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Originally Posted by rlin
i dont know where to put this...
i hope folks keep turning up the volume until maybe these folks realize the part they have in this...
in kathy griffins video she spoke about the blood of these kids being on [their] hands...
it is so true... and they pass out platitudes like... *oh... dang... we gotta show them what jesus thought so they will stop doing this...
its a shame for any life to be lost... even fukd up ones...*
and yeah... i know that isnt what they said... but goddammit i am mad... i am so tired of this happening to kids... other kids are so cruel... and the most sensitive have to deal with the cruelty... and.. then... they cant even turn to adults to reassure themselves...
i am beside myself on this one...
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i only posted this because the Catholic church, although it has miles to go, is actually miles ahead of the Baptist church in terms of teaching respect for GLBT people and teaching against prejudice or discrimination. They just need to get over that little birth control hurdle and that oppresses way more straight people than us....
(of course our current pope would cause one to assume the opposite, and i would never defend the catholic hierarchy as a whole, but the academics who wrote the catechism paint a vastly different picture of the faith than its public face does- it is universally the case that academic theology and popular practice bear little resemblance to each other, even in the Baptist church)
i did a news search looking for Christian responses to the issue and the Catholic church was the only one of the mainline churches that has said anything at all
on an unrelated note- i am in Houston and Cypress, where Asher Brown lived and died, is part of our metroplex. The media here have been overwhelmingly sympathetic to Asher and his family and aggressively pushing the school district for action. It has been the top news story every night. It is heartening, but tragic that it took something like this
and yesterday, my super-Christian, tea party lovin, Obama hatin aunt shared ellen's link on facebook. i almost cried.