reflections on pride

This week is Pride Week in Toronto.
“Pride Week celebrates our diverse sexual and gender identities, histories, cultures, creativities, families, friends and lives. It includes a three-day street festival with over eight stages of live entertainment, an extensive street fair (including community booths, vendors, food stalls), a special Family Pride program, a politically charged Dyke March and the infamous Pride Parade.”
This is not a topic that I have addressed publicly before.
I have talked about it in church once, but its not something I have brought up outside of the church, let alone on my blog.
Its a hot button topic, one that is guaranteed to raise a lot of questions, challenges or even attacks.
And I hesitate to speak about something that I only know about from a distance.
Yes, I do believe that the bible has something important to contribute to this subject (and to all matters sexual).
I happened upon this article on another blog, and it resonated with me.
Sharing The Gospel In The Gay Village
I like how he refuses to make it a “point the finger” issue, but instead shows how we ALL have concerns in our lives that need to be addressed, that we all stand under the love and truth and justice of God, that we all need mercy and help.
Apparently my pride is as much an issue as anyone elses!
As one person comments, his approach works well with heterosexuals and homosexuals – with all sinners!
“I do all this because I love the LGBT community. They are a community comprised of individual eternal souls. Sadly, they are culture that has almost no contact with biblical Christianity in any form. How many drag queens can count a born again Christian amongst their friends? Very few, to our shame.”