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Archive for July, 2011

Marriage is a good thing for society and children

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Marriage | Comments Off

Daily Telegraph Leader The Government must correct the disincentive to marriage in the tax system. A report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies claims to have comprehensively debunked one of the mainstays ... Read more..

Coalition rules out legalising multiple Islamic marriages after Whitehall leak

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Islam, Polygamy, Sharia | Comments Off

By Charlie Barker and Tim Ross, Telegraph An internal document, prepared for ministers by civil servants, warned that women who enter religious marriages are “unprotected” if their husband then takes a ... Read more..

Bishop defends schools against ‘ghetto’ charge

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Education | Comments Off

By Margaret Holness, Church Times THE C of E’s head of schools strategy, Dr Rob Gwynne, has warned of new attempts to undermine church schools. “There is no doubt that there ... Read more..

Holy Land issue can’t wait, says Williams

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Persecuted church, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Ed Thornton, Church Times THE Archbishop of Canterbury and the RC Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Revd Vincent Nichols, hosted a two-day conference on Christians in the Holy Land at ... Read more..

Broken Promises – how the Aids establishment has betrayed the developing world

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in AIDS | Comments Off

by Dale O'Leary, MercatorNet HIV has infected some forty-six million people in Africa and eighteen million have died. Green believes this could have been brought under control two decades ago, had ... Read more..

President Obama Declares War on Marriage, Federalism, and Religious Liberty

Friday, July 22nd, 2011 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By Brian Brown, NOM [...]  With Senate hearings on the repeal of DOMA yesterday, President Obama and the hard-left core of the Democratic Party in Washington declared war on marriage, on ... Read more..

Marriage for Savages

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By Jason Joseph, First Things Ross Douthat’s Op-ed The Future of Gay Marriage discusses Dan Savage’s call for Open Marriage. Savage’s suggestion that we legitimate infidelity poses the following question for ... Read more..

The Present State of Our Polygamous Future

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Polygamy | Comments Off

By Joe Carter, First Things [...]  Advocates for same-sex marriage often refer to polls showing the social acceptance of homosexual relationships as a justification for expanding the definition of marriage. From ... Read more..

Christians at risk as Islamists plan major terrorist campaign in Nigeria

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Nigeria, Persecuted church | Comments Off

From Barnabas Fund Islamist militant group Boko Haram are stepping up attacks in Northern Nigeria, with churches and Christians among their main targets, ahead of plans to mark the anniversary of ... Read more..

Trevor Phillips and the equality question

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Equality, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

by Alan Craig, CEN Peter and Hazelmary Bull are a mild-mannered self-effacing couple who, literally, mind their own business - which for them is running the Chymorvah Private Hotel near Penzance ... Read more..

Evangelicals accused of heresy

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Evangelicalism, Heresy | Comments Off

From CEN “EVANGELICALISM TODAY has become the hotbed for error and heresy,” claimed the Rev David Phillips in his final editorial for Crossway, the magazine of the Church Society. In a series ... Read more..

Media love gay anti-bullying bully

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Erin R Brown, LifeSite News Dan Savage hates bullying. Make that some bullying. Admirably, Savage hates it when gay teens get bullied. Less admirably, Savage doesn’t hesitate to bully, smear ... Read more..

The BBC’s groundbreaking series on Muhammad leaves open some startling incoherences

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald Can contemporary Muslims reconcile history with a model of revelation that claims to be ahistorical? If you are bored to distraction by the continuing scandal engulfing ... Read more..

On this day: Newton urged Wilberforce to keep going

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Slavery | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute On this day in history the famous clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote to Christian MP and anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce urging him not to give ... Read more..

The Government may recognise polygamous shariah marriages

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Polygamy, Sharia | Comments Off

By Paul Goodman, Conservative Home The suggestion is contained in a discussion paper for the Government's draft integration strategy, which is in front of me as I write. The paper for ... Read more..

Melanie Phillips – Islam in Europe

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

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The case of M could establish very dangerous precedents that would place the lives of many sick and disabled people in danger

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

From Peter Saunders, CMF The case of M, a woman who suffered severe brain damage as a result of encephalitis in 2003, has just had its third day of hearings before ... Read more..

Forced abortion is not a choice

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Petitions, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From Women's Rights without Frontiers Petition for Chen Guangcheng To the Attention of: President Hu Jintao Prime Minister Wen Jiabao Chinese Ambassador Mr. Zhang Yesui Dear Sirs, As you know, blind activist lawyer ... Read more..

Anti-Catholic homosexualist meeting to be held at Catholic conference centre

Thursday, July 21st, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

by Hilary White, LifeSite News The homosexualist organization Quest has announced it will be holding its annual general meeting, with the theme “A Prophetic Community,” at a London retreat centre owned ... Read more..

My Senate Testimony Against Bill to Repeal DOMA

Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage, Polyamory, Polygamy | Comments Off

By Ed Whelan, National Review Online I’ll be testifying tomorrow at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. I’ve posted my testimony ... Read more..