In the six years of Living in Love & Faith, what was the ‘planned, co-ordinated and delivered’ evangelical strategy against the highly developed ‘Revisionists’ strategy’, leading to General Synod backing ‘gay blessings’?
In six years, which ‘umbrella group’ has consistently provided a robust media defence of orthodoxy to Jayne Ozone’s claims, and the cultural winds? Given your answers, what confidence do you have that any ‘existing body’ will be there for you, as vicar or Parish Church when you refuse to conduct ‘gay blessings’, and the full, ugly focus of the gay lobby – media, intimidation of clergy, plus, hits you?
As a vicar, I won’t be conducting ‘gay blessings’. But I’m not confident any existing group will provide the practical, ongoing, robust, public support I’ll need when – and it’s when, not if – I’m targeted.
