Beaumaris on a typical Welsh morning!

PLANS to stage next year’s North Wales Mardi Gras in an Anglesey town have been rightly attacked by the leader of a local church, according to the Holyhead and Anglesey Mail.

Reverend Philip Evans, of Oasis Ministries in Beaumaris, said the event should not be held in the town as it was “a promotion of gay rights”.

The organiser of the Mardi Gras, Alan Jones, responded: “The church has a right to object to the Mardi Gras and we respect their right to peaceful protest, but we will carry on regardless.  We won’t be put off and we won’t be upset by the criticism.  We will welcome them if they want to attend and will treat them civilly.”

 

Gay parades are aggressive and intimidating

That would be a first.

“The event does not promote homosexuality,” claimed Mr Jones, “It’s an event for everyone which brings the gay community and the straight community together.”

That would be another first.  Every Gay Pride and homosexual Mardi Gras is there to promote homosexuality and gay rights and to intimidate and de-sensitize ordinary people.  The pictures on this page are of other ‘Pride’ or ‘Mardi Gras’ events in England and Wales.

The event, said the paper, is planned to take place from 27th to 29th April, 2012.  For more information, they advised to visit www.northwalesmardigras.com which carries thanks to various ‘drag queens’ with indecent names and to two Anglesey hotels, Tre-Ysgawen Hall at Capel Coch, Llangefni, and the Victoria Hotel at Menai Bridge.  If the webpage is correct, these are venues to be avoided by decent people.

Parading their sin - You would need a heart of stone not to weep for the poor souls caught up in sodomy.

Mr Evans is intending to lead an evangelistic witness at the Beaumaris Mardi Gras, if it goes ahead: “We think the best thing is for it not to take place, but we want to be there if it does,” he said. “Homosexuality is a choice people make and people can change.  God would help them to be as He intended them to be.”

Christian Voice fully intends to stand with Mr Evans in a concerted evangelistic outreach and witness.  Last April 2011, tucked away in the Mona Showground, the participants were isolated from any criticism or evangelism.  Next year, the narrow streets of Beaumaris are perfect for preaching and one-to-one conversations, so we can share the good news of Jesus Christ, and let these sad and damaged people know that Jesus releases not just from the stain of sin but from the power of sin.  Make a note of the date, all you evangelists out there!

 

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  4. Thank you for standing for God in all you do. Britain is so opposite in its beliefs, now fully set-up to ensure that British people do anything but go to Heaven. Your way seems so controversial in comparison, but things have gone so far away from God that any stand for Him IS controversial and to be expected.

    Your newsletter is excellent. The Bible studies near the end are so thoroughly researched and written (perhaps because you are a lawyer?!!!) , they say all the things many people would like to be able to put into words; you do it as routine.

    You’re in the firing line, the target of many, but your witness shines brightly. Perhaps you are a little legalistic! Yes, but God can lift you above that.

    Thank you, Stephen, that when you have done everything, you stand.

    God bless you and your ministry.

    • Thanks for that – I’m not a lawyer but an engineer, as it happens. Keep the faith, Daniel, keep witnessing to the truth, and bear in mind that from what I have read in the Scriptures, no-one goes to hell through observing God’s commandments, even to the letter!

  5. Praise the Lord for all you are doing at the mardi gras and other ventures. Thank-you so much for your magazine, particularly this last month. We have had some difficult cases on removing children and forced adoption. It has been on my heart for some years. Keep up the good work. God bless you love and prayers Pat

    • May I just echo what Pat Sandys has said. October’s article on forced adoption was particularly enlightening. It is hard to believe that this sort of thing is going on in our society and not only in Britain but other counties in the western world. Didn’t Jesus say, “And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold” – KJV. I put a note beside this verse – it says, ‘The iniquity quenches human love’ – and it surely does!

  6. “The integrity of the upright shall guide them; but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them”. (Proverbs 11 v 3) May the Lord bless you Stephen and the team at Christian Voice. We may not be able to support you in body, but please know that we stand in the spiritual battle alongside you in all that you are doing and our prayers are ever ascending to the throne of Grace on your behalf. The love of Christ can reach the deepest of depths and these sad people are in such need of that love, continue to be the vessel of honour that reaches out , not only to them, but to all who do not have Jesus in their lives.

  7. I hate to be contraversial, but are we not called to love each other? Are we not called to proclaim the Good News that God, through Jesus Christ, has set us free from sin? I see the point that you are trying to make here, but, we should be encouraging gay and lesbians to come to church, and let them come to their own conclusions, through God affecting their hearts.
    Homosexuality is not a choice. These people did not wake up one morning and decide to be gay, nor have they been influenced to become gay through marches or other propaganda.
    Gay people are gay.
    We were not put on this earth to judge others. Jesus himself said:
    “Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
    for ALL have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
    Until we can all stop judging others for their sin, and concentrate on the realisation that we are all sinners, we will never reach communities like the gay community, and gay and lesbian individuals will never have an open ear for the gospel.
    That will mean that we fail in what the great commission tells us to do, and surely condemn us all to the destiny that you feel these people are due?
    Think of the gay community as the woman in John 8, and let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
    As for your comments on “decent people” needing to avoid certain local businesses, I find it patronising that you should seek to damage the reputation of any local business during these times of recession. Is it not possible that by offering a hand to gay people, and maybe the presence of a bible in their hotel rooms, that these businesses could be doing more of the work of evangelism than 300 people shouting about these people making the wrong choices and being barred from entry to heaven?

    • Firstly, I would like to say that I do agree with you, we are indeed called to love each other and proclaim the good news that God, through Jesus Christ can set us free from sin. I write the word can, rather than has, because only those who call upon the Name of the Lord will be saved and set free from sin.

      Homosexual feelings may not be a choice, but acting upon them certainly is. I write this as someone who is a former homosexual, saved and changed by God. You are correct in saying that I didn’t just ‘wake up one day and decide to be homosexual’. However, when I acted upon those feelings and got into a homosexual relationship, it wasn’t by compulsion, it was by choice. To say that a homosexual has no control over his behaviour is as bad as saying an adulterer has no control over his actions. Furthermore, although it wasn’t a choice for me to have homosexual feelings, it was a choice for me to reject them so that I no longer have them. If I had not made the choice to follow God and live for him, giving him my whole heart and life, then I would still be caught up in living the homosexual lifestyle now.

      I so often hear people quote the Bible verse ‘judge not lest you be judged’. What people often forget is that the Bible says in John 7:24 ‘Judge not according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgement’. The Bible also says in 1 Corinthians 6:2-3 ‘Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world will be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more, things that pertain to this life?’ What the Bible is saying about judging is that we should not judge others for that which we do ourselves – it is arguing against hypocrisy!

      No one here denies that all have sinned. We believe the whole Bible, including Romans 3:23. I acknowledge that I am a sinner in need of God’s grace. It seems that you think that we somehow single out homosexuality as a worse sin than others. That is not the case – the reason why we take such a public stance against homosexuality is that society is trying to legitimise is as ‘normal’ and ‘good’. Homosexual activists want everyone to see homosexuality as a moral equivalent to heterosexuality and this is clearly not the case. If no one speaks out against homosexuality, how else will people hear the truth? The Bible clearly condemns homosexual behaviour in both the old and the new testaments.

      The truth is that we are all sinners, homosexual behaviour is a sin, and homosexuals need to hear the truth that they are sinning but there is hope through Jesus Christ. The blood of Jesus can cleanse every sin and stain away from their life. If it was not for the Lord giving us ministries like Christian Voice, I would still be living the gay lifestyle and on the path to hell!