there’s this giant lutheran compound in Eden Prairie that i pass by everyday on my way to work. i call it a compound because it’s HUGE. maria, who lives in EP, said there are thousands of people who go to that church every sunday.
this morning when i drove by, i noticed a gathering of about 50 or so people on the corner in front of the church. there was a guy with a video camera, and there were signs.
i think it might have been some sort of demonstration, right here in EP. for those who don’t know, EP is a chi-chi western suburb of Minneapolis. it’s the land of soccer moms in lexus SUVs and high school kids driving BMWs. i’m not even exaggerating. i couldn’t even begin to imagine what people in EP would be demonstrating about.
and as i got closer i noticed the rainbow flags, and then i saw one sign “civil marriage is a civil right.” RIGHT ON! what struck me, besides that fact that this was EP was that the median age of the demonstrators had to be like 43. i mean these weren’t a bunch of young greasy college kids.
i wonder what happened at grace lutheran church this weekend to prompt this display.
The fish-wrap factory on the East side of the river is reporting about a “summit” of evangelical and Catholic pastors in EP today. Must be the place…
The article states, “constitutional ban on such marriages is focus of summit.”
There’s a line from one pastor, “the only thing that stands in the way of the legalization of same-sec marriage in Minnesota is the church.”
Um, hello? Separation of church and state?
And now I have the perfect exuse to properly (and IN context) use the word “antidisestablishmentarianism” here, but I’ll refrain.
Yes, over 250 pastors are being urged to sermonize to their flocks that Homosexual unions are wrong and to have the unwashed masses push for legislation to ban same-sex unions.
Christian love for ya.