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Gay UK govt minister to enter same-sex civil union
Spero News ^
| Friday, March 10, 2006
| Ekklesia
Posted on 03/10/2006 10:05:24 AM PST by The Ghost of JG
Environment minister Ben Bradshaw has announced he is to become the first MP to enter into a same-sex civil partnership.
Mr Bradshaw is a practicing churchgoer and a member of the Christian Socialist Movement.
It was suggested that he might be the first MP to do so in 2004, before the law on civil partnerships was created.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agenda; anglican; christian; homosexual; marriage; mp; samesexmarriage; socialist; uk
To: The Ghost of JG
Oh, Bloody He77!! I say old chap, it's all buggered up now!
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posted on
03/10/2006 10:07:41 AM PST
by
308MBR
("Ah fell in ta a bhurnin' ring o' far")
To: The Ghost of JG
Christian Socialist Movement. What an oxymoron. It sounds like a movement alright. The daily kind if you catch my drift :)
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posted on
03/10/2006 10:09:18 AM PST
by
beltfed308
(Cloth or link. Happiness is a perfect trunnion.)
To: The Ghost of JG
More British bone smuggling .....
......go off some where and do your nasties..but keep it out of civil discourse.
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posted on
03/10/2006 10:26:53 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(time again for the Crusades.)
To: beltfed308
The Christian Socialist Movement was begun by the Evangelical minister and anti-Catholic campaigner and demagogue Charles Kingsley in the 1840s.
It has a long history in the UK, and many clergymen and politicians were and are members.
The current organization is the re-formed and modernized CSM originally led by the Reverend Donald Soper.
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posted on
03/10/2006 11:03:04 AM PST
by
wideawake
To: beltfed308; wideawake
It was quite popular in the 19th century. The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a Christian Socialist (Francis Bellamy). There were various experiments in Communal living in the U.S. (Brook Farm being the most prominent). It drifted off into Democratic Politics in the 20th through people like William Jennings Bryan who was a Fundamentalist but who's economic views paved the way for the New Deal.
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posted on
03/10/2006 12:10:34 PM PST
by
Borges
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