From this week’s “Savage Love”:
Joking about Christianity isn’t evidence that I’m intolerant—hell, I’m perfectly willing to tolerate Christians. I have never, for instance, attempted to prevent Christians from marrying each other, or tried to stop them from adopting children, or worked to make it illegal for them to hold certain jobs. I don’t threaten to boycott companies that market their products to Christians, and I don’t organize letter-writing campaigns to complain about Christian characters on television. It would indeed be hypocritical for me to complain about fundamentalist Christians who’ve done all of the above to gay people if I turned around and did the same thing to them, but I’ve done no such thing. Intolerant? Hell, I’m a model of tolerance! Oh sure, I joked about the Virgin Birth because I think it’s silly and sexphobic. And I’m free to say as much, however unpleasant it is for some Christians to hear. Fundamentalist Christians, for their part, are free to think homosexuality is sinful and unnatural, and they’re free to say so, however unpleasant it is for me to hear. But fundamentalists aren’t willing to just speak their piece, Rob. Nope, they seek to persecute people for being gay, and that’s where their low opinion of homosexuality—which, again, they have an absolute right to hold—transubstantiates into intolerance.
…and with this, my devotion to Dan Savage predictably carries on into 2006.
Question should have been ‘are male bipsohs who refuse to accept women priests as bipsohs more trouble than they’re worth!’The issue of female clergy within the Anglican church still has not been resolved and the reason is because many male clergy rigidly adhere to the myth of male supremacy and male domination over women. But guess who are the ones busily working away in the background, cleaning the churches, ensuring the church is well supplied with flowers, holding fund raising tea parties and doing other mundane admin. tasks. Why it is women of course but these women are invisible because only men can attain the position of bishop which includes of course, power and control over all women and lesser male beings. Grow up male clergy because it is long overdue that women were once again accorded our rightful place of attaining a bishopric.
Just do me a favor and keep writing such trenchant analyses, OK?
I read your posting and was jealous
That insight would have saved us a lot of effort early on.