Archbishop’s garden blooms for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee; Archbishop’s garden blooms for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee; Rabbi: gay marriage opponents ‘might as well support stoning’
Archbishop’s garden blooms for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
ACNS – In his contribution to BBC Radio 2’s Pause For Thought programme yesterday morning, the Archbishop of Canterbury expresses his hope that The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee will give people the ‘chance to get in touch with the background of their lives, the big context, the things that make this the sort of world it is and give us the sort of values we have’.
“I hope the Jubilee prompts us to see what we can do to get back in touch with the big background picture. Like the monarchy – it’s still there, and it still means something, and dropping into a church or a cathedral is a good way of connecting with it, and perhaps saying thanks – for the Queen and the Jubilee and for lots more besides.”
Full transcript at: http://www.aco.org/acns/digest/index.cfm/2012/5/31/Archbishop-of-Canterburys-Pause-for-Thought-message-on-the-Diamond-Jubilee
Archbishop’s garden blooms for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
Christian Today – After the wettest spring on record, the grounds of the Archbishop of York’s official residence are blossoming into colour just in time for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations this weekend.
A unique Jubilee planting scheme has been underway for some time at Bishopthorpe Palace to mark the celebrations.
The planting scheme includes a patriotic Union Jack flower bed at the front of the palace that will be on view during the Diamond Jubilee Gala and Party at the Palace taking place in the grounds on Saturday.
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/archbishops.garden.blooms.for.queens.diamond.jubilee/29948.htm
Rabbi: gay marriage opponents ‘might as well support stoning’
Telegraph – People who oppose same-sex marriage on religious grounds are taking a “pick and mix” approach to scriptures and might as well support stoning children or slavery, a leading Rabbi has said.
Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, said that Christians and Jewish people who oppose homosexual relationships on biblical grounds were applying double standards unless they also believed in some of the more obscure commands in the Old Testament.
He told a debate on gay marriage in London that religious texts had to be reinterpreted for new generations meaning, he argued, that same sex couples should be allowed to marry.
The debate, co-hosted by the religious campaign group Catholic Voices and the British Humanist Association also heard claims that David Cameron’s plans to legalise gay marriage had more to do with “elitism” and “snobbery” than equality.
Dr Romain, the minister of Maidenhead Synagogue, is a leading figure in the liberal-leaning Reform Judaism which has publicly given its support to same-sex marriage.
He told the debate that Christians could not take references in the Old Testament to homosexuality as an “abomination” literally unless they also practised circumcision or adhered to the Jewish food laws.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9300666/Rabbi-gay-marriage-opponents-might-as-well-support-stoning.html