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The far left in Europe and America has attained the same phantasmagoric and orgiastic repudiation of reason as their predecessors, the leaders of the French Revolution.
The hopes of egalitarianism embraced by the leaders of the French Revolution included eliminating real and perceived inequities by abolishing class distinctions, which project included killing off the aristocracy and clergy while de-Christianizing society. They hoped by so doing to begin society anew.
However, in their wildest dreams, none of the leaders of the mobs ever advocated the elimination of gender as a means of establishing liberté, egalité et fraternité.
But the addled progeny of the Revolution, here and abroad, are seeking to do just that. The hope appears to be that the end of discrimination will be achieved by rendering the sexes fungible — or better yet, nonexistent. The elimination of gender distinction and the establishment of androgyny are to usher in communal utopia.
For example, the most recent Council of Europe convention on gender has defined gender as a purely social construct. Eliminating biological distinctions as the determinative factor of gender, the Council has redefined gender as meaning "the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and men."
15/1/12,
Why Are People Saying the Catholic Church Is Taking Over the Anglican... »»
the Anglican Church is kind of a joke (even though I highly admire many Anglican theologians). I wish the Vatican really were taking them over. the Catholic Church is superior in every way.
On the outside wall of the Ministry of Truth building are the three slogans of ‘The Party’: “WAR IS PEACE,” “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY,” “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” Those who have read Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell will be quite familiar with all this.
In his chilling 1949 novel Orwell warned of where society was heading, and in it offered us a horrific police state where Big Brother controlled everything through extensive use of propaganda, government censorship and surveillance, and nonstop indoctrination and mind control.
The book prophetically spoke of “thoughtcrimes,” “Newspeak,” and “doublethink”. Who would have thought that just sixty years on these very things would increasingly be part of life in Western societies? Today we have “hate crimes” and “hate speech” which refers to anything the secular social militants regard as non-PC.
We nowhere see this so heavily in operation as in the homosexual lobby. They have come closer to any other militant agitprop group to realising the Big Brother totalitarianism of 1984. They have become experts at turning vice into virtue and lies into truth.
And they have managed to co-opt governments to coercively implement their agendas. The heavy hand of the law – indeed the jackboot of the thought police – is now in full swing, being used against all those who dare to speak and think differently than the militant activists want us to.
15/1/12,
Legalisation of same-sex marriage ? an orchestrated international... »»
By Peter Saunders, CMF
According to recent reports the US government and European Commission (the executive body of the European Union) are funding attempts to legalise same sex marriage worldwide.
Britain is coming under increasing pressure to legalise same-sex marriage. A consultation on same-sex marriage closed in Scotland in December 2011 and a new consultation is being launched in February in Westminster to consider legalisation in England and Wales.
The legalization of same sex marriage has the backing of leaders of all three main parties – David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband.
But these moves in Britain are actually part of an international campaign.
15/1/12,
Are we seeing the death of obscenity?... »»
By Jane Fae, Politics.co.uk
You may not be aware of the Peacock case – but its impact on obscenity laws in the UK could be seismic.
Shortly before 13:00GMT today, a jury decided that a series of actions, including fisting, erotic urination, and some pretty severe sado-masochistic beatings did not constitute obscenity under the Obscene Publications Act (OPA) – thereby throwing the entire edifice of that law into disarray. Already, supporters of greater freedom of expression in the erotic arena are celebrating the end of an era.
Various bodies – not least the British Board of Film Classification – now need to digest this result. Longer term, the political prognosis for current Obscenity law is not good. Some time soon we may be starting the long trek of consultation, white paper and eventually new legislation to replace the discredited old OPA with a shiny new version. Or we might just dispense with the notion of obscenity from UK law altogether, on the grounds that it is no longer relevant to the 21st century.
To understand the problem, it is necessary to understand a little of the history. Common law efforts to restrain immodest publication eventually gave way to the first Obscene Publications Act (1857). This had a chequered history over the next hundred years or so, including such highlights as a ban on James Joyce's Ulysses and the revelation, later, that the director of public prosecutions kept a collection of dirty postcards. Er, purely for the record, of course!
15/1/12,
Exposing Kinsey?s sex atrocities goes global... »»
By Bob Inruh, World Net Daily
Alfred Kinsey’s belief in child sexuality, with all of its impacts on children and society, now circles the globe, but a campaign to reveal the truth about his efforts to legitimize pedophilia is following right behind.
Judith Reisman, a visiting professor of law at Liberty University, popular lecturer and former consultant to four U.S. Department of Justice administrations, recently concluded a trip in which she delivered seminars on the fallacies of Kinsey’s arguments in Rome, Ireland and London.
One of her books exposing the agenda of Kinsey’s lifelong campaign recently has been translated into Chinese.
“The Kinsey Institute is very active in the sexology field, holding conferences in every major nation in the world. They’ve been training the sexologists, sex educators in every country,” Reisman told WND.
“There’s not a single country that educates the public about sex where the institutional position, [the teachers], have not been trained in the Kinsey model,” she said.
15/1/12,
Boy Sent Home From School For Dressing As A Girl Wins Fight To Return... »»
From Huffington Post
A teenage boy who claimed he was sent home from school after turning up to lessons dressed as a girl has won his fight to return to classes.
Jamie Love arrived at school wearing denim hotpants, hair extensions and make-up, prompting staff to ask him to leave.
According to the 17-year-old, he told the school in advance of his plans to attend classes dressed as a girl, a detail that the school disputes.
But on Thursday night, Govan High School backed down and retracted their decision to exclude Love from school, after a campaign by fellow students, the Daily Record reported.
15/1/12,
?The Lepers Among Us: Homosexuality and the Life of the Church?... »»
Coming to Belfast and London : Friday 20 Saturday 21 January 2012
Dr Jim Reynolds
The Lepers Among Us sends a call to the Evangelical Church to stop treating believers who struggle with homosexual sin as lepers.
“Failure to live out the reality of Jesus Christ’s presence in the common life of the church with those who struggle with same sex sins is a disease of epic proportions, a malignancy that spreads throughout the Body and resurfaces as the Evangelical, Biblebelieving church attempts to deal with other sin issues. This failure is merely symptomatic of other deeper issues within the body, diseases that are not so easily identifiable nor that carry the same stigma or bigotry: spiritual complacency and ambivalence, hypocrisy, unaccountability and Biblical ignorance.”
- The Lepers Among Us
Read details of programme and about Jim Reynolds here (pdf)
15/1/12,
?I?ll sue Church of England if it bars me from being bishop,? says... »»
By Jonathan Petre, Mailonline
A controversial gay dean has threatened to take the Church of England to court after he was blocked from becoming a bishop.
The Very Rev Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans, has instructed an eminent employment lawyer to complain to Church officials after being rejected for the role of Bishop of Southwark.
Sources say the dean, one of the most contentious figures in the Church, believes he could sue officials under the Equality Act 2010, which bans discrimination on the grounds of sexuality. Such a case could create a damaging new rift within the CoE.
I am at the Anglican Mission Winter Conference in Houston, TX. The conference started Wednesday night, and I arrived Thursday at noon. The first thing I noticed when I walked through the corridors was young people. Young men and women in their 20’s and 30’s. Gathered loosely in small groups, the animated discussions were refreshing to see and hear. This is not your average TEC conference with gray haired people dominating the landscape. This is the church we have heard about via the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Young singles and married couples that supposedly only go to non-denominational churches – you know: no prayer books, no hymnals, no organ, no “dead white man” music. Everything is on the screen or the wall and the band is terrific. Authority? No thanks. What don’t you older folks understand about the word non-denominational?
When you speak with the young people here and ask them about their church history, you hear about their prior years in the non-denominational church – or no church at all – and their desire for something more. Something bigger. Something with history. Even something with authority figures. In their searching, they found Anglicanism. The ordered service, the concentration on the reading of and explanation of Scripture. Their commitment to mission, both foreign and local. The emphasis on Jesus: his life, and his ministry and by connection, your ministry. It isn’t naïve expectation, it’s a real desire to find something beyond a job; something that can impact your life and improve it.
15/1/12,
Only 12.4 per cent of UK primary teachers are male... »»
From Public Service co.uk
In secondary schools over 60 per cent of teachers are women and there are no male teachers at all in 27 per cent of primary schools (down slightly from 28 per cent in 2010), according to statistics from the General Teaching Council for England.
The lack of male role models in responsible positions is often given as a reason for boys to go off the 'straight and narrow', fail at school, get into gangs and end up in prison, as the Education Secretary Michael Gove alluded to in his speech at the Durand Academy in Stockwell, south London. The latest GCSE results showed that the achievement gap between girls and boys in secondary schools was wider than ever.
The figures showed that only 12.4 per cent of teachers in primary schools are men and just 3.1 per cent in all of England's state-run nurseries. In secondary schools, 37.5 per cent of teachers are male. However, most head teachers and deputy heads are men.
Gove said: "We need more male teachers, especially in primary schools to provide children who often lack male role models at home with male authority figures who can display both strength and sensitivity. One of the principal concerns that men considering teaching feel is the worry that they will fall foul of rules which make normal contact between adults and children a legal minefield.
10. General prayer resources [Over the Christmas and New Year period there has been an upsurge in persecution of Christians worldwide. Please pray for The persecuted church worldwide, and in particular for Nigeria, Iran and remember Pastor Nadarkhani and the diocese of South Carolina at this time:
14/1/12,
Bishop Murphy Answers Questions about AMIA Split... »»
By David Virtue, VOL
Virtueonline interviewed AMIA Chairman and Bishop of the Anglican Mission in the Americas, the Rt. Rev. Charles "Chuck" Murphy III, about the split, how he is handling it, and what he thinks the outcome will be.
VOL:How much of the $46 million raised by the AMIA and spent over the last 11-12 years went to Rwanda?
Murphy:We sent them $5,078,000 not counting other pass through gifts totaling several million more.
VOL:To date how many parishes have left AMIA for the pull away group?
Murphy:To date, I only know of 4-5 congregations. I suspect by the end of the day, it could be 20-25 congregations, which include the Apostles Mission, networks and congregation in the Birmingham Alabama network. We will know more next week. For these to leave, they will need a process to disaffiliate.
VOL: You talked in your message about the pain and hurt you have felt, do you have a sense of betrayal by people who you thought were your friends?
Murphy:I am genuinely surprised, but I want them to do what the Lord is calling them to do.
The Obama Administration’s campaign against “bullying” and “harassment” in schools is a subterfuge to exert federal control over the minutiae of daily school operations and to impose its preferred cultural attitudes.
Bullying has attracted significant media attention in recent years, usually focusing on the most extreme examples of such behavior. Bullying can certainly be so severe as to trigger the police power of the state, and even federal involvement in enforcing civil rights (for example, through the Constitution’s mandate of “equal protection of the laws”). But this confluence of responsibilities creates fertile ground for federal overreach. The federal government exploits it to intimidate state and school officials, and ultimately parents, into abdicating their discretion in addressing less severe misbehavior—the type that teachers and principals handle every day. The federal government further exploits it to drive its values agenda into the states, the classroom, and the home.
The Obama Administration’s claims that it favors local control in education are belied by its actions—for example, coercing states to accept federally approved content standards and to compile and share private student data. But as evidence of federal interference run amok, Exhibit A is the Administration’s campaign to outlaw “bullying” and “harassment” in schools. From the Administration’s standpoint, this campaign offers double benefits: it enables the federal government both to control the minutiae of daily school operations, and to impose its preferred cultural attitudes. This attack is demonstrably inconsistent with constitutional and statutory law, and is yet another troubling transfer of power from families and localities to Washington.
14/1/12,
The Moral Blindness of Sexual Harassment Training... »»
By Christopher J Clay, First Things
Sexual harassment training programs are not in short supply. Three states mandate them. Two well-publicized Supreme Court cases prescribe the programs as quasi-vaccines against the maladies of liability and damages. For that reason, countless insurance companies force policyholders to herd employees into PowerPoint-based education sessions conducted by human resources personnel. There is also a cottage industry of consultants offering these courses, mostly in the mandating states.
There is little convincing evidence that training, at least in its current form, is producing a consistent downward trend in sexual harassment cases. Even in California, the first state to pass a mandatory training law, claims dipped only for a short while after the rule took effect, but soon resumed an upward spike.
Some cynics say that training provides more education for money-hungry plaintiffs than it does for potential harassers. This entails the view that a significant number of sexual harassment claims are absolutely frivolous, framed by unethical “victims” who have learned (thanks to training sessions) what allegations need to be made to get the attention of employers, insurance companies, and courts. Those who take this view are intellectual ostriches.
One need only read the judicial decisions involving unsuccessful sexual harassment plaintiffs to appreciate that many of these litigants, mostly women, suffered genuine torment, humiliation and fear in the workplace.
14/1/12,
St. Barnabas Society Giving Financial Aid to Anglican Priest Converts... »»
St. Barnabas Society giving financial aid to Anglican priest converts Catholic News Agency The England and Ireland-based St. Barnabas Society gave over $160000 to help Anglican priests make the transition into the Catholic Church. ?It is a very generous gesture and one that will be widely appreciated,? Archbishop of Westminster Vincent ...
14/1/12,
Marriage is ?not for governments to define?... »»
From Christian Today
Christians should speak up for the uniqueness of marriage, says the head of the Christian Medical Fellowship.
Dr Peter Saunders commended the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, for taking a strong lead in advocating marriage.
Dr Sentamu told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this week that while he would “not diminish” same-sex households, marriage remains the “bedrock of society”.
Marriage has hit the headlines in recent months as Westminster and Scotland seek opinion on plans to change the legal definition to include same-sex couples.
The Scottish Government’s consultation came to a close last month and a similar consultation is to be launched by Westminster in February.
Churches and Christian organisations in Scotland campaigned fiercely against the proposals and it is expected that the Westminster consultation will prompt a similar effort.
14/1/12,
You tubers punish girl scout for her beliefs... »»
By Drew Zahn, World Net Daily
The online video-sharing website YouTube can be a cruel place for young people, especially for teenagers who dare to criticize homosexuality.
WND reported in 2009 the story of 12-year-old ChristianU2uber, whose video arguing same-sex marriage is morally wrong resulted in a stream of responses that called him a “fag in denial” and suggested he “kill Christianity, and then kill yourself.”
The response was so vicious, WND reported, that Internet crime specialists in Texas tracked down the boy and his family and persuaded ChristianU2uber to remove the videos and receive counseling.
Now, another teenager, this time a 14-year-old from Ventura County, Calif., named Taylor (last name withheld), has been forced off the site by the cruelty she faced for protesting the admission of transgender boys into the Girl Scouts.
Although eager to point out “bigotry” by Christians who do not embrace gay rights, the media is strangely quiet about the increasing discrimination against Christians, according to Newt Gingrich.
Gingrich delivered the remarks during a GOP presidential candidate debate in Manchester earlier this week, noting that the one-sidedness of the “bigotry” question demonstrates serious bias in the mainstream media.
“You don’t hear the opposite question asked. Should the Catholic Church be forced to close its adoption services in Massachusetts because it won’t accept gay couples, which is exactly what the state has done?” Gingrich asked. “Should the Catholic Church be driven out of providing charitable services in the District of Columbia because it won’t give in to secular bigotry?”
“Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration in key delivery of services because of the bias and bigotry of the administration?” he asked, referencing the Obama administration’s unprecedented denial of a health care grant to the U.S. Bishops over their pro-life stance.
“The bigotry question goes both ways and there’s a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side, and none of it gets covered by the media,” he concluded to applause.
14/1/12,
Judge Rules Christian facility cannot ban same-sex civil union... »»
By Ben Johnson, LifeSite News
A New Jersey judge ruled against a Christian retreat house that refused to allow a same-sex civil union ceremony to be conducted on its premises, ruling the Constitution allows “some intrusion into religious freedom to balance other important societal goals.”
On Thursday, administrative judge Solomon A. Metzger ruled that religious liberty did not exempt the seaside retreat, which is associated with the United Methodist Church, from renting its facilities out for purposes that violate its moral beliefs.
In March 2007, Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association declined Harriet Bernstein and Luisa Paster’s request to rent its Boardwalk Pavilion for the ceremony. The couple sued, claiming they had been discriminated against on the basis of their sexual orientation. In December 2008, the state Division on Civil Rights found the Christian campground had likely violated the state Law Against Discrimination (LAD) and joined the case.
The United Methodist Church teaches, “The practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching,” and that “ceremonies that celebrate homosexual unions shall not be conducted by our ministers and shall not be conducted in our churches.”
But Judge Metzger said church doctrine was irrelevant.
14/1/12,
Archbishops reassure traditionalists ahead of women bishops debates... »»
By Martin Beckford, Telegraph
The two most senior clerics in the Church have stated that they do not want would-be priests to be discriminated against if they oppose the ordination of women.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York also said they would try to ensure there is a continuing supply of traditionalist bishops to cater for parishes who do not want to be looked after by a female bishop.
Their comments come in a new report to the Church’s governing body, the General Synod, which gives more detail of how the historic development will work in practice.
It comes at the start of a critical phase for the legislation that will lead to the first women bishops in the Church of England, described by the archbishops as “probably the most significant set of legislative decisions [Synod] has had to deal with for some 20 years”.
Next month the Synod could call on bishops to make substantial changes to the plans, which if agreed would then have to be sent back to dioceses for another year of consideration.
13/1/12,
Catholic group condemns killing of Amazon tribe girl... »»
Brazilian loggers have reportedly burned to death an eightyearold girl belonging to one of the last remaining tribes in the Amazon to have no contact with the outside world
4:00AM Saturday Apr 25, 2009 - NZ Herald
Jacqueline Smith
The Anglican Church has weighed into the fight to save a private girls' school in Auckland.
The Bishop of Auckland, John Paterson, said the church was "alarmed" by the decision of the Corran School board to merge with St Kentigern and is considering alternative proposals to maintain its connection with the school.
Bishop Paterson said the diocese was not warned of the proposal before it was made public, and had been trying to meet the Corran trust board to discuss the matter. A meeting is scheduled for next week.
Corran has been aligned to the Anglican Church for more than 50 years.
Bishop Paterson said the diocese had a good relationship with the school, and Corran girls have a weekly chapel service in St Aidan's Church on Remuera Rd.
"Corran has an established identity as an Anglican school and the diocese would want to maintain that connection should that opportunity still be available."
The diocese had been "considering what alternative proposals might be available" since the board announced the merger, he said.
Parents, teachers and the public learned of the Corran board's decision to merge with St Kentigern via emails and press releases sent out by the school on April 6.
This week, parents employed Deborah Collings, QC, to examine the school's trust deed and find out whether there was a case to take out a court injunction.
(1) the deposition of Bishop Bob Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh in The Episcopal Church, by the assembled bishops of that church, on 18 September 2008;
(2) the good standing and high reputation Bishop Bob Duncan has as an orthodox Anglican bishop, as represented by statements of support being expressed in recent days by the Archbishops of Sydney, Nigeria, Rwanda, Southern Cone, West Indies, Kenya, Jerusalem and the Middle East, Singapore, numerous bishops within The Episcopal Church itself, and the Bishops of Winchester, Rochester, Chester, Exeter, Blackburn and Chichester;
(3) various developments in The Episcopal Church and in the Anglican Church of Canada in recent years which place increasing pressure on faithful orthodox Anglicans to conform to changes in theology, liturgy and ethics rather than to uphold and maintain the 2000 year old teaching of the church;
offers its support to Bishop Bob Duncan, to the Diocese of Pittsburgh, and to all bishops and dioceses in The Episcopal Church and in the Anglican Church of Canada as they seek to find a way forward which embodies the true spirit of orthodox Anglicanism.
That this Synod,
noting the holding of the decennial Lambeth Conference in July/August 2008 and the presence of Bishop Richard and Hilary Ellena at the Conference:
(a) welcomes Bishop Richard and Hilary back to the Diocese, and expresses its gratitude for their participation in the conference
(b) encourages Bishop Richard and Hilary to report on the conference in a variety of ways to the parishes of the Diocese
(c) receives the following statement made by the Archbishop of Canterbury in the course of his Final Presidential Address to the Lambeth Conference:
“The Resolution of Lambeth '98 was an attempt to say both 'We need understanding and shared discernment on a hugely complex topic,' and 'We as the bishops in council together are not persuaded that the new thoughts offered to us can be reconciled with our shared loyalty to Scripture.' Perhaps we should read that Resolution — forgetting for a moment the bitterness and confusion around the debate and acknowledging that it remains where our Communion as a global community stands — as an attempt to define what a healthy Church might need — space for study and free discussion without pressure, pastoral patience and respect, unwillingness to change what has been received in faith from Scripture and tradition. And this is not by any means to say that a traditional understanding and a new one are just two equal options, like items on the supermarket shelf: the practice and public language of the Church act always as a reminder that the onus of proof is on those who seek a new understanding.”
That this Synod,
acknowledging continuing developments in the Anglican Communion in response to issues on biblical orthodoxy:
(a) notes the holding of the Global Anglican Future Conference in Jerusalem in June 2008
(b) receives the final statement of the conference which includes within it the Jerusalem Declaration (appended to the motion)
(c) commends the statement to the Diocese for general study and reflection
(d) confirms the Diocese of Nelson upholds the orthodox faith and practice of the Anglican Church as represented in the Jerusalem Declaration and continues to look for ways to be in relationship with those represented at GAFCON
VOLUNTEERS from churches and the community in Manukau are waiting to see if their attempts to cook the largest bowl of soup in the world have been successful. Some 25,200 litres of vegetable soup were cooked, starting on the night of August 22 and ending on the morning of the 23rd, in a tank at Lion Nathan Breweries.
However, it won’t be for another four months that the organisers will know for sure whether the world record for the largest bowl of soup ever cooked belongs to Manukau. The idea for the marathon cook-up came from 34-year-old Guinness Book record-breaker and Aucklander Alastair Galpin, whose most recent record was for sticking the most rhinestones on his body.
Mr Galpin partnered with St Elisabeth’s Anglican Church vicar, The Rev Mark Beale, for the project. Mr Galpin said he joined with the church to organise the event to help lift the spirits of the people living in Manukau City. “There’s been a lot of negative press about Manukau lately so we want to give our community something to smile about,” said Mr Beale. And smile they did.
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