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Let's talk about a comprehensive gun control strategy....

Thoughts and prayers apparently don't work

 

Be terrified and fight like hell.

 Pastor John Pavlovitz: “I’ve been a pastor in the church for over two decades, much of that in predominantly white churches in the American South.

I’ve spent countless hours in church staff meetings and men’s Bible studies and youth pastor conferences.

I’ve stayed connected on social media with thousands of people still there in those churches. I read what they share and post and amplify and I know how they think and what they believe.

I need you to understand something and I say it without any hyperbole: white Evangelicals need to be stopped, now.

If the 2022 midterms elections allow Republicans to gain control of Congress, Conservative Christians will decimate this nation, and LGBTQ people, Muslims, women, people of color, and non-Christians will never have equality under the law again. We will all be at their mercy—and they will no longer have use for mercy.

This is not alarmist, sky-is-falling histrionics, it is the clear and sober forecast from someone who knows these people better than anyone. Over the last decade and a half, as my theology shifted and my beliefs grew more and more progressive, I’ve been a kind of undercover Liberal in an increasingly extremist movement, that while once relegated to minor fringe noisemakers is now at the precipice of Roman Empire-level power. They are less than two years away from having a dominance that they will wield violently and not relinquish.

I watched it all unfold from the inside:

I was at a North Carolina megachurch when Obama was elected and I saw the shift take place firsthand. I saw the fear slowly being ratcheted up and the agenda become solidified and the prejudices leveraged.

I was speaking regularly at the Billy Graham headquarters when Fox News reporters and Republicans like Sarah Palin started walking the halls with frequency.

I saw the messages at pastor’s conferences grow more incendiary and urgent, and heard the supremacist dog whistles become louder and more frequent.

While many decent people around this nation celebrated the progress of a black president and the many civil and human rights victories and gradually let down their guard—the white Conservative church set off the alarms and prepared for a holy war.

Yet, they were still a largely powerless, dying dinosaur until 2016, when Donald Trump acquired the presidency and gave the Evangelicals the perfect amoral partner to serve as the biggest bully pulpit they’ve ever had. Combine that with a fragmented Left, a general fatigue by the larger population, a ceremonial victory in Congress (thanks to Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema), and Republican attacks on voters’ rights— and we are now a hair’s breadth from the subjugation of diverse humanity here.

These are not followers of Jesus despite the trappings and window dressing. They are Jesus-less extremists: blind zealots for nothing but power. They have been conditioned by decades of polluted theology and FoxNews alternative facts to see diversity as a threat, to see progress as attacks on America, and to interpret more people being treated with dignity as oppression of white people.

Trust me when I tell you that we won’t recover from the theocracy Evangelicals are constructing once it is established. If we fail in 2022, they will have a political power that will render every election null and void, and we will never have a voice again in our lifetimes.

Women will lose autonomy over their own bodies.

LGBTQ people will have the rights to marry and adopt taken away.

People of color will be fully squeezed out of the electoral process.

Immigrants will be denied access to opportunity and refuge here.

These are not creative projections. They are precisely what Evangelicals have repeatedly stated as their intentions, and they’re closer than they’ve ever been to having a rubber stamp.

We can still stop it, though.

We just need a unity and coordination that transcends theirs.

We need a sustained, passionate, dedicated defense of humanity that rivals their relentless assaults on it.

I hear many people say they’re terrified, but being terrified alone doesn’t do anything but help these people.

Be terrified and get angry.

Be terrified and get busy.

Be terrified and go to work.

Be terrified and fight like hell.

I wish more decent people in America remembered they are among the vast majority instead of acting as if they are helpless victims of Republican Christians. We could defeat them, and we need to. We just need to stop lamenting how much damage they are doing and start doing something to oppose them.

We’ve seen this play out throughout history and we know how it ends. We know what unchecked religious extremist is capable of and we know the cost of the silence and inaction of good people. We also know what people are capable of when they refuse to accept fascism and white supremacy cloaked in the Bible and wrapped in the flag, when they fight for something inherently good together.

As someone who knows just how much these Christians have lost the plot of their faith tradition, believe me when I tell you that they cannot be allowed to steer this nation. It will not end well for the disparate people who call it home or who one day wish to.

Love and equity and diversity are in the balance.

It’s time we made a choice.

It may be the last one we get.”

Pastor John Pavlovitz

Shootings at schools since 2000.

 

Thurston High School.

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Heritage High School.

Deming Middle School.

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Buell Elementary School.

Lake Worth Middle School.

University of Arkansas.

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Bishop Neumann High School.

Pacific Lutheran University.

Granite Hills High School.

Lew Wallace High School.

Martin Luther King, Jr. High School.

Appalachian School of Law.

Washington High School.

Conception Abbey.

Benjamin Tasker Middle School.

University of Arizona.

Lincoln High School.

John McDonogh High School.

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Campbell County High School.

Milwee Middle School.

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Pine Middle School.

Essex Elementary School.

Duquesne University.

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West Nickel Mines School.

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Virginia Tech.

Success Tech Academy.

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Henry Ford High School.

University of Central Arkansas.

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International Studies Academy.

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University of South Alabama.

Banner Academy South.

University of Southern California.

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Stevens Institute of Business and Arts.

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University of Southern California.

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Florida State University.

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Wayne Community College.

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University of California-Los Angeles.

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Linden McKinley STEM Academy.

June Jordan High School for Equity.

Union Middle School.

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University of Washington.

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Central Academy of Excellence

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UNC Charlotte

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Because education makes you think?

 

Forcing them white wimmen to have white babies will take care of the Great Replacement, right?

 

192 REPUBLICANS DECIDE THEY’D LIKE FORMULA-SEEKING PARENTS TO KEEP SUFFERING

CPAC Head Suggests Abortion Ban Will Solve ‘Great Replacement’

Parent brings THE HOUSE DOWN after board member tries to justify bigotry...

Let's talk about what Republicans said with the vote in the Senate....

The right to choose

 

How the Right to Legal Abortion Changed the Arc of All Women’s Lives

By Katha Pollitt

The availability of legal abortion has had broad and subtle effects on the social status of all women, whether they have ever had an abortion or not.

Roe v Wade

Found on Reddit: I'm not pro-murdering babies.

I'm pro-Becky who found out at her 20 week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs.

I'm pro-Susan who was sexually assaulted on her way home from work, only to come to the horrific realization that her assailant planted his seed in her when she got a positive pregnancy test result a month later.

I'm pro-Theresa who hemorrhaged due to a placental abruption, causing her parents, spouse, and children to have to make the impossible decision on whether to save her or her unborn child.

I'm pro-little Cathy who had her innocence ripped away from her by someone she should have been able to trust and her 11 year old body isn't mature enough to bear the consequence of that betrayal.

I'm pro-Melissa who's working two jobs just to make ends meet and has to choose between bringing another child into poverty or feeding the children she already has because her spouse walked out on her.

I'm pro-Brittany who realizes that she is in no way financially, emotionally, or physically able to raise a child.

I'm pro-Emily who went through IVF, ending up with SIX viable implanted eggs requiring selective reduction in order to ensure the safety of her and a SAFE amount of fetuses.

I'm pro-Christina who doesn't want to be a mother, but birth control methods sometimes fail.

I'm pro-Jessica who is FINALLY getting the strength to get away from her physically abusive spouse only to find out that she is carrying the monster's child.

I'm pro-Vanessa who went into her confirmation appointment after YEARS of trying to conceive only to hear silence where there should be a heartbeat.

I'm pro-Lindsay who lost her virginity in her sophomore year with a broken condom and now has to choose whether to be a teenage mom or just a teenager.

I'm pro-Courtney who just found out she's already 6 weeks along, but the egg never made it out of her fallopian tube so either she terminates the pregnancy or risks dying from internal bleeding. You can argue and say that I'm pro-choice all you want, but the truth is:

I'm pro-life. Their lives. Women's lives.

You don't get to pick and choose which scenarios should be accepted.

Women's rights are meant to protect ALL women, regardless of their situation!

Mother's Day Strike 2022

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Basically April Ludgate

It was never about the babies.

It was never about the babies.

If it were about the babies, we'd have affordable, accessible maternal healthcare to ensure a safe pregnancy.

If it were about the babies, we'd have an extensive adoption system full of loving families lining up to care for them once they're born.

If it were about the babies, we'd have affordable childcare, pediatric care, and more flexible work schedules to allow parents to care for their children.

If it were about the babies, we'd have well funded sex education and freely accessible contraception to reduce unwanted pregnancy from occurring.

If it were about the babies, we'd focus our policies on ensuring we can clothe, shelter, and nourish every child born in this country.

But it isn't about the babies.

It was never about the babies.

It's about control and punishment of women.

They want to force us to experience childbirth as a consequence rather than a miracle.

They want us to bring children into the world that are unwanted and unaffordable, then tell us we shouldn't have had children we couldn't support.

They want us to bring children into the world who are products of trauma and abuse, then wonder aloud why children today act out.

They want to burden the poor and disenfranchised and then wonder why people turn to crime out of desperation.

They want to force the common woman to suffer the "consequences" of her sexual freedom while ensuring their mistresses never suffer from theirs.

It's not about the babies.

It was never about the babies.

It's about control.

It's about power.

They're not "Pro-Life," they're anti-woman.