unusualmusic_lj_archive: (Default)
unusualmusic_lj_archive ([personal profile] unusualmusic_lj_archive) wrote2008-04-14 05:15 pm

Word

“I refuse to limit my God, to lock God into my cultural understandings because culture is fickle.
...

“And culture is often wrong. Culture was wrong about slavery. Culture was wrong about women. Culture was wrong about Africans and Indians, and culture was wrong about Christ,” he said. “I have been the pariah among many of my clergy colleagues who somehow see me as defective or not quite saved because I won’t join them in their homophobic gay bashing and misquoting of scripture.”

-Rev Wright


From the Washington Blade

I would like many believers much better if they understood this and refrained from trying so hard to impose their morality on us all.


EDIT: Forgot to credit. Via:[profile] miaryann 

Post a comment in response:

This account has disabled anonymous posting.
If you don't have an account you can create one now.
HTML doesn't work in the subject.
More info about formatting