The LGBT contradiction

The  news below while not surprising does speak to me of an inherent contradiction in the modern views on LGBT issues. Their lobby is totally opposed to the idea that a same sex attracted person can change. For them sexual orientation is a given from birth set in stone and unalterable. Yet when it comes to gender they say completely the opposite. Biology is not destiny. You can chose whatever gender you feel like. Never mind the chromosomes with which you were born which determine your biological sex. Choose what you want to be.    So sexual orientation is set in stone but gender is fluid. Why do they not see their self contradiction? The truth is that man is fallen. He is not as he aught to be. We are all born with original sin so we are all screwed up in some way. For some this may be sexual orientation or gender dysphoria. The good news is you do not have to stay that way. By his grace through faith in Christ there is restoration, there is healing. No.You cannot change but God can change you. BTW surveys have shown that those who are exclusively same sex attracted are only around 1% of the population in the West. With gender dysphoria are far fewer. However those who want to engage in homosexual activity or wish to try out a different gender are many more. Our culture encourages them now. I have a suspicion that they are usually the vocal one in the LGBT lobby. Many same sex attracted persons only want to lead a quiet life. Tomorrow, Thursday 8th February, Core Issues Trust is due to premiere Voices of the Silenced, a new documentary film giving a voice to people who voluntarily seek help to move away from homosexual behaviours and feelings. But after a campaign from LGBT newspaper PinkNews, Vue Cinemas has turned their back on Core Issues Trust at the last minute and cancelled the booking. Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, commented: “This is fundamentally a free speech issue. As usual, a minority of gay activists use threats and intimidation to shut down any opposing views. Tragically, they can’t tolerate the truth that there are significant numbers of men and women who have no wish to remain in a gay lifestyle and seek help to leave it." “Ironically, the actions of Pink News and Vue cinema illustrate the point of the film. The Voices of the Silenced are, in fact, being silenced.” Join the protest If you can, please join us outside the original venue at 6.30pm tomorrow (8th February) to peacefully protest the decision. DATE: Thursday 8th February TIME: 6.30pm VENUE: Vue Cinema, 19 Regent St, St. James's, London SW1Y 4LR Pray and contact Vue Cinemas If you can't come, please pray for us and for Core Issues Trust and consider respectfully contacting Vue Cinemas to let them know what you think of their ban: Email: customerservices@vuemail.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/VueHelp Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VueCinemas/ Encourage your friends to take action Please use Twitter, Facebook and email to let others know. Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Visit our website

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Quotes 8 Feb 18

So much of left wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know fire is hot.  - Orwell on W H Auden in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p127

“Islam is an open-ended declaration of war against non-Muslims,” declared the priest, and those who carry out acts of violence and intolerance are only doing what their creed requires... Those who fail to recognise the real threat posed by Islam are naive and ignorant of history, he said, and unfortunately many in the Church fall into this category.  Citing a letter he wrote last August to Pope Francis, Father Boulad said that “on the pretext of openness, tolerance and Christian charity — the Catholic Church has fallen into the trap of the liberal left ideology which is destroying the West.” -Father Henri Boulad

It is doubtful whether a fortress as strong as Singapore can be taken by storm - Orwell on BBC radio January 1942, - in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p143 It fell the next month, the worst ever British army defeat and by an outnumbered Japanese force.

Economic problems never start with economics. They have much deeper roots in human nature. - Margaret Thatcher to the Conservative Party Conference, 1975 in The Mighty and the Almighty by Nick Spencer p1

We are all members one of another ... in the concept of the Church on earth, the Body of Christ ... we learn or interdependence ... and the great truth  that we do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society. - Margaret Thatcher, speech at St Lawrence Jury, London, 30 Mar 1978 in The Mighty and the Almighty by by Nick Spencer p3

Quotes 7 Feb 18

God has revealed himself to us in the Bible pervasively as King, not Queen, and as Father, not Mother. The second person of the Trinity is revealed as the eternal Son. The Father and the Son created man and woman in his image, and gave them together the name of the man, Adam (Genesis 5:2). God appoints all the priests in Israel to be men. The Son of God comes into the world as a man, not a woman. He chooses twelve men to be his apostles. The apostles tell the churches that all the overseers—the pastor/elders who teach and have authority (1 Timothy 2:12)—should be men; and that in the home, the head who bears special responsibility to lead, protect, and provide should be the husband (Ephesians 5:22–33). - John Piper, https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/the-frank-and-manly-mr-ryle-the-value-of-a-masculine-ministry

Though your health, happiness, and legs be anchored to the floor, let the news of God’s forgiveness bear you up on wings like eagles.- Desiring God‏@desiringGod

We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given a life. It's up to us to make it good or bad.- Life Quotes‏ @liife_quote

Saying, “I won’t ever push a religion on my children” is a religious statement. It betrays that you are committed to indoctrinating your children with a definitive worldview.- Nick Batzig@Nick_Batzig

I will not be ashamed to
   confess that it is too high a mystery either for my mind to comprehend
   or my words to express; and to speak more plainly, I rather feel than
   understand it. The truth of God, therefore, in which I can safely rest,
   I here embrace without controversy. He declares that his flesh is the
   meat, his blood the drink, of my soul; I give my soul to him to be fed
   with such food. In his sacred Supper he bids me take, eat, and drink
   his body and blood under the symbols of bread and wine.- Institutes of Christian Religion, John Calvin, Book 4,ch 17,sect 32

Quotes 6 Feb

Economic problems never start with economics. They have much deeper roots in human nature. - Margaret Thatcher to the Conservative Party Conference, 1975 in The Mighty and the Almighty by Nick Spencer p1

We are all members one of another ... in the concept of the Church on earth,the Body of Christ ... we learn or interdependence ... and the great truth  that we do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society. - Margaret Thatcher, speech at St Lawrence Jury, London, 30 mar 1978 in The Mighty and the Almighty by Nick Spencer p3

In the more sober years of our fathers, men had 

something better to live for than silly sports. 

     --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892) 

      _Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit_, Volume 34 [1888] 

The one nice thing about sports is that they prove men 

do have emotions and are not afraid to show them. 

     --Jane O'Reilly 

      _The Girl I Left Behind_ [1980] 

"Hate the sin and not the sinner" is a precept 

which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely 

practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred 

spreads in the world. . . . 

Man and his deed are two distinct things.  It is 

quite proper to resist and attack a system, but 

to resist and attack its author is tantamount to 

resisting and attacking one-self.  For we are all 

tarred with the same brush and are children of one 

and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers 

within us are infinite. 

To slight a single human being is to slight those 

divine powers, and thus to harm not only that being, 

but with him, the whole world. 

--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) 

_The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His 

Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas_ [1962], 

"Victory In South Africa"  

Quotes 5 Feb 18

September 7th 1940 Joseph Kennedy (the US ambassador) walking down Piccadilly with a friend said to him, "I'll bet you five to one any sum that Hitler will be in Buckingham Palace in two weeks" It was time he advised the State department for the British to accept defeat." - Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p113

So much of left wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know fire is hot.  - Orwell on W H Auden in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p127

 It is doubtful whether a fortress as strong as Singapore can be taken by storm - Orwell on BBC radio January 1942, - in Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom by Thomas E. Ricks p143 It fell the next month, the worst ever British army defeat and by an outnumbered Japanese force.

This glory of Christ as Head is also accompanied by power and rule over all creatures. As King and Ruler over all things He effectively gathers the Church out of the world by His Word and Spirit and keeps it safe and guards it from the world & Satan until He will triumph over all- liam goligher‏ @LGoligher

The underlying, ultimate motive of all sin is to be like God.- Tmothy Keller @timkellernyc

Quotes 3 Feb 18

The nature of the beard contributes in an incredible degree to distinguish the maturity of bodies . . . to contribute to the beauty of manliness and strength. —LACTANTIUS

The beard signifes the courageous . . . the earnest, the active, the vigorous. So that when we describe such, we say, he is a bearded man. —SAINT AUGUSTINE

[God] adorned man like the lions, with a beard, and endowed him, as an attribute of manhood . . . a sign of strength. —CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA

Never underestimate how dark the earth and how broken Christ’s bride. But in the life and death and resurrection and ascension and session of the world’s true King ‘more can be mended than we know’ - Francis Spufford

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. -Pablo Picasso

Quotes 2 Feb 18

If Jesus is right, we don’t need role models; we need a saviour. We don’t need better hearts; we need new hearts.- San Allberry @SamAllberry

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, as important as that is, but what’s so significant about the birth of that particular baby is that in this birth we have the incarnation of God himself.—R. C. Sproul

"You have gunpowder hearts -so ready to ignite from the least spark. Therefore keep out of harm's way."-George Everard.

Good travels at a snail's pace.  Those who want to  do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry,  they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time. --Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948) (In Richard Attenborough's  _The Words of Gandhi_ [1982], "Cooperation") 

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right. --"Rudy Baylor" (The narrator of John Grisham's _The Rainmaker_ [1995], Chapter 32)