Dear Friends,
Canon Chris Sugden of
Anglican Mainstream urges us to keep writing to
our MPs and the Peers, regarding the same – sex
marriage bill. (Remember the widow nagging the unjust
judge). Also read Ezekiel 33 and be reminded that we will be
raining coals down on the head of our MPs if they do no heed
our warnings. At least we will have done our
duty.
Chris says on the
AM web site:
“The Third Reading of
the Same-sex marriage bill is due to take place in the House
of Commons around May
20. Following that, the bill will be debated in
the House of Lords in June. Many people wrongly assume that
there is nothing now to stop the bill becoming law. This is
a false assumption. There is still a long way to go and the
bill could be
defeated……” Please read the rest
[1]
He reminds that if same
sex marriage is approved by the government, in a few
months’ time, we will not be allowed to express the
view at all in public that marriage is between a man and a
woman. It will be illegal to even discuss the issue or
homosexuality. Overnight, we will lose freedoms of
conscience, thought and speech that have taken centuries and
the blood of our ancestors to win. Do you really want to
know what it is like live in a
tyranny?
Chris who spoke at the
rally in Trafalgar Square on Palm Sunday of this year 2013,
in support of marriage as between one man and one woman [2],
has also recently spoken to Muslims in the mosque at Tooting
[3].
The vast majority of
Christian leaders in Britain seem to have gone into denial
about the imminent danger into which Britain is about to be
irretrievably plunged and are content to repeat Sunday after
Sunday that their remit does not extend beyond preaching the
Gospel.
Well we have to say
that after 60 years of evangelism, just preaching the Gospel
has clearly not worked. It seems to me that the Church
has battened down the hatches and gone into denial about the
seriousness of the crisis we are facing. It also ignores the
fact that, apart from the four gospels, the rest of the New
Testament is not just preaching the gospel but is speaking
prophetically into specific situations and challenges facing
the church in the first century.
Canon Chris Sugden
appears to be a loan voice, a loan watchman on the wall,
(Ezekiel 33) and indeed is regarded by some in the Church as
an extremist – a dangerous fanatic. He was criticised
by many for speaking out against same sex marriage, during
the rally at Trafalgar Square because he was doing it on
Palm Sunday (what was that about rescuing a child or an ox
that falls into a well on the Sabbath day?). No doubt they
identify with the gaystapo who were trying to drown out his
message. [4] or they would prefer to remain in their
bunkers, hoping that they will not draw too much
attention to themselves.
[1]
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2013/04/23/update-on-the-same-sex-marriage-bill-in-the-uk/
[2] http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2013/03/24/a-speech-from-the-trafalgar-square-rally-for-marriage/
.
Finally an
English pastor, Adam Nixon, working in Rome, Italy, sent me
this letter he has sent to a peer. I am inclined to copy and
send it to my own MP. One could do worse by not writing at
all.
Dear
Lord/Baroness/ MP,
I respectfully
implore you to help save our nation from the beginnings of
anarchic breakdown by voting 'NO' to the 'Marriage (Same Sex
Couples) Bill', and speaking out against it,
please.
I am deeply disappointed
and indeed puzzled that the Bill has been pushed through the
Commons without proper debate, for marriage is logically
between a man and a woman, the biological precedent being
clear. I wish this were a nightmare from which I could
awake. Perhaps it is just a dream, for in the real waking
world, this madness could not possibly be
happening!
The frequent
'bleat' we hear is that if two people 'love' one another,
they should be allowed to get married. However, marriage is
about much more than mere passing infatuation, as is evident
from the ever-rising divorce rates.
Marriage is about
discipline, selfless mutual service, and the containment and
prudent management of sexual lust within a single lifelong
union as the building block of a stable, lawful, and
temperate society, and the ideal environment in which to
birth and raise children into honest, steadfast and
well-adjusted adults. Contrasted with this, homosexuals, by
their own admission, even if 'married', favour an 'open'
marriage, (each partner being free to engage in sex with
other partners), which they believe is the only way to hold
a marriage together. This of course is a ridiculous paradox,
makes mockery of the institution of and even the word
marriage and the whole point of it, and also insults the
good manners and temperance of heterosexual couples (such as
my wife and I, married now for twenty-six years), valuing,
as it does, unfettered concupiscence over the discipline of
chastity.
Needless to say,
unfettered concupiscence leads to a manifestation of other
unfettered antisocial habits and crimes, such as greed,
theft, violence, drunkenness, drug abuse, unruly behaviour,
jealousy, and murder. Any honest sociologist uncompromised
by sexual sin of their own can report from sound research
that the relaxing of sexual mores over the past fifty years
lies at the root of Britain's social problems today, for if
people cannot contain themselves in that most obviously
private, sacred, and necessarily restricted of activities,
it follows that they will not moderately and civilly contain
themselves in any activity at all. And this is precisely
what we have seen. Condoning the elemental savagery of
practising homosexuality by allowing homosexual marriage is
the final undone bolt which will open the floodgates to
increased civic chaos and disobedience, and an ever widening
moral maze which scientists and statesmen are already unable
to solve or govern. It is the Pandora's Box which will
finally destroy our civilisation, as we have already seen it
destroy earlier civilisations such as the Roman
Empire.
Moreover, it is the
most heinous and inhuman offence of all to accuse
conventionally behaving, law abiding, heterosexual
faithfully long-term married couples who have for centuries
been the very building blocks of lawful society in Britain,
of anti-social behaviour and to persecute them by law as if
they were outlaws for insisting on cleaving to each other in
faithful heterosexual marriage and wishing to publicly
proclaim that heterosexual marriage is the only correct form
of marriage. To label the law-abiding as criminals is a
disgraceful and doomed way to run a
country.
And to believe that
the nation will suddenly begin improving in prosperity and
lawfulness by passing a law allowing two men to penetrate
and fornicate with each other and call it marriage, and
teaching children, our future citizens, to believe that this
is correct, honourable and fruitful human behaviour, is
sheer madness.
I cannot believe
that the world is so far advanced in this madness that I am
even having to write this letter. To think that government
has become so confused that the way forward has to be
pointed out to them by unpaid citizens spending our own
valuable time to instruct you by letter in the difference
between right and wrong, as if you were children, is the
stuff of bizarre Vonneguttian science fiction. Please see
sense and save our nation from manifold future ills and
plagues by protesting and voting 'NO' to the 'Marriage (Same
Sex Couples) Bill'.
Yours
sincerely,
……………….
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