Posted on 07/27/2025 6:35:06 AM PDT by Twotone
Multiple leftist media outlets attacked Swedish pastor Håkan Persson, the parish priest of Markaryd, after a recent social media post in which he criticized the new rainbow-colored, LGBT-friendly vestments designed to be the symbol of the progressivism of the Church of Sweden.
In his Facebook post, Persson stated that the rainbow-colored chasuble and stole, designed at the initiative of the Västerås diocese, “will not enter Markaryd’s church as long as I am vicar.”
While the media paints him as acting from “a hidden minority-intolerant agenda” and accuses him of discriminating against the LGBT community in his parish, the priest insists he merely follows the liturgical rules of the church, and his doors remain open to anyone, but not to momentary political trends and sexual advertising.
“In the Church of Sweden, we have liturgical vestments that follow the church year. We actually have rules for that,” Persson explained. Anything other than white, red, green, and purple, depending on the liturgical season, is inconsistent with the Church’s official guidelines, he said.
In stark contrast to the leftist media reports, social media is full of overwhelming support for the priest.
“Apparently, there are still priests who have some balls,” said one user. “Kudos to you Håkan, stand your ground, many think like you,” wrote another. “Let the Church keep its traditions.”
“Don’t really understand what’s all the fuss about? It was just a bold statement based on the fact that he did not appreciate the politicization of the liturgy,” another comment reads. “The cross includes all people in the whole world. Protect the Church from politics.”
According to the Church’s website, the vestments took a year and a half to design and produce, with careful consideration for everything from shape to proportions and colors—except whether they fit liturgical standards, apparently.
“It was a natural step to produce a liturgical vestment that gives human diversity a clear expression in the service,” said diocesan assistant Cecilia Redner, one of the people behind the initiative.
“The hope is that many churches around the diocese want to borrow the chasuble and use it in religious services and contexts where the message of everyone’s equal value can be at the center,” added Anette Andersson and Eva-Lena Lidström, the two tailors commissioned for the work.
The Church of Sweden has long been regarded as one of the most progressive churches in Europe, even among the wider Lutheran tradition of Scandinavia. It has actively embraced social change, promoting gender equality and transgender rights, and even performing same-sex weddings since 2009.
The Church is also at the forefront of ecumenism. One of its biggest scandals in recent decades came when its first openly lesbian bishop, Eva Brunne, proposed removing the Christian crosses from the Seamen’s Church in Stockholm to make it more welcoming to visitors of all faiths, while at the same time marking the direction toward Mecca inside.
“It was a natural step to produce a liturgical vestment that gives human diversity a clear expression in the service,”
Jesus did not die on the cross redeem human diversity.
The priest is trying to uphold the teachings of Christ and the homos want to have things their own way.
From Chabad.org
A Generation Without a Rainbow
Since the rainbow is a sign that mankind is sinning, a generation that never sees a rainbow is on an especially high level of spirituality and righteous conduct.3
The Midrash4 tells of several generations in which there were such righteous people that no rainbow was seen in their lifetimes: the generation of King Chizkiyahu, the era of the Men of the Great Assembly, the generation of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai5 and the generation of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi.6
When no rainbow appeared in the heavens, it was the ultimate sign that there lived a person so righteous that he was a foundation-stone of the world. The Talmud7 tells about a meeting between Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Gan Eden (Heaven). Rabbi Shimon asked Rabbi Yehoshua if the rainbow had been seen in his lifetime. When Rabbi Yehoshua modestly hid his greatness by saying that it had, Rabbi Shimon said, “Then you’re not ben Levi!”
The rainbow is a sign that man is sinning, but that God made a convenant with man that he would not destroy the land on his count. So, LGs have adopted their sign as the rainbow but don’t care that it symbolizes their sinning.
*****
Just another man made rule that means absolutely nothing.
“Media” turds wanting priests to look like cartoon characters. That’s sick.
The rainbow flag worshipers know they are acting against God and their human nature. Rather than change their conduct, they are creating a false Christianity in which their actions are accepted and praised.
Doesn’t change anything. They are still acting against nature.
The shot... Martin Luther getting all upset because the Dominicans got the indulgence-selling franchise instead of the Augustinians...
The chaser... Lesbian bishops, apostasy and the celebration of sodomy.
Fixed.
This article brought back memories of FR from way back when:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1309629/posts
None of the images or links seem to work anymore, but the chasuble for the re-opening of Notra Dame in Paris definitely qualified as nasty.
https://fsspx.news/en/news/notre-dame-castelbajac-creates-vestments-reopening-45854
Here’s one from 2004 that still works:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c236/sionnsar/TradAnglican/chasublewinner2.jpg
“The rainbow is a sign that man is sinning, but that God made a convenant with man that he would not destroy the land on his count. So, LGs have adopted their sign as the rainbow but don’t care that it symbolizes their sinning.”
I think it’s much more nefarious than that. I think the homosexuals flaunt God’s promise not to destroy as a way to poke a finger in His eye. They are flagrantly disobeying a Law God has made that He’s already destroyed cities for practicing.
Who needs a Woke chuch?
Satan Is a very busy fellow.
Stand your ground, Pastor Persson. You may not be in conformity, but you are in the right.
We worship the Spirit of God, not the genitals of our earthly bodies. Some folks need to recalibrate their top 10 priorities.
“In stark contrast to the leftist media reports, social media is full of overwhelming support for the priest.”
All good and fine, but just who do they VOTE for?
Taking it a step farther, Hawaiians must be the sinningiest bunch of people ever. I saw rainbows everyday I was in Kauai.
(The priest is trying to uphold the teachings of Christ and the homos want to have things their own way.)
Amen. God bless him and protect him.
✝️✝️✝️🙏🙏🙏🛐🛐🛐
I pray 🙏🙏🛐🛐✝️✝️🙏🙏 that they
Read, Learn and Repent of this Blasphemy
2nd Peter 2:6-9
New King James Version
6 AND TURNING THE CITIES OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH INTO ASHES, condemned them to destruction, MAKING THEM AN EXAMPLE to those who afterward would live ungodly;
7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was OPPRESSED BY THE FILTHY CONDUCT OF THE WICKED
8 (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, TORMENTED HIS RIGHTEOUS SOUL from day to day BY SEEING AND HEARING THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS)—
9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the Day of Judgment,
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%202%3A6-9&version=NKJV
Martin Luther stood for something more than power and money. He stood for Gods principles.
Think about this: God smelled the good smell [of Noah’s sacrifices] and He said to Himself: I will no longer curse the land because of man, since man’s inclination is evil from the time of his youth. I will never again destroy all living things, as I’ve just done…
He promised that he wouldn’t destroy the LAND on account of man, and that will not destroy all living things. He did not say he would NOT destroy man because of his sin. At least that is how I see it. The Rainbow is a sign of Sin, but promised redemption of their is Repentance.
(They are flagrantly disobeying a Law God has made that He’s already destroyed cities for practicing.)
I believe so as well.
This IS the spirit of antichrist at work.
And SATANIC Dark Principalities and Powers
in the Heavenly Realms influencing and
empowering the goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐
Ephesians 6:12
King James Version
12 For we wrestle not against Flesh and Blood,
but against Principalities, against Powers,
against the Rulers of the Darkness of this World,
against Spiritual Wickedness in high places.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%206%3A12&version=KJV
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