I went to a Christmas pageant today...

My partner's friend brought us two tickets to a Christmas pageant at his church. I am very apprehensive about going to straight churches because of the way most of them feel about me and other gay people. I told my partner that since the tickets came from his friend I would go, but the minute they started speaking in tongues or dancing with snakes I was outta there!! Well, the pageant was a HUGE production, it must have cost them several thousand dollars to put this thing on, but the only thing I could think of was looking down at my feet to see if anything was crawling around down there. I just absolutely despise the religious right. Am I wrong to feel this way?

He's a Fundy. He accepts me & my partner because we must be different -- I'm sure he thinks we are the exception, and that all other gay folk are disease-ridden whores who wish to Wreak the Destruction of All That Is Holy. But he's not a bad sort.

Okay, now don't panic; here's how you remind me of him:

Your discomfort at the pageant seems to me to be analogous to his discomfort the one time he came to hear me sing w/ my GLBT/friendly chorus. My sister told me later that he worried all night that someone was going to come on to him.

It's a discomfort level.

Were you so uncomfortable that you couldn't enjoy the show? How was the production?

BTW, have I welcomed you to DU yet? :hi:

It was so elaborate that whoever put it together should do that as their full time job. I guess I was just a little uncomfortable. I really did look around to see if there were any Falwell or Robertson clones milling about. Thanks for the welcome :-) I promise I'll behave while I'm here. :-)

Don't conflate the 700 Clubbers with mainstream American Christianity. Pat Robertson, et al want you to do so, but most religious people are just regular folks, who have a faith and take it--to greater or lesser extents--seriously.

That's all.

a little easier to take. You can't imagine the things that were going through my head before we got there.