A Northern Ireland church could be in a heap of trouble.
The Advertising Authority’s currently investigating whether a Presbyterian parish violated advertising codes by releasing an advert condemning gay pride.
In addition to calling same-sex love an abomination and gays as “perverts,” the Sandown Free Presbyterian Church also suggested that pride events may bring on more anti-gay violence:
In the advertisement, the church – led by the Rev David McIlveen – justifies its hostility towards the gay community by ‘quoting’ from the Bible and lambasts the need for a parade which celebrates a “profitable lifestyle”.
The church condemns recent homophobic attacks, but said some attacks may have been “provoked” by a section of the gay community’s “desire to be known for a perverted form of sexuality” and called on followers to continue to protest against them despite these attacks.
“It is a cause for regret that a section of the community desire to be known for a perverted form of sexuality, which in certain incidences has provoked the unacceptable and totally unjustifiable response of violence. Such a response, however, must not intimidate the church into silence,” the advertisement says.
So, while they don’t condone violence, they’re not going to work to end it… Love that moral relativity!
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Northern Ireland sure isn’t exuding the friendliest attitude toward gays these days. First there was that whole slew of repulsively ignorant and horribly offensive comments by MP Iris Robinson and now this.
It makes me glad I live down here in the Republic!
Tara
This kind of stuff makes me want to grab my sword fly to Ireland and stand on this guys front lawn waiting. I swear, Ireland may have been better off with Brehon law, atleastthen I could demand an eric.
PJ
“But she deserved to be raped, Your Honor, look at the sexy way she dresses.”
Whether they condemn or condone the violence is moot in this circumstance. As a matter of fact, their condemnation of the violence in nothing more than lip service to prove how “open minded” they are. The idea is that the church is saying that violence may be wrong but they deserve it. That is unconscionable, no matter how you play it.
Bill Perdue
There’s some history here that can’t be ignored.
The free presbyterian cult was founded by the neo-fascist thug Ian Paisley, who also led the neo-fascist DUP. He and his christist helpmate, Baroness Paisley of St George’s had a litter of four stout hearted little christist thugs, at least one of whom, Ian Jr., has indicted for fraud just like his daddy, Ian Sr.
Paisley’s ultraright party and cult led the charge to enforce an apartheid-like regime against the Irish for years, using terrorism as their weapon of choice. They reserved good jobs for colonialist settlers, enforced strict discrimination in education and housing and promoted ghettoization. When Sinn Féin, the all Ireland socialist leaning pro-independence party successfully defended the Irish and became their leading party Paisley’s DUP was forced to back down.
Unable to exercise their compulsive hatreds on the Irish anymore the Paisleyites in the DUP and the free presbyterian cult have retargeted against the GLBT communities and also launched a series of racist attacks on European and Middle Eastern immigrants. All the violence against these communities stems from Paisleyite bigotry and racism and the homophobia of other christists like the catholic cult.
tallskin
Perdue, no-one is listening to you.
Bill Perdue
Then racists like you have nothing to worry about. Or do you?
B Nesbitt
Not again Bill! Surely u must know its time to give it a rest??
“All the violence against these communities stems from Paisleyite bigotry and racism and the homophobia of other Christians* like the catholic cult.”
BS, complete BS, violence, bigotry, and racism is found on all sides, you know very little about Northern Ireland, and please don’t digress onto irreverent tripe AGAIN.
You call catholicism a cult, yet you support Sinn Féin, a party in which all of the top representatives are catholic, you really crack me up, and what cracks me up more, you claim Sinn Féin are pro-LGBT, stop press!! NI’s 2nd largest party is pro-gay! Naaaat!
You have also said on other stories that the Deaths caused by the terrorists in the IRA are excusable, again I’m sure your pardon is massive news in NI, and comforts the families of all they killed and injured!! Idiot.
You seem to think you are something, but really you need to work on your “facts.†Idiot.
As always I could discredit more of what you say, just for sh*ts and giggles, but I’ll pass 😛