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UK Prime Minister to
press for gay agenda
22 July 2007- UK- Religious leaders and pro-family advocates in the
United Kingdom are concerned that the new prime minister’s promise to
advance homosexual rights at home and abroad will jeopardize protections
for freedom of speech and religious expression.
Fr.
Timothy Finigan told LifeSiteNews.com that Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s
assurances that he would continue to promote the homosexual political
agenda are an indication of how closely the Labour Party is following
homosexual efforts to outlaw all opposition, particularly religious
opposition in schools. Fr. Finigan is a Catholic theology professor and
founder of the Association of Priests for the Gospel of Life.
Brown recently told the homosexual online news center PinkNews that his
government would continue to promote the homosexual political agenda and
praised the work of the Labour party in this regard to date.
"I
think this government has made a huge amount of progress: for example,
we've equalized the age of consent, repealed Section 28 [that banned
promotion of homosexuality ‘as a pretended family relationship’ in
schools], and made it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexual
orientation," Brown wrote on PinkNews.
He
promised that his government would work to advance human rights
worldwide, including the universal decriminalization of homosexuality.
Brown also promised that the newly established Commission for Equality
and Human Rights would be employed to change attitudes toward
homosexuality and to ensure "anti-discrimination laws are enforced." One
of the important areas left, he said, is to "tackle homophobic bullying
in schools," the next goal identified by the hugely successful
homosexual lobby group Stonewall.
Fr.
Finigan told LifeSiteNews.com that “homophobic bullying” refers to not
allowing schools to promote natural marriage and the family as
normative.
All
human rights organizations, Fr. Finigan said, now work on the principle
that homosexuality is the equivalent of race, with homosexual sex being
the "racial" characteristic that defines the homosexual person. To
criticize this activity as sinful, therefore, becomes discrimination.
Given this principle, it is likely that the government's new commission
will be used to stifle moral opposition to homosexual activity,
especially in religious schools, said Fr. Finigan.
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