Pam's House Blend (http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=6180) by Pam Spaulding
--- "Some of the dumbest and meanest things that anyone says about homosexuality-and a lot of other issues - are said in church. This is truly scandalous."
-- David Gushee, professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University, in his column for Associated Baptist Press[/quote]
"In this fascinating, brutally honest opinion piece, we can see the internal struggle of socially conservative churches to rethink how to treat gay parishioners.
"Professor Gushee brings logical and much-needed questions to the table, albeit awkwardly if you're reading as a gay person, but that's not the point -- the fact is we're seeing someone reaching out to an audience resistant to changes on these issues from their perspective. As we've seen over and over in socially conservative church scandals, this isn't exactly a group of folks that do a lot of serious self-reflection; they know LGBTs are in the pews -- they are neighbors and friends; what the homophobes want is a return to the closet where they didn't have to think about these issues."
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