Posted on 02/04/2023 6:18:04 PM PST by marshmallow
* The landmark legal case involves St Nicholas Church in Leicester
* The reverend claims the flag is to let visitors know they are 'welcome and safe'
* Opponents have accused the church of 'woke' virtue signalling
A historic church’s controversial plan to display a gay Pride flag on its altar is to be ruled on in a landmark legal case after protesters complained that it was ‘politicising’ a place of worship.
St Nicholas Church in Leicester had hung the colourful flags at weekend services but then last year switched them for a much larger permanent version.
Church reverend Canon Karen Rooms claims the huge fabric Progress Pride Flag is merely a way of letting visitors know they are ‘welcome and safe’.
But opponents, including parishioners and General Synod members have accused the church, parts of which date from around 900AD, of ‘woke’ virtue signalling.
A test case will now be heard by the Church of England’s consistory court, with campaigners warning it will ‘open the floodgates’ to ideological imagery in other churches if given the go-ahead.
Sam Margrave, of the Synod, the CofE’s governing council, told The Sunday Telegraph that the ‘infiltration’ was allowing ‘moral anarchy’.
Canon Rooms wrote in her submission for the faculty that the flag ‘is a simple statement of welcome and safety’.
The Diocese of Leicester said: ‘All new altar frontals require permission… The application… is with the Diocesan Chancellor’s office and will be decided in due course.’
Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern, said: ‘Placing a Pride flag on the altar, which symbolises a political sexual ideology completely at odds with the gospel, must be challenged.’
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Pride is a religion.
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Over the top moral apostasy and sacrilege. Essentially saluting the flag of Sodom.
Let the dead bury the dead
A satanic religion - and Pride is also a Sin.
‘Placing a Pride flag on the altar, which symbolises a political sexual
ideology completely at odds with the gospel...
So is the ordination of women
Sodomy is a religion. Furthermore it is the official religion of the British ruling class.
Y’all MUST accept us
No where in the Bible is the ordination of women condemned. Homosexuality on the other hand is
Great topic. See an excellent biblical viewpoint here: https://www.gotquestions.org/women-pastors.html
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