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Change and repent bishop tells gays

Jonathan Wynne-Jones
Posted: July 4, 2009.
Published: 04 Jul 2009.

Print: Telegraph.co.uk

The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, has defended traditional biblical teachings on homosexuality and said the Church should not be “rolled over by culture”.

Dr Nazir-Ali spoke as tens of thousands of people, including Sarah Brown, the Prime Minister’s wife, joined the annual Pride London march to celebrate homosexual culture. A war of words broke out between Labour and the Conservatives over the issue of homosexuality last week after a minister accused the Tories of having a “deep strain of homophobia” running through the party.

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Good for the Bishop!

I see he came in for a lot of praise from Telegraph readers, too.


Of course the Bible also recommends that to divert gays from their evil ways we should ‘offer up’ our daughters to them.

Lot did it (in Genesis: 19,8)


And when ‘the men of the city’ wanted ‘to know’ the manservant of a Levite he made a deal with them:
There was quite a lot of “offering up” of daughters among the more religious folk of the good old time religion.

When city men wanted to “know” the manservant of a Levite he made a deal with them:

“Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and my concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.”

It’s all in Judges 19:24.

Does Bishop Michael have daughters by any chance?

posted on July 7, 2009
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