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

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

It's strange. I've never belonged to a congregation that wasn't open and affirming (well, except for the first one, and I wound up writing their O&A document and getting it passed), but I've also never thought that participating in a pride parade would be anything more than self-congratulatory and unwelcome. I'm sure my current (Presbyterian) church does march, because they're huge and have a large stake in the More Light (http://www.mlp.org/) movement and several associated fellowships.

If, in fact, folks don't get tired of hearing it, then the ministry of Christ should clearly be about fighting oppression and being a light of service and healing to the world. That the larger church not only fails to provide these blessings to the GLBT community but is so often an additional source of suffering is nothing short of a disgrace. To the degree that I am able, I apologize for the thoughts and deeds of my brethren that do not live up to the standard that we strive for.