What the heck is this?????
December 5, 2008 2 Comments
I saw this in a Freewill Baptist Church I was servicing today. Can someone tell me what it means?
parents and partners
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Heheheh. I don’t think it’s quite what you think. My church has “Parents and couples”. It’s used for groups for married couples, or just together. Gay people who have kids still fall under “parents” therefore “parents and partners” wouldn’t really make sense then would it? If it was quite what I think you thought it would be “parents and guardians”. I was told this after I made an inquiry after I made a similar response to the sign!
Although I have seen a church have a “Couples and partners” sign…
Then again they may be trying to be sneaky. They are saying parents, as in married parents, or partners, being two people who take care of the kids. It could be homosexual partners, but it could mean uncle and aunt, or such. I’d need to know more about the church. I’m fine with churches that don’t accept homosexual couples, and I’m fine with the ones that do. It’s the ones who try to play middle that I find weird. You can’t condemn something and then try to make room for it. I mean, that’s the whole reason a church doesn’t usually have a smoking area. They won’t come out and judge you for smoking, but they’re not going to enable it either.
Maybe the sign is another victim to political correctness :p
well… the thing is that “partners” is used by the GLBT as a sign of their coupling. So if the church knows that the phrase “partners” is used in that sense, then why would they put that on the sign. Do they not understand this?
The only way that “partners” could be used in the parental sense has to be if the two are married, cause how could you be considered a “partner” as equaled as a parent if the two are living separate. I can’t see how two people could consider themselves partners and be living in separate residences. It doesn’t really make sense. Actually the whole partner thing doesn’t make sense. You right. It should say guardian not partner.
I know, my weird take.