The Kiwanis speaker was the recently appointed Shawnee Fire Chief who is very nice and an entertaining speaker. He had intended to be a minister and graduated with a degree in religion before changing direction and joining the Fire Service.
My favourite speaker of all though is the retired Fire Chief who plays the guitar, sings gospel songs, and raises llamas, and he is coming next week, so I am looking forward to that.
Afterwards I went to the discussion group and Communion at Emmanuel, then six of us including Fr Bill and his wife, went out to lunch.
It was Sharon's birthday on Tuesday so I invited her to a film of her choice and we went this evening. I bumped into Larry, the hospital chaplain and Vicky his wife, in the foyer, also going to the same film and the four of us had that particular cinema to ourselves.
The film was 'Last Ounce of Courage' and although I would not have chosen it, it was not bad. I have a deep distaste for any kind of extremism whether it is on the Right or the Left, and this was produced by the Religious Right who were protesting the fact that Nativity plays, Merry Christmas, Christmas carols, everything in fact to do with Jesus and Christmas is being banned, just like it is in Britain.
The difference is that in Britain we must not offend Muslims. I am aware that all crosses in NHS hospital chapels have had to be removed; we have an Archbishop who believes Sharia Law should be incorporated into our judicial system, BA flight attendants are banned from wearing crosses (although I understand that case has been taken to the European Court of Human Rights)...........
Our here though it is not as sinister as that. The Religious Right are opposing those who are 'attacking their freedoms'...whatever that means. Although I don't understand their arguments I know it is all about the separation of church and state, but as we have a state church in Britain yet are suffering more oppression as Christians, the relevance of their arguments is totally lost on me.
Anyway, Sharon enjoyed the film in spite of much muffled sobbing, and we afterwards went to Cherry Berry (a frozen yoghourt place like Pink Swirl).
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