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Catholic Labor MP's Experience equals homosexual ignorance

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A Labour Party Member of Parliament who said that she voted for the government’s “gay marriage” despite her Catholic faith , “seems to be suffering from the modern disease of terminal non-judgmentalism,” said one of the country’s top advocates of traditional marriage today. “This is not surprising, considering the way in which the dictatorship of relativism has not been resisted in many Catholic homes, schools and churches,” added Anthony Ozimic, communications manager for the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), who have been leading a national campaign against the bill. Catherine McKinnell Catherine McKinnell, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North ,  said during debate  on the bill in the Commons that she was speaking not as someone who believes “strongly that either side of the argument is absolutely right, but because I can see both sides.” She said that her views were “inextricably bound” to her “experience,” and that though she had struggled with ...

UK bishops distribute 1 million postcards against gay ‘marriage’

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LONDON , January 30, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to the Catholic bishops , the UK government ’s proposed gay "marriage" bill eviscerates the meaning and content of marriage, reducing it to an institution divorced from its fundamental biological and social functions. Over the weekend, the Catholic bishops conference of England and Wales distributed one million postcards for churchgoers to send to MPs asking for the defeat of the legislation. Marriage , they said, cannot be understood unless it is "seen as intimately related to the conception and rearing of children”. But it is precisely this understanding that the government’s bill throws out. “Marriage,” they said, “is not only the institutional recognition of love and commitment. Marriage, as legally recognised in this country, is also the institutional recognition of a unique kind of relationship in which children are raised by their birth-parents. Even if this is not always possible in practice, the l...

‘Gay marriage’ push triggering ‘unprecedented’ response: Leading British pro-lifer

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David Cameron's picture on the 10 Downing Street website (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) LONDON, March 22, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - Only a “huge mobilisation” of the public, guided and encouraged by strong and united religious leadership, will stop the Cameron government from instituting “gay marriage,” the head of Britain’s leading pro-life organisation told LifeSiteNews.com today. John Smeaton , director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children ( SPUC ) said in an interview that he is “reasonably optimistic” about the prospect looming ahead. Despite the undeniable fact that David Cameron ’s “New Tory” government is “expressing its determination” to force a redefinition of marriage, Smeaton said that in today’s Britain, the public have become more aware of their rights and duties, and he predicts a “very big reaction against these plans.” A major part of this reaction, he predicted, is going to be an unprecedented coalition of Christian denominations and other religi...

British pro-life group launches campaign against gay marriage

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LONDON, England , January 11, 2012 - ( spuc.org ) -  The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has launched a campaign against the Westminster government’s proposals for same-sex marriage. SPUC has published  a position paper  on same-sex marriage following a resolution by SPUC’s Council last month. SPUC has also made available a  background paper  to be read in conjunction with the position paper and which provides some additional references and reflections. SPUC is the world’s oldest pro-life lobbying and educational organisation, founded in 1967. SPUC states that: - Marriage - the permanent, exclusive union of one man and one woman - is the basis of the family, the fundamental group unit of society. Upholding marriage is therefore in everyone’s interests. - Marriage as an institution protects children, both born and unborn. Statistics show that unborn children are much safer within marriage than outside marriage. - Same-sex marriage lacks ba...