Bishop Gene Robinson is to speak at the Greenbelt Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse – a sort of Christian Pop Festival for young Christians who don’t feel at home in established and somewhat reactionary Churches (who does?)
Oh dear – and gay groups OuterSpace and Journey will also be leading worship at the festival which takes place on 28—31 Aug 2009.
That’s much too gay, say the conservative wing of the Anglicans.
Hardline conservatives, in Anglicanism and elsewhere, are concerned that many other evangelicals are now adopting an affirming position towards lesbian and gay people , arguing that the Bible and tradition cannot be legitimately used to support discrimination and bigotry, writes Ekklesia.
In other words, as I have written before, they know they are losing the argument, and don’t like that one little bit.
