Posted on 08/14/2003 8:31:48 PM PDT by ddodd3329
State Street Episcopal Church in Portland, near where I live, had a rector who championed the gay cause while in the pulpit. Then he retired recently, big write up in the newspaper and all that. In the article I read that he had a nice retirement home to live in -- with his long-time male companion.
Guess what? You got it. Nuff said, right? Right!
Well no wonder the rector took to TV local news with his conviction of standing alongside gay rights in the state of Maine. Read between the blinds; even a blind person could do it this go-round. For sure.
Anyhow, what puzzles me is that so many with clout are making the Episcopal Church "the gay church". Not all take to a gay run religious institution within the Christian tradition. But if any group can attempt to bring it off, it's the zig zag liberal Episcopalians.
But it amazes me how such Prayer Book enthusiasts, long on tradition and high on protocol, could fall prey to homosexuality as a legit. Doesn't make much social sense, let alone biblical sense. But, again, if any group can wiggle waggle their way into the whatevers, it's the liberal Episcopalians.
Now I have noted when in an Episcopal worship -- of which I have attended many down through the years -- that aesthetics is a big thing with that end of the religious spectrum -- candle wax and pipe organs and vestments and tapestries and kneeling pads and leather bound niceties for the bishops and so on and so on.
I have read that gays go in for a lot of aesthetic ambiance. So it just might be that that kind of religious regalia attracts gays. I have a hunch that some of that kind of fancy frill attracts certain gays into the priesthood, too. Just a hunch, but I think I might be onto something there.
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Sure. Same reason Halloween and Mardi Gras are their two favorite holidays. It's all about dress-up.
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