Dr. Seuss’ The Sneetches – Full Version
The Sneetches was written as a parable about race, but it works for other class issues as well. The story might even suggest how issues of class are complicated under capitalism. …. Can we picture humanity beyond gender roles, beyond racial or economic class, and beyond religion itself?
– Jim Rigby, Theology of Seuss: The Sneetches
“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.” -Frederick Douglas
Oppressed people are not only taken advantage of, they are expected to soothe the conscience of the oppressor as well. So women are expected to be submissive and sweet even as they are passed over for promotions. Gays and lesbians are expected to live invisibly or play out stereotyped roles without asking for marriage rights. Many who will tolerate a president with black skin would never tolerate a black leader who looked at the camera without deference to white privilege and told America the truth about it’s racism.
– Jim Rugby
Ten Things I wish the Church Knew About Homosexuality
1. If Jesus did not mention a subject, it cannot be essential to his teachings.
2. You are not being persecuted when prevented from persecuting others.
3. Truth isn’t like wine that gets better with age. It’s more like manna you must recognize wherever you are and whoever you are with.
4. You cannot call it “special rights” when someone asks for the same rights you have.
5. It is no longer your personal religious view if you’re bothering someone else.
6. Marriage is a civil ceremony, which means it’s a civil right.
7. If how someone stimulates the pubic nerve has become the needle to your moral compass, you are the one who is lost.
8. To condemn homosexuality, you must use parts of the Bible you don’t yourself obey. Anyone who obeyed every part of Leviticus would rightly be put in prison.
9. If we do not do the right thing in our day, our grandchildren will look at us with same embarrassment we look at racist grandparents.
10. When Jesus forbade judging, that included you.
– Jim Rigby
http://www.jimrigby.org/ten-things-i-wish-the-church-knew-about-homosexuality/