[Vinylly]

There’s a lot of truth in what he says. I’ve witnessed it myself in Seattle. The Capital Hill Methodist church is gone and all the Christian Scientists churches are gone. All progressive humanist churches are just barely hanging in there with maybe twenty or so attending church on Sunday. Across from us we have a First United Church of Christ with a Lesbian pasture. I had a conversation with her and she told me the trouble with Seattle is that there were too many churches. I was shocked that a pasture would say that so I said ‘the trouble with Seattle is that there were not enough pasture’s preaching the gospel. Needless to say her church has less then twenty attending service on Sunday. She seem to think that if more churches were gone she would have more people attending her church apparently.

[mountn man]

Pasture

[elcid1970]

“Across from us we have a First United Church of Christ with a Lesbian pasture.”

I pictured a fenced meadow with 200 lb lesbians mooing & ranting, kept separate from the main church.

Nope, they’re running it.

[Steve_Seattle]

The Seattle-area Catholic church (Assumption Parish) that I attended during my early years is still there, but it has gone from four or five Sunday masses to two, from three or four priests to one, and from about five nuns (school teachers) to none. I don't know for sure, but I would guess that confessions have declined almost to the vanishing point. (My sister works for the school, sings in the choir, receives communion every week, and told me she hasn't been to confession in about thirty years.)

I also suspect that in any conflict between gays and the church, both the priest and congregation would be solidly on the side of the gays. (I have a solid basis for that observation). My sister is also a huge Obama supporter.