Restored Faith in Humanity of the Day: North Carolina Church Boycotts Marrying People Until Gays Can Marry
The Green Street United Methodist Church in North Carolina is refusing to perform any marriages until same-sex marriage is legally recognized by the state. The announcement comes in conflict with the official laws and doctrines of the United Methodist Church, which lists homosexuality as a practice that is “incompatible with Christian teaching.” In the meantime, the church will be holding “relationship blessings” as an alternative to marriage ceremonies.
Yeeaaaahhh YOO EHM SEY! (aka UMC in a Bro voice) (aka United Methodist Church for the win)
(via thatfunnygirllauren)
That moment when an elderly parishioner asks you how you feel about “that gay marriage”, 10 minutes after you meet.
And you think, “How do I figure out what THEY think first, so as not to open a can of worms? How do I answer this question truthfully without insulting or alienating the person in front of me? How do I appear gracious, but also intelligent enough to have my own opinions? How do I remain true to myself, without saying something that might instantly turn this person off of me? Because even if they disagree with me, everyone deserves some pastoral care, and that’s what I’m trying to provide but I can’t provide it if this person doesn’t think me credible.”
In the end I kind of failed at the ‘remaining true to thyself’ part, and said something like: “I haven’t really made up my mind yet…what do you think about gay marriage?”
It could have been worse, but I need to figure out how to do it better.
John Green on Religion and Gay Marriage
My response as a Christian is: Amen.
-Anonymous
I’m very happy that Obama now publicly supports Gay marriage. I’m not happy with the people who now act like anyone still against gay marriage is an ignorant bigot. People believe things for a reason. It may not be the right reason, a logical reason, or even an acceptable reason, but don’t bully the bully just because you have the upper hand. All that does is make you a bully. And nothing will have changed.
npr:
When President Obama announced he now supports same-sex marriage, he cited his Christian faith. Many other people cited their religion to disagree. Why is there such variation? Part of it has to do with how you read the text.
Maybe it’s just my schooling, I don’t know, but when I read this little intro blurb ^ about the article, my immediate response was rather colorful. Summed up, it was: “NO F****ING DUH!”, which I then realized was a bit harsh. I’m just angry that more people haven’t figured out how easy it is to read things into the text, and interpret it in various ways. I love NPR, and I get the way society has been told to look at the Bible, but that last sentence (in the blurb) was just about the most obvious statement that could be made. Next to me saying “In order to live, part of it has to do with how you eat and breath.”
