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UK Christian blogger under investigation by gov’t ad authority for running pro-marriage ad

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LONDON, May 18, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A prominent British Christian conservative ‘blogger is under attack from a government agency, at the behest of a homosexualist activist group, for supporting the defence of traditional marriage. Going by the pseudonym “ Archbishop Cranmer ” the ‘blogger has become an influential, tongue-in-cheek voice for social and moral conservatism critiquing liberal Britain, and is particularly popular with social conservatives within the Conservative Party .   Cranmer came under investigation by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) when he posted an ad for the petition being run by the Coalition for Marriage that recently tipped over half a million signatures, including  those  of several members of the House of Lords . He has been given until May 21 to answer the accusations against him from an alleged 24 anonymous complainants. He wrote that he was “instructed by the ‘Investigations Executive’ of this inquisition to keep all this confidenti

Homosexuality is an abomination is not homophobia

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Image via Wikipedia The Irish High Court today overturned a decision by the Belfast Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) that banned a Belfast Christian church ’s ad on account of “homophobia.” The ad, published by Sandown Free Presbyterian Church in August 2008, was banned by the ASA for stating that sodomy is a “grave offense” to Christians and quoting such Biblical passages as Leviticus 18:22.   The church’s full-page ad was published immediately prior to a gay pride march and in response to the previous year’s march, in which a banner was carried that said, “Jesus is a fag.” The ASA said the ad was “forceful, confrontational, and threatening to a section of the community.”  After receiving seven complaints that the ad was homophobic, the ASA determined the church could not advertise in that form. Sandown church challenged the ban in September 2009 and today won their case. In his ruling on the case, High Court Justice Treacy said the context of the ad was important in c