The suggestion that female pastors might be accepting of LGBTQ people has created an absurd controversy in a small Christian sect after a passage from a new book was censored.
It involved a book published last month called On Holy Ground: Stories By and About Women in Ministry Leadership in the Mennonite Brethren Church. The title is self-explanatory. The book compiles essays from female pastors in the Mennonite Brethren Church in the hopes that it’ll inspire other women to seek a similar path in their future. The CBC notes that the book “was commissioned by the Mennonite Brethren Historical Commission, which falls under the leadership of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (CCMBC).” In other words, this isn’t some independent publication. It’s something blessed by the denomination’s higher-ups as a way to highlight the various perspectives of women in church leadership. That’s fairly important for a denomination with about 500,000 adherents worldwide. ...
All of this happens because you cannot have a live-in love relationship with someone of the same sex and be "on holy ground" as the book title suggests. This is because 'that there bibble just does not approve." I have a solution. I really do. Get the hell away from religion and stop pretending that god loves you too. There are no gods. Get that in your head and you will be much more happy.
This instance of censorship illustrates the weakness of the more "conservative" elements of the religious community's position, and their own tacit acknowledgement of that weakness. They know their position cannot stand up to scrutiny or comparison with alternative ideas. In the marketplace of ideas they are losing customers. So instead of modifying their thinking they double down on dumb, and react by stifling dissenting voices. It's pathetic.
The Mennonites again. Wasn't it just recently that they put a man in charge of women's roles in the church?
The church allows little room for dissension from it’s old man driven conventions.
Those old bastards cannot die off fast enough.