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Archive for August, 2011

Singing a New Song or Rehashing Old Heresies?

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in Heresy | Comments Off

By Barton Gingerich, IRD This past weekend, United Methodist advocates for liberalizing sexual ethics met at Sawmill Creek Resort in Ohio to discuss the furtherance of LGBTQ agendas within their denomination. ... Read more..

Soul Survivor and Momentum bring 1,500 to Christ

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in Evangelism, Faith | Comments Off

From Christian Today A whopping 33,000 delegates attended youth conferences Soul Survivor and Momentum this summer, with more than 1,500 youngsters becoming Christians.   Soul Survivor Director and event host Mike Pilavachi, said, ... Read more..

Is kids’ TV ready for “gay marriage”?

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

by Mariette Ulrich, MercatorNet Should Sesame Street “out” Muppet best friends Ernie and Bert and portray them as married? Yes, according to an online petition at the activist website Change.org. The petition's ... Read more..

Reverend stuns kirk by marrying lesbian lover

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in Church Of Scotland, Civil Partnerships | Comments Off

From Scottish Daily Record A FEMALE minister has shocked her congregation by revealing she has a girlfriend and plans to marry her. One Church of Scotland elder has resigned and others could ... Read more..

Sex and the iWorld: Where did you pick that up?

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in Upcoming events | Comments Off

A one-day conference for Christian and concerned parents, educators, ministers and leaders investigating appropriate sex-education.  Saturday 15th October 10.00 – 4.00 at Ballynahinch Baptist Church, Down BT24 8BL, Northern Ireland. ... Read more..

Why does UNISON subsidise the abortion industry?

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in Corruption, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From Cranmer [...]  It appears that UNISON (amongst other unions) finance the 'Pro-choice' group known as 'Abortion Rights'. Why is this? Why should 'religious nutters' be barred from propagating their dogma ... Read more..

Homosexual students automatically eligible for scholarship: Elmhurst college

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Christine Dhanagom, LifeSite News High school students applying to Elmhurst College in Illinois this fall will be asked whether they consider themselves “a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, ... Read more..

Hate mail, death threats and why pro-abortion zealots won’t stop me trying to help women when they need it most

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

by Nadine Dorries, Mailonline [...]  Having entered politics on my election as a Conservative MP in 2005, I’ve continued to be motivated by my feeling that the abortion system and process ... Read more..

Perry signs pledge to protect marriage, oppose homosexual ‘marriage’

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

By Jeremy Kryn, LifeSite News Presidential candidate Rick Perry has signed a pledge that if elected president he will protect the traditional definition of marriage and oppose homosexual “marriage.” The Republican ... Read more..

It’s a depressing sign of the times that the ‘right to die’ has become such a cause célèbre

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

By Brendan O'Neill, Telegraph These days, the only time you hear the word “autonomy” said with any vigour, with heartfelt oomph, is in relation to assisted suicide. In every other area ... Read more..

Huge state subsidies to British media: Christian majority subsidise their own marginalisation

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in Media, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Jenny Taylor, Lapido Media More and more people are calling for the media to report a fuller picture and not leave belief out of their account.  Andrew Brown, Editor of ... Read more..

Euthanasia Pushes Belgium Into Abyss as Numbers Rise

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

By Wesley J Smith, LifeNews The Netherlands used to be the heart of euthanasia darkness. It is still dark, but the culture of death crown has passed to Belgium, which not ... Read more..

Boy, aged ELEVEN, treated for chlamydia as 1,000 under-16s seek help for sexual diseases

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, News, Sex education | Comments Off

By Jessica Satherley, Mailonline A boy of 11 has been treated in hospital after contracting a sexual disease, a shocking survey has found. He is the youngest among a group of children ... Read more..

The abortion lobby discloses its ‘anti-choice’ strategy

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From Cranmer Following on from yesterday’s post – which elicited an awful lot of invective and vitriol aimed at His Grace, with Chris Bryant even referring to His Grace as a ... Read more..

More on George Pitcher’s quitting as the Archbishop of Canterbury’s ’spin doctor’

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

From This is Sussex [...]  Mr Pitcher said this week: "I thought there was room for a different kind of approach. "I wanted to be the grit in the oyster which could ... Read more..

Polyamory’s Coming Out on UK’s ITV

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in Polygamy | Comments Off

From ITV's This Morning We meet the three women who have all made the decision to share the same man... Maxine, Eunice and Mimi each have more than one partner... and their ... Read more..

Why Are We Surprised With the Push for ‘Pedophile Rights’

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in Paedophilia | Comments Off

By Michael Brown, Townhall.com Many Americans have been shocked by reports about a recent pro-pedophilia conference in Baltimore in which psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, representing institutions like Harvard and ... Read more..

Santorum: If marriage is for people who ‘love,’ why limit it ‘to just two people? Why not 10?’

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in Gay Marriage, Politics, Polyamory | Comments Off

By Peter Baklinski, LifeSite News If two people should be allowed to get married simply because they “love” one another, then why limit marriage “to just two people?” asked Republican presidential ... Read more..

Ottawa school board joins homosexual ‘pride’ parade

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Thaddeus Baklinski, LifeSite News Over 100 teachers, principals and trustees from the Ottawa public school board joined about 1,600 homosexual marchers in this year’s “pride” parade held in the nation’s ... Read more..

Bert and Ernie: Buddies in a Sexualized Culture

Monday, August 29th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Chuck Colson, Breakpoint Sesame Workshop, the company that produces the kid’s show, “Sesame Street” announced last week the Bert and Ernie will not be getting married.  Bert and Ernie, two of ... Read more..