re: #333 Justanotherhuman

There’s no low the Methodists won’t stoop to, either.

Pa. pastor defrocked after performing gay wedding

bigstory.ap.org

You know, I’m probably going to get dinged for this, but so be it.

It’s not possible to be both a pastor, and a person that supports marriage equality, simultaneously and with complete honesty on both ends. The simple fact is that the Holy Bible specifically condemns homosexuality, along with a great many other things that are today considered innocuous. When you put on the frock, you commit to devote yourself to that religion. If you’re not willing to fully devote yourself to that religion — including the patently absurd things about it — then you shouldn’t be wearing the frock. If you read ‘the good book’ and, as I did long ago, come to the conclusion that on many or even just several points God is dead wrong, it is dishonest to wear the uniform of his supplicants and spread his message.

I think the pastor did the right thing by acknowledging the rights of all of his fellow citizens to be treated equally and fairly. But I also can’t blame the church for de-frocking him based on the fact that he did violate their tenets.