"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose . . ."

I've been reading Wesleyblog lately. Shane, who owns Wesleyblog, has raised an interesting idea--he thinks Reconciling Ministries Nework and Soulforce are doing a lousy job of representing the interests of lesbian and gay persons, and he'd like to see someone else represent the interests of lesbian and gay United Methodists. This reminded me of that old saying, "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose." However friendly Shane may be, I'm not comfortable having him picking the leadership of the lesbian and gay community of which my family is a part.

Now Shane also tells us he'd really rather not publish anything about about gay people on his blog right now. The subject has been given too much airtime already in Shane's view. But now we see Soulforce and Reconciling Ministries Network (RMN) goad Shane into giving lesbian and gay United Methodists more airtime on his blog--seems to me Soulforce and RMN are doing a great job! If Soulforce and RMN did not already exist, we'd have to invent them.