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Archive for November, 2011

Incoming Spanish Prime Minister Promised to Repeal Abortion Law and Other Anti-Family Policies of Socialist Government

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in Divorce, Marriage, Politics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From Christian Newswire Spain's Popular Party won a historic conservative victory in Sunday's election and the ruling Socialists suffered their worst defeat in 30 years.   While acknowledging that the dismal state of ... Read more..

Girl Scouts Hire Lead Singer of ‘Queer Rock’ Band

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Cathy Ruse, National Review Online In 2002, Joshua Ackley formed the Dead Betties, a “homopunk” band. Publicity shots show him dressed in women’s clothing, and in music videos he is ... Read more..

Churchgoers should be better represented at the BBC

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in Faith, Media | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute Churchgoers are underrepresented at the BBC and it may be affecting the Corporation’s output, a Christian media group has warned. The Christian Broadcasting Council (CBC) made the comments ... Read more..

A quarter of Church of England Dioceses vote for proper provision for traditionalists

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Women Bishops | Comments Off

From Thinking Anglicans Press Release from The Catholic Group in General Synod While Dioceses showed overall support for women bishops, a quarter of Dioceses voted for proper provision to be made for ... Read more..

New Study Connects “The Pill” and Prostate Cancer in Men

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

by Arland K Nichols, HLI America It is well established that combined oral contraception, known widely as “the pill,” increases the risk of a number of health problems for women including ... Read more..

BC judge rules in favour of Canada’s ban on polygamy

Thursday, November 24th, 2011 Posted in Polygamy | Comments Off

By Peter Baklinski, LifeSite News The British Columbia Supreme Court today upheld Canada’s 121-year-old ban on polygamy, calling the monogamous protecting provision “demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.” “I ... Read more..

Countdown to Canada’s polygamy/polyamory ruling: The implications are vast

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in Marriage, News, Polyamory, Polygamy | Comments Off

At 1 p.m. EST ... Wednesday November. 23, the Supreme Court of British Columbia will announce its ruling on the constitutionality of Canada's broad anti-polygamy and anti-polyamory law. We'll post news ... Read more..

New abortion guideline is ideology and bad science

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By John Smeaton, SPUC The new guideline on abortion issued today by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) (see note 1 below) is based on pro-abortion ideology and bad ... Read more..

Anonymous Father’s Day

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Ethics, Medical Ethics | Comments Off

by Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet [...]  Thousands of donor-conceived people have a deep longing to know who they belong to, where they come from, and who they look like. What is it ... Read more..

Vulnerable elderly abused: what they don’t need are more ‘human rights’

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in Culture, Human Rights | Comments Off

By Ed West, Telegraph A shocking new report into standards of care for the elderly at home has uncovered "appalling" evidence of pensioners being deprived of food and drink, handled roughly, ... Read more..

A Review of ‘You’re Teaching My Child What?’ By Miriam Grossman

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education | Comments Off

By Bill Muehlenberg [...]  Says Grossman, “Sex education is not about health – it’s a social movement, a vehicle for changing the world. It happens one child at a time, and ... Read more..

Pastor arrested after conversion of Muslims in India

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in Persecuted church, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Christian Today Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has called for the immediate release of a pastor in India accused of bribing Muslims to convert to Christianity. Chander Mani Khanna, who pastors All Saints ... Read more..

Bank of America, Cisco back down after firing traditional marriage supporter

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism, Marriage, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSite News In a rare successful pushback against the pro-gay rights corporate culture, customers of Bank of America and the Cisco Corporation have won a promise from the ... Read more..

‘Me first, here-and-now’: the mentality that feeds the pro-abortion culture of death

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Stephanie There has been much in the blogosphere about my recent abortion debate against Jovan Morales at the University of Ottawa. Yes, it is true, many well-known abortion advocates were ... Read more..

Homosexual agenda can’t make ‘fearless one’ tremble

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family, Freedom Of Speech, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Michael F. Haverluck, World Net Daily Limbaugh speaks on Penn State sex scandal Rush Limbaugh is considered by many to be the boldest voice in America, but when it comes to ... Read more..

Beyond Individualism – the imperative of Christian political engagement

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in Culture, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Cranmer His Grace was very interested to learn of a conference taking place in London this week – ‘Beyond Individualism – Why Civil Society Needs Christian Political Engagement’, with speakers ... Read more..

Syphilis rates soar 134% among homosexual black men, fall among general population

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Thaddeus Baklinski, LifeSite News The U.S. Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) most recent data on the spread of sexually transmitted diseases reveals that among homosexual black men the syphilis rates ... Read more..

Iraqi Christians ‘living in fear’

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Persecuted church | Comments Off

From Christian Today It’s been more than a year since an attack on a church in Baghdad left 58 Christians dead, but Christians in the Iraqi capital still fear for their ... Read more..

Church of England says ‘no’ to Bill of Rights

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in Church of England, Human Rights | Comments Off

From Christian Today The Church of England has delivered a “clear no” to proposals for a UK Bill of Rights. The Church’s Mission and Public Affairs Council sets out its objections in ... Read more..

Archbishop of York backs High Pay review findings and an end to corrosive pay deals

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off

From ACNS The Archbishop of York today welcomed today’s report of the High Pay Commission’s independent inquiry into high pay and boardroom pay across the public and private sectors in the ... Read more..