were there religious groups at your pride? (try two)

[kalmn]

[Poll #1586116]


my ass was showing, so i have deleted and recreated, if you're wondering why you're seeing this twice.

there's a blog post going around at the moment, where a christian group went to a pride parade and held up signs apologizing for how other christians had treated them poorly. and i am pleased to see that happened, and i think it doesn't happen enough.

but some people seem so astonished by christians being at pride at all that i am just wondering, do your local churches not come?

there was an entire uu delegation there, i believe, and enormous stickers being handed out saying "lutherans love me" (which is not entirely true, as it's only the elca that i know of and even they are still discussing acceptable career choices for queers at least they were last time i checked).

any hate the sin love the sinner rhetoric gets your comment frozen if not deleted and you possibly banned. fyi.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

The people who always support us, cool. What's moving about that blog post is that at least the poster says he was actively homophobic in the past. It's those people showing change is possible that makes it so moving. It's better than waiting for the die-off.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

And the fact that he was apologizing for it, and for the way homophobic churches in general have treated GLBT* folks.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

yeah. the apology was great. i was very pleased to see that.