Posted on 12/01/2017 8:51:26 AM PST by reaganaut1
LONDON — A prominent Anglican cleric and gay rights campaigner known for contentious gestures has urged believers to pray for Prince George — age 4, and third in line to the throne — to find the love “of a fine young gentleman” when he grows up so as to advance the cause of same-sex marriage in church.
Coming just days after Prince Harry — George’s uncle, and fifth in line — announced his engagement to Meghan Markle, a divorced American actress, the suggestion by the Very Rev. Kelvin Holdsworth seemed to illuminate once more the role of royal romance in Britain’s imagination and conversation, especially when it collides with tradition.
Prince Harry and Ms. Markle have said they will marry in May at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, west of London. But it is only since 2002 that the Church of England has permitted church marriages for divorced people, “in exceptional circumstances” at the discretion of parish priests. The church teaching is that marriage is for life.
While same-sex marriage is permitted by law in most of Britain, the Church of England says on its website, “it remains the case that it is not legally possible for same-sex couples to marry” in its churches.
Mr. Holdsworth, the provost of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Glasgow, belongs to the Scottish Episcopal Church, a separate province of the Anglican Communion that voted in June to let its priests solemnize same-sex marriages.
In his campaign to expand on that change, Mr. Holdsworth wrote in a blog post on Thursday that believers could “pray in the privacy of their hearts (or in public if they dare) for the Lord to bless Prince George with a love, when he grows up, of a fine young gentleman.”
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Romans 1:18-32 on display.
He know the commandment but he knowingly, high handedly, embraces and advances perversions instead.
This “minister” is the specific sort of individual actually at risk of having been turned over to a reprobate mind. He is acting just like an individual who has been per those passages.
Does that mean he is actually reprobate? Not for me to say. But I absolutely CAN line up his obvious knowledge of the truth (part of his education) which he rejects and his advocacy of sin which he proclaims.
He is, again, exactly the sort of individual at risk to being turned over to a reprobate mind.
He’s not ignorant of Scripture. He rejects the truth. He is embracing and advancing perversions.
The guy is NOT in a good place to be.
Some people just need to be taken out behind the woodshed and have their behavior corrected.
If there hasn’t been revival they may possibly be praying to Mecca by then.
African Anglicans will have likely walked away from the English CoE by then.
Hell is gonna be full of “christians”.
These perverts might like the whippings.
The poor kid will be taunted with that for the rest of his life.
Well... they sure ain’t prayin to Jesus...
"But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea."
In return for what?
socialism/welfare/handouts and a false sense of security.
It is too abusive, but I was totally disgusted with this man.
Is the sicko offering his services?
You could click on the “report abuse” button and ask the moderator to delete it.
Thanks. I gave it try, bearing in mind how busy the moderators are.
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