Here is more evidence that the Left is at war with reality. Homosexuality is invading the Church; just look at what has been going on in the Roman Catholic Church, with the endless molestation scandals, and the Orthodox and others have their own problems of a similar kind. So Aaron Edwards was fired for telling the truth. Meanwhile, all over the UK, jihad preachers operate freely, and no one bats an eye. To look askance at such activity would be “Islamophobic.”
“Christian lecturer sacked over ‘homosexuality is invading the church’ tweet,” by Louisa Clarence-Smith, Telegraph, March 18, 2023:
Free speech campaigners warn Dr Aaron Edwards’ dismissal for allegedly bringing Methodist college ‘into disrepute’ sets a ‘dark precedent’
A Christian theology lecturer has been sacked and claims he was threatened with a counter-terrorism referral by a college after tweeting that “homosexuality is invading the church”….
Jayell1 says
Homosexuality has indeed already invaded the church and I know of one C of E parish church where a priest married his gay partner against the official Synod ruling but was allowed to continue officiating at services under some kind of ‘special agreement with the Diocese because (it was claimed) ‘the congregation supported him’ – except there’s no record of the congregation at large being voting on it! But apparently it’s ‘de rigeur’ to keep on throwing brickbats at the alleged perversions of RC priests and C of E vicars whilst studiously ignoring the multiple institutional perversions and criminal shenanigans of islam practised every week in mosques up and down the UK – but that’s OK, because a previous UK Government agreed to allow muslims to practise their faith unhindered many years ago, and we now the murder and gross sexual exploitation victims to prove it!
Keith O says
Typical these days.
Anyone who dares to speak the truth is silenced and threatened.
“We don’t like what you have said so we will accuse you of being a terrorist”.
This harkens back to the old days when anyone who spoke out against the church was labelled a “heretic or witch”.
Rufolino says
The homosexual orientation happens to be a part of humanity. But you don’t want to see reality. You want to stamp it out, so it no longer exists. Your intolerance & unreality are appalling. Maybe you also want to stamp out people with red hair ?
Keith O says
I said NOTHING about homosexuals.
You are easily offended by something that isn’t there. Are you a leftist??
Nick says
Homosexuality is a perverse mental illness caused by the sin nature of humans. And people like you who support homosexuality are reprobrates under a delusion. Stop using leftist buzzwords to silence people. Why should we tolerate degeneracy. Scientist have not been able to find the gay gene. Its unnatural and perverse.
somehistory says
Yes, Keith O, if someone dares speak Truth to others who don’t wish to hear it, or acknowledge that it is the Truth, the one daring has taken his career, his freedom and his life into his own hands.
Jobs are lost, threats are made, and people are locked up. A professor at a university in Florida, lost his job over comments he made about racism toward White people.
ChrisFromCincinnati says
Literally PROOF that Homosexuality IS Invading the Church. We SHOULD be able to TALK about it. Because we can’t even have a discussion about it… maybe it’s too late! At least for The Methodist Church, that silences even discussion about this. BUT KNOW that our parishioners are certainly thinking and talking about it. Now behind the church’s back.
somehistory says
Yes, this is proof positive, ChrisFromCincinnati. There is a lot of power in their numbers and they don’t hold back from making threats against those who want to be Chrisitan.
Hoi Polloi says
Terrorism? But not a word from them over actual terrorism, terrorists, their supremacist ideology, or mass rape of UK girls and the persecution of those who fight that? Nor against forcing taxpayers to support hordes of military-aged males or the UN in its quest to build a world caliphate?
So heroic, these activists who lick the feet of terrorists and persecute truthtellers. Reminds me of the time of the burgeoning scandal of decades of priests raping little boys and people being forbidden to call it homosexual or pedophilic.
James Lincoln says
So what if this Christian theology lecturer had use “reverse psychology” and had tweeted:
There has NEVER been a homosexual priest.
Homosexuality is NOT invading the church.
Would he have been fired for being sarcastic?
Hoi Polloi says
Probably, but I do like it.
somehistory says
James, he would likely have been seen to be *denying* the strength and power of those ones. They do have their “pride,” you know.
Wellington says
Homosexuality is abnormal. Anyone denying this is denying reality, including basic biological reality.
Now, do I personally want sodomy statutes re-established against homosexuality among adults? No, I do not, emphatically I do not. But neither do I want homosexuality elevated, as it has been over the past half century or so here in the West, to something just as normal, wonderful, beneficial, etc.—hey, no problem at all and all that.
But it is a problem and elevates love over procreation, which is the principal biological reason for sex. Same-sex attraction is a disorder and not a normal affinity and it is existent among a very small minority of any population (well, perhaps minus Islamic populations), though one that should be tolerated by society as opposed to any non-consensual sex or sex with children.
And there most definitely is a tie-in between mainstreaming homosexuality and the sexualization of children because once one abnormality is normalized then others will be as well, including many of the most egregious ones. Many promotive of gay marriage but aghast, as they should be, at the sexualization of children simply don’t see the “connection” here. And I am NOT averring that virtually all homosexuals are pedophiles. Indeed, the opposite is the case. But what is missed is what I already mentioned, i.e., normalize one abnormality and thereafter even terribly egregious abnormalities will themselves move to becoming mainstream.
Also, traditional normal behavior will itself become characterized as abnormal, examples being the contention that the best way to raise a child is by a loving maternal and paternal figure or that marriage should be only between one man and one woman. As that old liberal, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, observed, when you define deviancy downwards expect for deviancy to be also defined upwards. This is exactly what has happened in the silly age in which we live.
Additionally, the virtually idiotic argument that since homosexuals might very well be born that way makes homosexuality OK is a deceptive and foolish argument. So, theoretically here, and for argument’s sake, what if gay men or lesbians are not born such but become such by the age of seven—or nine–or fourteen? So what? Then it might be wrong? Wrong is still wrong whether born wrong or developing that way. Might as well ask oneself is a pathological liar born such or becomes that way by the age of seven? Whichever, it is still a wrong, a disorder. And so it is the case with homosexuality, which in the West nowadays everyone is expected to accept as normal.
But it isn’t. And yet Western society is being pressured to accept homosexuality as simply nothing wrong about it at all, a wonderful alternative lifestyle, blah, blah, blah. It’s a kind of totalitarianism here that is going on presently in the West, i.e., accept homosexuality as normal or else. Well, I personally never will. As for yet another tedious and totalitarian oriented upcoming Gay Pride month this June, I say I’m sick of this shit and time is way overdue to take back basic morality and common sense. Yes, count me in here and to Hell with Gay Pride month. Go ahead and be gay but quit telling me how proud you are to be that. A la Luther at the Diet of Worms, respecting all I’ve written above, here I stand, I can do no other.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Excellent post, my compliments.
Things like gay pride month, gay parades, etc., are used by homosexuals in order to legitimize / mainstream, etc., their lifestyles.
I really don’t care what gay adults do behind closed doors. Live and let live.
What I don’t like is for them to mandate my acceptance of their behavior.
Wellington says
Thanks, James. Yes, the pressure to accept homosexuality as normal has become so pervasive that publicly asserting otherwise will often get you demonized one way or another in the cancel culture in which we live. It’s all very totalitarian.
tgusa says
Religion is not dying but the churches are. Gosh, I wonder why.
Jeremiah 23:1-2
1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord.
2 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord.
Deodata says
They have abandoned the word of god.
somehistory says
Jesus did say, “When the Son of Man arrives, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8)
And in the Revelation, He told John that a “great crowd” would be saved from the tribulation.
The “flock” is there, as you use Scripture to point out; but not necessarily finding a “church” which teaches Truth and stands up for others to speak it.
somehistory says
tgusa
another good one
“Ezekiel 34:21-31 21 You fat sheep push the skinny sheep with your sides and shoulders, and you knock down all the sick sheep with your horns. You have scattered them all over.”
tgusa says
Some people today like to define the people of the world as either sheep, sheep dogs or wolves. I have always rejected any of those classifications for myself. I am more in line with a bear, grizzly bear, in fact. That make things easy-peasy. No matter what your classification is, leave me alone and there t’wont be no trouble.
somehistory says
Jesus likened those who listen to, and follow Him, to sheep; “The sheep know my voice,” and those who stubbornly refuse to goats. He will separate the people of earth as “a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats,” and “He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.”
In today’s society, some people like to refer to others as sheep and in a derogatory way, unlike the way Jesus means.
People who care for sheep are aware that the sheep will only listen to the true shepherd’s voice and not that of strangers. I don’t mind thinking of myself as a sheep. I don’t listen to those who would lead me into danger….off the cliffs of nonsense, stupidity, and evil.
tgusa says
I understand. If I manage to make it to the Pearly gates I guess I will have some splainin to do.
somehistory says
I keep reminding myself, “God examines the heart.”
He also describes…in Ezekiel and Revelation…ones in heaven as having faces like eagles, bulls, lions and men. To illustrate certain strengths and traits embodied therein.
I’m sure He understands your feelings.
Deodata says
Why are the defenders of the faith? Not defending him and taking on these left anti Christian people. Where they normally are cowering away, turning woke to suit a temporary social blip
James Lincoln says
Deodata says,
“Why are the defenders of the faith?”
Let’s ask Pope Francis.
somehistory says
When Lot lived in the city of Sodom, notorious for its perversion, Abraham was told the city would be destroyed. Concerned about his nephew, he asked the angels about people being saved from that destruction. He was told there were not enough people in that city not engaging in the perversion to keep the destruction from happening.
The angels, appearing to be human men, went to Lot and his family to get them to leave before the destruction. These two were going to be in the public square, but Lot convinced them to go to his home. And lo and behold, the ‘males of the city, young and old, surrounded Lot’s house and demanded that the two men be sent out for sex with the males of the city.”
“…3But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. 4Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house. 5They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”…
Genesis 19
We are seeing the same thing in society today. The forces of evil are demanding to have their victims from among those who disagree.
Nick says
We won’t tolerate sodomite behaviour . Sodomites will go to hell if they don’t repent.