LESBIAN EPISCOPAL PRIEST ELIZABETH M. EDMAN SAYS LGBTQ PRIDE WILL ‘REVITALIZE CHRISTIANITY’
Redeeming and embracing pride is “a narrow road, and it is challenging to walk,” Edman writes. “But it is no harder than the immense challenges faced by the prophets.” And this is precisely where homosexuals can help Christians, Edman insists, but only if Christians are willing to learn.
by Geoffrey Grider
NowTheEndBegins.com
June 5, 2016
IN A RECENT ESSAY IN SALON MAGAZINE, THE REVEREND ELIZABETH M. EDMAN ARGUES FOR THE POWER OF “QUEER VIRTUE” TO COMBAT “HETERONORMATIVITY” AND REVITALIZE A CHRISTIANITY THAT IS TOO WEDDED TO TRADITIONAL IDEAS OF HUMAN SEXUALITY AND MARRIAGE.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.” Romans 12:1 (KJV)
EDITOR’S NOTE: In this down-is-up end times world in which we live, the LGBTQ are attempting to turn the Church of Jesus Christ into a queer paradise where God somehow now approves of what He wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah for doing. The Bible says that homosexuality and lesbianism are sins to be repented of, not celebrated. Pride is the sin of the Devil, so it’s little wonder that they call it the Pride Movement.
An Episcopal priest and a political strategist, Edman attempts to redeem the concept of “Pride” as central to the LGBT movement and integral to an authentically Christian life.
In her essay—excerpted from the book titled Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity—Edman laments that in Christian scripture and hymnody, pride is “condemned as a glaring and destructive human sin,” when in her mind it is a good and virtuous attitude.
“The complexity of these dynamics makes many of us queers keenly aware that our Pride is born of something deep within that connects us to one another, and also to something bigger than all of us,” Edman writes, which might indeed be God.
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