Sometimes Memes Say It Perfectly… We Need One Another!

As most people know I love memes. I love this one as well. I think it also works well for those LGB who want to remove the T from the club, from the group. Doing so only helps those who want to see all of us LGB and T fall. United we stand, divided we fall. I have an out line for a video written as soon as I get the video computer fully repaired. This has been a long slog working with man interacting programs that came down to a conflict of mainly two and how to ake the work together. But I had to find which ones were causing the issue to even begin fixing it. Hugs

Iowa State Senator Goes After Shameful Christians

Zelenskyy Came For Help… How Real Leaders Respond

As many who come here to read my rants and Ali’s up lifting posts, and Randy’s deep thought out posts may understand I have a troubled issue with religion. At 17 after years of abuse, emotional, physical, and sexual, I took a bad beating just as school ended. I was working for a wealthy local farmer who was deeply religious. He found me hiding in one of his barns, his wife was a nurse and she addressed my bleeding wounds. I begged him to let me stay in his barns for a while sure the anger at home would blow over. He had a totally different idea. He talked me into going to a church school he supported and paid for other kids to go to, but there was a catch, I would have to agree to the principles of his church and honor them while at school. Considering where I was in my life I would have agreed to become his sex slave it if would have saved me from more beatings. I don’t know how he did it but as he left me in the hands of his nurse wife he went to face my adopting parents. I have no idea what was said, but when he came back he told me to go home and promised I would be safe, pack my clothing needed … and he gave me a list. Then he would come get me in the morning. I was terrified to return back to the place I lived and still very sore from my beating. But I did it. No one spoke to me or stopped me. I got my stuff and stayed in my room until the next day when the farmer showed up in the driveway.

That is why I have conflicted feelings about religion. See I feel that man saved my life. Yet his religion was very much against gay people. By now I had accepted that I was gay, I was a homosexual that they claimed were all these horrible things. I knew I was not that, and I was a good church boy. But inside I knew I was something they felt was an abomination. After school the farmer took me to his Livingroom and told me he felt I would make a great pastor for his religion. He decided to pay for me to go to their seminary. I knew two things, I couldn’t tell him why, and I couldn’t do what he asked. I was gay and my desire for male sexual comfort was too high to be hidden. I thanked him, and too the only choice I had left, the US military.

Which leads to the video posted below. I love this Priest. Maybe if I had been in his accepting church I could have given my best to joining that ministry. But the faith that saved me also was a faith that hated me for existing. Hugs

OK Senator – Bible Says It Is Okay For Teachers To Hit Kids

Hello All. I know I posted a lot of videos today. I wear headphones when doing things out of my Pink Palace office and because I like what I am hearing I post them. I do that while in my office also. I am having crackers and sharp cheese as I write this because of my recent steroid shot I get hungry quickly. I was down to 168. Every time I have steroids my weight goes up a bit because I get so hungry. But to this video and why I am posting it. I hate abuse of children as you can imagine, that includes beatings which I got frequently. Please tell me how a 6 year old 40 pound child can stand up to a 200 pound barroom brawler who can put three chimney blocks over one arm and go up a ladder. I soon learned that to complain would get me told that parents have the right to discipline their children, it was in the bible. I am not sure that included the black eyes, broken bones, or seeming all over me bruises. I would gladly take the hits rather than the belts that left welts that would take weeks to stop hurting, and if on my butt made sitting still in class to learn impossible. So to hear a man of the cloth stand up and say that hitting a child is not that passage meant is very important to me. Thank you all for reading and watching. Hugs

Neutrality Is NEVER An Option!

What I love about this video is that Rev Ed makes a point about using pronouns and one I plan to start doing. Hugs

Responding to Ben Shapiro and other videos on LGBTQ+ sex and the bible

Episcopal Bishops Encouraging Flock To Stand Up For Migrants

I like this person and his teachings. Clearly. In truth had he been the one to save me as a 17 yr old beaten boy hiding in his barn I think he may have still sent me to a church school to protect me but he wouldn’t have then expected me to go on and become a priest in their religion. I couldn’t tell my savior who wanted that from me why I rejected his strong demand / offer and instead went into the military was that I was gay. I had accepted it to myself. I was well versed enough in the acts of it due to my abuse to know that along with my internal emotions about guys vs women that the acts themselves did not repulse me. Just the way they were forced on me. Remember I had been forced to please females as well as males since I was 3 years old and I understood my attractions were to males. I was very gay. Instead I think he would have asked me my goals and I would have had to tell him the mystical parts of the religion I had issues with … but the reason I need to withdraw was I was gay. If he responded as he did in my comment to him, then I would have stayed in his congregation. Not believing the magic parts of the religion but the community and acceptance that their god has for those different. Rev. Ed Trevors admits he doesn’t preach facts, he preaches faith, and much of what he stresses is things as a humanest I can fully endorse.

I do wonder with his … more violent past if he had found a badly beaten very thin small 17 year old boy who told him he was being abuse if he would have done more than force the parents … well in their mind’s owner of the boy to let him leave. But again maybe that is my hopes / emotions talking over my understanding of reality. Hugs