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I think I did pretty well for being a bit rusty.
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In other news, I posted this video to my Facebook feed with the comment, "This is an amazingly honest interview." It is an interview with a very successful pastor who recently came out as gay to his church:
I got an email saying that an old college buddy had responded to it. His comments below the cut.
[DUDE] wrote: "I have to disagree, how can it be such an honest interview when the man has led his whole life as a lie. A lie he subjected his family to (no matter what they knew - as even knowing they had to be part of the lie) and his Church as well. The punishment of sin is more sin. It seems he compounded the problem of sin in his life, the life of his wife (AND COPASTOR), and now wants to bring his Church with him. He also claimed to have not prepared for the question about homosexuality in the Bible, but certainly was ready to pull scripture out of context and mischaracterize Paul. I'll pray for that Church and Pastor."
I intended to respond that the interview was honest because of the life-long lie of omission (he was honest with his wife about his orientation from the beginning). I don't think it was a mischaracterization of Paul, either, but that is merely his own prejudice. I know for a fact that he has often argued that the scriptures are not infallible.
I didn't get the chance to respond, because he deleted his comment. Possibly because he didn't want to get into it with me, either because he caught his fallacious argument, or (more likely) because he knows I am intractably opposed to treating LGBTQ people as second class citizens and he would not change my mind. I hope it wasn't because he thought I would get mean or nasty with him, because I would not have.
Still, this video gives me hope for meaningful change that does not require people to reject their religion wholesale in order to treat others as equal. (Personally, I consider taking an action that would hurt another person for no good reason (i.e. denying them a right I take for granted, such as being able to marry someone I love) to be opposed by most religions on their most basic level. I hope that others will come to see the cultural persecution of people who are different in this light. Actually, I know they will, just maybe not in my lifetime.)
Oy, what a day.
I think I did pretty well for being a bit rusty.
***
In other news, I posted this video to my Facebook feed with the comment, "This is an amazingly honest interview." It is an interview with a very successful pastor who recently came out as gay to his church:
I got an email saying that an old college buddy had responded to it. His comments below the cut.
[DUDE] wrote: "I have to disagree, how can it be such an honest interview when the man has led his whole life as a lie. A lie he subjected his family to (no matter what they knew - as even knowing they had to be part of the lie) and his Church as well. The punishment of sin is more sin. It seems he compounded the problem of sin in his life, the life of his wife (AND COPASTOR), and now wants to bring his Church with him. He also claimed to have not prepared for the question about homosexuality in the Bible, but certainly was ready to pull scripture out of context and mischaracterize Paul. I'll pray for that Church and Pastor."
I intended to respond that the interview was honest because of the life-long lie of omission (he was honest with his wife about his orientation from the beginning). I don't think it was a mischaracterization of Paul, either, but that is merely his own prejudice. I know for a fact that he has often argued that the scriptures are not infallible.
I didn't get the chance to respond, because he deleted his comment. Possibly because he didn't want to get into it with me, either because he caught his fallacious argument, or (more likely) because he knows I am intractably opposed to treating LGBTQ people as second class citizens and he would not change my mind. I hope it wasn't because he thought I would get mean or nasty with him, because I would not have.
Still, this video gives me hope for meaningful change that does not require people to reject their religion wholesale in order to treat others as equal. (Personally, I consider taking an action that would hurt another person for no good reason (i.e. denying them a right I take for granted, such as being able to marry someone I love) to be opposed by most religions on their most basic level. I hope that others will come to see the cultural persecution of people who are different in this light. Actually, I know they will, just maybe not in my lifetime.)
Oy, what a day.