Hong Kong residents have written to the Church Times to protest at Archbishop Kwong’s support for the new law. One accused him of “betraying your God”, and another said that Dr Kwong’s stance was “staggeringly unchristian”.
This one plaque stands out from the rest by having been placed by an outside secular organization, about a parishioner’s service to that organization, and without there being any other connection to the parish to explain its presence there.
“That certain guy clearly was a follower of Jesus; otherwise he wouldn’t be part of the story. Was he an innkeeper (that might have given him a tiny bit of a social pass to be toting a water jug around), well known in the community…or was he “just a guy,” a nobody on the streets of Jerusalem, blending in with the crowd, letting Jesus use an unused room at his house?”