tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239313829122603192.post6287710884361848977..comments2023-12-28T23:52:54.169+00:00Comments on Chelmsford Anglican Mainstream: 'Listening Process' dominated by Western Liberal assumptionsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03590979027426082714noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239313829122603192.post-72377835988505664792007-03-28T14:18:00.000+01:002007-03-28T14:18:00.000+01:00"The 'Facilitator', Revd Canon Phil Groves, has Af..."The 'Facilitator', Revd Canon Phil Groves, has African experience, but he is English and on the staff at St John's College, Nottingham, and it shows."<BR/>Which part shows?<BR/>That he is English?<BR/>That he has African experience?<BR/>That he is on the staff at St John's College, Nottingham?<BR/>Are/Is any one of them a negative factor?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239313829122603192.post-48880700284976146102007-03-28T09:22:00.000+01:002007-03-28T09:22:00.000+01:00But the assumption that there is a 'community' of ...But the assumption that there is a 'community' of 'LGBT' people is Western and Liberal, and the preferred terms used in the glossary have emerged from a Western and Liberal environment. It is not just a few isolated aspects of the 'listening process', but the entire process itself which appears to be coloured by Western and Liberal assumptions.<BR/><BR/>Whether one agrees with it or not, this Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03590979027426082714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3239313829122603192.post-20918029124989537362007-03-28T04:08:00.000+01:002007-03-28T04:08:00.000+01:00"Similarly, Liberal assumptions predominate. A Tra..."Similarly, Liberal assumptions predominate. A Transvestite is considered "a pejorative term". "Ex-gay" includes someone who "lives with same sex attraction issues within celibacy". Perhaps most tellingly, there is this, unattributed, quotation: ‘"Gay" and "lesbian" are the names we have proudly chosen for ourselves while "homosexual" is a sterile psychiatric/medical term.’ Who, as Tonto once Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17851789276439393822noreply@blogger.com