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Continue reading about Lords to Debate Sexual Orientation Amendment
As mentioned before, James Parker of Living Waters UK was part of a piece on Wednesday morning on SORS. The significance was that this was, to the best of my knowledge, the first time this major UK news programme had had an ex-gay as part of a report. The whole 4 minute piece can be [...]
A rather good sermon, preached 2 weeks ago, by the Rector of St Aldates on the current controversy in the UK. Listen and enjoy (and comment below).
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Cranmer has succint analysis:
Despite a protest by hundreds of concerned Christians, Baroness O’Cathain has failed in her attempt to defeat the Sexual Orientation Regulations in the House of Lords, which the Roman Catholic Church says could lead to the closure of its adoption agencies. The Regulations will outlaw discrimination against homosexual [...]
Via Anglican Mainstream
On BBC Radio 4 Today programme on Wednesday March 21 Robert Piggott, the BBC Religion Correspondent will be interviewing James Parker of the Journey into Manhood training programme from the People can Change Organisation. Parker contends that it is unwise of the government to bring in legislation about homosexuality when [...]
Continue reading about Ex-Gays on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme - Wednesday Morning
Haddock cuts straight to the chase (brief warning - Haddock can be a bit coarse, and I don’t mean his fishing).
The Thought Police define homophobia thus,
“A homophobic incident is defined as: ‘Any incident which is perceived to be Homophobic by the victim or any other person’.
“which translates as ‘It means just whatever I want it [...]
A press release from the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship last night had the following section in it:
The SORs leave a crucial gap in the protection of vicars and minister so that it will be illegal under Regulation 11 for them to teach their congregation that they should follow the Bible’s teaching on sexual [...]
Continue reading about Will it be illegal to laud Christian Printers?
I was struck by James Parker’s comment on Ruth’s latest blog piece:
As a man who was adopted as a child and who used to be gay and fully lived the gay lifestyle, I have to wholeheartedly disagree with Ben Summerskill’s angle on lesbians and gays adopting children. For a child to be taken away [...]
You can read the entire Committee proceedings here. Time and time again the chair refused to respond adequately to points of order and completely failing to exercise her duties in an impartial manner. For example, she was perfectly within her rights to adjourn the meeting to find a larger room, she was perfectly within her [...]
Continue reading about Yesterday’s Committee handling SORS - Simply shameful
I’ve managed to give the mainland SORS a good read now and they are much better than the legislation that affects Northern Ireland. I’m disappointed though that some Christians are still objecting to specific aspects of the legislation and ignoring others. Let’s actually sit down and think this through sensibly.
The objection to Christian B&B owners [...]
Continue reading about What we should - and shouldn’t - be arguing about on SORS
The Commons Committee met yesterday morning, and as this report from a leading Rt Hon suggests, the steamrolling of SORS through Parliament has begun.
Late yesterday afternoon the government chose MPs to sit on a Committee to discuss the Sexual orientation regulations. There was nothing unusual about that, save for two things.
The first was, the Shadow [...]
Anglican Mainstream has the skinny.
(1) The Speaker has allocated the draft Regulations to the Twelfth Delegated Legislation Committee••• and has appointed Mrs Janet Dean Chairman•••; and
(2) the Committee of Selection has nominated seventeen Members to serve on the Committee: Mr Clive Betts, Liz Blackman, Mr Tim Boswell, Chris Bryant, Mr David Burrowes, Lorely Burt, Jeremy [...]
Continue reading about The SORS Committee for tomorrow morning is announced
It’s come to that moment. The Government has published the SORS that will cover the mainland UK, except the latest news from this lunchtime is that they have been withdrawn from the Government website for corrections (Though it is now finally up). But don’t think that that’s the last of it. Apparently the House of [...]
This wonderful piece in today’s London Times:
The hotels, which cater for the thriving “exclusively gay” tourism market, say that they should be exempt from the Sexual Orientation Regulations as they will be forced to accept heterosexual guests. Some say that a ban on “gay only” advertising could put them out of business. There [...]
Continue reading about Just to prove what a muddle the SORS are…
We like Tom Wright. Forget those uber-Evangelicals who think his works on Jesus and Paul are a betrayal of Orthodoxy; Tom is the man who has consistently, in his role on various Anglican bodies, including the Windsor Report Committee, defended creedal Christianity time and time again. So for that reason I think it’s brilliant that [...]
