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  • BuzzFeed: This Tory Candidate Has An Intern Funded By A "Gay Cure" Organisation
    May 27th, 2017

    A Conservative candidate hoping to return to parliament at the general election accepted a donation from a Christian organisation that has funded "gay cure" events and is a member of a group of churches accused of trying to "heal" LGBT people, BuzzFeed News can reveal.

    Caroline Ansell, who won Eastbourne with a slim majority of 733 in 2015, received funds in the form of an intern, for four days a week, from the Christian Action Research and Eduction (CARE) charity.

    According to the registers of MP's interests – the official documents in which politicians declare their donations – Ansell accepted the CARE intern in September 2016, who will remain in post until July 2017. The total value of this gift is stated as £8,470 as the intern is "voluntary" (unpaid) but receives a £770-per-month bursary.

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  • Times (£): Huge scale of terror threat revealed: UK home to 23,000 jihadists
    May 27th, 2017

    Intelligence officers have identified 23,000 jihadist extremists living in Britain as potential terrorist attackers, it emerged yesterday.

    The scale of the challenge facing the police and security services was disclosed by Whitehall sources after criticism that multiple opportunities to stop the Manchester bomber had been missed.

    About 3,000 people from the total group are judged to pose a threat and are under investigation or active monitoring in 500 operations being run by police and intelligence services. The 20,000 others have featured in previous inquiries and are categorised as posing a "residual risk".

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  • Conservative Woman: Will the Bishop of Manchester 'come together' by inviting Muslims to his transgender week?
    May 26th, 2017

    Here a quack, there a quack, everywhere a quack, quack! A quack is a fake doctor. You don't trust quacks to offer an accurate diagnosis of an ailment or a prescription for a cure. Quacks are expert at quacking. Quacks offer placebos and platitudes.

    When quacks take centre stage in leading the rituals of communal grief, their voices blend in with the therapeutic kitsch of teddy bears, candles, cartoons, murals, mosaics, flowers, flags, projections, hashtags, balloons, wreaths, lights, vigils, scarves and the goo and gunk of postmodern sanctimonious pap.

    The reader must decide if the voices of Britain's religious establishment wailing loudly after the tragic and horrific Manchester terrorist attack on Monday are quacks whose words will only serve to anaesthetise further a culture steeped in snowflake sentimentality.

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  • Core Issues Trust: Challenging Stonewall's Election Manifesto, 2017
    May 26th, 2017

    In the 2017 general election, the Stonewall Manifesto is the root, sap and source of LGBTI policy aspirations of the main political parties in the United Kingdom, without exception. There is no effective opposition. Parties are aligning themselves with Stonewall's "Acceptance without Exception" campaign which aims to change the Equalities Act of 2010 to include 'gender identity' instead of 'gender reassignment' as an additional protected characteristic for "transgendered" people. This is the lynchpin by which gender and biology will forever part company in the United Kingdom and the new order of pansexual humanism will be formally ushered in.

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  • Christian Today: Church of England faces calls to condemn gay cure and hold transgender renaming services
    May 26th, 2017

    The Church of England will be asked to denounce gay conversion, consider special services for transgender people and re-examine its teaching on marriage as between one man and one women in a raft of measures to be debated at its forthcoming General Synod meeting in July.

    In its first meeting since the surprise rejection of a bishops' report recommending keeping the status quo on marriage, the CofE's parliament will debate whether to join medical experts and condemn so-called 'gay cures' as 'unethical, harmful' and having 'no place in the modern world'.

    Tabled by senior synod member Jayne Ozanne, the private members motion has received strong support from synod members. Supporters say that it is likely to be fiercely opposed by a small segment of hardline conservatives, but opponents suggest that many middle of the road synod members will also be alarmed by the motion.

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  • National Review: Undercover Video Center for Medical Progress Exposes Gruesome Abortion Practices
    May 25th, 2017

    A Undercover Video Center for Medical Progress Exposes Gruesome Abortion Practices

    This latest video is a preview of footage that CMP investigators gathered at the 2014 and 2015 National Abortion Federation conventions, attended by hundreds of members of the abortion industry each year. (The NAF is a major trade group of North American abortion providers, and Planned Parenthood makes up about 50 percent of its members and leadership.)

    Here are some of the most horrifying remarks from the brand-new undercover footage. Attendees made some of these comments during official presentations, and others directly to undercover CMP investigators.

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  • Christian Institute: Backlash as doctors in Scotland call for 'DIY' abortions
    May 18th, 2017

    Pro-life campaigners have hit out at calls for a change in the law to allow women to have 'DIY' abortions at home.

    A study, by medical researchers at Glasgow University, says that women should be allowed to self-administer abortifacient drugs at home, in "comfort and privacy".

    Currently, Scottish women have to take abortion drugs in the company of a healthcare professional and are offered the choice of staying in hospital.

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  • Independent: Atheists are more intelligent than religious people, say researchers
    May 18th, 2017

    Religious people are less intelligent on average than atheists because faith is an instinct and clever people are better at rising above their instincts, researchers have claimed.

    The theory — called the 'Intelligence-Mismatch Association Model' — was proposed by a pair of authors who set out to explain why numerous studies over past decades have found religious people to have lower average intelligence than people who do not believe in a god.

    A 2013 analysis by University of Rochester found "a reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity" in 53 out of 63 historic studies.

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  • Conservative Woman: If you must divorce first row in front of the kids
    May 18th, 2017

    Family breakdown. It's all around. Britain's couples have the highest levels of break-up in the entire developed world. Half of all our teens are no longer living with both natural parents.

    But does this really matter? After all, ever since divorce rates soared in the 1960s and 1970s, the nasty stigma surrounding divorce gradually dissipated. That has to be a good thing, right?

    Among parents who do split up - half of whom are now unmarried couples - the latest research acknowledges that personal well-being tends to take a bit of a dive on average. That's hardly surprising. For some the nightmare is over. But for many more, so is the dream.

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  • The Good Book: "I killed him with love in my heart": the complex and painful tragedies at the heart of assisted suicide
    May 18th, 2017

    In 2008, Frances Inglis, injected her son Tom with a massive overdose of heroin, which ended his life. Tom had become brain-damaged, after an accident; he was paralysed, doubly incontinent and unable to communicate. Francis, a mother of three who worked with adults and children with learning and physical disabilities, considered what she did a "mercy killing". In court, she admitted killing him, saying, "I did it with love in my heart"—as his mother, she couldn't bear to see him in that state. She was convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Frances was released after serving five years in prison.

    Around the same time, Kay Gilderdale was also in court. Her 31-year-old daughter Lynn had been paralysed since she was 14. In frequent agony, she received a constant supply of the painkiller morphine through a syringe driver into her veins. But, unlike Tom Inglis in the previous story, Lynn was able to communicate through sign language, and participated in online forums through a hand-held computer. She laid bare her frustrations, describing her "miserable excuse for a life" and adding, "I can't keep hanging on to an ever-diminishing hope that I might one day be well again".

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