Friday, November 7, 2008

More queer bedfellows....

African-Americans and Mormons? Catholics and Evangelicals?

It's amazing what alliances fear will create.

For many of us, it's difficult to understand how any group that has been subjected to oppression and discrimination could then turn around and do that same thing to another marginalized group. But that's what fear will do.

The question is: of what are these people afraid? Of WHOM?

Is it their god whom they fear? Do they live their lives under the magnifying glass of a scrutinizing deity, moving in the shadows for fear that living in the light will result in their burning? Are they bugs under the watch of a playful god who will soon tire of them and squash them or pull off their legs and watch them squirm?

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