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

[kalmn]

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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.

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[kalmn.livejournal.com]

hi! i'm pedantic!

some christians are also uu's; not all uu's are christian, and unitarianism is it's own thing, not a branch of christianity.

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(says the atheist who is trying to get off her butt to join the uu church across town...)

[sparkymonster.livejournal.com]

I am almost constantly confused by religious categories, especially the "is X group christian." I was raised an atheist and I'm not sure if my parents were vague about explaining details, or if I never absorbed it very well. Though I did eventualy figure out that Catholics != Protestants.


Also, the bazillion religious groups which march at Boston Pride don't really make reference to homophobic Christains. They are very "YAY! We love the gays! LGBT people welcome in our congregation!" but they don't say "Sorry about the gay bashing"