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"The Bible says gay sex is OK but doesn't allow for non-monogamy" is a WILD and extremely unserious position to take.

James Dobson’s god was an idol made in his own image to gather him money and power.

I would choose to be gay.

Over and over and over again.

Two things can be true:

- I want to believe no one is irredeemable
- James Dobson made the world a worse place and we are better off without him

May those of us still here work to undo all the harm he wrought upon us.

Anyone who claims the Bible as one of their sacred texts should be abhorred by the US government's treatment of immigrants and doing everything we can to stop it.

Pretty sure that "‘When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born," means don't them in prison/concentration camps.

Bibi and a casket that has Rabin’s name on it. He’s such a piece of shit.

July 1995. Bibi, then leader of the opposition, rallies a mock funeral procession as anti-peace, anti-Oslo Peace Process scream, "death to Rabin!" The life-size black coffin with PM Rabin’s name painted in white is visible, the noose is harder to see from here. Rabin was murdered in November.

Let history remember that this loathsome monster was inciting Rabin’s murder back in the day for trying to make peace.

Nobody can say they didn’t know, didn’t see, couldn’t have imagined.

This was as inevitable as all the steps that preceded it when he’s left unchecked.

No conscience.

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Same!

so many of us!

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if you aren't getting his personal emails yet, I highly recommend: www.shannontlkearns.com

Brian here. Just read an email @shannontlkearns sent where he wrote

"I am not afraid of God. I don’t mean that in a flippant way, nor in a “God can’t touch me” kind of way. I mean it in the deepest place of knowing that God is loving "

and it pierced me right down to my bones.

I saw God more in the words of Andrea Gibson than I ever did of John MacArthur

Tonight, we had a Pride Prayer Service at CTS and I preached a sermon inspired by an episode of @queertheology.bsky.social where Father Shay preached about the Doubting Thomas story. That sermon will be my Substack article on Monday. I'm hoping to have the recorded version and my written version,

“The Lord God’s spirit is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed me.
He has sent me
to bring good news to the poor,
to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim release for captives,
and liberation for prisoners,”

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses.

Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline.

There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 877-447-4487

Via @lascanner.bsky.social

Someone shared that they saw a queer Christian friend & remembered they met through the Queerness Every Day Challenge last year 🥰

I love that the challenge plants seeds & connections that continue to grow for years.

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Happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈 queerness is holy ✨ together we will build a better world 🙌

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And in the times when I DON'T want to wear one or the other, I pay attention to why (TBH it's usually fear or shame, and that's important information)

I don't wear a jockstrap or tzitzit EVERY day (though I often wish I did), but when I do, now that I've made it an intentional choice and a sacred practice, it feels really special.

I feel connected to my community. I remember to honor my sexuality.

So I decided to try it. and since I'm Jewish, I decided to pair it with a tzitzit from The Tzitzit Project, a feminist, all-gender-inclusive to redefine and expand tzitzit for *all* Jews.

The idea really resonated with folks. One person said he already wore one daily but hadn't considered it holy before. Another decided to try. One woman (who is trans) shared about how wearing "women's" underwear was the first transition step that felt safe, since it was just for her.

I made an off-the-cuff suggestion that a jockstrap could even be considered something queer+sacred, if it affirms your sexuality and sensuality, if it connects you to your community who also wear the same thing, if it reminds you that you are good.

It kinda reminded me of tzitzit.

During that year's Queerness Every Day Challenge, one of the adventures was to get something you could see or wear daily to affirm the connections between your queerness and your spirituality.

Pride flags, ace pins, an anime toy in bi colors, a rainbow rosary were all things people tried.

Special clothes & objects are part of many religious traditions. Catholics carry rosaries, monks wear robes, nuns wear habits, Mormons wear temple garments, Jews wear tzitzit, and gays... well lots of gay guys wear jockstraps.

2 years ago I decided to start wearing one daily as a spiritual practice

Prison abolition is an LGBTQ Christian issue.
Abortion access is an LGBTQ Christian issue.
Reproductive justice is an LGBTQ Christian issue
Environmental care is an LGBTQ Christian issue.
Economic justice is an LGBTQ Christian issue.
Halting white supremacy is an LGBTQ Christian issue.