Suffer the Little Children
Somehow, I don’t think this is what Jesus had in mind.
Frank Bruni of the New York Times shares with us yet another anti-gay video from a church service. This time it features a young boy in Indiana who can’t be more than three singing “Ain’t No Homo Gonna Make it to Heaven” to a wildly cheering crowd of adults and children.
As Bruni notes, it is important to see these videos because especially those of us who live in certain parts of the country can get lulled into complacency that this vile hatred and prejudice is not still out there.
Tellingly, when I searched for “suffer the little children” on Google to confirm that was the wording of the passage in the Bible, what came up after the KJV was a link to a 1968 documentary about institutionalized child abuse at the Pennhurst State Hospital in Pennsylvania.
And of course the James I of England, VI of Scotland, of the KJV, was a famous big old queer. Meanwhile, according to Gallup, 46% of the country (aka the South) believes Adam rode dinosaurs.