Showing posts with label auckland. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

If you are gay and orthodox bishops don't want to ordain you, you can sue them now. Madness

So, if you are gay, and want to be ordained in a denomination that at least yet, doesn't support gay marriage, what you do is to sue the bishop for lack of human rights.


New Zealand became the 13thcountry to legalise same sex marriage two weeks ago. 
This week the Anglican Bishop of Auckland is being taken to the Human Rights Tribunal over allegations he is discriminating against a gay man who wants to become a priest. 
Right Reverend Ross Bay (pictured) has been accused of preventing a gay man entering the Anglican Church's training or discernment programme for priests because he is unmarried and in a sexual relationship with his male partner
Gay activists, anywhere, instead of creating something for themselves, want to take over other institutions, to degrade them. Look at the Boy Scouts in the USA. Instead of creating a Boy Scouts for gays (actually, due to their lack of reproduction that will never happen), they want to join the lines of the Boys Scouts. 

This is the same situation in the Anglican church. Gays may as well, now that they have total freedom, make a church of their own (they have some of them already) and start proclaiming their degraded message.

The complainant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he had been signalling his desire to train for the priesthood since 2006, but had never been accepted into the programme. 
Bay, who approves entrants to the Anglican Church's clergy training programme, has been the Bishop of Auckland since 2010.
Bay, who approves entrants to the Anglican Church's clergy training programme, has been the Bishop of Auckland since 2010.
 Well, just as adulterers are not accepted in the program, or any other who doesn't live up to God's standards should not be ordained, or at least, someone who recognises that their life style is so much against God's Word, should not be ordained so lightly. But this people, just want to be "affirmed" in their sinful lifestyle. 

The case is illustrative of the sort of litigation that will become commonplace once same sex marriage is legalised. 
At the end of the day this is not about ‘legal equality’ – already granted by civil partnerships – or ‘love’ – nothing currently stands in the way of such relationships.
It is largely about the desire for affirmation and recognition.
 
What infuriates and drives some sections of the gay rights lobby is the fact that some other members of society - in this case leaders in the Anglican church - refuse to accept, affirm and celebrate their sexual relationships. 
And so in complete disregard of the directive of Jesus and Paul not to take fellow Christians to court (Matthew 18:15-17; 1 Corinthians 6:5-7) they end up doing just that – thus underlining the key issue at stake in this debate – a disregard for biblical authority.
So many christians were duped into believing that gay marriage would bring "equality" and  would not interfere with other's liberties, but this case shows the gay agenda, and what some had been saying that such a change in the law and views, would ultimately be (liberal) christianity's doom.

In conclusion, these people don't accept christianity's view on sexuality, or the command to avert court.

These people don't care about Scripture, or God, period.

Liberal Christianity, you assured all that this wouldn't happen. yet, it didn't take that long for bible loving christians to be proved right.


Friday, November 9, 2012

You don't need to be Blasphemous to bring more customers

And that's exactly a cafe in New Zealand has done:


With a name like Chapel Bar & Bistro, one can assume its advertisements would take on a religious motif. What some may interpret as clever allusion, others may interpret as blasphemy. 
Chapel Bar & Bistro, located in Ponsonby, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, is celebrating its seventh anniversary. In honor of "seven years of almighty nights," Chapel released an ad depicting "Jesus" and "Mary" in a compromising position.

And apparently this is not the first time they show their idiocy:
Chapel has used religious imagery in its advertisements before. Previous ads showed Jesus and Mary in stained glass with pizza pies as halos and dinner and drinks deals written in scripture scrolls.
But those who are asking for liberty of expression, whatever the expression may be, are also awarding the depiction of the Christian's saviour in such a manner:
The shocking ads may be working. Owner Luke Dallow says Chapel has been"creating miracles since 2005," with a string of devoted celebrity and local fans, and various awards to its name, according to Voxy.
Those who want liberty to advertise, should be more bold. Put Mohammed in a compromising position, and watch your establishment burn the next day.

Christians are easy targets, and don't have any protection from the government. But hey, some of us are so much into defending others, that we forget to defend our own. We deserve it, in a way.