Looking it over again, I’m sorry if that comes off as harsh. But I have to ask some questions about the, uh, dynamics of these church-related disasters... like, why do people “queer” churches, how do they gain a foothold and when is there no turning back... I won’t go on about those things, but IMO a disaster like this usually exposes some aberrant organizational philosophy that was buried deeply in a sect’s belief structures all along; for example some churches have a belief that I myself do not share, in the feasibility of really being a church together when one is pre-committed to a certain subjectivism about religious matters.
One of my former Sunday School students is involved in the rewriting of the rules about homosexuality in the UMC. He’s a really good kid and plans to become a minister.
But it isn’t a good thing. He’s a lib. He had a lot of problems with my lessons but liked me. I saw him today as a matter of fact.