"I personally think the Holy Ghost evicted us. I think the Lord evicted us from our churches [with lockdowns] so that we might have a moment to breathe and...reimagine what it means to truly be just."
Tonyia Rawls / Union Presbyterian Seminary talk on "Queer Justice"
"In the Bible when the experience of the wrestling with the angel happened, the question is: What is your name? When Moses encounters the divine: Who shall I tell sent me? Naming, identifying, this is what the alphabet [LGBTQIA+], these designations are all about."
Cedric Harmon
"Where the church failed, where Noah did not, was the church began to determine who was safe to accept + who was no longer safe to accept. We did just the opposite of the example that God showed us through Noah + the ark."
<ppl outside the ark could not be reached for comment>
Obvious that the queer-affirming apostates are queer-affirming apostates, right? So what's relevant here, WPC?
1. Listen to Harmon admit their faith's burden is "ongoing work."
2. Listen to Rawls discuss how they focus on co-opting the black church.
"The first step with the black church pastors we worked with was: I get that you might not be able to affirm LGBTQ people, but your charge is to not cause harm, similar to doctors...own that your rhetoric has been causing harm, has been literally killing people."
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