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Archive for January, 2009

Same-sex “Marriage” Used as Defense in Canadian Polygamy Case

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Gay Marriage, Polygamy | Comments Off

By Thaddeus M Baklinski, LifeSite News CRESTON, British Columbia, January 22, 2009 (LifeSIteNews.com) - Canada's same-sex "marriage" law is being used as justification for polygamy by defense lawyers in the case of ... Read more..

Episcopal Priest Claims ‘Being Gay is Gift from God’

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality, TEC | Comments Off

From Christian Post The Rev. Canon J. Edwin Bacon Jr. from Southern California has made it no secret that he supports gays and lesbians and same-sex marriage. But his recent pro-gay ... Read more..

Islam & Secularism Chastisement on Christians.

Friday, January 23rd, 2009 Posted in Islam, Secularism | Comments Off

By David Virtue, VOL God is using the rise of Islam and secularism as a chastisement of his people. This was the distilled wisdom of a number of speakers at a ... Read more..

A defining moment

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips, Spectator So the inevitable has now come about in the teetering civilisation of Europe, and it has happened first in the Netherlands. One of the supposedly most liberal ... Read more..

Petition against compulsory sex education for over-5s

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Sex education | Comments Off

On 23rd October Jim Knight announced the Government’s decision to back the recommendations of ‘experts’ (the government appointed SRE Delivery Review Group) and make sex and relationship education a statutory ... Read more..

New evangelical leader criticises Archbishop of Canterbury

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Church of England | Comments Off

From Religious Intelligence The new chairman of the Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) has begun his tenure by criticizing the theological stance of Dr Rowan Williams as ill behoving the ... Read more..

The Coercive Utopians Are At it Again

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Homosexuality, Intolerance, Nigeria, Political Correctness | Comments Off

By Bill Muehlenberg Amongst the favourite terms blithely thrown around by the various radical social activist groups are “tolerance,” “acceptance,” “inclusion,” and “love”. Sounds pretty good. But the rhetoric seldom matches ... Read more..

Abortions in GP surgeries to be extended

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Culture, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From Telegraph.co.uk Early abortions are to be provided in GP surgeries as NHS trusts reveal they are planning to widen the service. Abortions up to nine weeks can be carried out ... Read more..

California Decision Gives Hope to Both Sides

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Parsonages, TEC | Comments Off

By George Conger, TLC The California Supreme Court has issued a double-edged verdict in the Episcopal Church property cases, handing both the Diocese of Los Angeles and three breakaway parishes a ... Read more..

What do you risk? Muslim woman turns to Christ (video)

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Islam, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Stand Firm   ' hat tip: Creative Minority Report   Read more..

Dutch MP Geert Wilders to be prosecuted for criticising Islam.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Islam, justice | Comments Off

From Cranmer's Blog Cranmer thought the age of Inquisition was long gone. But it seems that one uncompromising pursuit of God’s will for Europe has simply been supplanted by another. A Dutch ... Read more..

Blacks, the Family and the Obamas

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Gender, Marriage, News | Comments Off

It is a great irony of American history that the passage of the longest-overdue social legislation ever written -- the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act ... Read more..

Gang culture result of family breakdown

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Culture | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Gang culture is partly caused by absent fathers and family breakdown, a teachers’ union says. The NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union in the UK, has released findings of ... Read more..

Another consequence of gay ‘marriage’

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in From Lisa's Lookout, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From NARTH Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Will Increase Prevalence of Homosexuality: Research Provides Significant Evidence By Trayce Hansen, Ph.D. An accumulation of research from around the world finds that societies which endorse homosexual behavior ... Read more..

Christian Leaders call for prayer for Obama

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Politics, Take Action!, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

by Jennifer Mesko, editor, CitizenLink/Focus on the Family 'Barack Obama professes to follow Christ, and so his heart should be primed for a miraculous change of heart in his plans for ... Read more..

UK Christian care home boycotted by Council

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From the Christian Institute Havering Council has blacklisted a Christian care home after accusations that a homosexual man was turned away because of his sexuality. According to local press reports, a source ... Read more..

To think about: Optional orthodoxy

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in NB | Comments Off

A well-mannered church can put up with a few orthodox eccentrics, and can even take pride in being so very inclusive. “Oh, poor Johnson thinks we’re all heretics,” says the ... Read more..

No Female Bishops for Proposed New Province

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Women Bishops | Comments Off

By Steve Waring, The Living Church Some Anglo-Catholics might be uneasy with the predominance of evangelicals among those seeking a third North American province of the Anglican Communion. But the leadership ... Read more..

Women Priests

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Ordination Of Women | Comments Off

By Alice C Linsley   (Hat Tip: VOL) "...I heard that the Church of England was being advised to declare women capable of Priests' Order. I am, indeed, informed that such a ... Read more..

New Attack on Free Speech about Homosexual Practice

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Homosexuality, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From:  Christian Concern for our Nation In May 2008 the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act was passed after a long campaign to secure the right of Christians and others to discuss ... Read more..