Bible college fires theologian for tweet against homosexuality, threatens to report as terrorist: lawyers

A Bible college that disrespects the Bible! Amazing! See Romans 1:27; Jude 1:7; 1 Timothy 1:8-11; Mark 10:6-9; Matthew 19: 4-16; 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11; 1 Corinthians 7:2; Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13; Genesis 19:4-8. It sounds more like the Devil's college


A Methodist Bible college in the U.K. fired a Christian theologian and threatened to report him as a terrorist because of his tweets in opposition to homosexuality, his attorneys claimed.

Dr. Aaron Edwards, who taught theology at Cliff College in Derbyshire, England, was dismissed from the school after being accused of “bringing the college into disrepute” on social media last month.

In a series of now-deleted tweets, Edwards had criticized the Church of England’s stance on homosexuality and same-sex marriage. He also accused the church of “promoting perversion.”

Edwards’ attorneys said he was called into a meeting with Cliff College officials on Nov. 27 and told that his tweets had caused “distress” among members of Britain’s Methodist Church, of which the college is a part. He was then given two options: resign or be fired immediately.

When Edwards refused to resign, he was escorted off campus and told never to return. He was also warned that if he ever stepped foot on campus again, he would be reported as a terrorist under Section 44 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

“The decision to summarily dismiss Dr. Edwards and ban him from campus is an outrageous attack on academic freedom and free speech,” Edwards’ attorneys said in a statement released Tuesday.

“This case also raises serious questions about whether Cliff College has acted unlawfully by discriminating against Dr. Edwards on grounds of his religion or belief.”

The statement continued: “We have advised Dr. Edwards to lodge formal complaints with both the police and the Equality Commission.”

A spokesperson for Cliff College denied that Edwards had been discriminated against, telling Fox News in an email Thursday that while they could not comment on individual personnel matters, they took any such allegations “very seriously.”

https://joemessina.com/2023/03/bible-college-fires-theologian-for-tweet-against-homosexuality-threatens-to-report-as-terrorist-lawyers/

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British slackers: There are jobs galore, so why are 7million out of work?

With more than a million job vacancies in this country, it’s nothing short of a scandal that 7million people of working age are economically inactive – 5.9million of them on universal credit.

The total has risen by 300,000 since the pandemic, and while some may be incapable of holding down a job for reasons of poor health, others should surely be able to find employment. With so many technical aids available for home working, is it really possible that 2.5million people classed as long-term sick or disabled are incapable of doing any paid hours at all?

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt certainly thinks not and tells the Mail today of a new carrot-and-stick approach to coax the workless into employment.

Benefit payments for the disabled and long-term sick would be protected if they took on work for a trial period.

Meanwhile, those on universal credit risk losing money if they refuse to accept work or fail to turn up for interviews. Also, if they work less than 18 hours a week (up from 12), they will be obliged to seek more.

Getting benefit claimants back into the workforce is good for the country and good for those concerned. It saves public money and reduces the pressure to bring in migrants to fill the 1.1million posts which are vacant.

More importantly, work generally makes people healthier, while earning one’s own money rather than relying on the state should instil pride and confidence.

This is not the first time ministers have tried to tackle benefit dependency. Sir Iain Duncan Smith had great success during the coalition years in transforming the benefit system to make work pay.

But that resolve has slipped since and inertia has set in. We welcome Mr Hunt’s campaign and hope it will galvanise the workless into action. Poor productivity has held Britain back for far too long. This initiative can help turn the tide.

Passport to misery

Anyone who has waited three months or more for their passport to be renewed might be forgiven for thinking Passport Office staff were already on strike.

Amazingly, that was the sub-standard service when they were working normally. So Lord knows how long those delays will be now they are planning a five-week walkout.

The decision to punish the long-suffering public with this spiteful action is particularly tin-eared, at a time when almost every other union is seeing sense and calling off their strikes.

The Public and Commercial Services union plans to create as much disruption as possible, calling their strike for the peak April period, during which an estimated 250,000 applications come in every week.

The strike will cause widespread stress as people wait anxiously to see whether passports arrive in time for their summer vacation and could well lead to family holidays being ruined altogether. So much for public service.

Emotion trumps logic

Parliament's decision to ban the import of hunting trophies into the UK was sadly a victory for emotion and sentimentality over common sense.

Despite representatives of five African countries saying that regulated hunting of big game was an essential and lucrative part of their conservation strategy, MPs allowed hearts to rule heads.

Like deer in London’s royal parks, animals will need to be culled anyway to preserve the health of the herds and to ensure they don’t become too numerous. Only now it will cost money rather than generating it.

Supporters of this Bill are no doubt bristling with pride over their virtuous stand against the odious hobby hunters. But according to local conservationists, they have caused more damage than they know.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11874611/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-jobs-galore-7million-work.html

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We are not your victims, liberals: Slavery reparations are an insult

By Xaviaer DuRousseau (Reformed BLM activist)

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors “voiced enthusiastic support” after hearing 111 recommendations from the African American Reparations Advisory Committee.

The proposal includes giving every eligible black resident $5 million and the elimination of their personal debt and tax burdens.

Let’s be clear about one thing: Even in a liberal safe space like San Francisco, this absurd proposal is never going to come to fruition.

Who will pay for it?

It is wildly unrealistic to think that non-black San Francisco families can withstand the burden of an estimated $600,000 each to support the $5 million proposal alone.

This campaign for reparations is led by leftist grifters looking to sell their latest lucrative book about being oppressed and progressives who expect a gold medal for their virtue signaling.

Other noteworthy recommendations include a guaranteed annual income of $97,000 for 250 years for each of San Francisco’s 50,000 black residents and a home “for just $1 a family.”

Every American — especially Bay Area residents — should be repulsed by the latter recommendation.

California has an estimated homeless veterans population of more than 10,000. You’d be hard-pressed to walk through the Financial District of San Francisco without encountering multiple homeless veterans who are sleeping on the streets.

Slavery ended in 1865 — and was never legal in California! — yet we are overlooking the needs of veterans in 2023 in favor of “social justice.”

Crosshed here

No sane individual has downplayed the gruesome nature of slavery, but it is a slippery slope to attempt to compensate citizens for every injustice in our nation’s history.

Black Americans in 2023 were never slaves, and white Americans in 2023 were never slave owners.

Distributing reparations to the descendants of slaves may lead to various other communities who have complex, somber histories demanding that people who never themselves inflicted harm be forced to foot the bill.

The city-appointed reparations task force is still debating residency requirements.

There are glaring flaws within this criteria — such as what does this mean for biracial people? Will a mixed-race person be required to fund and receive reparations? How much African ancestry is required in order to qualify? Are we going to see the return of the one-drop rule?

Furthermore, this news may leave African immigrants and their descendants ecstatic, as there isn’t a clearly defined way to prove that a black American descended from slaves rather than from blacks living in free, northern states during the slavery era or from voluntary immigration to the United States.

In 2023, we are supposed to believe that our country is still systemically racist, as if affirmative action, university and occupational diversity quotas, a twice-elected black president, a black vice president and roughly a dozen black/biracial billionaires do not suffice to debunk the narrative.

The cry of systemic racism is exhausted, and the victim cards expired about 60 years ago. Nevertheless, the left continues to manipulate black Americans by keeping us dependent on a system of handouts.

It began with welfare, and the left is continuing its predecessors’ work today with the empty promise of reparation proposals.

Free from responsibility

The helpless-victim narrative clouding many black Americans’ judgment and perception of reality has hindered our growth as a collective.

Instead of directing our focus toward relevant issues — such as father absence, crime, illiteracy, and staggering abortion rates — we are told these problems are somehow the result of slavery and Jim Crow and, therefore, not our fault and only curable by someone else bailing us out.

I pray to see the day that more black Americans will recognize the way we are being gaslighted for political gain.

Until then, one thing is certain — these reparation recommendations are a tragicomical representation of how unserious the San Francisco Board of Supervisors are about fixing their drug-ridden city.

https://nypost.com/2023/03/17/we-are-not-victims-liberals-slavery-reparations-insulting/

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Corporate Media Works Against the Average American

The Right must fight back in the information war waged by left-wing media, the editor-in-chief of The Federalist says, adding that conservatives should take their cues from how Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis treats “false reporting.”

“Because they’re combining with Big Tech to suppress conservative publications and outlets, we need to treat it like the information war it is, fund the information war properly, and invest in those people that are pushing against the fake news [and] who care about actually reporting real news,” Mollie Hemingway told The Daily Signal.

There’s nothing “mainstream” about corporate media, she said, adding that what she calls “propaganda media” works against average Americans by pushing radical ideology, suppressing information about elections, and more.

“They do not represent the views of average Americans by any stretch of the imagination,” she said. “They support really radical ideas, whether they’re economic or cultural that the vast majority of Americans, and even—in some cases—the vast majority of Democrats, don’t share.”

Woke media outlets use euphemistic language, such as “gender-affirming care” and “preferred” personal pronouns, to frame gender issues, Hemingway says.

“What that means is actual mutilation of healthy body parts or permanent sterilization of the reproductive system. It’s a criminally gross type of thing they’re talking about, but they use these euphemisms to describe it,” she said, adding:

People who want to be free need to fight very hard to make sure that they use proper words to describe reality.

Left-wing media outlets do not represent the majority of American women, Hemingway said in explaining the positive media coverage of, for example, the Equal Rights Amendment, which would erase distinctions between males and females.

“When conservative women destroyed the first attempt to pass this Equal Rights Amendment, they warned that denying the reality of distinctions between the sexes would be a bad thing for society,” she said.

Most women want families, Hemingway said.

“I think younger women are more aware of how the early waves of feminism were this false promise of happiness,” she said. “Over the last six or seven decades, women’s happiness has declined as men’s happiness has increased relative to women’s happiness. That makes sense, because what feminism teaches is false. It’s a false belief that not caring for family and not caring about having a family will make you happy, and that’s just not true.”

The media coverage of pregnancy resource centers, which provide care to mothers in need, is also malpractice, she added.

“They just don’t actually accurately report what happens in a maternal care center—how much of it is about helping young women in the early stages of becoming mothers, not just about helping them avoid making a decision toward abortion,” she said, adding:

Abortion is one of those topics that is among the worst in terms of bias and deception from the media, the language they use, the terms they choose. They are very committed to supporting abortion, and it shows.

Heading into the 2024 election, she said, candidates should not treat the lying media as legitimate.

“[DeSantis] refuses to treat them like they are legitimate, because they are not legitimate,” Hemingway said. “He won’t give them press credentials to allow them to blow up his events. He always questions the assumptions behind their questions. He calls them out for their false reporting.”

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/03/13/not-legitimate-corporate-media-works-american-public-mollie-hemingway-says/ ?

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