{"id":5232,"date":"2013-01-18T17:07:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2013-01-18T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T17:24:09","slug":"2013jan18lively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/2013jan18lively\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Union will hear Scott Lively"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scott<\/a>The Oxford Union is to invite an American pro-family activist to address it after a mix-up on dates.<\/p>\n

Scott Lively was due to speak last night in the annual ‘gay rights’ debate, but an error saw him given the date of the Israel debate on 31st January instead.\u00a0 As Mr Lively had already arranged his travel around that date, the President-Elect of the Union has courteously offered to schedule an additional event for him to speak on Friday 1st February.<\/p>\n

The annual ‘gay rights’ debate has degenerated into a celebration of depravity, with opponents lucky to see support which would fill a country bus.\u00a0 Last night, the Oxford Union’s student audience voted by 345 votes to 21 that \u201cthis house would be glad to have gay parents\u201d.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Proposing the motion were PinkNews.co.uk and Out4Marriage founder Benjamin Cohen, gay rights activist Richard Fairbass of the band Right Said Fred, and Phyll Opoku-Gyimah of Black Pride UK.\u00a0 Opposing the motion was Peter D Williams of Catholic Voices, anti-abortion activist Anthony McCarthy, journalist Lynette Burrows and Rev George Hargreaves, leader of the Christian Party.<\/p>\n

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, has taken part in similar debates at both the Oxford and Cambridge Unions in the past.\u00a0 He said today:<\/p>\n

‘Any pretence at an objective, fair-minded debate where minds could be changed by great oratory and consideration of factual evidence has vanished over the years.\u00a0 It has been replaced by emotionalism, fashion and\u00a0barracking of opponents of the new intolerant status quo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘I can only admire the bravery of the young people who go through the ‘No’ lobby at these debates.’<\/p>\n

Scott Lively, who has a personal testimony of the healing power of the Lord Jesus and is a strong advocate of Christian healing therapy for those suffering from same-sex attraction, has become a hate-figure of gay rights activists since his address on that subject to parliamentarians in Uganda was followed by the introduction of a Bill to make the promotion of sodomy in the East African nation illegal.<\/p>\n

Things are seen differently in Africa from the universities of Britain.<\/p>\n

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