Posted on 03/06/2010 3:04:00 PM PST by marshmallow
As clergymen are warned they could be sued if they refuse to carry out homosexual "marriages" in church, what will the Equality Bill mean for religious doctrine?
Eighty years ago a Scottish shepherd's boy won a place at St Andrew's University. A graduate of Divinity, John Ebenezer Brown went on to become a minister in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He was much loved by his flock – not least because he never let himself get angry. "I keep thinking of my father and how he never raised his voice," said the Prime Minister, in an interview with this newspaper a week ago.
Even so, one can't help wondering how the Rev Mr Brown would have reacted if a gay couple had asked him to allow their "wedding" to be performed in his church – and then, when he demurred, threatened to take him to court. And how would he have felt, knowing that this was happening entirely as a result of the steely secularist agenda of the government led by his own son?
On Tuesday night, the House of Lords passed an amendment to the Equality Bill tabled by the gay Labour peer Lord Alli. As a result, the Bill now removes the ban on civil partnership ceremonies being held in places of worship. If passed in its current form, the doors of churches will be thrown open to what are effectively gay weddings – not as a result of a narrow and bitter vote in a Church Synod, but by political fiat.
And if they refuse to comply? The front page of Thursday's Daily Telegraph spelled it out: "Vicars to be sued over gay weddings". And not just vicars, but Catholic priests, rabbis, imams, ministers of the (gay-unfriendly) Church of Scientology – to say nothing of soft-voiced ministers of the Kirk.
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All in the name of "equality".
"Choose today which master you will serve ..."
It's a decision we're all going to be faced with if things keep up the way they are.
>”Choose today which master you will serve ...”
They chose homosexual islamists, meaning that it’s a dogged and strict adherence to “self-destructionism.”
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Coming soon to a church near you. . ..
This is a fight I’m willing to engage. I will never submit to the lavendar mafia.
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