This below was in my Apple News yesterday morning, and I shared it on my Facebook timeline. A Pennsylvania woman, whom I had met in Key West when she was visiting a homeless friend there, responded, and that led to further conversation.
Excerpt:
A year from now, America’s new catchphrase will be “You are not welcome.” It will be heard at colleges, storefronts, churches, restaurants, loan offices, bakeries, and Chick-fil-As, with a 21st-century spin of “access denied” on apps and websites. White, straight, wealthy Christians informing the poor, people of color, and queer, “You are not welcome.”
U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell’s dream of a United States where colleges only admit and are only affordable to wealthy whites, businesses only serve straight Christians, and abortions are reserved for rich white women is being realized.
JacquelineI’m so sad that we got so far and ended up right in the shitter.
Sloan Bashinsky
Jacqueline The shitter is the result of the Democrats running Hillary in 2016.
Jacqueline
Sloan Bashinsky totally agree. How the f did we get here? I always had faith in our government to a degree. Young and stupid in my end.
Sloan Bashinsky
Jacqueline How about this for justice- when the homophobe Justices and their homophobe brother and sister Americans leave this life, they are Greeted by St. Paul, who gives them “the look”, shakes his head, says his thorn in the flesh was he was queer, and they all have to go back to Earth pronto as new babies, who will be queer and black. And if they object, they get mothers who don’t want them but can’t get abortions, and they still will be queer and black.
Jacqueline
Sloan Bashinsky I think that would be the ultimate glorious karma that I so want! Wishing I could pray so hard that it would happen.
Sloan Bashinsky
Jacqueline God’s will, not ours, be done, but maybe God has a suggestion box? Imagine the homophobes all being visited in dreams by St Paul, who tells them he was queer and what they are looking at for their next incarnation on Earth, if they don’t tell everyone they know what they dreamed and if they don’t become flaming advocates for queer people, and if they object, they also have to vote Democrat for the rest of their lives.
Jacqueline 😀
Sloan Bashinsky, this morning
Jacqueline Once upon a time, I persuaded a group of gay men in Birmingham to attended an eclectic Sunday school class in an old line Southern Baptist church in Birmingham, which at one time was the church of my parents and their parents. My grandfathers were deacons in that church. How I convinced the men to attend the Sunday school class was I convinced them St. Paul was queer. It wasn't hard to do. There is nothing in his letters about him ever marrying and having children. He was a Pharisee, meaning, he had a solemn duty to God to marry and propagate God's chosen people, the Jews. He told his flock he wished they were like him, celibate, for sex caused troubles. He told his flock that Christ is to the head of a man and a man is to the head of his wife, who can only know Christ through her husband. Where's Paul get that shit from? Well, he never met Jesus in the flesh, nor Mary Magdalene. Had he done that, he would have known what the disciples knew about that couple. But I drift from where I was going with this. The plight of queer people became even more poignant to me when I lived in Key West, where. perhaps 20 percent of the adult population are queer people. The city and county governments were glad to have them. One of them was a county commissioner. Another of them was a city commissioner. She is Key West's mayor now. She is sharp as a tack. She was the best city commissioner the city ever had, until she resigned, I felt in deep frustration over how the mayor and other commissioners were running the city. The plight of the queer people further deepened for me when I lived in Key West, when my bi-sexual in the closet brother killed himself because someone was going to out him in Birmingham and he could not prevent it. The plight of the queer people became acute in me, when I learned one of my grandchildren was trans. And then that child had surgery. And now that child is much, much happier. During citizen comments at a Key West City Commission meeting, one of the last such meetings I attended, and I attended hundreds, and spoke several times at each meeting during citizen comments on an item before the Commission, I explained to them how anyone with eyes that see knows that St. Paul was gay, and that the Christian fanatics needed to deal with that. Now you might wonder if my comments were reported in the Key West Citizen? What do you think? Nada.
Jacqueline
Sloan Bashinsky I think if our Supreme Court continues their racist rulings Key West will be 100% gay as that will be the only safe spot for them in America. I am disgusted to be an American right now and angered that we have to fight to no avail.
Sloan Bashinsky
Jacqueline There are other safe areas for St. Paul's persecuted people. The American Christian right is in for a really rude awakening when their roll is called up yonder, but only their being there for it will convince them.
sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com
No comments:
Post a Comment