{"id":1032,"date":"2011-09-05T19:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T18:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2011-09-19T17:47:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T16:47:07","slug":"rain-on-time-at-cardiff-mardi-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/rain-on-time-at-cardiff-mardi-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain on Time At Cardiff Mardi Gras"},"content":{"rendered":"

We held a worthwhile witness at the Cardiff Mardi Gras on Saturday 3rd September 2011.\u00a0 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<\/a>, at least having missed an opportunity.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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'Poppers' on sale outside the Mardi Gras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u00a0lifestyle and homosexual\u00a0desires<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.’\u00a0 Even the testimony of Peter, who left the homosexual life by the power of the Gospel, could not convince them.\u00a0 In an age when we are supposed to listen to one another’s ‘stories’ his story was one they simply refused to hear.<\/p>\n

Isopropyl Nitrite drugs<\/a>, known as ‘poppers’, which are supposed to offer sexual enhancement, were openly on sale outside the venue.\u00a0 There is an obsession with sexual activity in the homosexual network, and poppers are commonly sniffed, despite their bland description as ‘room odourisers’.<\/p>\n

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Peter and Judy sharing the Gospel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.\u00a0 Clearly there is a limit on how open-minded those attending Cardiff Mardi Gras are allowed to be.\u00a0 Undaunted, we switched to sharing the Gospel and had some good conversations.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We had to admire the staying power of her vocal chords, even if the musicality was less than wonderful.\u00a0 No-one else appeared as glad as she was, so she sang alone.\u00a0 Ironically, Tom, who wrote the song as a homosexual, decided he would be gladder still heterosexual, and he is now married<\/a> with two children.<\/p>\n

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What was rather disturbing was that the age of teenagers coming along seems to be decreasing and their numbers increasing.\u00a0 The Government’s school sex education in its ‘relationships’ guise is now overwhelmingly pro-gay, and parents seem to lack the moral courage to stand up to it.\u00a0 It is well established that young people can go through a adolescent pseudo-homosexual phase.\u00a0 The overwhelming majority grow out of it, but if it is reinforced by an affirmative message from the authorities, it can become cemented in place and hard to shake off.\u00a0 ‘Never label yourself as “gay”‘<\/a> was the message we had for these young people.<\/div>\n
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'Drag Queens' at Cardiff Mardi Gras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We caught a camp gay activist telling a group of very young children, probably 11 or 12, that 10% of the population are gay,\u00a0so we\u00a0stood up to him.\u00a0 How dare he lie to them like that?\u00a0 Alfred Kinsey only achieved that figure by including sexual perverts and criminals<\/a>, including paedophiles, in his surveys.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0doubled from 1% to 2.6% from 1990 to 2000<\/a>.\u00a0 The number of currently active homosexuals will be fewer, and NATSAL 2000 found about 1 per cent<\/a> of 16\u201324-year-olds had had one or more new same sex partners in the previous year.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

PRAY: Thank God for protection at the Cardiff Mardi Gras and for this opportunity to witness and evangelise.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The sower went forth to sow.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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