Blue Truck, Red State: Sunday Drive: Stand by Me

Sunday, May 20, 2018

Sunday Drive: Stand by Me

Yesterday's royal wedding address was given by the Most Reverend Michael Curry, since 2015 the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States. It was most amusing to note the suppressed smiles on many British faces as the PB launched into his usual rollicking, gospel-style delivery, something I'm sure is rarely heard in the Church of England - and is unusual in the Episcopal Church, too, for that matter.

The address was followed by a stirring rendition of the Ben E. King classic, performed by the Kingdom Choir from southeast England:

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Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu