You know what the gay agenda is, the program that conservative christians and assorted homophobes claim is a threat to their marriages and their god given right to be bigots? It’s really very simple: it’s the same agenda that African Americans have, and women have, and Latinos and Latinas have, and Asians have, and old people have and Catholics have and Mormons have, and Buddhists have and Muslims have: the same rights for all, i.e., equal treatment under the law and by society without discrimination based on their status as being other than protestant heterosexual white people. It’s that simple:
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The bishops of the Episcopal Church voted at the church’s convention on Monday to open “any ordained ministry” to gay men and lesbians, a move that could effectively undermine a moratorium on ordaining gay bishops that the church passed at its last convention three years ago.
Somehow I don’t think this is going to threaten anyone else’s rights. You don’t want to have a Gay bishop or minister, go to a different church. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
I was raised in the liberal wing of the Episcopalian Church. Unfortunately, there is a conservative side, especially in Africa. It seems like the issue of gay rights is going to cause a permanent schism.
Give the Unitarians a try. They are so far ahead of the crop, it is a wonderment that they are seldom mentioned as one of the few true American principled churches.
Permanent? I’m sure that the African nations will eventually come around. Right now, though, ravaged as much of the continent is by disease, war, starvation, poverty, and lack of education, it’s not surprising that civil society is suffering as a result.
Watching the shift on gay rights is like observing evolution in action. I think progress is unstoppable and if the Republicans stand in the way of these long overdue social changes, they and their bigoted allies in the fundamental churches of the land will be simply swept away. As I have written several times before, it’s about time.