The Cathedral of Hope, the world’s largest LGBTQ-friendly church, hosted a “Drag Sunday” service honoring the satanic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Whereas the church buildings argue that their actions are a step in the direction of inclusivity, many conservatives see this as a blatant disregard for the sanctity of spiritual areas and the teachings of the Bible.
The Cathedral of Hope in Dallas is a liberal Christian church that’s a part of the United Church of Christ (UCC). The UCC is a socially liberal Protestant Christian denomination with roots within the Congregational, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions.
On Sunday morning, the Cathedral of Hope held a service to bestow blessings upon the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a bunch of queer and trans nuns identified for his or her blasphemous acts mocking Catholicism.
In a Facebook post, the church posted accompanying a video of the service, “The time period “household values” has for thus lengthy been code language to help misogyny, homophobia, bigotry, and lots of different methods of hate and exclusion. Nonetheless, values do have an necessary position in our lives. They inform our choices and form {our relationships}, and we construct communities of religion round shared values. Take a journey as we discover values that transfer in the direction of wholesome households, significant connections, sturdy communities, and to see the excellent news of radical love and mercy embodied in us and our beloved Cathedral of Hope.”
The attendees additionally recited the pledge of allegiance to the satanic group through the service blessing.
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By blessing drag queens and brazenly supporting LGBTQ+ existence which can be opposite to Biblical teachings, these church buildings are setting a harmful precedent. In the present day it’s drag queens; tomorrow it might be different practices which can be clearly in opposition to the teachings of the Bible. This slippery slope erodes the sanctity of the church and makes it tough for congregants to tell apart between what’s morally acceptable and what’s not.
Roughly 40 demonstrators assembled exterior the Cathedral of Hope on Sunday morning to specific their disapproval of the service devoted to the “Anti-catholic” Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Dallas Categorical reported:
Roughly 40 protesters gathered at Cathedral of Hope on Sunday morning to voice their opposition to the service honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
“Put down your intercourse toys and choose up your Bible, of us!” one protester might be heard saying by means of a megaphone.
Cesar Franco of the nonprofit America Wants Fatima said, “Catholic nuns are one thing that’s very sacred, very lovely.”
“For them to mock the purity of nuns, to mock this lovely establishment of the Catholic religion, it’s abominable,” he instructed The Dallas Morning Information.
“We’re protesting in opposition to this abomination that’s occurring right here,” stated Jim Muller of the American Society for the Protection of Custom, Household and Property, per the DMN.
A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence instructed The Dallas Categorical that it was necessary for him and his colleagues to come back to Sunday’s service to “promulgate omniversal [sic] pleasure and expiate guilt” and present help for the LGBTQ and drag communities.