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Manchester installs LGBT traffic lights to honor Pride

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Traffic lights are the newest way localities have found to express solidarity with the homosexual agenda...in Manchester, at least. August 24-27 will see the annual Manchester Pride Festival , an event featuring an LGBT “pride” parade, a candlelight vigil for victims of HIV, a variety of musical performances, film premieres and art displays, dancing, karaoke, and more. The pro-LGBT PinkNews reports that in honor of the festivities, parts of the city have received custom pedestrian crossing lights that replace the lights’ traditional walking figures with pairs of gender symbols denoting homosexual relationships. “These diversity images on traffic lights” help to “engage organizations to provide greater visibility” in a “fun and engaging way,” Manchester Pride chief executive Mark Fletcher claimed. The lights were inspired by similar lights made in 2016 for homosexual “pride” events in Bournemouth and London. “Diversity and inclusivity are very important to Siemens, and this is a gre...

UK street preacher receives £13,000 in damages after arrest for calling homosexual acts a sin

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Christian Legal Centre (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) MANCHESTER, UK , April 1, 2014  – The spate of Christian preachers being arrested for repeating the Biblical prohibitions against homosexual activity may be coming to an end with the awarding of £13,000 in damages to 57 year-old street preacher John Craven of Manchester. In September 2011, Mr. Craven was held by police in a cell for 19 hours after he was arrested by Greater Manchester Police for saying in a public area that homosexual activity is a sin. John Craven The compensation is an out-of-court settlement for “wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and breach of his human rights.” In total, the Manchester Police will have to pay £50,000, including legal fees. Craven released a statement saying he had “never intended to cause anyone harassment, alarm or distress” with his preaching. He said his Bible-based Christian message means “good news and the love of God for all.” Craven said that in his preaching, he em...

UK court vindicates Christian demoted for opposing gay ‘marriage’

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MANCHESTER, November 23, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A court in Manchester has ruled that when Adrian Smith wrote on Facebook that he objected to government plans to create “same-sex marriage.” he was not committing an act of “ professional misconduct .” Smith, 55, a property manager in Manchester, was demoted and had his pay cut by his employers , who alleged that his comment constituted an act of “gross professional misconduct.” Smith had commented on his Facebook page that the redefinition of marriage planned by the coalition government is “an equality too far.” “The Bible is quite specific that marriage is for men and women,” Smith wrote. “If the State wants to offer civil marriages to the same sex then that is up to the State; but the State shouldn’t impose its rules on places of faith and conscience.” Adrian Smith The court ruled that Smith’s employer, Trafford Housing Trust, a branch of the local municipal government , had acted unlawfully in breaching th...

Victory for UK Christian demoted over gay marriage comments

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A judge has today ruled that bosses at a housing trust were wrong to demote a manager who said gay weddings in churches would be "an equality too far". Adrian Smith , a Christian, made the remark on his personal Facebook page, which was not visible to the general public, outside work time. But bosses at Trafford Housing Trust, near Manchester , took action against Mr Smith saying the comments amounted to ' gross misconduct ' and could bring the Trust into disrepute. Mr Smith went to court with the financial backing of The Christian Institute 's Legal Defence Fund, which exists to protect the civil liberty of Christians . It emerged in evidence that the Trust was worried it could lose a gay rights charter award unless it took action against Mr Smith. But today the judge, Mr Justice Briggs, said the Trust had no right to demote Mr Smith over his Facebook comments, and ruled that the Trust had breached the terms of his contract. Mr Smith says he is delighted to h...

Male cross-dressing ‘lesbian’ couple ‘marries’ after one has sex change surgery

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CLWYD, Wales, November 22, 2011 - A cross-dressing British man was allowed to “marry” his cross-dressing male partner after he underwent gender re-assignment surgery , the Daily Mail reports . 65-year-old “Jenny-Anne” (Paul) Bishop and 68-year-old “ Elen ” (Alan) Heart at their "wedding." 65-year-old “Jenny-Anne” (Paul) Bishop and 68-year-old “Elen” (Alan) Heart both had wives and children before each divorced and entered a homosexual relationship with each other in 2004, in which the two cross-dressed as a “lesbian” pair. While UK law does not permit same-sex ‘marriage’, it does recognize the “new gender” of a person who has undergone surgery to assume the physical features of the opposite sex. Therefore, the couple ‘married’ at Manchester ’s Metropolitan Community Church  (This is a fake church please note this is not a genuine church but a homosexual church for homosexuals. It is not seen as a genuine church) after Bishop underwent cosmetic surgery to appear more fema...

Christian demoted, pay docked, for ‘mild’ comments on gay ‘marriage’ in churches

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Image via CrunchBase MANCHESTER, October 24, 2011 – A Christian property manager in England has been demoted, taken a £14,000/year pay cut and narrowly avoided the sack for commenting on Facebook that Christian churches should not be forced to participate in same-sex union ceremonies. 54-year-old Adrian Smith was declared by a tax-funded housing trust to be guilty of “ gross misconduct ” after he called allowing same-sex ceremonies in churches “an equality too far” in a Facebook comment thread. 54-year-old Adrian Smith was found guilty of "gross misconduct" by The Trafford Housing Trust. Writing on his own Facebook page, which was not accessible to anyone other than his Facebook friends, Smith had responded to a BBC news item about a controversial new law that would allow churches to conduct same-sex union ceremonies. Asked if his comment meant that he did not approve of the proposed law, Smith wrote, “No, not really. I don’t understand why people who have no faith and d...