Ely Cathedral will fly the rainbow flag for the city’s first Pride Festival

Aug 8, 2018 by Jill

from Cambridgeshire Live:

Ely Cathedral will fly the rainbow flag for the first time this year to mark the start of the city’s new Pride Festival.

Pride in Ely aims to celebrate people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, sexuality or gender. The rainbow flag will fly from the cathedral tower from Friday afternoon (August 10) ahead of the event on Saturday (August 11).

The dean of the cathedral, the Very Reverend Mark Bonney, said: “I am pleased to lend my backing to this community event because it celebrates the breadth and diversity of the community in which we all live.

“I am also very conscious that Christians have not always been perceived as being very supportive and inclusive as some of us would wish, and so I am pleased to fly this flag as a sign of the kind of inclusion that I wish to promote at the cathedral.”

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Response from Lee Gatiss, Church Society:

Why is a Church of England cathedral promoting what is described as “primarily a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender celebration”? They are not naive, and know what they are doing. The flag will no doubt be a rainbow, but in reality it is a white flag, signalling their surrender of Christianity in favour of a completely different gospel, which is divisive in the church and endangering to the soul. There are better ways of rejoicing in the diversity of humanity — by proclaiming the joyful news of eternal life for every one of us who repents, turns away from our sin and turns to Jesus instead. Bring back the cross, the symbol of his kingdom. That is the banner under which Christians gather. But God says, “pride comes before destruction.”

See also: Ely Cathedral and the great apostasy, by Gavin Ashenden

The church’s capitulation to the culture – other pieces:

A Christian on the march against cultural Marxism, by Julian Mann, The Conservative Woman

Episcopal Prayer Book changes: Rejecting God as man necessary to fight abuse of woman, Prof claims, by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post