nice to see the churches doing something good.
Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 9:44 pm
This badass reverend is crushing Tony Abbott (in under 50 characters) | GlobalPost
His billboards outside his church are priceless!!!
Bower’s messages have gone viral on social media. That might be because having a man of the cloth on their side energizes Abbott’s embattled critics, less than a year after Australians voted him into office. And it might be because of the wit and heft the messages wield in under 50 characters — a length that makes Twitter seem wordy.
When Father Rod speaks, people listen. His parish now has more than 10,000 followers on Facebook and its billboards are seen by hundreds of thousands more via social media. Not bad for a local church.
It’s Abbott’s social conservatism and his hard-line stance on what Father Rod calls “issues of compassion that have inspired some of the more popular — and most controversial — billboards.
Abbott, who has described homosexuality as a “fashion of the moment, is a staunch opponent of gay marriage. He has promised to settle the “war on asylum seekers by “sending them back to the country from which they came.
Father Rod’s response?
But that all changed when he was called to the bedside of a dying man over a year ago. “While I was there I kind of worked out that this guy was gay, he says. “I said ‘Does he have a partner?’ and they got all coy and said ‘yes.’ So I said, ‘Is he here?’, and they said ‘yes’ — they’d hidden him away in another room. I said, ‘For God’s sake, bring him out.’
“It was at that point that I said I’d had enough. I’d had enough of people assuming Christians were all anti-gay and right-wing. I came straight back to the office and put up a sign that said:
"Dear christians, Some people are gay, get over it ...Love god"
His billboards outside his church are priceless!!!
Bower’s messages have gone viral on social media. That might be because having a man of the cloth on their side energizes Abbott’s embattled critics, less than a year after Australians voted him into office. And it might be because of the wit and heft the messages wield in under 50 characters — a length that makes Twitter seem wordy.
When Father Rod speaks, people listen. His parish now has more than 10,000 followers on Facebook and its billboards are seen by hundreds of thousands more via social media. Not bad for a local church.
It’s Abbott’s social conservatism and his hard-line stance on what Father Rod calls “issues of compassion that have inspired some of the more popular — and most controversial — billboards.
Abbott, who has described homosexuality as a “fashion of the moment, is a staunch opponent of gay marriage. He has promised to settle the “war on asylum seekers by “sending them back to the country from which they came.
Father Rod’s response?
But that all changed when he was called to the bedside of a dying man over a year ago. “While I was there I kind of worked out that this guy was gay, he says. “I said ‘Does he have a partner?’ and they got all coy and said ‘yes.’ So I said, ‘Is he here?’, and they said ‘yes’ — they’d hidden him away in another room. I said, ‘For God’s sake, bring him out.’
“It was at that point that I said I’d had enough. I’d had enough of people assuming Christians were all anti-gay and right-wing. I came straight back to the office and put up a sign that said:
"Dear christians, Some people are gay, get over it ...Love god"