You won't believe who I ran into...

Gene Robinson. That's right, the gay bishop who has caused such consternation at the Ascension Church (and elsewhere) came to St. Paul's last night to present a film he's a part of called "For the Bible Tells Me So."

The film was interesting. It followed four or five stories of children coming out to their parents in religious families. It certainly wasn't impartial, but it was interesting. Much was made of Dick Gephardt and his daughter (see the movie poster below).

Part of the Q&A afterwards talked about coming out as a political act, and how coming out created a snowball effect--forty years ago few people knew someone who was homosexual (in making this statement Robinson allowed for the caveat of "the two strange old women living alone together down the street") but of course the same thing can't be said today.

Still, although I know many, many gay and lesbians, it surprises me that no one in the old crew has turned out to be gay or lesbian. But maybe I'm speaking prematurely. Robinson didn't come out until he was nearly 40...