Whine Whine Whine

Over at the Stand Firm site Greg Griffith has posted a response to the Rainbow Presence entitled "Tears of the Clowns."

What I found particularly interesting was this paragraph:

Seriously, folks: Stop it. You're not being asked to pay any price the rest of us aren't being asked to pay. All that's being asked of you is what's being asked of us: That you read your Bible, acknowledge your sins, and meet us at the foot of the cross where we repent and ask for forgiveness. Your constant whining about how much you're suffering, and your insistence on placing yourselves alongside history's most persecuted peoples, is a silly, fey joke that has ceased to be funny.

Greg then goes on to list several instances of Christians who have been imprisoned, beaten or died for being Christian and proclaiming the Gospel. I have yet to see anything on the their site condemning the Nigerian legislation that will outlaw even the right to meet and gather for homosexuals and imposing prison sentences on those who do. To say nothing of Matthew Shepherd, Richard Rile, those sent to the concentration camps by the Nazis, and a host of other men and women beaten, maimed, and murdered because of their sexual orientation. Are those people nothing but a "silly, fey joke?"

Earlier in his post, Greg writes:

Almost by definition, no one attending one of America's elite Episcopal churches is paying any price at all for anything...

I wonder if he would aim that kind of criticism at the good folks--and I have to believe that they are good folks doing what they believe is right, however much I disagree with them--in the Virginia parishes who voted to leave the Episcopal Church because believe they are a persecuted minority?

And as for constant whining, all he needs to do is look at many of the posts and comments on Stand Firm to see some of the best examples of whining.

Peace,
Jeffri