On the weekend the clocks spring forward, it is clear that Britain is in for a dark summer.
That is apart from the likelihood of a summer of civil unrest in our country due to the already simmering social tensions that are being brought to boiling point by the deepening recession. The news this week that the House of Commons voted to remove the free speech clause in the sexual orientation hatred offence is a terrible blow for Christian freedom of expression in this country and therefore for the spiritual future of the British nation.
Whilst no true Christian wants to express personal hatred for anyone – we are called to bless not curse – we are called to be faithful to the Bible’s teaching that life-long, heterosexual, monogamous marriage is the fundamental building block of an ordered society where lawful freedom can flourish.
The removal of the free speech clause will make it much easier for homosexual activists to silence orthodox Christians who want to stand up for the Bible’s teaching to the glory of God and the good of humanity.
This dark news comes on the back of reports that the Christian owners of a seaside hotel, the Chymorvah Private Hotel in Marazion near Penzance, Cornwall, may be prosecuted after refusing to allow a gay couple to stay in a double room. The hotel owners, Mr Peter and Mrs Hazelmary Bull, apply the same rules to heterosexual couples who are unmarried.
Chillingly, the Daily Mail reported in its news story that last August the Bulls received a letter from Stonewall, the gay rights organisation, saying it had received a complaint and warning the hotel it was breaking the law.
Now Martyn Hall, who lives with his civil partner Steven Preddy, has lodged a county court claim for up to £5,000 in damages alleging 'direct discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation'.
Christian campaigners warned that the Sexual Orientation Regulations would lead to vexatious and unnecessary complaints against Christian hoteliers and now the floodgates are opening.
Chillingly again, a spokesman for Stonewall was quoted in the Daily Mail as saying: 'We look forward to the hotel changing its policy to reflect equality, the 21st Century and the law.'
A once Christian nation is rapidly moving towards politically correct dictatorship.
But the Stonewall thought police and their agents in the media, in Parliament and within the visible Church cannot stop Christian people praying to the living God through His victorious and soon-to-return Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
The Book of Common Prayer Collect for this coming Sunday, the beginning of Passiontide, is especially relevant:
We beseech thee, Almighty God, mercifully to look upon thy people; that by thy great goodness they may be governed and preserved evermore, both in body and soul; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
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The Stonewall thought police and their agents in the media, in Parliament and within the visible Church only have any power over the hopelessly corrupt. They are truly the ones piddling in the wind.
ReplyDeleteYou are entitled to your religious views, but not to attempt to impose them in such a way which others who you happen to disagree with would then be discriminated against.
ReplyDeleteIt is clear that if someone, for example, wishes to discriminate against gay couples, then they should look for another profession, as it is, quite rightly, not lawful to discriminate against gay people in the civil, secular sphere.
You are allowed to discriminate within your own church, but that is no more 'acceptable' than racism - just because it can be justified by religion is neither here nor there. In civil society, gay people are equal citizens and are thus protected in law against the sort of discrimination you would wish to impose.
I think you are actually panicking about nothing. No-one will stop you expressing your prejudiced views as long as they do not directly discriminate outside the church sphere, and do not incite hatred.
I think what you find hard to cope with is that they are no longer in line with public policy and so you are in the position that gay people were for many years. It isn't particularly pleasant, but gay people do not wish to discriminate against you or suggest criminalisation of your religion in the way you have advocated the removal of recognition of gay relationships.
Its not a question of Christians being prejudiced against Gays, Mersey Mike.
ReplyDeleteThe bible repeatedly and clearly states that sex between 2 men is wrong eg Lev 18:22 says “ ….shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind it is an abomination” or Romans 01:26 for this cause God gave them up unto vile affections …….. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward one another“.
You seem to be saying Christians should not be running hotels, do you also want us out of the health service, social services, teaching, the police etc etc. Are there enough gays in gay old Britain to backfill all these posts?