Book tales

By Christine Anne Piesyk | April 9, 2007 |

I picked up the Easter Sunday edition of the Leaf Chronicle for a reason: a story about a friend and a friend’s newly published book that was supposed to appear that day. I found articles on two other book/authors, but not what I was looking for. Seems that in the hours before the presses rolled, it suddenly became too controversial for an Easter edition in a southern Christian community. This liberal Yankee activist was disgusted.

But there are two sides to the story. And a beginning. And the beginning is this: Clarksville’s David Shelton wrote a book, a groundbreaking book called Rainbow Kingdom: Christianity and the Homosexual Reconciled. The Leaf Chronicle assigned a reporter to do a story on David and his book. It was slated to run on Holy Saturday, then shifted to Easter Sunday, and then without warning pulled from Sunday’s paper leaving the unpleasant inference that this holiest of days and reconciliation of gays within any traditional church is not something the Christian base in our community wants to read, see, or know about. So much for true Christian love and understanding. «Read the rest of this article»

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