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Louie & Ernest Clay-Crew
Married February 2, 1974


12/21/1974
 
8/17/2006

My friend Randy Williams raised this question for another audience and has graciously given me permission to pass it along here.

Lutibelle/Louie

Here's a question to put before your audience. What do they think I [as a proudly homosexual man in a committed same-sex marriage--as GOD is our witness] intend to do to their parish should we chose to worship there? Is it such a crime to come to them as a stranger, even strange, and expect them to treat me BETTER than they treat one another in Christ? Do I have to wipe their feet with my hair [and I COULD] laden with fine perfume to get their attention and compassion?

When they condemn me for my innate sexuality, should I go tit for tat? Point out their gluttony, their wandering lustful eyes, their insolvency, their neglect of family, their stingy heart toward the poor? Shall we play the game of "I'm a better Christian, my heart is purer, God love me more"? How ludicrous would I have to get before they realized that self-righteousness avails nothing, that each one of us is but a simple sinner saved by grace, and that in a world full of strife and dysfunction, anyone who comes in the name of Christ is welcome by virtue of God's all-encompassing Grace?

By what standard do those who rail at you determine to judge others? For it is a standard that they should well embrace--if Scripture is to be trusted, it will come again to judge them, as well.

Many Blessings,
randy
Takoma Park, MD
RWILLIAM29@aol.com

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