Posted on 07/30/2010 7:54:04 PM PDT by mlizzy
"In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control," the author wrote Wednesday on her Facebook page. "In the name of ... Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen" ...
"I believed for a long time that the differences, the quarrels among Christians didn't matter a lot for the individual, that you live your life and stay out of it. But then I began to realize that it wasn't an easy thing to do," said Rice, speaking from her home near Palm Springs, California. "I came to the conclusion that if I didn't make this declaration, I was going to lose my mind."
Rice said she is a Democrat who supports the historic health care legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama and believes gay marriage inevitably will be permitted throughout the country. Although no longer part of any denomination, she remains a believer and continues to read theology and post Biblical passages on her Facebook page. She has no immediate plans to write about her leaving the church and will continue with her metaphysical fiction series, "Songs of the Seraphim."
Rice will not be taking up vampires again, but she said she is a big fan of the HBO series "True Blood," enjoyed the first two "Twilight" movies (she has yet to read any of the Stephenie Meyer novels) and is interested in seeing her most famous character, the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, return to the screen.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
You never were to begin with, Anne.
Yet another person that assumes to know what GOD is all about, someone that has not read HIS word. If she had, she would understand. I pray for this person.
In the interest of being able to kill babies, there is no god, there are no absolute values and I quit Christianity.
. . . Pretty much sums Anne Rice up.
Too late.
Just pray for her.
Gay marriage is inevitable in every state only if imposed by the Sup Court.
So yeah, it probably is inevitable.
My thoughts while reading the article.
Anne Rice who? =.=
Why did I even read this?
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Who?
A serious whack-job. The woman is mentally disturbed. Actually, she would fit right into Islam- death obsessed.
what a coward....
I hope Ms. Rice learns some things are much bigger than petty, pet political issues.
whatever.
The American Catholic Church is run by apostate bishops who place no value on true religious education, which made it easy for the devil to have easy pickings of Anne Rice, who was raised Catholic.
I always thought her vampires were gay. When you have two male vampires move in together, pick out furniture and then adopt a little girl vampire - well, her books were horrifying, but not in the way she intended.
Pray for this woman ... she had an abortion early on in her life and it screwed her up.Yes, prayers always!! Do you perchance have a link regarding her abortion early on in life?
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