[Civsoc-mw] UK: Queen’s chaplain who objected to Qur’an reading in cathedral forced to resign

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UK: Queen’s chaplain who objected to Qur’an reading in cathedral forced to
resign
January 22, 2017 6:45 pm By Robert Spencer
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St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow featured a Qur’an reading denying
the divinity of Christ, a core Christian tenet. Rev. Canon Gavin Ashenden
objected. He is being forced the resign. The ones who staged the event
ought to be resigning, but they are going strong in today’s brave, new,
multicultural Britain, which is, of course, the forerunner of Sharia
Britain.

An update on this story. “Queen’s chaplain quits over cathedral Koran
reading which said ‘not to worship Jesus,'” by Ross Logan, Express, January
22, 2017:

ONE of the Queen’s Chaplains has resigned amid a row over a passage of the
Koran read out at a Glasgow cathedral which denies Jesus is the son of God.

Reverend Canon Gavin Ashenden stepped down as one of the monarch’s 33
chaplains in order to have more freedom to “speak out on behalf of the
faith”, following discussions with Buckingham Palace.

The controversy centres on an interfaith service held at St Mary’s
Episcopal Cathedral over the Christmas period, where a chapter from the
Islamic text was read out.

The chosen verses tell the story of Christ’s birth, but claim he was not
the son of God and should not be worshipped as such.

The reading sparked widespread outrage amongst the Christian community, and
Police Scotland is currently investigating a series of abusive messages
directed at the cathedral on social media.

Speaking to Radio 4’s Sunday programme, Reverend Ashenden said: “The
problem with what happened in Glasgow was that although it was presented as
a way of building bridges and a way of educating people, it was done badly
in the wrong way, in the wrong place, in the wrong context.

“There are number of members of the congregation who have written open
letters complaining of the profound upset they experienced as people of the
Eucharistic community who had come to worship Christ.

“So to have a reading from the Koran at that point was a fairly serious
error for the Christian worshipping community.

“But to choose the reading they chose doubled the error. Of all the
passages you might have read likely to cause offence that was one of the
most problematic.”

He announced his resignation on his blog, ahead of an the programme’s
broadcast.

“After a conversation instigated by officials at Buckingham Palace, I
decided the most honourable course of action was to resign,” Reverend
Ashenden wrote.

“I have held the position for the last nine years. But over the last few
years people who objected to my defending the Christian faith in public
wrote to both Lambeth Palace and Buckingham Palace to try to get the
association ended.

“When I was confronted with these attempts to silence or defenestrate me,
my reaction was to ask ‘in what way is a priest defending the faith on
behalf of a monarch who was Defender of the Faith, incongruous or improper?’

“I have come to see that the situation is more complex than that.”…
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