Those Hellbound Heterosexuals

[plumtreeblossom]

Last night at intermission I was sitting outside on the church steps, not yet in costume (for long-distance readers, Theatre@First is housed in a very liberal, non-evil church). A young male-female couple walked by me, and the male gave me a reproachful sort of smirk/sneer. Then he stopped and pulled his woman in to him and started making out intensely with her. It was a very deliberate show, clearly meant to shock the "Christian" lady on the church steps.

Guess he didn't see the Church's queer pride flag over the front entrance, or the big sandwich board announcing that a play was happening inside. My cigarette was all gone, so I just put it out and went on inside. No doubt he thought I was fleeing to the sanctuary of My Lord and Savior, to beg that these lascivious sinners be cast posthaste into the sputtering cauldrons of Hell, and that triumph was his for successfully offending the Christ-centered sensibilities of a nicotine-sucking church spinster.

As always, on the spot I failed to come up with anything witty to say in reply. But when I told some Firsties inside what had just happened, it was big_jewfro who came up with exactly what I should have said:

"Can I join in?" ;-)

Comments

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

to beg that these lascivious sinners be cast posthaste into the sputtering cauldrons of Hell

Out of curiosity, is that what non-Christians generally think Christians do? Fundies aside, such behavior is antithetical to our beliefs.

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Oh, and not only should you have offered to show them the right way to do it, a gesture towards demonstrating on the young lady would have been priceless. ;)

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I personally know for a fact that there are many wonderful Christians who believe that blind hated and intolerance have no place in a Christian's life. I've known many. They often gravitate to liberal communities, like the one I live in, so I've had the opportunity to get to know them. It's the Fundies who have ruined the image of Christianity in the eyes of many people both here and abroad. It's possible that the young man who was taunting me has had lots of exposure to the travesty that is the fundie world, and understandably is angered by it, but hasn't yet gotten to know Christians who see things very differently than the fundies.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Well, I wouldn't generalize about what the broad category of all "non-Christians" think, any more than I'd generalize about what all Christians think! Really, I wouldn't even generalize about what all "Fundies" think, either (contrary to popular opinion, fundamentalism is not a monolith). I'm entertained by the terribly limited imagination that kissing couple demonstrated -- bad enough to make assumptions about what offends Christians, without even bothering to notice that the church in question happened to be UCC, about as far away from your stereotypical fundamentalist congregation as a church could possibly be... oh man.

[mdm-sosostris.livejournal.com]

contrary to popular opinion, fundamentalism is not a monolith

Amy, I hereby bestow +5 religion-scholar points upon you. Well said.