Aborted babies being left to die

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From here:

BABIES that are surviving late-term abortions at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s Hospital might be being left on shelves to die, according to an Anglican minister.

Dr Mark Durie, minister of St Mary’s Caulfield, said staff were finding it hard to cope with a reported six-fold increase in late-term abortions at the Women’s since abortion was decriminalised in Victoria two years ago. He said because conscientious objection by medical staff was now illegal, the hospital could employ only people who endorsed late-term abortions.

Dr Durie is bringing a motion about late-term abortion to the annual Anglican synod, which opened in Melbourne last night.

He calls on the state government to answer five questions about late-term abortions:

■ How many are happening, and how late?

■ What are the reasons for the abortions?

■ Are those born alive receiving medical care, or what is their cause of death?

■ What has been the effect on staff morale at the Royal Women’s Hospital?

■ What has been the effect on staff recruitment?

He said in one case – not at the Women’s – a trainee was deeply traumatised when she was told to drop a living foetus in a bucket of formaldehyde.

The Anglican diocese of Melbourne backed decriminalising abortion in its submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission review in 2007. Archdeacon Alison Taylor told The Age at the time that in some circumstances, such as foetal abnormality, abortion was the ”the least problematic solution”.

The Anglican diocese of Melbourne was, predictably, on the wrong side of this issue; let’s hope that that changes.

Abortion in Canada has been legal and unrestricted since 1988. In spite of its pretensions to speak on social justice matters with a “prophetic voice”, the Anglican Church of Canada continues to maintain a mealy-mouthed silence about abortion, including late-term abortion and the fate of aborted babies that survive – until being dropped into formaldehyde.

The Love of God

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One of our older parishioners handed me a note a couple of weeks ago that began: “Here is a lyric I wrote for the children about a century ago”. There aren’t many people who can say that – he is well into his 90s. The note went on to ask me if I’d like to set a tune to it; here it is:

Carleton University pro-life student demonstrators arrested

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Jason MacDonald, Carleton’s director of communications, told LifeSiteNews that student groups are not normally permitted use of the quad for displays.  “In addition, the content of the Genocide Awareness Project has been found to be disturbing and offensive to some by the courts and human rights tribunals in other jurisdictions (BC for instance),” he wrote in an e-mail.

Apparently, the right of an adult not to be offended outweighs the right of an unborn child not to be murdered.

Pornographic art portraying Jesus provokes outrage

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An exhibit at a Colorado art gallery is stirring up outrage from critics who say it depicts Jesus Christ in a sexual act.

Enrique Chagoya’s “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals,” created in 2003, is a multipanel piece in which “cultural and religious icons are presented with humor and placed in contradictory, unexpected and sometimes controversial contexts,” the artist’s publisher, Shark’s Ink, said on its website.

The lithograph, on display since Sept. 11 at the tax-funded Loveland Museum Gallery in Loveland, Colo., is part of an 82-print exhibit by 10 artists who have worked with Colorado printer Bud Shark. It includes several images of Jesus, including one in which he appears to be receiving oral sex from a man as the word “orgasm” appears beside Jesus’ head.

Amidst worldwide Christian rioting, hundreds have been killed, taxpayers in Colorado have taken tax inspectors hostage in a local mosque – sorry, cultural centre – President Obama has called the exhibit “un-American”, media are refusing to publish photos for fears of reprisals and imams in notorious Islamo-fascist theocracies say they can’t understand what all the fuss is about.

The Archbishop of Canterbury is calling for dialogue with the artist.

Climate change evangelists blowing up the opposition

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A British ad for a climate change campaign shows corporate workers, a famous soccer player and even school children being blown up for not agreeing to cut their carbon emissions, a blood-splattering display that has drawn anger from critics and sheepish embarrassment from its supporters.

The short film, “No Pressure,” which promotes the U.K.’s 10:10 climate change campaign, debuted on the campaign’s website Friday. It depicts a school teacher, a corporate boss and a soccer coach asking their respective students, employees and players to participate in the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon emissions. Despite being told there is “no pressure” to join the cause, those who say they don’t plan to participate are immediately blown up by their superiors with the push of a button; the others are left standing in awe and covered in bloody remains.

he 10:10 campaign said that the video was intended to revive the issue of climate change in the media in a way that would make people laugh. To a degree, it said, it succeeded.

“Many people found the resulting film extremely funny, but unfortunately some didn’t and 10:10 would like to apologize to everybody who was offended by the film,” 10:10 said in a statement Friday.

It wasn’t extremely funny; for it to be extremely funny, it would have had to have had Lord Moncton blowing up Al Gore and David Suzuki.

Here is the less than extremely funny version:

What does the Anglican Church stand for?

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A question posed by The Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolosi here:

Did you know that more people around the world can identify the golden arches of McDonald’s than the cross of Jesus Christ?

Why is that?

Ask any bystander what the Anglican Church of Canada stands for and you will probably get a blank stare.

If it comes to that, ask any Anglican and you will probably get a blank stare. The Anglican Church of Canada has gone to great pains not to stand unequivocally for the foundational beliefs of the faith for which it thinks it is a merchant. Bishops and priests routinely dither on questions of Jesus’ divinity, his atoning sacrifice on the cross, his bodily resurrection and man’s innate sinfulness. Many priests say that they cannot, in good conscience, recite the creeds and some no longer hold with antiquated ideas such as heaven and hell.

Perhaps that is why.

Irritating word of the month

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And the winner is “rhetoric”.

Why? Because its primary meaning according to the Oxford Dictionary is:

n. the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, esp. the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

A special usage is as follows:

<SPECIAL USAGE> language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but is often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content: all we have from the opposition is empty rhetoric.

I defy anyone to find a recent example where it is used to mean “effective or persuasive speaking or writing.” Instead, we find it relentlessly and tiresomely overused in its secondary meaning when the speaker or writer has no intention of addressing what was actually contained in the “rhetoric”.

The Diocese of New Westminster has a Facebook page

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Unsurprisingly, it is billed as an example of the thing Canadian Anglicans do best: “Anglican Conversation”, a kind of Lostde-spiritualised glossolalia which, to distinguish it from the real thing, has no meaning in human or heavenly realms and, thus, cannot benefit from the gift of interpretation.

As of this writing, it has 36 people – I don’t think all are Ingham’s relatives – who like it, most of whom also belong to groups like “People of faith opposed to the burning of the Koran” (I have added “people of faith” to my annoying phrases list) and” Telling Pat Robertson to STFU” (unless he is reading from the Koran).

For those who want to “like” it, it’s here. I’m afraid there is no “dislike” button.