Along with thousands of other people I received an email today from Christian Concern about a bus campaign in London. I’d already heard about it though on BBC’s ‘Today’ programme on Radio 4. Basically though, some time ago Stonewall (Homosexual pressure group) ran a bus campaign in London with ‘Some are Gay – Get over it’ on the side and with Stonewall’s name attached to the poster.
Another group are wanting to launch a similar campaign but with ‘Not Gay! Ex Gay, Post-Gay and Proud – Get Over It’ on the side with links to http://www.anglican-mainstream.net & http://www.core-issues.org clearly displayed on the side.
Boris Johnson Conservative party ‘Character in Chief’ all round personality and Mayor of London has other ideas. Consequently,
On Thursday (28 February) the High Court will hear claims that Boris Johnson, Chair of Transport for London denied a Christian group the freedom to express its views on the legitimacy of therapy for those dealing with unwanted feelings of same-sex attraction.
I know that if a homosexual were to call some counselling organisations and ask for help to change from what they believed to be a sinful lifestyle they would find a frosty and hostile reception. And so in the same piece e read:
Any alternative to the homosexual lifestyle is deemed unacceptable and TfL are arguing that Christian hope must be suppressed for the ‘protection of morals’.
Didn’t you know, Free Speech only works one way! I’ll be delighted but staggered if they win the right to have the campaign. They certainly ought to be allowed to have it. If that happens it’ll 3 cheers for common sense and consistency. So,
On Thursday, the Trust will ask Judges to reverse the ban on the basis that the Mayor had unlawfully restricted free speech, and had discriminated against the Trust by stifling one side of the debate on the issue.
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Hi Mike – I think we Christians sometimes deal with these issues in the wrong way. I recently had to ask myself a serious question about my attitude to the LGBT agenda and I came to the conclusion that whilst I would not discriminate against such a personal orientation, I cannot agree with the institutions that promote these ideas as normal or acceptable, because of the damage it does to society, which includes my own children and grandchildren. I believe there are probably more LGBT individuals out there that are prepared to discuss their concerns with a Christian, than there are Christians who are prepared to give their time or concern to them. The Christian response that simply throws the term ‘sin’ back in their faces, without explaining why such behaviour is unacceptable to God, is not really helping. By that I mean, given the opportunity, we ought to show love and friendship to these people, in the hope that they will come to realise that God would forgive them also, were they to repent, just like us! Most of us can associate with 1 Cor 6:9 when it comes to our former ungodly way of life and the LGBT people need to know about this! I could say a lot more, but it probably would not help, since many misunderstandings are promoted from the words we print, as opposed to what we really mean.
I think such a campaign as you cite from Christian Concern is very unwise and will just fuel thd wrong response from a poor message. What I mean is that Christians should not behave like this at all, it is not acceptable Christian behaviour IMHO!
Hi Phil,
Thanks for the visit and the comment.
To some extent I agree with you but that’s not really what I’m trying to say at this time. To be consistent I would have to argue that Stonewall has just as much right to advertise on buses. So I’m not even arguing against Stonewall. It’s Boris that has stuck his oar in and I wouldn’t be surprised to find Stonewall agreeing with me on this one. All I’m arguing for is a level playing field because at the moment the filed is tilting against the Christian faith politically. Of course it always has been since the fall. You would also need to understand what goes on in the counselling world to realise what homosexuals that want help to change are up against.