A British doctor has been accused of “harassing a vulnerable patient” by the General Medical Council because he invited the person to church and to an Alpha presentation. Yes, that sounds pretty intimidating.
From here:
“So it’s a boy, right?” a neighbour calls out as Kathy Witterick walks by, her four month old baby, Storm, strapped to her chest in a carrier.
Each week the woman asks the same question about the baby with the squishy cheeks and feathery blond hair.
Witterick smiles, opens her arms wide, comments on the sunny spring day, and keeps walking.
She’s used to it. The neighbours know Witterick and her husband, David Stocker, are raising a genderless baby. But they don’t pretend to understand it.
While there’s nothing ambiguous about Storm’s genitalia, they aren’t telling anyone whether their third child is a boy or a girl.
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Witterick and Stocker believe they are giving their children the freedom to choose who they want to be, unconstrained by social norms about males and females.
By the time this poor child is old enough to “choose who he wants to be”, he will also be old enough to realise that he has been the victim of a grotesque experiment by parents more interested in sacrificing him on the altar of their crackbrained ideology than in loving him.
If he has any sense he will get away from them as far as he can as quickly as possible.
A different kind of autoerotic experience: 
A man who claims to have had sex with 1,000 cars has defended his “romantic” feelings towards vehicles.
Edward Smith, who lives with his current “girlfriend” – a white Volkswagen Beetle named Vanilla, insisted that he was not “sick” and had no desire to change his ways.
“I appreciate beauty and I go a little bit beyond appreciating the beauty of a car only to the point of what I feel is an expression of love,” he said.
“Maybe I’m a little bit off the wall but when I see movies like Herbie and Knight Rider, where cars become loveable, huggable characters it’s just wonderful.
“I’m a romantic. I write poetry about cars, I sing to them and talk to them just like a girlfriend. I know what’s in my heart and I have no desire to change.”
He added: “I’m not sick and I don’t want to hurt anyone, cars are just my preference.”
Mr Smith, 57, first had sex with a car at the age of 15, and claims he has never been attracted to women or men.
But his wandering eye has spread beyond cars to other vehicles. He says that his most intense sexual experience was “making love” to the helicopter from 1980s TV hit Airwolf.
As well as Vanilla, he regularly spends time with his other vehicles – a 1973 Opal GT, named Cinnamon, and 1993 Ford Ranger Splash, named Ginger.
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Mr Smith is now part of a global community of more than 500 “car lovers” brought together by internet forums.
I’ll never leave my car unattended in a parking lot again.
It’s only a matter of time before Rowan Williams pens an erudite thesis on how man-car love is “comparable to marriage”, Michael Ingham campaigns for full inclusion of Herbie humpers in the life of the church and mechaphobia is declared a hate crime.
After all, car lovers have no choice: God made them that way.
As a Christian, I believe that one day Jesus will return, God’s Kingdom will be established on earth, and the universe will no longer groan under the weight of sin: Aslan will sing entropy into reverse.
Jesus himself didn’t know the date that this would occur (Mark 13:32); never fear, though, because Harold Camping does:
Harold Camping, 89, predicts that Jesus Christ will return to earth on Saturday and true believers will be swept up, or “raptured”, to heaven.
He has used broadcasts and billboards to publicise his ideas.
He says biblical texts indicate that a giant earthquake on Saturday will mark the start of the world’s destruction, and that by 21 October all non-believers will be dead.
Clearly Harold Camping subscribes to twerp theology; God doesn’t, nor would he wish to lend credence to someone who does, so the last date God the Father is likely to pick for the rapture is May 21st 2011. The Devil might want to give Harold more air time, of course, so I wouldn’t be particularly surprised to hear of the odd earthquake tomorrow.
What is certain is that death is inevitable: by Eternity’s measure, in a very short time I and everyone I know will have ceased to live on this earth and will face the unappetising prospect of judgement for the way we lived or mercy through the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Your choice.
The tax-payer funded Canadian Heritage is, in its wisdom, supporting a Vancouver punk rock group, Living With Lions. This scrofulous bunch of nitwits, having decided that their musical talent is insufficient to appeal to a buying public, are selling scatology instead. Their latest album is: “Holy Shit, the Poo Testament”. Who could resist that?
Here are the disgusting details:
Vancouver punk rockers Living With Lions just released their sophomore album today. It’s called Holy Shit, is subtitled “The Poo Testament,” and has liner notes that recreate the Ascension with Christ portrayed as a turd. Oh, and the album is sponsored by the Canadian government.
The album is designed to resemble a Bible, complete with liner notes written as verses, a cracked binding, and yellowed pages. The last line of the band’s acknowledgements reads, “We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage.”
Canadian Heritage also sponsors numerous Canadian papers, including the Anglican Journal (it receives $500,000 per year).
It’s time for the Canadian Government to dissociate itself entirely from ersatz newspapers and so-called “art” and let endeavours like the Anglican Journal and Living with Lions fend for themselves: they wouldn’t last long and we’d all be better off.
As an aside, I wonder what would happen if something similar were tried with the Koran?
h/t: Big Blue Wave
Imagine that.
From here:
THE chaplain at Melbourne’s most prestigious Anglican school has spoken out against the way religion is taught in Victorian government schools, saying their classrooms should not be used for ”conversion”.
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While proselytising is supposed to be forbidden, a recording recently emerged of a speech by Access Ministries chief executive Evonne Paddison, in which she stressed the need to ”go and make disciples”.
She also said: ”Without Jesus, our students are lost.”
Her comments sparked outrage and have prompted an investigation by both the state and federal governments.
Mr Noone said the statement that children would be lost without Jesus revealed Dr Paddison’s theology and educational philosophy.
‘The statement is claiming a lot and it is manifestly not true, however I don’t doubt that it forms the basis of why she does what she does,” he wrote in Melbourne Grammar’s newsletter. ”There is a certain kind of evangelical Christian who believes they have the truth and a serious duty to tell everyone else.”
Well, Rev. Noone, if you think the statement ”Without Jesus, our students are lost.” is “manifestly not true”, why are you a member of a profession whose job it is to proclaim that it is true?
Oh, I get it, you are a member of the fifth column gaytheists who have infiltrated the Anglican church in order to turn it into the people’s socialist lawn bowling collective.
From here:
Religion should not be allowed to “hijack” the great cultural resource of the Bible, according to the atheist scientist Professor Richard Dawkins.
Asked by the Labour MP Frank Field, chairman of the King James Bible Trust, what the Bible meant to him, he said: “I think it is important to make the case that the Bible is part of our heritage and it doesn’t have to be tied to religion.
“It’s of historic interest, it’s of literary interest, and it’s important that religion should not be allowed to hijack this cultural resource.
“You can’t appreciate English literature unless you know something about the Greek gods. You can’t appreciate Wagner unless you know something about the Norse gods. You can’t appreciate English literature unless you are to some extent at least steeped in the King James Bible.”
This is extraordinarily absurd, even for Richard Dawkins. Without Christianity, which he so despises, there would have been no Bible; without the Church, which he so loathes, the Bible would not have been preserved and without faithful Christians, who Dawkins keeps calling idiots, no-one would have bothered to read the Bible.
Dawkins wants Christendom without Christianity, Western civilisation without the bedrock on which it was founded and morality without God. Well, he can’t have them.
If anyone is trying to hijack the Bible, it is Dawkins and his coterie of cockamamie atheists.