At Trinity Grace in East Village Hipster Jesus is still Homophobic
Sexual morality has been a divisive issue for some Christian churches, and a challenge for an evangelical church trying to move into the East Village. Trinity Grace considers all sex outside marriage sinful, and marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Mr. Wasko said that he had kissed three women before marrying his wife, and that he now regretted all of them. In its counseling for couples, the church subdivides physical affection into a 10-step “purity ladder,” moving from amorous looks to intercourse, and insists that couples who have already been intimate stop, and abstain until they are wed. Anything past kissing, Mr. Wasko said, “is an on-ramp where things progress pretty quickly.”
Decidedly un-hip! Surprise surprise, the good folks at Trinity Grace are just as homophobic and sex-negative as evangelicals everywhere else. What’s annoying about these people isn’t necessarily their stance on issues like sex and homosexuality — those are old hat, albeit bigoted. It’s that they’re trying to seem so hip and edgy in an awkward “Cool Dad” kind of way and it’s disingenuous. Also unnecessary. The East Village is hardly Sodom and Gomorrah anymore, and even if it were, that would be just fine.