WORLD’S FIRST LESBIAN BISHOP ORDERED CHURCH TO REMOVE CROSSES, TO INSTALL MUSLIM PRAYER SPACE

by OLIVER LANE

The Bishop of Stockholm has proposed a church in her diocese remove all signs of the cross and put down markings showing the direction to Mecca for the benefit of Muslim worshippers.

Eva Brunne, who was made the world’s first openly lesbian bishop by the church of Sweden in 2009, and has a young son with her wife and fellow lesbian priest Gunilla Linden, made the suggestion to make those of other faiths more welcome.

The church targeted is the Seamen’s mission church in Stockholm’s eastern dockyards. The Bishop held a meeting there this year and challenged the priest to explain what he’d do if a ship’s crew came into port who weren’t Christian but wanted to pray.

Calling Muslim guests to the church “angels“, the Bishop later took to her official blog to explain that removing Christian symbols from the church and preparing the building for Muslim prayer doesn’t make a priest any less a defender of the faith. Rather, to do any less would make one “stingy towards people of other faiths”.

The bishop insisted this wasn’t an issue, after all airports and hospitals already had multi-faith prayer rooms, and converting the dockyard church would only bring it up to speed. Regardless, the announcement has aroused protest.

Father Patrik Pettersson, one of the priests in her diocese and active in the same parish as the Seaman’s mission church has hit back in a blog of his own, complaining there is no way you could equate a consecrated church with a prayer room, remarking “I should have thought a bishop would be able to tell the difference”.

Calling the bishop’s words “theologically unthinking”, he asked what was to be done with crucifixes screwed to the walls, and heavy items such as baptismal fonts.

“Ignoring the rhetorical murmuring”, Pettersson wrote: “The only argument bishop Eva really put forward in support of her view is ‘hospitality’… How do you respond to that? Not much of a basis for discussion, as one colleague put it. The theological, ecclesiological, pastoral and working issues are left untouched”.

The actual priest at the Seaman’s mission was left nonplussed by the comments of the Bishop when contacted by Dagen.se for comment.

As an independent mission the church operates outside of the diocese, and so the bishop has no authority there, a fact reflected by the response of the church director who said the bishop’s words were her business alone.

When asked whether she would be removing the cross from her church, Kiki Wetterberg responded: “I have no problem with Muslim or Hindu sailors coming here and praying. But I believe that we are a Christian church, so we keep the symbols. If I visit a mosque I do not ask them to take down their symbols. It’s my choice to go in there”.

The upper echelons of the Church of Sweden, much like other national churches across Europe, seem to be fully invested in the diversity mission. Back in February, a parish church in multicultural paradise Malmö declared it would be holding a service in solidarity with the local Muslim community as a protest against a march by anti-Islamisation movement PEGIDA in the city.

The priest responsible told media: “During the protest, the Swedish Church is going to hold a service where we express joy for our city and our Muslim friends.

“There is strong support for diverse cultures in Malmö and it is important that the church is there to support that”.

Malmö is Sweden’s gateway to Europe, and is the main point of ingress to the Nordic nations for the thousands of migrants travelling through Europe from Africa and the East who have decided to make it home.

As a major bottleneck into the region, with a single bridge and ferry route connecting the country to the rest of Europe, the arrival of these migrants has heralded an unprecedented level of criminality in the city, as explained to Breitbart London by a recently retired senior police officer last month. Describing the ‘no-go’ zones that have sprung up around the city and calling for greater border controls to get criminal migration under control, Chief Superintendent Torsten Elofsson said:

“Years ago you could go with two officers, no problem. Now you have to send four officers and two cars – if the fire brigade want to go, they have to take a police escort. They throw stones and try to stop the fireman from putting out fires.

“They sabotage the police cars. You can’t leave them unguarded – when you come back to it you find the windows smashed and the tyres deflated. It isn’t quite a no-go zone, but we have had to develop special routines to go there”.

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A microcosm of politically correct cultural suicide the west seems hell bent on following into its grave.

A couple things our all inclusive lesbian seems to have forgotten.

1) BEING a lesbian means that in the countries these people are coming from, some of them would have HAPPILY lined up to kill her.
2) MOST religions have a very detailed dogma and highly structured rules for those wishing to join the church. So EITHER they agree to the rules already in place, or they move on. The problem with HER methodology is that she then can't refuse any other symbolic changes wanted by the congregation. If she says no to anyone, they will immediately ask why the Muslims and not the members?
3)She needs to UNDERSTAND that Muslims believe if they can pray on any piece of land, it is now Muslim land. So by letting Muslims pray in her church, the church is now Muslim land.

The ignorance of people in the west about the rules of sharia, and Islam itself is staggering. Thinking these are 'peaceful' people just looking for a safe place to live, work, and raise a family is a bunch of crap. For the time Muslims are the minority in an area, they are sociable and compliant. Once they can become a dominant factor in an area, we start to see 'social friction'. Demands such as prayer rooms at the office, asking to have pork (ham sandwiches) banned from the company lunch room or banned from the cafeteria, changes in the company dress code to allow hijabs, and full blown burkas in the workplace are made. Those refusing to comply with such requests are sued for discrimination, are labelled 'racists', and are demonized by Muslims in the workplace.

I've lived it. Trust me. You have nooooo idea what companies will do now to avoid the negative press of being labelled 'anti-Muslim'. Quite frankly it's a tie between being either homophobic or Islamophobic as which one can cause you the most grief. For what it's worth, at least the LGBTQ community doesn't car bomb people.

I have been looking at maps, charts & stats on Islam growing in Europe & Africa & the projections.
All I can say it, there goes lots of cultures & neighborhoods.

As far as the Bishop, well... many didn't consider her Christian in the first place & she certainty isn't now.
God / Faith, does not change for the convenience of man or woman or to fill the pews or for citizenship, or policital correctives or fear of offending or intimidation.