interuptis

well sort of interrupting.

in the past few days a well known christian foundation that helps children has made waves. here is a part of their mission statement:

for children - where every child grows up healthy and strong, is cared for and protected and
has opportunities to flourish. for change- both on a global scale and in the lives of individuals through powerful one-to-one connections. for life– where we care for each other in a world full of promise and free of poverty.

they announced that they were changing their hiring policy to hire gays. woosh. that caused a storm. people took action. those who accepted the LGBT community committed to sponsoring a child. and those who don't accept the LGBT community cancelled their sponsorship of children or at least 'threatened' to cancel their sponsorship.

two days later the foundation reversed it's new policy. 

here is a quote from Zack Hunt at The American Jesus

While this doesn’t change my love for and continued support of World Vision, I’m extremely disappointed in their decision. But I’m more profoundly disappointed and incredibly disturbed by the response of so many in the evangelical community who so willing and quickly abandoned their covenant with children for the sake of theological purity. To say it has been utterly un-Christlike would be woefully understating things.

Biblical blackmail is not, never has it been, and never will it ever be a Christian discipline and yet we seem to resort to it today at the drop of a hat whenever those among us do or say something we don’t like.

That is not the way of Jesus.

Regardless of what we believe about gay marriage or any other issue, we should be deeply embarrassed by how we so often and so easily use the oppressed, the marginalized, and the least of these to further our theological agenda.

That is not the way of Jesus.

i think you know what my agenda is in telling you my story and the stories of others. i invite you to continue to read my little mini stories in the next few days.. or not...