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Archive for September, 2011

Councils told to stop praying before meetings

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in Political Correctness, Prayer | Comments Off

From The Telegraph Two local councils have been ordered to stop members praying before each meeting in case it offends non-believers or other religious groups. Crowborough Town Council and Mayfield Parish ... Read more..

Comment: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell about HIV status

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in AIDS, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Michael Lucas, Pink News Michael Lucas, the gay porn producer, offers a new solution to cutting HIV rates and stigma around the condition.   Here’s a sentence I never thought I would ... Read more..

News Bulletin 30 September 2011 – The Christian Institute

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

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Iran: live free – and die

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

Guardian Editorial The proposed hanging of Youssef Nadarkhani is an outrage. It is also a terrifying glimpse of the injustice and arbitrary cruelty of the present Iranian regime. This paper opposes ... Read more..

Smoke and mirrors

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in Ethics, Sex education | Comments Off

Bernard Toutounji, MercatorNet Earlier this year the Australian federal government unveiled draft legislation to introduce plain packaging laws for cigarettes. Health minister Nicola Roxon was unequivocal in her determination to put ... Read more..

Change happens: new evidence on sexual orientation

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality | Comments Off

Stanton L Jones and Mark Yarhouse, MercatorNet Groundbreaking research published this week shows successful change in religiously motivated men and women. [...]  In our 2007 book, Ex-Gays? (IVP), we discussed the implications ... Read more..

Schools will be judged on gay and gipsy pupils’ progress

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in Education | Comments Off

By Sarah Harris, Mailonline Schools will be penalised if they fail to improve the progress of ‘vulnerable’ groups of pupils such as those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transsexual. New Ofsted ... Read more..

Major study: changing sexual orientation is possible

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in Healing, Homosexuality, News | Comments Off

By Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSite News Therapists who favor normalizing homosexuality say that it is impossible to change sexual orientation, and that the attempt to change is inherently harmful. However, the final ... Read more..

Kunonga scorns Williams visit

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Global South | Comments Off

From New Zimbabwe REBEL Anglican cleric Nolbert Kunonga claims the Archbishop of Canterbury is visiting Zimbabwe in October to “lobby for homosexuality” and “represent neo-colonialism”. Kunonga, who was banished by the main ... Read more..

Christianity row stretches back to BC

Friday, September 30th, 2011 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Church Times REPORTS that all mentions of Christmas have been removed from Thomas the Tank Engine stories, a Bible cannot be displayed in a café, and the terms AD and ... Read more..

Pope: Gay marriage, abortion threaten church values

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Marriage, Pope Benedict, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From ABC News FREIBURG, Germany -- Pope Benedict XVI called Saturday for a common front with Orthodox Christians to defend traditional church values, warning of threats posed by abortion and gay ... Read more..

British Muslims reviving polygamy

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Polygamy | Comments Off

By Rosemary Bennett, The Australian A GROWING number of young British Muslims are taking second or third wives in an unexpected revival of polygamy, according to religious leaders. The new wave ... Read more..

Christians top target of abuse

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Canada.com UNITED NATIONS - Christians are the number one target of persecution around the world, the Vatican's foreign minister told the UN summit on Tuesday.   "The lack of respect for religious ... Read more..

Schisms and women

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Women Bishops | Comments Off

Letter to the Editor, CEN, from Alan Bartley Sir, On the ordination of women, the Act of Synod and the promises made to Parliament and traditionalists, I tend to agree with ... Read more..

The absurdity of statistical surveys: it’s just a numbers game

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Steve Doughty, Mailonline Some eight years ago, a Whitehall consultation paper assured us all that between five and seven per cent of the population are homosexual. These figures, supplied by ... Read more..

Brain-damaged woman who smiles at nurses and weeps at pop songs has right to live, rules judge

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Ethics, Euthanasia, Medical Ethics | Comments Off

By Neil Sears, Mailonline A woman who was left helpless by a brain-wasting disease eight years ago should not be allowed to die, a judge decided yesterday in a ground-breaking ruling. Although ... Read more..

Police say ‘sorry’ over Christian café Bible case

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Police have given a partial apology to the owner of a Christian café who was wrongly told displaying Bible verses on a TV screen was a breach ... Read more..

Church of England publishes latest statistics on web

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Church of England has today published its latest information about parish income and expenditure and trends in ministry numbers in Church Statistics 2009/10. The attendance statistics included were published ... Read more..

Americans: Sign the petition for the Defense of Marriage Act

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

From NOM --- the National Organization for Marriage Marriage – one of our society’s most important building blocks – is under attack.  President Obama is leading an unprecedented assault on marriage, declaring that DOMA is ... Read more..

Thank God for Farmer Graham

Thursday, September 29th, 2011 Posted in Culture | Comments Off

by Yasmin Alibhai Brown, Mailonline We should applaud his principled objection to a celebrity culture that trades on crude and demeaning sexuality Alan Graham must be bemused to find himself standing in ... Read more..