Allies, they are the ones who make a difference, we have an axe to grind, while they speak from the heart.
This is from May, but it is just making its rounds on Facebook.
We are only 0.5% of the population we need allies, we need people to stand up for us, it is their message that will sway voted.
This is from May, but it is just making its rounds on Facebook.
Allies have our backs!Emma Bunton, everyone’s favourite Spice Girl, comes out swinging for trans kids
Spice Girls legend Emma Bunton, is proving herself the ultimate ally after coming out unequivocally in support of LGBTQ+ rights on social media.
Pink News
By Asyia Iftikhar
May 10, 2023As a member of the biggest female pop group of the 90s – the Spice Girls – Bunton and her bandmates Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice), Mel C (Sporty Spice) and Mel B (Scary Spice) have cultivated a devoted queer fanbase and been vocal about their affinity with the LGBTQ+ community for almost 30 years.
In a time when LGBTQ+ rights are more under threat than ever, celebrities coming out as vocal allies for the community has never been more important. In the US, states are attempting to enforce drag bans, undermine the identity of trans youth, censor LGBTQ+ conversations in the classroom and follow the lead of Florida’s incredibly harmful “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
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Enter Emma Bunton, pop sensation, who is telling us what we want, what we really really want. Taking to her Instagram story on Monday (8 May) she reshared a post from trans ally and Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis’ own Instagram. The image spoke for itself, plastered with the powerful statement: “I will say gay and I will protect trans kids.”
We are only 0.5% of the population we need allies, we need people to stand up for us, it is their message that will sway voted.
And something allies come from strange places, even though he doesn’t support us he is still giving conservatives hell.
When I was going to catechism class we were taught that the Pope’s word was God and if you didn’t obey it you were going straight to hell!
BINGO!!!!Pope Francis denounces ‘backward’ attitudes of conservatives in U.S. Catholic Church
PBS NewHour
BY AP News
August 28, 2023Pope Francis has blasted the “backwardness” of some conservatives in the U.S. Catholic Church, saying they have replaced faith with ideology and that a correct understanding of Catholic doctrine allows for change over time.
Francis’ comments were an acknowledgment of the divisions in the U.S. Catholic Church, which has been split between progressives and conservatives who long found support in the doctrinaire papacies of St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, particularly on issues of abortion and same-sex marriage.
Many conservatives have blasted Francis’ emphasis instead on social justice issues such as the environment and the poor, while also branding as heretical his opening to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics receive the sacraments.
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The 86-year-old Argentine acknowledged his point, saying there was “a very strong, organized, reactionary attitude” in the U.S. church, which he called “backward.” He warned that such an attitude leads to a climate of closure, which was erroneous.
“Doing this, you lose the true tradition and you turn to ideologies to have support. In other words, ideologies replace faith,” he said.
When I was going to catechism class we were taught that the Pope’s word was God and if you didn’t obey it you were going straight to hell!
Francis has previously acknowledged the criticism directed at him from some U.S. conservatives, once quipping that it was an “honor” to be attacked by Americans.
When it comes to the doctrine, whether the Catholic Church or any Protestant church what would Jesus say? According to a quote attributed to former president Jimmy Carter, of all the thousands of word attributed to Jesus, there is not one uttered on the issue of gays and lesbians or the LGBTQ+ community. The pundits wonder why the country is increasingly becoming unchurched. To me, the answer is easy. Politics from the pulpit.
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