From here (page 3)
Pride Week at Christ Church Cathedral
The congregation of Christ Church Cathedral is once again looking forward to joining the week long celebrations of Montreal Pride Week in August from 8 to 18 August. This is significant for us both because we have a significant number of members who define themselves as LGBTQ+, but also because we believe that the Gospel commands us to witness to God’s love to all of God’s creation.Supporting Pride and allowing all our members to experience God’s unconditional love is a long standing tradition at Christ Church, and this has been symbolized by the presence of a pride flag at the back of the Cathedral. Times have moved on significantly since the beginning of the gay liberation movement in the 1960s, but we live in a world in turmoil where the rights that have been granted in the last decades could easily be withdrawn. It is therefore as urgent as ever for Christ Church to publicly celebrate the fact that God loves us all without distinction, and that we are not simply following what civil society is doing but instead responding to the call of the Gospel in our lives in doing so.
The annual pride service will take place on Sunday 11 August at 4 pm at the Cathedral, followed by ice creams on the cathedral forecourt. A group from the Cathedral will take part in the Pride parade on 18 August – you are welcome to join us. We will go there from our 10.30 Choral Eucharist. All welcome.
Once again we see the snide insinuation that Christians who are unwilling to celebrate homosexual activity don’t believe that “God loves us all without distinction”. Utter nonsense, of course he does; that doesn’t mean he approves of everything we do, or that he he willing to let us go through life unchanged.
Are any readers gullible enough to believe: “we are not simply following what civil society is doing” when the the Anglican church today does little else?
The article notes that “we have a significant number of members who define themselves as LGBTQ+”, an odd assertion since the Diocese of Montreal has shrunk so catastrophically in recent years that it doesn’t have a significant number of members of any description, although it does have a high percentage of homosexual clergy.
God’s love is expressed in a redemptive context. It is not some free-floating thing untethered to his holiness and righteous demands. To reject God’s saving action is to reject his love. Except you repent you shall likewise perish is a statement of God’s love.
Amen.
Exactly David. The position the Cathedral has taken – and your response – says it all, and very succintly too.
Pride is the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins.
Do those people who (let us charitably concede, sincerely) believe that “that the Gospel commands us to witness to God’s love to all of God’s creation” – which indeed is a fair statement – means the acceptance of homosexual acts as being on par with what “the two shall become one flesh” refers to (e.g. Mark 10:8) ever think through what, to be consistent, that would imply regarding other forms of activity that can be viewed as under a broad umbrella of “sexual” (an out-of-fashion word is “paraphilia”). Delicacy inhibits me from specifying some examples here for which the parity argument, which in my view conflates eros with philia, storge, and most significantly agape [Ref: C Lewis, The Four Loves] as well ignoring the clear meaning and context of the Scriptural “one flesh”, would equally apply.
But, of course, it is not about logical consistency and clarity of thought, but about depth of feelings, particularly when those feelings have political cachet.
I may be afflicted with inhibitory delicacy, but apparently this man, a retired prison doctor and psychiatrist, who writes under the pen name of
Theodore Dalrymple, is not so, and makes a point about logical consistency that is basically aligned with mine ..
https://www.takimag.com/article/never-too-young/
The Cathedral’s Canon was well represented at the 145 General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church in Canada this past week, twice quoted on his apostate doctrine of amor sui by a serial (contrary to the Church law of democratic rotation) Commissioner from PEI as his impassioned justification for the LGBTQI putsch that took place, all in the oft repeated name of ‘The Spirit’;
was not PEI, and other Maritime Provinces, better served by the Biblical doctrines
of The Reverend Dr.James MacGregor, whose Christ Commissioned Mission was “that man has a soul to Save”; or, in the alternative when encountering the “reprobate mind” of + Romans 1, as he commented to his fellow traveler on return from one of his many labours on that Island’s tangled vineyard,
“You know, some of them are going to Hell”.