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Archive for November, 2010

Marriage is no place for me-too-ism

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

By Tim Cannon, MercatorNet Let's go back to the beginning. Why does anyone deserve the protection offered by legally-recognised marriage? In the same-sex marriage debate, everyone seems to assume that marriage is ... Read more..

Two in three underage pregnancies are aborted

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Sophie Borland, Mailonline Almost two thirds of underage pregnancies end in an abortion, figures show. The proportion of teenagers opting for a termination rather than keeping their baby has soared by ... Read more..

Care home chain says Christmas bonuses ‘discriminate’ against other religions

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in Political Correctness | Comments Off

From The Telegraph A chain of care homes is refusing to pay its staff overtime for working at Christmas because it claims the move would discriminate against other religions. Guinness Care ... Read more..

Seven primates “will not be present at next Primates’ meeting” – Current text of covenant fatally flawed: support no longer appropriate.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

See Oxford Statement here 5. For the sake of Christ and of His Gospel we can no longer maintain the illusion of normalcy and so we join with other Primates from ... Read more..

Amendment to remove section 4.2 overwhelmingly lost

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Justin Brett  4.2. is language of contract not covenant. The question does it claim to be punitive, but whether it can be used to be punitive. Relational consequences - nothing ... Read more..

Vote on Covenant passes in all three houses

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Bishop Mike Hill's closing speech and the vote on the motion Bishop Mike Hill.  Covenant does not create Anglican Communion law or any body with coercive authority. The ACC will be ... Read more..

Motion to adjourn debate till July lost

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Sally Muggeridge   Experience of large international organisations.  Difficulty with words: relational consequences.  Think again. Mark Russell  AB of Canterbury has the most impossible job in the history of the world. We ... Read more..

In favour of the process as long as it never ends – Bishop of Lincoln

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Notes from the Press Gallery Bishop of Lincoln   All in favour of the covenant process as long as it never ends. The Anglican Communion does not need a covenant because it ... Read more..

Oxford Statement of the GAFCON Primates’ Council

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Oxford Statement November 24, 2010 Oxford Statement of the Primates’ Council November 2010 AD Introduction The leaders of the GAFCON movement are keenly aware of the crises of conscience that are pressing some people to ... Read more..

Further speeches in Synod debate on Covenant

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Notes from the Press Gallery Many maiden speeches in the debate so far. Speaker The Anglican Consultative Council hath no jurisdiction here - let alone the Pope.  Mistake to understand the covenant ... Read more..

Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech in Covenant debate – and others.

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Notes from the Press Gallery: Mark Beach:  Authoritarianism contrary to spirit of Anglicanism. This is what I see in the covenant. Encouragement to listening is outweighed by the rest of the ... Read more..

Bishop Mike Hill’s opening speech in Covenant Debate

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Points from Bishop Mike Hill’s opening speech proposing the motion to adopt the Anglican Communion Covenant Suggestions that the CofE would be subordinating itself to an international body are therefore simply ... Read more..

Anglican church faces ‘piece by piece dissolution’

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Dr Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, warned of the risk of "piece-by-piece dissolution" of worldwide Anglicanism in a heartfelt personal plea today to warring factions in the Church of ... Read more..

CANADA: British Columbia Court of Appeal upholds church property decision

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Leigh Williams for ENS Anglican Journal] The British Columbia Court of Appeal Nov. 16 dismissed appeals of a November 2009 Supreme Court of British Columbia decision. The decision had ruled that ... Read more..

VIDEO: Hundreds of fetuses found at Thailand temple

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From Kocha Olarn of CNN   Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- More than 340 fetuses have been found at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, discovered because the smell of decay drew complaints, police ... Read more..

BBC World Service (Audio): Is it best for Christians to leave the Muslim world?

Wednesday, November 24th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

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Royal Wedding date chosen by Prince William and Kate

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

BBC News Prince William and Kate Middleton will marry on Friday 29 April at Westminster Abbey, Clarence House has announced. Prime Minister David Cameron said it would be "a happy and ... Read more..

Bishop Pete Broadbent suspended by the Bishop of London

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Read Guardian report here A Church of England bishop has been suspended indefinitely following his disparaging remarks about the royal wedding. Pete Broadbent, a suffragan bishop in Willesden, wrote a series ... Read more..

Obama administration flooding Peru with millions of condoms

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent for LifeSiteNews   LIMA, November 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Obama administration is helping to flood Peru with over 18,000,000 condoms through the USAID program, ... Read more..

Sen. Rockefeller’s Censorship Wish

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Bruce Hausknecht for Citizen Link   Why is it that liberals always talk about the need to “expand” rights, except when it comes to the freedoms of speech and press? “There’s a little ... Read more..