A Scottish pastor has criticised the Scottish Government’s decision to give £1.6 million to a homosexual organization’s school campaign.
Rev David Robertson, minister of St Peter’s Free Church in Dundee and director of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity, warned that the decision to give so much taxpayers’ money to Equality Network will further undermine Christianity and do little to stop bullying.
He commented: “The Equality Network have a definition of homophobia which means that anyone who disagrees with their position is homophobic.
“For example, I am not homophobic but am opposed to the redefinition of marriage.
“The Equality Network has now been given money, not to combat homophobic bullying, but to promote their own views and to suppress any other view.
“Ironically this is more likely to increase bullying than to decrease it.”
“The Scottish Government is not giving money to combat other kinds of bullying.
“I am sure there are as many Muslims and Christians who have experienced Islamophobic or Christophobic bullying as there are homosexuals.
“But the power of the homosexual lobby is such that any application for funding is going to be accepted by the government because not to do so would mean that the government themselves would be accused of homophobia.
“We do not accept the narrative that you are either a homophobe or support the self-styled Equality Network’s position.
“Indeed the current climate is such that we fear people are being bullied into accepting a position they do not hold, because they are afraid of being labelled homophobic.
“Questioning, rational discussion and decisions based on evidence rather than emotion, seem to have been thrown out of the window.”
“The totalitarian bullying in this country is not coming from Christians who are seeking to uphold the Christian values of tolerance, love and free speech, but from the new fundamentalist secularist moralists who will not allow any deviation from their point of view and are prepared to use the power and money of the State to get their ways.
“The obvious wrong of the bullying of homosexuals is being used as a tool to further undermine the Christian morality and tradition of Scotland.
“It is to the Scottish Government’s shame that it cannot either see this, or is not prepared to stand up to it.”
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The killing of Steven Simpson – the gay teenager set on fire at a party after being daubed with homophobic insults – doesn’t make the Brutal Britain archive, then…
That is a shocking and disgusting accusation to level at that poor young man who cannot defend himself. You are as bad as the bullies he faced who taunted him and called him ‘gay’ just because he was autistic. Shame on you.
What a brave man. He is right that this money will only be used to carry out more bullying – bullying of anyone who disagrees with the extremist homo-political agenda. They are automatically labelled “homophobic” and told that their viewpoint is a crime in itself. But what is homophobia? Nothing. It is a fraudulent term. The Equality Network is not working for equality or tolerance, it is working for a very nasty, selfish and oppressive agenda.