Monday, November 17, 2008
So, back early October I sang a couple of masses at St. Mary's College, out in Moraga. I didn't think too much of it, since singers are always doing "church gigs."
Many churches want their choirs to sound better, and the only way to do that is to hire professionals to come in and beef up the sound. This means that many singers are used to going to services for religions that aren't their own.
Usually, I tune out for everything except whatever I need to be singing. I'm pretty lucky in that my usual Sunday gig is at a very liberal Presbyterian church where the message is about diversity, inclusion, social justice....
So anyway, I just got my mail, and found the check from St. Mary's. And I looked down at it, and all of a sudden thought:
"Hm, I'm taking money from an organization that opposes civil rights. I'm taking money from an organization whose clergy can withhold the Eucharist if you vote differently than they think you should...."
I'm really not sure how I feel about taking their money.
Maybe I should have thought of that BEFORE I agreed to do the gigs.....
7 comments:
Take the money...the less money they have, the better! :D
Ha! I hadn't thought of it like that before...
whatever happened to the wonderful social justice program in teh Catholic church? Why as it been supplanted with unilateral stances against GAY and ABORTION issues?
yeah....how 'bout the catholic priests like the Berrigan brothers who set fire to draft board offices during Vietnam and all that?
Here's the deal: In a capitalist culture, all profits are derived from underpaying workers. This means we're all part of the corruption. Not to excuse folks who participate in decision-making that enhances the corruption, but for us wage-earners, we have no choice. So take the money and use it well. I absolve you long-distance.
And, further, I particularly think with the cracker-jack pieces you write about social justice, in particular the Prop (h)8 issue, it's g*d's way of paying you under the table for what you're REALLY doing in this world.
i'm with kelly and maggie---better you should TAKE money FROM them than GIVE money TO them...
and celeste, the other night i was watching "lillies of the field" with an old school chum of mine, when i asked her, "remember when it was COOL to be catholic?"
you know the Catholic church didn't come out against abortion till the 1930's?
Before then, it was allowed so long as it was before the "quickening" (first kick)....
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