The instruction sheet circulated by the Bush-Cheney campaign to religious volunteers lists 22 “duties” to be performed by specific dates. By July 31, for example, volunteers are to “send your Church Directory to your State Bush-Cheney ’04 Headquarters or give [it] to a BC04 Field Rep” and “Talk to your Pastor about holding a Citizenship Sunday and Voter Registration Drive.” If anybody from Holy Moly sends our directory to the Repugnicans, there will be Hell. To. Pay. Our incoming vicar won’t be here until the first week in August, anyway, so we’re already behind. However, a Voter’s Registration drive may…
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Herriman Mayor J. Lynn Crane balked at allowing a group opposing a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to pass out literature from a booth at the city’s founders day party last Saturday. But Crane’s decision may put the 5-year-old city on shaky legal ground Utahns – if you see a booth for Don’t Amend Alliance in Layton, Tooele, Park City or Torrey at your local 4th of July celebration, step up and say hello. And by the way, no they’re not recruiting. Sheesh. Disclaimer: My marriage continues to thrive no matter how many gay people manage to commit matrimony.…
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – People can keep sharing their fried chicken and green bean casserole if Illinois lawmakers get their way. The Illinois Senate voted 51-1 Monday in favor of loosening health regulations for traditional potluck dinners. The measure passed the House earlier, so now it goes to the governor. Hey, this one actually benefits Holy Moly, how ’bout that? We’ve had to change plans for potluck fundraisers a couple of times because we were reminded that we could not advertise them in the suburban paper, thus making them “public events” and subject to health department rules. So hey! Politicking isn’t…
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More proof that some people think they have a direct line to God: combine a cell phone mast with a crucifix, stick it on a church steeple, and have unlimited anytime minutes for prayer in your local calling area. It could also be taken as a commentary on how much passion and sacrifice is needed in order to get decent coverage without excessive drops… or possibly on what a person goes through when attempting to get to level II on a service call. Strangely enough, we actually kicked this idea around at Holy Moly, because our steeple already looks like…
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Right, right, right, we’re all thoroughly bored with the following poll: What do you think of gay marriage? All your drag bridesmaid are belong to us. 13 %(2 votes) It doesn’t affect me, but it’s kind of icky. 0 %(0 votes) Congratulations, where are you registered? 73 %(11 votes) It’s against God’s law and threatens my family. 6 %(1 votes) Who is this God person, anyway? 6 % (1 votes) Total votes 15 So there will shortly be a new poll to get bored with. Huzzah. (oh, and congratulations to all newlyweds. Now let’s all defeat the idiots that want…
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Church today was funny (now there’s an opening line). It’s Pentecost and a lot of the readings were about tongues of fire and the Holy Spirit and the voice of a strong wind and so on. Every time one of these themes would come up, there would be a rumble of thunder. There were several perfectly timed violent thunderclaps during our priest’s talk with the kids from church school, putting a very strong emphasis on everything he said. The church school had some sort of project today, so they had popcorn and watched a video about Noah before they came…
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Well, I finally got the simple web pages for “Holy Moly” updated (see The Church of the Holy Innocents) and added the date of the “Holy Rollers” car show. Apparently, we’ve been getting entries already – car shows are big around here, I guess. We’re going to hold it on the incredibly large and expensive-to-maintain lawn, which is ideal for this kind of event, since it’s construction-grade sod from the 60’s. And now I’d better get out of here. Big party piece for the choir, and we’re short-handed (or voiced) this week.
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An old friend who’s an Episcopal priest in Washington state sent me a link to the “Christian Denomination Selector.” My top 5 results were: Episcopal/Anglican Church Evangelical Lutheran Church Methodist/Wesleyan Unitarian Universalism Liberal Quakerism
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Statistics for the current poll: STATISTICS What do you think of gay marriage? All your drag bridesmaid are belong to us. 0 % (0 votes) It doesn’t affect me, but it’s kind of icky. 0 % (0 votes) Congratulations, where are you registered? 85 % (6 votes) It’s against God’s law and threatens my family. 0 % (0 votes) Who is this God person, anyway? 14 % (1 votes) Total votes 7 Thanks for your participation! I’ll leave it up for a while yet.
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There are times when I think people are capable of not being so bad after all — times when it’s impossible to keep the grin from spreading, and you wonder if you’re really worthy of all this spontaneous stranger-loving goodwill, and maybe they should save it for the elderly ladies who must’ve been through so much more. I feel like a kid — a 28-year-old who’s lucky and ahead of the game, even though my straight peers all seem already married and property-owning, but they’re in such a different world, these guys are closer, really, and even the straight cheerleaders…