{"id":27036,"date":"2019-04-19T14:26:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T18:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=27036"},"modified":"2019-04-19T14:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T18:26:38","slug":"church-sign-vandalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/church-sign-vandalised\/","title":{"rendered":"Church sign vandalised"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Diocese of New Westminster, vandals changed St. Alban\u2019s church sign to read \u201cBE GAY AND HORNY\u201d.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t anything particularly surprising or shocking about this: by today\u2019s standards of ubiquitous scatological, profane and four-letter obscenities that pepper much of what passes for speech today, it is positively benign.<\/p>\n

St. Alban\u2019s blesses same sex marriage and has had a lesbian priest, so the sign is not out of character for the church. Indeed, it qualifies as a suitable epitaph to be inscribed on the tombstone of the Anglican Church of Canada once it has fully expired.<\/p>\n

The diocesan communications officer, Randy Murry, seems to approve of the sentiment; he expressed admiration for the sign\u2019s \u201cpithiness\u201d.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll leave to your imagination the reaction we would have seen if the scrabble addict had added another word and the sign had read: \u201cDON\u2019T BE GAY AND HORNY\u201d. No I won\u2019t. At the urging of the bishop, the diocesan communications officer would be lamenting the presence of a homophobic bully in the neighbourhood and report the incident as a hate crime.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"A church sign in Richmond that read \u201cbe gay and horny\u201d last weekend got community members laughing after someone broke in and rearranged the letters.<\/p>\n

The sign, at St. Alban Anglican Church near Granville Ave. and No. 3 Road, was broken into sometime on Friday night and the cheeky message was there for all to see on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my god, it was so funny,\u201d said Dina Morgan, who drove by the sign while dropping her kids off at the SkyTrain station.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe minute my little one, who is gay, said it, (they) started squealing in the back seat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Morgan\u2019s kids made her stop and take a picture on the way home, and the image made rounds on social media over the weekend.<\/p>\n

Randy Murray, communications officer with the Diocese of New Westminster, said the sign casing was locked, but someone was able to break in.<\/p>\n

The prankster switched the letters around, and took out the extra ones. The missing letters have not been returned.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to admire its pithiness,\u201d Murray said of the message.<\/p>\n

St. Alban\u2019s previously had an openly gay female minister, and blesses marriage ceremonies between same-sex couples. It\u2019s now changed its sign back to display the regular Holy Week message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Diocese of New Westminster, vandals changed St. Alban\u2019s church sign to read \u201cBE GAY AND HORNY\u201d. There isn\u2019t anything particularly surprising or shocking about this: by today\u2019s standards of ubiquitous scatological, profane and four-letter obscenities that pepper much … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}