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Archive for February, 2011

Redefining what marriage means

Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

By Andrew Carey, CEN The headlines have said it all over the past few weeks as speculation has mounted about the government’s plans for allowing civil partnerships to be conducted in ... Read more..

Controversy and Christian Witness

Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Posted in Civil Partnerships, Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

Church of England Newspaper  February 25   Chris Sugden “People do not come to church to have fights.” “People are put off the church by its divisions over sexuality.” “Let’s focus on ... Read more..

British Humanist Association bus ads target cultural Christians ahead of census

Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Posted in Atheism, Faith | Comments Off

From Christian Today The British Humanist Association is gearing up for a major advertising campaign calling upon cultural Christians to tick ‘no religion’ in the forthcoming census.   From next week, the BHA ... Read more..

US closer to recognising gay marriage after White House announcement

Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage | Comments Off

Ewen MacAskill, Guardian Obama administration will no longer defend legislation defining marriage as between a man and a woman Gay rights activists are celebrating another step forward after the Obama administration announced ... Read more..

Will churches really be sued for not allowing civil partnerships?

Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Posted in Civil Partnerships | Comments Off

By Matthew Flinn, UK Human Righs Blog (Hat Tip: Thinking Anglicans) On 17 February the Home Secretary announced that the government was moving ahead with changes to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which ... Read more..

New Zealand Anglicans begin to pick up the pieces

Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Posted in suffering church | Comments Off

By Mary Frances Schjonberg, ENS Diocese of Christchurch Bishop Victoria Matthews says that in the New Zealand city that is reeling from a magnitude-6.3 earthquake that struck on Feb. 22 just ... Read more..

Mother of twelve jailed in Germany for refusing to enroll children in sex ed classes

Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSite News A mother of twelve has been sentenced to 43 days in jail in the German town of Salzkotten for refusing to enroll her children in ... Read more..

Austen Ivereigh backs gay and straight civil partnerships, in defiance of Catholic Church teaching

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Civil Partnerships | Comments Off

By John Smeaton, SPUC Dr Austen Ivereigh, the high-profile Catholic media guru, has written a blog-post published last night on The Guardian website entitled "In marriage we trust" and subtitled [my ... Read more..

Open letter to David Cameron about lack of transparency, bias and undue haste of RCOG abortion consultation

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Peter Saunders, CMF Dear David, I am writing to express serious concern about the lack of transparency and undue haste surrounding the process by which the RCOG guideline ‘The care of ... Read more..

Blurring Sexual Boundaries

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism, Gender | Comments Off

By Douglas Farrow, First Things No fixed borders for sexual identity means no fixed rules for sexual expression   The definition of gender-related discrimination and of “hate crimes” is becoming ever more imaginative ... Read more..

Prayer for those caught up in Christchurch Earthquake

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Prayer | Comments Off

Gracious Father, creator and Savior of this mortal world, we ask your comforting and strengthening help for the people of New Zealand. Comfort those whose loved ones have died, bring ... Read more..

Drifting into family chaos

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet A recent Pew poll found that Americans are broadly tolerant of “non-traditional families” but draw the line at single motherhood. The reasons may have more to do ... Read more..

More than “Mutual Joy”: Lisa Miller of Newsweek Against Scripture and Jesus

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism, Gay Marriage | Comments Off

by Robert Gagnon (H/t Kendall Harmon) Religious proponents of gay marriage routinely ignore or twist the major arguments in Scripture and philosophy against homosexual practice. The cover story by Religion Editor ... Read more..

What’s wrong with discrimination?

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Discrimination, Education, Faith | Comments Off

By Trevor Cooling, Theos Words have emotional impact. To be accused of discrimination, for example, will usually provoke a chilling feeling and a defensive response. But what if someone calls you ... Read more..

Revolution and the Muslim world

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By George Friedman, MercatorNet The Muslim world, from North Africa to Iran, has experienced a wave of instability in the last few weeks. No regimes have been overthrown yet, although as ... Read more..

Marriage a la Mode – Tablet Editorial

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Culture, Marriage | Comments Off

[...]  Public opinion cannot be relied on as a source of moral authority. The consensus at any time may favour the restoration of capital punishment; not so long ago it ... Read more..

Bishop sings Coalition’s praises over faith schools

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Education, Faith | Comments Off

By Jessica Shepherd, Guardian Malcolm McMahon, chair of the Catholic Education Service, said the current ministerial team understands faith schools better than Labour did Coalition ministers understand faith schools better than Labour ... Read more..

RCOG Smoke and Mirrors

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Nadine Dorries MP The issue of abortion is an emotive one, which attracts ideologues on both sides of the argument. The left feel so strongly pro-abortion, that campaign groups such as ... Read more..

Professor calls for strategy u-turn as stats show little change in teen pregnancies

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Sex education, youth culture | Comments Off

By John Smeaton, SPUC A leading expert on teenage pregnancy trends has called for a u-turn in the 10-year national teenage pregnancy strategy. Professor David Paton, chair of industrial economics at Nottingham ... Read more..

Montana parents sue over sex ed; House passes supportive bill

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education | Comments Off

By Rebecca Millette, LifeSite News Parents and community members have filed a lawsuit against the Helena Public School District over a new sex education curriculum that parents say teaches too much ... Read more..