Jesus too open-minded for TV networks

[pegkerr]

Thanks to cakmpls for this one.

The UCC (the United Church of Christ) tried to air a spot announcing that, like Jesus, they welcome everyone. Some networks consider that too controversial.

http://www.ucc.org/news/u113004a.htm

Edited to add: king_tirian pondered aloud a bit whether the problem the UCC identified with other churches was actually a real problem. Are people really turned away from churches? Based on this news story, and this followup, among others, I'd say that it is.

Comments

Re: Hmm...

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

Hurm. I identify myself as an asexual person, so you are free to feel as if I am talking out of my ass. :D But I suspect that our carnal urges are a fundimental part of us but how we react to them is a choice.

In fifty years when all of this has been sorted out and gayness is a respected freedom in our land, I think that there will be an established sexual morality for Christian GLB-folk. Sex outside the boundaries of a committed relationship, sex with someone who is committed to someone else, sex between people who are unable or unwilling to give consent -- these are temptations to GLB-Christians as much as they are to heterosexual Christians, and I suspect that they are expected to master those temptations in the same manner.