The Cathedral of Hope, the world’s largest LGBTQ-friendly church, hosted a “Drag Sunday” service honoring the satanic Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. While the church buildings argue that their actions are a step in 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 half of the United Church of Christ (UCC). The UCC is a socially liberal Protestant Christian denomination with roots in 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 group of queer and trans nuns recognized for his or her blasphemous acts mocking Catholicism.
In a Facebook put up, the church posted accompanying a video of the service, “The term “family values” has for therefore lengthy been code language to assist misogyny, homophobia, bigotry, and lots of different methods of hate and exclusion. However, values do have an vital 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 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 throughout the service blessing.
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— Texas Family Project (@FamilyProjectTX) September 18, 2023
By blessing drag queens and brazenly supporting LGBTQ+ existence which might be opposite to Biblical teachings, these church buildings are setting a harmful precedent. Today it’s drag queens; tomorrow it may very well be different practices which might be clearly towards the teachings of the Bible. This slippery slope erodes the sanctity of the church and makes it troublesome for congregants to distinguish between what’s morally acceptable and what’s not.
Approximately 40 demonstrators assembled outdoors the Cathedral of Hope on Sunday morning to categorical their disapproval of the service devoted to the “Anti-catholic” Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Dallas Express 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 sex toys and pick up your Bible, folks!” one protester may very well be heard saying by means of a megaphone.
Cesar Franco of the nonprofit America Needs Fatima stated, “Catholic nuns are something that’s very sacred, very beautiful.”
“For them to mock the purity of nuns, to mock this beautiful institution of the Catholic faith, it’s abominable,” he informed The Dallas Morning News.
“We’re protesting against this abomination that’s occurring here,” stated Jim Muller of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, per the DMN.
A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence informed The Dallas Express that it was vital for him and his colleagues to come to Sunday’s service to “promulgate omniversal [sic] joy and expiate guilt” and present assist for the LGBTQ and drag communities.
