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Posted on 02/19/2024 9:25:33 AM PST by Morgana
Lutheran Church of the Cross is a Canadian congregation that “affirms and celebrates human diversity in God’s creation.” Led by Lyndon Sayers and Lyle McKenzie, they are an ELCIC (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada congregation, the canuck version of the ELCA) that is populated by senior citizens, lesbians, and a host of other ragtag goatlings.
We covered them after a recent sermon argued that the baby Moses’ trip in a basket on the Nile river has some queer themes, and is actually about kinship outside of heteronormative family structures, as well as a metaphor for the turbulence that trans folk experience at the hands of the church.
In a ‘Reconciling Sunday’ sermon, University of Victoria student Ruby Cupp, a non-binary, transgender, bisexual who uses they/them pronouns, insists that LGBTQ people are acting as ‘Good Samaritans’ when they put on ‘drag queen story hours’ for children, and the problem with society is that people are unwilling to let LGBTQ folks try to be the Samaritan in a world full of broken and hurting people.
Hi everybody, my name is Ruby Cupp. I am 22 years old and my pronouns are they/them… I come to you today as a queer person. I’m non-binary, transgender, and bisexual. And if any of those terms are unfamiliar to you, and you’d like to learn more, then come and talk to me after the service, because I would love to tell you more.
…When one thinks of a church-going Christian, I’m probably the last person they would picture. In Jesus’s parable of the gospel, today, the Samaritan was an unlikely person to help out the wounded man.
Growing up, I always thought that the term ‘Samaritan’ just meant a good person who helps out others when they can. But in reality, Samaritans referred to an entire identity of the people who at the time were socially outcast. They practiced a different religion than that of the majority, and to the religious leaders of the time, they would have been seen as heretics.
Yet it was the religious people who passed by the wounded man, and finally a Samaritan who helped out. He was an unlikely person to help.
When I started to read the story that I had heard hundreds of times in my childhood, but in this new context, I started to realize how much modern-day social outcasts are prevented from helping only because of their identity.
My mind immediately thinks of how many times the drag queens in this country have been attacked for simply wanting to read stories to children.
He continues:
I’ve seen so many celebrations of queer joy in my life, from drag performances to open mic nights to visual art showcases to pride parades, to rallies for trans joy. It’s clear that queer people everywhere want to help out others, regardless of who they are. They want to help out their neighbors, and Jesus tells us in the gospel, that everybody can be our neighbor.
What would have happened if the Good Samaritan, as told by Jesus in His parable, was denied the opportunity to help out the wounded man? What would have happened if Samaritans were so socially outcasts, and they wouldn’t even have the means to help in the first place, even if they wanted to?
God’s message through all three readings today, it’s clear, we as God’s followers need to work towards queer liberation by letting our justice roll down like water, and righteousness like an ever flowing stream. ..We need to help queer people and work towards their liberation so that they can be given the opportunity and the means to help all of us.
It’s time to start tossing these freaks into the sea 🌊 with milestones around their necks.
interesting how the sheep and the goats separate themselves so we don’t have to wonder.
Canada has become a post-modern, globohomo hell.
There could be an argument to be made that in the future, America’s problem’s won’t be on the southern border, but the northern one
I was invited to a party that turned out to be mostly university employees and students. The assumption everyone there made was that anyone at the party was into the LGBT scene in a big and presumably personal way. I listened to two young women who had just graduated as primary school teachers. They were drunk and open about how much they despised “breeders.” They knowingly roll-played loving children when they openly talked about how much they hated them. I asked why they’d chosen that profession, and the answer was, “somebody needs to program the little shits.” Up to that point I believed that there was no “gay agenda.” I was wrong and now see the gay agenda as one of the primary evils of our time.
The way I felt reminded me of a movie where someone goes into a rave (party) expecting just a band and dancing and finding that everyone there, except them, were vampires.
The Weather Underground stopped bombing buildings and killing cops, and instead became school teachers.
Queer folk being good samaritans could take their entertainment skills to nursing homes and adult-only venues.
Why do they focus on children.
Pedo gratification.
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So, I guess that makes child molesters and pedophiles “good Samaritans” too, right chief? You moron.
How can one be non-BInary and BIsexual at the same time?
And if one is TRANS gender, that implies going from one gender to the other which presupposes a BInary Epistemology.
More evidence that organized religion is a politically driven business. No wonder young people are staying away.
This is GROOMING, plain and simple
DO it in a black neighborhood and see what happens. Only white people are stupid and weak enough to fall for this
These fools (in the נבל Biblical sense) are NOT Lutheran. They are not followers of Christ. Without repentance they are damned.
Polar bears are hungry up there. Feed them.
As a former member of the old and honorable LCA (Lutheran Church in America) which got absorbed into the ELCA—which went feminazi and LGBT—I cry “OUCH”!
If they want to be Good Samaritans, do something useful that needs to be done, such as adopt a highway and pick up roadside trash. You even get the name of your group on a sign.
There is a no shortage of storytime reading groups in public libraries, AFAIK
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