Anglican Mainstream

If you are worried about the celebration of LGBT sexual lifestyles  — which ensures a further crackdown on freedom of conscience — please contact Tesco's chair:  

Sir Richard Broadbent, Chair, Tesco PLC,  New Tesco House, Delamare Rd, Cheshunt, Herts, EN8 9SL

In Ms Attwell's stock reply to me (below) she claims that Tesco's is 'inclusive' and believes 'everyone is welcome'.  Would Tesco's support BNP Pride to show it welcomes them too? Also, Gay Pride is not remotely family 'friendly'  or morally neutral.  If people were to act in Tesco's as some do in Gay Pride marches (flagrant sexual behaviours) the store police would be called in.  Would Tesco's welcome a Gay Pride march through its stores?  More talking points, and Tesco's response at the end.  UPDATED with commentary

Also read: Out at Tesco and Pride 2011

1.  'Equality and Diversity’ If Tesco insists upon supporting gay groups, then in terms of fairness, it ought to support post-gay groups. One such group partners with AM, the charity, CORE Issues led by post-gay Dr Mike Davidson ( http://www.core-issues.org/) CORE works with individuals unhappy with their homosexual feelings who want to develop their heterosexual potential. Because of political correctness, these individuals live in a climate of fear; often they cannot afford to ‘come out’. However, their wishes and desires are, in our opinion, just as legitimate as those of happily ‘out’ gay men, and we are able to help many embrace their heterosexual potential.

3.  ‘Public Health Disasters’ London Pride is at heart a bacchanalian celebration of high-risk sexual lifestyles for gays. We would be equally concerned if London Pride celebrated ‘straight’ recreational sex. Gay sex activities damage those who do them, i.e. gay men. And far from stopping the spread of diseases, national gay ‘health’ charities like the Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) which claim to speak for and to the gay community describe, explain and give tips on performing high-risk, illegal types of sex ‘safely’ (an oxymoron).

4.  ‘Creating a culture whereby dissent is crushed by a new totalitarianism’ The juggernaut which is descending upon all those unable to celebrate gay rights is worrying. See Peter Saunders, CEO of Christian Medical Fellowship for more. http://pjsaunders.blogspot.com/2011/11/david-camerons-promotion-of-gay-rights.html. And indeed, it is precisely this unthinking acceptance of the LGBT agenda in the public but increasingly private realms which has led to the punishment of such individuals as Adrian Smith. The church must realise that the next bullet will have her name written on it. If gays are the equivalent of the new blacks, which is the new orthodoxy, then it is only a matter of time before gay marriage will be compulsory — or churches will be forced to stop marrying heterosexual couples.

God bless, Lisa Ls.n@talktalk.net

Tesco's letter:

Dear Sir / Madam,

Samantha Attwell
Tesco Customer Service

Commentary from David Skinner

I have recently written to over 5000 people urging them to make the strongest possible complaint against Tesco’s financial support of London Pride 2011 which in my view is nothing more than a spectacle of broken humanity and broken Britain.

Many have answered my call by stating that they in turn will not only cease trading with Tesco but will urge others to do likewise.  However there have been  a few who have taken me to task over what they perceive to be an unloving and confrontational tone in my exhortation.  They appeal to the love of Jesus Christ and the way he would not judge anyone, like the woman caught in adultery – failing of course to ignore Christ’s admonition for her not to continue sinning ( lest something worse happens to her), or His many other comments (and those of the apostles), warning  of God’s wrath to come. Indeed Christ tells us to “pluck out our eyes” and “cut off our hands” if these are going to lead us into hell. There is no compromise.

When Christ and Paul tell us not to judge the world, they were telling us not pre- empt or second guess the last judgement; we are not God. But they did not draw back from  describing the broad highway to hell:  Mark 9: 42- 48;Mark 7: 20- 23;  Matthew 23:27; Matthew 16:23; John 3:16 – 21; John 8: 2- 11; Luke 12: 4; John 8: 2- 1;Romans 1:18- 32;  Romans Chapter 6:1- 25; 1Corinthians 6:9-20;  Hebrews 6:1- 8; 2Peter 2: 1- 22; Hebrews 10:26- 30.

May I therefore present you with what would be my personal response to someone who, perhaps with the best intentions,  would accuse all who do not accept that homosexuality is good, natural, true and healthy for our children – indeed for our nation – of being narrow–minded, hate-filled, homophobic bigots.

These words spoken were in the House of Lords, 21st March, 2007, during the debate on whether gays should be allowed to adopt children:

“My Lords, I speak without a prepared speech but with a heavy heart. As a Christian woman, I find this an extraordinarily difficult and distressing debate. It is distressing because we are not really prepared to face the fundamental issue. I have listened to speeches in which noble Lords have said, “We respect gay people, but…” The issue is not about rights; if it were, we would not be having this debate. It is about whether noble Lords accept gay people as equal human beings. Two hundred years ago, William Wilberforce made a speech in Parliament that freed black people to be equal human beings. I hope that this evening your Lordships will vote for these regulations. I have some quarrel with the way in which the regulations have been brought forward, but I hope that noble Lords will vote to underline that gay people are equal human beings with others. I say this as a Christian woman. I have listened to the most reverend Primate the Archbishop of York, and I listened to the Catholic archbishop on the radio this morning, a very dear and wonderful man……..’

Had I been in the House of Lords I would have said that Wilberforce did not work to make black people human; it was precisely because they were already fully human, made in the image of God – not determined by evolution to behave mechanistically but free to behave with dignity and responsibility – that he worked to free them from oppression, slavery and bondage. To suggest that some Christians are is in some way denying the homosexual the freedom to become fully human is a disgraceful travesty of the beliefs and work of William Wilberforce, made worse because the baroness  is attempting to lead others astray. Probably I have misunderstood her comment about being burnt at the stake, but Jesus Christ said It would be better for someone to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than for them to cause children to be led astray, as is happening on an industrial scale with sex education programmes being promoted by this present government and which she no doubt would endorse.

The sexual behaviour described as homosexual, lesbian, gay, queer and  LGBT – behaviour that is increasingly being copied  by the straight section of society, especially by the younger generation – is leading towards  more and more extreme forms of dangerous behaviour, resulting in  predictable consequences, not just for them individually but for society as a whole, and not just physically but spiritually, i.e., the death of a nation.

Such sexual acts do indeed dehumanise people and strip them of all dignity.  Such acts do indeed lead to slavery, bondage and addictions that sooner or later lead to an early death and are totally inconsistent with the aims of Jesus Christ and William Wilberforce.  The gospel of Jesus Christ came to rescue us from the power of Satan, from our own sinful natures and  the wages of sin which are  eternal death .

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