[Uucf-bible] Re: Uucf-bible Digest, Vol 2, Issue 16

[Lori Errico-Seaman]

On Friday, July 30, 2004, at 12:39 PM, uucf-bible-request at lists.uua.org 
wrote:

> Can you imagine what it was like to be a Pilgrim on the Mayflower? One
> hundred  and two men, women and children, all crammed together for
> three months, bound for the "New World." Their hope was to create a new
> society based on the Bible. And, according to the Mayflower Compact, to
> spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ far and wide. But, what would the
> Pilgrims think today, if they, once again, came to these shores in the
> summer of 2004, to find out that their home state was the first in the
> nation to legalize homosexual marriage?
>
> 	[Comment inserted:  is this "news" or is this commentary?]

I'd have to go with neither.  It's alarmist propaganda.  I love 
questions like that, though.  Personally, I think the transported 
Pilgrims might be so busy wrapping their minds around the internet and 
air travel and microwaves that gay marriage might not shock them quite 
so much.

But I do have the same question about the evolution of UU theology.  I 
thought for a while that current UU beliefs might be the logical 
progression from the idea that there is more than one valid religious 
path, but many mainline and liberal Christian denominations share that 
belief, so I wonder how UUs got from "there" to "here."

Lori