Quite a few of the folks who are discovering Desert Oasis Chapel are coming back to church after some pretty bad experiences with religion. Some have just plain gotten kicked out for being gay, given “the right foot of fellowship,” or have been notified that they cannot be or talk about who they are. Very recently a guy told me that he liked me and he liked Ian but he was not going to attend this church. Of course I asked why not and he said somebody had told him we’re fundamentalists and he was never gonna go near a fundamentalist church again. I told him that I sure understood that but we are not fundamentalists. In fact, between distorted doctrine and harsh attitudes, I cannot stomach most fundamentalists and the main spokesmen for that dogma.

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