“Novelist Anne Rice says gay rights, in particular gay marriage, challenges the Christian faith.
Last summer Rice created a firestorm of controversy when she quit the Roman Catholic Church. She said at the time that she was driven out by the church’s anti-gay rhetoric.
It wasn’t the first time she had shunned religion. At the age of 18, Rice, who had been raised Catholic, became an atheist.
But in 1998, she returned to the church after experiencing a religious awakening and for the next decade she devoted herself to write exclusively Christian-themed novels, such as Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.
“Today I quit being a Christian,” Rice announced on her Facebook page. “I’m out.”
In a videotaped conversation with her son Christopher Rice, an openly gay novelist, posted on the website of The Advocate, Rice said Christians were challenged by the notion that gay and lesbian people could lead healthy, productive lives.
“I think the main reason Christians and Catholics are going through this crisis with gay culture is they cannot face the reality that they are seeing before their eyes. The reality is that good, wholesome, productive gay people exist in all walks of life in our country and in other countries,” Rice explained. “They are at war with information.”
“They cannot bear the thought that two good gay people could have two adoptive children and get up before an altar or a judge and exchange vows and live a good family life.”
“These Christians now have to face the fact that this information is just flooding in. Gay people are people. Gay people are good people. Gay people are wholesome people.”
“It calls into question everything they believe about sin and salvation. That the narrow way is to Jesus Christ and that anybody who doesn’t take it and who is a sinner is going to hell.”
“They have to face the fact that all these good people are not living as degenerate sinners… They want gays to be sinners. They want you to be a sinner and they want you to behave like a sinner and they want you to fail like one. And it’s driving them crazy that you’re not doing that.” “
Go Anne Rice!
I’m so glad because she’s an amazing writer.
Love is something many people believe in, few take time to know what it is, and none will ever find just one kind.
There are soooo many types and degrees of love.
I can tell multiple people I love them throughout a day. The silly friend who annoys me half the time. The guy friend who makes my heart beat faster than it should. The teacher who influenced the better me. The parent who always cared for the girlfriend more than the daughter. The absentee mother. The boyfriend I see everyday. The person I rarely talk to, but think they are worth loving.
I hate people. Yet, I express how much i love them everyday. Most probably assume I am just kidding around. Maybe I am?
There are so many degrees of love, how would those individual people ever know where they stand with me. Not all of them would I give my life for. Very few, actually. But yet, I give the impression that they mean some great deal to me.
Now, the ultimate question…
How do I know where I stand with them?
