This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
In the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus' teachings skewer a number of ideologies, including that of an elite class that cannot be burdened with helping others.
Also, it teaches all people are our "neighbors" and to do good for others who are in need.
Now a message delivered at the Lutheran Church of the Cross, a Canadian organization "populated by senior citizens, lesbians, and a host of other ragtag goatlings," likens drag queens to that Good Samaritan.
In the Bible, the Good Samaritan is the one, out of many, who stops to help another human being in need.
The new message, from University of Victoria student Ruby Cupp, during a "Reconciling Sunday" event at the leftist congregation, aligns that person with today's drag queens, their insistence on access to others' children, and their campaign to push others into their own belief system.
The report comes from Protestia, which identified Cupp as "a non-binary, transgender, bisexual who uses they/them pronouns."
That speaker complained, the report said, that "people are unwilling to let LGBTQ folks try to be the Samaritan in a world full of broken and hurting people."
Cupp's message included, "When one thinks of a church-going Christian, I’m probably the last person they would picture. In Jesus’s parable of the gospel, today, the Samaritan was an unlikely person to help out the wounded man.
"Growing up, I always thought that the term 'Samaritan' just meant a good person who helps out others when they can. But in reality, Samaritans referred to an entire identity of the people who at the time were socially outcasts. They practiced a different religion than that of the majority, and to the religious leaders of the time, they would have been seen as heretics."
Cupp continued, "Yet it was the religious people who passed by the wounded man, and finally a Samaritan who helped out. He was an unlikely person to help. When I started to read the story that I had heard hundreds of times in my childhood, but in this new context, I started to realize how much modern-day social outcasts are prevented from helping only because of their identity. My mind immediately thinks of how many times the drag queens in this country have been attacked for simply wanting to read stories to children."
The messaging continued, "I’ve seen so many celebrations of queer joy in my life, from drag performances to open mic nights to visual art showcases to pride parades, to rallies for trans joy. It’s clear that queer people everywhere want to help out others, regardless of who they are. They want to help out their neighbors, and Jesus tells us in the gospel, that everybody can be our neighbor."
Cupp charged, "What would have happened if the Good Samaritan, as told by Jesus in His parable, was denied the opportunity to help out the wounded man? What would have happened if Samaritans were so socially outcasts, and they wouldn’t even have the means to help in the first place, even if they wanted to?"
Cupp insisted that Christians "need to work towards queer liberation by letting our justice roll down like water and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
