* 'Gay Mannakins' in High Street Shop!

Is one of Northern Ireland's leading clothes chains promoting homosexuality?  Exhibit, a chain of shops selling ladies clothing has a pair of female mannikins in the window of their Enniskillen store, holding hands.  A picture is below - Judge for yourself!

* Time to Restrict Gay Pride Parade.

 A call has gone out for the Parades Commission to ban the annual ‘Gay Pride parade’ following further offensive displays at this year’s event.

David McConaghie, Press Officer for the evangelical umbrella group The Caleb Foundation made the call after it emerged that one of the participants had exposed himself to protesters and amid reports that placards were torn and a bible ripped and following comments from the chairperson of the organising committee claimed that such behaviour was ‘understandable.’

David McConaghie said: “Many evangelical Christians were understandably greatly offended by the disgraceful scenes at last year’s event when a placard was displayed saying that Jesus was a fag. This year we have witnessed yet more gratuitously offensive and deliberately provocative behaviour emanating from participants in this event. The gratuitous offence directed towards Christians by participants in this event will not have been dampened in any way by the comments from the main organiser who described this kind of activity as ‘understandable.’ Surely there is nothing understandable about exposing oneself publicly to members of the public.”

 “These comments give a clear indication of the thinking of many who take part in this parade annually – namely that it appears to be a core reason for the participation of many that they actually set out to be offensive to others. The Parades Commission had an opportunity following last year’s parade to insist upon certain standards of behaviour. It failed to do so and in consequence ensured that this year we had even worse displays on view. There is now a very clear obligation placed upon the Parades Commission to do the job it was created to do and take action against those have shown that they cannot be trusted to abide by normal standards of public behaviour.”

 “It is now incumbent upon the Parades Commission to ban this event.”

* Church of Ireland Primate Comments on Gay Marriage in Churches.

A recent media storm has followed Dr Alan Harper's controversial comments that if homosexuality was proved to be genetic, then the Apostle Paul would be proved to have 'got it wrong' and homosexual 'marriage' would have to be allowed in Anglican Churches.

A Caleb spokesman commented:

Dr. Alan Harper must surely have known the effect his recent comments would have both within his own church and across the Christian community in Northern Ireland.  Even if we accept that he was doing nothing more than to suggest that – on the issue of homosexuality – St. Paul’s teaching may be overtaken by current or future scientific research, the effect of his comments will be to undermine people’s confidence in the authority of Scripture.  If Paul was wrong about homosexual practice being sinful (Romans 1) and that homosexuals could be forgiven and changed (1 Corinthians 6), was he also wrong about justification by faith alone (Romans 5), or the communion service (1 Corinthians 11), or in what he taught in that great chapter about love (1 Corinthians 13)?

Of course, God will never be taken by surprise by any scientific discoveries, either now or in the future, and His Word clearly teaches that all sex outside of marriage – including homosexuality – is morally wrong.  Bible-believing Christians are content to rest in the all-knowing wisdom of the One who invented sexual attraction in the first place!