{"id":5654,"date":"2013-03-30T21:44:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T21:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=5654"},"modified":"2013-03-30T21:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T21:44:23","slug":"scottish-minister-condemns-1-6-million-grant-to-homosexual-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/scottish-minister-condemns-1-6-million-grant-to-homosexual-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Minister Condemns \u00a31.6 million Grant to Homosexual Group"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Scottish pastor has criticised the Scottish Government\u2019s decision to give \u00a31.6 million to a homosexual organization\u2019s school campaign.<\/p>\n

Rev David Robertson, minister of St Peter\u2019s Free Church in Dundee and director of the Solas Centre for Public Christianity, warned that the decision to give so much taxpayers\u2019 money to Equality Network will further undermine Christianity and do little to stop bullying.<\/p>\n

He commented: \u201cThe Equality Network have a definition of homophobia which means that anyone who disagrees with their position is homophobic.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, I am not homophobic but am opposed to the redefinition of marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Equality Network has now been given money, not to combat homophobic bullying, but to promote their own views and to suppress any other view.<\/p>\n

\u201cIronically this is more likely to increase bullying than to decrease it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Scottish Government is not giving money to combat other kinds of bullying.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure there are as many Muslims and Christians who have experienced Islamophobic or Christophobic bullying as there are homosexuals.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not accept the narrative that you are either a homophobe or support the self-styled Equality Network\u2019s position.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuestioning, rational discussion and decisions based on evidence rather than emotion, seem to have been thrown out of the window.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe obvious wrong of the bullying of homosexuals is being used as a tool to further undermine the Christian morality and tradition of Scotland.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is to the Scottish Government\u2019s shame that it cannot either see this, or is not prepared to stand up to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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