40 Days for Life - Glasgow

 

 

Yesterday I went along to the 40 days for life vigil at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

There were a dozen SPUC loyal supports  there  , as well as myself and Phillip Anderson from the Glasgow House of Prayer. The vigil is half way through its time. A lot of positive people go by and only a few negative ones.

 

 

See :   https://40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/glasgow/ 

 

PS. My son-in-law George is mending up well , thank you for your prayers.

George

George's hand

On Tuesday I will be taking George ( my son-in-law ) to the fracture clinic at Ayr hospital. His knuckle is badly fractured. They have not operated to bolt anything back together , as this seems the best policy. He is expected to be off work for two months.

George

Rebekah and George at his 40th birthday party last month

My son in law had a nasty accident last Friday. His left hand was crushed at work. He is in the Southern General Hospital at this time. Please pray for a full recovery.

Tomorrow I am off to London for a week of work stuff.

40 days for life

Phillip Anderson - Glasgow House of Prayer

Margaret Cuthill Abortion Recovery Care Helpline 

Part of the crowd.

This was the opening event for the Glasgow 40 days for life. Starting Ash Wednesday people will be praying outside the Southern General hospital in Glasgow . I will be there when I have time. 

Talk given by Tony Abbot on 28 Jan.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2699884-Tony-Abbott-s-address-to-the-Alliance-Defending.html

LGBT Rights Become UN Currency

By Stefano Gennarini, J.D. | February 4, 2016

The UN bureaucracy has just issued a series of six commemorative LGTB stamps through the UN stamp office. The stamps are explicit and depict both male and female same-sex couples kissing, a same-sex couple with a young child, and a butterfly figure presumably depicting a transsexual.

 

The stamps were unveiled this afternoon in the atrium of the General Assembly hall at UN headquarters in New York against the backdrop of a giant painting of naked figures dancing around a fire presided over by a nude statue of the Greek God of the sea Poseidon.

 

The rollout featured a 33 strong representation of the all-male New York City Gay Men’s Chorus singing “seasons of love” from the Broadway musical Rent and other popular love songs.

A Reuters UN correspondent introduced the unveiling and asked, “who would have thought we could be get so excited about stamps in the digital age?” She encouraged all in attendance to purchase stamps to “spread the message.”

 

A representative of the UN Secretary General spoke in the crowded General Assembly atrium where the event took place about the need to “address stereotypes” and “change attitudes,” and highlighted the UN’s commitment to just this through the new stamps.

 

Charles Radcliffe, who heads the UN’s LGBT Free and Equal Campaign thanked the coir for “filling the UN with the music of love.”

 

The normally phlegmatic Radcliffe appeared tense at the event.

Last night the Group of Friends of the Family spearheaded by Belarus, Qatar, and Egypt sent a letter to the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asking that he prevent the issuance of the stamps and cancel the event. The letter said the promotion of LGBT rights was a “deeply controversial agenda” and that there was no “mandate” for it.

 

In effect, no UN treaty includes LGBT rights. No UN treaty protects homosexual conduct or can be fairly interpreted in that way.

“Why focus on LGBT?” Radcliffe asked at the event, pointing to the wars, terrorism, hunger that currently affects so many people.

He answered by pointing to 76 countries that penalize sodomy. “Everyday the UN is working to get these laws repealed,” he said. He also claimed that every year hundreds of people who identify as LGBT die and thousands are hurt because of violence.

UN artist Sergio Baradat who created the images on the stamps said he strived for the “beautiful, elegant, and loving.” He teared up as he presented his work, letting the crowd understand that he himself identifies as LGBT. It was he, Radcliffe said, who had the idea for the stamps.

 

The stamps capture the efforts of the UN bureaucracy to promote LGBT rights through the “Free and Equal Campaign” an initiative of the UN Secretary General’s human rights bureaucracy financed by Nordic countries that promotes a right to engage in sodomy, same-sex marriage, and other LGBT rights. The initiative is controversial because the Secretary General launched the campaign in 2012 without the support the full membership of the United Nations. To this day, the support is not forthcoming.

 

Find stamps here: https://unstamps.org/shop/free-and-equal/

 

Nigerian Ambassador Slams UN for Issuing LGBT Postage Stamp

by AUSTIN RUSE4 Feb 20160

UNITED NATIONS – Ambassador Usman Sarki of Nigeria gave a stinging rebuke to the UN Secretary General and the UN bureaucracy in anticipation of the roll-out of a UN postage stamp celebrating homosexuality and transgenderism tomorrow.

Sarki invoked the UN Charter and made a plea that it is the Member States that run the UN, not the bureaucrats.

We are distressed and alarmed that the United Nations has adopted an activist stance on a matter that does not enjoy consensus – or, for that matter, majority support among all its member States. What is clear to many is that the UN has now decided without any reservation or hesitation to side with a minority of Member States and practitioners of this lifestyle, in complete disregard of the wishes and concerns of the majority of its member States and the populations that they represent.

As a response to the reluctance of the General Assembly to go along with the homosexual agenda, the UN Secretariat and various agencies have pushed the cause. The stamp is the latest in this skirmish. It was too much for Sarki.

 

He told a meeting of member states today, “It is in that regard that we wish to remind the UN to limit itself strictly to activities mandated by Member States and especially to promote issues that are beneficial to mankind rather than lend itself as tool to promote aberrant behavior under the guise of promoting human rights.”

 

“The UN should not take unilateral decisions on such sensitive matters that offend the sensibilities of the majority of its Member States, and contradict their religious beliefs, cultures, traditions and laws. If it must act in this fashion, the UN should promote issues that enjoy consensus and, at the same time, advance the dignity of people and their genuine human rights. In the light of this concern, we call upon the UN not to proceed with this event and to put an end to all processes that are currently in place in all its agencies, funds and programs, that promote and legitimize this tendency on which there is no consensus among member states,” he said.

 

The issues of homosexuality and transgenderism has gotten very little traction at the UN because they are supported by only a minority of the member states of the General Assembly, powerful ones to be sure, but nonetheless a minority.  The language used to advance special rights for homosexuals and transsexuals is “sexual orientation and gender identity.” To date, the only document these have been used in is an annual General Assembly resolution condemning “summary execution” and “extra-judicial killing,” and even there it the issue was highly controversial and barely passed.

 

Sarki is asking for the stamp to be cancelled for which there is precedent at the UN. In 2007, a stamp was cancelled that got in the middle of a dispute between China and Taiwan.

With 182 million citizens, Nigeria is one of the most populous countries in the world. It is ethnically and religiously diverse with Muslims making up the majority but with Christians coming in a close second. It is frustrating to Nigeria and other countries that the UN Secretariat so often ignores the wishes and even the mandates of the General Assembly.

 

Ref : http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/04/nigerian-ambassador-slams-un-issuing-lgbt-postage-stamp/

Christian Cultural Society UN Staff

Elisabeth Polifka and Claudia Kiesinger

Today I heard and excellent talk by Elisabth Polifca on the Spirit of Christ as compared to the Spirit of Greek thought.
A little bio on her  is shown  below. I give a UN pass to both these Godly ladies who come from the same church in Germany.

 Sister Elisabeth Polifka studied psychology in Tübingen, Germany. She worked as a psychologist with children, young adults and families.

· She was sent out as a missionary by TOS Ministries International, to Belarus.

· While in Belarus, she founded, together with a team, a rehabilitation centre for drug addicts and was a leader of the working therapy.

· After four years, she was called to Lima, Peru, where she participated in establishing a ministry for street children. This ministry contains Street Work and 

Children´s Homes.

· Today, she works as a Counsellor for children, youth and adults and also as a Supervisor and Consultant for the other Missionaries of the Team.

· Sister Elisabeth is a member of TOS Gemeinde Tübingen, a non-denominational Christian Church and Mission ministry, which stands with Israel and against modern anti-Semitism.

· She is also involved with the March of Life/March of Remembrance (in the USA) Movement. She was part of the March of Remembrance in Lima, Peru, 

in 2012 and 2013. 

" Godly principles" objected to by South Africa - NGO Committee

Mr Pitso Montwedi on the left.

This morning I heard the most amazing drivel  ever at the UN. The South African representative Mr Pitso Montwedi , Chief Director , Human Rights and Humanitarian affairs from the Department of International Relations and Co-Operation , South Africa , objected to the term "Godly principles" used by an NGO called Cameroon League for Development .The NGO's answer to the question about this term was :

"The meaning of "Built on Godly principles", is that it is simply void of bad governance and also it is built on principles of good faith. "

I have been coming to the UN for 21 years now and still I get surprised from time to time.

There was an enormous debate on this terminology.

Mr Montwedi must have not read the UN Charter 

 Article 1 Para 3 -To achieve international co-operation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion, 

Nor the Universal Declaration on Human Rights 

Article 2 Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Nor any other convention at the UN it would seem, all of which guarantee free exercise of religion. 

It is so sad to see an African individual so wedded to secularism.