(SOUTHPORT ACTION GROUP AGAINST FUNDAMENTALIST INSURGENCY)
HOW FUNDAMENTALIST AGITATORS ARE TAKING OVER BRITISH POLITICS FOR MISSIONARY PURPOSES. THE HIDDEN FUNDAMENTALIST AGENDA OF THE BRITISH CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT: WHAT SOUTHPORT'S RESIDENTS REALLY NEED TO KNOW!
What you will read below is not exclusively specific to Southport or Merseyside but it is an excellent case history of an unmandated threat to democracy. Far-right Christian groups fielded many candidates at the recent local elections and are remodelling local democracy countrywide in imitation of the gains and influence made by their American cousins.
The SOUTHPORT INDEPENDENT VOICE (SIV) Party proudly announced in their May 2000 election literature that they were just "ordinary citizens."
The truth is however somewhat more complex. Many of these self-proclaimed 'Independent' candidates are members of hard-line evangelical groups. Their moderate political campaigning is a disguise for their totalitarian religious agenda that would be considered highly abhorrent to most fair-minded people.
We have traced many connections with the SIV party and other fundamentalist agitators some of which are targeting local schools with their controversial and peremptory worldview. Read on and discover the growing fundamentalist menace behind the surface politics, which we believe could destroy Southport democracy and freedom of choice.
THE ALARMING BACKGROUND BEHIND FUNDAMENTALIST INFILTRATION INTO LOCAL POLITICS
The Champion Newspaper printed a disturbing tale of clandestine religious indoctrination with its heading: 'SCHOOL IN CULT ROW,’ April 28th 1999.
This article gave evidence of a fundamentalist Christian group Label of Love. This Bible-Bashing outfit was said to have traumatised local 15 year old twins Emma and Abigail Jackson by telling the girls, during a religious workshop at 'Ainsdale High School,’ that their deceased father had gone to Hell - because "He wasn’t a Christian!"
Another Parent whose children attended the School, Mr Len Crosbie, reportedly said that Label of Love (LOL) were "Religious Nutters" who should never have been allowed into the school in the first place!
Yet another family, who also have a daughter at Ainsdale school, confirmed that 'evangelical activists' connected to LOL. were not only attending Religious Education classes and Assemblies but also incredibly getting into 'Personal and Social Education' classes too.
This makes a mockery of later denials by the group that they were not out to 'missionise' the children! This local family wrote to the Champion, the Director of Education and the school's Head teacher, Mr Gordon in depth, complaining about this disgraceful situation. The family stated that they never received a satisfactory explanation about why such groups were permitted to spread their intolerant religious propaganda in Southport schools.
Mr Gordon responded to their valid concerns stating (and we quote): "I cannot agree that they have infiltrated our school system as you suggest." He then sought to reassure the family that LOL were not interested in conversions at his school. Gordon continued: "I cannot guarantee the specific contents of their talks." A letter from Sefton Council's Education Director also tried to reassure the family that all was well and that they ensure that children are educated but not subjected to any form of indoctrination under the education syllabus.
Naturally, the LOL group denied all claims made by parents and media that they were seeking to 'evangelise' the town's children against their parents' wishes. They even went to great lengths in the Champion newspaper to try and convince the public that they were just 'ordinary Christians' with no desire to target kids with their own intolerant brand of Christian doctrine.
The following report will put the record straight and prove beyond doubt that these hardline missionary groups now see Southport as an easy picking ground for overt religious indoctrination on the younger generation.
MISSION TARGETS SOUTHPORT CHILDREN!
The Champion disclosure opened a very revealing debate for all local residents and most especially parents with youngsters attending schools in the region. However the full, shocking facts of the ‘Missionisation of Southport's Children’ and the apathy of the authorities is even more incredible as you will now see!
LOL YOUTH EVANGELISTS AND THE LUIS PALAU 'MISSION TO SOUTHPORT' CONNECTION
The main period of 'Label of Love's' school activity in Southport preceded a visit by world famous Evangelist, Luis Palau. This high profile 'Missionary for Jesus’ was supported at the Southport Theatre (May 7th-9th 1999) by Label of Love. Here L.O.L. performed as part of the 'Youth Band.'
We later discovered that a 'Youth Missionary Activist' who regularly visited Ainsdale High School, one Steve Kenyon was mentioned in the Southport Visiter as being a 'contact number' for the Luis Palau mission. We also found out that Kenyon was a member of the non-denominational Southport Youth Leaders Forum. Luis Palau was seen in the Southport Visiter (14th May 1999) with Rev. Stewart Reid of Christ Church, Lord Street.
THE 'DIPLOMA COURSE' TO EVANGELISE OUR KIDS!
Christ Church was interestingly mentioned in another earlier (April 9th) Southport Visiter piece entitled: 'SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE CHRISTIAN MESSAGE.'
This told readers about the advent of one Susie Wright, Christian Schools Worker who graduated in 'psychology' at Sheffield University. She also previously undertook work with the Scripture Union as a warden in a girls' hostel.
Prior to Wright’s arrival in Southport the Independent newspaper ran a revealing disclosure (4th March 1999) on a serious infringement of human and religious rights.
The Independent went on to say that a Diploma Course aimed at teaching adults how to "evangelise children" was validated by 'Sheffield University' and organised by the 'Scripture Union.'
The British Humanist Association vented firm opposition to this course saying that children should be given the right to choose their own faith system in a multi-faith society and not be evangelised!
They could just as easily have said that it was an affront to the children of parents of non-Christian faiths who were not consulted before their kids were brainwashed under this scheme.
The article continued. The main theme of this course is to equip adults to become "Children's Missionaries" and infiltrate youth groups, clubs and schools etc.
LOL are also members of the Evangelical Alliance, which is an umbrella religious grouping for many fundamentalist religious clans intent on spreading a certain 'Biblical' credo, which claims to be the 'only' true way to the Godhead!
THE EXTREMIST LINKS TO FUNDAMENTALIST INSURGENCE THAT AFFECTS THE FREE DEMOCRATIC WILL OF SOUTHPORT PEOPLE
Susie Wright’s link with the Sheffield University Missionary Course indicates her true intentions to promote the hardline recruiting drive for our children's minds!
Missionary, Steve Kenyon also has connections with Christ Church and LOL, which makes his attraction to Ainsdale High School blatantly clear, as we saw in the original Champion article!
Their target is YOUR child's mind and the clueless authorities are virtually turning a ‘blind eye’ to this problem. Each week similar smiling missionaries may be visiting YOUR child’s school and being given carte blanche to indoctrinate their minds with Holy Writ, including all the traditional hates that have for so long divided our society. Are you happy with this situation? We most certainly are not!
It is clear that Southport is a haven for hard line missionaries to peddle their sectarian myths in local schools.
RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM IN LOCAL POLITICS
These evangelists are obviously more than nominal Christians. They follow a strict biblical doctrine that many people would find offensive and they are now adopting a ‘Countrywide Campaign’ of gaining political power to impose their holy writ.
Such Evangelists regularly target dignitaries who fail to comply to their intolerant demands such as the town's MP, 'Ronnie Fearn,’ who was attacked in the Champion by SIV for his 'liberal-minded views' on Gay Rights, (April 12th, 2000).
Evangelical activists regularly polarise election meetings aiming emotive questions at councillors. They are trained to do so by fundamentalist cells but few ever introduce themselves at these meetings as sectarian agitators. Instead they pose as 'ordinary voters' and other members of the public can, unwittingly, end up giving an airing to the rational gloss on a completely irrational intent.
It is however the larger groups like the Movement for Christian Democracy via its evangelical supporters in C.A.R.E. (Christian Action for Research & Education) which have the real clout when push comes to shove! CARE is the British version of the American 'Moral Majority' movement. It turns over millions of pounds in funding and has lobbying offices in London and Brussels.
Herein lies the REAL DANGER TO DEMOCRACY IN SOCIETY! All the major political parties have religious groups working as ‘Fifth Columns’ often against the party line but in accord with ‘holy writ’. Even the Lib/Dems have their 'Christian Forum' that works quietly behind the scenes!
How very interesting, but not surprising, it is to find that most all S.I.V. candidates who stood for the May election were members of the 'Elim Pentecostal' (Evangelical) Church. Just to remind readers, it was the ‘Pentecostal Assemblies of God' which ran the TV ministries and the Moral Majority in the U.S. Steve Kenyon is a 'Youth Leader' with them.
It doesn't take an Einstein to make the relevant connections and see how there is a concerted campaign to indoctrinate British children, regardless of what their parents want.
The SIV group has proclaimed that they are just 'Ordinary Citizens.' We believe that their hidden agenda is something altogether different. Fundamentalists are seasoned campaigners who seek to replace liberal and pluralistic societies with socially - disruptive intolerance.
All like-minded religious activists oppose essential 'freedom of belief' issues. They are firmly against: Divorce, Unmarried mothers, Living in 'Sin', Abortion, Homosexuality (as the Champion recently proved!), Complementary Medicine, Voluntary Euthanasia, Sexual Emancipation, Sikhism, Spiritualism, Self-Empowerment, the Multi-Faith Society and many other things which THEY declare to be against their Bible and must therefore be eradicated!
These people openly desire not a democracy but a THEOCRACY controlled by themselves and their 'Born-Again Christian' brethren!
In the name of 'Human Freedom' we must combat the menace posed to society by these totalitarian Spiritual Storm Troopers at every possible opportunity.
Disclaimer
SAGAFI STATEMENT ON RELIGIOUS HATRED
SAGAFI opposes any incite to religious hatred against any individual’s religious convictions. Misconceptions and falsehoods put out by prejudiced people who under the criterion of one religion, seek to disenfranchise the wellbeing of people who hold a different belief have no place in our aims. Our endeavour is to counter lies with accurate evidence. We seek to report on situations wherein fundamentalist agitators of any ilk seek to over throw democratic aims. Our firm objective is to inform others; we have no truck for any sort of provocation to violent actions. We oppose hatred and aggression in all its forms as a fruitless medium of community failure. SAGAFI does not and never has sought to accumulate support for any form of illegal or antisocial accomplishment. SAGAFI endorses the liberty of any individual to pursue their lawful religious beliefs, without persecution by people who have dissimilar beliefs.
Addendum
Southport's MP was warned about fundamentalist activity and thanks us for "future ammunition"
We wrote to Ronnie Fearn MP, in good faith, warning him about SIV and presented him with informative data.
His response was positive and encouraging and may be seen in the following extract...
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