A "Murvul" Moment

Contrast this with the reality of gay marriage now being legal in California (my chosen home-you'll see why)...

So there Jeckle and I are, sitting with the Minister of Music at our childhood church (our parents were lifelong members; Jeckle and I stopped going in our teens), discussing our brother's service. After trying to convey some of the complexities of his life to this "nice but incompetent" man (one of our favorite ways to describe many of the people we've had to deal with in the past 5 years around our parents and now our brother), I decided I needed to make sure there was no repeat performance of my high school graduation, which took place in this very church 30 years ago. At that event, the main speaker, the church minister, took it upon himself to make it clear that "homosexuality" was a sin and that "homosexuals" would not be admitted into the so-called kingdom of heaven.

Now, what that all had to do with graduating and our futures, I'm not sure. It certainly upset my mom on my behalf and she considered dropping out of the church over it (go mom!)

(Aside on a similar topic: The one and only time mom ever voted Democrat was during Clinton's first run and she did so because she could not abide the Republican's "family values" campaign.)

Anyway, I told this minister that my brother was gay and explained why I told him.

And he said (I kid you not): "Yes, I have a friend in the police department. He told me there were three deaths on Saturday, which is very unusual. Anyway, he told me that one of the persons who died was a HOMOSEXUAL."