More anti-gay stuff
December 14th, 2007, 9:15 am · Post a Comment · posted by fsherman
You may have heard of Project Angel Tree, which gathers and distributes Christmas gifts for the children of convicts. I think that’s a good idea.
What’s not so good is that the Friends Congregational Church in Texas has been told, after 10 years supporting the program, that Angel Tree will no longer accept gifts the church donates. The reason, according to the church, is that Angel Tree’s sponsors—the Prison Fellowship organization—object to Friends Congregational accepting gays in their congregation, which the Prison Fellowship considers incompatible with scripture.
Even if that were true, is that really a good reason to turn down donations? Much as I oppose the Iraq War, I’m pretty sure the Marine Corps will still take my money for Toys for Tots.
Even if Prison Fellowship believes, like the pastor in my previous post, that God will judge America based on how we deal with homosexuality, is God really going to be upset because a gay person gave a child a toy for Christmas? Will it contaminate Prison Fellowship with gay cooties? Does Prison Fellowship object to donations from everyone who does things incompatible with scripture, or just gays?
And is there any way in which turning down the donations advances the cause of anti-gayness, or is this just some strange, pompous form of purity—”We’re so Biblical, we won’t even help gays give to charity!”
In any case, this seems more in the spirit of the Grinch than anything else.
