Church of Eng­land Encour­ages Use of Gay Flags in Cathe­drals

Recent­ly, the Church of Eng­land has reached the head­lines, as it can’t seem to define what a woman is and it is con­sid­er­ing declar­ing itself homo­pho­bic, but there is more to be said on the sub­ject, as they tac­it­ly encour­age the dis­play of rain­bow flags on their church­es. 

Richard Brown, a lay mem­ber from Chelms­ford Dio­cese, had asked the Bish­op of Bris­tol, Vivi­enne Faull:

“Bear­ing in mind the imagery of the rain­bow, as described in Gen­e­sis 9, as being the sign that God will nev­er again destroy the world He has cre­at­ed, what steps do the House of Bish­ops intend to take to dis­cour­age the use of the rain­bow in any polit­i­cal con­text being dis­played on cathe­drals and church build­ings?”

In her answer pub­lished ini­tial­ly on the Syn­od notice paper, Bish­op Faull had replied: “At present the House of Bish­ops does not intend to take any steps in this area.” But this was changed in a sub­se­quent notice paper and a fuller answer from Bish­op Faull was then pub­lished:

“The rain­bow is a pow­er­ful sym­bol of hope with­in the Judeo-Chris­t­ian tra­di­tion. As such, it is used in a num­ber of ‘sec­u­lar’ con­texts: to sym­bol­ise sup­port and grat­i­tude for the NHS; to her­ald the post-apartheid era of the Repub­lic of South Africa as a ‘rain­bow nation’; as well as a sym­bol of sup­port for the gay Pride move­ment. Giv­en its mul­ti­va­lence, the House of Bish­ops does not have any plans at present to take steps to dis­cour­age the dis­play­ing of the rain­bow on cathe­drals and church build­ings.”

Rain­bow flags are most well known today as a sign of sup­port for LGBTQ activism, agen­da, and actions. The church of Eng­land would do well to remem­ber the words of Jesus in Luke 17:32 “Remem­ber Lot’s wife.” God takes even the sup­port of sodomy seri­ous­ly, as Paul declared that sup­port­ers of trans­gen­derist or homo­sex­u­al­ist prac­tices have mer­it­ed death, accord­ing to Romans 1.