BenL
12-21-2007, 04:27 PM
Katharine Jefferts Schori for President
She's among our most committed allies in the battle for LGBT inclusion and equality -- and she happens to wear a clerical collar.
By Teresa Morrison
An Advocate.com exclusive
It used to be that the gays merely caused popular disgust. Then in the Bush-Cheney era -- made possible by the Republicans’ ability to capitalize on our potential to incite the aforementioned popular disgust -- Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and their conservative Christian minions blamed us in quick succession for 9/11, the Southeast Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the U.S. military's mounting death toll in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Accustomed as we are to being fingered by religious leaders for all manner of secular cataclysm, it seems an extraordinary turnabout that now, even as we figure prominently in an ecclesiastical crisis, Episcopal leaders, far from ringing us up for the damages, either downplay our role in the fight or stand up for our honor.
http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid51222.asp
She's among our most committed allies in the battle for LGBT inclusion and equality -- and she happens to wear a clerical collar.
By Teresa Morrison
An Advocate.com exclusive
It used to be that the gays merely caused popular disgust. Then in the Bush-Cheney era -- made possible by the Republicans’ ability to capitalize on our potential to incite the aforementioned popular disgust -- Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and their conservative Christian minions blamed us in quick succession for 9/11, the Southeast Asian tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and the U.S. military's mounting death toll in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Accustomed as we are to being fingered by religious leaders for all manner of secular cataclysm, it seems an extraordinary turnabout that now, even as we figure prominently in an ecclesiastical crisis, Episcopal leaders, far from ringing us up for the damages, either downplay our role in the fight or stand up for our honor.
http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid51222.asp