FIRST ORDER OF LAMBDA HONOURS TO BE POSTED ON MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2010

The Governor General and the Prime Minister's offices announced that the first recipients of the ORDER OF LAMBDA will be announced on Monday, January 4, 2010.

Christmas Day and Boxing Day, namely December 25 and December 26, are national holidays in the Dominion of Lambda.

Government offices, both federal and provincial, are officially closed until Monday, January 4, 2010.

HER MAJESTY, THE QUEEN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 2009

The video of HM, the Queen's Christmas Speech is viewed from this video feed from The Royal Channel . The Queen speaks to the Nation and the Commonwealth.

http://www.youtube.com/TheRoyalChannel

GOVERNOR GENERAL OF LAMBDA WITH HOLIDAY WISHES

Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Governor General, Ms. Lee Dorsey, today expressed, in advance of HM, the Queen's Christmas Day Message, best wishes for all Lambda citizens worldwide, and for all nations and peoples who both honour and defend the existence of the GLBT state.

HM, the Queen's Christmas Message will be both on video and in written form for the Christmas Day and Boxing Day holiday.

HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM THE DEPUTY LEADER OF THE LOYAL OPPOSITION

The Deputy Leader of the Loyal Opposition, Mr. Pall Heinar Einarsson, today joined other Lambda leaders in expressing his best wishes of the Holiday Season to Lambda citizens here and in diaspora.

HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM LEADER OF THE LOYAL OPPOSITION

The Leader of the Loyal Opposition, Ms. Sandra Lubrano today expressed her best wishes for the Holiday Season for Lambda citizens here and throughout the virtual world.

HOLIDAY GREETINGS FROM THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

The Prime Minister of Lambda, Mr. Raymond Decelles-Smith and the Deputy Prime Minister of Lambda, Ms. Carolyn Power wish to express their best wishes for the Holiday Season.

PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES SPECIAL SESSIONS

Tory Prime Minister Raymond Decelles-Smith notified the Governor General and the Leader of the Loyal Opposition that the Government has announced a special session of Parliament for the following dates in 2009.

The dates that the Parliament will be in session during the holiday recess is December 21-23 and again December 27-30, 2009.

Lambda celebrates Christmas Day on December 25 and Boxing Day on December 26.

Liberal Leader Sandra Lubrano commented upon the prime minister's call for a special session by stating that it is her hope that the session will address international environmental concerns and the international attempt by reactionary forces to legislate the execution of GLBT citizens or to imprison GLBT and friends and families who harbour them for long sentences. The Uganda issue, and international media complicity in the theocratic reactionary strategies were specifically mentioned by her.

In reply, the prime minister reiterated his pledge that there are international issues that have no partisan flavour and that all Lambda citizens in diaspora worldwide must support efforts to suppress it. He again mentioned that the political, economic and religious pieces must converge to create solutions.

"Nations who are silent, or not part of the solution, are complicit with genocide."

HOUSE OF COMMONS IN SEASONAL RECESS

The House of Commons went into recess today following the last session before the Christmas holiday and will return on January 2, 2010. The Senate will recess tomorrow at noon to receive any last minute bills submitted by the government.

This period is also scheduled for Members of Parliament to return to their ridings and communicate with their constituents. A list of bills and important issues facing the nation will be published during this recess period, it was announced by the prime minister's office of communications.

SPECULATION INCREASES ON ORDER OF LAMBDA NEW YEAR'S DAY HONOURS LIST.

Speculation increases on the Prime Minister's list for the Order of Lambda Honours List. The Sovereign of the Order is HM the Queen. The Governor General will announce the Honours recipients on New Year's Day, 2010. The procedure is traditional, whereby the Leader of the Opposition provides the Prime Minister with her candidates for the Honours. This list must be presented to the Governor General one week prior to the announcement by her.

Candidates for the Order of Lambda should be sent by email to either the Conservative Prime Minister Raymond Decelles-Smith or Liberal Leader of the Opposition Sandra Lubrano, or by Facebook commentary by December 23, 2009.

ANGLICAN PRIMATE CONGRATULATES FELLOW LESBIAN BISHOP

A congratulatory press release by the Office of the Primate of the Anglican Church of Lambda to the Episcopal Church USA upon the election by the Diocese of Los Angeles, California of the Reverend Canon Mary D. Glasspool , 45, as suffragan bishop of the diocese. Under Anglican canon law, the entire Church must ratify the election at a special convocation for that purpose nationally.

It is expected that renegade groups from within and without the ECUSA will voice their opposition to Canon Glasspool's election, and will try to thwart the approval process.

The Most Reverend Rowan Williams, the honourary primate of the Worldwide Anglican Communion announced his sadness and displeasure at the election of the openly lesbian bishop-elect who has a significant relationship blessed by religious and civil marriage.

A full statement is forthcoming from the ACL Chancery.

LAMBDA ANGLICAN PRIMATE SPEAKS....

The Most Reverend Elizabeth Rowen-Leigh , Archbishop of Jamestown, and Primate of the Anglican Church of Lambda, today joined other Lambda hierarchs in condemning the Ugandan government new genocide law against GLBT persons in their country, with the open complicity of the "Family" and other homophobic American fundamentalist cults, and the silent support of such groups as the Roman Catholic Church and the uberconservative and homophobic segment of Anglicanism, led worldwide by the "Anglican antipope", Dr. Peter Akinola, Archbishop of Lagos, Nigeria.

The Anglican Church of Lambda is not a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, but has sacramental intercommunion with the more liberal communions within Anglicanism, or at least tacit support for its virtual existence as an expression of Anglican faith and practice. The Anglican body ordains women to all grades of Holy Orders, and yet, has the sensitivity to ordain male bishops in a strict line of male Anglican Apostolic Succession with Old Catholic lineage or Anglo-Catholic witness. This group is led by the coadjutor archbishop of Jamestown, Dr. Mark Upson-Downey.

Archbishop Rowen-Leigh is also a member of the Royal Lambda Council of Churches and helped author, along with all religious leaders, a reply to the so-called Manhattan Declaration in NY, USA, called the Jamestown Proclamation. " There are now several women Anglican primates, and this offends those who are equally homophobic. The two implosive issues that inform most schisms have credence with those who see the Church imbued with the sins of homophobia and patriarchalism. Both are a stench in the nostrils of Christ, who sees no difference in the sexes as relates to Christian witness, either in the pew or the pulpit." " The integrity of the Eucharist is not compromised by our feminine hands."

" The silent complicity of all Christians to this Ugandan genocide will rank among those Churches, especially Roman Catholicism, who stood silent while proof of Hitler's Holocaust was evident without question during WWII. It seems that for some Churches, who have witnessed theocratic rule under fascist and totalitarian governments, never cease to both support and appease their nefarious strategies."