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Archive for August, 2010

UGANDA: 400 Anglican Bishops Get Set to Address Pressing Issues for African Continent

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Communion, Uganda | Comments Off

By David W Virtue, Virtueonline Gospel and Social Justice will combine to bring needed change to the area Some 400 African Anglican bishops including a small group of Western Anglican bishops and ... Read more..

Don’t label heroin users as ‘junkies’ – Drug Commission

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in Political Correctness | Comments Off

From BBC News People should stop calling heroin users "junkies" or "addicts", an influential think tank on drugs has said.   The UK Drug Policy Commission said such names stigmatised users and made ... Read more..

U.S. Court Halts Obama Admin Stem-Cell Research Guidelines

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in Ethics, Medical Ethics | Comments Off

by Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSite News A U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Columbia has intervened to block regulations issued by the Obama administration expanding embryo-destructive research. Pro-life researchers and Nightlight ... Read more..

‘Catholic’ Group Gearing up to Challenge Church Teaching on Homosexuality

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By James Tillman, LifeSite News A cadre of homosexualist activists are preparing to launch a new group, Catholics for Equality, whose self-proclaimed mission is to lead lay Catholics away from the ... Read more..

“Left Tackle”

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in News, Prayer | Comments Off

by Bishop John Guernsey Hat-tip: VirtueOnline The Blind Side, by Michael Lewis ... tells the fascinating and hilarious story of an inner city boy and the changing world of professional football. ... Read more..

Welcome to the Club of Ancient Wrongs

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By Michael Cook, MercatorNet The mosque in Manhattan should be moved further away from Ground Zero, but not because of enmity toward Islam. [.....]  Today, in most Western countries, the concept ... Read more..

The Book of Common Prayer, part 1: An English ragbag

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Book Of Common Prayer | Comments Off

By Alan Wilson, Guardian Steven Sample, the recently departed president of the University of Southern California, used to play a mean trick on his graduate students. He restricted MBA class reading ... Read more..

African bishops, global partners head to Uganda for weeklong meeting

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Conflict, Poverty, Uganda | Comments Off

By Matthew Davies, ENS More than 400 Anglican bishops from Africa are being joined by international partners, diplomats and representatives from relief and development organizations for a weeklong gathering in Entebbe, ... Read more..

Pope’s UK visit to involve strict rules for pilgrims

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

From BBC News The Catholic Church of England and Wales has published a guide for those attending events with the Pope during his visit to the UK next month. There will be ... Read more..

Same-Sex Marriage and the Insignificance of Men and Women

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Gay Marriage, Gender | Comments Off

By Dennis Prager, Jewish World Review (Hat Tip: JONAH) The left passionately supports the most remarkable and radical change in modern social history — the redefinition of marriage from male-female to include ... Read more..

Authors hit out at society’s ‘pornification’

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Pornography | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute  Hat-tip:  Trevor Stammers Even primary school children are being affected by Britain’s hypersexualised society and it is a problem we’re not tackling, two feminist authors have said.   Speaking ... Read more..

Civil partnerships plummet as dissolutions double

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Civil Partnerships, Divorce | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute The number of civil partnerships being registered annually has fallen and dissolutions have almost doubled, according to official figures.   Newly released figures from the Office for National Statistics ... Read more..

New Lesbian Parenting Study Makes Claims Unsupported by the Evidence

Monday, August 23rd, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By A Dean Byrd, NARTH The National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study (NLLFS) published by American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers the following conclusion: "Adolescents who have been reared in lesbian-mother families ... Read more..

Are We Facing a Genderless Future?

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Posted in sex | Comments Off

by Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert   Hat-tip:  Rabbi Arthur Goldberg/JONAH  A small but growing number of people are rejecting being labeled male or female. This spring, an Australian named Norrie May-Welby made ... Read more..

I’m an atheist but this anti-Catholic rhetoric is making me nervous

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Posted in Atheism, Pope Benedict | Comments Off

By Padraig Reidy, Observer The messages keep coming: "We Protest the Pope: Want to join us?" asked the first, a few weeks ago. More recently, an invitation came to a Protest ... Read more..

Scottish inclusive language liturgies are ugly and teach bad doctrine, critics charge

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Posted in Liturgy, Scottish Episcopal Church | Comments Off

By George Conger, CEN The Scottish Episcopal Church’s College of Bishops has approved inclusive language prayers, authorising optional changes that remove “Lord”, “He”, “his”, “him”, and “us men” from its 1982 ... Read more..

Israel and the West

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

By David Solway, FrontPage Magazine In his thought-provoking book The Lucifer Principle, Harold Bloom, relying on years of zoological research, points out how “a strange thing happens when humans and other ... Read more..

Anger over homosexuality

Saturday, August 21st, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism | Comments Off

Letter to CEN Sir, Lancashire County Council has taken a secularist stand of fascist dictatorship concerning its adoption procedures. It has the audacity to say: “foster carers must be open to ... Read more..

Fiddling with God

Saturday, August 21st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

[...]  If we say something about anything we ought first to establish that we have a reason for doing so — that, in simple terms, we know what we are ... Read more..

APA Task Force on Sexual Orientation: Science, Diversity and Ethicality

Saturday, August 21st, 2010 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off

Summary of Symposium from NARTH [.....]  This symposium reviewed the scientific evidence which led the American Psychological Association (APA) Task Force to conclude that there was "insufficient evidence to support sexual ... Read more..