A Rage for Explaining

Here we are again, the church at the tail end of a fight for human rights, human dignity, and tolerance. The president came out in support of gay marriage.  In response, a pastor in his pulpit declares before a cheering crowd that parents should punch young boys who exhibit feminine traits.  From another pupit, a pastor suggests a final solution to homosexuality by keeping gay men and women in electrically fenced ghettos.  And this week – the coup de gras:  a pastor in front of his entire church called for the United States government to execute all homosexuals per Leviticus 20:13.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart. And try to love the questions themselves.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

I’ll never forget the reactions people gave me when I told them I was going to seminary.