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Archive for March, 2011

Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Unwanted Same-Sex Attractions and Behaviors

Monday, March 28th, 2011 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From NARTH In December, 2008, at its annual strategic planning meeting, the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH)’s Board of Directors formally accepted the following Practice Guidelines for ... Read more..

Northern Ireland Integrated College forms gay-straight alliance

Monday, March 28th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

From BBC News Gay and straight students at Shimna Integrated College in Newcastle set up the GSA to tackle homophobic bullying.   Principal Kevin Lambe said that the group grew out of the ... Read more..

The puzzle of intolerant tolerance

Monday, March 28th, 2011 Posted in Intolerance | Comments Off

By Michael Casey, MercatorNet How can liberal democracies justify prosecuting people who wear crosses or refuse to preside at same-sex marriages and still pride themselves on being tolerant? One of the most ... Read more..

Church of England row as cathedral opens doors to tarot card readers and crystal healers in ‘new age’ festival

Monday, March 28th, 2011 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

From Mailonline The Church of England was braced for a fresh row today after a cathedral announced plans to host a 'new age' festival.   The event - featuring tarot card readers, crystal ... Read more..

The Soft Tyranny of Low Expectations

Monday, March 28th, 2011 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By A S Haley [...]  Given the collegial atmosphere and expectations, therefore, it comes as a bit of a shock to learn that the leadership of ECUSA has arranged a slightly ... Read more..

Clergy of the Church of England Database

Monday, March 28th, 2011 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By David Ross, Britain Express I love the work that the Institute of Historical Research is doing. They're the folks who publish the British History Online website, a hugely interesting database ... Read more..

Lenten Meditations

Monday, March 28th, 2011 Posted in Lent | Comments Off

Mon Mar 28 am: 80 pm: 77, 79 Jer 7:1-15 Rom 4:1-12 John 7:14-36 LENT III- FEAST DAY – St. Hilarion the New, 8th Century LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: Today we remember, Saint Hilarion took up the ... Read more..

Apple and the gay-rights lobby have struck again, and we must act

Sunday, March 27th, 2011 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Gay Activism, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Manhattan Declaration Last fall, Apple banned the Manhattan Declaration from iTunes store after protests by gay-rights groups. Now, similar protests have claimed another victim: the app created by Exodus International, ... Read more..

UK equality watchdog recommends that children as young as 11 could be quizzed on their sexuality

Sunday, March 27th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Homosexuality | Comments Off

by James Park, Pink News Children as young as 11 could be asked if they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or questioning accordance to guidance issued by the Equality and Human Rights ... Read more..

Southern African bishops chided for their indecision on gay blessings

Sunday, March 27th, 2011 Posted in Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA), Global South | Comments Off

By George Conger, CEN Evangelical leaders in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa have called upon the church’s Synod of Bishops to clarify their ambiguous statements on human sexuality. On March 17, ... Read more..

Sunday worship from the UK and elsewhere

Sunday, March 27th, 2011 Posted in Worship | Comments Off

1. Choral Evensong comes from the Chapel of Eton College - BBC Radio 3 - available now for a week http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zm4t7 Website: http://www.etoncollege.com/Singing.aspx Introit: A Prayer of King Henry VI (Ley) Responses: Matthew O'Donovan Psalms: 114, 115 ... Read more..

Lenten Meditations

Sunday, March 27th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

         Sun Mar 27 am: Ps 93, 96 pm: 34 Exodus 17:3-7 Romans 5:1-2, 5-8 John 4:5-52   THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT   LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: For many Christians in the liturgical tradition in the West, who belong ... Read more..

Justice Department sues on behalf of Muslim teacher, triggering debate

Saturday, March 26th, 2011 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

From Washington Post BERKELEY, Ill. — Safoorah Khan had taught middle school math for only nine months in this tiny Chicago suburb when she made an unusual request. She wanted three ... Read more..

LGBT-funded poll falsely claims that most Catholics support same-sex marriage

Saturday, March 26th, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote (H/T SPUC) Last week I began to expose the coordinated efforts of well-funded gay-rights groups to subvert the Church’s teaching on homosexuality and marriage by funding ... Read more..

Marriage and the Church’s ministry – why women bishops don’t work for me

Saturday, March 26th, 2011 Posted in Women Bishops | Comments Off

by John Richardson [...]  Nevertheless, Luther, Lewis and I would all oppose the admission of women to the Anglican episcopate. And for myself, this indeed relates to Lewis’ belief in the ... Read more..

Britain’s first gay fertility clinic

Saturday, March 26th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Discrimination, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Amanda Platell, Mailonline A lesbian couple are to open Britain’s first gay fertility clinic next week. The Home Office says the women are free to market themselves as a specialist ... Read more..

‘Catholic,’ ‘Christian’ gay projects funded by homosexualist billionaire

Saturday, March 26th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSite News Top ‘gay-rights’ groups claiming to represent Christians and Catholics, and at least one Jesuit-run college, are being funded by a major homosexualist business magnate with the ... Read more..

Contraception underlying cause of breakdown of family, sexual morality, says expert

Saturday, March 26th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Rebecca Millette, LifeSite News Contraception is the underlying factor responsible for today’s scourge of unwed pregnancies, single-parent families, sexually transmitted diseases, deficient fatherhood, and high abortion rate, says a prominent ... Read more..

Lenten Meditations

Saturday, March 26th, 2011 Posted in Lent | Comments Off

Sat Mar 26 am: Ps 75, 76 pm: 23, 27 Jere 5:20-31 Rom 3:19-31 John 7:1-13 SECOND SATURDAY OF LENT – St. Margaret Clitherow, Mother and Teacher, 1586 LITURGICAL THEME FOR THE DAY: Margaret was born in 1555, ... Read more..

Zimbabwe’s Anglicans forced to worship in pubs

Friday, March 25th, 2011 Posted in Anglican Communion | Comments Off

From The Telegraph Tens of thousands of Zimbabwe's Anglicans are being forced to worship in pubs, tents and private schools while their churches stand empty, shuttered by a controversial bishop loyal ... Read more..