Will we soon see pastors prosecuted for saying the Lord’s Prayer?
by Julian Mann, Christian Today:
If leading LGBT campaigner Jayne Ozanne gets her way, Christian pastors could be banned from saying the Lord’s Prayer with same-sex attracted people.
Ms Ozanne, a member of the Church of England’s governing body, the General Synod, was on the government’s LGBT advisory panel. But she resigned in March claiming the government was creating a “hostile environment” for LGBT people.
Yet the Conservative government has complied with her wishes by announcing in the Queen’s Speech in May that it plans to ban gay conversion therapy.
She, however, wants the government to ban pastors from the “gentle non-coercive prayer” in counselling which even the ultra-revisionist Bishop of Manchester, David Walker, says should still be allowed.
“All prayer that seeks to change or suppress someone’s innate sexuality or gender identity is deeply damaging and causes immeasurable harm, as it comes from a place – no matter how well meaning – that says who you are is unacceptable and wrong,” she told The Guardian.
So, with sexual identity and moral choice fused according to neo-Marxist ideology, a pastor could be prosecuted under the following scenario:
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