Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Here is a grassroots effort by a member of the United Church of Christ to show dissent on an "in the pews" level to decisions made at the denominational level...a petition. This one's focused on marriage rights, but wouldn't it be interesting if some enterprising UCC'r or PC(USA)'r did something similar on divestment? If the system isn't working, go around it, or shame it into working properly.
Oh, loosely related, and found via the UCCTruths site, is this speech by Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of the best selling 'Why Bad Things Happen To Good People', who spoke at Wayzata Community Church (UCC). You might take some time to listen to it. Pretty good.
The real issue is this:
If the synod process came up with a flawed result for gay marriage then why should we trust the synod process on the tear down the wall resolution. and when they say that the synod process isn't well equipped to pass resolutions reported in the "secular" press then how about its passing resolutions relating to israel and how they are reported in the *Arab* press?