Lent and Lady Parts

Some seasonal advice from one of America’s leading progressive Episcopal theologians. Excerpt:

Dear gay male comrades:

Have you talked with each other lately about how important vaginas are? Or about the women who need to guard those precious organs at nearly every turn from the hands of prying male politicians? If you’re gay and white, have you talked with each other lately about the poison of white supremacy infecting our relationships and sabotaging social progress?

As a white gay man, I am dismayed by the near-deafening silence from my gay brothers concerning the twin poisons of sexism and racism in our society. This is deeply troubling, especially since homophobia is the result, not the cause, of a much deeper confluence of male privilege and white supremacy in our history in our world today. If we fail to link male privilege with white supremacy, we do so at our own grave peril.

Where would we be without progressive Episcopal theologians? I bet those boys’ daddies have been trying for years to get them to talk about how important vaginas are.

UPDATE: An Episcopalian friend writes: “What’s next? ‘The Vagina Vespers’?” Mmmph!