The mission of the The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada “is to encourage, promote, and enliven congregational singing.”
Not content to remain in an obscure, irrelevant corner of unambiguous heterosexuality, the society has produced a volume containing hymns “affirming the LGBTQIA2S+ Community”.
If you choose to download it, you will find such timeless titles as: “Queerly Beloved”, “Quirky Queer and Wonderful”, “We Are a Rainbow”, “Who Is the Alien” and, my favourite, “God of Queer Trangressive Spaces” in which you will find the gem: “God’s own deviance is Jesus, born of virgin, Word made flesh”.
I don’t know how we’ve managed to do without this for so long.
From here:
Queer hymn collection offers ‘much-needed’ resource for LGBTQ+ Anglicans and allies
On July 16, three days after the vote at General Synod, the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada released a new hymn collection, Songs for the Holy Other: Hymns Affirming the LGBTQIA2S+ Community. Produced by a volunteer committee from the Hymn Society, an ecumenical non-profit association that seeks to promote congregational singing, Songs for the Holy Other includes almost 50 “queer hymns” by and for individuals who identify with the LGBTQ+ community and their allies.
It is not in any way surprising to see how far into the pit of APOSTASY the ACoC and TEC have descended. The old hymn book – the BLUE BOOK is filled with hymns that hold to the GOSPEL whereas many of the current praise songs do not leave any real message demanding holding to the GOSPEL. Until the ACoC and other churches claiming to be Christian return to the truth they will accept anything as long as it does not demand any commitment.
Just when you thought they had gone as far as they could go…
Better to have Pandemonium in Hell
than Praise in Heaven.
‘Paradise Lost’,
Paraphrase by ‘John Milton’
This whole thing is just beginning and of course will never end. LGBT is all that we will hear about from now on.
LGBT is yesterday’s news.
It’s LGBTQIA2S+ today.
And I have no doubt that the acronym will be even longer tomorrow.