If I even begin to talk about how many ways they’ve destroyed our country, my blood boils. Many catholics (including good friends of mine) ask that people don’t include your honest decent christian folk in this – but I have to say…at what point do you say ‘our churches have done wrong, they are the evil in the world’? Surely paedophilia and its coverup is something that prompts people to abandon the old establishments?

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People in the PCUSA keep marrying same-sex couples, other people keep putting them on trial, and those pastors keep getting off on a technicality (instead of, y’know, what they should be getting off for, which is actual damn sense and fairness). Since the marriage was legally okay, that may change the game, but not necessarily for the worse. Perhaps now people will be forced to listen to all the fantastic testimony that witnesses give on how this is NOT a scripture violation (and for every anti-gay passage interpretation, there are several saying those passages are either not against homosexuality or not about it at all).

In short, yes, this is ridiculous and the church needs to get its act together, but people are trying and this trial could help (assuming people actually take the time to prayerfully consider what’s going on).

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Is it not the goal of a census to collect authentic information on a population? Is demography not a science fundamentally scrupulous in nature?

Of course it is. So why do we insist on subjecting ourselves to the stifling constraints of “male” or “female” gender labels? There are a myriad of ways in which gender variant folks identify, and I am willing to bet that most of them would be willing to write it down on a dotted line if such a space happened to exist on a census form.

I know giving people the freedom to express their individuality is a wildly radical and frightening concept for you suits up in Washington, but I think it’s time to give it a try. Forgive the cliché, but let’s think outside the box people.

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It disappoints me in general that reform churches are still anti-gay because an anti-gay interpretation of the Bible so obviously goes against what their own approach to Biblical study should lead to. Reform traditions focus a lot of energy on studying the context of Biblical text and interpreting the significance according to the context first and foremost (something evangelical traditions generally couldn’t care less about, excluding the evangelical Mennonites who do care about context, but anyway) that they should know better than to go hard core on things that are obviously contextual (for example, homosexuality!!!). Yes, the Old Testament and the New Testament (sans the Gospels, cause Jesus never said anything yo) slam homosexuality but it is so fucking contextual, and context is so important to reformers, that I just don’t get it. These types of moves also often cause so much dissent with the more academic members of their churches anyway that it just doesn’t seem worth it for them on most levels.

Surprised, disappointed, frustrated. I want to call all of them and say, “hey, I am not a Jesus person but I know about this cause I read a lot of books including THE BIBLE and you should listen to me because according to YOUR OWN DENOMINATION’S APPROACH TO THE BIBLE you’re interpreting this in a totally wacky way.” And then I remember that no one really likes it when I say I know everything so I just need to leave that for conversations with my cats. They don’t seem to mind.

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Basically I think the pope should stop wearing a silk dress and really get something done for his people that depend on him instead of living in lavish opulence while poor Catholics die and he is obsessed with gays and abortion.

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Also, in his Palm Sunday sermon, the Archbishop of New York compared Pope Benedict to Jesus because the Pope is having to suffer so much criticism. YES THE POOR, POOR POPE, LET’S FEEL SO BAD FOR HIM, BUT WHO CARES ABOUT ALL THE CHILDREN.

I can’t even wrap my brain around this you guys! It physically hurts! I am getting a headache!

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