URGENT - contact Parliament IMMEDIATELY and ask Parliamentarians to VOTE AGAINST the SEXUAL ORIENTATION REGULATIONS (SORs) to be voted on in the House of Lords THIS WEDNESDAY 21st March.
- The government’s Sexual Orientation Regulations (SORs), in a misguided attempt to protect people against unjust discrimination, forces schools, adoption agencies, providers of goods & services and others to act as if homosexuality is as valid a lifestyle as heterosexuality. The Government has said about the SORs: “This is not just about legislation, it is about ultimately changing the culture of our society”.
- It is against Catholic teaching and against the natural moral law to regard homosexuality as normal, morally acceptable or as valid a lifestyle as heterosexuality.
- The SORs violate people’s freedom of conscience not to be complicit in the endorsement of homosexuality. For example, the SORs may even leave teachers open to legal action if they say homosexuality is wrong.
- Baroness O’Cathain has tabled a motion to stop the SORs becoming law. Please contact as many Peers (members of the House of Lords) as possible, urging them to support Baroness O’Cathain’s motion against the SORs. You can email Peers via www.writetothem.com/lords You can also get lists of parliamentarians’ email addresses from websites such as www.spuc.org.uk/lobbying/email You can also write to Peers at the House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW.
- Please also contact your MP. Please ask your MP to be present and formally object to the SORs on the floor of the House of Commons on Monday (19th March) at the close of business. Also, please ask your MP to be present and vote against the SORs during the ‘deferred division’ on Wednesday (21st March) between 12:30 and 2:30pm. The MP for this parish is [MP’s name], though you may live in a constituency with a different MP. You can find out who your MP is by visiting www.locata.co.uk/commons You can also email (or fax) your MP via www.locata.co.uk/commons or via www.writetothem.com or by using www.spuc.org.uk/lobbying/email You can also write to your MP at the House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. All parliamentarians can be telephoned via the Parliamentary switchboard 0207 219 3000.
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...if you can get them to answer you! He seems perfectly willing to discuss Trident, but not this!
I agree with this entirely - except for the last point!!!!
Just answer me one question - since when have homosexuals and their lobbying, foaming, baying hounds been calm, measured and polite in their tones!
Yes - be clear, be firm - VERY FIRM. We will not put up with this pagan, liberal, anti-Catholic, anti-Life and pro-depravity propaganda whether they enshrine it in law or whatever.
Ultimately the people saw the 'Emperor's new clothes' for what they were and laughed him out of office. So shall it be with all this SOR and other PC rubbish which is being shovelled down our throats. Politicians should take very careful note of this - as voters the homosexuals are outnumbered by tens of thousands to one!
The meeting on Wednesday is meant to be a rubber stamp. On Wednesday morning 14th March a meeting was suddenly announced in the Commons to take place on the Thursday morning at 8.30am to make the decision. About 80 MP`s turned up to find themselves in a small room. Some of the MP`s had to sit on the floor. Despite attempts from MP to adjourn the meeting on the grounds that many had business to attend that morning the Chair stubbornly refused. The Conservative front Bench and the Liberal Front bench had given their approval for this farce. In the end only about 20 MP`s remained to vote. That is democracy in the 21st century.
Thankyou for this Father, readers, while you are writing to your MP write to your Bishop aswell.
Other important points you might want to mention are on Auntie Joannas blog, written by Uncle Jamie.
The way forward is to fight with your pen and pray.
Admirable, but maddening.
A parable. Fr. Daniel OCSO, my 99 yr old Trappist friend, tells me that someone was going to set up a huge commercial hog raising operation next to New Melleray Abbey in Iowa a few years ago. The monks organized a protest march, complete with banners, television and press coverage. And I am pretty sure there was a letter writing campaign involved, too.
Returning from the march, and walking up the driveway to the abbey, one of the neighbors sighed deeply, turned to Fr. Daniel and said, "Father, no one believes in prayer anymore!"
Do see any mention of God in this announcement, any mention of prayer, *any* indication that we are relying of the Lord to deliver us from this crisis?
"Some trust in horses, some trust in chariots, but we trust in the name of the Lord Our God."
If the Church in England organizes novenas, pilgrimages, fasts, vigils, a demanding and intense prayer campaign, then we may well expect deliverance. Otherwise prepare for the tyranny of the SOR's.
Lee Gilbert - you are absolutely right.
Would that our good Cardinals, Bishops and Priests organise novenas, prayers, pilgrimages, fasts, vigils and an intense prayer campaign to battle with the likes of SOR's.
The faithfull lay 'foot soldiers' need solid leadership from our 'generals' in this cosmic 'supernatural' battle.
I wrote to my MP John Randall of Uxbridge earlier this week on that very topic. He has yet to get back to me. Perhaps he was busy considering Trident?
@Liam:
If only that were the case. However, mine's already nicely made his position clear on Trident. I think some MPs, not realising the gravity of this decision, like to bury their heads in the sand/ignore it.
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