Being Gay is a Gift: change is in the air
One of the biggest challenges to GLBT rights is organized religion. Prop8 in California, denying marriage rights to a minority, was passed in large part by the unholy alliance of conservative Catholics and Mormons (especially Mormon money). Many gay people see their lives in opposition to religion, thanks to the ascendance of fundigelical Christianism under successive Republican administrations. There has been a defacto establishment of conservative evangelicalism as a state religion. And yet, along with other changes, perhaps that is changing too.
Progressive Christians are finding their voice on a national stage and offering a radical welcome to all. Will their voices finally be heard in Washington and in the wider culture?
Item 1 :Just this week, Rev. Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church in Pasadena, CA, went on Oprah Winfrey's show and announced "being gay is a gift from God".
