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SOMERVILLE, Mass. — A United Church of Christ congregation in Massachusetts recently hosted what it called a “Drag Gospel Festival” in support of the homosexual and transgender members in its assembly.
The First Church of Somerville (FCS) hosted the event October 16-18 both during its Friday night drag show and Sunday morning worship service.
“God is good all the time! That means God is a diva, and girl, Jesus is fierce!” wrote Serenity Jones, the congregation’s “drag queen in residence” on the FCS website.
“What do drag queens or drag kings have to do with Jesus or the gospel?” he asked. “We at FCS believe ‘God don’t make no junk.’ So whether you are straight, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered or still playing hard to get, Jesus loves you and so do we! Amen baby! So come and get yours at this here church!”
“There is a great drag tradition with music,” congregation member Marlin Collingwood told the publication. “But gospel music has been the root for drag.”
Men dressed as women, complete with wigs and makeup, sang gospel songs for those gathered—whether live or lip synching to the music.
On Sunday, Associated Pastor Jeff Mansfield arrived for the morning service wearing lipstick, blush and eye shadow, and leader Molly Baskette drew a mustache on her face with a marker. According to reports, some members of the choir wore drag as well.
Over 250 people attended the service, including one man who walked to the front of the room upset about the event flyer, which featured a graphic of Jesus wearing makeup and earrings.
“You paint up Jesus Christ like a prostitute,” he declared.
The service included secular music as well, such as that performed by Lady Gaga, and concluded with a fellowship meal.
This month’s drag show was the fifth year that FCS has hosted the event.
As previously reported, the United Church of Christ, which is outside of biblical orthodoxy and was the first American religious group to ordain homosexuals and affirm abortion, made headlines last year when it filed a legal challenge against North Carolina’s same-sex “marriage” ban, asserting that it violates the free exercise of religion among clergy.
“It boils down to a view on the authority of Scripture,” Clint Pressley of Hickory Grove Baptist Church told the Charlotte Observer about the suit. “The denominations listed have abandoned almost 2,000 years of Christian Orthodoxy. It’s not surprising.”
REALITY:
“Heartbreaking, Unbelievable, & Shameful Mockery of Christ & all That He Stands For”
What you mean as opposed to Christianity being a mockery of Dionysus? Dionysus wore a frock, turned water into wine, and died on a cross. His message was to become self reliant, not a slut of mammon. Christianity’s message is be good little slut of mammon and when your slave master slaps you, turn the other cheek… obey your lord and master and be happy about it while you’re at it. A necessary step for the ‘authorities’, otherwise people would be escaping the authority of the ‘authorities’ and thumbing their noses at them.
It would be a lot simpler Pharisees if you just posted
SINNERS!!!
instead of all this dross that only post-jewish organ harvesters read
What is it you don’t get about the word ‘post’?
EG “post 70 CE” does not = “post jewish” anything. DER
Post 70 CE?! Damn! Every year a new book of Genesis!
Pix;
Dionysus is make believe. Not real. False. Never existed. Jehovah DOES exist and created all and everything. Jesus is real, did live as a man for 33 years, and does exist. No comparison. Apples and oranges.
How is this any worse than religions promulgating the false and pagan belief that Jesus is part of a non-existent trinity?
What you mean the very real existent solar trinity?
Solar minimum, solar maximum and balanced solar activities. The three gods in one god of the Semites, Osiris, Ra and El god most high, because he brought fair weather and abundance. The Israelites called themselves after their trinity of gods names, osirIS+RA+EL=ISRAEL. They had nothing in common with monotheistic Judaism.
Jesus is none other than the pagan Dionysus, so you havre nothing to crow about accusing others of doing the same as you are.
Pix;
No, Pix, that is a total lie. Dionysus is make believe. Jesus is real. Jehovah is real. All pagan gods are fiction. Crow about? Not hardly. I speak truth and fact, you speak of fictitious gods and lies. The Israelites NEVER believed in any such trinity. All trinities of gods are pagan. Jehovah, Jesus, and Jehovah’s holy spirit are not a trinity. Your fictitious pagan gods never brought anything, much less fair weather and abundance. They don’t really exist, except in the minds of people like you. I’ve made no accusations, only stated facts, unlike you.
A great many people think groups … *not* started by Christ are Christian groups … this is obviously wrong.
The “united church of Christ” … man-made group started in 1957 … in USA removing them from Christianity
The “baptist” … man-made group started in 1606 … in Amsterdam, removing them from Christianity
The “puritan” … man-made group started in 1662 … in England, removing them from Christianity
The “lutheran” … man-made group started in 1517 … in Germany, removing them from Christianity
The “anglican” … man-made group started in 1534 … in England, removing them from Christianity
The “presbyterian” … man-made group started in 1560 … in Scotland, removing them from Christianity
The “methodist” … man-made group started in 1744 … in England, removing them from Christianity
The “evangelical” … man-made group started in 1880 … in America, removing them from Christianity
Etc, etc, etc, etc
Popular non-Christian groups like the above listed at > > http://www.Gods-Christian-Dogma.com/section_30.html
Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church … in 33 A.D. in Jerusalem.
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C A U T I O N: The Catholic Church has had *zero* … physical properties, priests, and bishops since 8 December 1965 … because of the Sources of Dogma on automatic excommunication for heresy.
Mountains of proof > http://www.Gods-Catholic-Dogma.com/section_12.html
Photographic proof > http://www.Gods-Catholic-Dogma.com/section_13.html
Abjuration of heresy to become Christian > http://www.Gods-Catholic-Dogma.com/section_19.1.html
(Abjuration takes about 45 minutes)
Mike;
Jesus did NOT found the Catholic Church. It was organized in the early fourth century by Emperor Constantine, a PAGAN emperor, and head of all pagan religions, who had the additional title of “pontificus maximus”. It’s the SAME title that popes use to this day. Makes sense since the Catholic Church is the FIRST pagan religion of Christendom. Jesus started no church. He taught the “one true faith”, not a pagan religion of man.