Comments on: Mennonites protest church exclusion of gays

By: i d kline

i d kline — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:15:04 +0000

I get so tired of hearing calls for ‘Gay Rights’. I don’t want gay rights, I want ‘Equal Rights’. I want the same rights that every one else has. Not one that differs from the person next to me. I want the same right to get married as Father Hill has. (A prist I know) has the right to marry, but his church denies him that right. But he has the right. If he gets married, his church can turn him away, but his marriage will still be legal in the world outside of his church. No one’s marriage is anyless real, within or outside the church. Just two people who stand together in front of another people who has the right to marry two people. The world will continue to turn. The sun will still rise from the east and set in the west. The couple down the street who have been married for 40 years will still be as married as they were the day before Bob married John.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:16:56 +0000

I would have liked to see the picture!

By: Mr. Robin L. Greiner, Jr.

Mr. Robin L. Greiner, Jr. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:59:59 +0000

Will this discussion ever end?
My partner and I (together 42 years) raised his children, a boy and a girl. When our son got married he asked his fathers partner to be his best man.
We now have 5 grandchildren.

By: Bi Avenger

Bi Avenger — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:27:29 +0000

Well hey Steve, that’s pretty offensive. It’s likely that you’re trolling, but just in case you aren’t, or just in case there are others reading this who might agree with you… Speaking as someone who surely is more familiar with Ohio than you are (and who is also very familiar with New England), I can say that there are many parts of Ohio that are incredibly friendly to LGBTQ people. Indeed, there are many Ohio towns and places that are more welcoming of LGBTQ people than parts of New England. Columbus – where the conference took place – is, per capita, one of the queerest cities in the nation. Columbus is also a very, very friendly place for trans people. Most cities in the state have non-discrimination ordinances that protect LGBTQ people. Many of our citizens are active in fighting for LGBTQ rights. So, before you go judging others, take a look in your own backyard and in the mirror. Or are you a Michigan alum? Because I don’t have to use that many words to describe the ways in which Michigan does not respect LGBTQ rights…

I’d also like to say that negative comments against religion show nothing but ignorance. Go read a book. It’s true that religion has been misused. But that’s not always the case. In fact, it’s far from it. Educate yourself about the many positive ways that religion has affected the world, and the current perspective of various religions on LGBTQ issues.

By: desert bat

desert bat — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:36:56 +0000

I have no truck with churches or church-goers, but this is courage and I applaud these bright pink wearing sisters and brothers.

By: AW

AW — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:08:58 +0000

LGBT friendly churches have a very important role. Among other things, they offer a refuge and healing to those who have been hurt by the homophobic churches. In many communities, that is the only place where GLBT people can gather to worship openly.

By: Steve from Vermont "the Marriage Equality state"!

Steve from Vermont "the Marriage Equality state"! — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:37:46 +0000

Ohio is full of dumb religious nut-fucked. pot-smoking silly people and the KKK, neo-Nazis and the Christian fundamendalious Taliban.

By: Mark from Maine (vote YES for Marriage Equality in November!)

Mark from Maine (vote YES for Marriage Equality in November!) — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:33:25 +0000

No wonder why I am an athiest!!!! – “screw religion in all its forms”, it causes heaps of trouble and hatred all over the world!!!!!!

By: Most Rev. Mark I. Miller,OSB,JCD

Most Rev. Mark I. Miller,OSB,JCD — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:11:26 +0000

I have been in the Church as a clergyman since 1958, and all can say is that Our and God Christ told us to LOVE each as His Father Love us, it don’t sound like it to me, to refuse people from Church.
Any way that my view. Archbish Mark

By: John Kusch

John Kusch — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:49:29 +0000

I’m not religious myself, but I have to applaud the efforts of religious folk who want to change their surroundings, rather than retreating to LGBT-friendly churches. Any defiance of church-supported homophobia is a good thing. Fighting it on the front is doubly courageous.