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Archive for January, 2010

Author Martin Amis wants euthanasia on UK’s streets

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Author Martin Amis has called for euthanasia booths on street corners, where elderly people can commit suicide.   Speaking to The Sunday Times, Mr Amis described the UK’s ageing population ... Read more..

Opposition grows to MSP’s end-of-life Bill

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Opposition to a Bill that would legalise assisted suicide in Scotland is growing as doctors and most MSPs voice their disapproval.   The End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill, proposed ... Read more..

“Uncomfortable Questions” Asked by Jewish Rabbi Outside Planned Parenthood Abortuary

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Thaddeus M Baklinski, LifeSite News While the Washington D.C. March For Life was taking place on January 22, Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter, Executive Director of Torah Jews for Decency, was ... Read more..

Life and Family Activists Hold out Little Hope for Cameron-Led Conservative Government

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in Political Correctness, Politics | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News The leading life and family groups of Britain and Ireland say they have little hope that a government led by David Cameron’s Tories will significantly reverse ... Read more..

“Gay Rights” Resolution Postponed in Council of Europe Assembly

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism, Politics, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has decided to postpone its planned vote on a report that purported to protect homosexuals from discrimination. ... Read more..

Faith Leaders Highlight Need to Remember Holocaust

Thursday, January 28th, 2010 Posted in Judaism, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

The Christian Post Christian leaders across denominations commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday to keep alive the memory of the atrocities that took place in the Nazi concentration camps more ... Read more..

Forty Years of Feminism Now Bearing Fruit

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By Pamela Geller, American Thinker (Hat Tip: VOL) A new documentary, Oral Sex Is the New Goodnight Kiss, chronicles America's moral decay. Sharlene Azam, a Canadian filmmaker, says, "If you talk ... Read more..

Air Conditioning Hell: How Liberalism Happens

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in News, Theology | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler, 9 Marks Theological liberals do not intend to destroy Christianity, but to save it. As a matter of fact, theological liberalism is motivated by what might be described ... Read more..

Our Crumbling Cathedrals: An Apt Symbol of Our Disintegrating Nation

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

From Civitas Few artefacts better epitomise England than its cathedrals. It is precisely because they do that their current parlous condition so aptly symbolises the state of national disintegration over which ... Read more..

David Cameron: teach children to treat gay people equally

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Politics | Comments Off

By James Kirkup, Telegraph The Conservative leader said that equal treatment for homosexual people should be “embedded” in teaching. Mr Cameron’s remarks, made in a recent meeting with party activists which ... Read more..

Social Attitudes, News Headlines and Moral Relativism

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

From Clayboy Buried in the British Social Attitudes survey (a copy is currently available of the chapter on religion via Ruth Gledhill) is one result I wanted to abstract. I’m still ... Read more..

Richard Dawkins pushing a form of aggressive atheism, says presenter

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Urmee Khan’       `Daily Telegraph’        Professor Richard Dawkins has been accused of “parading his own failure of imagination” by failing to consider the possible existence of God in an attack by the ... Read more..

Only 3% of couples who stay together until child is 16 are unmarried, study reveals

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`James Chapman’         `Daily Mail’   Marriage is more important than all other factors in family stability, according to new research which demolishes Labour's central argument against tax breaks for wedded couples.    As the ... Read more..

Outrage as Debenhams launches celebrity-inspired Divorce Gift List service

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Sean Poulter’        `Daily Mail’   After a marriage break-up, you may feel as though you've lost your entire world. But chin up - you can make friends buy some of it back ... Read more..

IVF among older women: Arguments for and against

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Martin Evans’         `Daily Telegraph’   One of the most pressing concerns is the ability of an older mother to care for her child in advancing years.   Many campaigners argue that it is unfair ... Read more..

US Government policy now targeting ‘homophobia’

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Drew Zahn’     `World Net Daily’   Opponents of "hate crimes" legislation, who have frequently pointed to Canada as an example of how such laws are used to increasingly suppress moral objections to ... Read more..

UK Government backs Islamists in battle to remove their names from terror list

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Patrick Sawer’         `Daily Telegraph’   The seven men were placed on the United Nations list because they were suspected of having links with al-Qaeda and the Taliban.   As a result they have been ... Read more..

This Sceptred Isle

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips, Spectator A number of papers (Times, Telegraph, Mail) summarise the findings of the latest British Social Attitudes survey as showing that Britain has become a more ‘conservative’ nation, ... Read more..

The defeated Equality Bill contains Harmanesque poison

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Civil Liberty, Politics, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Norman Tebbit Last night the Government was defeated in three key votes on the Equality Bill. The Bill is not all bad. It consolidates into one Bill a lot of ... Read more..

Secularists: Let’s fight the church on equality

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 Posted in Secularism | Comments Off

By Terry Sanderson, Guardian Last night's parliamentary debate on the equality bill was one of the poorest and most ill-informed I have ever heard in the House of Lords. Despite Lord Lester's ... Read more..