Pride Month/Faith post- Queer kids often first experience hate… in Church. This book (Queer & Christian by Brandan Robertson) is so affirming and also makes me feel very lucky to have grown up in an imperfect, evolving, sometimes-fumbling, but generally affirming congregation.
Thanks to a tip via The Ogle Mole Network, we have learned the Ryan Walters - former Oklahoma Superintendent of public education - has filed for divorce from his wife Katie after 15 year of marriage!!! Full story and details later on TLO!
Logging off because if I see one more smug "if you're armed don't get into a confrontation with the cops" post I'm going to lose it. The guy peacefully put himself between an agent and a woman that agent was assaulting. That's it. It's all on video. Use your eyes and your brains.
Holy shit.
He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him.
His hands were on the pavement when he was shot.
He never had his hand on a weapon.
Cold blooded murder.
His name is Alex Jeffrey Pretti. He was 37 years old.
He was a licensed nurse.
He was recording ICE and defending a female protester from their aggression.
And they executed him.
If you voted for an administration that zip ties & kidnaps toddlers and executes citizens on the streets, let us never meet. The light in me does not recognize the light (or humanity) in you. There’s literally no way to come back from this.