the May elections. This sensible decision pulls the rug from under them.

‘However, the man behind the mosque, Councillor Khurshid Ahmed, who is believed to have strong connections with No 10, has the option of re-igniting the row by appealing to the Central Government Planning Inspectorate in Bristol. Our prayer is that he will see the futility of that and withdraw the application completely.

‘But just for now, we are praising God for His strength and giving Him the glory. This decision could have gone either way. It went the right way, and for that we are grateful.’

MSP Receives Award Named After Paedophile

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Stephen
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A LibDem Member of the Scottish Parliament is demanding an award she was given be renamed, after revelations that it was instituted in honour of the co-founder of the Paedophile Information Exchange.

Scottish Liberal Democrat Margaret Smith was presented with the Ian Dunn Award by the Terrence Higgins Trust for her work promoting homosexual perversion. However, she has now demanded the award be renamed. One previous winner was Patrick Harvie MSP, who also wants the name of Ian Dunn excised from memory.

Dunn was caught on tape bragging abut interfering with a fourteen-year-old boy. The existence of the tape caused him to abandon a libel action he had brought against a Sunday newspaper, which named him as a paedophile. The encounter itself does not seem to have been a one-off – at his funeral in 1998, a young man claimed Dunn had raped him when he was fifteen. Dunn also supported a paedophile magazine called ‘Minor Problems.’

Nor is a predilection for adolescents just one corrupt facet of the character of this leading Scottish homosexual celebrity. Ian Dunn, an officiant of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association, editor of Gay Scotland and a leader of Outright Scotland, also had an interest in urination and coprophilia which was well-known in Scottish homosexual circles. He was sexually aroused by human excrement even to the extent of campaigning for the right to be able to import coprophiliac pornography.

The award is not the only posthumous honour Ian Dunn has been given by homosexuals in Scotland, Christian Voice has learned.

Dunn, who set up PIE in the 1970’s, has a meeting room named after him in the Glasgow LGBT centre. It has also taken nine years for the Scottish LGBT network to become concerned with his connection with PIE, and that only after the embarrassment caused to Margaret Smith. The Ian Dunn Award was first presented by Outright Scotland in the year of Dunn’s death as part of Pride Scotia, ‘for work towards gay rights’. The homosexual AIDS charity Terrence Higgins Trust now administers the Ian Dunn Award.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, commented:

‘I actually met Ian Dunn just before he died, on a TV show in which we were both participating. I did not know him before, but he came up and introduced himself. He was outwardly a likeable and plausible man, standing some six foot three, but although he was a big man, there seemed to be a void in him. He was emotionally like a child himself, desperately searching for fulfilment. His involvement in paedophilia had of course been well-documented by the time I wrote about it in my own book “The Sexual Dead-End” in 1992.

‘It is undeniable that all those who set up paedophile groups in the 1970s were leading homosexual activists, which makes sense, as paedophilia is really only a logical extension of homosexuality. Many in the homosexual world do not regard an interest in 14- and 15-year-old boys as paedophilia, and think an adolescent is fair game. Dunn’s official obituary on the ScotsGay website (cited above) denies he was a paedophile, while still carrying the report about the fifteen-year-old at his funeral.

‘At the time of debates on the homosexual age of consent, a banner claiming to be from Outrage, the militant homosexual group set up by Peter Tatchell, said that 16 is “just the start”. Tatchell himself contributed a chapter to a book published in 1986 – Betrayal of Youth, edited by a PIE committee member – which advocated paedophilia.

‘Margaret Smith has done us all a favour by instituting a debate which has revealed a lot about the murky world of homosexuality. I call on her to send the Ian Dunn award back whether it is renamed of not and to sever all links with this network of people who clearly have no moral boundaries at all.’

Christian Voice has challenged Outright Scotland, Pride Scotia and the Terrence Higgins Trust to name previous winners of the Ian Dunn award.

Damien Hirst ‘Ignorant of Christianity’

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Stephen
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Artist Damien Hirst has been accused of ignorance of Christianity, the subject of his latest exhibition, ‘New Religion.’

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

‘Damien Hirst thinks he is being daring with his latest exhibition, being held in All Hallows on the Wall in London, which he quaintly describes as ‘a working church’. The trouble is, all he has done is expose his own ignorance and a peculiar obsession with medicines.

‘For a start, in calling his rather elegant cross studded with pewter pills a ‘crucifix’, Hirst is saying he doesn’t know that for a cross to be a crucifix, it needs a representation of Jesus Christ on it. As the shop girl famously said, it needs ‘a little man on it.’  The pills cannot represent Christ, for they are inlaid into the cross rather than on it, so it is a cross, not a ‘crucifix’ and Hirst has paraded his ignorance.

‘He also seems not to know that Moses’ staff becoming a snake is not part of the ten plagues on Egypt, nor that ‘Lord show us the Father’ was the prayer of Jesus’ followers not for them. He is confused about the Last Supper and whether the Garden of Gethsemane is to do with Christ’s Passion or His Resurrection.

‘But the use of so many medicines and tablets is the most confused and confusing part. How long did it take him to assemble them all? Has he taken them all at some stage? Why in his series on the Apostles is Bartholomew associated with ‘Tylenol Codeine’ and Peter with some capsule or other? Where is the ‘religious connotation’ Damien Hirst is claiming to give us?

‘It is also peculiar that Hirst has premised his work on some supposed ‘conflict’ between science and religion. A bit more serious thought would show that religion and science do different jobs and are not in conflict at all. In fact, the exhibits seem to shout ‘medicine’ rather than ‘science’, so I cannot see that he has hit the target, or even qualified for the play-offs.

‘In Hans Christian Anderson’s story, all the clever people kept pretending that the Emperor had a lovely new suit of clothes. It took a small boy to point out that he had nothing on at all. In this exhibition, Damien Hirst has put nothing on at all. Maybe it’s a case of trying too hard, or maybe Hirst has forgotten to take some tablets of his own. Either way, I shan’t be going to see it.’

Sex Led to Death, Court Told

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Stephen
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Drunken sex in a dark alley led to one homosexual man’s death and the life imprisonment of another, Northampton Crown Court heard earlier this month.

Sentencing him, Judge Charles Wide QC told teenager James Hyland: ‘After a sexual encounter you lashed out.’ Hyland and his victim, Michael Farndon, left the Boston Clipper, a homosexual pick-up venue in Northampton, in the early hours after a Saturday night drinking session in July last year. They went to a nearby darkened alley for sex.

Afterwards, Hyland killed 45-year-old Farndon, a factory worker. Appearing for Hyland, William Harbage QC described his client as ‘a confused young man’ who was high on drugs and had been abusing alcohol.

Predictably, homosexuals in Northampton blamed Farndon’s death on ‘hate’ and the Boston Clipper itself held a fundraising evening, ‘Kiss goodbye to homophobia.’ last September.

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

‘Yet again, the murder of a man after a sexual encounter has shown that violence against homosexuals is prevalent within their own network. Indeed, homosexual activists have written of their initial disgust with themselves after sexual encounters but paradoxically of their need to seek out anonymous men and ‘rough trade’ for quick sex.

‘Ordinary people will find this abnormal drive perplexing, but in the homosexual network it is thought quite normal to go off with a perfect stranger for orgiastic satisfaction. The thrill of danger often adds to the excitement.

‘You would need a heart of stone not to feel compassion for such men. Christians ought to be reaching out with the Gospel of forgiveness and healing in Jesus Christ. As for those who make money out of gays pretending that all is fine with homosexuality and that is all the fault of those outside, they should have a good look at their consciences.’

Summons Refused in Springer Blasphemy Case

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Stephen
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A summons for a private prosecution for blasphemy against Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, and producer Jonathan Thoday in respect of Jerry Springer the Opera was refused late on Friday 12th January by Horesferry Road magistrates.

District Judge Miss Caroline Tubbs decided that a ruling in judicial review which went against the Christian Institute had prejudiced criminal proceedings for blasphemy, and that the production was covered by an escape clause in the Theatres Act 1968.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, laid the information for the summons before Horseferry Road Magistrates on Monday 8th January 2007. That date was two years to the day since the broadcast of the musical on BBC2 and six months to the day from when it finished its tour in Brighton last year.

Solicitor Michael Phillips said:

‘In essence, as to whether a summons should be issued, the leading case is that of Ian Charlson. In that case it was held that there are four main questions for a Magistrate to consider. Those are (1) whether the allegation is an offence known and if so whether the essential ingredients are present, (2) if the offence is out of time, (3) whether the court has jurisdiction, (4) whether the informant has the necessary authority to prosecute. In addition, it must be considered whether the prosecution is vexatious.

‘(1) District Judge Tubbs held that blasphemous liable is an offence known to law. However, prosecution, she said, is prevented because of s2(4) of the Theatres Act 1968: “No person shall be proceeded against in respect of a performance of a play, or anything said or done in the course of such a performance – (a) for an offence at common law where it is of the essence of the offence that the performance or, as the case may be, what was said or done was obscene, indecent, offensive, disgusting or injurious to morality.” She held that the application falls within this provision.

‘(2) She also held that the essential ingredients of the offence are not prima facie present. As the High Court considered the case in the Judicial Review brought by the Christian Institute: “I have made a judicial assessment as to whether the presence of the essential ingredients of the offence are prima facie present. I am supported in that view by the decisions of the Administrative Court and the GPCC [the BBC’s internal Governors’ Programming Complaints Commission -Ed] in this very play. I do not find it credible that they would have come to their respective decisions if the performance / programme they considered in great detail, with Christian religious sensibilities in mind, in fact contained the essential ingredients of an even more serious matter – a criminal offence of blasphemous libel.”

‘In essence,’ said Mr Phillips, ‘Those were the main reasons why she refused to issue a summons.’

Stephen Green has asked Mr Phillips to proceed with an application to the High Court to review the District Judge’s decision and he will make a further statement in due course.

Gambling and the Community

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Robin
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Research has shown that when a casino comes to an area, the result is increased crime, mental disorders, family breakdown, debt and suicide. Following is some of the primary research.

Increase in Addiction and Mental Disorders

The World Health Organisation’s classification of mental and behavioural disorders includes ‘pathological gambling’ as a ‘habit and impulse disorder.’ In their report on the effects of gambling, The Royal College of Psychiatrists has noted that ‘The experience in various jurisdictions has shown that the incidence of pathological gambling in a population is directly related to the accessibility of gambling and the commercial pressures to take part.’ The RCP go on to point out that:

If the facilities for gambling in the population are increased, the total amount of gambling also increases. It does so as follows:

  • Some, who had previously not gambled, start doing so, so that the number of those who do not gamble goes down.
  • The amount of gambling of the majority, while still varying…increases.
  • The number of those who gamble to such a degree that damage results increases.

Greater accessibility therefore affects the whole population. Whatever the level of previous gambling, the amount of this will increase. Clearly, those who had previously gambled frequently are more likely to do so excessively with resulting damage.

Statistics show that vulnerable people are the most susceptible to become pathological gamblers. In Australia, one-third of the gambling industry’s total revenue comes from ‘problem gamblers’ or ‘pathological gambling.’

Harmful To Children

Casinos put children at risk as parents leave or neglect them to gamble. The UK would do well to learn from research undertaken in the American state of South Dakota. Jeff Blumberg, a state attorney in South Dakota reported that,

“The South Dakota Department of Social Services reports that in the fiscal year preceding gaming there were approximately 300 reports of children in need of protective services. In the fiscal year following the institution of gaming, that number rose to 500 reported cases. Actual juvenile case filings including delinquency, children in need of supervision and abuse and neglected cases rose by 15 percent. In addition to increased felony activity, Class 1 misdemeanors including simple assaults and DWI’s also increased by approximately 70 percent.”

Increase in Poverty

Statistics show that lower-income people spend a greater percentage of their income on gambling. Poor people are the most likely to lose their money on the jackpot while only a handful of wealthy casino owners get richer. Usually it is wealthy foreign corporations that exploit the gambling market, sucking profits out of a local area.

Robin Burgess, Director of RiGT, states ‘Problem Gambling has a profound effect on not only those involved but the wider community around them.’ One such effect is that when people lose their money through gambling, they become dependent on the state.

Austrian ex-pat, Robert Krause, who campaigned against a casino in Sheffield, tells a story that is all too familiar. Beginning with a million dollar fortune, Krause’s uncle eventually lost everything on the jackpot and is now living off a state pension. ‘With problem gamblers,’ Mr. Krause concluded, ‘the Government has to pick up the pieces by providing them with benefits or subsidising their housing. In Sheffield this could cost up to £1 million a week.’

Casinos also increase the overall poverty of a community. This is because gambling creates no new wealth but is parasitic. A casino siphons off money that would otherwise be spent in the regular business community. Business leaders become reluctant to invest money in areas that sustain large gambling industries because of bad debts, delinquent time payments, and bankruptcy.

The Creighton Bankruptcy Study in America found that ‘those counties that legalized casino gambling during the 1990s experienced a cumulative growth rate in individual bankruptcies that was more than double the growth rate for corresponding non-casino counties.’

Increase in Crime

Darren Warner, a senior police expert on gaming, is among many who fear that the new casinos will lead to a surge in crime. As head of Metropolitan police gaming unit, he wrote that relaxed rules could be an invitation to ‘wholesale crime and money laundering.’

Research has shown that gambling increases the number of robberies, murders, assaults, embezzlement, bribes, extortions and insurance-related fraud. Organised crime thrives on a gambling industry. Needless to say, police costs increase whenever a casino comes to an area.

In 1996, the West Ohio Conference Council reported that the American Insurance Institute estimated that 40% of white-collar crime has its roots in gambling. The Institute’s findings indicate that insurance fraud alone as related to gambling was $1.3 billion per year.

The U.S. Department of Justice studied people who had been arrested in Las Vegas and Des Moines, Iowa. In their report, they found significant connections between gambling and crime.

‘More than 30 percent of pathological gamblers who had been arrested in Las Vegas and Des Moines reported having committed a robbery within the past year, nearly double the percentage for low-risk gamblers. Nearly one-third admitted that they had committed the robbery to pay for gambling or to pay gambling debts. In addition, about 13 percent said they had assaulted someone to get money.

Compulsive or pathological gamblers were significantly more likely to have sold drugs than arrestees who fit the other gambling types.’

In the face of all this evidence, Labour officially denies that its gambling policies will increase crime.

Further Reading

Gambling vs. Scripture

Why Government is Addicted to Gambling

BMA Warns of Gambling Epidimic

Gambling and Government Corruption

Gambling and the Community

All Articles About Gambling

BMA Warns of Gambling Epidimic

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Robin
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Forthcoming plans to relax gambling laws may increase the amount of problem gamblers, warns the British Medical Association.

In a report released on 15 January, the BMA expressed concern about the potential rise in adolescent gambling addiction.  They also drew attention to the links between gambling and violence, drugs and alcohol addiction among young people.

Already, there is an estimated 300,000 problem gamblers, with symptoms ranging everywhere from physical and mental health difficulties to problems with employment, finances and relationships.  This figure is expected to skyrocket as casinos begin opening throughout Britain later this year.

Professor Jim Orford criticised the government for being ‘naïve’ and ‘playing dice with people’s health’.  He said: ‘We could be talking about a million people affected by it in any one period of 12 months, and that begins to put it on a par with drug addiction problems.’

Doctors fear our health system is unprepared for the explosion in problem gamblers when our laws are relaxed this September.  They have asked the gambling industry to invest £10m a year on research and treatment to help gambling addicts.

‘There needs to be treatment for problem gambling available on the NHS similar to drug and alcohol services’ said Vivienne Nathanson, of the BMA.

Government Suppresses Key Study

On the same day that the BMA report was released, the Daily Mail revealed a leaked study by the Metropolitan Police, showing that a supercasino will attract organised crime and encourage children to bet.

The Government has sustained sharp criticism for suppressing the report.

‘It is astonishing that such a vital report should have been suppressed’ said Hugo Swire, Tory culture spokesman.

Pressure group, Christian Voice, has criticised the Government for turning a blind eye to gambling problems in its eagerness to share the profits.  ‘The UK gambling industry may be harmful to families and communities, but it has been a goldmine for the Labour Government’, the organisation announced last year on their website.

Researchers from the University of Trent estimated that upcoming changes in gambling laws will provide the National Treasury with an extra £3 billion a year. Government’s rich friends have also benefited significantly.  On 23 April, the Times reported that Britain’s gambling boom has fuelled a 20% increase in the combined wealth of the country’s super-rich – ‘an extraordinary tripling in wealth of the country’s 1,000 richest people under Labour…’

The Government would prefer for the UK gambling industry to grow at an even faster rate.  Tony Blair originally proposed 8 supercasinos, but was forced by the Tories to reduce the number to 1.  However, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the Government may plan to introduce more supercasinos after the public has time to adjust to the idea.

Tessa Jowell, who is responsible for the Gambling Act, wrote in 2004 that ‘gambling is a massive, global industry and is entitled to a regulatory framework that ensures continued growth.’

Robin Phillips and his son Matthew pass out anti-casino leaflets following plans for a casino to be built in their area

Further Reading

Gambling vs. Scripture

Why Government is Addicted to Gambling

BMA Warns of Gambling Epidimic

Gambling and Government Corruption

Gambling and the Community

All Articles About Gambling

Gambling and Government Corruption

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Robin
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On 15 January, the Daily Mail revealed a leaked study by the Metropolitan Police, showing that a supercasino will attract organised crime and encourage children to bet.

The Government has sustained sharp criticism for suppressing the report.

‘It is astonishing that such a vital report should have been suppressed’ said Hugo Swire, Tory culture spokesman.

The Government has also kept silent about evidence from Atlantic City USA where the legalising of gambling led to an increase in bankruptcy, sleaze, white collar crime, divorce, homelessness and credit card fraud.

Making Money out of Children

While the Gambling Bill was before Parliament, the Culture Secretary said ‘Gambling is a massive global industry and is entitled to a regulatory framework that ensures continued growth’.

Our Government has certainly kept its word, a rare occurrence indeed. So concerned has Labour been to increase the gambling market that it is now encouraging children to be sucked into it.

The Gambling Act 2005 permits children to gamble on Category D gaming machines, which include machines that are identical to those found in casinos apart from a smaller stake.

In their Statement of Principles on Licensing and Regulation, The Royal College of Psychiatrists has commented witheringly that ‘Only commercial considerations would allow children to have access to such machines. The evidence that they are harmful to children, especially those at risk of antisocial behaviour, is considerable.’
Vested Interests

The RiGT

The Gambling Commission has put The Responsibility in Gambling Trust (RiGT) in charge of researching ‘whether such gambling gives rise to harm or exploitation’, in children. The trust is also responsible ‘to make it less likely that people will become problem gamblers and more likely that those who do will be able to seek and to secure effective help.’ (From the homepage of their website).

Despite these high sounding ideals, the RiGT is funded by the gambling industry. Furthermore, many RiGT trustees are senior executives of gambling trade organisations. Because of their vested interests, Christian Voice believes RiGT is not an appropriate body to undertake research on the harmful effects gambling has on children.

National Director of Christian Voice, Stephen Green, commented, ‘Given the level of political corruption we have witnessed, I am not surprised to find the Government putting the RiGT in charge of helping, so called, “problem gamblers.” The Trust has just as cushy a relationship with the casino industry as has the Labour Government.’

Casino Advisory Panel

On 10 July it emerged that all five members of the Casino Advisory Panel (the body that was responsible for choosing the locations of the casinos) had a conflict of interest. Members of the group have declared 44 interests, which include shareholdings in leisure companies.

One panel member, James Froomberg, had so many conflicts of interests that he was not able to take part in the initial evaluation of 13 applications.

All five members have had to remove themselves from the process of assessing applications at some point because of invested interests.

John Prescott

Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, has also been criticised for having vested interests. Mr. Prescott used his position on the Domestic Affairs Cabinet Committee to deregulate gambling laws and has also chaired the cabinet sub-committee responsible for creating the Casino Advisory Panel.

Mr. Prescott was good friends with Philip Anschutz, whose company is bidding to open England’s first super casino in the Millennium Dome. The two men met socially a number of times. On one of these occasions, Mr. Prescott accepted expensive gifts from Mr. Anschutz, thus breaking the Ministerial Code, which prohibits a public servant from ‘accept[ing] gifts, hospitality or services from anyone which would or might appear to, place him or her under an obligation.’

Mr Prescott acknowledged the meetings but said they had not discussed the sale of the Dome. However, on 6 July, Mr. Prescott admitted he had a formal role with the Dome, and that Mr. Anschutz did give him regular updates.

Advertising

To guarantee the ‘continued growth’ of gaming, the Labour Government has changed the laws on gambling adverts. On the eve of the Super Casino announcement, the Government relaxed a ban that prohibited gambling operators from advertising on television.

At the present time, advertisements by online gaming operators are breaking the law. This is an offence according to the Gaming Act 1968, which is still in force. The gambling advertisements on billboards across the nation are also illegal.

On November 10, 2005 the Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell, issued a press notice in which she said, ‘it’s clear that some adverts have been breaking the existing law. I am not willing to turn a blind eye to this and have agreed with the Gambling Commission that we should crack down on advertisers and publishers who knowingly break the law.’

Still this illegal activity continues. The Government has done nothing about it because they don’t want to upset their friends in the powerful gambling industry.

The Bible says those who rule should be: ‘able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness.’ (Exodus 18:21)

WRITE:

If you live in one of the areas chosen for a casino, write to the mayor.

  • Write to your MP. Even though it is assumed that Parliament will eventually rubber stamp the Casino Advisory Panel’s advice, ask your MP to vote against. Point out that:
  • Figures produced by a BBC Panorama program last year revealed that as many as 5.8 million Britons visited online gambling sites every month. In January, a Government report announced that the average UK family spends more on gambling than fresh vegetables, fresh fruit or holidays abroad. These figures suggest that the people of Britain already have more than sufficient access to gambling without needing to build even more facilities.
  • Evidence from other countries show that casinos often lead to an array of social problems, including debt, family breakdown and increased crime.
  • Statistics show that those on low wages are the ones most likely to lose their money while a handful of wealthy casino owners get richer. Usually it is wealthy foreign corporations that exploit the gambling market, sucking profits out of a local area.
  • Even if gambling does promote tourism and social regeneration in an area, the end does not justify the means. Gambling teaches the principle of getting something for nothing and it encourages financial waste, greed and lack of self-control. These wrong values are antithetic to a healthy community regardless of whatever benefits we imagine a casino might be bring. But casinos are shown to depress an area anyway.
  • In their report on the effects of gambling, The Royal College of Psychiatrists noted that occurrences of pathological or problem gambling in a population is directly related to the accessibility of gambling and commercial pressures to take part. It follows that by allowing more gaming facilities and advertising, our Government will directly contribute to an increase in problem gamblers.
  • The majority of casinos are going up in poor areas even though research from the British Gambling Prevalence Survey shows that those on lower incomes are three-and-a-half times more likely to become problem gamblers.
  • Statistics show that gambling puts children at risk as parents leave or neglect them to gamble. In the American state of South Dakota, during the fiscal year preceding the legalisation of gaming there were approximately 300 reports of children in need of protective services, while in the following year (after gambling was legalised) that number rose to 500 reported cases, while cases of neglected children rose by 15%.
  • The Creighton Bankruptcy Study in America found that ‘those counties that legalized casino gambling during the 1990s experienced a cumulative growth rate in individual bankruptcies that was more than double the growth rate for corresponding non-casino counties.’ Business become reluctant to invest money in areas that sustain large gambling industries because of bad debts, delinquent time payments and bankruptcy.

Further Reading

Gambling vs. Scripture

Why Government is Addicted to Gambling

BMA Warns of Gambling Epidimic

Gambling and Government Corruption

Gambling and the Community

All Articles About Gambling

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Why Government is Addicted to Gambling

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Robin
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According to the Government’s own figures, Britons gambled £7 billion pounds in 1996. In 2002, however, they gambled away £16 billion, while in 2005 the figure reached a staggering £48 billion. On 22 July 2005, Leo McKinstry noted in the Daily Telegraph that 46 percent of the UK population now indulge in some form of betting (this does not even include the national lottery).

In online gambling alone, Britons are now spending more than £5 billion a year. That is more than our nation’s annual budget on defence and transport combined.

In May, the charity GamCare announced a 40 per cent rise in the number of people seeking help with problem gambling. In Britain alone, it is estimated, there are 300,000 people who suffer from gambling addiction problems.

Faced with these remarkable figures, the obvious question is, why does the Government want to encourage even more gambling?

The UK gambling industry may be harmful to families and communities, but it has been a goldmine for the Labour Government. In 2001, our lawmakers abolished tight restrictions on the gambling industry. At the same time, Gordon Brown replaced the traditional duty on all betting transactions with a 15 per cent tax on all gambling company’s profits. This has enabled the Treasury to benefit greatly from the UK gambling epidemic. Researchers from the University of Trent estimated that upcoming changes in gaming laws will provide the National Treasury with an extra £3 billion a year.

Government’s rich friends have also greatly benefited. On 23 April, The Times reported that Britain’s gambling boom has fuelled a 20% increase in the combined wealth of the country’s super-rich – ‘an extraordinary tripling in wealth of the country’s 1,000 richest people under Labour…’

Australian Treasury Becomes Addicted to Gambling

‘If Jowell and her new friends have their way,’ wrote Nick Cohen in the New Statesman, ‘there’s a fair chance that Britain will end up like Australia . As controls on fruit-machines were lifted Budd-style, the share of Australians ’ disposable income thrown away on ‘pokies’, as they are called, grew from 1.8 per cent in 1990 to 3.6 per cent in 2000. Australians lose about £5bn each year by gambling, or £350 for every adult – double what the government spends on universities. Church groups have monitored the divorces, bankruptcies and suicides that have followed. But state governments are dependent on gambling taxes – New South Wales gets 10 per cent of its revenue from taxes on pokie players. If they clean up gambling, how will they make up that shortfall?’


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Butler-Sloss ‘Patronising and Arrogant’

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The decision of Lady Butler-Sloss to dispense with the services of a jury in the Diana inquest was tonight described as ‘patronising and arrogant’ by a Christian group.

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

‘I heard the decision with total amazement this afternoon. I found it inexplicable, incomprehensible and irrational. Looking at the reasons she has given not to have a jury, I am still amazed, but now with her arrogance and her patronising dismissal of the cranial abilities of ordinary people.

‘To say that a jury cannot come to a careful and fully reasoned decision betrays the contempt for the lower orders which has sadly become a characteristic of the Establishment under the present Prime Minister.

”A jury cannot come to a reasoned decision, she says, but of course a judge can, in particular a judge like Lady Butler-Sloss. Don’t trust the people, trust the judges, or the minister, or the man in Whitehall. In just a few words, she has put on display all that is pompous, self-serving, proud and vain in those who purport to rule us.

‘The reality is, there have been so many conspiracy theories circling this matter that only by trusting a jury with the facts can those theories be laid to rest. It is easy now to say that it is just the faint risk that a jury might not agree that the death of the Princess of Wales was an accident which worries Lady Butler-Sloss. From that, it is a small step to see her as an actress in an Establishment stitch-up.

‘Anyone would be forgiven for observing that if there is not an establishment conspiracy, her ladyship is doing her very best to make it appear as if there is one.

‘She did not help confidence in her impartiality by accepting so publicly the conclusions of Lord Stevens’ report. With her latest utterance, surely no trust in her can remain. And as that trust ebbs away, the frightening thing is that confidence in the law as a whole might go out with it.

‘Mr Al Fayed says he will seek to overturn her decision. I wish him well in that. He should also challenge the presence in the coroner’s chair of Lady Butler-Sloss. Much is at stake, not least the integrity of the law in general and the coroners’ courts in particular.’

Council Axes Christian Prayers

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The Mayor of one of the nation’s oldest boroughs has scrapped a Christian ceremony which began its meetings for more than 600 years.

Mayor Pruw Boswell, 64, decided that the prayers which have traditionally opened Totnes Town Council’s meetings should be replaced with a ‘quiet moment of reflection’. She said this would enable the council to be ‘sensitive to others’ needs’ and that the prayers ‘may offend other religions.’

Local clergymen had led the prayers which asked for God’s help in making correct decisions since the 13th century. Meetings closed with the Lord’s Prayer.

But officials are reported to have claimed the Christian ceremonies could offend councillors who follow other faiths or are atheists. None is understood to have complained about the prayers, said at the bi-monthly full council meetings. The best the Mayor could come up with was that ‘members of the town council in the past were Buddhists.’

A daily newspaper found out that Mrs Boswell did not even know if there were actually any non-believers currently on the Council to be offended. The alleged Buddhists also dwindled to a solitary individual: ‘We did have a Buddhist member a few years ago,’ said Mrs Boswell, ‘We probably have had members who were non-believers but I would not know who.’

However, the Reverend Gordon Davies, of Totnes Methodist Church, said: ‘I know many non-believers who found the prayers of great comfort because they are for the good of others. If people felt it was offensive they didn’t have to join in.’

The decision to ban prayers took councillors completely by surprise. After prayers earlier this month, Mrs Boswell bluntly announced it would be the last time they would be said. She claimed it was part of ‘a council streamlining package,’ describing the abolition of 600 years of history as ‘an historic moment’.

The same paper discovered that Mrs Boswell claims to be a Christian herself. She described the furore as ‘A mountain being made out of a molehill. … If people want to say prayers on their own they can – we have just taken away the person who leads them.’

Criticism came from within the Council: Town, district and county councillor Geoff Date said he was ‘astounded’ that the prayers had been axed.

‘It is probably one of the longest traditions the council can lay claim to – and one of the most important things we do,’ he said.

Plainly, a decision like this causes tensions where there were none before. The Mayor should retract this decision immediately and reinstate the prayers. Those in authority need to recognise that this country was founded on Christian ideals which inform our laws and culture. If we ignore our history and our heritage we will have no future.

There are echoes here of Chris (Lord) Smith’s comment in the House of Lords during the debate on the Sexual Orientation Regulations. Secularists are happy just so long as Christianity is something we do quietly and privately indoors without frightening the governing classes. But it is exactly the public proclamation of Christianity, and the demand of the Lord Jesus Christ to be recognised as King of kings, Lord of lords and dare we add, Mayor of mayors, which is at stake.

READ: Gen 14:19,22; Deut 10:12; 1Sam 2:30; 2Sam 23:3; Psalm 24:1, 144:12-15; Prov 9:10; Eccl 5:8; Isa 42:1; Dan 2:47; Micah 6:8; Matt 6:33; 11:27, 28:18; Luke 12:8-9, 19:12; John 5:22-27; Rom 11:36; Eph 1:10; Phil 2:10; 1Tim 2:5, 6:15; James 4:12; 1Pet 3:22; Rev 19:16.

Government Steamrollers Anti-Conscience Regulations

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Click here to read the text of the debate from the House of Lords

The Government last night rode roughshod over Christian conscience as they won a House of Lords vote on the Sexual Orientation Regulations.

A motion by Democratic Unionist Peer Lord Morrow to annul the Regulations was heavily defeated as the Government’s ‘pay-roll’ vote turned out in force.

The vote means that the Sexual Orientation Regulations are now law in Northern Ireland and will be introduced in England and Wales in April. Scotland will also follow suit.

The Regulations will force the owners of Christian businesses to offer goods and services to homosexuals against their conscience. A Christian photographer could face jail for refusing to take pictures of a civil partnership event. The owner of a guest house would be forced to allow two practising homosexuals to share a bed under his roof. A Christian printer would be acting illegally if he decides not to produce leaflets for a ‘gay pride’ march.

A similar trend is happening around the world. The government in Brazil is bringing in a similar law. Canada already has one, though nowhere near as draconian as ours, after a court ruled that freedom of conscience must take precedence.

During the House of Lords debate, around two thousand Christians held a torch-lit act of witness opposite the House of Lords to stand up for freedom of conscience and freedom of religion. The Rev Ian Paisley MP came across from the House of Commons to address the protestors. Earlier, a petition of 20,000 names was delivered to Her Majesty the Queen.

It is the fifth time Christians have gathered outside the Houses of Parliament in under eighteen months. In July and October 2005 and then in February 2006 hundreds came to pray against the Governments’ religious hatred proposals. The Government were famously defeated by one vote when the Prime Minister missed the final division. Last year also saw a witness against Lord Joffe’s Assisted Dying Bill.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice was at the witness. He said afterwards:

‘The Government and their ‘gay rights’ friends have no right to impose their morality, or lack of it, on the 99% of the population who are not that way inclined. Christians, members of other faiths and indeed of none cannot be forced to act against their conscience by providing services to those whose activities they find perverted, disgusting or simply against the clear, unequivocal word of God.

‘The Government have totally misunderstood our position. They think we shall back down. But for Christians, it’s a case of “Can’t pay, won’t pay.” In other words it’s not that we are merely refusing to go along with the Governments’ wickedness. It is that we cannot do it in all conscience. For us to offer our services to those who are carrying on against nature as the children of disobedience would be to deny our faith. We can not and will not do that.

‘Already, some churches have said they will close their adoption agencies altogether rather than place children in the hands of homosexuals. Others are planning to stop hiring out their church halls to outside events. It is the wider community which will suffer.

‘The Churches are saying to the Government, “If you want a fight, we’ll give you one”.’

Note: Christian Voice will support any believer or church caught by these anti-Christian regulations. Let us know if you face any problems because of them.

Jerry Springer the Opera – Blasphemy Case Begins

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A criminal action for blasphemy against Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, and producer Jonathan Thoday has begun in respect of Jerry Springer the Opera.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, laid information before Horseferry Road Magistrates this morning, Monday 8th January 2007.  It is two years to the day since the broadcast of the musical on BBC2 and six months to the day from when it finished its tour in Brighton last year.

Counsel Mark Mullins and instructing solicitor Michael Phillips made oral submissions to District Judge Caroline Tubbs to support the application for a summons to be issued in a private prosecution of the two executives. All the tests which had to be applied before a private prosecution can begin appeared satisfied, and Mr Mullins explained to the judge the complexity and necessity to gather evidence which had led to an interval of two years between the BBC2 broadcast and the initiation of proceedings.

The District Judge reserved her decision for later this week.

Stephen Green said afterwards: ‘I saw the BBC Songs of Praise School Choirs singing on BBC2’s sister channel last night. As one primary school choir was singing so beautifully, I wondered what kind of society they are growing up into, in this day and age.

‘Will it be one with no respect for the Almighty or for other people? One with no sense of right or wrong? One with no limits? One with no acknowledgment of the sacred?

‘There is a ancient law against blasphemy in this land because the law believes it should not occur. It is as simple as that. If artistic people do not where or how to stop as they push against the boundaries of decency, then the law must step in and tell them.

‘In this present case, it appears prime facie that a most odious and wicked blasphemy was perpetrated against Almighty God and the Lord Jesus Christ.  Clearly, justice must be done.  No-one, be they ever so influential or wealthy, can be above the law.

‘I noticed in Court that the learned District Judge sat under the Queen’s Coat of Arms. The wording along the bottom is ‘Dieu et mon droit.’ The French means ‘God and my right.’ It is a reminder that the judge’s decision is made under the sovereignty of God Himself in the interests of His justice alone.

‘We await the decision of the Judge and ask for prayer so that: “Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven.” Indeed the very first petition of the Lord’s prayer is: “Hallowed be Thy name.”

‘The holiness of God’s name is at the root of this case. There is a long way to go yet, but the first step was taken today.

School Gay Promos Will be Opposed on the Ground

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A Christian group has today promised that gay and lesbian promotions in schools and police action against students who use ‘gay’ to mean ‘as a term of abuse will be opposed.

The Home Office issued guidance last week for schools to hold ‘lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual awareness months’.  They claim that these will eliminate what is described as ‘homophobic’ bullying and build tolerance and diversity.

But Christian Voice has cast doubt on the reality of so-called ‘anti-gay’ bullying and has suggested that forcing homosexuality on children will foster, not tolerance, but resentment and anger.

Stephen Green, National Director Christian Voice, said today:

“The Government have no right to impose their morality, or lack of it, on the rest of us.  At a time when it appears to be a real challenge for the Government to get school children to learn the basics of mathematics and written communication, let alone any of the other proper subjects, to force perversion upon them is hardly a constructive use of school time.

“The Government want teachers to be picking on pupils, pupils and parents spying on teachers, the police catching young thought-criminals all in a scary echo of the worst of Soviet communism or Orwell’s 1984.

“When kids call each ‘gay’ or ‘lezzi’ in the playground, these are simply terms of abuse.  Such name-calling is no more ‘anti-gay’ than calling someone a ‘pikey’ is anti-Irish.  Children can be spiteful and will always look for the odd one out or for some point of weakness.  Teachers need to reassure the bullied that they are not homosexual or dirty just because someone calls them a stupid name.

“Overall, school anti-bullying policies need to be holistic, led by example, and informed, not by some vague ‘citizenship’ rubbish, but by reference to the Christian faith.  Anything else will end in failure.  We also need to recognise that the police coming in to quiz pupils who use words like ‘gay’ as a term for ‘rubbish’ is itself a form of bullying.

“If any pupils are interviewed by the police, Christian Voice will certainly give every assistance so they can bring legal action against the force concerned.  We shall also oppose any ‘Gay Week’ or ‘LGBT Fortnight’ or ‘Diversity Month’ we hear of.

“More than that, when parents or school students contact us, we can help them to organise their own ground-level opposition to such events, facilitate real discussion of the truth about homosexuality, start to build an understanding of chastity and Godly living, and generally counter darkness with light.

“Standing up to the godless secular elite in the name of righteousness is exactly what the Lord Jesus did in His day.  He exposed their hypocrisy, their corruption and the way they imposed burdens on ordinary people. The hatred which those in power have for the ways of God and their contempt for those they see as the lower classes remains the same today.   The bullying gays, the thought-police and the diversity czars need to be stood up to today.  By the grace of God alone we can do it.”

Archers Gay Wedding ‘A Big Turn-Off’

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A Civil Partnership scene being broadcast this week in Britain’s longest-running soap was described today as ‘nauseating’ and ‘a big turn-off’ by a Christian prayer and lobby group.

Two characters from Radio 4’s ‘The Archers’, farmer Adam Macy and chef Ian Craig, are due to perform the ceremony on Thursday 14th December 2006.

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

“Personally, seeing a picture of actors Andrew Wincott and Stephen Kennedy dressed up in wedding suits holding their glasses of fizz made me feel quite queasy. It brought home the enormity of the nauseating pretence and perversion of a real wedding which every ‘civil partnership’ is.

“My hope is that the remaining faithful listeners of ‘The Archers’, those who have endured the plaintive politically-correct story-lines of the last few years will at last wake up and find something less grating to listen to.

“After all, the poor things are now agonising over the destruction of Ruth and David’s marriage. How Editor in Chief Vanessa (‘to be politically correct is to be moral’) Whitburn justifies the morality of that is a mystery.

“They have recently had to endure such crude propaganda story-lines as the racial harassment of Usha, the Indian lawyer parachuted into the village, Linda Snell’s feng-shui obsession and the repellent ‘gay kiss’ in the polytunnel.

“Earlier, Ambridge had a woman vicar before the ink was even dry on the Church of England’s decision. Like biblical Athens , Ambridge must always tell of ‘some new thing.’  Indeed, the whole show has forty years of pioneering ‘form’. After all, Jennifer’s baby out of wedlock paved the way for the rest of rural England , whilst her consideration of an abortion was just what the Elite ordered during the furore around the Abortion Act in 1967.

“I recognise that real ‘Archers’ addicts will find it hard to turn off. There will be those as fascinated as a rabbit caught in the headlights by ‘Adam’ and ‘Ian’ ‘tying the knot’. Others will listen with morbid curiosity like spectators slowing down to get a good view of a road crash.

“I for one will be avoiding ‘The Archers’.  I prefer art which edifies, elevates and encourages to that which debases, disgusts and depresses. In any case, just before dinner is the wrong time to be rushing to the loo to be sick.  I am praying for a ‘big turn off’ for ‘Adam’ and ‘Ian’s’ anti-Christian charade.

“On the other hand, do tell me if the latest vicar of Ambridge turns into a Christ-centred evangelical determined to take the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ by word and by example to the needy sinners of the BBC’s progressive hell-on-earth. Revival starting in Ambridge? OK, I shan’t be holding my breath.”

Daffy Dawkins fails to blaspheme Holy Spirit

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Professor Richard Dawkins is encouraging children to blaspheme the Holy Spirit on his website, Christian Voice has learned.

The campaigning atheist has republished ‘the blasphemy challenge’ by a youth group calling itself ‘Rational Responders’.

The idea, which dates from December 2006, is that anyone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit on video on YouTube is rewarded with a free copy of a DVD called ‘The God Who Wasn’t There’.

According to ‘The Rational Response Squad’, their campaign is ‘to entice young people to publicly renounce any belief’ in what they describe as ‘the sky God’ of Christianity. Their knowledge of Christian theology is not much better than Mohammed’s when he was writing the Koran. After relegating God to ‘the sky’ they venture that Christians believe the Holy Spirit ‘dwells on earth as God’s representative’.

But the campaign claims to go further than foster renunciations of belief. It ‘encourages participants to commit what Christian doctrine calls the only unforgivable sin – blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.’

Comments on the same page start with a couple of writers saying ‘I deny the Holy Spirit’ before one ‘Kergillian’ accuses the campaign of being crass and points out that if atheists do indeed deny God, then blaspheming that which does not exist is just a game. Another comment adds ‘childish’ and a third ‘puerile and senseless’.

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

‘Dawkins thinks that by encouraging young people to blaspheme the Holy Spirit he can keep them out of the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom of a God in whom he claims not to believe.

‘A superficial look at Luke 12:10 would appear to indicate that speaking a word against the Holy Spirit is enough to commit the said blasphemy and remain unforgiven, but Matthew 12:22-32 and Mark 3:20-30 set the Lord’s remark in context.

‘To blaspheme the Holy Spirit, it is necessary to ascribe Jesus’s casting out of a demon to Satan rather than to the Holy Spirit. Some would say it was only relevant during our Lord’s time on earth and such a sin can not now be committed. It is certainly clear from the text that the Lord’s fire, as it were, was turned on a group of unbelieving Pharisees who were watching the event.

‘However we read the passage, merely saying ‘I deny the Holy Spirit’ doesn’t come close to what the Pharisees did and would appear to be entirely forgivable. It is not actually blaspheming the Holy Spirit. The crucial point however, is that Richard Dawkins thinks it is, and that he is trying to convince young people in particular to commit a sin against a God in whom he does not believe and for them to surmise they will never be forgiven by the same God whom he says does not exist.

‘Is that rational or is it rather than a peculiar combination of wickedness and madness? Has the evolutionary biologist lost the plot?

‘If Dawkins were a Satanist, it would make sense to seem to block the path of redemption. As someone who claims to be a rationalist, even for the evangelical atheist which is Dawkins, it just looks malicious, loony, ill-informed and stupid in equal measure.

‘I believe God will forgive those kids who have been enticed to join this latest fad if they turn to Jesus Christ and believe in His saving work. Even Richard Dawkins himself can turn off the road to hell and seek the forgiveness of the same Jesus he hates so much. God is that big and that gracious!’

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CHRISTIAN VOICE DIRECTOR ARRESTED AT CARDIFF GAY MARDI GRAS

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National Director, Stephen Green Urges Action Against Men Hijacking Women’s Day
Stephen Green Urges Action Against Men Hijacking Women’s Day

Press Release: Immediate 9.00 hrs Sunday 3rd September 2006

The National Director of a Christian prayer and lobby group was arrested by South Wales Police yesterday afternoon for distributing Gospel tracts at a homosexual event.  An Inspector Alexander Chadd, wearing a fluorescent vest with ‘Minorities Support Unit’ on the back, detained Stephen Green when he refused to stop giving out the leaflets to people entering Bute Park in Cardiff, where the ‘Mardi Gras’ event was being held.

Mr Green was kept in the cells at Cardiff Police Station for over four hours before being charged with using ‘threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby, contrary to section 5(1) and (6) of the Public Order Act 1986’.  He is due to appear at Cardiff Magistrates Court next Wednesday (6th September) at 9.45am.

Stephen Green said today:

“I thank God for the honour of being locked up for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  All the same, I am astonished that South Wales Police have a special unit dedicated to silencing those who disagree with homosexuality.  Stonewall, the homosexual rights organisation, say the South Wales Police ‘Minorities Support Unit’ ‘works closely with the LGBT communities’.  Maybe they work a bit too closely when an evangelist can be victimised simply because he is giving out leaflets quoting verses from the same Bible police officers swear on in court.

“Speaking about righteousness, morality, sin, repentance and the forgiveness sinners can find in the cross of Jesus Christ may well offend the fragile sensibilities of homosexuals, but should the police have a partisan unit whose job is to round up Christian dissidents, treat them like thought criminals and trample on freedom of speech?

“I am constantly hearing stories of Christian preachers being told to shut up by bullying police officers with personal issues or axes to grind.  In most cases they simply comply.  But if we are to safeguard our historic freedoms, someone has to make a stand.  I just pray that God’s strength will be enough for me to see this through, because I know from the words of Christ that in my own strength I can do nothing.”The leaflet itself, ‘Same-Sex Love – Same-Sex Sex; What does the Bible say?’ (Click on the link to view the leaflet) isn’t even that hard-hitting.  Sure, it quotes the Bible to establish that same-sex sex is sin, it says that no-one has to stay gay and asks how the reader will stand in the Day of Judgment.   But it concentrates on the Parable of the Prodigal Son, those words of the Lord Jesus which have given countless people down the ages the assurance of God’s forgiveness if they truly repent.  It ends by quoting the famous verse of John 3:16, ‘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’s good news.

“The Cross will always be ‘a rock of offense’ to those who disobey God’s eternal word.  We shall just have to see whether the Courts will agree with the gay-friendly police of South Wales that the Christian faith of the United Kingdom, and the Bible which is read in churches up and down the land, and upon which the Queen took her Coronation Oath, is now ‘threatening, abusive or insulting’.

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Police Spent £2,000 on Gay Rights Party

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The Metropolitan Police spent over £2,000 on a party for gay rights activists, Christian Voice has learned.  The party, a reception for European activists, was hosted by the ‘Met’ on the eve of the London Gay Pride Parade, ‘Europride’, in July this year.  In answer to a Freedom of Information Act request from Christian Voice, the Met were forced only yesterday to disclose that they spent £2,172.25 – £22.86 per head – as 14 Met Police Officers entertained 39 European and 42 UK representatives of “LGBT/Pride/HumanRights/Church Organisations”.

£930 was spent on food, and £500 on ‘Music’.  Between them, the assembled police officers, of whom the most senior was Commander Steve Allen, head of the Met’s Violent Crime Directorate, and the homosexual activists sunk an amazing £462- worth of ‘house wine’ and £112-worth of beer, which must equate to a bottle of wine and at least a couple of bottles of beer each.

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said: “I hope no-one was driving home after downing that lot.  Commander Allen must be aware of the link between alcohol and violent crime, and yet he set out to ply emotionally fragile people such as homosexual activists with drink.  The Police said they were concerned for our safety when we set up a Christian witness at ‘Europride’ in the light of a threat stated in a homosexual newspaper.  To fuel possible violence with drink is totally irresponsible.

“On top of that, the Metropolitan Police have squandered public money making themselves look ‘gay-friendly.’  The public do not expect the police to splash their money around sucking up to contentious political groups.”

However, the police officer who claimed that a threat he had seen against Christian Voice gave him reason to move the group’s Europride protest site back from the parade, Chief Inspector Steve Deehan, has been undermined by the Met’s inability to provide details of the paper in which the alleged threat was made, and their categorical statement that ‘no threat was made regarding the presence of Christian Voice or any other organisation at the Europride Parade’.

Stephen Green concluded: “When you can’t trust a police officer to tell you the truth, what is the world coming to?”

Prayer Scuppers Pakistan

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The astonishing result of the fourth and final Test Match between England and Pakistan came after an extraordinary prayer from the leader of a prominent Christian group that God would ‘judge’ the Pakistan team for their attempt to promote Islam during the Test series.

During the first Test Match, much was made of the communal Islamic faith of the Pakistan team, their five-times-a-day prayer sessions and how Yousuf Mohammed’s conversion from Christianity to Islam had helped his batting.  The National Director of Christian Voice, prayed that God would judge the Pakistan team for their promotion of Islam in this Christian nation. Incredibly, Pakistan lost the second Test by an innings and promptly lost the Third as well. But what would happen in the final Test? Before it started, Stephen Green penned a short piece for the Christian Voice newsletter. The final paragraph concluded:

‘What will happen at the Oval? Will Pakistan be further humbled, or will they pick up a crumb of comfort in a win? We could even sense some of God’s heart for our nation in the result. How much mercy is He extending to us? What is He saying about the prospects of the very real threat of Islam? Am I looking for too much in a cricket match? Perhaps, but I know what I shall be praying for.’

Stephen Green said today:

‘No-one could have predicted that the final test would end with Pakistan failing to take the field and forfeiting the match for the first time in Test history. I have a feeling that the way in which the umpires handled the initial alleged offence of tampering with the ball, and then the massive umbrage Pakistan took, claiming they had been humiliated, then humiliating themselves by flouncing around in their dressing room, is the sort of unexpected event which only Almighty God can bring about. Let us not forget, this is the same God who, according to 2nd Chronicles 20, brought Jehoshaphat and his outnumbered army out of Jerusalem and down to the battlefield only to see that the opposition had fallen out amongst themselves and killed each other.

‘I think God is saying that if we Christians place all our trust in Him, show Him our prayer is serious by doing the simple and obvious things which only we can do, we can safely leave the miraculous to Him. God will never fail to surprise us.

‘It is a sad day for cricket, to be sure, but the collective madness which gripped the Oval yesterday should encourage Christians that God can always be relied upon to do the unexpected. The way in which Pakistan were giving it large about Islam was always asking for trouble from the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you Lord, for answering my prayer in such a dramatic fashion.’

Article written by Stephen Green on Tuesday 15th August and published this morning Monday 21st August 2006:

A RELIGIOUS TEST
By Stephen Green

We don’t normally pay much attention in Christian Voice to that branch of the entertainment industry known as professional sport, but this summer’s test series between England and Pakistan is worthy of mention. I first declare an interest. I admit I have played cricket. My top run-scoring stroke used to be an attempted drive which would inadvertently slice off the edge of the bat and squirt away somewhere behind me.

But I am really thinking of a strange and novel religious dimension. There is always a sense in which international sport is a kind of single combat. We send out either one athlete or a small group to do battle on our behalf, much as the Philistines sent out Goliath and Israel put David forward. To win reflects honour on the whole nation, in this way of looking at it.

Not, I hasten to add, that the England team are overtly Christian. Only Kevin Pietersen has made any kind of profession of Faith that I know of, and there is one Sikh and, as it happens, a Muslim in the England team. No, it is not England ‘s faith, it is the way in which the Pakistan team have flaunted their own team Islamic spirit which has brought a religious dimension to the fore. Batsman Mohammed Yousuf actually converted a year or so ago from Christianity, and was already saying during the first Test at Lords how his batting had improved since his conversion.

After that Test, which petered out into a draw, the media were full of how the whole Pakistan team prays together five times a day and how seriously they took their faith. It was beginning to look like Islam versus, at least in the Pakistani’s minds, Britain ‘s Christianity. To our eyes the United Kingdom ‘s Christian Faith has been secularised almost out of all recognition, and yet it still forms the foundation of these Islands , and it is not dead yet, by God’s grace alone.

So you could not move in the papers and on the Channel 5 television roundup each evening for statements about how the Pakistanis’ faith was helping them. It was Islam this and Mohammed that and I was praying, ‘Lord, may it please thee to judge these men for their arrogance in this land dedicated to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.’ Or words to that effect.

This was without in any way saying England deserved to win. On the night of England ‘s Quarter-Final match in the football World Cup, a group of us were witnessing at the Fairfeld Halls in Croydon at Jerry Springer the Opera. A young drunk came up and wanted to know how we could defend the proposition that God is real when England had just lost to Portugal . In vain we tried to explain it doesn’t work like that and that God isn’t English. The England football team had not been noted for Bible verses on their shirts, unlike the Fiji rugby sevens team, who went out some years ago with Philippians 4:13 emblazoned right across their substantial chests.

But as it turned out, at the second Test at Old Trafford, Pakistan were immediately in trouble and were humiliated by an innings defeat. Could it last? Yes it could. By the grace of God, I believe, Pakistan imploded in their final innings at Headingly and lost that match and with it, the series. As a token of how seriously the Pakistan supporters took the match and the faith element of it, England’s Muslim bowler, Sajid Mahmood, was actually barracked by the Pakistan supporters last week, and the word ‘traitor’ was used.

By the time this newsletter reaches our dear members and supporters, the final Test of the series will have been and gone. This article is such a hostage to fortune. At this time of writing, the Series is 2-0 with only one to play. What will happen at the Oval? Will Pakistan be further humbled, or will they pick up a crumb of comfort in a win? We could even sense some of God’s heart for our nation in the result. How much mercy is He extending to us? What is He saying about the prospects of the very real threat of Islam? Am I looking for too much in a cricket match? Perhaps, but I know what I shall be praying for.

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