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The Call to Justice is Urgent

November 13, 2024 B. John 33 Views 0 Comments 2024 Election, Harris, justice, Trump

Progressives stand at a critical juncture where the call for justice is louder and more urgent than ever. My faith compels me to see the injustices that surround us and act against them with conviction, guided by Christ’s example of righteous defiance in the face of oppression. While persistence is essential, there are moments when persistence alone is not enough; sometimes, our witness demands a more forceful resistance, a willingness to dismantle the systems that perpetuate inequality and cause harm actively.

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Resuming Rants

September 26, 2023 B. John 93 Views 0 Comments Cafe Con Tampa, Idalia, Kings Mountain, Tampa

There was a brief restaurant review posted earlier this year. The last post before that was a movie review (The Whale). A lot has transpired in my world over the past few months, and I think I am ready to get back to trying to post more or less regularly. The highlight reel looks a bit like this:

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Judge William Jung-Douchebag of the Day

October 6, 2019October 9, 2019 B. John 1203 Views 1 Comment David H. Pickup, LGBT Youth Suicide, Liberty Counsel, Reparative Therapy, Robert Vazzo, William Jung

In 2017, Tampa passed an ordinance that prohibited conversion therapy for children under 18. As they always do, Liberty Counsel and their perpetual “client,” Las Vegas-based Robert Vazzo (not even a resident of Florida), and a David Pickup of Dallas (not licensed in Florida) filed a lawsuit to get the ordinance overturned. However, Republican Trump-appointee William Jung had to bend himself into a Gordian Knot of legal reasoning to give them that win.

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Wesley Covenant Association Proceeds with Plans for New Denomination

November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 B. John 3432 Views 3 Comments IRD, John Wesley, Schism, UMC, United Methodist Church, WCA, Weslyan Convenant Association

As a group takes up the name of Wesley to promote schism within the UMC, John Wesley had this to about schism, ““[Schism] is evil in itself. To separate ourselves from a body of living Christians, with whom we were before united, is a grievous breach of the law of love. Note that the damage in schism is not to a structure, but to the character of holiness in those who participate in it.”

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Rick Wiles Tries to Out-Crazy Lance Wallnau

November 6, 2018November 5, 2018 B. John 827 Views 0 Comments conservatives, Evangelical, Evangelical Christianity, Fear, hate, Lance Wallnau, Republican Party, republicans, Rick Wiles

As I posted Yesterday, “Pastor” Lance Wallnau was saying Trump should, like other dictators, be able to kill his opponents. Well, I guess “Pastor” Rike Wiles didn’t like Wallnau getting all the attention, so he’s now claiming that Democrats will “slaughter” tens of thousands of Christians if they win the midterm elections.

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Frightening Christians In the Trump Regime

November 4, 2018November 4, 2018 B. John 543 Views 0 Comments 7 Mountains, Cult, Dominionism, Donald Trump, Krazy Kristian Kooks, Lance Wallnau, religious right

This one will scare the crap out of you. Krazy Kristian Kook, Lance Wallanau, slipped up and gave us a glimpse behind the curtain in a YouTube where he openly wished that Trump could give his Democratic critics the same treatment that dissidents get in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. As Thomas Jefferson said, “In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”

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My Reaction to Matthew Shepherd’s Service Today

October 27, 2018October 27, 2018 B. John 445 Views 0 Comments Bishop Gene Robinson, Episcopal Church, LaTrelle Easterling, Matthew Shepherd, methodist, National Cathedral, UMC

I’d taken Friday off for some recuperation. I wound up watching the Service for Matthew Shepherd today from that National Cathedral. I was particularly struck in two ways. One was related to Rep. Virginia Foxx, the other to the Methodist Church.

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Senator McCain – Hardly the Lion

August 27, 2018October 3, 2018 B. John 435 Views 0 Comments Donald Trump, John McCain, right wing, senate, Vietnam, War

This is tough to write, as I’m struggling a bit with my feelings concerning Senator John McCain. McCain is being lionized by the media and political pundit class. While I respect his service and many of his accomplishments, he was hardly the maverick he fancied himself, and leaves a mixed political legacy, and ironically, much of the blame for the ascendency of Donald Trump.

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Franklin Graham – Douche Bag of the Day

May 9, 2018October 3, 2018 B. John 923 Views 0 Comments Donald Trump, Evangelism, Franklin Graham, Fundamentalist, Hypocrisy

I didn’t bother to check I am so certain this won’t be Graham’s first Douchey. This time it is for his comment that Donald Trump’s affairs (and I presume many other sins) are personal, not public, so they don’t matter. The nation’s so-called moral guardians, Evangelical Fundamentalists, gave Trump a “mulligan” for it as long as he gives them what they want on culture-war issues, and Graham is leading the way.

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Kansas Sen Steve Fitzgerald – Douche Bag of the Day

May 8, 2018October 26, 2018 B. John 696 Views 0 Comments Bigots, Homophobes, Kansas, LGBT Adoption, Rep. Tom Cox, senate, Steve Fitzgerald, White Supremacists

Well, Senator Fitzgerald came to our attention when he was mentioned in an article about yesterday’s Douche Bag of the Day winner. Fitzgerald went on an all too common rant on the Kansas Senate Floor about the “Gay Agenda,” as his argument for a bill allowing funding to adoption agencies that object to placing children with LGBT couples.

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Republican Tom Cox of KS – Douche Bag Award Winner

May 7, 2018September 29, 2018 B. John 822 Views 1 Comment @TomCox4KS, Adoption, Bigots, Idiots, Kansas, LGBT, Steve Fitzgerald, Tom Cox, White Supremacists

This one is just kind of outside our usual realm of notice, but we decided his action was just deplorable enough to warrant recognition with our Douche Bag of the Day award. Republican Tom Cox is a member of the Kansas house of Representatives representing the Shawnee-Lake Quivira district of good old KS, and he underhandedly changed his vote to make it possible for adoption agencies in KS to receive state funds AND discriminate against LGBT people.

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