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Belfast’s annual carol service for the LGBT community, will be held on Wednesday 14 December at 7.30pm. It’s organized by “The Gathering” and friends, in conjunction with All Souls’ Church. The speaker is Revd Dr Lesley Carroll. There is a Facebook event page.
Faith, Pride, and Chat is an informal social gathering where you can meet other LGBT Christians and talk about anything, including being gay and Christian, in a safe, non-judgemental environment. Faith, Pride, and Chat will be restarting in January 2017, in Dublin. Please check back here for more detail. Everyone is welcome.
I’m not fond of boiling complex theological issues down to single-verse soundbites. But there is one three-verse passage that I often think of. Galatians 3:26-28. So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew […]
Reacting to the mass murder of LGBT people in Orlando, Florida, Andrew McFarland Campbell, Founder of Faith and Pride called on the political and religious leaders of Northern Ireland to lead the condemnation of the atrocity. Speaking earlier, Andrew said: “Perhaps more than most, the people of Northern Ireland know how it feels when mass […]
I was encouraged to read Peter Lynas’ letter in support of “freedom of conscience and religion” in Northern Ireland (May 10). These freedoms are, as I am sure all in the Evangelical Alliance agree, a vital part of a fair society. Leaving aside the issue of the cake, I want to remind everyone […]
Dr Richard O’Leary, a former Chair of Changing Attitude Ireland, and a former QUB academic, is giving a talk entitled “The Faithful Underground – 40 Years of Christian and Gay Witness in Northern Ireland” on Wednesday 10 February at 7.30pm in Queen’s University’s School of Politics, Room 01/005, 22 University Square, Belfast. Richard said about […]
In Northern Ireland today, some churches oppose same-sex marriage. Others do not. Yet, curiously, the law only accommodates those churches opposing it.
On the 22 May, there is a referendum on marriage equality in the Republic of Ireland. Although Faith and Pride is not active in the Republic, we hope that the people vote for same-sex marriage. The words of this couple say it all. It could happen that sometime in the future that your son or […]
Religious freedom unquestionably means support for Catholic weddings, Church of Ireland weddings, Presbyterian weddings, Methodist weddings, Christadelphian weddings, civil weddings, and it means support for same-sex weddings. The Rt Hon Peter Robinson MLA, leader of the DUP, recently said, “Those who believe in freedom of conscience must stand strong and stand together.”
That is unquestionably true, and everyone who supports freedom of conscience and freedom of religion must support same-sex marriage, so that those of us who believe in same-sex marriage can practise our religion as freely as those who do not.
Stand up for freedom of conscience. Stand up for religious freedom. Stand up for same-sex marriage.
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