I think it's inherently political because of the current culture - ie, that there are some people who think queer people *shouldn't* be full members of anything.
On the other hand, thinking of it more, maybe churches not taking political stances as a church is too unrealistic. I was thinking about how much it would suck to have to switch religions or churches because your application of "Christianity" didn't fit the pastor's (or the congregation's) instantiation of exactly what Christians all should do with respect to a specific issue. Shouldn't you be able to disagree about specific political issues and still be considered the same flavor of Christian? But then, maybe, what's the point of religion if you don't apply it in practice in any real way, by taking a stand as a community?
...of course, being pretty areligious myself, maybe that's the sort of debate I should simply recuse myself from having with people who are religious. :-)
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16/10/09 04:25 (UTC)On the other hand, thinking of it more, maybe churches not taking political stances as a church is too unrealistic. I was thinking about how much it would suck to have to switch religions or churches because your application of "Christianity" didn't fit the pastor's (or the congregation's) instantiation of exactly what Christians all should do with respect to a specific issue. Shouldn't you be able to disagree about specific political issues and still be considered the same flavor of Christian? But then, maybe, what's the point of religion if you don't apply it in practice in any real way, by taking a stand as a community?
...of course, being pretty areligious myself, maybe that's the sort of debate I should simply recuse myself from having with people who are religious. :-)