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...people in its pews. In March the organization of Reform Jewish rabbis agreed that its members could perform gay-holy-union ceremonies if they chose. The group was then castigated for it by other Jewish branches. Last month the Vatican, which had earlier ordered an American nun and priest to end a ministry to gays and their families because it did not stress the "intrinsically disordered" nature of homosexuality, further prohibited the nun and priest from talking about what they used to do. Even the small Mennonite and General Conference Mennonite churches, for years planning a merger, came within...
...theological hair splitting, but it struck some Baptist observers as symptomatic of the leadership's worst faults. When the Bible is interpreted through Christ, a believer is granted a certain latitude, because in Protestantism each Christian's experience of the Saviour is incontestably his or her own, unmediated by priest or minister. The new language, critics charged, represented not just a confining literalism but a ceding of personal power to the denomination's scriptural experts. They saw in it a yen for uniformity and orthodoxy that seemed anti-Baptist...
...threshold for SINEAD O'CONNOR to make it onto this page is pretty high. When you've enraged Frank Sinatra, defaced a picture of Pope John Paul II on national television and later been "ordained" a Catholic priest, no mere dustup/divorce/nude-photo scandal will cut it. So here it is: O'Connor is coming out of the closet. "I am a lesbian," she declared in a June 8 letter to the British music mag Hot Press. "I love men, but I prefer sex with women and I prefer romantic relationships with women." In an upcoming issue of Curve, the largest-circulation...
...however, deal boldly with love and lust. On Daddy I'm Fine, O'Connor cries out about feeling "sexy underneath the lights" and yearning to have sex with "every man in sight." Her newfound calling clearly hasn't dampened her rock-'n'-roll spirit. O'Connor may be a priest...
...Complete the following joke: a priest and a rabbi meet while they are out walking their dogs. They are old friends. The priest is walking a golden retriever, the rabbi a Chihuahua. They decide to go to a nearby restaurant for lunch...