Over the weekend gay, out, and activist Bishop Gene Robinson preached and lectured at Boston’s Trinity Church in Copley Square.
The lecture that Robinson had prepared, titled “The Faith of A Gay Bishop,” served more as a guide than anything else — Robinson tool a last-minute look at the title and gave a mostly-impromptu speech his Christian faith.
On finding gay stories in the Bible: “There are a couple of great stories about gay people in the Bible. Maybe you didn’t know that.”
One of them is the Exodus story, which is the greatest coming out story in the history of the world. It is, don’t laugh. Because we know what it’s like to be in slavery. We know what it’s like to be in bondage. We know what it’s like not to be free. Because we’ve had the experience of someone coming and talking about a promised land, not just of milk and honey, but of freedom, and God’s love and acceptance, and some of us actually believed it and left. We left Egypt to come out.”
On persevering:
“How do I keep this up, day after day? Because we know how it’s going to end, don’t we? Our struggle is going to end with the full inclusion of gay and lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, in the life and ministry and leadership of the church. I have no doubt whatsoever.”
I keep saying this, but I think I’ll say it again. Whether you’re religious or not, I think it’s so important to reclaim the tool — religion — that the Right has used against us for so long. It’s time to take that tool and show them that, if it’s going to be used, then this is how you use it.
Read more of Robinson’s reclamation over at the Boston Globe.
(Boston Globe Staff Photo / Matthew J. Lee)
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