I sympathize with Rev. Tim Bruneau.
The leader of a junior youth group, photographed as part of a Pride Society does not have the patina of propriety as say, being featured in a Stephen Lewis Foundation walk or pictured in a Terry Fox Run.
Bruneau is a minister burdened with the PCC’s position on homosexuality. Andrew Faiz courageously calls the position, “dipsy-doodling.” It’s a kind of schizophrenia.
No one should imagine that the United Church of Canada, of which I am a minister, is much better. Nationally, the UCC encourages same-gender weddings. Recently, a gay couple, one of them a UCC member, found that none of the several congregations in their area would permit it. Here, a kind of bipolarity.
Nonetheless, the PCC and the UCC are leading ambiguously, emerging all too slowly from decades of Christian oppression of gays and lesbians.
At New Westminster and elsewhere round the fire in the courtyard, there are pronouncements, protestations, prevarications and explanations.
One person, Karen Inglis, chooses the right path. She supports her lesbian daughter.
