Jesus didn't eat with sinners or tax collectors either. He wouldn't have wanted to be tarnished by their reputations.
Pastors Clash Over Stripper Ministry in New Documentary: The Pussycat Preacher
"Just let those strippers quit their work, get jobs as church secretaries and then... oh, they couldn't get jobs as church secretaries because of their past? Oh, well, I guess they're damned then. Too bad, but we don't want people like that to come in our doors. We're a respectable church... (And we don't want gays, lesbians, single parents, the divorced, the homeless or the poor, either. What do they think we are, a welfare agency?)"
Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
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I wonder if any of them ever meditated upon "there but for the grace of god go I?"
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