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Archive for May, 2011

Three cheers for Catholic Care

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism | Comments Off

From Cranmer It is with great delight that His Grace has learned that the Leeds-based adoption charity Catholic Care is to appeal against the April judgement which determined that it could ... Read more..

Second minister reveals he will quit Kirk over gay clergy controversy

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Church Of Scotland, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Craig Brown, The Scotsman A SECOND Kirk minister has announced that he is to quit the Church of Scotland over its controversial decision to move towards permitting openly homosexual clergy. The ... Read more..

“Old Navy” stores now selling “gay pride” shirts – donating percentage to radical homosexual group targeting kids.

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

From Mass Resistance Just in time for this year's "Gay Pride" parades in cities across the country, the Old Navy clothing chain has announced that its stores are selling a line of "gay pride" ... Read more..

Gen X women and their sorry sex lives

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet The latest figures for abortions in Britain (England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but not Scotland) confirm a sad and disturbing trend: the rise of abortions among women ... Read more..

The transgender agenda in a California elementary school

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Gender, News | Comments Off

From Fox News --- and one reason so many are appalled by the most recent CA ruling!   var so = new SWFObject('http://www.massresistance.org/media/player/longtail_flv5/player.swf','mpl','480','294','9'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); so.addParam('wmode','opaque'); ... Read more..

Christianity the reason for West’s success, say the Chinese

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Apologetics, Faith | Comments Off

By Tom O'Gorman, Iona Institute In the West we are doing our best to destroy our Christian heritage but in China, Chinese intellectuals are coming around to the view that it ... Read more..

(Church Times) House of Bishops Divided on Same Sex Partnered Bishops

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Gay Activism | Comments Off

Please read comments on Titusonenine on the Church Times article (posted on this site on 27 May) House of Bishops divided on keeping out homosexual bishops 5. Pageantmaster [Say no to ... Read more..

Why do people get married after having children?

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Marriage | Comments Off

By Denise Winterman, BBC News Magazine Labour leader Ed Miliband and his long-term partner Justine Thornton are due to get married. They already have two children, so why get hitched? For many ... Read more..

Catholic Care plans to appeal a fourth time over gay adoption ruling

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Christopher Brocklebank, Pink News The Leeds-based charity Catholic Care are to appeal to the Upper Tribunal in the hope of quashing the ruling forbidding them to exclude gay people when ... Read more..

Algerian Christian receives five-year prison sentence for blasphemy

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Persecuted church, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

by Amy Shank, Christian Today According to International Christian Concern, Siagh Krimo was sentenced by the criminal court in Djamel District, Oran, last Wednesday. The charges were brought against him after he ... Read more..

Can This (Royal) Marriage Be Saved?

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Culture, From Lisa's Lookout, Marriage, News | Comments Off

by Anne Morse, The Ruth Institute The signs are encouraging. Thirty years ago this July, I stayed up to watch the fairy-tale wedding between a shy young pre-school teacher and the prince ... Read more..

Times newspaper unwisely joins campaign to legalise assisted suicide

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

by Peter Saunders, CMF The Times newspaper has today devoted two whole pages and an editorial to the pro-assisted suicide cause just as Dignity in Dying (formerly the Voluntary Euthanasia Society) ... Read more..

Storm over baby’s gender

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Ethics, Gay Marriage, Gender | Comments Off

By Margaret Somerville, MercatorNet A Canadian couple is keeping their baby’s sex secret as an experiment in gender creativity. With same-sex marriage, we saw the advent of arguments for “genderless parenting” ... Read more..

Marriage reduces childhood poverty by two thirds: study

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Marriage | Comments Off

From LifeSite News Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) released a synthesis paper Friday showing that economic well-being in the United States is strongly related to marriage. The paper, ... Read more..

Britain finds cross-party support for decriminalizing saying ‘homosexuality is sinful’

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Legislation | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News When Dale Mcalpine was arrested and charged for saying that homosexual activity is sinful in April last year, the charges were eventually dropped, but the Christian ... Read more..

Victims Most Often Male

Monday, May 30th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Homosexuality, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By David Mills, First Things In John Jay Study: A $2 million exercise in political correctness, Catholic writer Louie Verrecchio argues that the new report on sexual abuse in the Catholic ... Read more..

BBC R4 Sunday programme interview with Colin Coward and Canon Chris Sugden by Edward Stourton

Monday, May 30th, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From Changing Attitude [...]  Having introduced the guests, the interview started. Edward Stourton: Colin Coward, one of the intriguing statements in the memo that was leaked was the suggestion that there are ... Read more..

Civil Rights

Monday, May 30th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

by David Lindsay The usual suspects are up in arms that the Vatican has once again issued instructions relating to child abuse cases which do not simply require that such matters ... Read more..

Abortion rates soar by a third among ‘Sex and the City generation’ of women in their 40s

Monday, May 30th, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Fiona MacRea, Mailonline The number of women having abortions in their 40s has risen by almost a third in just a decade, official figures show. Last year, more than 8,000 women ... Read more..

Chaplain groups ask military to create religious liberty protections

Monday, May 30th, 2011 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Christian Examiner WASHINGTON — Twenty-one religious agencies that provide chaplains to the military have sent a letter to the military’s chiefs of chaplains voicing strong concern over the absence of ... Read more..