Presbyterians Week Headlines
[1] Scotland the Politically Correct?
[2] Free Church of Scotland Spring Conference Scheduled 12-14 April 2013 at Greyfriars Free Church of Scotland in Inverness, Scotland
[3] More Meddling with the Military and Muddying the Constitution: President Orders Benefits to Same Sex Couples at DOD
[4] Headlines from Christian Concern
[5] Headlines from The Christian Institute
[6] Articles from LifesiteNews.com
[7] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
[8] The Religion of Peace
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[1] Scotland the Politically Correct?
The Glorious Twelfth, held on 12 July each year, is a Protestant celebration of the Glorious Revolution in 1688 and the 1690 victory of William of Orange over Roman Catholic James II at the Battle of the Boyne in eastern Ireland. While best known as a Northern Ireland celebration featuring Orange Order (OO) parades, the Glorious Twelfth is additionally celebrated around Scotland with the largest celebration being in Glasgow where an estimated 10,000 marchers, followers, and spectators are expected to gather in 2013.
A 17 February 2013 The Herald article by Judith Duffy titled “Orange Order and Glasgow Council at War over Marches” reports on efforts by the Glasgow City Council (GCC) and the Scottish Government to possibly put restrictions on the yearly celebrations. The OO and the GCC in 2012 agreed that there would be no music played by the marching bands before 9:00 a.m. The OO claims that this year the GCC is trying to ban any marching before 9:00 a.m. music or not.
The Herald article cites an unnamed survey showing that seventy-five percent of Scots want OO and Irish Republican-themed parades to be banned.
The article additionally says that the Scottish Government’s Advisory Group on Tackling Sectarianism is in 2013 sponsoring researchers from Stirling University to undertake a major study of the impact of marches and parades in Scotland. A spokesman for the Scottish Government remarked: “This Government is committed to getting the proper balance between the right of people to march and the right of communities to be protected. There are no proposals to change policy."
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[2] Free Church of Scotland Spring Conference Scheduled 12-14 April 2013 at Greyfriars Free Church of Scotland in Inverness, Scotland
The Free Church of Scotland 2013 Spring Conference is scheduled for 12-14 April 2013 at the Greyfriars Free Church of Scotland in Inverness, Scotland.
The main address will be from the Rev. Dr. Robin Sydserff, minister of St. Catherine’s Argyle Church of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, who will speak on Daniel.
Two sessions on Barnabas and the youth testimony night will be presented by the Rev. Colin Macleod, minister of the Free North in Inverness, Scotland.
Additional seminars include witnessing in small and large communities by Kiltarlity’s Joe Barnard, sharing the good news of Christ in contemporary Scotland with the Rev. David Robertson, and church planting with the Rev. Derek Lamont.
Laura MacGowan and Smithton-Culloden Free Church’s family worker Ali MacDonald will explore the challenges facing Christian families, and how to support each other.
The conference costs UK£25 for the weekend, or UK£12 for a day ticket.
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[3] More Meddling with the Military and Muddying the Constitution: President Orders Benefits to Same Sex Couples at DOD
By Dr. Michael A. Milton, Chancellor and CEO, Reformed Theological Seminary
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. It was supposed to be an easy integration of progressive thinking on human sexuality into the United States military. It would be the right thing to do. Despite the overwhelming protests from within its ranks, the administration pressed on with its agenda, and the military did what it always does: salutes and moves forward.
Of course it hasn’t been easy. It hasn’t been progressive. And it isn’t right.
But everything just got a little more complicated—make that: a lot more complicated.
Just when you thought the Armed Forces couldn’t be more distracted by liberal tinkering, the President of the United States, this week, issued an order requiring same-sex couples in the military to receive the same benefits as married couples. Again, the military salutes and goes forward. This time, however, there is a challenge that was greater than any of the other social experiments. The problem in this latest meddling is the law of the land and the Constitution of the United States. In this case the law of the land is the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) passed by the 104th Congress and signed into law by Pres. Bill Clinton in 1996. Section III of that law forbids the Federal government from recognizing same sex marriage. Now, a new Commander-in-Chief has ostensibly usurped a law passed by the legislative branch of government and signed by the executive branch of government and has demanded the military disregard at least the spirit of that law. Military leadership is left scrambling to decipher the mixed signals. Chaplains, personnel officers, and JAG officers rush to try and make sense of it all. Meanwhile, the battle fronts are shifting. The Jihadist Islamic enemy will not pause the war while we are in yet another sensitivity training class.
Should we just disregard yet another attack on the military by an intrusive and constitutionally schizophrenic administration? For all of this deciphering, training, and amending of orders is not to defeat a ruthless enemy bent on destroying us (and there is Iran and North Korea…). All of the new activity at the Pentagon is to keep up with an administration that is bent on redefining us as a people. And it is time for someone in one of the branches of government to at least call into question the unrelenting interference of the other branch of government.
It is time to stop the meddling with the military while they are engaged with operations to defend the Constitution of the United States. We can’t meddle with the military, muddy the Constitution, and march in unity all at the same time.
There is an answer. It is the moral instructions of the Bible. The Ten Commandments are the ethical standard that Western Civilization is built upon and the only ethical ground on which we can find unity that brings lasting victory. That message may be increasingly anachronistic, but is still the proven truth that will bring the greatest benefits to all.
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[4] Headlines from Christian Concern
Headlines of the past week from Christian Concern:
-- Christian Danny Stupple to Stand in Eastleigh, England By-Election with a Strong Emphasis on Authentic Marriage
-- Same-Sex 'Marriages' Will Threaten Religious Freedom, Warns Church of England
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[5] Headlines from The Christian Institute
Headlines of the past week from The Christian Institute:
-- Don’t Assume Animals Are Heterosexual, BBC Told
-- Abortions for Cleft Lip ’Ten Times More Than Recorded’
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[6] Articles from LifesiteNews.com
Articles from the past week from LifesiteNews.com:
-- Obama State of the Union Address Calls for Federally Funded Preschool
-- New Mexico Medical Board Seeking to Shut Pro-Lifers Out of Complaint Process
-- U.S. Center for Disease Control Says One-Third of U.S., 110 Million Americans, Have Sexually Transmitted Diseases
-- Ottawa, Canada Targets Youths with Free Condom Campaign
-- Alberta, Canada Sheriff Assaults Fifty-Two Year Old Deaf and Mute Cancer Survivor for Not Following Verbal Orders
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[7] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:
-- U.S. Representative Charles Rangel (New York) Proposes Bills to Reinstate Draft, Require Women to Sign Up
-- U.S. Transportation Security Administration Traumatizes Three-Year-Old Girl in Wheelchair
-- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Supplier Sells Targets of American Gun Owners
-- Flu Shot Given to Pregnant Women Causes Death Rate of Unborn Babies to Rise by 4,250 Percent
-- White House Establishes ‘Interagency Working Group to Counter Online Radicalization to Violence’ to Monitor Islamic Terrorists and “Sovereign Citizens
-- Maryland Man with Down Syndrome Dies of Asphyxia while in Police Custody
-- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Seeks Technology to Track Americans via Tablets and Cell Phones
-- Massachusetts Education Commissioner Mandates ‘Transsexual’ Males Be Allowed in Girls’ Locker Rooms
-- Gilberton, Pennsylvania Police Chief Wants to Form Reserve Force to Resist Federal or Foreign Invasion
-- Utah High School Says Homosexual Students Can Receive Singing Valentines After All
-- Layton, Utah Man Forced to Forfeit Gun Used to Stop Home Invasion
-- Guest Lecture at Swarthmore College by Episcopal Divinity School Professor Promotes ‘Queer Christ’ Concept to Students
-- Ohio State University Professor Says God Bless the Soviet Union’s Low Murder Rates and Absence of Gun Violence
-- Is Obama Setting U.S. Up for Military Takeover?
-- U.S. Government Fighting to Deny Asylum to German Homeschool Family
-- Obama Lifts Ban on Child Soldiers
-- U.S. Department of Agriculture Employees Forced to Repeat: 'The Pilgrims Were Illegal Aliens'
-- Washington University Holds Porn Star Panel in Main University Chapel
-- University of Missouri Asks Professors to Accommodate Wiccan, Pagan Festivals
-- Obama Administration Threatens Businesses for Not Hiring Ex-Convicts
-- Missouri Democrats Introduce Gun Confiscation Law
-- California Police Chief Declares: A Gun Is Not Defensive Weapon
-- Two Pastors in India Arrested after Being Beaten
-- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advances Plan For “Public Safety” Drones
-- How China Plans to Wipe Out House Churches
-- U.S. Food and Drug Administration Hones In on Limited Raw Milk Cheese despite Absence of a Single Documented Case in Twenty-Three Years
-- Chicago Police Chief Says Second Amendment Is a Danger To Public Safety
-- Colorado Democrat Says Women Don’t Need Guns If They ‘Feel Like They’re Going To Be Raped’ – Later Recants
-- ‘Orwellian’: Proposed Gun Law in Washington State Calls on Police to Inspect the Homes of ‘Assault Weapon’ Owners
-- Why Is Mexico Asking the U.S. Senate for a Registry of U.S. Gun Owners?
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[8] The Religion of Peace
Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:
-- Jihad in New Jersey: Muslim Beheads, Cuts off Hands of Two Coptic Christians
-- Four Missionaries Arrested in Benghazi May Face Libya Death Penalty
-- In Thailand, Muslims Shoot Up Homes in Buddhist Village and Shoot Children
-- Fatwas (Islamic Rulings) Sanction Killing Of Egyptian Oppositionists
-- Tunisian Opposition Leader Critical Of The Jihadist-Led Government And Violence By Devout Muslims Is Shot Dead
-- Muslim in New York City to Plead Guilty in Plot to Bomb New York Federal Reserve
-- Algeria Upholds Conviction of Convert from Islam
-- Members of U.S. Congress Demand Obama Administration Classify Ft. Hood Jihad Attack as an 'Act of Terrorism'
-- In Egypt, Muslim Cleric Mohammed Abdullah Said Women Who Go to Protests "Were Going There to Get Raped"
-- Turkish Muslim Trades Daughter for a Cow
-- Seventy-Four-Year-Old German Woman Convicted of 'Hate Speech' against Muslims
-- A Call to Islam in the Arizona Senate
-- Muslim Mob Torches Church in Egypt
-- Chicago is Ground Zero in U.S. Muslim Renaissance
-- Pat Robertson Claims Islam Is 'Demonic' and 'Not a Religion' but an Economic System
-- Somali Muslims Start Food Fight/Riot at Minneapolis High School, Leading to Melee Involving 200-300 Students
-- California Muslim Woman Wins Right to Keep Hijab in Jail
-- Counter-Jihad Blogger Beheaded in Bangladesh
-- Three Al-Qaida Terrorist Training Camps Currently in Iran
-- Bosnian Muslim Leader Wants to Tax Non-Muslims
-- Jihadists in Nigeria Kidnap Seven Workers from Britain, Greece, Italy and Lebanon
-- Jihadists in Thailand Detonate At Least Twelve Bombs Targeting Stores, Bars, and Public Areas
-- Explosion in Crowded Market Kills Dozens in Pakistan
-- Egyptian Activist kidnapped for Anti-Jihad, Anti-Sharia Work
-- Priest Shot Dead in Zanzibar, Tanzania; Pastor Beheaded on Mainland
-- U.K. Islamic Preacher Urges Muslims to Go on Welfare (Jizya) and Plot Jihad
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