A planned witness to support marriage on Palm Sunday from 2pm to 5pm has been initiated by a group of French ex-patriates, Christian Voice has learned.
Christian UK-based campaigning groups have been slow to organise anything, so the French, flushed with the success of the ‘manifestation’ in Paris in January, have decided to organise a demonstration in Trafalgar Square on Palm Sunday, Sunday 24th March, 2013.
What is little known is that this will be their second pro-marriage London witness. Â Canon Chris Sugden of Anglican Mainstream explains:
‘You may remember that in January around a million people – including many thousands of students and young people – demonstrated on the streets of Paris against their government’s proposals to redefine traditional marriage to include same sex couples. Hundreds of the demonstrators were UK-based French residents who boarded the Eurostar to Paris to join their compatriots.
‘What is less well known is that on the same day a further 600 French residents refrained from travelling to Paris but demonstrated instead outside the French Embassy in west London.
‘The UK-based protesters have invited other non-French UK residents to join them in Trafalgar Square, and to make this a joint protest against both the UK and the French governments’ plans to redefine marriage.
‘We think this is a great idea and, along with those from other UK organisations, Anglican Mainstream fully supports it and plans to be there.”
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I strongly support this initiative. Our nation is on the brink of moral disaster. Let us return to biblical and Christian principles so that we may once again be blessed.
I would love to join them but I don’t have the funds available to get there. I really think it would be great if the churches in Britain would come together and protest about this but unfortunately they are silent. God help us
Why is Canon Chris Sugden alone? Why there is no support? God Bless Canon Chris Sugden!!
This is very good! I will pray for them.
I have a question :
Why in the case of common purpose you do not unite with other organizations like “Coalition for Marriage”?
You do separate campaigns,petitions ect .
It is like you are trying to gain some political influence through your activities and separation makes you weak opponent !
There isn’t a problem, Vellusia. Christian Voice is not a political organisation, unlike the ‘Coalition for Marriage’. We stand for historical Biblical Christianity and educating people about Scriptural principles.
This sounds like a great idea. God bless the French people who have made this initiative.
Please could we have some clarification:
Are they meeting in TRAFALGAR SQUARE ……or…. …PARLIAMENT SQUARE ?????
Both are mentioned in your article.
Janey
Chris should have said ‘Trafalgar Square’. I have taken the liberty of changing that to avoid confusion.
PLEASE DON’T IGNORE THIS !
Ex-patriots are people who used to be patriotic but are no longer patriotic.
These French people in London are probably expatriates .
I have helped you out like this before.
Thank you sir. Corrected in the text.
As an Agnostic , I feel humiliated that good french people are have to show us, in our own capitol city how to demonstrate against evil.
All those who do nothing to protect our children from being brainwashed by homosexuals in our schools(Including all you pretend Christians) should hang their head in shame. And dont expect a place in heaven.