God gets it right at his second attempt
by Peter Mullen, All Things Considered:
God got it wrong first time round and was told to try again.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office funds an institution called Wilton Park which has just published a report Opportunities and Challenges: the Intersection of of Faith and Human Rights of LGBT+ Persons
“Evangelical Christians in the Global South – mainly Africa – should be expected to re-interpret the Bible to make it compatible with LGBT+ ideology.”
This agency, supported by the British Government demands “direct action” and says, “Religious leaders should be held to account for their promotion of hatred against LGBT+ people. Queer lawyers and their allies are well-placed to challenge hate speech through administrative law and litigation.”
The churches must be obliged to provide “enlightened textual exegesis.” There should also be “…teaching of LGBT+ in Sunday schools and Queer theology in colleges training people for the church’s ministry.”
The report denounces missionaries and Christian teachers for “spreading prejudiced views”
The Wilton Park report calls for “the improvement” of the Bible, particularly of accounts of “Sodom and Gomorrah which perpetuate hatred.”
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Equalities Minister Said Churches Should Follow Public Opinion on Gay Marriage, Observatory on Intolerance
Read also: Christianophobia and state sponsored advocacy of the imposition of LGBTI ideology on evangelical Christians in the Global South, Barnabas Fund
Foreign Office agency says biblical morality is ‘hateful’, Christian Concern
The Wilton Report may be read here