If you weren't watching your calendar, how would you know it's Pride Month?
Well, I guess you could tell by the images of the LGBTQIA+ community celebrating:
Or you could tell by the attacks on them, verbal and otherwise. These are sad and scary. And particularly deplorable when made by members of the clergy:
And let the record show that I, a victim of a (very heterosexual) pedophile, find the third speaker, Pastor Jonathan Shelley, particularly contemptible.
Homosexuality ≠ Pedophilia. And I'm damned sick and tired of hearing that it does. Let us pull our heads from our asses, shall we?
Got a minute? Here's a pastor, Reverend Ed Trevors, who explains in a true Christian and scholarly way, some of the Scripture quoted and (mis)taught by these aforementioned heretical and hypocritical pastors:
Now mind you, I'm not sure I'm down with calling the heretics "asshats" anymore -- I am aware that when we dehumanize a fellow human being, it makes some comfortable with everything from marginalizing to battery and murder. I believe in furthering progressive values always, and we do ourselves no favors when we cross those kind of lines, like the recent assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh. But otherwise I am down with the Reverend Ed, and what he represents.
Can we please, literally for the love of God, get it together, people?
May the LGBTQIA+ community be safe from hate groups, as well.
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