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A London Anglican parish has decided not to give thousands of pounds to the Church of England, but instead to a cultic group which pretends it can 'cure' homosexuality. Why? Because they don't like pooves, and object to the appointment of Canon Jeffrey John as the Dean of St Albans. Naturally, they pretend that this is because they really like homosexuals—they just don't like them being gay.
The Rev Charles Dobbie, the vicar of Holy Trinity, said that his congregation's decision to withdraw the quota and donate funds to True Freedom had been unanimous.I told the diocese that we would be doing this with great regret in protest at the precipitate and divisive appointment of Jeffrey John,he said.
We are donating the money to the True Freedom Trust, a Christian ministry to practising homosexuals, because we love practising homosexuals and we want them to hear the truth from the trust, not falsehood.
The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement is not impressed:
The True Freedom Trust is a deplorable organisation that only helps compound the sense of guilt and lack of self-worth that many gay people find themselves experiencing because of all the negative attitudes that churches of Rev Dobbie's persuasion inculcate them with.
The trust would be far more close to the spirit of the Christian gospel if it were to recognise the existence of gay people and affirm same-sex relationships in a positive and holy way.
Rebel parish to fund 'cure' for homosexuals —Sunday Telegraph, 16th May 2004.
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1: Posted by: Feòrag | May 18, 2004 12:04 PM
All that Jesus is reported to have said about homosexuality is " ".
2: Posted by: Nix | June 8, 2004 4:41 AM
btw, the mythical suicidal Roman loonie was called `Alban'; the place is called `St. Albans' with no apostrophe (probably because it was named that long before apostrophes became used for possessives in English). The apostrophe you put in there should thus be ditched.
(Claiming one proofreader's pedant point.)
3: Posted by: Feòrag | June 8, 2004 11:59 AM
I claim copy-and-paste error. I wasn't sure, so I just copied what the newspaper wrote. Blame the Torygraph - they can complain about declining educational standards or something.
We have the similarly confusing 'Princes Street', which apparently originally had an apostrophe denoting whether it honoured to one, or many, princes, but it got lost in the wash sometime in the 19h century.
4: Posted by: Ricky | June 6, 2005 12:42 AM
I've had the (non-)pleasure of sitting through one of his sermons (I went to his church as a favour to a friend), and to be honest, the Revd Charles Dobbie is a rambling old fart who thinks he's some kind of intellectual academic but actually rambles like hell and contradicts himself every 5 minutes. It was no surprise the church was mainly empty, and I'm quite surprised I didn't fall asleep.What kept me awake was the amusement of realising that us queers are onto a winner with him, as he seemed quite a lost figure trying in vain to hold back the tide of decency and tolerance.
On a positive note, he seemed to have a son (Will Dobbie?) who was quite a hottie, and apparently he's in the army or something, so probably has a gorgeous body. Apparently Charles Dobbie was in the army too way back - I'm quite surprised that he managed to get round the ban on gayers in the army, as when he was in the pulpit, my gaydar pinged quite regularly, which I suppose is no surprise.
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