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OK to be Gay
A Baptist minister wonders this week in a USA Today opinion piece “What if we’re wrong about homosexuality?”
1. Duh
2. OK. Now spread the word.
I hope Oliver “Buzz” Thomas does talk to other religious leaders about the mounting scientific evidence and setting the record straight (so to speak) as he mentions in his article. It takes people willing to speak compassionately in the language of their peers in order to crack hardened views. Given the interesting title of his upcoming book, 10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You (But Can’t Because He Needs the Job), it looks like he is willing to be one of those people.
The minister says:
Religion’s only real commodity, after all, is its moral authority. Lose that, and we lose our credibility. Lose credibility, and we might as well close up shop.
I’m not sure this is true. Maybe this is just his fear because he has been taught and teaching this for so long. There are liberal religious and non-religious traditions that maintain credibility without an attempt to claim moral authority. Ethics and justice don’t look for the same sort of One True [fill in the blank] as do the religions of moral authority.
Even John McCain has said this week that homosexuality is not a defect, contradicting a recent Department of Defense document on “Physical Disability Evaluation” for troops separating from the military.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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