Use Your Vote to Support Marriage!

Coalition for Marriage writes:

The General Election is only a few weeks away. Voters go to the polls on Thursday 7 May.

You will not have forgotten that the current Parliament forced through David Cameron’s same-sex marriage Bill. Neither have we.

Marriage was redefined over the heads of the 24 million married people in Britain. MPs rejected the timeless truth that every child deserves both a mum and a dad. This monumental change to the social fabric of our country has been called one of the greatest political power grabs in history. And people are already being punished for their resistance – like long-serving Red Cross volunteer Bryan Barkley, registrar Margaret Jones and Ashers Baking Company.

Remember that none of the major parties at Westminster included redefining marriage in their manifestos at the last election. The consultation was a sham and you, along with well over half a million other signatories of the C4M petition, were ignored.

Only politicians got to vote back in 2013. The General Election is your opportunity to vote on marriage. You can decide who deserves to represent you in the next Parliament, who will best stand up in years to come for people who believe in the true meaning of marriage.

We will be making people aware of how their MP voted on redefining marriage. We will also be encouraging constituents to question their candidates about this fundamental issue.

C4M is not party political. We have supporters in all the main parties. We recognise that individual MPs from across the parties voted in different ways.

The new MPs elected on 7 May will decide, for example:

• whether to increase protections for free speech and freedom of conscience for people in the workplace 
• if the existing protections for religious bodies not wanting to conduct same-sex weddings should be taken away 
• whether Ofsted can carry on interrogating young schoolchildren about their personal beliefs on marriage, family life and other sensitive issues 
• if Britain should be using taxpayers' money to promote same-sex marriage abroad. 

Your vote on 7 May matters. Use it for marriage.

A message from Brentwood Diocese' Marriage & Family Life Coordinator

Dear Friends,

Following the report stages this Bill will now reach its third reading in the House of Commons on the 20^th and 21^st May (this Monday). Click this link to see the details.

http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2012-13/marriagesamesexcouplesbill.html

This is by no means a ‘done deal’ and there is still time to let your MP know how you feel. There is considerable feeling in both government and within the communities that this Bill is being rushed through with no mandate.

Marriage does matter and I have attached a copy of the leaflet we produced. Please do all you can to ensure that we give everyone the simple facts about this. In short, this proposal gives no additional rights that existing Civil Partnerships don’t already give. There is no great demand from society to push this legislation through with such haste. If we change the definition of marriage now we will change it forever.

Please continue to pray in support of those MP’s and leaders who continue to speak out against this legislation.

With ever best wish,

Phil

Phil Butcher. MA,MBA.

Director – Commission for Justice and Social Responsibility

Marriage and Family Life Diocesan Coordinator

Diocese of Brentwood

Cathedral House, Ingrave Road, Brentwood. CM15 8AT

Tel 01277 265252

Mob 07777 663724 

Skype phil.butcher3

www.dioceseofbrentwood.net/jsr

familylife@dioceseofbrentwood.org

Ryan Anderson Stands up For Marriage

Ryan Anderson is co-author of a well-written book called What is Marriage: A Man and a Woman, a Defense.

In this video, he takes on the opposition and does really well I think. Certainly it took a lot of courage for him to go before this hanging judge and allow himself to be treated the way he was on CNN Live.

His attackers were Piers Morgan and Suzie Orman. Suzie Orman is particularly pejorative in her attack demonstrating her own extreme ignorance, in that her sole argument is ad hominem and again we see the reality of liberal fascism--the modern reality that you can say anything as long as it is acceptable to the liberal thought police. If you fall foul of their rules, you're attacked as a bigot. The main thrust of her argument seems to be to keep shouting that Ryan is vastly in the minority. Piers Morgan on the other hand is rude and certainly not objective in his approach. He keeps interrupting and making all kinds of accusations against Ryan.

How can you deny these two people a marriage if they want one? You would deny them on grounds of consanguinity, polygamy, and various other situations. That's what the law does.

I think Ryan Anderson handled himself well, with dignity, integrity and aplomb. When you consider that he was up against two television professionals, he came out pretty well.


 

The Same Sex Marriage Debate

This is a very good debate between David Robertson and Peter D Williams vs Patrick Harvie MSP and William Rennie MSP in Charlotte Chapel Edinburgh, produced by Seraph Media for Solas CPC. It presents a very comprehensive argument from both sides.

David Robertson demonstrates that the debate about this has been stifled and that it has nothing to do with bigotry and reveals the real agenda behind this purely political move.

So-called 'gay marriage' undermines and destroys Marriage and the nuclear family.