“Pro choice” taken to it’s inevitable conclusion:
Flagitious abortion doctor charged with murder
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Homosexual bullying
No, it’s not what you think.
This is a case of homosexuals bullying Christians.
When Martyn Hall and his civil partner, Steven Preddy, sued Christian hoteliers, Mr and Mrs Bull, for not allowing the homosexual pair to sleep in the same room, it was not because they would otherwise have had to sleep outside in the cold. They sued because they wanted to force their views of homosexuality onto a pair of Christians.
That’s what the lawsuit was really about: bullying.
Homosexual Couple Win B&B Discrimination Case
From here:
The Christian owners of a seaside guesthouse acted unlawfully by refusing to let a gay couple share a double bed, a judge has ruled in a landmark case.
Peter and Hazelmary Bull did not allow civil partners Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy to use a double room in their Cornwall B&B because it would be “an affront to their faith”.
However, a judge at Bristol County Court said the couple were breaking the law by denying the men a room.
Mr Hall and Mr Preddy were each awarded £1,800 in damages.
So how will this affect Christian B&B owners – before all Christians are driven out of the UK, of course?
Like this:
Anglican Church considers “baptism lite”
From here:
Church of England baptism services may be re-written to remove some references to Christianity.
The plan for a new ‘baptism lite’ service designed to make christenings more interesting to non-churchgoers will be considered next month by the Church’s parliament, the General Synod.
Supporters say the baptism service should be ‘expressed in culturally appropriate and accessible language’ that is readily understood by ‘non-theologically versed Britons’.
But traditionalist clergy said the idea amounted to ‘dumbing down’.The new service would be used at 150,000 christenings each year. If the plan is accepted, it will be the third full re-write of the baptism ceremony in around 30 years – the version in the Church’s Book of Common Prayer went virtually unaltered for more than 400 years until 1980.
Complaints centre on three sections of the baptism service from the Church’s latest prayer book, Common Worship, authorised for use in 1997.
In one, parents, godparents or an adult being baptised are asked to ‘reject the devil and all rebellion against God’ and to renounce ‘the deceit and corruption of evil’. They are asked to ‘submit to Christ as Lord’.
Next I suppose there will be Salvation Lite, where we can:
Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today
Oh, sorry, I forgot, the Church of England has already done that.
Saying goodbye
Two of our grandchildren departed with their parents for a new life in Australia this afternoon. My wife and I have six grandchildren: we are especially close to these two.
They left with floods of tears and hugs that didn’t want to let go. I was reminded of a few lines by William Blake:
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know,
Thro’ the world we safely go.Joy and woe are woven fine,
A clothing for the soul divine.
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine.
Julian Assange: hyper-hypocrisy
Assange is set to plaster details of the banking habits of rich and famous individuals in large letters across the digital sky:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has vowed to reveal confidential account details of rich and famous individuals he says have evaded taxes after taking delivery of a new dossier from a former Swiss banker.
Whistleblower Rudolf Elmer handed over two CDs filled with data to Mr Assange in London today.
And yet is upset when one of his own leakers tries to out-leak him because, irony of ironies, he has a financial interest in the leaks:
For someone who deals in illicit information, Julian Assange sure gets touchy when people share information against his will…
Now Assange is upset that the Guardian would publish some of the leaked cables without the permission of Wikileaks (ironically, the info had apparently been leaked by a Wikileaker!). According to Vanity Fair, “he owned the information and had a financial interest in how and when it was released.”
Therapist faces being struck off for helping gay men go straight
From here:
A psychotherapist faces being struck off after trying to ‘convert’ a homosexual man.
Lesley Pilkington, 60, a therapist for 20 years, is accused of ‘praying to God’ to ‘heal’ the patient .
Mrs Pilkington, will appear at a landmark disciplinary hearing this week where she faces being stripped of her accreditation to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
The patient, a homosexual rights campaigner, secretly recorded her controversial treatment at two sessions before reporting her to the association.
A small group of counsellors believe all men are born heterosexual, but some choose a gay lifestyle which can be changed through therapy…….
She treated journalist Patrick Strudwick at her private practice based at her home in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, after he approached her at a Christian conference.
He recorded the sessions on a tape machine strapped to his stomach. Asked if she viewed homosexuality as a ‘mental illness, an addiction or an anit-religious phenomenon’, she replied: ‘It is all of that’.
In the disciplinary letter sent to her by BACP, she is accused of having an ‘agenda that homosexuality is wrong and that gay people can change and you allegedly attempted to inflict these views on him.’
Mrs Pilkington accused Strudwick of entrapment. She said: ‘He told me was looking for a treatment for being gay.
‘I told him I only work using a Christian biblical framework and he said that was exactly what he wanted.’
Her defence is being funded by the Christian Legal Centre which has instructed a leading religious rights barrister to fight the case.
This is preposterous. The therapist isn’t forcing gay men to come to her: no one is. If gay crusaders have their way, it will become illegal to help gay men who do want to change – and there are some – making it close to compulsory for someone with homosexual inclinations to act them out.
The waning of the wedding
Marriage is becoming less and less popular; unless you are a homosexual that is – an Anglican homosexual in particular – and then you simply must get married, otherwise you would feel excluded. And exclusion is the only sin left in the Anglican church; other than telling a bishop he really must believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ, his virgin birth and atoning sacrifice on the cross in order to be a Christian. Oh – and trying to knock his hat off with a snowball.
From here:
The good ol’ tradition of marriage is not extinct, but the numbers certainly are dropping.
Moving up the relationship ranks is the very modern – and considerably cheaper – option of living together, sans the ‘I dos’.
“It’s the first time in Canada there are more unmarried people than married people,” explains Gemini-award winning documentary filmmaker Sue Ridout, producer and director of the new hour-long doc entitled, “Thoroughly Modern Marriage” (Dreamfilm Productions).
But, despite the popularity of common law and even the high rates of divorce, the institution is still likely to survive, Ridout believes.
After extensive research and interviews, spanning from a variety of couples, singles and experts, Ridout suspects future generations will still be booking cake testings, finding perfect dresses and exchanging vows.
“Personally, if I had to bet on it, I’d bet on the institution continuing,” she says.
“But I don’t think we’re going back to the high numbers. Common law is here to stay.”
According to Statistics Canada, in the past 25 years, common-law unions in Canada have more than tripled.
Nowadays, particularly in cultures where women have equal rights and earning power to their male counterparts, something other than economics and family standing is driving forward the desire to walk down the aisle…….
– In the past 25 years, common-law unions in Canada have more than tripled
– At 70%, Hanover, Manitoba has the largest percentage of married adults in Canada (20% higher than the national average)
– The lowest rates of marriage in Canada is Joliette, Quebec, at just 27%
– In less than a decade, mixed race couples have increased by 33%
Marriage as art
Having redefined marriage to mean almost any human, animal or inanimate object union in any combination, some are now on a quest to find a way of further distorting it in order to plumb 
From here:
CREATIVE students proved that opposites really do attract when they took their wedding vows – and turned marriage into a work of art.
Nora Battenberg-Cartwright, aged 21, and Paul Cartwright, 20, married in Germany a few days after Christmas to show their commitment to each other – artistically.
However, while they are legally married, live together in the centre of Worcester and are very close friends, Mrs Battenberg-Cartwright is straight, and Mr Cartwright is gay.
The pair, both studying fine art at the University of Worcester, decided to make themselves into an artwork as part of their coursework they are undertaking in their second year.
They make sure they co-ordinate their outfits every day and also make their own clothes – including Mrs Battenberg-Cartwright’s gold wedding dress.
Canadian Air Transport Security Authority diligently tracking down terrorists
From here:
After spending the Christmas holiday with family in Calgary, Elizabeth Strecker, 82, was flying back to her home in Abbotsford on Jan. 4 when she was selected for further screening by security officials and told to go through the full body scanner.
“One guy asked me if I had any liquids or gel on me and I said no,” said Strecker.
And that’s where the trouble started for the widow who immigrated to Canada from Germany nearly 60 years ago and lived in Calgary for 14 years before retiring to the B.C. city.
A cancer survivor, Strecker had a mastectomy five years ago and now wears a prosthetic breast — which is made of gel.
When she pointed that out to security officers, Strecker said she was accused of lying when first asked about liquids and gels.
“It was terribly, terribly embarrassing,” she said.
“It was really very humiliating.
“I’m an 82-year-old woman, not a terrorist.”
And that’s the problem: the 82 year old Elizabeth Strecker doesn’t look like a terrorist, so her prosthetic breast was an obvious target for probing. If CATSA only squeezed the prosthetic breasts of people who looked like terrorists, they could be accused not only of profiling, but of having common sense.