Text of leaflet given out at Barclays Bank, Piccadilly Circus, on Friday 26th October 2012:
BARCLAYS BANK AND THE ‘BIGOT’ AWARD
Barclays Bank is helping to fund a dinner which includes an award for ‘Bigot of the Year’.
The insulting ‘award’ is an integral part of the Stonewall homosexual lobby group’s awards dinner in November.
Most of the awards are to applaud people who have advanced the homosexual cause in some way. Barclays is sponsoring the ‘Sportsperson of the Year’ award.
But Stonewall are not satisfied with congratulating those who have advanced their cause. They have to insult and bully their opponents.
Barclays should apologise for ‘Bigot Award’ dinner
So among the awards is an anti-award called ‘Bigot of the Year’ intended to insult and vilify people particularly opposed to the gay rights agenda. Those shortlisted this year are Christian politician Alan Craig, the Ugandan Ethics and Integrity Minister, Simon Lokodo, Lord Maginnis, Cardinal Keith O’Brien and Archbishop Philip Tartaglia.
Stonewall is Britain’s most wealthy homosexual lobby group. It has a finger in every government pie. It charges £180 a ticket (£150 plus VAT) for its awards dinner, money which would be better spent relieving poverty.
Not one of those shortlisted for the ‘Bigot’ award is being invited by Stonewall to attend, a further discourtesy.
Why does Barclays support Stonewall bullies?
Mark McLane, Barclays head of diversity, said:
‘I have recently been made aware of the inclusion of a ‘Bigot of the Year’ category in the awards. Let me be absolutely clear that Barclays does not support that award category either financially, or in principle and have informed Stonewall that should they decide to continue with this category we will not support this event in the future. To label any individual so subjectively and pejoratively runs contrary to our view on fair treatment.’ Mr McLane went further:
‘We have been very clear with Stonewall that we regard the award in question to be beyond the pale and will not sponsor this event in the future should they decide to continue this award category.’
But Barclays are still going ahead with sponsoring the award and the dinner this year! Indeed, they say: ‘This matter apart, it is our view that Stonewall do valuable work in the field of promoting equality, and provide outstanding resource to our communities in the pursuit of becoming more diverse and inclusive.’
Hang on a minute! Is this the same Stonewall which is campaigning to overturn the definition of marriage as being between a man and woman? A marriage has to be consummated to be valid in law. Two homosexuals between them do not have the equipment to do that. So consummation will be redefined and that will affect everyone’s marriage. Which side are Barclays on in the debate over ‘gay marriage’?
A campaign of deceit
Homosexual activists have won politically-correct status among politicians as well as huge changes in the law by a clever, but we say deceitful, five-pronged campaign:
(1) They claim to be 10% of the population on the basis of the dishonest Kinsey Report. The true figure from proper academic research is around 1.5%.
(2) They claim they were born that way, refusing to accept the evidence of ‘ex-gay’ men and women who have turned their backs on the gay lifestyle and been released from their homosexual desires.
(3) They insist they just want to live their lives in peace, yet they hold intimidating gay pride parades and their paid activists campaign for laws to silence dissenting voices and force all of us to respect their immorality.
(4) They do all they can to avoid discussing the reality of their abusive, dangerous sexual practices, framing their arguments instead in terms of ‘human rights’.
(5) They pretend their lives are just the same as everyone else’s, despite academic studies revealing promiscuity levels and associated ill-health in the gay world unheard of even in today’s sex-obsessed heterosexual society.
Diversity and Inclusiveness for some …
Homosexual activists demand diversity and inclusive- ness but do not extend it themselves to other people who in conscience cannot accept their way of life.
Christian hotel owners Peter and Hazlemary Bull were taken to court by a pair of gay men because they wouldn’t let them a double room. The fact that the Bulls won’t let a room to any couple who aren’t married cut no ice with these men – or with the court.
Housing officer Adrian Smith was demoted and had his pay slashed by his employers, Trafford Housing Trust just for saying that full gay marriage, demanded by Stonewall, was ‘an equality too far.’
Barclays undermine foundation of human society
Barclays no doubt want ordinary people to invest money with them, but how many of its investors know they support a lobby group dedicated to overturning Christian morality and the God-given understanding that marriage is between a man and a woman?
When the Lord Jesus Christ spoke about sexual morality, he quoted from the first book of the Bible, Genesis:
‘From the beginning,’ Jesus said, ‘God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife. And they twain shall be one flesh.’ (Gospel of Mark Chapter 10:6-8)
So Jesus taught heterosexual love and marriage, which has been the foundation of human society since the dawn of time.
Is it right for Barclays to support an anti-Christian, divisive and selfish political movement advocating unnatural acts and undermining the very foundation of society?
Britain was mighty, now we’re broken
Finally, we hope you will allow us to explain why our faith makes us care about our society and this issue.
We believe God created the world and gave us laws to live by. God’s Commandments can never be repealed although nations and individuals rebel against them.
Nations are judged in this world by means of the natural and social calamities that come upon them. Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their wickedness, which included the sin of sodomy. Patriots sing that God made Britain a ‘Land of Hope and Glory’. Today, even David Cameron describes Britain as ‘broken’. Indeed, the effects of national sin are all around us.
Jesus Christ said ‘Love the Lord your God and love your neighbour as yourself.’ That is why Christians have a duty to speak out about right and wrong in our nation.
Every nation, every family and every business which wants to be blessed in its activities needs to honour the Lord of heaven and earth, stop doing wrong, and start doing right. We call that ‘repentance’.
‘If the Son makes you free, ye shall be free indeed’
God will forgive and bless a nation or business which turns round and admits it has done wrong. And for the individual, each one of us can find salvation, healing and forgiveness in Jesus for every bad thing we ever did.
When Jesus died on the cross he took on himself all the sins of all those who would believe in him and by rising from the dead he gave those believers a new life.
After his resurrection, Jesus ascended into heaven, and now has the right to rule over all the kingdoms of the world. Not only is Jesus King, but he is also the righteous judge. One day He will return in judgment, to justify His believers and condemn the wicked.
How will the bosses of Barclays stand in that day? And how will you stand before Almighty God?
‘The way, the truth and the life’
Many people think they are going to heaven but do not realise that nobody who is not holy in the sight of God can be admitted. We have all sinned and our sin will keep us out. So how do we get there?
Only Jesus Christ is the way to heaven. He said: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’ He also said: ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life’ and ‘Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.’ Those promises still stand today.
