http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/26/uk-the-right-hand-of-god/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/26/uk-the-right-hand-of-god/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:38:39 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=58870 New Statesman: "Cameron is not oblivious to his party's uneasy coalitions, and has stealthily started to unveil policies designed to shore up its increasingly loud, ultra-conservative Christian base. Recently, he told the Catholic Herald that he was a "big supporter" of faith schools and that there should be a review of the legal time limit for abortion. Is he likely to go further? . . . The answer may depend on how well the Christian right organises itself . . . Some groups in the UK have received funding from US groups . . . A Channel 4 investigation [in 2008] revealed that the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, for which Williams then served as public policy director, had received money from a US organisation called the Alliance Defense Fund that aims to 'aggressively defend religious liberty' through litigation." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/26/uk-the-right-hand-of-god/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/15/uk-%e2%80%98christian-victims%e2%80%99-of-english-judicial-system-to-challenge-master-of-the-rolls-%e2%80%93-today-in-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/15/uk-%e2%80%98christian-victims%e2%80%99-of-english-judicial-system-to-challenge-master-of-the-rolls-%e2%80%93-today-in-court/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:45:09 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/2010/04/15/uk-%e2%80%98christian-victims%e2%80%99-of-english-judicial-system-to-challenge-master-of-the-rolls-%e2%80%93-today-in-court/ CCFON: "Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and several high-profile Christian ‘victims’ who say that have lost confidence in the independence of the judiciary in England, will urge senior judges to stand down from future Court of Appeal hearings because of "disturbing" and "dangerous" rulings they issued in recent religious discrimination cases . . . " ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/15/uk-%e2%80%98christian-victims%e2%80%99-of-english-judicial-system-to-challenge-master-of-the-rolls-%e2%80%93-today-in-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/10/uk-christians-urged-to-act-over-same-sex-ceremonies-in-churches/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/10/uk-christians-urged-to-act-over-same-sex-ceremonies-in-churches/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:23:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=54917 Christian Telegraph: "Pressure group Christian Concern For Our Nation is calling on Christians to write to the Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Harriet Harman following last week's vote in the House of Lords in favour of allowing churches to conduct civil partnership ceremonies." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/10/uk-christians-urged-to-act-over-same-sex-ceremonies-in-churches/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/08/uk-be-ready-to-be-sued-under-equality-bill-government-minister-warns-christians/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/08/uk-be-ready-to-be-sued-under-equality-bill-government-minister-warns-christians/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:16:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=47563 CCFON: "A Government Minister admitted last week that the Equality Bill, which is currently going through its parliamentary stages in Westminster, could trigger a raft of cases directed at undermining the liberty of Christian denominations." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/01/08/uk-be-ready-to-be-sued-under-equality-bill-government-minister-warns-christians/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/25/heterosexual-couple-try-to-form-civil-partnership-to-promote-homosexual-%e2%80%9cmarriage%e2%80%9d/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/25/heterosexual-couple-try-to-form-civil-partnership-to-promote-homosexual-%e2%80%9cmarriage%e2%80%9d/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:44:27 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=43571 CCFON: "Two civil servants from Holloway arrived at Islington Town Hall on Tuesday, 24th November 2009 with the intention of giving notice of their intention to form a civil partnership. Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle had deceived Council officials into thinking that they were a homosexual couple by registering using only their surnames and initials." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/11/25/heterosexual-couple-try-to-form-civil-partnership-to-promote-homosexual-%e2%80%9cmarriage%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0