Giving an account of every word....

I write a fairly open and honest blog. Occasionally, I pen something on a dear friend or a ‘lost’ loved one….I have received a few criticisms when I first started as well as some cautions (to be careful what I say and how I say it). For the most part, I have heeded that advice—to the point that I edited a piece I wrote lest I offend the person it spoke about. The piece was an expression of personal disappointment and there was no ‘intended’ criticism of my brother in Christ. But modify it I did because even though this person and I are estranged and I am 99% sure they have never read my blog, I love them enough never to want to hurt them.

I believe in freedom of speech and I believe that blogs can be a way of expression and healing. However, I am surprised at the commentary and the overt openness in some blogs. It is beyond insensitivity. Is it really necessary to defend/express/explore oneself and at the same time soundly smack others who may have offended you, both innocently or intentionally?

I am just sorry that others do not wish to show restraint in their work. It is a matter of prayer. The web and our ramblings can be hurtful and potentially dangerous. I pray for sensitivity, wisdom and restraint from those in the Faith.

TRANNIE TIME

It's that time of the year in Sin City again: Trannie time!

Time to sit back, relax, pour a brewski, bring the camera and the kiddies and enjoy one of the largest LGBT parades in the world. It's a whole weekend of family fun!! There will be Bondage and Discipline booths (for instructions and viewing pleasure), although I believe they only allow those at least 13 (whew!!) and Trannie make-up tips and helps for sale, and the usual enthusiastic breast-baring Dykes on Bikes and naked-but-for-the-leather-chaps clad men celebrating their 'freedom' and struggle against those bigots who think that homosexual sex is a choice and that changing one's sex is also a choice--both morally devoid and clearly wrong and prohibited by the (snicker) 'God of the Bible'.

Yes, folks really do bring their children. I am sure there are lots of food carts and beer vendors, fancy restaurants, sex shops and sex tip and sexual books (sponsored by the local sex shop, Good Vibrations) and toys and all kinds of clothing sales and feather boas and whips available to provide hours of entertainment for the wee ones.

There is a glut of media coverage (the more naked and nuts and bigger the pink wigs, the more visual and therefore, made-for-local-tv it is! This event, an entire weekend of 'celebrations', includes block parties, marches and dances, concerts and the like, is a big money-maker and booty shaker. Every year the estimate is that Sin City gets about 100,000 to 200,000 visitors who flock to see part (if not all) of the parades and marches, attend the various events, and to see part (if not all) the naked and semi-naked folks). The local papers and TV stations all make space on the Friday (and Thursday) editions to talk about parking, various events and who will be hosting the TV specials and hosting the parade this year...blah blah blah. The "L" Word actress Jennifer Beals is the Grand Marshall. In real life, she is supposed to be straight but since she happily plays a lesbian she is considered 'worthy' of grand marshalling!

Even better, there will be contingents from many local denominations, marchers for gay marriage, gay adoption, gay sailors (always a crowd favorite), AIDS floats, dancing naked men and women...Safe Sex info galore! Lots of instructions and visuals teaching you how to tie up your lover in safe ways, too.

Everybody gets into the act: The local Metropolitan Church will probably have a great sermon about how our sexuality is a gift from god and how there is a fine art and a wonderful connections to spirituality when one is into leather (I KID NOT...THIS WAS A SERMON TOPIC a few years ago...delivered by a lesbian lay pastor) . It seems that if you and your partner agree how best to beat each other up, fist (forgive me for being this blunt) each other, etc., you can connect with god on a better level. It's all about give and take and trust and blah blah blah. I mean we all know that Jesus and John (the apostle He loved) were gay, right? Along with David and Jonathan and Lydia, the seller of purple (fine apparel and therefore a lesbian apparently...though I still don't know how 'gay' themed theologians make that jump.

Yes, it all began last night with the Trannie parade. Our local PBS station devotes the entire month of June to Gay Themes: Stonewall, Trannies, AIDS victims, history of gay life, etc. It's all good...all of it. It's a retelling of the suffering and the pain LGBT go through...How they make great parents, great 'partners' and great employees.

Yes it is Trannie time. Such a cute word. Such a friendly word. Some folks would say that the 'cause' is a war of words (abortion of a fetus vs. abortion of a baby, for example). And it is a war of words as well as a war of kingdoms.

Lots of people will be watching this parade tomorrow. The audience will be huge. What folks don't always reckon upon is the 'One' Who who is watching...and waiting...

Pray for the lost and those in the 'church' who approve of such debauchery.

Come Lord Jesus...Maranatha!

How Stupid Can You Get? I.E.: How Stupid CAN You Get!!!

I have to admit: I enjoy watching the PCUSA (see previous post) and the Episcopal Church in America implode. I like the fact that they are becoming more and more empty of the truth and that the conservatives (who hopefully are waking up) are leaving. I quite enjoy watching the leadership make more and more insane pronouncements.

For example: The new head to the Episcopal church, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori's has made her opinions on feminism and homosexuality clear. Her homily in the opening of their current convention referred to Our Mother Jesus. Her context? Note the following quote from her transcript: “Colossians calls Jesus the firstborn of all creation, the firstborn from the dead. That sweaty, bloody, tear-stained labor of the cross bears new life. Our mother Jesus gives birth to a new creation -- and you and I are His children. If we're going to keep on growing into Christ-images for the world around us, we're going to have to give up fear.” Sounds good? Think for a moment: Divine Womb? Is this Christian thought? It is the DIVINE WORD, NOT WOMB, THAT SPEAKS CREATION INTO BEING….

Also, Dr. Jefferts Schhiori spoke about homosexuality not being a sin. In an interview given to CNN the Bishop noted that since we don’t follow the food and clothing laws of the Old Testament, we do not have to follow the biblical teachings on homosexuality. I can almost imagine her with a hugh flashing dunce cap on her head in heaven (of course if she gets there is my question…). Further she states (in regard to the question, ‘Is homosexuality a sin?”): "I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us," she said.

"Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender."

Homosexuality is a ‘gift’???? She is assuming homosexuality is passed by genes apparently. She presupposes a facile understanding of the OT laws (and what they pointed to when she equates human sexual and moral behavior with the dietary law). Such an unbelievable lack of scholarship. It’s beyond imbecilic. It is again an example of IDOLATRY: Making a god in your own (female/gay/whatever/) image. No wonder these denominations are in the toilet, spiritually. Mainstream churches are shrinking in size. They are not just liberal. These leaders seem to lost…lost…lost…and incredibly foolish. Pity and prayer is needed for the membership. May they wake up and soon. I pray they leave in droves and find orthodox places to worship the Triune God.

I hope the Lord is not disappointed in me for laughing at these folks. Their wickedness and hubris is reaching heaven and I cannot imagine that the Lord is very pleased with them. Obviously, these things are not matters to laugh about—and yet God Himself laughs at His enemies and calls them fools, wicked and stupid people.

I just hope the OPC, other reformers and the SBC, etc., are watching and praying and heeding these events. Lest they, too, stumble into this mad Gyne and Gay theological folly.