I have to confess that I haven’t spent much time on Beliefnet lately, although at one time, back when the Web was newer and shinier, I used to get in some discussions on their forums.  At any rate, Beliefnet seems to have undergone a makeover and has a new community setup for discussions and such.  Someone there picked up the item we ran about gay activists invading a church service and wondered why there was so little coverage of it in the media.  Check it out here.

You may notice that someone seemed troubled by my use of the term “queer.”  For the record, I referred to the protestors as “queer activists” because that is how they referred to themselves. Some activists have taken that term, meant as a term of abuse, and used it as an expression of pride and defiance.  Not all gay people would feel comfortable using that term in that way, of course.