To Hold You Over

April 9, 2008

I’m in the middle of working on a couple posts that will be popping up over the next couple days. In the meantime, I thought I’d point you in the direction of a few excellent entries on blogs I stalk faithfully read.

Shush over at !*[emphatic asterisk] has posted a couple entries in recent days I’d encourage you to read. The first is titled simply enough Gay Marriage, and the excerpt below is testament to why I’m starting to think the world of this young woman and have become such a pathetic groupie:

If I have a piece of paper that says that I can sleep at my husband’s side every night, even if he’s in the hospital and breathing his last, everyone else who wants that piece of paper should be able to get it. That doesn’t mean that pastors and priests will now be FORCED to wed gays, any more than they now are forced to wed every snot-nosed heterosexual kid who says he’s ready.

Just how much do you love that?! The other entry is Please, DO Think of the Children and addresses the question of gay parenting.

…Ask yourself if the worst thing a parent does is love another person of the same gender, does that somehow disqualify them from parenthood? What if they love their kids, hold them when they can’t sleep at night, make them homecooked meals, send brownies to the teachers, do their homework with them, hem their pants, and also hold hands with another man? Does the last item make all of the others mean less?

Shush keeps it real by un-complicating the issues and breaking things down to the bottom line. The beauty of that is opposing such positions are a little more difficult to argue convincingly against since guiding principles like justice, grace, and love seldom get wrestled into the corner and scream “Uncle!

Cecelia at Closeted Pastor recently shared something I found to be quite moving in her post on New Initiatives. She shares quite honestly her own reflections on being a pastor, gay, closeted, and the internal tensions and questioning that come with being in that position.

And lastly, Adam at Pomomusings gives a brief bit of info on BGLASS 2008 Week at Princeton Theological Seminary. BGLASS stands for Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Supporters. As an aside, his site is bare bones graphically today but normally it’s a visually sweet site. So sweet that I took his customized theme and tweaked it for SisterFriends-Together.

If you have a little time, use it to look over the insights and reflections shared by these three folks and the diverse range of comments they inspired among their readership. While some comments echo the more negative rhetoric that many of us are all too familiar with, you’ll also see there are others out there offering a different voice in respect to GLBTQ people and justice. If you read something by Shush, Cecelia, or Adam that you really like or even if it just gets you thinking, let them know by adding a comment to their post. Pass on the love!

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