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Benjamin N Garren

2 years

In TEC as queer clergy my life is basically digging my bare feet into the broken glass the church dumps in our special segregated rooms. Hoping it embeds itself in my flesh so the floor is a bit clearer for the next generation of LGBTQ+ persons they force to walk there.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Jesus actually has a parable about a woman who made an unjust judges life absolutely miserable until he provided justice just to shut her up. It is 100% a christian means to perpetuate justice by actively working to make unjust judges lives living hells until they do their job.

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Benjamin N Garren

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@HairyLeggdHarpy What part is bizarre? The children not sacrificing their lives for the sake of the mother's ego and instead becoming fully independent human beings with whom the mother must navigate an adult relationship between mutuals bit?

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

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@plramirez The fragility of the masc4masc whose identity rests on bullying femme gay men, and particularly femme gay youth, in order to feel valid as a man. Never feeling adequately male he believes by joining straight men in calling gay men inadequate he will gain some fulfillment.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

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@SonyaDouglas @ITV ~20 years of work in non-profit women's rights and community orgs.. She takes up the same level of listening work that many RCC volunteers with no counseling qualifications take up. RCC work is arduous but rewarding and work with survivors as they find integration can be fun.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

This embodies the "thoughts and prayers" mentality of the politicians. Any actual substantive work to provide for human suffering is of no concern, it is "political". They think their politics are not personal and don't have repercussions. It is beyond heartless.

More Perfect Union

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The Congressman who represents East Palestine, OH, took $18,000 from Norfolk Southern. @heyjohnrussell asked him about it — and whether he'd take money from them again. Rep. Bill Johnson refused to answer.

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Benjamin N Garren

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@EdwardBadger14 LGBTQ+ youth are disowned, rejected, and abused at home to a point they often are forced to live on the streets. This is nothing new, it has been happening for decades, and those who maintain homophobic and transphobic ideology are the cause. You were the sign of their abuse.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

The Episcopal Church has been Pro-Choice for over 50 years. Our first Pro-Choice statement occurred BEFORE we provided women voice and vote at our General Conventions. In the 60's a bunch of Episcopal men got together and wrote the first official Pro-Choice statement.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 months

@JamesEsses So you believe the brand Juicy Couture, founded by two women now owned by Liz Claiborne, "creates parodies of what it means to be a woman"? Will you attack all women who engage in such parodies of themselves?

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

11 months

@JNHanvey @ThomasWillett9 Roy Cohn was also a gay man, yet he helped McCarthy administer the Lavender Scare. Ernst Röhm was also a gay man, and led the Nazi SA. The history of gay men in political power doing great harm to the LGBTQ+ community teaches is that being such is not sufficient in itself.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

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@HairyLeggdHarpy Any two individuals are going to remember things differently. This is especially true when an LGBTQ closet's themselves and commits to maintaining good favor with parents they fear coming out to.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

@plramirez You sound a lot like Ernst Röhm (28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934). Unfortunately, your agenda ends with the Knight of Long Knives for those like you and the Pink Triangle for the rest of us. Carry on at your own peril.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Anglicanism requires listening, questioning, and thinking. An Anglicanism divided from science, academia, and exploration isn't Anglicanism. This is why The ACNA, anti-LGBTQ+ TEC, non-liberation based Anglicanism cannot thrive. This process may be slow but it is inherent.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Anti-LGBTQ theologies that expect forced undiscerned celibacy for LGBTQ+ individuals create a permanent class of widows/orphans in society. This action is antithetical to the center of biblical morality. The creation of households, not their destruction, is God's desire.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

The idea is to move from a church that quietly whispers that our BCP was edited by a gay man to evangelizing on the fact he was a leather bear with a heart of gold whose vocation was mentoring a generation of young queers to abundant life within and outside of the church.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

4 years

Episcopal Clergy: Let me tell you about my Enneagram Number! Also Episcopal Clergy: Using esoteric numerology and divination practices for self understanding and personal growth is inherently sinful.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

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@HairyLeggdHarpy The birth certificate is the legal document on which rests most other forms of identification. The changing of it is about new information sense that initial observation of penis or vulva not the refutation of that memory.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

Tish Harrison Warren is a type. Supremacist organizations, like ACNA, look for members of marginalized communities who will sign on to their overall ideology and serve as token representatives within the game of Identity Politics and give them the highest status possible.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Pastors need to support all youth in developing healthy social skills and relationships. They can't do that if they deny LGBTQ+ youth the same capacity to love and be loved they provide to Cis-Het Youth. There is no way to integrate "Side B" into safe expectations for our youth.

Episcopal News Service

@episcopal_news

2 years

Episcopal priest Wesley Hill, a pioneer of the so-called "Side B" community, shares what it’s like to be a celibate gay Christian in a fully LGBTQ+-affirming church

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

No one has ever died on account of a Mary Oliver poem being used in the place of the Epistle. Ex-gay ministry that forbids LGBTQ+ individuals access to marriage and enforces undiscerned celibacy is deadly. Conversations that equate the two are abusive.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

In the early church virginity was queer sexual defiance to secular gender/sexuality norms at points enforced by law when not by custom. People were supposed to be married by 14 and for a teenager to demand virginity and celibacy was to be punk to the extreme. Xtian=Anarchy

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

The big issue with “virtual church” is that instead of enlivening historic models of dispersed christian communities … we simply try to replicate non-dispersed christian community while dispersed.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

Tuned into @WNCathedral : LGBTQ+ individuals reclaiming space via comments then people explaining how to mute the comments, telling us to go away and not bring discord, that their just here for the music. Experiencing the metaphor of being LGBTQ+ in the church in real time... fun

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

5 years

At the end of the 1970s the Episcopal Church stopped looking at youth to college programming as a formation tool for leadership in the church and made twenty years of secular professional life the key formation process for leadership in the church. Thus today’s reality.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

4 years

Episcopal Boomers: You can pry this church from my cold dead hands! Younger Episcopalians: Yes, so there is this thing called the Resurrection, Jesus did it... and the soft warm animal of my body loves it and believes in it. Death hath no Sting.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

Post Christendom everyone has some relationship with Jesus... good, bad, and ugly. The work of evangelism is no longer about bringing people to Jesus but about healing broken and abusive realities done in the name of Jesus. We must dismantle our Idol of Christ first.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

Why is it difficult for clergy to understand that there is a direct connection between non-affirming congregations and clergy and situational depression and suicidal ideation within the LGBTQ+ youth community? That to advocate for one is to advocate for the other?

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Clergy Tithing: 1) Seminary Loan Payments are Tithing 2) Clergy Tithing to their own congregation is bad practice 3) Clergy should tithe to their seminary, camp and conference center, non-parochial diocesan ministries, and scrappy desperate ministries running on fumes.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

4 months

@DanniBrener "I don't feel comfortable right now, can we please wait and have another woman help me in a ten to twenty minutes." "I'm sorry, you remind me of someone and I am uncomfortable now, can another female HCP help me." It truly is not difficult to phrase this without being rude.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

The Episcopal Church has denounced the banning of abortions for over fifty years, from before women had voice and vote at general convention. Our need to organize as a church to ensure that the US is a country that values basic human rights is as pressing now as ever.

POLITICO

@politico

2 years

The Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito and obtained by POLITICO. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Alito writes.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

My curiosity regarding TEC clergy bragging about not condemning either side of the Roe decision... will it matter at Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell? Where, exactly, is the breaking point?

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

We are living this parable right now... and too many progressive/liberal Christians denominations are seeking to silence the widows and call for comforting the unjust judge.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

@episcopal_news Pastors need to support all youth in developing healthy social skills and relationships. They can't do that if they deny LGBTQ+ youth the same capacity to love and be loved they provide to Cis-Het Youth. There is no way to integrate "Side B" into safe expectations for our youth.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

The Columbarium at St Luke's in the Field where Howard Galley, principal editor of the '79 BCP, rests alongside his two life partners.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

Anglican Side B people upset that Justin Welby has finally joined the Pope in denouncing the criminalization of LGBTQ+ persons... just defines everything I understand about the movement in a nutshell.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

TEC LGBTQ+ youth from the 90s and 00s who saw every Christian elder they trusted choose to form ACNA instead of value them as human beings didn’t disappear. Any functional path towards reconciliation has to start with those of us ACNA chose to throw away in pursuit of purity.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

9 months

@MaryRoss815 So you wore the slogan of the groups organizing to ban books, regularly protesting libraries, and advocating that librarians should be fired or libraries closed all together... and are surprised some librarians may be too exhausted to deal with that reality at a random moment?

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

4 months

There are no clergy named Hank in TEC, we have 41 named Henry, none work at a St Barnabas (there is no St Barbaras), our clergy are not referenced as pastors. TEC Church Architecture doesn't have the organ and choir as the reredos, nothing about the paraments look episcopal.

Protestia

@Protestia

4 months

Pastor Hank of St Barbabas Episcopal church explicitly and repeatedly calls the scriptures "myths" and "once upon a time" stories, especially at the 2:05 mark attacking montheism, the atonement, and the idea that Jesus is God's only son.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 months

@soppystern I knew I was gay by the age of eight. I didn't know what sex was. If a doctor had told me I was allowed to be gay and had told my parents me possibly being gay was healthy and safe and not to be feared my life would have been dramatically different. Straight kids are told that.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

There is no longer an Episcopal Seminary west of the Mississippi offering a residential or hybrid option that is also a reasonably safe space for LGBTQ+ individuals. We cannot ask them to move to Texas and Nashotah openly questions the existence of LGBTQ+ Christians.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

My relationship with the daily office began as Anglo-Catholic ex-gay ministry (I’m Special). Me and a 1928 BCP-Bible Combo vs my basic capacity to love and be loved. The Magnificat won. It wouldn’t let me use it to do that. That wasn’t what needed to be brought low inside me.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

4 years

Imagine an Episcopal Church where we were as concerned about ensuring congregations were in as strict compliance with the non-discrimination canons as we are about compliance with BCP rubrics...

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

11 months

@JNHanvey @ThomasWillett9 Sure... by rejecting the overwhelming majority of historic LGB organizations on a global scale, maintaining colonial sensibilities about LGBTQ+ realities, and aligning yourself with international hate groups you are not betraying decades of work by our community... sounds logical

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

What if every diocese was required to have a minimum clergy salary... the bishop's salary was caped at 2x clergy minimum... the diocesan max salary was capped at 2.5x clergy minimum.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

8 months

@NathanielJolly Anti-Semitic rhetoric of high order. As a Jewish Woman she followed exactly the expectations of Judaism regarding the prioritization of maternal health and wellness and when an individual becomes human as supported by the Torah. White Christian Nationalism is the abomination.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

4 years

@scottagunn The Truth and Reconciliation Commission after Apartheid in South Africa is more than ample proof that marginalized groups have the capacity for far more nuanced systems of justice than the privileged classes assume.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

11 months

An Episcopalian today put into National law the right to discriminate against LGBTQ+ individuals based on the false witness. Will TEC name this in anyway as they, potentially, respond to this ruling? Will we name the reality of this "mutual flourishing" nonsense?

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

Lazarus was the last prophet, his audience was the residents of Sheol. He went dead to his Ancestors to name that all they had dreamed had come true in the Christ. Hagar’s hope, Miriam’s joy, Rachel’s longing all fulfilled. As he stopped being dead the harrowing of hell began.

Robert Hendrickson

@FrRHendrickson

3 years

Me: Lazarus was dead. Really dead. Four days dead. Parishioner: What a lovely metaphor. It gives a new way to think about it. Me: Lazarus was dead. Really dead. Four days dead. Not metaphorically dead. Dead. Parishioner: But the story… Me: Lazarus was dead. Really dead…

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

That is exactly what the Magnificat is supposed to do, churn up the low and high inside of us, churn up the low and high outside of us, as individuals, the church, the world, connect us to the great churning that is the completion of the law and the fulfillment of the prophecies.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

11 months

Anglo-Catholicism in TEC never truly involved Slum Ritualism. We romanticized it heavily but never actually lived it. This is why so much of our A-C reality seems hollow, its focus was never the needs of the slums with rituals but just the rituals. The mind without the heart.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

The sermon was a contrived male-female complementary marriage metaphor and how the female Holy Spirit is the hovering mother who can cure your mental illness in a way the male Father cannot. Fully coded & loaded anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in a saccharine coating. Great job @WNCathedral

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

In the Anglican Communion sexuality debate only one group has ever been threatened with murder by clergy: Capital punishment for African LGBTQ+ individuals has had the support of GAFCON Bishops. This debate is not killing the church, it is saving the lives of innocents.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

Ndukuba’s mindset, importantly, is not just that LGBTQ+ individuals are sinful but that their mere presence in a church or society marks the whole as sinful. In a properly ordered community LGBTQ+ realities do not exist they only manifest as a result of some other disorder.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

Welby’s unaffirming theology and Lucado’s blatant homophobia are markedly different. If you cannot grasp why LGBTQ+ people are chill eye-roll re: hearing the ABC speak but up in arms re: Lucado then you don’t have a functional relationship with LGBTQ+ Episcopalians.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

As we approach Sodom Sunday next week... remember that all "modesty culture" in the Bible is ECONOMIC MODESTY. And Sodom was so economically immodest it would not only refuse to provide basic food and housing to guest but rape them instead. They lusted after acts of cruelty.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 months

First, prayers for Tristan. Second... The '79 TEC BCP was edited in a leather bar by Howard Galley. He was known for showing up in church in full leathers with people he met clubbing that night. Leather Lesbians and Gays are actually some of the safest members of our community.

Miranda Andersen

@WandererMiranda

3 months

@Your_mums_aTerf This man in bondage gear works in the nursery department

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Not being at a state of peace with your neighbor is a valid reason to not partake of the mass. It is a statement of one's own sin, not that of the neighbor. It is odd, however, to be dramatically proud of one's sin and consider not engaging the Peace of God as an honor.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

4 years

Theories of clergy deployment based on ‘bi-vocations’ and ‘tent-making’ are about to get a reckoning as we realize that depending on capitalism to sustain ministry is a complicity to the system we cannot afford...

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Jesus says that in heaven all marriages are voided; Paul says that in Jesus all genders are meaningless. Yet in Christian discourse one would presume properly ordered marriages were essential for heaven and strict adherence to a gender norm defined one's relationship with Jesus.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

11 months

With CDSP, GTS, & EDS all in some form of not-residential flux... we have Berkeley at Yale as the only residential seminary in TEC in a state where TQ+ individuals have basic safety. This is a major problem for our clergy formation.

Erin Reed

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The most recent update of the anti-trans legislation risk assessment map is here for Pride month. America has cleaved into two countries for trans people... one of which they are fleeing and suffering harsh laws, and one where they are protected.

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Benjamin N Garren

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3 years

The Magnificat is not a wait and see, endure to the second coming, don’t engage justice in the here and now proclamation. It is what we say when we become pregnant with something that is going to leave us with stretch marks and transform every aspect of our day to day lives.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

how clergy and aspirants under 40 often view their call...

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Nazi laws regarding LGBTQ+ persons were the only ones deemed valuable by those who liberated the camps, with queer individuals at points simply moved to different prisons. These types of laws are in place to varying degrees globally today, at points less lenient than Nazi Laws.

Dr. Bodie A. Ashton

@manwithoutatan

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Alright then. International colleagues, I want you to see exactly what is happening over here—an anatomy of atrocity denial as part of a broader campaign of bigotry. The account below is run by Marie-Luise Vollbrecht, at the Humboldt University in Berlin. 1/

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

About a decade later, now with women in the room, TEC affirmed, updated, and clarified this statement with a new public policy resolution (GC 1976-D095). This remains the core of the ethical, moral, and legal considerations of TEC regarding abortion. It reads:

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

Paul is struggling with alienation vs agitation in his letters to the early church. It is a core problem of all non-violent resistance groups. This is why he advocates for outward conformity to social expectations while also naming women/men, jew/gentile, slave/free to be equal.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

As a Bexley Hall alumni... the fact that five of the remaining TEC Seminaries are on the east coast and less than a days drive from each other is perhaps the greatest sign of doom in this mess. This lack of diversity will overwhelmingly harm us moving forward.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

6) That the Episcopal Church express its unequivocal opposition to any legislation on the part of the national or state governments which would abridge or deny the right of individuals to reach informed decisions in this matter and to act upon them.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

10 months

TEC generally sees non-Sunday worship as an unpaid requirement for clergy. So the more hours in prayer we try to mark as billable the more upset people get. Of the 35 working hours clergy take up 5 should be dedicated to non-Sunday worship, 8 to Sunday, 22 to other.

Austin

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No parish Episcopal church offers divine service on a single weekday in my city. Went to the campus Catholic church this morning on a Wednesday and I counted 45 odd people. What are we doing here? Do mainliners' spiritual needs just turn off Monday-Saturday?

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

If a TEC priest is antagonistic to every social policy statement made by GenCon since we provided women voice and vote in 1970... there is a problem. The fact that we have in every year since 1970 ordained such marks the problem systemic. This lack of commitment makes GC hollow.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

ACNA is an in house extension of GAFCON that is more upset that GAFCON is willing to value women as equal to men than that GAFCON promotes the incarceration of LGBTQ+ individuals. This is why TEC cannot view ACNA orders or ministry in the same view as other conservative groups.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

The reality is that no one wants militant closed communion. Everyone's working practice is a permeable barrier where the unbaptized slip through upon occasion. We all know the prohibitions in the announcements and bulletins don't register.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

@brysonm1113 Cisgender Gay Anglo-Catholic Men antagonistic to fundamental issues of social justice that do not directly impact their personal comfort is the historic standard of the genre. It is how they existed within one of the most conservative branches of the church for decades.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

@catholiccom So the Catholic Church doesn't care about individuals with eating disorders nor the LGBTQ+ community. What it cares about is making cisgender heterosexual individuals without eating disorders feel self righteous and good about themselves?

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Disagreements about Open Communion, Liturgical Styles, Creedal Affirmation, etc. are categorically different than disagreements about valuing human dignity regardless of race, sex, gender identity, and sexuality. TEC allows for the first but actually doesn't value the second.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

@Rozkez67 @MillieCorner2 Demands for evidence is a mechanism of silencing those who report sexual violence... especially when such has already been posted in the thread... but reporting here.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

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@rav3ncunt @mushycrouton If an employer has a clear non-discrimination policy and the applicant makes clear in their paperwork they will not adhere to the basic expectations of the employee handbook regarding the treatment of clients and employees that is a reason to reject the application.

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Benjamin N Garren

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3 years

Discrimination against the elderly is real... a man not having access to the positions of power he held for forty years because he retired is not discrimination. Ensuring the next generation of clergy have positions to continue the work of the church is not ageism.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

@magikarpolycarp One story about the Buddha (this is relevant) is that he had two heirs apparent preceding his death. One was 100% miracle maker mysticism and the other was 100% boring bookworm author. Both were named 100% proper inheritors of the buddha's legacy. And there is so much truth here.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

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@AegidiusRex @ThomasWillett9 Do you desecrate the memory of all the dead? The inability for society to show basic respect to transgender individuals in death requires us to have a Memorial Day set aside every year to ensure their names are recited by someone who cares for them at that basic level.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

@episcopal_news "Side B", like unsafe sexual activity and drug use, is a coping mechanism within the LGBTQ+ community that requires an appropriate pastoral response. It cannot be the foundation of a pastoral response to issues of sexuality and gender within our communities.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

"Side B", like unsafe sexual activity and drug use, is a coping mechanism within the LGBTQ+ community that requires an appropriate pastoral response. It cannot be the foundation of a pastoral response to issues of sexuality and gender within our communities.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

Alternative Headline: Retired Priest fully invested in one of the most robust pension plans in the United States... yells at cloud.

The Episcopal Journal & Cafe

@episcopalcafe

3 years

Ageism in the church - a three-part series from the Rev. Tom Buechele:

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

I have to consistently be charitable to other clergy who refuse to engage basic medical and mental health science regarding LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention and dismiss my trauma narrative as irrelevant... otherwise I don’t value the process of reconciliation. This is TEC.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

The amount of ink spilled by the early church meditating on the idea that Adam and Jesus were both non-binary hermaphrodites existing as the fullness of humanity in one being... tells us how ‘clarity’ regarding the biblical narrative regarding only two genders is nonsense...

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

11 months

We don't have Creedal Liberation Theology a la Cone in TEC. We have cringey Big Tent Creedalist waxing on about how we cannot disparage bishop candidates who refuse to value LGBTQ+ people who and cannot open their mouths about BIPOC individuals without pulling a racism.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

@ThomasWillett9 Florida just signed into law government sponsored kidnapping and estranged parent kidnapping of transgender children from affirming parents with expectations to rewrite all child custody documents for transgender children in favor of the non-affirming parent. The real issue.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

When TEC clergy chastise their peers for being in solidarity with Edwin Chiloba and LGBTQ+ persons in the global south they are choosing to be in solidarity with those who murdered Edwin and entombed him in a dumpster. There is no way to compromise over the value of a human being

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

This is actually why I am a proponent of communion regardless of baptism because it is ultimately about a lot of Christians having to process their faith with no sense of special status and that is the reality a post-Christendom anti-colonial church needs to understand fully.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

Anglicanism is on a path towards being a healthy body. We used the steroids of colonialism/nationalism and various performance enhancing supremacist ideologies for a long time. Withdraw from substance abuse is difficult and painful but we can make it one day at a time.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

@MinecraftMatto @EppicSally No LGBTQ+ individuals clearly exist in the world build and of the three coded LGBTQ+ characters two are villains, one the historic big bad, and the one good gay character’s biggest mistake, that cost him his family, is having a gay relationship.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

@episcopal_news "Ex-Gay Ministry" and "Reparation Therapy" has always been about forced undiscerned celibacy even as it put itself forward as a "cure". Expectations that LGBTQ+ individuals be forced into undiscerned celibacy is, at best, "Ex-Gay Light". An abusive practice long found in TEC.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

@darin4really @himboanalytics Neglecting a child's healthy development of sexuality and gender identity is abusive. Ensuring LGBTQ+ youth have access to resources that can ensure their quality of life, and survival, into adulthood is an essential work of the community to promote basic safety for all members.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

One possibility is that the Syrophoenician woman is the only person in the Gospel who is called out on her privilege by Jesus who then responds appropriately with humility and deeper awareness. Her potential as a saint of our era is clear but we have to recognize ourselves in her

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

3 years

1) That the beginning of new human life, because it is a gift of the power of God's love for his people, and thereby sacred, should not and must not be undertaken unadvisedly or lightly (1/2)

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

Which is to just to say if we see Paul as a competent community organizer struggling in contexts to bring about the change that can happen at that point in time, instead of a unilateral dictator incapable of nuance, then suddenly a lot of our problems with Paul dissipate.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

1 year

The Episcopal Church... has been the socially legitimating Christian identity for those seeking upward mobility with no major litmus test for actual belief for generations. It is also LGBTQ+ affirming in general theory... so would be an excellent choice for those seeking such.

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@LanguageDoodad

1 year

they should invent Christianity for upwardly mobile gay atheists

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

We have decades of LGBTQ+ individuals whose childhoods in TEC were marked by the mindset found within "Side B" theology. Only some of us survived repeated attempts to implement it and only some of us survivors kept the faith. It is beyond time to move on.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

The Anglo-Cath youth program of my teens was basically trying the "Side B" but not Ex-Gay gambit. It destroyed any capacity I have to discern a call to actual celibacy. At age thirteen it was me and a prayer life whose main purpose was to deny my capacity to love and be loved.

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Benjamin N Garren

@wokehtklim

2 years

@CDSPTweet Is CDSP going to allow open debate about the value of BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ individuals in the church? Or should only LGBTQ+ seminarians be expected to have their value as human beings debated in class? It is sad CDSP rejects the non-discrimination canons of TEC.

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