Re: RAT Christians and Comedy

["Sean McGrath" <cpatriarch@hotmail.com>]

As always my politics agree completely with Catherine Porter's.

(Why, Hello There, Catherine)

Sean McGrath


>From: Pwpny@aol.com
>Reply-To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>To: rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com
>Subject: Re: RAT Christians and Comedy
>Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 16:20:37 EST
>
>Yikes! I gotta ring in with Donna; maybe not everything she said (I,
>personally, have only met the more rabid right-wingers, including my own
>father, whom I love), but the jist of it. I come from a long line of
>lefty-liberals on my mother's side, and whether they still go to church or
>not, they learned their politics there. Granted, I'm talking Episcopalians,
>but still, when I see "fuck the christians," bait-and-switch or no, it 
>deeply
>troubles me. Yes, absolute murder and mayhem has been committed in the name
>of the church, but love and generosity and, yes, protests, actions, etc. 
>have
>been as well (see civil rights movement, for one). I'm terribly disturbed 
>by
>any harm certain factions of Christians cause to gays or women or people of
>color or anyone, but, truly, that is not the Christianity I was raised in, 
>or
>practice.
>
>By the way, the play that we're doing right now deals with some of these 
>very
>issues (see recent Shameless Plug post).
>
>Catherine Porter
>Peculiar Works Project
>595 Broadway, 2nd Floor
>New York, NY 10012
>fon: (212) 529-3626, ext.1
>fax: (212) 529-3626
>email: pwpny@aol.com

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