It's interesting how Jesus never uttered one peep about homosexuality,
yet evangelical "Christians" have decided that an anti-gay hate
campaign should be the centerpiece of their faith. Helping poor people?
Fostering peace? It all been forgotten in their zeal to bash the fags.
It's
the first mainline Christian denomination to support same-sex marriage.
The vote was overwhelming and likely won't lead to the schisms that
have rocked the Episcopal Church worldwide for its more ginger steps.
It's
just the latest vanguard movement by UCC, which was among the first
churches in America to condemn slavery (in 1700) and the first to
ordain a woman in 1853.
And yes, the people who oppose equal
rights for gays are the same people who opposed equal rights for women
and equal rights for blacks. And they will be proven just as wrong and
fifty years from now their opposition will seem a dim, silly memory.
This what Lush Bimbo tells his listeners: "The religious left in
this country hates and despises the God of Christianity and Catholicism
and whatever else. They despise it because they fear it and it's a
threat, because that God has moral absolutes, that God has right and
wrong, that God doesn't deal in nuance." (via good article in Yahoo today)
Good christians... the Jesus
christians, must not allow the fundies to steal Christianity. It's
been done for thousands of years to instigate wars and oppression and I
am fed up with it. I'm fed up with evil right wingers proclaiming that
their belief in war and imperialism is both pro-american and
pro-christian. It's neither.
I am simply saluting the real Christians in the UCC for this moral values stand and I want them to be heard. Real Christians can put the fake ones
back in their places better than non believers can in this political
climate.Take your pick, Lush Bimbo, James Dobson,
Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Dr. Laura, all the gay bashers, they suck
as human beings and they suck about their use of religion. Real
Christians believe in separation of church and state and
we aren't hearing from them. Real Christians don't support war
mongering
and war profiteering.
