Diocese of Montreal celebrates Pride Week

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1960s, but we live in a world in turmoil where the rights that have been granted in the last decades could easily be withdrawn.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.