A Moment of Reflection

A chillingly well-written piece on America's (and American Religion's) preoccupation with sexual matters, in this case specifically homosexuality.

A brief excerpt: "If we had been meeting a hundred and sixty years earlier or sixty years earlier, when the issues of the day were, respectively, slavery and segregation, would I be sitting in this room quoting scripture to justify my support for slavery and segregation?

Long silence. “Well, this is different,” someone finally said.

Okay, I responded, how is it different?

Another long silence. “It’s just different.”

After another pause, the moderator suggested that we move on to the next report."

Exactly.