Queer Nation and the Florida Baptist Convention

One of my favorite places to go when i am at the mall is Hot topic.
it is an outlaw store that has become quaint because of the style of clothes and the attitudes of the folks who shop there.

I go there because of the stickers and the t shirts. through the years, I have bought several shirts that have raised an eyebrow or two as I walked the halls of church.

"Monkeys steal my underwear at night"

"People like you are the reason people like me take medication"

"Just a pirate chasing booty"

"It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you are not" my favorite.

anyway, I saw one the other day that I can't get off my mind.

"Against Gay marriage? then don't marry one"

there has been a blitz here in the state of Fl to get enough petitions signed to get a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

Divorce in America is lower outside the church than inside, and all we can focus on is banning gay marriage. Porn is viewed by more Christians than ever before and all we are worried about is whether 2 guys or 2 women can get legally married or not. Homelessness and poverty are at all time highs, but gay marriage is all we can focus on. Baptisms are at the lowest point since the 70's, but we can't let the fags get married! Adultry is rampant, but that is not as bad as lesbians getting married.

I have said this many times in many places...I do not need my government legislating morality to me. I, and most believers know that certain things are considered sin, yet, becasue we are so freaked out by homo's we seldom do anything but denounce such lifestyles from a distance, rather than actually putting feet to the Christlike attitudes we talk about.

news flash all you political slash Baptist folks who think Jesus is republican...

JESUS LOVES QUEERS!

God help us to engage rather than judge people.

I read in the Witness (Florida baptist convention paper) where there were last minute pushes in certain churches to get folks to get the petitons signed so we can stop this grevious problem.

I bet that when this church has evangelism night, or has visitation (for lack of a better word), less than 1% of the membership shows up to go out and share.

We have become what we pint the finger at and despise most...pharasee's.

adding onto and taking away from the most beautiful, the most simple, the most wonderful, the most sacrificing, and the most loving story that is redemption.

How can we, who have been "Rescued from the kingdom of darkness and placed into the kingdom of His beloved Son" be so judgemental toward a certain group?

my heart aches. not because I am better. but because I was in need of a savior becasue of my sin that had seperated me from God. He gave Himself that I may know Him, experience so great a love, and be pursued by the one who created me.

If we turn our backs on these folks, then what chance does the whore have? the theif? the liar? the murderer? the adulterer? The one who has been oppressed? the hopeless?

what about the church member? lostness abounds in the halls of Pharaseemerica institutions.

These are purely my thoughts, and do not represent the thoughts of other freaks in the area.