Avert your eyes, children, she may change forms

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I am vaguely aware of what's going on lately in the church of my upbringing.

Can you imagine if, say, a woman was elected as a regional vice-president of a multinational corporation by that division's officers, and every other division in the company totally lost their shit over the mere fact that there was suddenly a woman among their ranks, enough to make global headlines? Maybe fifty years ago this would be unsurprising, but today everyone else would look at them awful funny, eh?

Making it slightly worse for me personally is that my own parents loudly side with the conservatives in all these issues, and want to tell me about how they've started attending services at some rogue don't want no faggots 'round here splinter-church and they feel just like the early Christians meeting in secret enclaves to escape persecution! So exciting!! I've tried to show them how childish their views are but there's not much point to it, so instead I just try to change the subject when it comes up.

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The great thing about this flap is that it's given us headlines like this one: Episcopalian General Convention Adopts Vague Resolution. Talk about "dog bites man."

I try to view the whole thing as a form of social entertainment. My mother and sister are both in knots about the ordination of gays and stuff, to the extent that my sister has considered dumping the Anglican church and becoming a Catholic, which horrifies my mother--an old-style Anglican who was brought up to believe that the only good Catholic was dead Catholic--no end.

I tell 'em both they should listen to Jesus and not Paul, but they aren't about to take doctrinal advice from someone who doesn't do faith.