Following my article in this week’s paper on the Mosaic Community Church’s (MCC) recent move to Neumos nightclub on Capitol Hill, the club has decided to terminate their relationship with the church, effective immediately.
MCC—sort of the soft-rock version of Mars Hill—is affiliated with the Waco, Texas-based Antioch Community Church. Antioch’s website contains statements lumping homosexuality together with “drug addiction, poverty, pornography, and people unaware of their need for God.”
While Pastor Jady Griffin told The Stranger that his church is “open to everyone,” several members of the MCC told us that gays would not be accepted at the church.
Following the release of the article, Neumos co-owner Steven Severin pushed Griffin to clarify the church’s stance on homosexuality. Severin says he didn’t get the answers he was looking for.
“After speaking with [Griffin], I didn’t find enough new information that made me comfortable with what their actual stance [on homosexuality] is,” Severin says. “We have to have people who support our community here [and] we’re very careful about who we work with. We decided we’re no longer going to have them here.”
In some places MCC = Metropolitan Community Church. Anyone besides me creeped out by the thought of someone from the hinterlands seeing MCC and thinking safe and gay-friendly and winding up at Mosaic?
We’re all intollerant. It’s not hypocricy to cry for tolerance of one issue and not another.
I can call someone who lynches a black man a bigot and still want to lynch a murdering rapist. You’re right I’m a totaly hypocrit I’m intolerant of hate towards innocent people and completely tolerant of hate of harmful damaging behavior.
If the church can manage convince me that their view that homosexuality is “detestable” and an “abomination” then there is a case to be intolerate. Until then it’s a case of an innocent and productive minority group being openly persecuted and insulted.
Tolerance isn’t a blank check. Nobody said it was. I’m intolerant of pedophilia and I feel very strongly that I could justify that intolerance. Some people deserve to be hated. Some don’t.
Not all ideas and beliefs are equal. Some are good, some are bad. Some are backed by our best understanding of science and history some are not.