UK: More prison space for Christians
“The government had better start building more prison space — for Christians and moral conservatives generally,” says an editorial in recent edition of the Church of England Newspaper (founded 1828).
Why? A couple of reasons: The Labour government wants to make it illegal to express opinions on homosexual lifestyle. Secondly, the same government wants to force – by law – Churches and religious organizations to employ people who engage in homosexual practices.
Andrea Williams, Director of Christian Concern for our Nation commented: “This is a new attempt to impose the State’s secularist agenda on the Church and gag Christians from teaching and living out what the Bible says about sexual ethics.”
This is yet another secular intolerance against the church – in the name of tolerance. Sigh!
The Church of England Newspaper comments: “So Christians, and of course Muslims and others who just disagree, are being told to shut up and get into their closet — the gays are not tolerant of dissent and have got the state to crack-down.”
Recent cases illustrate the intolerant trend against Christians: Kwabena Peat, a Christian teacher spoke out against homosexual propaganda on a school training day and found himself suspended. David Booker, working at a homeless charity was also suspended after answering questions from a colleague about his views on homosexuality.
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As an American I have seen over the years our soldiers protect our rights as citizens whether gay or not. The direction I see is that any disagreement will be grounds for criminal charges in the future.
I disagree with this. As a Christian I respect the rights and views of others but I can still share my opinion without being mean-spirited. If you check the Biblical calender-prophecy , and the spirit of the day you will see me losing my rights and the world rejecting Biblical teaching-discipline.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding the attacks on Sept. 11).
Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives.
And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school .... the Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued (there's a big difference between disciplining, touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.).. And we said OK.
Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell their parents.. And we said OK.
Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they want so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said OK.
Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with them, we said it doesn't matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as I have a job and the economy is good.
Then someone said let's print magazines with pictures of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female body. And we said OK.
And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and then further again by making them available on the Internet. And we said OK, they're entitled to free speech.
Then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. Let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we said it's just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.
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Attend church regularly, listen to your Pastor/Officer, and invite your friends in order to AVOID TRUTH DECAY !
Freedom of speech is a right for all. Judging others is not.
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