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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Some sad news from Colorado
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.170031.20586@spdcc.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:00:31 GMT
- Article-I.D.: spdcc.1992Nov16.170031.20586
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- In article <1992Nov16.162303.15249@pixel.kodak.com> chuck@fourier.ssd.kodak.com (Charles S. Collins 726-9461) writes:
- >>Until I see otherwise, I'll continue to regard "organized religion" in
- >>the same way as "organized crime."
- >Of course, you are free to believe what you like. But I must protest
- >what I see has terribly shortsighted.
-
- I wouldn't be so sure who's being short-sighted. You're a
- Presbyterian; what are you to make of the PCUSA's decision regarding
- that lesbian pastor? How many times must you get stepped on before
- waking up and saying you won't be associated with any such organized
- cause which not only works against you within the very institution to
- which you claim "fellowship", but against you in society at large?
-
- I think comments that that above are very healthy. They describe the
- situation as it is, and not as some gay people would like to believe
- it is. They are a useful polemic.
-
- >By classifying all of organized religion in the same league as organized crime,
- >you ignore the following groups within organized religions which are working
- >extremely hard for gay/lesbian/bisexual causes:
- >More Light Churches (Presbyterian)
- >Reconciling Congregations (Methodist)
- >Affirmation (Mormon)
- >Dignity (Roman Catholic)
- >Integrity (Episcopal)
-
- Masochists, all of them. Of course, some of my best friends are masochists.
-
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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