Cap'n Bill here: OK, so the times they are a changin' but, but, but someone please explain!
"Teammates Kate Lewis and Pat Hendrickson, ministers from Thousand Oaks who are married to each other, are Episcopal clergy who will compete on `The Amazing Race' tonight. There weren't any lesbian ministers when the Rev. Kate Lewis and the Rev. Pat Hendrickson were young. There weren't even any women."
This is for real? Lesbians who weren't even women?!?!?
"Times have changed - slowly. But role models are still hard to find, even in the liberal-leaning Episcopal Church, they say. Lewis and Hendrickson, who have been in a relationship since meeting at a religious retreat in 1997, hope to change that by appearing on this season's popular reality show "The Amazing Race," which begins tonight on CBS.
"We're happy to offer ourselves up to show people that Christians come in many different stripes," said Lewis, a minister at St. Cross Episcopal Church in Hermosa Beach. "Some of us are progressive and inclusive."
The potential for a million-dollar cash prize, along with a globe-spanning adventure, didn't hurt, either.
"We are very serious about our relationship with God, and we are very serious about winning this race," Hendrickson said. "We're not afraid to have a good time, either. There's nothing wrong with having a little fun."
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_7365130
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"There weren't any lesbian ministers when the Rev. Kate Lewis and the Rev. Pat Hendrickson were young. There weren't even any women."
Shrimp is no English perfesser, but it looks like the reporter wrote that there were no women at all when Rev. Kate and Rev. Pat were young.
I know truth is stranger than fiction, but....
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