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Seven-year-old donates to LA gay centre

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From here:

A seven-year-old has donated $140 to the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) because he doesn’t think it’s right for gay people not to be treated equally.
The child, called Malcolm, was given $140 by his parents to donate to the charity of his choice. He chose to split the money between the gay centre and the HRC.

The cheque was accompanied by a hand written note that read: “I am sending you this money because I don’t think it’s fair that Gay people are not treated equally,” Malcom writes on the check [sic].”

When I was seven, the concept of homosexuality was something to which I was completely oblivious: had someone attempted to explain it to me, I would not have believed them on the grounds that it is both emotionally and mechanically too improbable.

Not so for today’s seven-year old; no doubt some see that as progress.

Rowan Williams: "words have results"

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He’s right: it’s a shame that Rowan so often employs words to obscure what he is thinking rather than clarify it, though.

Rowan Williams places the blame for David Kato’s murder squarely on those in Uganda who routinely vilify homosexuals with – words.

From here:

Dr Williams said Mr Kato’s murder illustrated the fact “words have results”.

“You cannot go around sharing information about the identity of proposed lesbian and gay persons and urging people to ostracise them or worse ‘Hang Them’ as in the headlines of one of the Ugandan newspapers,” he said, speaking to the media at the Emmaus retreat centre in Swords, Co Dublin.

“You cannot do that without taking responsibility for the consequences. Language which demonises gays and lesbians has consequences.”

As it turns out, it is quite probable that Kato’s murder had less to do with inflammatory anti-homosexual newspaper articles than it did with a criminal whom Kato paid – not enough apparently – to have sex with him.

From here:

“We have taken him to Mukono Magistrate’s Court to record an extrajudicial statement,” the source said. “He told us that he killed Kato after he failed to give him a car, a house and money he promised as rewards for having sex with him,” the source said.

Kato is alleged to have bailed the suspect out of Kawuga Prison on January 24, where he been remanded on charges of theft of a mobile phone. The suspect told police that he stayed with Kato for two days. He accused the deceased of having sex with him and promising to pay him during the period.

The suspect allegedly told the police he got tired of having sex with Kato but the latter would not have any of his excuses. “The suspect said he left the bedroom, went to a store and picked a hammer which he used to hit him [Kato] while he was still in bed,” the source said.

Rowan’s statements aren’t particularly surprising: at the Dublin Primates’ meeting no-one was allowed to talk about homosexuality at all, so the subject had to be introduced somehow.

Katharine Jefferts-Schori laments:

His murder deprives his people of a significant and effective voice, and we pray that the world may learn from his gentle and quiet witness, and begin to receive a heart of flesh in place of a heart of stone.

Not only that, of course: those imprisoned for stealing mobile phones have one less person to bail them out as a gentle and quiet witness – or for sex.

The Ugandan murder rate is around nine people per day which means that on the day Kato was killed, eight other people were too. There were no denunciations from prominent Anglicans for the other eight murders; so much for inclusion.

The adoption mess in the UK

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From here:

A leading children’s charity complained yesterday that too many people think gays make inferior parents.

A survey by Barnardo’s said nearly a third of the public think heterosexual couples make better parents than same-sex couples.

The charity’s new chief said that prejudice against gays is harming the chances for young people in the care system winning new homes through adoption.

In 2008, a Christian couple were turned down as foster parents – even though they had already fostered 15 children – by the Derby city council because the couple would not “agree to tell any children in their care that homosexual lifestyles were acceptable” and the children would have to attend church. Pretty sinister.

From here:

Lawyers are to seek a judicial review of a decision by social workers to ban a Christian couple from fostering young children because they refused to sign up to new gay equality laws.

The action against Labour-controlled Derby City Council is likely to become a test case for the Government’s Sexual Orientation Regulations. Social workers rejected an application by Eunice and Owen Johns, who have four grown-up children, to be foster parents because they refused to agree to tell any children in their care that homosexual lifestyles were acceptable.

The couple, who have been married for 39 years, had applied to offer weekend respite care for foster children under the age of 10.

But the adoption panel was also unhappy that the couple was adamant that any child in their home would have to go to church with them on Sundays. Mrs Johns, a retired nurse, is a Sunday school teacher.

The rejection is being challenged in court, but it’s hard to be optimistic for the couple: as of 2010 in the UK, Christian adoption agencies in the UK have been forced to close for much the same reason.

From here:

Nearly every Christian adoption agency in the United Kingdom has been forced to close after resisting the government’s equality laws.

The legislation prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation, and requires adoption agencies to consider same-sex couples as potential parents.

However, Christian agencies say they can’t comply because homosexuality goes against their beliefs.

Since the U.K. equality bill was passed in April, the number of adopted foster care children has dropped by 30 percent, and it’s estimated there are 4,000 children still awaiting adoption.

Clearly, the UK’s adoption strategy is not one of finding enough caring people to adopt children, but of finding enough people who are either in or approve of same-sex relationships to adopt children. And all the better if they are anti-Christian.

The Elton John cover-up

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A US chain store deemed a magazine cover featuring Elton John’s family so offensive, it was covered to “protect” young shoppers.

The manager of the Harps store in Mountain Home, Arkansas, placed a “modesty shield” over the issue of US Weekly, despite John, his civil partner David Furnish and baby Zachary all being fully clothed.

Local resident Jennifer Huddleston took a picture of the shield and posted it on Twitter.

“This was taken at my local grocery store,’ she wrote on the social networking site. “I was shocked and horrified.”

“They are saying they need to keep children from seeing it, because it is a gay family.”

Harps said at first that they had no opinion on the matter but company president Kim Eskew later said the shield had been removed.

“In this case our store manager received some complaints and, as has been our custom, placed the shield over the cover of the magazine,” she said.

“When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any shield.

“Our true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which when brought to our attention we reversed.”

The fact is, today you can barely do anything without offending someone; so you might just as well concentrate on doing a thorough job of offending someone you thoroughly disagree with.

Rowan Williams’ differing reactions to persecution

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Rowan Williams condemned the murder of David Kato in Kampala. He went on to urge the British government to provide asylum for other homosexuals who might be in danger in Uganda.

All very proper, of course; except I don’t remember him pressuring the UK government to accept Iranian homosexual refugees – who, after all, are in considerably more danger than those in Uganda.

Rowan seems to enjoy impossible balancing acts: not satisfied with trying to indaba together the two incompatible religions represented by liberal and conservative Anglicanism, he is now trying to denounce anti-homosexual factions in other nations without implicating the most enthusiastically systematic abusers of homosexuals now extant – Muslims.

From here:

The archbishop of Canterbury has urged the government to offer protection to gay and lesbian people seeking asylum in the UK after the “profoundly shocking” killing of a Ugandan gay rights activist this week.

Williams said: “Whatever the precise circumstances of his death, which have yet to be determined, we know that David Kato Kisule lived under the threat of violence and death.

“No one should have to live in such fear because of the bigotry of others. This event also makes it all the more urgent for the British government to secure the safety of LGBT asylum seekers in the UK. This is a moment to take very serious stock and to address those attitudes of mind which endanger the lives of men and women belonging to sexual minorities.”

Meanwhile, the Archbishop is “powerless to help” Christians who are being routinely murdered, tortured and raped in Islamic nations, but trusts they will be encouraged because they “have not been forgotten” – at least, not completely.

From here:

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will say Christians who are suffering because of their beliefs would be helped through the knowledge they have not been forgotten.

“We may feel powerless to help; yet we should also know that people in such circumstances are strengthened simply by knowing they have not been forgotten,” Williams will say, according to extracts of the address released in advance.

“And if we find we have time to spare for joining in letter-writing campaigns for all prisoners of conscience, [rights groups] Amnesty International and Christian Solidarity worldwide will have plenty of opportunities for us to make use of.”

Delivering the sermon at the cathedral in Canterbury, he will cite a number of countries where Christians are suffering, including Iraq and Zimbabwe………..

Williams, the spiritual leader of more than 70 million Anglicans worldwide, mentions the case of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother-of-five in Pakistan sentenced to death for defaming the Prophet Mohammed.

“Our prayers continue for [Asia Bibi] in Pakistan and others from minority groups who suffer from the abuse of the law by certain groups there.”

Children’s Aid Society encourages “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual or Transgendered” to foster children

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From here.

But why are they at the end of the of the list: blatant discrimination.

The Christian, common-sense and scientific view that children are better off with with a mother and father rather than two fathers, two mothers or perverse mixtures thereof is obviously of limited interest to CAS, an organisation that appears to be more obsessed with obsequious political correctness than with caring for children.

Windsor police to receive “Report Homophobic Violence” training

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Windsor police will be taking mandatory training on homophobic violence. The training is designed to increase “empathy toward this particular community” – individuals who are, in any combination, one or more of the following: lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans-identified.

Since empathy entails entering into another’s personality, one wonders whether the Windsor Police Service is going to be encouraged to explore its inner gayness.

Read it all here:

The Windsor Police Service is pleased to announce a new training initiative for it’s employees to be undertaken in cooperation with EGALE Canada. EGALE Canada is a national organization committed to advancing equality and justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified people and their families across Canada. Members of EGALE Canada have partnered with the Windsor Police Service and will be in Windsor over a five week period commencing on Wednesday January 12, 2011 in order to train all of the Service’s sworn and civilian employees.

The presentation entitled “Report Homophobic Violence Period” will provide further insight into some of the challenges the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified population face within our communities. The training will also assist all members of the Windsor Police Service to more readily distinguish between those crimes considered “Hate Related” or crimes of opportunity during our investigations. Chief Gary Smith explains “As a police service, we want to encourage members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified population to feel more comfortable in coming forward and reporting crimes committed either against them or within the community. This training will reinforce our knowledge of basic human rights and will increase our empathy toward this particular community within our society.” It should be noted that the Windsor Police Service is the first Police Agency in Canada to make this training mandatory for all of the Service’s employees.

There is, of course, nothing new in this: it has been a great success amongst the constabulary of North Wales. The Windsor Police Service could learn a thing or two about empathy from them:

All Saints' Anglican Church, Windsor has transgender clothing cupboard

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From here:

The Clothing Cupboard at All Saints’ Anglican Church is open every Tuesday morning from 9:00 a.m. until 12 noon.  It is located in the basement of the church house on the City Square, beside City Hall.  Coffee and refreshments are available to everyone prior to going down to the Clothing Cupboard.  There is no charge for any of the clothing or for the refreshments.

Under the leadership of Archdeacon Kim Van Allen, the church has initiated a program to make their Clothing Cupboard available to those in the Transgender community who feel uncomfortable attending the public opening on Tuesdays.  One of their volunteers, Henry Johnson, is willing to arrange access to those who would like private access to the Cupboard.  He may be contacted through the church office.

This is a worthwhile service which is open to all members of our city and county, including the LGBT community.

Donations to the Clothing Cupboard can be dropped off at the church office.  The Church’s telephone number is 519-253-8001.

Tonight there will be a special on matching gentlemen’s bras and maniples.

Homosexual bullying

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No, it’s not what you think.

This is a case of homosexuals bullying Christians.

When Martyn Hall and his civil partner, Steven Preddy, sued Christian hoteliers, Mr and Mrs Bull, for not allowing the homosexual pair to sleep in the same room, it was not because they would otherwise have had to sleep outside in the cold. They sued because they wanted to force their views of homosexuality onto a pair of Christians.

That’s what the lawsuit was really about: bullying.

Therapist faces being struck off for helping gay men go straight

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From here:

A psychotherapist faces being struck off after trying to ‘convert’ a homosexual man.

Lesley Pilkington, 60, a  therapist for 20 years, is accused of ‘praying to God’ to ‘heal’ the patient .

Mrs Pilkington, will appear at a landmark disciplinary hearing this week where she faces being stripped of her accreditation to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

The patient, a homosexual rights campaigner, secretly recorded her controversial treatment at two sessions before reporting her to the association.

A small group of counsellors believe all men are born heterosexual, but some choose a gay lifestyle which can be changed through therapy…….

She treated journalist Patrick Strudwick at her private practice based at her home in Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, after he approached her at a Christian conference.

He recorded the sessions on a tape machine strapped to his stomach. Asked if she viewed homosexuality as a ‘mental illness, an addiction or an anit-religious phenomenon’, she replied: ‘It is all of that’.

In the disciplinary letter sent to her by BACP, she is accused of having an ‘agenda that homosexuality is wrong and that gay people can change and you allegedly attempted to inflict these views on him.’

Mrs Pilkington accused Strudwick of entrapment. She said: ‘He told me was looking for a treatment for being gay.

‘I told him I only work using a Christian biblical framework and he said that was exactly what he wanted.’

Her defence is being funded by the Christian Legal Centre which has instructed a leading religious rights barrister to fight the case.

This is preposterous. The therapist isn’t forcing gay men to come to her: no one is. If gay crusaders have their way, it will become illegal to help gay men who do want to change – and there are some – making it close to compulsory for someone with homosexual inclinations to act them out.