vanboobsenstein:
golden-notebook:
plexflexico:
golden-notebook:
plexflexico:
golden-notebook:
think-progress:
A Church posts a billboard apology to North Carolinians for “judgmental, deceptive, manipulative actions” done against the LGBT community with the passage of Amendment One.
You know what, I know I’m supposed to like this, but I don’t.
It’s just passive-aggressive.
Don’t post billboards letting secular people know You’re Not Like Those Christians.
Rally your people.
Actually get mainstream Christianity to not be a homophobic mess.
I don’t care about your stupid billboard.
So you’re not anti-gay, and you’re Christian. Do you want a cookie?
…or maybe they want to let LGBTQ folks know there’s a church where they are welcome, where they can worship freely and where they won’t be hated and despised just for being themselves.
I think, if you’re handing out cookies, you might need to have one yourself. Low blood sugar can make you cranky.
I’m “cranky” because I happen to think this is passive-aggressive and high-horsey? OK.
They don’t need a billboard to let LGBT folks know they’re inclusive.
Did they buy this billboard to further LGBT equality - or feel good about their church?
I don’t know. Have you read the article or the other articles from when they posted billboards during that whole Prop 8 fiasco?
Do you know anything at all about this Church? Even I, as someone who is a staunch atheist and huge critic of religion, took the time to learn about this group and don’t see the behaviours you’re ascribing to them. Maybe you ought to take 10 minutes and do a little reading before you just go off half-cocked?
I’m not sure why you take it so personally. It really is a matter of opinion - this billboard, to me, strikes me as kind of passive-aggressive and hopey-changey rather than actual changey. There’s definitely room for disagreement, though. I see why a lot of people like this billboard. It rankles me for reasons I already described. Why do you assume my critique is “half-cocked”? Because I’m not echo-chambering you?
I agree with all of the above!
If I weren’t so busy laughing, I’d be very curious how to how golden-notebook proposes that one church singularly gets “mainstream christianity to be less homophobic.” I’d also like to know how you can tell by this billboard that MissionGathering Christian Church doesn’t attempt to rally their troops in support of LGBTQ rights? It took me 5 minutes of research to find out they attended multiple anti-Prop 8 rallies and organized a candlelight vigil in protest of its passing. Surely protesting is the sort of political action we tumblarinas approve of, isn’t it? Maybe if they had just tried harder they could have actually changed the outcome of the election, but instead they let us all down with their hopey-changing wishy-washy nonsense.
I mean, there is absolutely no actual good that could come from a Christian organization making a very bold and public show of solidarity with the LGBTQ community, is there?
Especially not in a city where a local pastor says the “solution” to queer people isto lock them inside electrified fences and wait until they died out. I can’t possibly imagine why queer people in this region might be heartened, might be relieved, might even feel a little safer, when they see a conversation about religion and homosexuality that doesn’t threaten violence or eternal damnation. I don’t live that far from Charlotte and I know the state highways around the area very well. Most billboards that mention God around here? They take a more hostile tone. But feeling a little bit safer in your own community, that’s not real enough change, is it?
How dare these people passive-aggresively challenge the dominant discourse on the relationship between Christianity and homosexuality. Why can’t they just make all the other christians less homophobic already!
