Get Over It, You’re Not Special

by Les May

LAST Evening a lady I’ll call ‘Dot’, who is approaching the age of 70 and my wife’s oldest friend, sent a text to tell her that she, Dot, would no longer be able to take communion at her church.

You see Dot is a Roman Catholic who is divorced and not wishing to spend the rest of her life alone has remarried. Someone snitched to the priest, who passed it up the management hierarchy and was given the answer that Dot could no longer take communion. This may not be a big deal for most NV readers, but for Dot it is devastating.

Taking a dim view of what some people get up to in the privacy of their bedroom is not confined to to the Roman Catholic church. The parsons at the two Anglican churches nearest to where I live differed in the views about re-marrying divorced people. One would, the other would not. No doubt there are individual Christians who also take a dim view of remarriage.

There’s a lesson to be learned here by those who self identify with the LGBT ‘community’ and it’s ever expanding label set, and who are tempted to wrap themselves in the robes of victimhood whenever some prelate or zealot expresses a dim view of their lifestyle. They might like to take note that they are not special at all. It happens to so called ‘straight’ people too. I estimate that the number of divorced people who have ended up feeling like second class humans by the rules about remarriage exceeds by several orders of magnitude the number of LGBT (etc) who have suffered more than hurt feelings at the hands of Christians.

One thing I think we can say with some certainty is that people like Dot are never going to maliciously approach a cake making company run by people who think remarriage is wrong and insist that they make a wedding cake.

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