Evangelical Christianity

Presbyterian Church Punishes Ford for Marriage Equality Vote

Gerry Lynch on April 25, 2013, 8:45 am | Readers 622

The News Letter and the Antrim Guardian have both reported that Justice Minister David Ford has ‘agreed’ to step down from his duties as an elder at Second Donegore Presbyterian Church in County Antrim, as a result of his vote in favour of civil marriage equality. This seems to have been the result of what has clearly been quite serious pressure in what the News Letter describes as “months of private meetings” at the sub-regional body to which Second Donegore …

News Letter political editor meets Taliban (not really) and survives

Turgon on February 6, 2011, 4:15 pm | Readers 58

The political editor of the News Letter Sam McBride has been to see one of Northern Ireland’s most dangerous men: Wallace Thompson; Chairman of the Council of Reference of the Caleb Foundation (dangerous according to the British Council for Science Education which has christened Caleb the Caleban). Sam seems to have found him somewhat less scary than he is suggested to be. The Caleb Foundation (Caleb was a character in the Old Testament) is a conservative evangelical lobbying group set …