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Archive for September, 2011

Nick Benton’s Gay Science No. 50: Our Gay Movement’s Colossal Failure

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 Posted in AIDS, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Nick Benton, FCNP When I became a vocal gay liberation leader in San Francisco after completing graduate seminary and coming out with a bang in 1969 (shortly before the Stonewall ... Read more..

Twin Killings

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 Posted in Ethics, Medical Ethics | Comments Off

By Chuck Colson, Breakpoint I know there are plenty of bioethicists who believe in the sanctity of life. Tragically, as one disturbing trend shows, there are also plenty who don’t. As my ... Read more..

Former Ugandan Bishop Campaigns for Acceptance of Alternative Sexualities

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Alex Elmore and Jeff Walton, IRD The message of the Gospel being preached in Africa is not "good news" but rather "bad news" to homosexual persons that God does not ... Read more..

The Governing Body of the Church in Wales

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Church In Wales, Women Bishops | Comments Off

By Ancient Briton The cat is out of the bag! Today sees the publication of "Highlights of the Church in Wales Governing Body September 2011". Apart from the reference to 'the ... Read more..

Couples living together provide firewall to divorce

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By Tim Ross, Telegraph The rapid rise in couples who choose to live together without being married may be acting as a “firewall” to stop unstable relationships from ending years later ... Read more..

Letter from the South II

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

I once spent a summer holiday camping on the banks of the Zambezi river, a short distance upstream of the Victoria Falls. It is an awe-inspiring sight as thousands of ... Read more..

We have all your stuff now, but we think you owe us more!

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By Phil Ashey, AAC I'd like to share with you a letter from the Bishop and Diocesan Council of The Episcopal Church's (TEC) Diocese of the Rio Grande. But first, a ... Read more..

Let the BBC put their own house in order!

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Media, Political Correctness | Comments Off

by John Richardson The hot topic of the weekend was the rumoured decision of the BBC to do away with the designation 'BC' and 'AD' in order not to offend members ... Read more..

Primaries ‘forced to give sex education to be Healthy Schools’

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education | Comments Off

From The Telegraph Education bodies in parts of the country are using the Healthy Schools initiative introduced by Tony Blair’s government to impose “liberal and permissive” teaching on pupils, campaigners warn. Labour ... Read more..

Hijacking the language to stifle debate

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Culture, Political Correctness | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips [...]  Even if they did, it cannot ever be right for minorities to seek to replace fundamental majority cultural expressions or values with their own. To do so ... Read more..

BC or BCE? The BBC’s edict on how we date events is AD (absolute drivel)

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Political Correctness | Comments Off

By Boris Johnson, Telegraph You know what, I just don't think this is good enough. This decision by the BBC is not only puerile and absurd. It is also deeply anti-democratic, ... Read more..

Bishops demand national ’safety net’ to protect child runaways

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Tim Ross, Telegraph Police, teachers and councils are failing to protect tens of thousands of children who run away from home every year and face drug abuse or sexual exploitation ... Read more..

Stars attack BBC over politically correct ‘drivel’

Monday, September 26th, 2011 Posted in Political Correctness, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Tim Ross, Telegraph The BBC is facing a backlash from leading presenters over suggestions that they should use “religiously neutral” terms instead of “BC" or “AD” to avoid causing non-Christians ... Read more..

Broken communion for the Church of Ireland

Sunday, September 25th, 2011 Posted in Church Of Ireland | Comments Off

By George Conger, CEN The outcry over the Bishop of Cashel & Ossory’s support for an Irish dean’s gay civil union has forced the bishop to skip the consecration of the ... Read more..

Are the theological colleges being phased out?

Sunday, September 25th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

[...] In the present climate, will a two year course be enough, let alone a couple of years of part-time courses? On the matter of the biblical languages alone, it ... Read more..

IRELAND: Gay Anglican Organization Received Public Cash for Church of Ireland Lobbyists

Sunday, September 25th, 2011 Posted in Church Of Ireland, Church of England, Gay Activism | Comments Off

by David Virtue, VOL Changing Attitude, a hostile pro-gay Anglican-based organization, is one of several groups in the Church of Ireland's debate that has received thousands of pounds of public funds ... Read more..

Changing Attitude Sussex given £2000 grant by Church of England

Sunday, September 25th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

From Changing Attitude Changing Attitude Sussex, which campaigns for full inclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the Anglican Church, was today awarded a grant of £2000 by the ... Read more..

Police ban Bible in Christian café (Blackpool, England)

Sunday, September 25th, 2011 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

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How the BBC fell for a Marxist plot to destroy civilisation from within

Sunday, September 25th, 2011 Posted in Culture, Media | Comments Off

By James Delingpole, Mailonline When you mention to a Muslim or Hindu that the year is 2011, do you ever feel a twinge of guilt about your closet religious chauvinism? When ... Read more..

Flushing out the enemies of Christianity

Sunday, September 25th, 2011 Posted in Atheism, Media | Comments Off

Mail on Sunday editorial There is no such thing as the 'Common Era'. In the Islamic world, it is the year 1432. According to Chinese tradition, abandoned only in 1929, it ... Read more..