Name it, Shame it & Contain it

Published: Jan. 25, 2012, 9:56 p.m.

b'After the vandalization of our Christmas billboard and our rainbow billboard welcoming the GLBT community and other acts of violence and vandalism in NZ Glynn looks at the Book of Jonah as an antidote to the church\'s timidity in the face of intolerance.\\n\\nUnfortunately the first 10 seconds of sermon were not recorded. The missing portion began:\\n\\n"On January 2nd our Rainbow billboard, celebrating the variety of relationships in our world \\u2013 including same-sex couples, was defaced by a scripture-quoting critic who believes that voicing our opinion, on our billboard, on our church land, can\\u2019t be tolerated."\\n\\nText and video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=572&id=1221.'