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Holy Macaroni! Bible Belt Gay Restaurant Church Thrives in Indiana

Orginally published on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 at 7:54 AM
by Todd Rhoades

Huh? According to the Chicago Tribune, some first-time visitors to Holy Macaroni pass through an entrance hall separating its sanctuary and dining room, glance at a display of local newspaper notices, turn on their heels and leave.

Apparently they weren't prepared to find the building contains not only the Italian restaurant but a gay-friendly church, both of them operated by co-chefs, co-pastors and lovers Randy Duncan and Daniel Wright.

This part of northwest Indiana is just a few miles to the south of the Lake Michigan sand dunes that draw Chicago urbanites to summer homes, but it is Bible Belt country.

Still, on a recent visit some diners said they resented any suggestion their gustatorial taste should be influenced by their hosts' love life. Among them is Brian Buck, who was eating at Holy Macaroni with his girlfriend and her parents. The young woman wore a necklace dangling a cross.

"Arab, gay, or straight, there's no difference between people," said Buck.

Wonder how Mark Driscoll would respond to this one? (See another one of today's posts for a clue!)

Read the whole article in the Chicago Tribune here...

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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 at 10:40 AM

“Wonder how Mark Driscoll would respond to this one? (See another one of today’s posts for a clue!)”

I think he’d have a meltdown again when reading things in the article like this:

“Biblical literalists like to point to Old Testament passages condemning homosexuality, but New Life’s theology holds that Christians can’t pick and choose. Either all the Old Testament prohibitions are still in force—including a ban on eating catfish, New Life literature notes—or they’re not and it’s time to stop demonizing gays.”

And this is why proper hermeneutics is, again, so vitally important…

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CS
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 at 12:37 PM

Read Romans 1
Posted by Peter Hamm

Tuesday, June 03, 2008 at 2:50 PM

I wonder how God likes it when we make him in whatever image we wish he was?

Yes, MD might indeed hurt himself over something like this.

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