friday's fabulousness

todays fabulousness came to me in an e-mail from gwenyth paltrow. seriously we're bff.

ok, not really but i do subscribe to her blog, goop. it's awesome and since i totes love her, i of course read it religously (almost).

which is actually ironic because the email i received this week is about religion.

you see i recently had my values and opinions about homosexuality and christianity questioned. i actually did a poor job of arguing my side because i was so angry inside but since then i've thought very carefully about what i would say if i were asked again.

then gwen sent this out.

here are some of my fav quotes from the text...

I am bound to honor Jesus as my final court of appeal. And thus, the bottom line must inescapably be that nowhere does Jesus condemn homosexuality, and certainly nowhere does he wish harm upon anyone, even those whom the religious culture is so quick to condemn as sinners. -Cynthia Bourgeault

As to Homosexuality, there is also a shift in thinking amongst many Christians in the world, based not so much on what the Bible teaches, for remember that the bible condones, and does not condemn, Human Slavery. It also says that Women are to be seen and not heard in Church ... and we know that that no longer holds true, even less in the Anglican Communion where we have women Bishops, and in the United States even a Woman Archbishop! So what has changed? What has changed is our understanding of the Human Person, as with the case of Slavery. Most 'modern thinkers,' even if they are Christian, believe that Homosexuality is not a choice, but a condition, some say environmentally given, and others that it is genetically inherited. Whatever the case, being a Homosexual is not about choice, but about accepting a part of who you are, who God has created, and made in the same image as God -Father Vincent C. Schwahn

while i see the argument of both sides, i choose to believe that we are all created from a loving God and thus should be treated as equals. the only one who has the right to judge is Him and i will gladly leave that job to the Father!