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“You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.”
- Cecil Baxter

I thought since this came up in a recent discussion I had on a forum, I might as well share this from when I was still doing ministry stuff. This is based off a triangle that a Catholic group was doing in Clarion, we just slightly modified it to make it clearer as to what it was for.

The outside writing is what we did and the inside writing indicates what those actions would hopefully lead to. Here’s what we did for each of the action portions of the triangle:

Fellowship: Basically fellowship is hanging out with people other than the primary purpose of the group. This would be a church group getting together to do something other than discussing religion or going to church. For example, one thing we would do in the old Pagan group was get together for “Pagan’s Night Out” and go to Wal-Mart, have fun then go to someone’s place to watch a movie.

Education: This was done by sharing personal experiences, reading dogma or book excerpts or something else that would enhance our understanding of the Pagan paths.

Activism: Similar to Education. Education is more “for Pagans” whereas Activism is “about Pagans.” It can be easy to confuse the two as the Education portion (our weekly Pagan Study) could be considered to be part of our plan for Activism. Activism involved ensuring your religious group was portrayed accurately and had a presence at interfaith events (as in, not ignored). Activism typically involved public outreach so Joe Six-Pack would understand Pagans aren’t all sex hounds that eat babies.

Just something from the archives I wanted to share

Got this on MySpace as a bulletin from Simim:

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong

01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior.

People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal
standing and can sign a marriage contract.

04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.

07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.

09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home.

That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise
children.

10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms.

Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the
service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

~*~ I Love My Gays =) ~*~

We need to bring back the concept of acceptable risk.

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