The curse behind an LGBT prayer
by Gavin Ashenden:
The ‘Royals’ have been in the news with the excitement over Harry getting engaged to Meghan.,
Surfing the media wave, the Anglican Provost of the Episcopal Church in Glasgow, The Very Rev’d Kelvin Holdsworth re-issued a blog he had written in which he explained that he was praying for Prince George to be gay, and to be ‘blessed’ with the love of a fine young gentleman.
He is campaigning for the C of E to follows the Scottish Episcopal Church to adopt same-sex marriage. His argument was that if George became homosexual, and entered a same-sex marriage, that might convince waverers what a beautiful thing the marriage of two men really was.
Not everyone was convinced that using a child as a gender-political football was in the best taste.
But the upside of Kelvin’s media foray, which was picked up by a number of newspapers, was that it got people thinking and talking about some of the issues.
One of the most interesting was Kelvin, who is a well-known LGBTQI activist, wanting to use prayer to move Prince George out of the 98.3% of the population who are heterosexual, into the 1.7% of people who are same- sex attracted. (If these figures surprise you, google National Office of Statistics.)
To many people this may not cause any anxiety at all. But there are two aspects to this in which giving some thought to what prayer is might be helpful.
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