Norman
Thank
you for such an excellent letter in the Newsletter on Saturday on the
role of church leaders in the current marching issue. Where those guys
are living I just don't know. If they were as intelligent as they
imagine they are, they would surely have ascertained the facts before
going public about an issue about which they had only the barest of
information.
Norman, these guys are, in Stalin's unforgettable phrase, "useful idiots" in the hands of the government and the Stormont
pawns. They are obviously, not a spiritual and religious or even a
moral agenda, but a political one. These men ought to be giving clear
biblical leadership at a time in our country when we are bereft of
leadership. But instead, they play the political card, clearly to pay
back what Stormont did vis-a-vis the PMS debacle. Secular politics is
dirty, but church politics is no different - it is just as dirty.
What
makes it doubly sad is that the Christian members of these churches see
no wrong in what these men have said and done, and will still support
them and their church no matter what. Had the sixteenth century
reformers taken the same line, where would we be today!
I
have a letter submitted to the Newsletter ref. the same-sex marriages
which might go in this week. I am also sending in one in the form of an
open letter to all the church leaders on the same situation.
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