If you’re new to #Revoice20 you might see the memes of Burwell Stark’s infamous phrase, “I am grieved almost beyond words” uttered jokingly from various attendees.
If you don’t know why because you’re new to Revoice, then buckle in babes, because I’ve got a story to tell:
So let me set the scene. Two years ago #Revoice was happening for the first time. Critics and detractors were NOT hard to come by (still aren’t). This is a conference that caters towards Christian traditions that hold to the Hist. Sexual ethic while also being willing/able to...
...use sexual identity language (think gay, lesbian, queer @TheGrantHartley 👀) As a result this conference attracted the ire of a lot of homophobic and terrible people who saw this as a plot to push the “Gay agenda” (spoiler: it’s not).
Critiques are important of new ministries, but these critics went the hard bad faith route and looked everywhere for an opportunity to cancel #Revoice20. They even made some public figures backtrack their support for Revoice (Cancel culture, amiright?)
One notorious critic, Pulpit and Pen (a ludicrously terrible Christian “journal”) tried to infiltrate Revoice by wearing this dashing ensemble: (they were turned away)
Alright. Anyway. Revoice happens in St. Louis. 2018. Some of the attendees are leaning in to the critics in a humorous way.
The critics are obsessed with finding elements of Revoice that seem “Too gay” It eventually becomes a joke that there should be a an ear piercing station
Well. Two attendees are exploring the city during an off-time and actually *do* get their ears pierced. And then they tweet about it. The critics ABSOLUTELY LOSE IT. This is the moment they were waiting for. The gay tipping point.
This of course is all a bad faith distortion, as we know. But along comes @*burwellstark, and he doesn’t know that. He wanders into the thread and in a now-deleted infamous tweet says:
That’s it. In a bizarre moment, Burwell is so grieved about ear piercing, that he is almost beyond words.
And thus, a meme was born.
Enjoy #Revoice20 everyone. Go and be edified.
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