what a thing to wake up to, a morning news feed about a man who was helpful, involved, loving, caring, preached acceptance and caring for others. He worked hard in the community, helping the best he could during crises. He had something he did that was found out, something he said he did as a hobby With his wife in the privacy of their own home and on social media under a pseudonym. It involved only them from all the stories I have read and I want to read more of them but first I want to share what hate has caused. The online accounts were not offensive or harmful, just someone role playing a part of themselves online. Talking with others who had the same interests and feelings, not harmful to anyone.
See what happen next was due to hate and intolerance. Refusing to see the good of someone, of who they are, because they are different from you in some way you don’t like. Hatred of them not because they harmed you but don’t live just as you do.
Bubba like to dress up as a woman. I must say he looked really good as a woman. He smiled more as a woman than when dressed as a man. But several anti-LGBTQIA hate groups claimed he was a drag queen or trans and to them all drag queens / trans people no matter how much good they do are evil, are sin, need to be erased from society. For something that did not affect / or effect them in any way except, someone was a bit different and enjoyed doing something a bit different from what the anti-trans haters did. These people made it a point to try to turn the community against this good man. They doxed him, exposed his private life to the public, pictures of him in drag, all his home information was doxed to a country wide network of haters who went to work online. The contacted other Baptist organizations to rile up dislike and hate, to get the main church bodies to turn against his smaller church in an attempt to get him removed as pastor. They claimed publicly in meetings and online that he was unfit to lead the community he had been doing so for so long and well. They tried to create an angry outraged mob to attack this man and make his life hell on earth. Just because he put on a dress, a wig, and make up. He had social media accounts in the female persona and according to what I read they were not offensive in any way. That was his sin. That was his great crime. The result they got was he took his own life. He killed himself due directly to them, the haters, the anti-drag, the anti-trans. Are they happy now? Do they think by removing someone who cared about others and worked hard to help his community is better not being there? What did they gain except spreading hate and hardship? What about the surviving members of his family, his wife, his three children, all the others? What has this great religious purge gave them, except more hardship, the loss of a loved one, grief? Yes that is what their hate brings, grief. They spread it thick, far, and wide. That is what their hate does. Don’t help them, please don’t help them. Love, acceptance, tolerance, patience with, for, and to others is what we need to spread. And trust me it will not be a one way street. Hugs. Scottie
Below I will post several videos I have seen. I ask you to please watch them if you can, and to read the Joe My god story and the comments. Best wishes, hopes for a better future for all of us when the hate stops. Hugs
Quotes from the tweet above.
Copeland addressed his Baptist congregation on Wednesday night, stating that he was the victim of an “internet attack” and declaring, “Yes, I have taken pictures with my wife in the privacy of our home in an attempt of humor because I know I’m not a handsome man nor a beautiful woman either. I apologize for any embarrassment caused by my private, personal life that has come publicly.”
Unfortunately, bigoted Baptist leaders in Alabama issued a damming statement saying they had “become aware of the alleged unbiblical behavior.”
Today, Copeland took his own life, according to police. They did not release any further details. One of his close friends responded to the tragic news by declaring, “I am so angry right now and heartbroken. I witnessed a good man be publicly ridiculed and crucified over the last few days…to the point that he just took his own life today. I knew he was suffering so I reached out to him yesterday and offered him support and encouragement. He was appreciative and acknowledged that he had been going through some “dark days” over the last few days. I just want to ask you people who thought it humorous to publicly ridicule him, ‘Are you happy now?’ What crime did he commit?”
Other friends of Copeland noted that he didn’t hold bigoted views “toward transgender people or people who enjoy cross-dressing,” so there was simply no need for the conservative news outlet to out him.
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Ugh.
I wish they’d get together on busting (not doxxing) their child molesters before bothering with adults who are not hurting children. Hurting children is unbiblical, too.
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Hello Ali. The point that needs to be constantly pointed out, because these people would do so to any other group they disagreed with, the goal of these people is to put stuff out publically to embarrass and harm individuals. Think of it, in more tolerant countries like the Scandinavian countries publically out a mayor / pastor for dressing in drag wouldn’t even get an eye roll. People would have been more offended at the group doing it. This is again an attempt to push a fundamentalist Christian society where no deviation from a Christian religious church doctrine would be tolerated. Full stop. That is what this is about. It is about using religion in public social life of a multicultural society to shame, enforce, and try to stop any progressive social acceptance of things these groups don’t agree with. This really is about them taking a victory lap around the track for getting someone who did not follow their rules off the public view, off the social acceptance.
Ali this has nothing to do with child molestation nor even any real sexual abuse. If that was the case they would be after the churches. No, instead it is about enforcing a fundamentalist Christian church doctrine on the entire population. Hugs. Scottie
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Well, that’s what I mean. And child molesting is at least 100% worse than a man wearing women’s clothing. That’s what I meant. Sort of the same thing as when Jesus said quit pointing out specks in our neighbor’s eye when we haven’t gotten the log out of our own eye. A fundamentalist church either needs to make the stance that ministers and lay ministers raping children is OK, or start busting their own before they go after people who aren’t hurting other people.
(And, no, I don’t mean to say that it’s OK to hurt kids, especially ministers. But they need to pick a lane, or get out of the street.)
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