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This is the dirt journalists dig out on Christians in Sweden. Without going into your personal preferences or what you think of Salvation Army's position on homosexuality - Do you find this to be good journalism? Do the SA have a right to believe and state what they did? Should the SA be forced to accept people who live as homosexuals in the SA?
Would this be ok to pull off against a Imam here in Sweden, in your mind?
It would be interesting to hear your views on this.
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'Being gay is a sin': Swedish Salvation Army
Leading members of the Salvation Army in Sweden told an undercover journalist that homosexual sex is a sin and offered to ask God to help "free" the reporter from the condition.
An undercover journalist from Swedish TV4s Kalla Fakta (Cold Facts) investigative news programme used a hidden camera to record his conversation with a leader from one of the countrys Salvation Army chapters.
The Salvation Armys basic position is that homosexual sex is a sin. A man shouldnt sleep with a man in the way he sleeps with a woman, the chapter leader told the TV4 reporter in a programme broadcast on Sunday evening.
Another chapter leader asked God to help free the reporter from his homosexuality.
In an email to TV4, Salvation Army representatives said the exchange was likely due to a few personal views from a few chapter leaders.
In subsequent email messages, Kalla Fakta pressed the Salvation Army to explain why the Junior Soldiers Promise lesson book includes passages saying that children and young people should learn that homosexuality is wrong.
The Salvation Army responded that the material is outdated in its entirety and is in the process of being reviewed and updated.
According to Kalla Fakta, the Salvation Army developed an ethics document in 1996 which established that people who live as homosexuals cant be soldiers in the Salvation Army.
The document was changed this year and no longer includes the text about homosexuality.
Christian Democrat Stefan Attefall, the government minister responsible for deciding which faith communities in Sweden receive grants from the state, doesnt see the incident as cause to re-examine the governments support of the Salvation Army.
All religious communities undoubtedly have opinions and live style requirements that you and I perhaps dont agree with. But to review communities theological views, yeah, well, then we cant have any support at all, said Attefall.
In a statement on its website, the Salvation Army accused TV4 of "doing investigative journalism a serious disservice", arguing that the report didn't reveal anything that wasn't already known.
Had reporters asked directly whether or not people who "live a homosexual lifestyle" are allowed to be in the Salvation Army, they would have been told no because we interpret the Bible, which defines sex as something that should happen in a marriage and is something between a man and a woman".
The Salvation Army added, however, that the organisation welcomes everyone to receive help or be a member, regardless of their lifestyle.
Leading members of the Salvation Army in Sweden told an undercover journalist that homosexual sex is a sin and offered to ask God to help "free" the reporter from the condition.
An undercover journalist from Swedish TV4s Kalla Fakta (Cold Facts) investigative news programme used a hidden camera to record his conversation with a leader from one of the countrys Salvation Army chapters.
The Salvation Armys basic position is that homosexual sex is a sin. A man shouldnt sleep with a man in the way he sleeps with a woman, the chapter leader told the TV4 reporter in a programme broadcast on Sunday evening.
Another chapter leader asked God to help free the reporter from his homosexuality.
In an email to TV4, Salvation Army representatives said the exchange was likely due to a few personal views from a few chapter leaders.
In subsequent email messages, Kalla Fakta pressed the Salvation Army to explain why the Junior Soldiers Promise lesson book includes passages saying that children and young people should learn that homosexuality is wrong.
The Salvation Army responded that the material is outdated in its entirety and is in the process of being reviewed and updated.
According to Kalla Fakta, the Salvation Army developed an ethics document in 1996 which established that people who live as homosexuals cant be soldiers in the Salvation Army.
The document was changed this year and no longer includes the text about homosexuality.
Christian Democrat Stefan Attefall, the government minister responsible for deciding which faith communities in Sweden receive grants from the state, doesnt see the incident as cause to re-examine the governments support of the Salvation Army.
All religious communities undoubtedly have opinions and live style requirements that you and I perhaps dont agree with. But to review communities theological views, yeah, well, then we cant have any support at all, said Attefall.
In a statement on its website, the Salvation Army accused TV4 of "doing investigative journalism a serious disservice", arguing that the report didn't reveal anything that wasn't already known.
Had reporters asked directly whether or not people who "live a homosexual lifestyle" are allowed to be in the Salvation Army, they would have been told no because we interpret the Bible, which defines sex as something that should happen in a marriage and is something between a man and a woman".
The Salvation Army added, however, that the organisation welcomes everyone to receive help or be a member, regardless of their lifestyle.
This is the dirt journalists dig out on Christians in Sweden. Without going into your personal preferences or what you think of Salvation Army's position on homosexuality - Do you find this to be good journalism? Do the SA have a right to believe and state what they did? Should the SA be forced to accept people who live as homosexuals in the SA?
Would this be ok to pull off against a Imam here in Sweden, in your mind?
It would be interesting to hear your views on this.