Growing up a Presby, I implicitly understood that “don’t-ask-don’t-tell” vibe. It’s what emanated from our congregation, a bellowing group of tight-tied straight-laceys who just loved and adored our wonderful, flamboyant choir director Lloyd … but-lordy-no, would they ever acknowledge the fact that he had a male partner. They just turned their heads.
Homos and religion; they go together kinda like a rottweiler at a Vienna sausage farm. So, I’m just glad someone is actually talking out loud about it. Here in Austin, progresso-Texas, at the upcoming early-April ’07 Presbyterian Seminary Colloquium: “Whom Shall We Send? Whom Shall We Not? The Church’s Struggle With Homosexuality,” the seminarians will be talking about it… out loud.
Can we get an amen?
This article appears in March 16 • 2007.