http://www.bmclgbt.org/blog/2008/03/07/remembering-lawrence-king/ brought to you by kaleidoscope - a program of BMC Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:08:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 http://www.bmclgbt.org/blog/2008/03/07/remembering-lawrence-king/#comment-39 Cal Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:09:01 +0000 http://www.bmclgbt.org/blog/2008/03/07/remembering-lawrence-king/#comment-39 Well said Carol. It's time for us all to assume responsibility for the violence that is done out of ignorance. And it's time for the Church to understand that welcome without acceptance is no welcome at all, and only serves to reinforce otherness. It's hypocrisy to bemoan physical violence in the same breath that asserts that homosexual love is sin (to say nothing, as you've said, about trans or bisexual love). Violence is violence - whether by misguided kids in school, or by a misguided Church where violence is committed erringly out of a desire to serve God. To commit that error is understandable, it's human. But what I don't understand is the refusal to respond with openness and integrity when the error is exposed. Well said Carol. It’s time for us all to assume responsibility for the violence that is done out of ignorance. And it’s time for the Church to understand that welcome without acceptance is no welcome at all, and only serves to reinforce otherness. It’s hypocrisy to bemoan physical violence in the same breath that asserts that homosexual love is sin (to say nothing, as you’ve said, about trans or bisexual love). Violence is violence - whether by misguided kids in school, or by a misguided Church where violence is committed erringly out of a desire to serve God. To commit that error is understandable, it’s human. But what I don’t understand is the refusal to respond with openness and integrity when the error is exposed.

]]>