text: Yes, white people are responsible for the privilege we carry, part of which is due to oppression of other races. Similarly, heterosexual people are responsible for the privilege they carry, part of which results from placing themselves on pedestals they deny to other loves.
  
  As for my knowledge of Christianity, I am a Christian. I'm simply not an Evangelical, which is a modern, Western, anti-intellectual sect, which tends to idolize the Bible as some form of Cosmic Rule Book, rather than actually practice Christ's commandment to love God and neighbor. Having been at the receiving end of Evangelical political hostility for 30 years - right here in Portland - I'm speaking from experience.
  
  If Imago Dei doesn't want to be identified with its Conservative Baptist brethren, it should disassociate from that denomination, and treat women and LGBTQ people as equals. Until it does ... it can expect to be treated like any other right-wing church. Tattoos cover skin, not hardened hearts.