Never have been, but enough were. Now everybody's all good or all bad--depending on what the current outrage is.
In a very conservative church I was in in the '80s--less so the doctrines than many of the people--a music student played something by Tchaikovsky. Monday the pastor got a serious complaint from an outraged parishioner, how dare he allow music by a *gay* composer, obviously _______ music, be played in God's worship.
All good or all bad silliness. Except these days, the only thing that really counts is "bad". Because being one sided is "fair", and to even defend good things done by bad people (something that's a non sequitur, of course) is to participate in their badness. We're all inquisitors now--you don't know what some minor, obscure person did that's bad, somebody's taken upon themselves to show how virtuous and moral they are by digging and finding every secret or forgotten offense. Congregation for the doctrine of the party, I guess, gotta burn the unfaithful at the pole ... uh, polls.
The pastor had that problem from his local scolds. Ban Tchaikovsky or allow his music--worse yet, it's even now, decades later, still a "suspicion", one that in additional assumes that a person is clearly in one group if he's not obviously in the other (more of the stark binary simplistic thinking). The result was a plan of who'd play what for the year, to be approved in advance. Meaning that if little Sue wanted to take cello lessons and perform this year she'd have to have notified the PTB by December, get her name on the list with what she'd be playing. Can't just work on it until your teacher says it's ready and then get it added to the list. But that way the pastor was the authority behind the list, meaning that individual scolds had to decide--pick on peers or take it to the pastor.
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