Posted on 12/03/2020 5:45:39 PM PST by marshmallow
A VIDEO on the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) materials, produced by the campaign group Christian Concern, has been criticised by the Bishop of Coventry, Dr Christopher Cocksworth, for condemning participants in the process. Police are looking at the video as a possible hate-crime.
In the video, posted on YouTube on 13 November, Ben John, development director of the Wilberforce Academy, comments on clips from a trailer video which promotes the LLF course.
One clip features Alex Clare-Young, a transgender member of the United Reformed Church who served on the LLF co-ordinating group, and his wife. Mr John says: “In reality, if transgenderism is a false ideology — which it is — then what we’re actually seeing here is a lesbian couple. This man isn’t really a man, she’s a woman. And so whilst the Church of England might say ‘We haven’t changed the doctrine of marriage yet,’ we have changed the practice.”
Mr John also criticises comments in the trailer by a heterosexual couple, who say that “Marriage to us means just a deep sense of commitment.” Mr John says that the Prayer Book describes marriage as “a creational ordinance. . . We cannot redefine marriage.”
He also criticises a gay Christian who speaks of finding a church in which he does not have to hide anything about himself. And although he accepts the reality of intersex, he describes it as a physical condition: it is “sneaky” of LLF to try to group it together with homosexuality.
Mr John goes on to say: “The reality is that some views should not be accepted or tolerated. There are some views which we need to condemn.” The whole Living in Love and Faith project, he says, “was compromised from the beginning by having people we should not have.......
Can Hatred of Christians Lead to Support of Sexual Minorities?
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2019/03/50399/
Heh heh heh... His name is Cocksworth! Heh heh heh.
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