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From The Times Online...
A Catholic bishop has accused the gay community of leading a “conspiracy” against Christianity by allying itself with Holocaust survivors.
The Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Devine, says a “homosexual lobby” has aligned itself with minority groups, including Holocaust survivors, to gain persecuted status.
He said there was a “huge and well orchestrated conspiracy” taking place in the “gay movement”, which the Catholic Church neglected “at our peril”.
The Bishop evidently is longing for the days when gays were thrown in jail...
In an attack on openly gay actor Sir Ian McKellen the bishop said: “I saw actor Ian McKellen being honoured for his work on behalf of homosexuals, when a century ago Oscar Wilde was locked up and put in jail.”
He made the comments during a lecture on “Christian faith and inconvenient questions” in Glasgow on Tuesday and has since stood by them, “These groups are defending their position, I am defending mine”, he said. “It is all about a lifestyle alien to the Christian tradition. There is a giant conspiracy against Christian values, an agenda here."
Read the full article here.
Personally I think that if people truly believe things they should stand up for them and defend them, so I respect the guy on that level. I also respect every sane and rational person's right to call him a maladjusted bigot, and ask the question, what does the church really offer people?
I am all for true christian values, though why christians think they have a monopoly on them is beyond me. I just don't understand why I need a bureaucracy between me and God. Religion seems to me to be the very epitome of worldly distraction, though tempting it ain't.
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