Gay Dean

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

So we've got our gay Dean at St Albans! Quality stuff!!

 

Had to laugh at this quote from some evangelical guy...

 

"It is a backdoor attempt to make homosexuality mainstream in the Church of England"

 

Hmmm. "Backdoor attempt" indeed!!

 

 

[EFM's Librarian]

This is why the National Front were protesting, wasn't it?

 

Lots of descriptions of St Albans in the papers today, seems to be a competition going as to how many times can they use the words 'leafy' 'pleasant' and 'commuter'?

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

Is that really why the National Front are protesting? Jeez, having a gay Dean doesn't bother me in the slightest. Why should it? Have any of those NF members ever even been to church??

 

Leafy, pleasant and commuter, eh!? Did non-league's biggest Firm get a mention!!?

 

 

[EFM's Librarian]

 

Fortunately, levels of tolerance in this well-heeled commuter town have risen since AD250, when its early Christian saint was beheaded on the site of the present abbey by the Romans for hiding a priest and refusing to recant his new faith.

 

But in the Georgian homes and neat tea rooms of St Albans and its surrounding diocese of two million souls, passions are running high. Dr John's opponents believe that in this corner of the Home Counties they are fighting a battle for the soul of Anglicanism and its 70 million global followers.

 

One leading campaigner said: "Don't be fooled by the beauty of the old buildings and the Romanesque church. What is happening here is extremely important. It is a struggle to ensure that scripture held dear by millions is upheld." It is a fight which is getting messy. Today's ceremony will take place in a cathedral cordoned by police, thanks to the unwanted attentions of the National Front, which has said it will march on the abbey and distribute leaflets protesting at the "infiltration" of the Church. Hertfordshire Police said it would have enough officers to ensure the "dignity and religious nature of the ceremony" were maintained.

 

 

(All from today's Independent)

 

[CANV EFM]

cant say im bothered about the church .. but whats with the need to tell everyone he is a fudger? who cares keep your mouth shut (fk me its pun central today).. the 'openly gay' blah blah ..

if everyone just did there thing without the need to broadcast it to asll n sundry the world would be a much happier (and quieter) place..

i bet the altar boys are getting nervous