What The Hell?? Mother Who Posted Pic Of Her Son Cross-Dressed As Daphne From Scooby-Boo Expelled From Church
Church members are worried that she is promoting gayness:
A mother whose image of her son dressed as Daphne from Scooby Doo went viral across the internet has been threatened with expulsion from her church. The 35-year-old sparked furious debate about the ethics of parents posting pictures of their children online after she put the shot of the five-year-old boy in drag on her blog.
She had written about being criticised by other mothers at her son’s school for letting the Scooby Doo fan dress up as Daphne for Halloween, after he had asked for the costume specifically. He later expressed his nervousness at how people would react. She was widely supported after her staunch defence of his right to wear whatever he wanted and be free from judgement, but her decision to post a shot of him caused others to suggest she was putting him at risk.
Now, in an updated post, she says church elders discussed her ‘spiritual care’ and decided she had broken the eighth commandment by bearing false witness.
Two meetings with her pastor followed, after a call in which she said she was called ‘defensive’ and ‘vindictive’ and told she needed to do penance.
Her first meeting disclosed that church members were worried she was ‘promoting gayness’, while at the second the pastor said she should apologise to the women she had ‘slandered’. In addition, she said she was told she should take down the post, and consider removing the entire blog.
If she refused, the mother – who says she is head of a mothers’ group at the unnamed church – was told: ‘My punishment was to be disallowed from receiving Communion, and if I were to continue to not seek forgiveness, I may be removed from the congregation and not be able to transfer to another church in our denomination in good standing (which feels like the harshest punishment a modern-day pastor can dole out.).
While we don’t completely agree with her allowing that poor little boy to dress up like Daphne, we know for a fact (ask Bishop Eddie Long &’em) that the most shady people be the main ones talking all the yang in church.
