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From the folks at QUEERTY:

While Pope Benedict thinks of the gays as dangerous bushwhackers destroying the rainforest of heterosexuality and Rev. Rick Warren defends his homophobia by saying he's actually met some honest-to-goodness homosexuals in his life, Katharine Jefferts Schori, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church told the Washington Post over the weekend that homosexuality "Is a reality of creation, not just the human species … For some people to say it’s against the order of creation, it’s a very interesting comment – it doesn’t accord with what we can observe in nature" and then called homosexuality "a gift."


It is refreshing to see a religious leader promoting that which constantly seeks to come to some limited understanding of the Divine and to use it to live better, more meaningful lives instead of the Fundigelical's cudgel which assumes that it fully knows God and seeks to impose its set of ancient rules on mankind (usually others).

Whether or not one believes in a deity, I think it's pretty clear which type of religion (and religious person) makes a better neighbor.
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I just recently read about Galileo being "rehabilitated" by The Church. After nearly 400 years have elapsed.

Chuck, Season's Greetings!
Edited Date: 2008-12-24 03:42 pm (UTC)

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