Ryan, writing in response to my posting yesterday about Brother Dominic Mary Verner's musings about why the gays don't always feel the love when Christians hold forth about us, and about the astonishing (and love-challenged) recent remarks Brother Dominic Mary's fellow Dominican Sister Jane Dominic Laurel made about us in Charlotte recently:
One thing that I have learned from talking with so called reasonable anti-gay people is how they disdain gay and lesbian people. Their needs and concerns are of no consequence compared to the minor woes of their co-believers or the abstract perfection of their ideology. They have plenty to say about how society should be structured to protect their purity but are unable to construct a plan for gays and lesbians that could resemble anything like gospel.
They have plenty to say about how society should be structured to protect their purity but are unable to construct a plan for gays and lesbians that could resemble anything like gospel: that sounds very right to me. The impulse of those seeking special legal rights and privileges to discriminate against gay folks is all about establishing a separate purity culture for themselves.
But it's certainly not oriented to proclaiming anything that could by any stretch of the imagination be called good news to gay folks.
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