Like so many religious institutions, the United Methodist Church finds itself torn asunder by the great gay debate: should they stay or should they go. The official Methodist stance rejects their gay brethren, but gay follower Steven E. Webster insists the movements must move on.
The Madison-based theologian wrote an impassioned plea this week, just ahead of the United Methodist Church's general conference in Fort Worth:
[Anti-day discriminatory] acts, justified by labeling LGBT people as "unrepentant sinners" inferior to all the "repentant sinners" in the church, are acts of spiritual violence, harming the souls of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. It is tragic that being from a devout Christian family has been identified as a risk factor for suicide among LGBT youths.
Tragic, indeed.
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perhaps there will be some change at the convention?
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An unavoidable aspect of the politics of modern religions is that they need issues which seem current but which at the same time will not offend people's greed, dishonesty or any of the things that make people all American paying customers. Faggotry is a good target since most of us don't seem to do a lot of churchgoing, otherwise we can comromise since gays are used to being fucked with.
The picture is great: "One to many Blow Jobs"
More's the pity that these asshole religious industries can't tear themselves apart condemning say "Thou shalt not kill" offenders via the death penalty – it's a biggie in The 10 Commandments ya know, but funnily enuf faggotry doesn't even get a mention there & Jesus had nothin to say about it.
It's not in The Seven Deadly Sins either…hell, at this rate copping a dick up yer ass would be lucky to make it to #18 on God's no-no's list!
Every Christian who has lost a young relative to suicide needs to be reminded of this on a daily basis. They need to experience hell on earth (and be publicly shamed, stoned and beaten) for their very real contribution hatred and loathing. They need to be told in church and in the local paper that they are guilty of spiritual violence occasioning death of their own child.
Can you imagine all of the pain that people suffer because of totally insane parential rejection–for being the child that they brought into the earth?
There once was speculation that Jesus and crew had to be queers, since there weren't any women around. Only woman was a hooker fag hag. Washing a guys feet! kind of kinky.