http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4910466.stm
Christians are always parading their religion about the place.
Let's test all things shall we:
Easter procession through streets
Hundreds of Christians have marched through London in a procession led by a man dressed to resemble Christ.
Marcel Croome wore a long white tunic and sandals, and carried a wooden cross from the Methodist Central Hall in Victoria Street to Westminster Abbey.
En route, it stopped off at Catholic Westminster Cathedral, signifying the unity between the different churches.
Archbishop of Westminster Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor asked people to remember innocent victims of our times.
"We remember the victims of atrocities committed by terrorists during the past year, especially those who died in the bombings here in London on 7 July," he said.
"We remember those killed in the Middle East, those who almost daily in Iraq lose their lives to terrorist attacks.
"We remember too the victims of natural disasters...we remember the thousands who every day die because of poverty."
Among the marchers were clerics, ministers and a child from a local school beating a drum.
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I'm thinking that there is very little "pride" going on here. I'm not even going to compare what GLBT's chant about in their "processions."
The whole nature of Christianity is that it is a belief system, and, usually, a communal belief system.
A belief system based on Christ Jesus and the forgiveness of sins. In the GLBT culture and community that is seen as a hate crime.
Christians naturally find themselves in the same place, because there is a strong emphasis in Christianity on communal worship and the Church. Their need, therefore, to have marches which demarcate them as a group, or make them feel part of a community, is much diminished in comparison with that of other groups. If you have a belief system which has, at its heart, an injunction to form communities with other people who share your beliefs, you are far less likely to find yourself at a loss for a sense of belonging.
I have stated many times that gays and Christians are in different belief systems. It's nice to see your position on the same thing.
What you have to remember is that it's people who are suffering some sort of oppression who need to band together. That is the purpose of Gay Pride marches: to give a certain set of people who feel marginalised a sense of community and belonging.
It looks like a clebration of favorite sex acts by the individuals that have banded together to be proud about them. They are a certain set of people, I'll give you that.
Gay people do not all share a particular belief system, much less one which tells them to form ideological groups similar to churches.
That position may fly in the face of what is going on in our schools and politics and IN gay pride parades themselves. GLBT (and Q's) get access to all youth during school and Christians must wait until everything is over. That is being marginalized. Remember no where in the Constitution or Bill of Rights is the statement "the seperation of Church and State." All (american) schools were once in Churches or Church groups.
They may belong to churches, of course, or other religious or ideological organisations, but those organisations may condemn or ignore a part of them that they feel is important and valid, and they will not, generally speaking, offer direct support and discussion of the issue which causes these people to feel marginalised.
That validates my position that GLBT culture is one exclusively about sexual proclivities. You should marginalize those that identify and want to proclaim their sexula behavior defines them and recruit people into support for that. Any good parent protects their children from these kinds of people. "Gay, Lesbian, Bi-Sexual," those three speak of behaviors and transgendered, that speaks even louder.
So it is hardly surprising that gay people want to remind themselves and others that they exist, that they have support from other people (heterosexual or otherwise), and that there are enough of them to make a difference to public policy. It is about feeling that you belong, that you are not an outcast.
The same thing could be done in private. I have never met one heterosexual that introduces their sexual proclivities. Yet, "I'm Gay," or Rainbow Flags. Pink triangles, declare sexual behaviors. The homosexual comunity is not marginalized in western society for parading that their sexual tastes define them. That actually seems quite popular. Christians are admonished to get out of this identification. It's referred to as "in the world and not of it."
I'm not arguing that homosexuals or whatever be forced to stop enegaing in whatever pet sins they desire. That is not a Christian thing to do. NOT, supporting or joining in the promoting of sins is certainly part of the "belief system" of Christians. I realize you know that. Now, please stop considering we Christians as hateful or bigoted or phobic towards gay sex. Most of us know well the sins of the world. We're just not proud of them.
