ELCA Synod Bishop 'hopes to attend" Gay Pride Parade

5/17/2018

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This was printed in the ELCA's Metro D.C. Synod's EVENTS DIGEST
May 17, 2018

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5/19/2018 11:40:11 am

By Their Parades Ye Shall Know Them -- http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=28-06-026-f

. . . "No virtues are celebrated. Not the cardinal virtues of temperance, wisdom, justice, and courage; much less the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity. Do they march to honor their forefathers who carved a country from a land so far-flung, where only brave and determined labor could wrest a living from summers so short and winters so long? No, never. Their forefathers at best embarrass them. At worst, they are objects of scorn.

"Why are they marching? What god do they worship?

"Look first to the high priests. They are easy to spot. They are meant to be easy to spot. They are the "brave," the most aggressive in conquering new territories. To the crowds they are both unsettling and exciting—just the right confection of novelty and danger: mysterium tremendum et fascinans.

"They are grown men, stark naked or nearly so, flaunting their wares to the cheering masses. Some wear leather and ply whips. Some get together to simulate unnatural sexual acts. Some carry obscene banners. They are couples, threesomes, foursomes. Some festoon their genitals with ribbons. Some of them are men dressed up as ghoulish women the world has never seen. Some are women dressed up as ghoulish boys the world has never seen. There's a lot of body piercing and tattooing—ears, lips, noses, chins, cheeks, breasts, nipples, navels, buttocks, testicles." . . .

"You cannot startle or scandalize these worshipers. Every foray into the bizarre, the septic, the self-destructive, the perverse, is considered saintly, sacramental, salvific. Saints are odd birds, aren't they? They go where we would not go. Molokai, Calcutta; a porn shop, a market for teenage boys in Thailand, a swingers' camp—what's the difference?

"You can tell the religion of a people also by what they will not compromise on, what they dare not subject to sacrilege. Everything must be subordinated to the established religion, to the tutelary god of the people. Which comes first, the Constitution or the Penis god? Parental oversight of how their children are taught in the schools? The liberty of Christian churches to serve the common good? The safety of teenage boys in the Scouts? Plain biological sanity? The truth about the derangement of our sexual appetites and all the harm we have caused to families and communities? Common decency? No, always the Penis god, first and last, twitching in approval. Sometimes they call him Love."

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