Last Sunday, a group gathered outside Westminster Cathedral to protest against the visit of the Holy Father to Britain. They walked to the Italian embassy in Grosvenor Square and had a rally there. The British Humanist Association website gives some information about the event and there is a page at meetup.com. (The organisers give a figure of 200 attending so there are unlikely to have been more than that.)
The demo was set up to co-ordinate with a similar one organised in Rome by the Facciamo Breccia Coalition. Speakers came from the BHA, the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association, the Protest the Pope coalition, the European Humanist Federation, the National Secular Society, Outrage and others.
The various groups report on the event focus on their own concerns. The humanists emphasise the secular Europe agenda while the gay groups claim that the demo was mostly LGBT. I expect it was a mixture of both. We can expect from of the same in the run-up to the Holy Father's visit, perhaps co-ordinated under the banner of the "Protest the Pope Coalition" (or something similar) - but it will be mostly the same people.
17 comments:
Why aren't they protesting in front of a mosque?
When you look at their gripes, what their protest is about has little foundation in fact.
These days the word "gay" seems to be such a misnomer for so many of these very sad people. Lee (Alexander) McQueen is yet another who has taken his own life.....May he rest in peace.
Of course it doesn't stop them canonising him as a victim, a "gsy martyr" for the cause of X, Y or Z.
I always insist that the unadulterated verses of "Lord, for tomorrow and its needs" are sung here. It is about time that we reclaimed the word "gay".
(It is also about time that we, who know better than the publishers, all got together and published a de-castrated book of fine hymnody.)
Did you see that the homosexual brigade were going to organise a "kiss-in" in Notre Dame Cathedral on the 14th. French Catholics took exception to this and arranged a counter demonstration which resulted in the police being there and the homosexuals were moved on. The carryings-on were videoed and may be seen on You Tube:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERG-r7i1lT4&feature=player_embedded
The jubilant Catholics then chanted "Habemus Papam"
JARay
Ohhhhh.Bless........let them bring it on
They will achieve more GOOD as regards the Holy Father's message and the teaching of the Gospel.
His Holiness has the backing & respect of countless millions.....within & outside.
Am I right in thnking that one possible translation of 'Facciamo Breccia' would be 'We make you vomit'?
Also agree with earlier comment - the appropriation of the word 'gay' by a group who seem to spend so much of their time being morose, depressed, angry, or just plain sad, is nothing short of an act of piracy!
Every event of importance attracts wierdos. For the benefit of sane observers, the cluster of these odd-balls make it make it easy to classify them.
Armiger Jagoe, editor of The Joyful Catholic
http://thejoyfulcatholic.wordpress.com/
e
I see the British Humanist Association have an endorsement from the nation's darling Stephen Fry on their homepage.
I wonder, would that be the same Stephen Fry that Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul and Westminster Cathedral (aka The Passage) used as host for their "Night Under the Stars" evening?
This is the Culture of Death versus the Culture of Life.
"Protest the Pope Coalition". Disgraceful. This is England. "Protest" takes a preposition.
Thank God we have a Pope who is challenging enough for them to feel they have to demonstrate against him!
It makes me 'Proud to be Catholic'.
The hymn book currently in use in my home parish is full of 'inclusive' language. Some of the old hymns have been totally emasculated to this end eg 'Be Thou My Vision':
Thou my true Father and I Thy true heir / Thou in me dwelling and I in Thy care
instead of:
Thou my true Father and I Thy true son / Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one
I've often wondered why not go the whole hog and replace 'father' with 'parent'?
An old Irish priest once confided in me "It's the nuns that are behind this, you know."
Och leave the alone and they`ll come home, a-wagging their tales behind them. They are indeed lost sheep. We must pray for them.
I agree with the proposal for a decent hymn book
Why aren't they protesting in front of a mosque?
Because heads will roll (literally)
By the time you've read through their list of Humanistic speakers (yawn.. yawn... Zzzzzzz...) that's about half of their 200 attendance figure! Ha ha ha....
Better luck next year.
A bit of a tangent but those who read the Guardian may know that it has a style guide. Under said guide, the Pope is referred to as the pope, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Westminster etc as the archbishop of etc etc. There may be any number of reasons for this approach but it is not consistently applied to all religious as a recent article about the Dalai Lama illustrated.
The Gordon Riots all over again. Or is that the gay Gordon Riots?
Post a Comment