Oct 3, 2010
Suzer commented on SL Letter of the Day: Almost Sorry.
As a member of a Reconciling UMC, which strives to welcome LGTBQ persons, and strives to present a truly Christian welcome to ALL people, I want to second Doxy and Pamela's comments above (@ 198 and 201).
I, too, understand why so many LGBTQ people lump all Christians together as "haters." Heck, as a lesbian living in the South, I am almost daily attempted to do so myself. But I was lucky enough to be raised in a church that espoused love, taught kindness and mercy, and did not twist scripture against anyone. I was blessed, as many are not, being raised in a loving Christian community.
I wish there were another name for Christians like Doxy, Pamela, me, and the many thousands of others who struggle daily to wrest the term "Christian" the anti-gay, anti-woman, purity cult that encompasses so much of what we know as the "religious right." I don't know what term to use, other than to stubbornly remain Christian and loudly proclaim a very different Christianity from what many here sadly see every day.
Thank you, Dan, for your piece, and for all the work you are doing on behalf of the LGBTQ community.
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I, too, understand why so many LGBTQ people lump all Christians together as "haters." Heck, as a lesbian living in the South, I am almost daily attempted to do so myself. But I was lucky enough to be raised in a church that espoused love, taught kindness and mercy, and did not twist scripture against anyone. I was blessed, as many are not, being raised in a loving Christian community.
I wish there were another name for Christians like Doxy, Pamela, me, and the many thousands of others who struggle daily to wrest the term "Christian" the anti-gay, anti-woman, purity cult that encompasses so much of what we know as the "religious right." I don't know what term to use, other than to stubbornly remain Christian and loudly proclaim a very different Christianity from what many here sadly see every day.
Thank you, Dan, for your piece, and for all the work you are doing on behalf of the LGBTQ community.
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I was lucky enough to be raised in a church that taught critical thinking, evidence, science, reason and logic! It's not as rare as folks may think, given the tendency to equate all Christian denominations as fundmentalists and literalists. I understand that, as that's the picture of Christianity the media offers us. I am not a scriptural literalist -- there are so many ways to interpret scripture that include critical thinking and analysis. Many Christians would have you believe that one must be a literalist to be a Christian -- I simply disagree with them.