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hummingwolf) wrote2005-11-11 01:33 pm
hummingwolf) wrote2005-11-11 01:33 pm
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Randomly hearing the live version of Peter Gabriel's "Shaking the Tree" with Paula Cole singing along is almost enough to make me forgive today for bringing me a migraine.
Yesterday in my wanderings I noticed a United Methodist church sign had been altered since the last time I saw it. Normally it has sermon times, maybe some cutesy one-liner (like "OUR CHURCH IS PRAYER-CONDITIONED"), and the message
ALL ARE WELCOME.
What I noticed yesterday was a bit of clarification:
REGARDLESS OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION
ALL ARE WELCOME
I understand the reason for the addition. The Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church decided this week that a pastor who had been suspended without pay for denying church membership to "an unrepentant homosexual" should be reinstated. [T]he court declared that the United Methodist Book of Discipline "invests discretion in the pastor-in-charge to make determination of a person’s readiness to affirm the vows of membership." So it makes perfect sense that this UM church should make it clear on their sign that they are not like that other UM church. It seems strange to me, though, that the "ALL" would need to be clarified. What should they do next, clarify what they mean by "WELCOME"?
David Sylvian is now singing on a Ryuichi Sakamoto track. This works too.
Yesterday in my wanderings I noticed a United Methodist church sign had been altered since the last time I saw it. Normally it has sermon times, maybe some cutesy one-liner (like "OUR CHURCH IS PRAYER-CONDITIONED"), and the message
What I noticed yesterday was a bit of clarification:
ALL ARE WELCOME
I understand the reason for the addition. The Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church decided this week that a pastor who had been suspended without pay for denying church membership to "an unrepentant homosexual" should be reinstated. [T]he court declared that the United Methodist Book of Discipline "invests discretion in the pastor-in-charge to make determination of a person’s readiness to affirm the vows of membership." So it makes perfect sense that this UM church should make it clear on their sign that they are not like that other UM church. It seems strange to me, though, that the "ALL" would need to be clarified. What should they do next, clarify what they mean by "WELCOME"?
David Sylvian is now singing on a Ryuichi Sakamoto track. This works too.
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Funny... I went to church every week growing up until I was well into high school. Few of the people there, even regulars, seemed to learn a damn thing... particularly when it comes to the treatment of others. They did however learn to be harmful and hateful and knee jerk judgemental about other people's lives without knowing even the basic facts of that person's life or even considering any sort of compassionate thought or response. I am not saying that this is true of all churches, but it's true of far too many.