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Anglican church not backing same sex civil unions - by Barbados Today Traffic
September 22, 2020
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by Emmanuel Joseph If Barbados were to legalize same-sex marriages tomorrow, don’t expect any priest within the island’s largest religious organization to officiate over any such ceremony. Anglican Bishop of Barbados Reverend Michael Maxwell is also adamant that while his denomination understands that the Government’s recent recognition of same-sex civil unions may be a stance
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I am on board with you and I do hope that all of the God FEARING people on this island stand against it too
Amen Amen great to see the church standing up and not feeling the pressure to fall in line because it is the popular thing to do.
I hope that the church realizes that you get a marriage license from a government department not from the church so them not marrying people don’t make the people any less married.
It is not up to you. Your members are married not because they had a ceremony at the church but because they have a certificate from a government department.
Other people are entitled to their beliefs like you are entitled to yours. They can’t make your marry someone of the same sex and you can’t make them marry someone of the opposite sex. The end!
Great, Bishop Maxwell! I am glad that you have declared the position of the Church in the Province of the West Indies (CPWI) and of the Lambeth Conference. I would be interested in knowing what is the CPWI’s relationship with the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. and the Anglican Church of Canada, both of whom have ignored the position of the Lambeth Conference and have laity and clergy in same-sex ‘marriages’. What is Lambeth doing about them?
Note: By the way, Mr. Joseph, the proper way to refer to the Anglican Bishop of Barbados is ‘The Right Reverend Michael Maxwell’ Also, instead of your many references to ‘Reverend Maxwell’, you should refer to him as ‘Bishop Maxwell’. You might want to do some research on this in the name of good journalism.
The Diocese of Saldanha
The Church condemned same sex , but yet still that’s where the whole same sex has started, it’s in every church , because I too have been sexually abused by prominent people in the church .
What the point of leaving comments when you all don’t allow them
I COMMEND THE BISHOP WISE AND BIBLICAL PRINCIPLED STANCE AGAINST SODOMY.
JESUS SAID”DIDN’T HE (GOD) MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE ….NOTE THIS…. ” FROM THE BEGINNING”
(NEW TESTAMENT)
CONFIRMING THE ORIGINAL PLAN A…. PURPOSE AND WORD OF GOD AS OF
( GENESIS I:27b )and also
Verse 28a
FURTHER ON IN THE NEW
TESTAMENT..IN GOD’S WORD(SPOKEN BY HIS APOSTLE PAUL….GOD IS SCATHING ABOUT HUMANS WHO PRACTICE SODOMY
HE DESCRIBED THAT FORM OF BEHAVIOUR AS
A) VILE
B) ABOMINATION
C)
.UNNATURAL/ABNORMAL
FORSAKEN THE NATURAL
USE OF SEX AND THE GOD INTENDED PARTNERSHIP IT WAS MADE.. .. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING FOR.
IN THAT VERY PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE GOD DECLARE THAT HE ( GOD) GAVE SUCH AS , THE HABITUAL PRACTITIONERS OF SODOMY…OVER TO SATAN.
WE ALL KNOW WHERE SATAN AND HIS FOLLOWERS ARE GOING… DON’T WE ?
DON’T KID OR FOOL YOUR SELF GOD WORD WILL NOT LIE, FAIL OR RETURN VOID.
THOSE WHO PRACTICE SODOMY UNLESS THEY REPENT AND TURN COMPLETELY FROM THIS
SIN SHALL NEVER,EVER ENTER IN….ROMANS CHAPTER 1.. AND SEVERAL
OTHER PASSAGES.. IN THE
BIBLE MAKES THIS VERY CLEAR.
MANKIND YOU HAVE EXCUSE.
AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING..WHEN GOD BURN AND BLINDED FOLKS IN
SODOM FOR THIER SODOMITE BEHAVIOUR SO SHALL IT BE IN THE END.
SODOMITES ARE A DISOBEDIENT AFFRONT
TO OUR MAKER AND GOD.
SODOMY..WAS RAMPANT
AMONGST THE BESTIAL,
BRITISH SLAVE OWNERS
AND ALL CRUEL EMPIRES,
GREEK, ROMANS (LATIN),
ARAB etc. etc.
WE SHOULD BE VERY CAREFUL WHO WE HITCH OUR WAGON TO..
COME ON BARBADOS…HOLD UP A GOD FEARING STANDARD
SODOMITES
WILL NEVER ENTER INTO
GOD’S HOLY KINGDOM PLACE OF REST..THEY WILL BE FOREVER TORMENTED
WHERE THE FIRE NEVER CEASES OR CAN BE QUENCHED.
PM MOTTLEY SHOULD STAND WITH THE ANGLICAN BISHOP OF BARBADOS.. DON’T WORRY
ABOUT FOREIGN AND EUROPEAN POWERFUL NATIONS WORRY ABOUT THE SOULS OF YOUR NATIONALS WHO OFFEND GOD.
READ MALACHI. 4:2 ,
DANIEL 4: verses 19 & 25
2ND CHRONICLES 33:7-8
PROVERBS 21:1
JOHN 14:1-2
PSALMS 37:1-4 & verse 8
GENESIS 18:14 &
JEREMIAH 29:11& ISAIAH 26: verses 3 & 19-20
CEASE NOT TO WARN THE PEOPLE…KING AND JUDGE
JESUS IS COMING…. MAYBE SOONER THAN WE THINK OR CAN IMAGINE.
BARBADOS……….. PLEASE
LET HIS WILL BE DONE.
AMEN, AMEN AND AMEN
EVANGELIST OSRICK THORNE
UK BASED FULL ON, FEARLESS PENTECOSTAL CHURCH MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST.
I am backing the Bishop of Barbados . Amen !
To be clear. The bishop is not conflating marriage and civil unions. Ultimately, the question is the State’s purpose in recognising a specific kind of committed relationship.
For example, neither committed friendships, nor committed elderly siblings warrant State recognition in this way, even though they may share property, or could benefit from tax relief and joint pension rights.
The reality is that if a civil union provides contingency for conferring same-sex couples with automatic joint parental recognition (as was the case in UK, US, Netherlands, Australia), then it’s re-defining marriage in all but name.
And the presumption of legitimacy is misapplied when same-sex civil partners assert joint parental recognition against a natural parent.
It’s just plain wrong:
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/09/6197/
https://law.justia.com/cases/new-york/other-courts/2014/2014-ny-slip-op-24345.html