The Diocese of New Westminster’s remarks on the death of the Reverend Dr. Harry Robinson

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From here, my emphasis:

Dean Peter Elliott focused his opening remarks on the funeral of the Reverend Dr. Harry Robinson that took place that afternoon, 1pm at St. John’s Shaughnessy.

Peter said that Harry was one of the great figures of the Diocese of New Westminster and at the forefront of the Evangelical movement in Anglicanism.

Harry retired as the Rector of St. John Shaughnessy. There were many people from the D of NW at Harry’s funeral. In retirement, Harry attended a number of diocesan churches including St. Mary’s Kerrisdale and Christ Church Cathedral and for a number of years celebrated Morning Prayer at St. Mary’s. Up until his death Harry remained a Priest in the Anglican Church of Canada.

It’s interesting to note that Rev. Harry Robinson was appointed rector at St. John’s Shaughnessy in the late ‘70s when the parish was not faring too well. He helped build it into the largest Anglican parish in Canada and planted a faith in Jesus that would later provide the strength for St. John’s to follow its conscience and leave the Anglican Church of Canada.

The diocese’s drawing attention to the fact that Harry remained a priest in the ACoC couldn’t mean that they are using this circumstance to make a tawdry case for their claim that, all evidence to the contrary, evangelical priests really are welcome in the Anglican Church of Canada, could they?

Just another day at the medical lab

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El’Jai Devoureau, a woman who decided she was really a man, embarked on hormone therapy and surgery to release her inner man before starting a highly sought-after job watching other men urinate. After the discovery that Devoureau’s outer appearance didn’t entirely match her inner aspirations, she was fired because her employer only hires men to watch other men urinate. Devoureau is suing because her employer “discriminated based on birth gender”; Devoureau wants to continue watching men urinate.

El’Jai Devoureau’s lawyer commends her courage – not, as one might think, for taking the job in the first place – but for “drawing a line in the sand” on behalf of the all the other ex-women waiting to take up similar employment:

‘As our society becomes appropriately more tolerant, I hope that there are more brave people that are willing to endure the collateral problems by drawing a line in the sand and saying they won’t stand for discrimination,’

And a professor of law muses on unusual interview questions that lab employees may have to look forward to:

‘I would have absolutely told them to retain the employee and think about how to address transphobia and heterosexism in their environment.

You don’t ask someone: ‘What do your genitalia look like?” she said. ‘That was a very poor choice on the employer’s part.’

All of which makes me grateful that I work with computers.

 

Seattle school insists on calling Easter Eggs “Spring Spheres”

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From here:

“At the end of the week I had an idea to fill little plastic eggs with treats and jelly beans and other candy, but I was kind of unsure how the teacher would feel about that,” Jessica said.

She was concerned how the teacher might react to the eggs after of a meeting earlier in the week where she learned about “their abstract behavior rules.”

“I went to the teacher to get her approval and she wanted to ask the administration to see if it was okay,” Jessica explained. “She said that I could do it as long as I called this treat ‘spring spheres.’ I couldn’t call them Easter eggs.”

Rather than question the decision, Jessica opted to “roll with it.” But the third graders had other ideas.

“When I took them out of the bag, the teacher said, ‘Oh look, spring spheres’ and all the kids were like ‘Wow, Easter eggs.’ So they knew,” Jessica said.

Just imagine if someone had had the temerity to suggest that Easter eggs are a symbol of Jesus’ resurrection. Would the S.W.A.T. team have arrived in time to contain the threat or not?

UK: Government to produce Transgender Equality Action Plan

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Here is Lynne Featherstone, Minister For Equalities to explain:

Those eager to complete the survey, will be able to opine about such things as “Police lack of understanding/sensitivity to my needs as a trans victim”.

And, of course, in the mass production chaos of genetic gender distribution, did you end up with two X’s when what you really want is an X and a Y? – Is your gender identity the same as the gender you were assigned at birth?

What does this all really mean? More five year-old boys will be painting their toenails pink.

Pink toenails and gender confusion

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A recent feature in J. Crew’s online catalogue portrays designer Jenna Lyons painting her son Beckett’s toe nails hot pink. The quote accompanying the image reads, “Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon.”

Yeah, well, it may be fun and games now, Jenna, but at least put some money aside for psychotherapy for the kid-and maybe a little for others who’ll be affected by your “innocent” pleasure.

Is this the slippery pink slope to lipstick, eyeliner, high-heels and pre-teen gender reassignment? Personally, knowing the reaction it would have created in school, I wouldn’t have let my mother paint my toenails at that age however much she liked pink – and she did. But, unlike today, schools were sane in the middle-ages when I attended.

 

If you burn a Koran in the UK, you are arrested

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A BNP candidate for next month’s Welsh assembly elections has been charged with a public order offence, after police were passed a video appearing to show him burning a copy of the Koran.

Sion Owens, 41, was named as a party candidate for the South Wales West regional list last week.

He is due to appear at Swansea magistrates’ court on Monday.

Let this be a lesson to anyone feeling inclined to do something unpleasant to a religious text: forget about the Koran, rip up a Bible and shove it in your knickers – it will probably earn you taxpayer funding.

The BNP may be an odious organisation, but I can’t think of a better way for the British legal establishment to give it a boost than by arresting one of its members for burning a Koran in his own garage – that is where the conflagration occurred – under the pretext of a Public Order Offence.

The charge has been withdrawn for the moment because of lack of evidence, although “further proceedings will ensue”. And if they do, it will be a sign to that very select group of rabid, head-hacking Muslim nut cases that they are on the right track and should, at the slightest pretext, keep on hacking.

The foundation for objective moral values

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A debate between Sam Harris and William Lane Craig on where moral values come from and whether atheists have grounds for believing in objective moral values.
The whole series is well worth watching. I am, of course, biased but it seems fairly clear that Sam Harris didn’t fare too well. He never came to grips with the problem of his tautological definitions of “good” and “evil”, preferring, instead, to eschew logic and employ the decoy of making emotionally indignant appeals to examples of our or God’s – the God he claims isn’t there – moral failures, along with other randomly selected red-herrings.
William Lane Craig, on the other hand, pounds his points home with remorseless logic.






The evolutionary origin of racism

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From here:

Psychologists have long known that many people are prejudiced towards others based on group affiliations, be they racial, ethnic, religious, or even political. However, we know far less about why people are prone to prejudice in the first place. New research, using monkeys, suggests that the roots lie deep in our evolutionary past…….

Overall, the results support an evolutionary basis for prejudice.

All of which is bad news for Darwinists who believe that evolution is responsible for human morality: it makes racism a moral good.

On the other hand, it’s good news for racist Darwinists.