Like most people I like to think I’m quite open-minded. I’ve got nothing against them as such, but I would defend the right of say, the owner of a small B&B to not allow two of them to share a double bed. In fact as far as I know, some of my friends may even be one.
They are a shadowy bunch, hard to spot at first. Give-away signs are attention to grooming and approaches made to our vulnerable young people. That’s right dear reader – I’m talking about extreme evangelical Christians.
Tomorrow will see a group of them (well, to be honest, last year I only spotted one) standing outside the entrance to the Cardiff Mardi Gras spouting their usual bile and hatred.
Christian Voice says:
“The annual Cardiff ‘Gay Mardi Gras’ is taking place in Bute Park. It largely consists of a mixture of politically-correct and indecent stalls with a stage on which some lack-lustre acts will perform. There will be a Christian Voice outreach outside, which we call an evangelistic prophetic witness: standing up against this ungodly event and at the same time using it as a spring board for evangelism.”
They continue:
“Apart from those suffering from same-sex attraction, quite a few young heterosexual young people, mainly girls, come to the Mardi Gras in the misguided notion that it is cool and harmless.”
What nonsense. The author of their article went on to say:
“In 2006, this writer was arrested, thrown in the clink for four hours and charged with a public order offence by South Wales Police. There was massive publicity, SWP were sued for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution and they settled out of court. An officer we met at the event in 2007 said SWP learnt their lesson after that.”
The organiser’s of the Cardiff Mardi Gras have said:
“Christian Voice the religious group, have once again indicated that they will be protesting outside the Mardi Gras site – guys – please treat this protest peacefully – we urge you to walk past and just ignore it……rise above it and don’t react.”
Well I’m sorry – That’s not good enough. South Wales Police look too scared to do anything and the organisers are telling us to ignore them.
Stephen, who would appear to be one of the organisers of the Christian Voice protest, has commented:
“It is seedy because homosexuality is corrupt and corrupting. It is the physical act of sodomy which is condemned in Holy Scripture and Christianity has never accepted ‘same sex relations’. We don’t hate homosexuals at all – although those campaigning for sexual access to children and imposing their warped views on others do try our patience somewhat. The world may change; it changed in Germany in the last century when a largely homosexual gang set up the Nazi Party and a majority elected them into power and allowed them to send Jews to the gas chambers.”
He really does seem to have an unhealthy interest in sodomy.
I hope everyone else has a great day. And, by the way Stephen, I share my bed with a cat but not in the biblical way. As for being ‘politically-correct’ I was brought up as a Conservative and in the Anglican tradition. Perhaps you should go and prophetilise to the EDL as they seem to like your kind of rabid rhetoric.
The views expressed in this article may not be those of the Welsh Icons Team (but probably are) and Welsh Icons frequently cover Christian news.
