Anti gay salvation army

The following declaration is The Salvation Army Northern Division’s response to false accusations claiming that The Salvation Army discriminates against the LGBT collective and pays lobbyists to fight against their interests.

• The Salvation Army is open and inclusive to all people. Anyone who comes through our doors will receive help based on their need and our capacity to assist. We annually serve around 30 million Americans from a variety of backgrounds – we do not pick and choose who we serve based on religion, sexual orientation or any other factor. This promise to serve goes to the core of our beliefs as laid out in our organizational Mission Statement: “The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.”
• Any instance of discrimination is in direct contradiction to our core convictions and is against all of our policies.
• It is not The Salvation Army’s practice to spend funds on lobbying.  The Salvation Army i

  A few years help, we were asked about the current relationship between our communities and the Salvation Army. As you know, the Army organised the infamous petition against homosexual law reform in the 1980s, an act which damaged relations for many years, so that many same-sex attracted people still touch unable to contribute to the SA’s fundraising efforts. So the Board wrote to them. After considerable discussion, the following joint remark was written in 2012.

  RAINBOW WELLINGTON AND THE SALVATION ARMY REACH A RAPPROCHEMENT:
  A SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD

  “A very significant step forward and an important building block for the future”, is how Tony Simpson, Chair of the Wellington based gay, dyke and related groups human rights organisation Rainbow Wellington, and Campbell Roberts, brain of The Salvation Army’s Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit, described jointly issued statements of the two groups made public today. 

  For the past year, both groups have been considering future perspectives on their relationship.

  “This initially arose” says Simpson, “because our board was discussing the role of The Salvation Army in the context of the 25th anniversary of the 1986 decriminalisation of
  

  Salvos back away from anti-gay comments

  The Salvation Army in Australia is distancing itself from a declaration by its international parent organisation that homosexuality is "an unacceptable urge".

  The queer community has criticised the church's online declaration.

  Church spokesman Major Bruce Harmer says its Australian arm believes the remark needs to be changed.

  He has denied the Salvation Army is homophobic and has appealed to the gay people not make judgements on the assertion.

  "If you had a bad taxi driver, you wouldn't group all taxi drivers the equal as well," he said.

  "At the moment the international declaration is our declaration, but we are working behind the scenes."

  He says the church's position on homosexuality is organism debated internally and the Australian arm believes it needs to be changed.

  Major Harmer says the Salvos offer services to all who are in demand, regardless of sexual orientation.

  "The Salvation Army has worked for many years with gay and queer woman people through their treatment centres and welfare agencies, we have employees who are gay and members of our church who are gay," he said.

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  On March 31st, 2024, President Joe Biden received backlash from anti-LGBTQ activists for posting about Transgender Night of Visibility. Speaker of the United States Residence of Representatives, Mike Johnson, accused President Biden for betraying the “central tenet of Easter” by “proclaiming Eastern Sunday as ‘Transgender Day.’”

  Contrary to popular doctrine, Transgender Day of Noticeability is on March 31st every year, whereas the date of Easter varies depending on the lunar calendar. President Biden also did not declare Pride 31st as the Gender diverse Day of Visibility. The day was actually created in 2009 by Rachel Crandall-Crocker, a transgender activist and the founder of Transgender Michigan. Taking to Facebook, she called for a day dedicated to recognizing transgender people and urged people worldwide to organize events in their hometowns. Since then, millions worldwide observe Transgender Date of Visibility on Parade 31st to celebrate the lives of transgender people while shedding light on the discrimination and loathe faced by transgender people. When anti-LGBTQ extremists claim that President Biden established the Trans Day of Visibility, they’re not just wrong — they also diminish the

  Salvation Army Australia apologizes for official's anti-gay comments

  The Salvation Army Australia is apologizing for an official’s comments suggesting that the charitable Christian organization believes homosexuals should be put to death.

  Maj. Andrew Craibe, media relations director for Salvation Army Australia Southern Area, found himself in the middle of a public-relations firestorm for comments he made on a gay-oriented Australian radio show last week.

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  One of the radio hosts, Serena Ryan, expressed trouble over the passage and asked, “How do you respond to that as part of your doctrine?”

  Craibe responded: “Well, that’s a part of our conviction system. We have an alignment to the Scriptures that that’s our belief.”

  Later, Ryan again pressed Craibe on the issue “Honestly, Andrew, tell me, as a human being, how can you qualify that?”

  Craibe replied: “Well, I qualify by way of, that’s where my belief system is structured, you know? It’s what it comes down to, that salvation story, and that we can be redeemed from that. That’s my belief.”

  On Saturday, two days after the interview, Salvation Army Australia issued a remark seeking to clarify its sta