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Conscience Clause News

Faith and Pride Consultation on the Northern Ireland Freedom of Conscience Amendment Bill

DUP MLA Paul Givan has proposed a Private Member’s Bill for the Northern Ireland Assembly. This bill, which proposes introducing a conscience clause to the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, will allow people to use religious belief to legally discriminate against people based on sexual orientation. The DUP recently launched a consultation […]

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Community Carols by Candlelight

The Gathering, the gay men’s spiritual group, is holding its annual Community Christmas Carols by Candlelight on Thursday 11th December 2014, in All Soul’s Church, Elmwood Avenue, Belfast, BT9 at 7:30pm. Refreshments will be served afterwards. This year the speaker is Pádraig Ó Tuama. He is a the Corrymeela Community leader, a poet, and a theologian. The […]

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In Memoriam News

Mervyn Kingston Memorial Service

There will be a memorial service for  Mervyn Kingston, the co-counder of Changing Attitude Ireland, in St George’s, High Street, Belfast, at 11.30am-12.30pm on Saturday 8 February. Mervyn, who died on 2 August 2013, was a pioneer of the gay Christian movement in Ireland.  Faith and Pride merely builds on the work he started. Charles Kenny […]

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A Change to The Gathering

During the week I got a message from The Gathering, a gay men’s spiritual group. The Gathering was formed in 2005 and since this time we have contributed widely to the LGBT Community and in particular the faith and spiritual aspects of the Community. Since The Gathering formed, the range of opportunities for gay Christians to […]

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Belfast Pride 2013

For or with? Contract or relationship?

In tonight’s brief passage from the Gospel of St John, we heard the parable of the grain of wheat. Christ drew this parable about resurrection on the Kingdom of God from the everyday circumstances of life; it was quite easy for his rural audience to understand the principle of “resurrection produced by dead seeds sown […]

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Belfast Pride 2013

the simplicity of a child

The scene that we heard about in the reading earlier has been repeated many times throughout history. There are many instances which can be seen online of children approaching great teachers, some getting through the security, others being pushed away. But in today’s Gospel, the greatest teacher of them all tells his followers that they […]

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Belfast Pride 2013

Faith and Doubts?

Thomas hasn’t had a great press down the years, precisely because of the episode described in the Gospel reading for today. From this, we get the term ‘doubting Thomas’, used to describe someone who is irrationally doubtful about an obvious truth. But maybe we are being a little too hard on Thomas. Holy Scripture alludes […]

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