We Love You...Just Not Your Parents

Last week, I had been chewing on Isaiah 58, which contrasts the outward go-through-the-motions religiousness versus the actual living out of our faith. One verse in particular (v.6) says, "Is this not the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?"

I've always known that there was a large sense of activism within the gay community but I never really acknowledged it before since they were on the "other" or "wrong" side. Last night, at one of the discussion groups at the GLBT Center, we were talking about how it feels to not have many of the same legal privileges that married straight couples have. For the first time, I realized just how much of a sense of justice that this community has. That sense of "This should not be!" is something I see in both the Christian and the Gay community. At least, you'd figure....

This morning, I found out about this article in the Washington Post that talked about a 14 year old girl who was expelled from her Christian high school here in Southern California because her parents are lesbians (in a committed relationship for the past 22 years). This is a school that is supposedly providing a Christian education to young teenagers. Nevermind the fact that these parents wanted a "Christian education" for their daughter. Nevermind the fact that this article says nothing about whether or not this student was gay or not. What does this kind of school policy communicate about Christ (or the Church) to these students?

"Love the sinner, hate the sin" . . . riiiiight!