Salvation army against gay people
A few years support, 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 male lover people still perceive unable to contribute to the SA’s fundraising efforts. So the Board wrote to them. After considerable discussion, the following joint utterance 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, queer woman 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 utterance by its international parent organisation that homosexuality is "an unacceptable urge".
The lgbtq+ community has criticised the church's online declaration.
Church spokesman Major Bruce Harmer says its Australian arm believes the utterance needs to be changed.
He has denied the Salvation Army is homophobic and has appealed to the gay collective not make judgements on the assertion.
"If you had a bad taxi driver, you wouldn't group all taxi drivers the matching as well," he said.
"At the moment the international utterance is our declaration, but we are working behind the scenes."
He says the church's position on homosexuality is creature debated internally and the Australian arm believes it needs to be changed.
Major Harmer says the Salvos offer services to all who are in desire, regardless of sexual orientation.
"The Salvation Army has worked for many years with gay and sapphic 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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LGBT Statement
The following expression is The Salvation Army Northern Division’s response to false accusations claiming that The Salvation Army discriminates against the LGBT group 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 rivalry 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
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 Land, 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 concern over the route and asked, “How do you respond to that as part of your doctrine?”
Craibe responded: “Well, that’s a part of our belief 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 statement seeking to clarify its sta