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Home » Publications » Free Presbyterian Magazine » 2019 » March 2019 » Protestant View

Protestant View

A Monstrous Development

A note in last month’s Magazine highlighted the fact that opposition to the agenda of the homosexual movement is stronger in areas of Britain with larger concentrations of Muslims. This was also seen recently in a controversy in Birmingham where Muslim parents have protested against the foisting of teaching about LGBT rights and “homophobia” in a primary school in the city. One Muslim city councillor has been formally reported for allegedly breaching a code of conduct by “endorsing homophobic views”.

As far as the various Churches are concerned, instead of opposing the evil agenda of the sodomite movement, there is generally a climate of acceptance and, in many cases, of encouragement of it. This is seen in relation to the move to plant “LGBT rights” universally in primary education throughout Scotland, which is even being piloted in a Roman Catholic school in Dumfries. Indeed Roman Catholic representatives have been involved with the Scottish Government in the working group set up to introduce this monstrous development. An article in the Scottish Catholic Observer written by a representative of the Scottish Catholic Education Service makes it abundantly clear that Roman Catholic schools will implement a great deal, though possibly not all, of the Scottish Government’s proposals. The key word used was “inclusiveness” and the article highlighted the determination to reach a “mutually acceptable consensus” with the promoters of this educational perversion.

The article states that “Catholics in Scotland are acutely aware of the impact of religious hate crime and intolerance and therefore [the] Scottish Catholic Education Service want our education system to challenge all areas of discrimination and intolerance. The law that protects the LGBTI community is the same law that is in place to fight religious hate crime, including anti-Catholic prejudice. We want to ensure that, in learning about their own rights and their place in society, our children and young people also learn to protect others.”

While this compromising position of Roman Catholic educationalists may well also reflect the views of many of the Roman clergy and hierarchy, it is sure to shock many rank-and-file Roman Catholics, who might have expected their leaders to take a more robust approach to this issue rather than capitulate to the vociferous demands of the homosexual lobby. Indeed, one Roman Catholic media site seemed to point a finger at the priests as if one could expect no better from them. Since the vast majority of “faith schools” in Scotland are Roman Catholic schools, it would seem as if there will be no significant opposition in the state sector to the dreadful advance of sodomite education. May the Lord hear the prayers of His people and protect our children and young people from the promotion of gross wickedness in our national life.

AWM

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