A choir member at Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church up in Washington decided to quit the choir because “80 percent of the tenors are homosexuals and act more like a female in choir rehearsal than [she does].” She stated this in two emails sent in December and January and people are a bit upset with her.
The outings added to the inner turmoil experienced by a large number of gays who attend services at the 7,000-member Greater Mount Calvary Holy Church, located on Rhode Island Ave., N.E., according to a gay former member who provided copies of the e-mails to the Blade.
“I will be leaving the choir at the top of the year because 80 percent of the tenors are homosexuals and act more like a female in choir rehearsal than I do,” the church choir member said in one of her e-mails to Bishop Alfred Owens Jr., the church pastor.
The e-mail, sent in December, identifies about 45 fellow church members as gay. She sent a second e-mail to Owens on Jan. 2 identifying another 62 church members as gay.
“The following people I am asking you to monitor very closely and my prayer is that you will sit them down from their ministries,” she told Owens in the December e-mail. “Because they are ushering in the presence of sin, lies, a spirit of homosexuality and sexual spirits.”
She sent a copy of her e-mails to a Yahoo list group that goes to more than 300 church members, the gay former church member said.
The problem though is that the church is Baptist. The Baptist sect is conservative and believes the bible is the “Word of God” unless said god contradicts them. I could see some outrage if it was one of the liberal sects, but the Baptists? You might as well be outraged that lions are large carnivorous predators.
In other news, the allegedly “moderate” Baptists are holding a meeting in Georgia on the grounds that the Southern Baptists get too much press and give the collective sect a bad name. Pardon me for saying it, but the only people giving the Baptist sect a bad name would be the Baptists - of all stripes.
Religious people do weird things and when they’re not doing weird things they’re apparently coming up with ways to get around doing things their god wants them to do. Case in point:
A Jewish law apparently exists that states every seven years the farming land held by Jews has to lay fallow for an entire year. [...]
The scandal involving District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal here in Houston has brought to light a new way to be a racist without actually saying anything “racist”. The word is “Canadian” as in “a couple of Canadians on the jury felt sorry for the defendent and convicted him of a lesser charge”. The Canadians in question? [...]
Joe Lieberman says he’ll attend the Republican convention should his buddy McCain win the nomination as he will “probably be more welcome there”.
Gee. I wonder why.
Maybe it has something to do with his endorsement of and campaigning for John McCain and him now being an official member of McCain’s campaign after getting elected [...]
CBS news recently did an investigation into the grandfather of the money making scheme called the “prosperity gospel” Kenneth “Holy Warrior” Copeland an this is what they found:
Four private jets, an airport/strip and a lakeside house over 18 thousand square feet in size? If I didn’t have a conscious….
CBS news recently did an investigation into the grandfather of the money making scheme called the “prosperity gospel” Kenneth “Holy Warrior” Copeland an this is what they found:
Four private jets, an airport/strip and a lakeside house over 18 thousand square feet in size? If I didn’t have a conscious….
The Bishop of Rome has once again opened his mouth about science, this time declaring that science must be accompanied by research in “anthropology, philosophy and theology” to give insight into “man’s own mystery, because no science can say who man is, where he comes from or where he is going”, the Pope said.
Science, of [...]
The Bishop of Rome has once again opened his mouth about science, this time declaring that science must be accompanied by research in “anthropology, philosophy and theology” to give insight into “man’s own mystery, because no science can say who man is, where he comes from or where he is going”, the Pope said.
Science, of [...]
If only atheists would just convert to Christianity or at least sit down and shut up about being atheists then we’d all prance gayly into a bright future of unicorns, rainbows, and butterflies. Won’t that be just grand? — Austin Cline