Abusive relationships with our churches

[bigmacbear]

In a comment to this post on Pam's House Blend, I discovered a new way to think about gay adherents to a religion that believes they are denied the salvation preached by that same religion [emphasis mine]:

A lot of what is mentioned in this article is commendable, though I think a case can be made that the greater service to gay LDS members would be to treat them as battered wives in abusive relationships they can't leave--and help them to get out.

For "LDS members" one can easily substitute "Catholics", or "Muslims", or members of any number of other religions.

Comments

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

Interesting point but I'd also put in there the denomination of that religion for some denominations of the Christian Church are not exclusive of gays and such but sadly, too many of them are - and when you go outside of the Christian faith, other faiths/religions cannibalize those they don't believe in.