{"id":1513,"date":"2011-09-23T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T14:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2011-09-26T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T16:57:41","slug":"you-would-need-a-heart-of-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/you-would-need-a-heart-of-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"You would need a heart of stone &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; not to cry &#8211; or is it not to laugh?<\/p>\n<p>As the Government announces its intention to legislate a lie and allow two men or two women to &#8216;marry&#8217;, here are two of the most ludicrous recent civil partnerships which are already bringing marriage into disrepute.<\/p>\n<p>The first is the <a title=\"Daily Mail report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2040485\/Lesbian-couple-celebrate-civil-ceremony-Star-Trek-themed-service.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">Star-Trek-themed bash in Swansea<\/a> where two middle-aged women, one of whom accompanied by her two young sons, became &#8216;civil partners&#8217;.\u00a0 In other words, at least one of the pair was a fully-functioning heterosexual before deciding to be a lesbian.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Mail, in all seriousness, reported: &#8216;<span>46-year-old Anita&#8217;s children threw themselves into looking good for their mother&#8217;s big day.&#8217;\u00a0 <\/span><span>Now either Anita was one of the <a title=\"Daily Telegraph\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/8783006\/One-in-six-adults-now-living-in-sin.html\" target=\"_blank\">one-in-six adults currently living in sin<\/a>, or she was married, in which latter case, she would have had a rather more Godly &#8216;big day&#8217; before these two boys were born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The second is the civil partnership between two male-female transsexuals in Cambridge, one of whom served as mayor of the City and the other as his consort.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cambridge News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge-news.co.uk\/Cambridge\/Former-first-couple-born-as-boys-tie-the-knot-as-women-23092011.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Cambridge News reported<\/a>:\u00a0 &#8216;The ceremony at Shire Hall only took a few minutes and was attended by two witnesses who threw confetti over the happy couple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Antoinette Jackson, chief executive of the city council, said: \u201cJenny and Jennifer had a great year when they were mayor and mayoress, and we\u2019d like to wish them all the best on their happy day.\u201d &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; not to cry &#8211; or is it not to laugh? As the Government announces its intention to legislate a lie and allow two men or two women to &#8216;marry&#8217;, here are two of the most ludicrous recent civil partnerships which are already bringing marriage into disrepute. The first is the Star-Trek-themed bash in Swansea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,11,86],"tags":[15,61,18,47,9,43],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-freedom","category-homosexuality-trans","category-secularism","tag-christian-voice","tag-civil-partnerships","tag-gay-rights","tag-gays","tag-homosexuality","tag-stephen-green"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Stephen","author_link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/author\/stephen\/"},"rttpg_comment":4,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/category\/christian-freedom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Christian freedom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/category\/homosexuality-trans\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Homosexuality &amp; Trans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/category\/uk-christian-constitution\/secularism\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Secularism<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"&#8230; not to cry &#8211; or is it not to laugh? As the Government announces its intention to legislate a lie and allow two men or two women to &#8216;marry&#8217;, here are two of the most ludicrous recent civil partnerships which are already bringing marriage into disrepute. 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