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Wait. Texas, church and help trans all in the same sentence. What the heck world did i wake up in today?
A reminder that Texas went Red in 2020 52% to 46%.
There are no red or blue states. Its all purple and swings on a hair.
A very slightly better one than you thought you went to sleep In?
Credit where it's due. I applaud the church for doing this and never thought I would read such a thing. Of course there's a bit of an orphan crushing machine kind of thing going on. But I'll take the microscopic ^^^^W
There is a diversity of Christian denominations and some are (socially) progressive. But we seldom hear about them as angry evangelical ones scream mich louder. But they are there, doing their work as they always have making little news unless you look for it.
For example the Metropolitan Community Church has ordained LGBT clergy since 1968 and United Church of Christ since -72. So there are very socially progressive denominations out there, just wish their voices were heard louder. Or that media reported on them more.
Thinking of it I would like more Christian schisms to be prevalent.
My partner was telling me that Tammy Faye Bakker was a queer ally during the AIDS epidemic, gave a victim of AIDS a hug when people were scared to touch them, told christians to be ashamed of themselves for turning their backs, and had one on her TV show (by satellite because all the crew were scared so it wasn't logistically possible). All these people are batshit crazy but like they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day
She certainly had the same taste in makeup as many queer performers.
Thank you for highlighting this fact. For another example, the Episcopal Church has LGBT clergy, and performs marriages for LGBT people. It strongly emphasizes welcoming everyone with no exceptions, and supports lots of social welfare programs. They even oppose legal restrictions on abortion. Liberal Christians are out there but they don't make headlines in most cases.
This isn't the first, shall we say open, church in Texas or even Ft. Worth, but actually assisting with funds is a first for me.
We aren't all hateful assholes with big trucks and tiny dicks. There are just a lot of them, and boy are they loud.