Or, as it is also known, “Unitarians Considering Christ.”

Pesto
August 18, 2007 at 4:08 pm

That last blockquote seems to confirm a theory I’ve been mulling over about all the vicious homobigots who end up, y’know, being homosexual.

They view homosexuality as a vile sin. But when they’re confronted with their own “sinful urges,” rather than questioning the belief that their orientation or desires are evil, they just revert to the view that everyone is a fallen sinner.

The core of dominator culture in a nutshell. We are nothing but whatever some Master or other whips into shape from our unruly and filthy clay.

Greta Christina
August 18, 2007 at 5:36 pm

“Once you dip your toe into the pool of sin, especially sexual sin, there is a magnetism that will not let go.”

That really says it all, doesn’t it?

Let me put it this way: The straight guys I know who visit the Gay Pride parade do not describe it as having “a magnetism that will not let go.”

Oh, when I attended the Gay Pride Fair here in Santa Rosa a couple months ago, I definitely felt a “magnetism”–currents of some kind of energy anyway–that I did not want to let go. I was mainly talking to and looking at women of course. But I loved the whole vibe, and argued in our Diversity Task Force and other such venues at the UU congregation that that’s the kind of benefit implementing our congregational committment to “diversity” and being a “welcoming congregation” might bring us.

I spent a while talking to a Catholic gay guy, too.

At any rate I was glad our congregation tabled there and I volunteered to work at it. Got some cool buttons too.

I figure the churchy homobigots consider us UUs a bunch of hellbound lost causes anyway.

But the denomiation that really showed up in force at the Fair was actually the United Church of Christ, that has congregations in Petaluma, Sebastopol, and Guerneville (on the Russian River resorts that have become a largely GLBT community) and all these were there, each with larger tabling contingents than ours. And they’re actual Christians. The best kind IMHO.

No, that writing is abominable. Debauchery is fun.

Just Remember, “Everything in Moderation (Especially Moderation).”

Does the church not have ushers?

Are the gatecrashers armed, or pro wrestlers, or something?

I mean, any private property or place of business can decide that certain inviduals are persona non grata, and bar them entrance. You don’t HAVE to let people who are disrupting your service stay and continue to disrupt it.

If someone who isn’t wearing a shirt can be asked to leave a convenience store, surely the First Baptist Church should be able to boot these guys, and also keep an eye out for any return visitors.

Perhaps it would be helpful for individual members of the assaulted congregation to step up to individual disruptors and try to engage them in conversation. As individual sinners rather than Crusaders in force, they might be less arrogant and more teachable.