Because it made me giggle...

[changeyourstars8]

So apparently some parents in Rhode Island are worried that their high-schoolers shouldn't go on a class trip to see RENT. They might not be able to deal with the "in-your-face glorification of homosexuality and lesbianism." (quote from Focus on the Family)

Please. I became a fan of the musical (and the Broadway version is quite a bit raunchier than the movie) when I was fourteen or fifteen. Of course, I doubt that Dobson and his ilk would look at me and see anything good, so. . .

Anyway, I could get into a huge rant about how Christianity is supposed to be about loving your neighbor and being kind to people, etc. and etc., rather than finding a new 'oh my goodness see look the gay people are everywhere eeeeeeek' target every other day, but I'd rather just post this:

Jesus Bans 'Christian' Group Focus on the Family

When the news reached Focus on the Family's Colorado Springs headquarters, stunned members were seen running into walls and bashing their foreheads with large Bibles and ramming their Toyota Corollas and Ford pickups into each other and muttering incoherent lines from "Passion of the Christ" and popping Prozac like M&M's.

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[jadelynx.livejournal.com]

Oh! And...

You don't fit in because you haven't found the right people. If you go to church because it makes your husband happy, then maybe you should have a conversation with your husband about finding a place that can both of you comfortable.

You should be able to walk into church and be a high lesbian with a potty mouth and still be loved and accepted. Those places are out there, you just have to search. You should search, because what you really really need to find is someplace that you can find God without all the religious, political shit churches spew today.

MY Jesus loves you regardless of your opinion, of him or anything else. He loves you regardless of sexual orientation, regardless of political offiliation, regardless of language, regardless of past, present or future sins. He just loves you, me, everyone. And he doesn't ask us change, just to accept him as our savior.

You need to find a place where you can absorb that without anything else, because you deserve that chance.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

Yeah-- the problem is, I'm not sure if I can ever *really* be comfortable in any church so long as I'm agnostic. It's not that the message being preached in this church is bad, or that I dislike the people, it's just that I can't help but feel like a bit of an imposter while I'm there.

And I fully agree with you on finding a church without the politics-- Chris and I never went back to one church because politics was heavily brought into it. And that is one thing I like about this church, that so far politics hasn't come into it at all, it's just Bible discussion. So if I ever could be truly comfortable in a church, it's probably that one.

As for the right people-- I've got Kath, and Chris, and you, and my family, so I think I'm doing pretty good there. *S*

[jadelynx.livejournal.com]

I think we've frightened anyone else off from responding, hee.

I'm with ya on the "agree to disagree" thing.

It's interesting to me, though, because the only article that I saw didn't mention Dobson at all. It didn't mention Christians at all. But it was obvious they looked down on the parents for the choice to ask the school to pull the program. Maybe that's why what you said upset me so much, because it felt like it was all assumption that anyone that objects to homosexuality taught in schools must be a religous freak following blindly after Dobson and his lot.

[allthelivesofme.livejournal.com]

lol That happened once before here-- a friend of mine and I got into it pretty heavily on the subject of the news media, and I'm pretty sure anyone else who reads this journal was just like, "Okay...backing away slowly..." ;-)