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UK elections and homosexual marriage

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Messing with Marriage while the Kids Rape Each Other -- Cameron Redefines England Almost exactly a year to the day after she announced the UK's LibLabCon covert three-way coalition's gay marriage legislative blitzkrieg, Tory Culture Secretary Maria Miller is at it again. Well she hasn't really stopped, since, as she says, she has been 'working hard'* to make this happen. Yes, she is bringing forward the first day on which two people of the same sex can mimic a marriage ceremony by a full three months to  March 29th 2014 , just before Easter.  Why the indecent hurry? Eagerness to satisfy cash rich gay Tory paymasters for sure, and maybe to bask in the glow of approval from their Labour and LibDem collaborators in the Westminster bubble as well. But the single overriding motive must be to get the media hype about this PR atrocity as far away from the May 2014 local council elections and 2015 general election as possible.  Here's a neutral take

Homosexual couple demand church wedding or take church to court!

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Less than two weeks after the coalition government’s gay “marriage” bill was signed into law, a homosexual man has launched a lawsuit against a Church of England parish in Maldon for refusing him and his civil partner the lavish church wedding of their dreams. Barrie Drewitt-Barlow told the Essex Chronicle that he has launched the suit because, despite the law, “I am still not getting what I want.” Section 9 of the Marriage ( Same Sex Couples ) Act 2013, which comes into effect next year, grants anyone in a civil partnership the ability to convert that partnership into a “marriage.” But the law contains measures specifically to preclude unwilling churches from being forced to participate. Barrie Drewitt-Barlow, left, with boyfriend Tony. Drewitt-Barlow said, “The only way forward for us now is to make a challenge in the courts against the church. It is a shame that we are forced to take Christians into a court to get them to recognize us.” “But we don't want to fo

Anglican bishops in House of Lords were pressured to withdraw from immoral homosexual ‘marriage’ vote

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WESTMINSTER ,  – Anglican bishops who sit in the House of Lords and oppose the same-sex “marriage” bill were put under pressure to keep away from the vote on the bill yesterday. John Bingham, Religious Affairs Editor of the Daily Telegraph ,  reported  that “senior officials” of the government had “personally urged bishops to stay away from this week’s vote.”  Bingham explains that there were fears that a large bloc of Christian clergy – 26 bishops are entitled to sit in the House of Lords – voting against the “gay marriage” bill could have an impact on the future of their presence in the House, and even re-open the question of disestablishment of the Church of England . The bishops were reportedly told that the current bill is the “best they can hope for”. The House of Lords Fears that the bill might be defeated with the help of the bishops were unfounded. The bill  passed overwhelmingly  in its first vote, 390 – 148 in favor.  Prior to the vote a letter, signed by 30 Ev

New Archbishop of Canterbury promises to 'listen very attentively to the LGBT communities'

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LONDON, November 9, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – Prime Minister David Cameron has chosen Justin Welby , the former bishop of Durham, as the new Archbishop of Canterbury to replace Rowan Williams . Welby has wasted no time in revealing his interests and intentions regarding the hot button issues facing the Church of England like homosexuality in the clergy and the ordination of female bishops. In comments that are unlikely to settle any of the disputes within the 77 million member global Anglican Communion , Welby said he agrees with the Church of England bishops’ opposition to “gay marriage” but wholeheartedly supports the ordination of women. “In 10 days or so the general Synod will vote on the ordination of women as bishops,” he said. “I will be voting in favour and join my voice to many others in urging the Synod to go forward with this change.” In a brief speech following the announcement of his appointment, Welby said he supports the decision of the House of Bishops to oppo

A Response to the Government Equalities Office Consultation -“Equal Civil Marriage”- from the Church of England

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Summary The Church of England cannot support the proposal to enable ―all couples, regardless of their gender, to have a civil marriage ceremony .  Such a move would alter the intrinsic nature of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, as enshrined in human institutions throughout history. Marriage benefits society in many ways, not only by promoting mutuality and fidelity, but also by acknowledging an underlying biological complementarity which, for many, includes the possibility of procreation.  We have supported various legal changes in recent years to remove unjustified discrimination and create greater legal rights for same sex couples and we welcome that fact that previous legal and material inequities between heterosexual and same-sex partnerships have now been satisfactorily addressed.   To change the nature of marriage for everyone will be divisive and deliver no obvious legal gains given the rights already conferred by civil partnerships . We also believe