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Archive for May, 2011

Terrence Higgins Trust awarded grant from The Department for Education to improve sex and relationships education in England

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism, Sex education | Comments Off

From THT HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has been granted £203,528 of funding from the Department for Education to deliver vital new sex and relationships education (SRE) ... Read more..

Glenelg and Kintail minister to quit over gay issue

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 Posted in Church Of Scotland, Gay Activism | Comments Off

From BBC News A Church of Scotland minister in the Highlands is leave the Kirk over its vote on gay and lesbian clergy.   The Reverend Roddy MacRae said he would stand down ... Read more..

Interview with Archbishop Venables

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Anglican Communion, Anglican Consultative Council, Church of England, Gafcon, Primates Meeting | Comments Off

AnglicanTV Kevin Kallsen and Archbishop Venables discuss the Anglican Communion... with some very surprising answers. Read more..

Does it matter if only 1.4% of people are gay?

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 Posted in Homosexuality, Nature/Nurture | Comments Off

By Michael Medved, USA Today The nation's increasingly visible and influential gay community embraces the notion of sexual orientation as an innate, immutable characteristic, like left-handedness or eye color. But a ... Read more..

Minnesota House of Representatives: Amendment for same-sex marriage

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

Remarks by Jennifer Roback Morse [...]  I urge you to allow the citizens of MN the opportunity to vote on the proposed marriage amendment. Same sex marriage redefines marriage. Redefining marriage ... Read more..

Anti-abortion group drafted in as sexual health adviser to government

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Ben Quinn, Guardian Coalition appoints pro-abstinence charity Life to key sexual health forum, while omitting British Pregnancy Advisory Service A group which is opposed to abortion in all circumstances and favours ... Read more..

More than 20,000 women aged under 25 had their SECOND abortion last year, shock figures show

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

by Sophie Borland, Mailonline More than 20,000 women a year are having two or more abortions by the age of 25. A third of all terminations are carried out on patients who ... Read more..

Gay Activism: Canadian parents fight back

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Rebecca Millette, LifeSite News Concerned Burnaby parents decry ‘deliberate discrimination’ in debate over ‘homophobia’ policy BURNABY, British Columbia:  In a strongly-worded news release issued today, Burnaby public school parents and students ... Read more..

Few suitable choices for worshippers who want to find new theological home

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Church Of Scotland, Schism | Comments Off

By Craig Brown, The Scotsman FOR those Kirk members who feel compelled to leave the Church following today's vote, the question of where they go is littered with potential problems, both ... Read more..

Oxford’s theology dept set for multi-faith rebrand

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Education, Faith, Theology | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Oxford University’s historic theology department looks set for a controversial multi-faith rebrand. The department may also ditch the requirement for all theology undergraduates to study Biblical subjects such ... Read more..

Married Women – Better Sex, More Money

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By Janice Shaw Crouse, American Thinker Actress Cameron Diaz recently called marriage a "dying institution." Then, she declared, "I don't think we should live our lives in relationships based off old ... Read more..

Why the Same-Sex Marriage Experiment Will Not Work

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage | Comments Off

By Jim Daly, Fox News [...]  Historically, American voters have been blunt in evaluating the wisdom of social change. When a bad idea, which was originally considered to be good, slips ... Read more..

New abortion figures show avoidable tragedy

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By John Smeaton, SPUC The latest annual abortion figures represent 190,000 unborn babies whose deaths were entirely avoidable. The figures for 2010 in England and Wales show a slight increase in ... Read more..

The couple raising a ‘genderless baby’… to protect his (or her) right to choice

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Gender, Political Correctness | Comments Off

From Mailonline Storm Witterick is four months old - blue-eyed, blond-haired, chubby-cheeked, and generally adorable. But whether Storm is a girl or a boy is a secret that his (or her) parents ... Read more..

Sweden’s working mums stressed out

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet Swedish researcher and family man Jonas Himmelstrand talks in this video about how he began to examine the myth that Sweden is a family-friendly society. A subject ... Read more..

Donor offspring are people – with rights – too

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Ethics | Comments Off

By Barbara Kay, MercatorNet A Canadian provincial court rules that gamete donors may not hide their identity. The British Columbia Supreme Court struck down provisions of the Adoption Act and Adoption Regulations ... Read more..

What the Kirk Did (and Didn’t) Decide

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Church Of Scotland | Comments Off

By Peter Ould You may have seen the news reports in the papers on the decisions made yesterday at the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (Presbyterian). Take, for example, ... Read more..

Church of Scotland decision on gay ministers: Analysis: ‘A peculiar decision which is unlikely to satisfy anyone’

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Church Of Scotland, Homosexuality | Comments Off

by Bill Naphy, Scotsman The result is actually rather bizarre. This seems to suggest that an individual church can call a gay/lesbian minister as long as the person has been ordained ... Read more..

Why mothers matter

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Jenet Erickson, MercatorNet A claim recently made in a premier family science journal raised a question that likely would have shocked previous generations: “Does having a mother really matter?” The ... Read more..

Church of Scotland votes to allow gay and lesbian ministers

Monday, May 23rd, 2011 Posted in Church Of Scotland, Homosexuality | Comments Off

by Severin Carrell, Guardian General assembly opens up prospects of church recognising civil partnerships for same-sex couples Scotland's largest protestant church has swept away centuries of tradition and voted to allow gay ... Read more..