Rain on Time At Cardiff Mardi Gras

We held a worthwhile witness at the Cardiff Mardi Gras on Saturday 3rd September 2011.  Though we were few, we were a happy few, a band of brothers, and those who were not there will feel themselves, if not accursed, at least having missed an opportunity.  But thank you to all those who were praying; and those who prayed for rain, as I did, can feel especially blessed – the rain arrived just as we finished the witness.

We gave out around 1,000 leaflets explaining that through the saving and healing grace of Jesus Christ it is possible to walk away from the homosexual lifestyle and homosexual desires.

But in response to Christ’s question: ‘Wilt thou be made whole?’ (John 5:6) so many chose to say, ‘No, thanks, I’m fine as I am.’  Even the testimony of Peter, who left the homosexual life by the power of the Gospel, could not convince them.  In an age when we are supposed to listen to one another’s ‘stories’ his story was one they simply refused to hear.

Isopropyl Nitrite drugs, known as ‘poppers’, which are supposed to offer sexual enhancement, were openly on sale outside the venue.  There is an obsession with sexual activity in the homosexual network, and poppers are commonly sniffed, despite their bland description as ‘room odourisers’.

Our leaflets were deemed such a threat that after an hour, the organisers sent out stewards to persuade people to bin them rather than read them.  Clearly there is a limit on how open-minded those attending Cardiff Mardi Gras are allowed to be.  Undaunted, we switched to sharing the Gospel and had some good conversations.  One young lady decided to sing two lines from Tom Robinson’s song ‘Sing if you’re glad to be gay’ continuously for around an hour in an attempt to put us off, in which quest she failed.  We had to admire the staying power of her vocal chords, even if the musicality was less than wonderful.  No-one else appeared as glad as she was, so she sang alone.  Ironically, Tom, who wrote the song as a homosexual, decided he would be gladder still heterosexual, and he is now married with two children.

We caught a camp gay activist telling a group of very young children, probably 11 or 12, that 10% of the population are gay, so we stood up to him.  How dare he lie to them like that?  Alfred Kinsey only achieved that figure by including sexual perverts and criminals, including paedophiles, in his surveys.

The true figure, discovered in the NATSAL Survey in Britain and in the Smith study in Chicago, is around 1%, slightly more for men, and slightly less for women, but the number of people in the UK population reporting a same-sex encounter in the last five years has more than doubled from 1% to 2.6% from 1990 to 2000.  The number of currently active homosexuals will be fewer, and NATSAL 2000 found about 1 per cent of 16–24-year-olds had had one or more new same sex partners in the previous year.

As shattered familes and sexual abuse are classic features of most gay life stories, and in the face of relentless promotion of homosexuality by the media and our political elite, don’t be expecting that 1% figure to drop any time soon.

PRAY: Thank God for protection at the Cardiff Mardi Gras and for this opportunity to witness and evangelise.  Pray that someone has taken a leaflet or heard a word that will lead to them finding salvation and healing at the foot of the Cross of Jesus Christ.  The sower went forth to sow.  And even if no seed found fertile ground this time, please pray that at the very least we may have turned over the soil, allowed some light in, for someone else to sow the seed of faith in the future.