That isn't sin.
Sin is rebelliousness, pride and self-interest.
Beall was responding to yet another controversy at the St. Marcus Theatre, the performance space he founded in 1990 in the basement of St. Marcus Church, where he served as minister for 13 years. In the summer of 1999, however, Beall was called before the United Church of Christ Church and Ministry Committee to discuss some of the recent goings-on in the basement. The UCC can in no way be regarded as a fundamentalist organization, but the governing body for the St. Marcus Church, concerned with the relationship between the theater and the congregation, asked who was screening the scripts. Beall certainly wasn't. With Terrence McNally's Corpus Christi slated for Christmas at the theater, Beall first heard a synopsis of the plot during an interview with the RFT .