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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (33104)	10/15/2001 7:46:53 PM
From: briskit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Poet, how you doing? I caught a post here and it is a topic of interest to me, if you didn't know. I find a high degree of tolerance among thoughtful theists. (I am a theist, in the interest of disclosure). I attend a Presbyterian church, and the church at large is currently debating the ordination of homosexuals. I think it is going to pass at the next national vote, but it will cause some problems. The point is, it will be close. A lot of people are voting for it, and a lot against it. (Perhaps you would argue that it should not be close if they were tolerant.) The Presbyterians are nothing if not thoughtful about theology and everything about their faith and practice. And they are a pretty tolerant group. They gave money to the support of Angela Davis in the '60s. Thoughtful people, even religious, can disagree without being intolerant, in my prejudiced opinion. I may not wish to endorse something, while at the same time not wanting that person to be discriminated against for a job or place to live, or having anything personal against them. I may not feel it is my place to endorse something (as beautiful before God, in religious terms), but also do not feel it necessary to therefore exclude them (e.g. in religious terms, from grace) because I can't endorse it. It is not my place to be final arbitor, perhaps.