[picture from "Queering the Church"] Posted on 07/08/2012 4:09:36 PM PDT by scottjewell
[picture from "Queering the Church"]
Around 200 Christians marched as a group in the Pride procession in London yesterday (7 July) to show their support for the dignity and equality of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Many wore T-shirts declaring "Christian and proud".
Many other Christians joined other parts of the parade. A small number of Christians stood at the side of the march with placards expressing their sorrow for Christian homophobia. Later, a Christian service for Pride participants was hosted at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church. There were also participants of other faiths at the event, including Jews and Muslims.
Meanwhile, about forty Christians opposed to same-sex relationships staged a protest against Pride.
The Pride celebrations included veterans of the first Pride march in London, forty years ago. . .
While some lamented the 'scaled down' version, others said it was an opportunity to take Pride back to its origins as a campaigning demonstration. The commercialisation of Pride has been strongly criticised in recent years.
Christians Together at Pride said the day before the march that they saw the developments "as a helpful reminder of what Pride is all about".
Christians Together at Pride is a coalition of nine groups, including the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement, Accepting Evangelicals, Inclusive Church and Changing Attitude. Other Christian groups with members at the event included Quest, a network of gay and lesbian Catholics.
They pointed out that Pride originated as a protest rally, with the first participants expressing a demand to be recognised publicly as they defined themselves, not withholding their sexuality.
(Excerpt) Read more at ekklesia.co.uk ...
IT’S the leafy London suburb that’s gearing up to be one of the host local authorities for next year’s Olympics.
But yesterday bemused residents of Waltham Forest were reacting to news the borough had been declared an Islamic emirate by a fringe group of fundamentalists.
The group Muslims Against Crusades has demanded strict Sharia law in the east London community — banning gambling, smoking and alcohol.
Dozens of posters had been put up — quickly removed by the council — insisting: “You are entering a Shariah controlled zone — Islamic rules enforced.”
The group’s Islamic Emirates Project aims to establish independent Muslim states within Britain and has also earmarked Bradford and Dewsbury in West Yorks, and Luton, Beds.
The Islamic group’s website said: “Muslims Against Crusades would like to announce that Waltham Forest is to be the first borough to be targeted for an intense Shariah-led campaign.”
Yesterday supporter of the group Abu Izzadeen, 36, insisted he wants to see the stoning of adulterers and women forced to cover up their bodies on the streets of Waltham Forest, which has one of the country’s highest Muslim populations.
The radical — an electrician called Trevor Brooks before converting to Islam — said last night: “It would be changed to the Islamic Emirate of Waltham Forest. Why not? We need Sharia law here.
“We have a big problem with prostitution here, a huge problem with drugs, we have an infestation of gambling shops on the High Road and the free mixing of males and females.
Me:Whatta Zoo!!! UK gone. Church of England gone. Bank Of England gone. That’s all Folks.
Hell is coming to the topside of the terra ferma at warp speed.
God is not mocked.
They are not Christians in any sense of the word, not any more then Jeffery Dahmer was a christian, he loved those he ate.
If they support abortion they aren’t Christians. If they support socialism they are not Christians.
Yet it could be an insurrection, a sort of self-destruction from within. There is a sense perhaps in which UK has brought the Muslim problem on itself, by not keeping its own house in order?
Right, a Christian name does not a true Christian make.
Just as there are RINOs, there are also CINOs (Christian in Name Only).
Psalm 9:17, ”The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
Psalm 9:17, ”The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
Apt words for these times. The Psalmist spoke well.
The solution seems to be “smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.”
Just the thought of hell scares the devil out of me... blood of Jesus is truly precious salvation.
Haven’t they espoused a wide open immigration policy for 50 years. Perhaps ‘white guilt’ for 500 years of empire building. But, the lesson is that surrender to multiculturalism never works. It will destroy you in the end. Too late for them. Maybe not yet so for US.
Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will NOT inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.
There is a world full of sick people out there.
“This is such a yawn...”
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Easy for you to say. Try working in our Hollywood studio where these sick pukes come into budget meetings and blast conservatives and Republicans while still IN the meeting, and has nothing to do with our upcoming projects. We had to hold back our boys for beating the living sh*t out of these faggots if it weren’t for the protection of the fudgepacker mafia in this town...
“The solution seems to be “smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.”
Wise words , very applicable here.
So called ‘Christians’
There I fixed it.
I really, really, really would not like to be in the shoes of these froward reprobates when they face the Lord...
We now talk about 'lifestyle choices'
“And I quote...
Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will NOT inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.”
Yes. And is what we are now seeing not the very apostasy, the great falling away of the Church from Christ, that is predicted for the end of days?
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