Text of leaflet given out at Barclays Bank, Piccadilly Circus, on Friday 26th October 2012:<\/p>\n
BARCLAYS BANK AND THE ‘BIGOT’ AWARD<\/strong><\/p>\n Barclays Bank is helping to fund a dinner which includes an award for ‘Bigot of the Year’. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-onecolumn.php","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4591","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Stephen","author_link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/author\/stephen\/"},"rttpg_comment":1,"rttpg_category":null,"rttpg_excerpt":"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.…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe insulting ‘award’ is an integral part of the Stonewall homosexual lobby group’s awards dinner in November.
\nMost of the awards are to applaud people who have advanced the homosexual cause in some way.\u00a0 Barclays is sponsoring the ‘Sportsperson of the Year’ award.
\nBut Stonewall are not satisfied with congratulating those who have advanced their cause.\u00a0 They have to insult and bully their opponents.
\nBarclays should apologise for ‘Bigot Award’ dinner<\/strong>
\nSo 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.
\nStonewall is Britain’s most wealthy homosexual lobby group. It has a finger in every government pie. It charges \u00a3180 a ticket (\u00a3150 plus VAT) for its awards dinner, money which would be better spent relieving poverty.
\nNot one of those shortlisted for the ‘Bigot’ award is being invited by Stonewall to attend, a further discourtesy.
\nWhy does Barclays support Stonewall bullies?<\/strong>
\nMark McLane, Barclays head of diversity, said:
\n‘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.’\u00a0 Mr McLane went further:
\n‘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.’
\nBut Barclays are still going ahead with sponsoring the award and the dinner this year!\u00a0 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.’
\nHang on a minute! Is this the same Stonewall which is campaigning to overturn the definition of marriage as being between a man and woman?\u00a0 A marriage has to be consummated to be valid in law.\u00a0 Two homosexuals between them do not have the equipment to do that.\u00a0 So consummation will be redefined and that will affect everyone’s marriage.\u00a0 Which side are Barclays on in the debate over ‘gay marriage’?
\nA campaign of deceit<\/strong>
\nHomosexual 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:
\n(1) They claim to be 10% of the population on the basis of the dishonest Kinsey Report.\u00a0 The true figure from proper academic research is around 1.5%.
\n(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.
\n(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.
\n(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’.
\n(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.
\nDiversity and Inclusiveness for some …<\/strong>
\nHomosexual activists demand diversity and inclusive- ness but do not extend it themselves to other people who in conscience cannot accept their way of life.
\nChristian 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.\u00a0 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.
\nHousing 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.’
\nBarclays undermine foundation of human society<\/strong>
\nBarclays 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?
\nWhen the Lord Jesus Christ spoke about sexual morality, he quoted from the first book of the Bible, Genesis:
\n‘From the beginning,’ Jesus said, ‘God made them male and female.\u00a0 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)
\nSo Jesus taught heterosexual love and marriage, which has been the foundation of human society since the dawn of time.
\nIs it right for Barclays to support an anti-Christian, divisive and selfish political movement advocating unnatural acts and undermining the very foundation of society?
\nBritain was mighty, now we’re broken<\/strong>
\nFinally, we hope you will allow us to explain why our faith makes us care about our society and this issue.
\nWe believe God created the world and gave us laws to live by.\u00a0 God’s Commandments can never be repealed although nations and individuals rebel against them.
\nNations are judged in this world by means of the natural and social calamities that come upon them.\u00a0 Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for their wickedness, which included the sin of sodomy.\u00a0 Patriots sing that God made Britain a ‘Land of Hope and Glory’.\u00a0 Today, even David Cameron describes Britain as ‘broken’. Indeed, the effects of national sin are all around us.
\nJesus Christ said ‘Love the Lord your God and love your neighbour as yourself.’\u00a0 That is why Christians have a duty to speak out about right and wrong in our nation.
\nEvery 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.\u00a0 We call that ‘repentance’.
\n‘If the Son makes you free, ye shall be free indeed’<\/strong>
\nGod will forgive and bless a nation or business which turns round and admits it has done wrong.\u00a0 And for the individual, each one of us can find salvation, healing and forgiveness in Jesus for every bad thing we ever did.
\nWhen 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.
\nAfter his resurrection, Jesus ascended into heaven, and now has the right to rule over all the kingdoms of the world.\u00a0 Not only is Jesus King, but he is also the righteous judge.\u00a0 One day He will return in judgment, to justify His believers and condemn the wicked.
\nHow will the bosses of Barclays stand in that day?\u00a0 And how will you stand before Almighty God?
\n‘The way, the truth and the life’<\/strong>
\nMany 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.\u00a0 We have all sinned and our sin will keep us out.\u00a0 So how do we get there?
\nOnly Jesus Christ is the way to heaven.\u00a0 He said: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’\u00a0 He also said:\u00a0 ‘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.<\/p>\n