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 Can the church and the GLBTIWXYZ community ever find common ground? Probably not. But I don’t see why not. After all, them and us... well, we’re essentially the same thing.
I came to this conclusion after having lived on both sides of the chasm. In the early 90s, I was a typical party-going-club-hopping early 20s gay guy. At some point in the late nineties, I decided that I would worship Jesus instead of whoever I was snogging that weekend at whatever bar I was fabulously shirtless at.
These days I’m not so fabulous when shirtless, but I am well and truly back on the pinker side of the fence and very happy to have survived the whole ex-gay movement that Hillsong Church used to be involved with.
 But when it comes down to giving a fair comparison between Camp Cross and Camp Rainbow, there’s not a hell of a lot of difference.
They have their loincloth-clad man nailed to a cross. We have our leather-clad man getting nailed in a sling.
They have their bread and wine... we have our Sourdough Light Rye and Grange. They have their Saints, we have our Divas. They have their Sunday services, we have our Sunday sessions. They have their Christmas and Easter, we have our Mardi Gras and Queens Balls.
Whilst we are represented in just about every corner of humanity, so too are they. We are Asians, Indians, Africans, Caucasians, Russians and Tasmanians. So are they.
Sure, they appear to be a strange mish-mash of sects that they will refer to interchangeably as Catholic, Mormon, Anglican, Presbyterian, Pentecostal and Brethren. But that’s not much different to our mismatched hodge-podge of Twinks, Bears, Activists, Jocks, Chubs and Trannies.
They don’t like us forcing our sexuality down their throats. We like them to keep their Jesuses well away from our penises and their rosaries far from our ovaries.
We are essentially the same kinds of people. Just with a different view of the world we live in.
Although my theory definitely falls down when it comes to our very different motivations for getting down on our knees.
More common ground? Here's HIllsong with 'Take It All'
(not a bad song, really)
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