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Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Womyn have a doctrine

My Sister's Keeper in the New York Times chronicles a lesbian "intentional religious" community, almost.

tmatt of GetReligion explains:

. . . we meet a community of women in the heart of Bible Belt Alabama that has no trouble maintaining its doctrinal standards, even while bumping into Southern Baptist neighbors. You see, these women are true separatists, practicing their own brand of fundamentalism.

The story is rich in religious imagery, although no religion as such is described. There apparently isn't one. Instead the reader gets a community with a single, unifying principle. Again, as TMatt explains:

Most of all, these womyn are driven by one doctrine, which is that womyn are uniquely free of sin. Men, you see, are at the heart of what is wrong with this violent, fallen, sinful world.

The New York Times story is here.

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