Washingtonpost.com:
Faced with rising public acceptance of same-sex relationships, three U.S. Christian denominations are taking strong measures this week to condemn homosexual acts as sinful.
The nation's Roman Catholic bishops, meeting in Baltimore, declared
Tuesday that Catholics who minister to gays must firmly adhere to the
church's teaching that same-sex attractions are "disordered." Catholics
with "a homosexual inclination" should be encouraged to live in
chastity and discouraged from making "general public announcements"
about their sexual orientation, the bishops said.
Disordered? How can the captains of a global pedophile ring have the temerity to label other people disordered?
In North Carolina, the state Baptist Convention voted to broaden its
fight against homosexuality by moving to expel churches that "affirm,"
"approve," or "bless" same-sex relationships.
...
The growing acceptance of gays in popular culture and the fact that
homosexuality has powerful advocacy groups made the stance necessary,
Baptist leaders said.
"In our day and time, no other sin marches
so defiantly across our national landscape," Mark Harris, the head of
the committee that introduced the measure, told the 2,600 delegates, or
"messengers," assembled at a convention hall in Greensboro, N.C.
Whatever, Jethro. Go clean out the cement pond.
But wait! Not all of them are clueless bigots:
But while the proposal was approved by the required two-thirds
majority, hundreds held up their hands to object. Some worried that
churches would spy and report on one another. Others said the measure
impinged on local church autonomy and reflected an unfounded obsession
with homosexuality.
"It seems so contrary, at least to me, to the
picture and posture of Jesus in the gospels," Nathan Parrish, from a
church in Winston-Salem, N.C., told the assembly. "Jesus's life and
ministry were marked by radical hospitality, openness, vulnerability,
humility. By contrast, the Baptist State Convention is recommending
that we . . . magnify the message that certain types of people, as well
as their friends and perhaps their fellow believers and family members,
are neither welcome nor worthy of a place at the table of this
community."
And:
[O]n Wednesday in Pittsburgh, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), a
mainline Protestant denomination with about 3 million members, will put
a minister on trial for conducting a marriage ceremony for two women.
Of all the people who might be a threat to morality and public order, it is not going to be a pair of happy, middle-aged dykes:
Okay, maybe that pride shawl is a threat to public decency. She looks like a P-town rabbi.
But!
Citing a procedural error, a tribunal of the Presbyterian Church
(U.S.A.) dismissed all charges yesterday against a Pittsburgh minister
who was accused of violating the church's rules by conducting a
marriage ceremony for two women.
Ooooh, a technicality. Must be some fancy lawyers running that there Presbyterian Church. (My mom was raised Presbyterian, and when she was a kid she was told to hurry past the Catholic church or else the devil would get her. She converted to Catholicism to marry my dad, and years later the nuns would tell me to sit up straight in church or else ... you got it, the devil would get me.)
What a mean, small-minded, control freak this Jesus is. He wants to tell me what to eat, who to have sex with, which medical procedures to have and which not to have. Damn, doesn't he have anything better to do?
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