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| Source: Church Times |
Church Times (£):
"THE consistory court of the diocese of Leicester has refused to grant a faculty for the introduction of a new altar frontal at St Nicholas’s, Leicester, displaying the Progress Pride flag and incorporating a cross in the design.
"THE consistory court of the diocese of Leicester has refused to grant a faculty for the introduction of a new altar frontal at St Nicholas’s, Leicester, displaying the Progress Pride flag and incorporating a cross in the design.
"The Progress Pride flag was 'not a Christian emblem', the Chancellor Naomi Gyane said. While it was 'a sign of welcome for people from the LGBTQIA+ community, and although not itself political,' it was, she said, 'a secular contemporary emblem used for many causes and contemporary discourse'."
From the same article:
"He [Dr Ian Paul. one of the objectors] stated that the purpose of the table at which holy communion was celebrated was to focus the congregation on remembering the death of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, and not to focus on contemporary and political issues; and that the presence of the Progress Pride flag introduced a tension with the teachings of Jesus and the scriptures as a whole into the centre of the rite of communion."
"He [Dr Ian Paul. one of the objectors] stated that the purpose of the table at which holy communion was celebrated was to focus the congregation on remembering the death of Jesus for the forgiveness of sins, and not to focus on contemporary and political issues; and that the presence of the Progress Pride flag introduced a tension with the teachings of Jesus and the scriptures as a whole into the centre of the rite of communion."
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