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Dear Power of Pride,

Thanks for your great coverage of gay news.

TROUBLED CONSCIENCE

Before we became progressive Adventists, Roy was interested in spiritual things, but got hung up on a guilt trip. There’s some bald-headed TV preacher who’s pretty entertaining, and seems to know the Bible well. But he just practically criminalizes gay love.

A SPECIAL PARTY

But then we learned about progressive Adventism! We were both using the gym at a local bathhouse, when we heard about a Tupperware party.

Most Tupperware parties are hosted by middle-aged women who sell to their female friends — leaving the gay market basically unserved.

Well, we like to cook too. The presenter came right into our gay village, and threw a nice party.

AMAZING FACTS

And he didn’t just have tupperware on offer.

Oh, no, he threw amazing facts at us. Like: same-sex love is cool; the only damage caused by homosexuality is when you deny it; and, yes, even Jesus approves of gay love (when its in a commited relationship).

GETTING ACQUAINTED

We’d seen each other around the Steamworks before, but never really talked. And now, over fruit punch and Tupperware dishes, we got acquainted.

Roy has Queer Nation tattooed across his cheeks. Maurice has a Queer Nation bumper sticker on his Mazda.

Wow! As we got to know each other better, we found that we had SO much in common.

WHICH LEAD TO WEDDING BELLS

A progressive Adventist minister at a nearby college church conducted our wedding/baptism, and then it was honeymoon time!!!!!!!!!!!!

We travelled to Denmark for our special days, and fellowshipped with the progressive Adventist group in Copenhagen. After the service, we walked just a short distance down the street to the Spunk Bar, and got to know these brothers better over drinks.

Maurice & Roy

p.s. Our dream kitchen has plenty of Tupperware containers!

!!YOUR ANSWERS FROM POWER OF PRIDE – GAY ADVENTIST NEWS!!

Dear Progressive Adventist brothers,

Dr. Alexander Carpenter is without a doubt one of the most creative theologians in Adventism today.

Back in January, 2008, Dr. Carpenter issued a call for “creative thinking and the kind of theologizing that can turn Adventism into a community witness.” (Alexander Carpenter, This Evangelism Corrupts Adventism, http://www.spectrummagazine.org/blog/2008/01/10/sau

Well, what could be more creative than a TUPPERWARE PARTY!!!

“Alexander Carpenter, M.A., instructor, teaches art history” at Pacific Union College.
http://www.puc.edu/
academics/departments/
visual-arts/faculty/visual-arts/acarpenter

A QUALITY ADVENTIST EDUCATION

“Pacific Union College is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, a world-wide Christian community that runs one of the world’s largest Protestant school systems. The college is owned, operated and subsidized by the regional division of the Adventist Church, the Pacific Union Conference.” http://www.puc.edu/about-puc/about-our-adventist-faith

BUT THE ADMINISTRATORS? WASHED UP?

That’s the Pacific Union Conference run by Dr. Ricardo Graham. http://www.adventistdirectory.org/
view_AdmField.asp?AdmFieldID=PAUC

And what does Dr. Carpenter think of church administrators like the president Dr. Graham? “I’m tired of washed up administrators manipulating my generation into doing their work.” (Alexander Carpenter, This Evangelism Corrupts Adventism, 10 January 2008, http://www.spectrummagazine.org/blog/2008/01/10/sau

You see, Dr. Carpenter is an “emerging leader”. (see Emerging Leaders 2007 Conference: “Reweaving the Dream”, Plymouth Center for Progressive Christian Faith, http://www.plymouthcenter.org/emergingleadersproject.html

Some day soon, Dr. Carpenter plans to take over the reigns of power, and then things will be done in a correct, “non washed up” fashion!!

Seems Dr. Ricardo Graham is a little traditional, and has not yet started attending gay marriage ceremonies.

Dr. Carpenter, the emerging leader, is a popular guest at such happenings.

“Last week I attended the wedding of two Christians lesbian friends (one with an M.Div) who have been together for 14 years. Their legal marriage was such a meaningful ceremony for them and their family and friends gathered around. Tears, laugher, memories and prayers shared – having lived in places where folks don’t know out LGBT Christians“. Posted by: Alexander Carpenter 05 August 2008 at 10:02 http://www.spectrummagazine.org/node/848

This emerging leader has a simple message for the church:

“There are too many of us who are not sick, or inverted, or perverted, or even “effeminate,” but who just have a knack for falling in love with people of our own sex. When we have been damaged, it has not been due to our homosexuality but to your and our denial of it. The burden of proof now is not on us, to show that we are not sick, but rather on those who insist that we would be better off going back into the closet.” Posted by: Alexander Carpenter 17 June 2008 at 5:35 http://www.spectrummagazine.org/blog/2008/06/16/
why_adventists_should_consider_supporting_gay_marriage

PIONEER IN EVANGELISM

In the words of this Pacific Union College professor, “we’ll just keep throwing our money and amazing facts at the world and blessedly hope that they will come buy our Tupperware.” (Alexander Carpenter, This Evangelism Corrupts Adventism, http://www.spectrummagazine.org/blog/2008/01/10/sau

And this approach really works.

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