Press statement from group defining itself as “Anglican Mainstream” on its recent London conference, ‘The Pastoral and Prophetic in Conflict? Homosexuality and the Church.’
“Anglican Mainstream notes with sadness the adverse comments by an opposing group in relation to our recent conference, ‘The Pastoral and Prophetic in Conflict? Homosexuality and the Church.’
“In particular, we deplore what appears to have been the deliberate misrepresentation of events, both prior to and during the conference, which seem designed for no other purpose than to cast a slur upon both ourselves and our work. We are mindful too of the extremely high level of intimidation prior to the conference, aimed at disrupting or preventing the conference from going ahead at all, and which, on police advice, persuaded us on the day to employ a high level of security in order to ensure the safety and comfort of attendees and of the building itself.
“We stand by our commitment to maintain the Biblical foundation of marriage as between one man and one woman, first articulated in Genesis and thereafter maintained by throughout Scripture. We shall continue our work with those with unwanted same-sex attraction seeking our help – to do otherwise would be failing them. And we shall continue our opposition to the type of sexual advice currently being made increasingly available to school-age children by the Department of Education through its financial support of organisations such as the Terrence Higgins Trust and some of their publications such as this and this.
“We believe such advice places our young in situations posing high risk to their physical health, as well creating emotional damage, and which may impair their future capacity to form long term and stable relationships.
“Those wishing further information on what the conference was actually about are invited to purchase CDs of the day at £15 for a set of three. These can be obtained by emailing Ls.n@talktalk.net.”