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Tuesday Happenings
Back in 1620 Myles Standish and his motley crew of puritans landed at Plymouth Rock. In 2002 Mitt Romney brought some Latter Day Saints into the State House here in Boston. In 2006 a group of students now attending Harding University in Arkansas hope to found a new church in Boston, or, well, it seems Quincy is now top on the list. Boston Church Plant has been developing plans to plant Christian values here in the Hub with a new church. In the often oxymoronic ethos of Massachusetts Bostonist is sure that they will be both well received and shunned.
The first state in the United States to allow same-sex marriage, home to cities with high per-capita homosexual populations like Northampton and Provincetown, Massachusetts still has Blue Laws on the books regulating what can and can’t be done on a Sunday. At least now, after 285 years, Bostonist can buy beer on a Sunday. That ambition might not be acceptable to our Church Plant visitors here on spring break this week. Members of Boston Church Plant plan to found "Boston Metro Church" in June of 2006 to bring the "Truth of God’s Word" to the Hub. The Massachusetts Liberal label that is applied to most of the politicians that make it to national spotlight may be a little confused, Bostonist just thinks the whole state is a little confused. Perhaps that is why we love it.
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I'm sure that a team of Deep-South Fundies are going to be a HUGE HIT in Quincy.
I'm saddened, because judging from their webpage, they seem to be under the impression that people in Boston reject their form of religion simply because they don't know about it, when the case it that they know about it, but it doesn't interest them because it doesn't fit in to the local culture at all.
Aaaaargh! The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, not the Puritans. There are fundemental differences between the two groups. Puritans led by John Winthrop founded Boston. Needless to say, Increase Mather and somee of the other Puritan divines would have these kids running back to Arkansas.
Yeah, you're right. All these fundamental religious separatist get my head all fogged. Looks like you got my drift, however.
Don't just comment here -- put it in their guestbook too!
Hmm, my comment seems to have been eaten. It was along the lines of I'm not sure these kids realize that Boston is already very Christian - the Episcopalian and Catholic churches are very strong. The Unitarian church has its headquarters here.
Fakester Ed Gilespe: Yes, your comment was eaten, please see our comment policy. Generally Bostonist frowns on posts that are personal attacks. Your second post was insightful.
Thanks for understanding.
Attacks? Who said anything about attacks? The leadership of the Republican National Committee is shocked, shocked to be linked to the scurrilous politics of personal attack. It is these kind of personal attacks by Bostonist on the Fakester Ed Gillespie and gay marriages that proves we need to lower taxes and makes me love my wife even less.