Even our older citizens are not safe from 'homosexual propaganda' but thank God for the Christian stance of the care home managers in this instance. Dec 2008 A Brighton care home for elderly Christians has lost thousands of pounds of funding from the local council because its religious beliefs on homosexuality. Brighton Council – renowned for its political correctness – wanted the home to ask its elderly Christian residents about their sexual orientation every three months. Residents at the Brighton home are made up of 39 single Christians aged over 80, including former missionaries and a retired church minister. The council also wanted the home to use images of homosexuals in its promotional literature and show a Stonewall presentation on ‘gay rights’ to staff. Managers at the care home explained that to comply with the demands would unduly distress the elderly residents and undermine the home’s Christian ethos. But council officials accused the home of “institutionalised homophobia” and pulled £13,000 of funding which was being used to support a warden. The Pilgrim Homes charity, which runs the home and others like it, has spent months seeking to resolve the matter with the local authority. But having reached an impasse it has told the council of its intention to take legal action for religious discrimination. The case is being backed financially by The Christian Institute’s Legal Defence Fund. Phil Wainwright, director of human resources for Pilgrim Homes, said he was told by the council that the home must ask residents if they were lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual or ‘unsure’, even if they objected. Mr Wainwright said: “There was a strong feeling among people in the home that the questions were inappropriate and intrusive. “They felt they had come to Pilgrim Homes because of its Christian ethos and were upset they were not protected from such intrusions.” But a spokesman for Brighton & Hove Council said: “We have never expected any residents to answer questions about their sexuality if they preferred not to do so. “The Government specifically states the home must be open to the gay and lesbian community and that it must demonstrate this to qualify for funding. In the absence of any willingness to do this, funding has been withdrawn.” The Christian Institute’s Mike Judge said: “Brighton Council is displaying a very prejudiced and discriminatory attitude to the religious beliefs held by the elderly residents of the home run by Pilgrim Homes. “After a lifetime of Christian service, these elderly men and women deserve to live in a restful environment which supports and nurtures their Christian faith. “This case is the latest in a series of troubling incidents where the rights of Christians are seemingly being ignored in favour of ‘gay rights’.”
Thank God this hasn't really come here yet. Though its true the vast majority of people in this part of the world are very,very conservative the Media is mad keen on the liberal agenda. So you have a weird kind of two world scenario were the media are pumping out politically 'correct 'stuff and the ordinary people are laughing at it all as though its crazy.
Padraig, I wouldn't be so sure as the 'equality agenda' is now being pushed in all public sectors including education. As we in [north of Ireland] are part of 'Britain' these things will come here sooner than expected. I know that the 'Rainbow project' an organisation promoting the homosexual agenda' have been trying to get into Catholic schools in the north to push the 'equality message'. I will be leaving my trade union [NASUWT] in the new year as they are at the forefront of pushing homosexual rights into the educational sphere. It will soon be a crime to say that homosexual acts are sinful and a perversion of God's plan for sexualtiy. Have a look at the following website http://www.christian.org.uk/news/ I have to say I admire this site greatly and I for one am proud of my 'Protestant brothers and sisters' who work for the 'Christian Insititute' for upholding Christian principles in public life.
By the way I suggest that everyone books the Christian Insititute to their favourites as I do think they are at the forefront of Christian action in public life [in Britain] http://www.christian.org.uk/news/
