Minister says he'll practice what he preaches
Talk about a gutsy stance ...
This report made the AP wires today:
ASHEVILLE (AP) — An Asheville pastor says he will no longer perform civil marriages for the state because North Carolina denies homosexual couples the right to legally marry.
The Rev. Joe Hoffman, pastor of First Congregational United Church of Christ, announced his decision in a Sunday morning sermon.
"When I sign that piece of paper for marriage, as an agent of the state, I give (heterosexual couples) about 1,100 rights and privileges that gay and lesbian couples do not get," Hoffman said. "I believe in equal rights for all people. As a minister, I was participating in a system that was unjust."
Yes, Hoffman may in one sense be preaching to his choir.
As the story notes, his demonination, the United Church of Christ, officially supports gay marriage, and is the first major U.S. Christian denomination take such a position.
But this can't be an easy thing to say in North Carolina.
I respect his courage.
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His sermon will preach well in some parts of downtown Asheville but in surrounding Buncombe County it will not be accepted. If he were preaching civil unions he might go far but otherwise his preaching is as you say , to the choir.
Posted on February 21, 2006 2:36 PM
I understand his feelings on this issue, but the form of his protest doesn't make a lot of sense. It's like a situation where a grocer decides to stop selling meat to meat eaters because he/she thinks people unfairly poke fun at vegans.
Posted on February 21, 2006 5:00 PM
I don't think your analogy works. A more appropriate analogy would be that a grocer who is permitted to sell food only to a certain group of people quits selling food altogether because he believes it's wrong for only one class of people to have that privilege.
Posted on February 21, 2006 7:33 PM
I don't think your analogy is appropriate.
Let's try this: The grocer stops selling meat to the meat eaters because the law won't allow Vegans to be Vegans.
Pastor Hoffman's actions end up being discriminatory against hetro couples.
Two "wrongs" don't make a "right".
Posted on February 22, 2006 8:46 AM
Ah, but they easily could go somewhere else. Not so easy for the gay couples.
Posted on February 22, 2006 9:21 AM
"Ah, but they easily could go somewhere else. Not so easy for the gay couples."
Massachusetts is not THAT far away, Allen. It DOES seem like it's a foreign land though, doesn't it?
(I can get away with saying that. I was born there.)
Posted on February 22, 2006 3:34 PM
And your name is Bubba?
Posted on February 22, 2006 4:09 PM
Long story there, Allen! LOL
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