In the grand fucking theater of religious hypocrisy, where LGBTQIA+ people have been told for millennia that they're damned, broken, and unwelcome at the altar of God's love, Mary Glasspool stood up in 2010 and said, "Bullshit." Not with those exact words, mind you—she's a bishop, after all—but with something far more powerful: her entire goddamn life.
Her changes to the Episcopal Church helped to influence other denominations. The ELCA branch of the American Lutheran Church can be very open. Our pastor, Pastor Mike, is a fully out and proud gay man, but he is also deeply religious and very "high church". He reminds us that as our congregation welcomed him, we should welcome others. A stance that we have embraced, but is hard to see when you look at a congregation of mostly older, white, men and women.
Your opening paragraph had me. For centuries they’ve hidden pervs away to keep their secrets safe while persecuting true followers of Jesus who didn’t have any protection, for whatever sinful reason.
Her changes to the Episcopal Church helped to influence other denominations. The ELCA branch of the American Lutheran Church can be very open. Our pastor, Pastor Mike, is a fully out and proud gay man, but he is also deeply religious and very "high church". He reminds us that as our congregation welcomed him, we should welcome others. A stance that we have embraced, but is hard to see when you look at a congregation of mostly older, white, men and women.
And the preaching from the pulpit on a national stage was the 💥🤯
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God love her! As Francis said, and I have believed all my life, 'who am I to judge?'
Your opening paragraph had me. For centuries they’ve hidden pervs away to keep their secrets safe while persecuting true followers of Jesus who didn’t have any protection, for whatever sinful reason.