Act-up v. the church

...The at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley...

...It is important mation of the divine/human reality we are reason to fear...

...We are politically "incorrect" on Cardinal Mahoney for one, who argued against showing the a number of issues, as Van Gordon Sauter said...

...I was in Amarillo, where bombs taposition of the feast with the dropping of Christ's glory...

...The jux- and being astonished by the revelation of Hiroshima...

...The feast is one The accounts of the Transfiguration all something about to kill something else that that shows us what Christ came to do, what speak of the same three witnesses, Peter, this feast occurs on the anniversary of the we are called to become, and at the same James, and John...

...The forgetting is frightening...

...he is hour of greatest danger, and flee in fear 27 September 1991:535...

...The apparent dilemma of KCET to show the video or not, In this instance, the Catholic church has been the object of seems to raise questions about freedom of speech...

...We are to be what Christ is...

...Peter, James, and John are are made...

...The by a light unlike any seen before, convers- one more grotesque coincidence among mystery of the Incarnation is that it is not ing with Moses--representative of the many, but to ignore it would be as stupid a single miraculous moment, but a sign of law--and Elijah--representative of the as to make too much of it...

...PBS would Sullivan was drowned out by demonstrators at the 1990 never have show a such a bigoted and untruthful film about the International AIDS conference in San Francisco...

...More was at stake has been picketed again by gay groups for airing the video than issues of free speech, treatment of sensitive material, and and the discussion in the form it did...

...The glory of the Resurrection could see a loved teacher, a baffling but sort...

...across its web and realized as I watched as the Transfiguration is...

...And, irony of ironies, KCET the Church" or KCET's decision to show it...

...It is easier to think of ne early morning when I development of the bomb), but not neces- humanity as limited by our perceptions than was in a Texas town on sarily proof of the end of time as much as to think that what is genuinely human is August 6, the Feast of the it is a proof that horror is always with us...

...sion...

...But others video, appeal to our sense of fairness, we might say they want have been the object of similar treatment...

...That one, as good a sign as any that we are living prophets, and shines with "the uncreated they are able to go on, having forgotten in the last days so many fundamentalists light," the presence of the Holy Spirit, the for awhile what they saw, is a great encour- yearn for with a nearly pornographic pas- vision of God that can be seen by human agement...

...The pastor women's movement, Jews, or blacks, not even if framed in a from the Metropolitan Community Church (a largely gay and discussion of the "larger" issues...

...The difference is easier to bear than the similarity...

...but we have tended to empha- THE TRANSFIGURATION & HIROSHIMA size the difference without looking at the gift, the fact that this divinity has been offered as life to us, for our taking, our sharing...

...The church was always clear about the difference: divinity is his by nature, ours LIGHT IN AUGUST by adoption...

...All speak of their seeing day America dropped the bomb on time it ought to fill us with dread...

...It is horrible (like the reality all human beings are meant to prophets--and then grow sleepy during his the use of the code name Trinity for the share...

...beings to the extent that they are capable It may seem impossible that someone I don't yearn for or trust any signs of this of beating it...

...It obviously authoritative rabbi, surrounded on the day of Hiroshima is probably only is not only Christ's glory, but our own...

...The occurrence of the Transfiguration is seen here before Jesus' Crucifixion...

...HSS Secretary, Louis "fair" speech...

...measured not only by a divine standard, Transfiguration, ! watched That horror is revealed most clearly in the but that humanity is seen fully only when a spider approach a fly light of something so full of human hope it is seen as potentially divine...

...lesbian congregation) who participated in the KCET panel told JOHN A. COLEMAN other participants off screen, that he had been under severe John A. Coleman, S.J., is professor of religion and society pressure, including threats, against appearing on the show...

...Others, lies and derisive treatment...

...that the witnesses of his glory should, even meant to share, in the other a light made At the Transfiguration Jesus is revealed having seen this, deny him--and then go to destroy anything human--is, if you want as the fulfillment of the law and the on after Pentecost to be his witnesses...

...Act-up wants to be treated the responsibilities of public television...

...The horrible coincidence of light the bomb on Hiroshima is a clear, terrible also the disciples who accompany Jesus filling bodies on this day---in one case the irony...

...On balance, I think the cardinal is right...

...We are unlikely ever to know the full story of pressures and Los Angeles AIDS Project has disavowed the representative counter-pressures that led to PB S's original scheduling of"Stop from their group who appeared...

...the conditions that "political correctness" arbitrarily imposes...

...The context of the Transfiguration to Gethsemane--and fall asleep during his uncreated light of Tabor, the ultimate affir- story in the whole of the Gospels is another agony, and later deny him...

...It is hard to avoid the fairly when its issues are being considered and debated, but conclusion that what Kobin called an "agonizing decision" is it has precious little concern for the opposing views of others a consequence of the fragile state of our public discourse and even in the gay community...

...OF SEVERAL MINDS John Garvey the first-born of many...