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Originally posted by Phaenx
Thinking of what though? Are they planning on reaching out to a new crowd? The church almost has to pander to certain people, there's no way joe faggot is going to read the bible and be ok with half the things in it.
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I find this offensive, not just for your choice of epithet, but because you assume that you know what "joe faggot" is like. I know a lot of very religious gay people who find a lot of meaning in the Bible. There's a lot of compassion and wisdom in it, and for those who aren't uncomfortable thinking that times change and interpretation of scripture can comfortably change with it, there's no contradiction at all in gay people being Christians. In fact, most of the gay Christians I know are much better Christians than most of the closed-minded, hate-filled Bible-thumpers I know.
If the church alienates anybody because they're uncomfortable with gay leadership, then so be it. A lot of churches lost parishioners in the 60s because they stood up for racial equality. Did that make it a bad decision because they alienated the racists?