Dear Friends,
Please continue to get
your family, friends and neighbours to sign the Coalition
for Marriage Petition which has achieved nearly half a
million signatures. http://c4m.org.uk/
However, may I also
suggest a way of promoting this more quickly so as to send a
very strong message to Mr Cameron that we will never accept
that marriage can be anything other than between one man
and one woman until death parts us. Apart from
forwarding this email, you might wish to order copies of the
double - sided leaflet (attachment) by phoning 020 7091 7091 (Society for the Protection of
Unborn Children) and putting these through letter boxes in
your locality. This is easier and less problematic than
actually having to go into the lanes and byways searching
for someone to sign the paper one.
I have ordered a thousand
leaflets which I shall either deliver personally or try to
get my church to take responsibility for street by street
distribution.
The beauty of the A5
leaflet (attachment) produced by SPUC is that the petition
becomes accessible to far many more people and allows them
direct access to the C4M web site. I am certainly not
asking people to abandon the paper one, since it has
already achieved the half million signatures. All I am
saying is that by dropping these leaflets through people's
front doors, or even from the air...... (Sorry getting
carried away), this might accelerate the process of
garnering signatures.
The Gay Newspaper, Pink
News has reported that,
“The
most senior Catholic in the British Government, Work and
Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith, has confirmed that he
will be supporting Prime Minister David Cameron's pledge to
introduce equal civil marriage for gay and lesbian couples.
In what appears to be an apparent remarkable evolution of
his own personal approach to LGBT rights, he pointed out
that in a country where so many heterosexual couples are
breaking up; marriage equality is a positive method of
creating a more stable
society."
According to the Office of
National Statistics there are only 5000 LGBT civil
partnership families with dependent children (0.017% of the
population), in Britain, compared to 4,514,000 married
couples with children. The former do not want equality but
to completely change the definition of marriage and family
so it is they who define what it and isn’t. For over
sixty years, successive governments have introduced
legislation that has weakened the bonds holding married and
family life together. And now Iain Duncan Smith declares
that by allowing gays to remove familial
relationships like husband, wife, mother, father, son,
daughter, uncle, aunt, and grandparents in the cause of non-
discrimination and equality, this will somehow improve the
stability, security and solidarity of an already fractured
British society
I realise that this
petition does not sit easily with everyone in that the
wording is not up to concert pitch with Protestant
theology, but the truth is that the idea of one man being
married to one woman for life is not a peculiar notion, or
the preserve of Protestant Christians alone; it is a fact
of life accepted by religious people of all persuasions and
none. War has been declared on us all, by our own
government.
God Bless and keep us
all.
David Skinner
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