Last week, from the City Pages, the shocking tale of a church trying to expand despite the fact it features homilies with remonstrations against divorce!
This week, from the Star Tribune, the scandalous story of Catholic Churches not allowing their facilities to be used to promote the gay lifestyle!
What's next with these extremists? Banning abortions from being performed in Church basements? Preventing condoms from being distributed to the kids at Sunday School? Then what, death camps? I'm glad our local journalists are keeping a very close eye on these people.
Incidentally, I have a hot tip for our diligent newshounds. According to anonymous sources, there's a Catholic Church in Eagan that would object to the Holy Water font being used as a Muslim foot bath. Discrimination! Hate mongers! I look forward to the special section devoted to this disturbing story on Sunday.
UPDATE: A laughing Paul from Plymouth writes in with this observation:
I clicked on your link to the Strib article and laughed out loud at this gem from "activist" Michael Bayly:
"This understanding of church as an exclusive country club with a set of rules that everyone's got to follow -- I don't think that's reflective of the type of community that Jesus was all about," he said.
Talk about laugh-out-loud funny. This guy crams a lot of idiocy into few words. Most obvious is that the church shouldn't follow a "set of rules". Anyone ever hear of the 10 commandments? I believe a few fringe religions actually respect them.
I'm also glad to see that "country club" elitism now can be extrapolated to include any group that sets rules for conduct. That makes it a much more useful term to bludgeon with than when it just meant rich people.
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