{"id":9220,"date":"2018-11-14T14:46:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T19:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2018-11-14T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T19:46:32","slug":"when-a-drag-queen-goes-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9220","title":{"rendered":"When a drag queen goes to church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago-area pastor publicly rebuked a drag queen and told him he wasn&#8217;t welcome in his church.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UnqK2rw85ww\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have to admit to deeply mixed feelings about this.  It <i>is<\/i> his club, and the club can have any rules it likes about deportment.  If drag queens aren&#8217;t welcome in his church, then that&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n<p>BUT:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>There is w-a-a-a-y more to sexuality than plumbing, and only resolute ignorance makes it possible to choose to believe a Bronze Age anonymity over scientists who have spent years actually studying the issues.<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>On standard Christian theology, the drag queen is troubled and confused.  Surely he deserves sympathy and help, then, rather than public shaming?<\/ul>\n<p>So, I guess what I think is that the pastor had the <i>right<\/i> to act as he did, but he exhibited the character failure of resolute ignorance, and he didn&#8217;t honor the teachings he claims to believe.<\/p>\n<p>I (not very bravely, really) predict that these sorts of confrontations will grow more common.  Sexually non-conforming people are not going to stay in the closet any longer &#8212; nor should they.  And they will find themselves in conflict with a church whose teachings have been overtaken by science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chicago-area pastor publicly rebuked a drag queen and told him he wasn&#8217;t welcome in his church. I have to admit to deeply mixed feelings about this. It is his club, and the club can have any rules it likes &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9220\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9223,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions\/9223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}