COFFEE BREAK 180

+ updated at 5:25pm ESDT on Saturday, May 22, 2010

+ The BBC offers "BA and union talks stopped by protesters". I sure do hope an agreement can be reached since I am depending on British Airways for our trip to Germany beginning June 8. 

+ God's Politics offers "Glenn Beck Attacks Churches on Climate Change" by Jim Wallis. Excerpt: "You see, Glenn, most of our faith traditions believe that God created this earth, proclaimed it good, and gave us the mandate to serve and protect it. Yet, for thousands of years, we have abused and destroyed it. It is our role as stewards of creation that spurs us to take leadership in urging the government to do its part. This is a biblical concern of ours, not a Marxist one as you keep suggesting."

+ The following report is disturbing.  I hate to see the name Presbyterian associated with such a travesty of Justice, Compassion, Tolerance and Human Rights.

Blantyre (ENI). A Presbyterian church in Malawi has welcomed a 14-year jail sentence handed down to two Malawian men accused of homosexual offences after publicly holding a traditional engagement ceremony in a country where same-sex relationships are a crime. "As a church we don't support homosexuality or same-sex marriages. That is both un-African and un-Christian," the Rev. Levi Nyondo, general secretary of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, Livingstonia Synod, told ENInews. "We are happy they have been sentenced to 14 years in jail," Nyondo said in a 20 May interview from the northern city of Mzuzu. A magistrate's court in Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, on 20 May gave Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga the maximum sentence of 14 years in prison after convicting them of buggery and gross indecency. The two men were arrested in December after their engagement ceremony.