A Cheerful Sunday Thoughts

When I got up today, I did what I usually do not long after getting up: loaded up my Yahoo page with its news feeds and skimmed the headlines. Imagine my surprise when I saw this one: Evangelical church opens doors fully to gays [link, for as long as it lasts]

The story says, in part:

Tidd is an outlaw pastor of sorts. His community, less than a year old, is an evangelical Christian church guided both by the Apostle's Creed and the belief that gay people can embrace their sexual orientation as God-given and seek fulfillment in committed same-sex relationships.

Of course, if you believe homosexuality is a choice, this won't matter to you, but for those of us who believe the evidence is soundly for the idea that it's an innate quality, this is really simple logic. If people are born gay, it was as much a God-given trait as any other, and should be accepted in the same way.

Yet it's a logic that seems to elude people, judging by the number of church communities who acknowledge it's not a choice but still think that people who are gay should suppress their desires and live celibate. It's a shame that that's one of the prevailing attitudes, but I'm still encouraged by the idea that it's not the only one.

While I'm in a cranky mood

Might I point you over to slacktivist's very well-written posts on why it is the "Manhattan Declaration" is unacceptable? (If you don't know what it is, Fred'll also let you know that part.)

They can be found here, with a followup here, and lastly, here.

Go read them. Yes, now. I've got a few comments, myself, but they can wait until you're done.

Oh, get over yourselves.

I know that title is a bit snippy, but seriously, I'm so sick of it.

It's the same thing every year, and has been for my entire life. "Americans are taking Christ out of Christmas! Boycott stores, snottily correct clerks and other customer service personnel who dare to say 'Happy Holidays', and write angry letters!" About the only thing different from my childhood and now is that now people have teh intarwebz to spread their message of woe, doom, and destruction of the Christian faith by godless Commienazis.