LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM? ROFLMAO

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Wesleyan University has a mission statement that says it is “dedicated to providing an education in the liberal arts that is characterized by boldness, rigor, and practical idealism.”

They should have included unintended tasteless humour, because one of the residences proclaims that it is a safe haven for “LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM communities”

Open House is a safe space for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Flexual, Asexual, Genderfuck, Polyamourous, Bondage/Disciple, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism (LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM) communities and for people of sexually or gender dissident communities. The goals of Open House include generating interest in a celebration of queer life from the social to the political to the academic. Open House works to create a Wesleyan community that appreciates the variety and vivacity of gender, sex and sexuality.

That’s 15 “communities” crammed into one small house all, when taking a well-earned break from singing  Thou Hidden Source of Calm Repose, engaging in varieties of “vivacity of gender, sex and sexuality”. Or, to put it more succinctly: living in an overcrowded brothel – with rigor, and practical idealism.

Climate scientist delivers message of doom to Anglican Cathedral

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I know this isn’t particularly surprising – to really shock I’d need news that someone preached the Gospel in an Anglican cathedral – but here it is anyway:

In a winter when much of Canada has endured frigid temperatures and heavy snowfall, it may be hard for some to take climate change seriously.

But the deep freeze many of us have experienced this winter, said renowned climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, is actually connected to the overall warming of the planet.

“Massive snows are a symptom of climate change. A warmer planet increases the risk of heavy snowfall too,” Hayhoe told about 140 people who gathered on Feb. 19 to hear her speak at St. George’s Cathedral in Kingston, Ont. The diocese of Ontario’s Green Group, with support from the Sisters of Providence of Saint Vincent de Paul organized the event.

In the year 2000, before global warming was surreptitiously renamed “climate change”, in the halcyon days before climategate, Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, said:

within a few years winter snowfall will become “a very rare and exciting event”

He was speaking of Britain which has been buried in winter snow ever since.

Still, as I remind myself every time I step outside and my nose hairs frost over, even though the science was settled  in 2000, it has now resettled and, in its resettling, is telling us that a warming planet is actually making it colder. What could be more obvious: you just have to have faith in the climate scientists. Particularly the ones who lecture in Anglican cathedrals.

What, according to Katharine Hayhoe, must we do?

A small and personal starting point is to measure our carbon footprint and see what changes we can make to reduce it.

Hayhoe flew from Texas to St. George’s Cathedral in Kingston Ontario to deliver that pietism, on an aeroplane that burns four litres of jet fuel per second, placing around two tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per person. And if, as we can only hope, she returns, she will do it all again.

So why should we listen to her?

Justin Welby: the secret of being an archbishop is to be reconciled to your own embarrassment

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From here:

The Archbishop of Canterbury has said it is “embarrassing” that posts in the Church of England are being advertised for less than the living wage despite the Church’s declared commitment to the principle.

[….]

The living wage commitment was included in the controversial bishops’ pastoral letter, ‘Who is my Neighbour?’, released last week.
Speaking at a conference in Birmingham today for business and Church leaders, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that the revelation was “embarrassing”. However, the Press Association reported: “But in the light of transparency, which I welcome, I will say we are a complex institution and every parish church and cathedral is an independent charity, as is every diocese.

“We don’t have a centralised method of control.

“I’m not very keen on centralised control where, from far away, you tell people what to do.”

If only Welby took the same view when it comes to the government. The Pastoral Letter issued by Church of England Bishops expends a torrent of verbiage on telling everyone what to do – when it isn’t waxing lyrical on the virtues of centralised control.

As it happens, I reported on the Church’s stingy salaries in July 2014, so Welby has no excuse for being unaware of this: he just needs to read Anglican Samizdat.

March 5th is climate fast day

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On March the fifth, luminaries from Canadian Anglican and Lutheran churches, along with green politicians and assorted Gaia hangers on, will fast for climate change. The fasters include well known climatologists, Bishop Fred Hiltz and Bishop Susan Johnson. I hope they are successful because the climate needs to change: it was -24C in Oakville yesterday. Personally, I have set aside March 5th to have dinner at the local Mandarin where I will eat as much as possible.

The organiser of this worthy venture is Jennifer Henry from Kairos Canada. She reckons that the justice we most desperately need is not justice for the unborn who are routinely murdered in their thousands or for the increasing number of Christians who are being beheaded, tortured or displaced in so many places but climate justice, a incoherence which has no discernible meaning since climate is an inanimate phenomenon to which it is no more possible to act unjustly than to a bowl of porridge.

Still, to look on the bright side, Bishops not eating for a whole day will considerably reduce global flatulence; now if only they could be persuaded to stop talking.

From here:

“Fasting has long roots in our faith tradition,” says Henry. “The fast that God requires is justice and the justice we most desperately need is climate justice for all people who have been impacted, and will be impacted, by the current ecological catastrophe. Fasting for one day is a small gesture of solidarity for the hardship so many now face. Each and every one of our voices is essential to demand of the federal government an effective strategy to meet science-based emissions reductions targets in the lead up to the climate conference in Paris later this year.”

February and March are assigned to North Americans who are hungry for action on climate change. Notable leaders who agreed to fast one day during this period include the Rev. Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada (March 6); Rev. Susan Johnson, National Bishop, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (February 14); Rev. Mark MacDonald, the National Indigenous Bishop, Anglican Church of Canada (March 16); Mardi Tindal, Immediate Past Moderator, The United Church of Canada (March 19); Joe Gunn, Executive Director, Citizens for Public Justice (February 1); Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada (March 12); and Bill McKibben, author and co-founder of 350.org (March 30). Connie Sorio, KAIROS’ Ecological Justice Partnership Coordinator, will join the fast on February 28.

Eco Bishops burn jet fuel to bemoan carbon emissions

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Various bishops – they call themselves “Eco Bishops” – are going to meet in Cape Town next week to commiserate together on how everyone else is causing global warming by producing too much carbon dioxide.

Canada has its very own Eco Bishops – I feel so proud; among them are: Jane Alexander, bishop of Edmonton and Mark MacDonald, National Indigenous Bishop.

My favourite sentence from the ACNS article is:

The goal is to strategise together in order strategies for raising the issue of climate change and environmental degradation throughout the global Anglican Church.

Only the Anglican News Service could come up with such a lucid definition of what this is all about. I have to admit, though, they have one thing right: there really is “environmental degradation throughout the global Anglican Church”; although, the global Anglican Church is more disintegrating than degrading.

Vatican priest threatens to sue Catholic blogger

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Fr. Thomas Rosica, Vatican spokesperson, has threatened to sue David Domet of Vox Cantoris for his allegedly libellous blog posts.

From here:

On February 18th 2015, it was reported on churchmilitant.tv that Fr. Thomas Rosica had issued threat of lawsuit against David Domet, of the Catholic blog “Vox Cantoris”. In the document issued from Folger, Rubinoff LLP, Domet is accused of having made false and defamatory statements about Rosica. David Domet has been critical of the outspoken and progressive positions of Fr. Thomas Rosica on church affairs.

If a lawsuit does come to fruition, it would be an unprecedented action for a Vatican official to bring litigious action against a private citizen and member of the church for expressing a critical opinion of the Vatican hierarchy.

The document from Folger, Rubinoff LLP, demands that nine statements, made by Domet, be retracted from the blog and a public apology to Rosica must be posted. It also notes that compliance with a retraction and apology will not remove the threat of litigation, but will merely reduce alleged damages.

Here is the report that the Wikipedia article references:

While even the threat of being sued is, at best, disagreeable, David Domet should be thankful he is not an Anglican. In my case, Bishop Michael Bird bypassed requests, threats, warnings and cease and desist letters, going, instead, straight for the jugular by suing me for $400,000 over posts I had made about him.

Only in Canada; I don’t think the clergy would get away with this in the U.S.

Diocese of New Westminster’s eco-quackery unit stirs up debate

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As well it might. It wants to increase sales tax in order to improve the well-being of “those who really struggle financially”. I’m surprised this hasn’t occurred to anyone before: take more money away from the impoverished to improve their lot; a lie so audaciously brazen everyone thinks it clever.

The increase in sales tax is to be used to fund more public transport – a worthy endeavour, no doubt, but one which the poor will not enjoy because their taxes have gone up and they won’t be able to afford it.

This is known as eco-justice, the latest Anglican replacement for the long outmoded pie-in-the-sky, fundamentalist fantasy of eternal salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Who needs that when there is public transit?

Still, there’s probably no sales tax in hell, so it could be an improvement over living in Vancouver.

From here:

As Metro Vancouver residents prepare to vote in an upcoming transit referendum, members of the Diocese of New Westminster Eco-Justice Unit are hoping to promote discussion on wider issues of social and ecological justice.

Starting on March 16 and running through May 29, Elections B.C. will administer a plebiscite through a mail-in ballot in which voters will be asked to approve a 0.5 per cent increase to the Provincial Sales Tax in order to fund new transit projects.

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“Metro Vancouver Alliance is committed to a Yes [vote],” Marquardt said. “But let’s talk about it. Let’s think about it. Let’s engage people. Let’s think about what our role is as Anglicans in terms of reflecting ecologically, theologically and [on] the well-being [of] those who really struggle financially…being able to get where they need to go.”

So there you have it: Anglicans are still helping people get where they need to go. The only difference is that the destination used to be heaven, now it is a stop on the Millennium Line Skytrain.

The Church of England Labour Party

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The Church of England has issued a pastoral letter – a euphemism for thinly disguised propaganda designed to nudge the unwary into trendy ecclesiastical green socialism – to guide the British public on which party to vote for in the forthcoming election.

As this article notes, the letter is ‘a combination of the policies of the Greens, SNP and the Labour Party.”

Even more damaging is this:

In a particularly cutting remark former Tory minister Lord Tebbit, after describing the Bishops as “mostly wrong” said, “In my experience, when people are not doing very well in their own job, they become very much better at telling other people how to do theirs.”

Tebbit is correct. The Church of England bishops have made such a calamitous mess of the Church of England that it is astonishing that they have the chutzpah to think that anyone would listen to their recipe for creating a better society.

Even worse, a non-Christian who reads this letter and does not share the bishops’ leftist bias – who thinks they are “mostly wrong” – has no reason to listen to anything else the bishops might say: the message of the Gospel, for example, a smattering of which is contained in the letter. By playing at politics, the bishops are jeopardising the souls of those to whom they should be offering the apolitical salvation of Jesus Christ.

Much of what is in the letter is twaddle. The social cohesion the bishops would like to see flourish cannot be achieved through politics. When it existed, it was a result of a common understanding that the moral foundation the society was Christianity. The Church should have defended this with all its might; instead, it pandered to the false gods of diversity, inclusion, equality, eco-justice, multiculturalism and inter-faith nonsense.

Politics alone cannot correct this and, sadly, on the spiritual side of the battle the church has already capitulated to the enemy.

Sizer’s Demise

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Stephen Sizer is a Church of England evangelical, a member of Reform and a supporter of GAFCON. He also seems to hate Israel, a character flaw that has finally caught up with him: the Church of England has banned him from commenting on the Middle East and from using social media.

In 2009 he objected strenuously to my calling him barmy, a view of which I have yet to be disabused.

Here he is posing with his terrorist friend, Yasser Arafat:

Sizer Arafat

And here is the Bishop of Guildford attempting to repair the latest damage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiyBVexNcT0#t=87