BUGB and other Christian groups speak out against anti-gay protests
Friday 20 February 2009
The Baptist Union of Great Britain is concerned to learn of the proposed visit to the UK of members of the Westboro Baptist Church (Kansas, USA) and have released the following press statement in conjunction with the Evangelical Alliance, Methodist Church, United Reformed Church and other Christian groups.
We are dismayed that members of Westboro Baptist Church (based in Kansas, USA and not associated with the Baptist Union of Great Britain) might picket the performance of The Laramie Project in Basingstoke on Friday. We do not share their hatred of lesbian and gay people. We believe that God loves all, irrespective of sexual orientation, and we unreservedly stand against their message of hate toward those communities. Neither the style nor substance of their preaching expresses the historic, orthodox Christian faith. And we ask that the members of Westboro Baptist Church refrain from stirring up any more homophobic hatred in the UK or elsewhere.
