PS My Bible tells me the Greatest commandment is to Love God and Love Thy neighbour - Ulster is a divided place and as such is a shared space where people must learn to live together - no one side can win!

In the transfiguration Jesus talked to Moses and Elijah... they were resurrected for a little time and then back to "sleep"? Enoch was translated that he should not see death, then where is he now? is he dead??????????
You have to be very carefull when taking doctrines out of Ecclesiastes, because it gives a EARTHLY view of what is going on arround him... he describes what he SEES WITH HIS EYES, that's why dead people is "asleep", just like animals. Does this mean humans and animals share the same destiny???
Please try to notice when you speak about a preconceived idea and what the Bible really s

He said the mayor and deputy mayor of Ballymena attended the event and that Mr Symonds was the only clergyman invited to the event in that capacity.
"The order of the Thanksgiving Service was presented by a scout leader of one of the Mid-Antrim District Scout groups and Fr Paul Symonds, as chaplain of the organising scout group, was invited to say the opening and closing prayers of thanksgiving during the service.
"The Scout Association would like to make it clear that this was a thanksgiving service to celebrate the centenary of scouting, organised by, and led by, Mid-Antrim District Sco

In addition, Lord Morrow, the DUP chairman, moved a motion in the House of Lords on January 9, calling for the regulations to be overturned. Lord Morrow’s annulment motion was supported by all the DUP peers with some Conservative support, but opposed by the Labour and Liberal Democrat peers and Baroness May Blood. Jeffrey Donaldson and the late George Dawson MLA tabled a motion in the shadow Northern Ireland Assembly (priot to devolution) on December 11, calling for the Government to withdraw the Northern Ireland Sexual Orientation Regulations. (See the Official Report of the Transitional Assembly dated December 11, 2006 on the Assembly website.)
A total of 27 DUP MLAs voted with the motion. They were supported by half of the UUP
MLA team at that time (the other half abstained). The motion was opposed by Sinn Fein, SDLP, the Alliance Party and the PUP. THe motion was defeated by 1.

by the way unfortunately not all DUP members are professing Christians, it is a secular Unionist party which just so happens to have a strong evangelical base.

The Christian Institutes counter court case against SOR`s has been in the pipeline since January and would have initially had Westminster / Northern Ireland Offfice Ministers as the defendants as it was them that introduced th laws, only when those laws came under jurisdiction of the new devolved Northern Ireland Assembly in Belfast would the Office of First and Deputy First Minister have become the defendant.