I didn't know that about either your father or father-in-law until last week, when you mentioned it on your blog. :)
I seriously don't think that you're going to find a pro-gay church that isn't political. It's the BIG THING right now. Being an openly gay christian is going to make you the political poster child in virtually any church.
I agree with that--I don't think I could find an anti-gay church or an apathetic-to-gays church that wasn't political; it's a political stance. However, I'm not *in* church to be a political poster child. I'm in church to worship God.
Do I have to be a political poster child in order to worship God? Do I even have to join a faith community to worship God? No, but I would very much like to join a faith community--and I worry that in any faith community I join, I will wind up being asked to play that poster child role by default by politics and organization and people, rather than being able to view it as an aspect of my worship, and a facet of the love and justice of God.
I am not interested in being forced into being a political poster child by others, even for a cause that I believe in, and one which does much good. I've done that before, and literally have the tshirt. It damaged my faith via damaging my understanding of myself--and it wasn't even for a cause directly connected with faith, as this one would be.
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16/10/09 14:38 (UTC)I seriously don't think that you're going to find a pro-gay church that isn't political. It's the BIG THING right now. Being an openly gay christian is going to make you the political poster child in virtually any church.
I agree with that--I don't think I could find an anti-gay church or an apathetic-to-gays church that wasn't political; it's a political stance. However, I'm not *in* church to be a political poster child. I'm in church to worship God.
Do I have to be a political poster child in order to worship God? Do I even have to join a faith community to worship God? No, but I would very much like to join a faith community--and I worry that in any faith community I join, I will wind up being asked to play that poster child role by default by politics and organization and people, rather than being able to view it as an aspect of my worship, and a facet of the love and justice of God.
I am not interested in being forced into being a political poster child by others, even for a cause that I believe in, and one which does much good. I've done that before, and literally have the tshirt. It damaged my faith via damaging my understanding of myself--and it wasn't even for a cause directly connected with faith, as this one would be.