‘I’m a Christian for trans rights’: pro-LGBTQ+ Missouri pastor runs for office
‘I’m a Christian for trans rights’: pro-LGBTQ+ Missouri pastor runs for office
As she campaigns in a deep red state, Rev Susan Shumway says its her job to ‘kick open the doors’ for queer youth
Coming from deeply conservative evangelical culture, I can tell you that to them, she isn't a pastor, she's a woman pastor which a completely different and significantly less respected thing. To us she's just a pastor, which also earns her buckets of disrespect. She's basically unelectable by everyone.
very hard to believe this pastor is genuine especially in Missouri
like believing a prosecutor is going to stand with the citizens instead of supporting cops and the corporate interests they protect and serve
Christianity is very diverse, in Missouri as elsewhere. Sure this diversity is not equally distributed, but still you can find any type in any American state.
like believing a prosecutor is going to stand with the citizens instead of supporting cops
Also odd that we're one of the few states that jailed a killer cop. KC is paying for it though. Cops here are determinedly lax on the job right now, and word on the street is they're unmotivated because that cop's still in prison.
I'm a Missourian and find this headline shocking. My state is doing everything it possibly can to disenfranchise unconventional people of every sort.
YSK that Missouri is going to get worse and worse over time, seeing as how it looks over at states such as Mississippi and says "golly gee willickers, I wanna be more like them!"
Businesses will not move there, some already there will not expand, and some will even outright leave. It will become something of a "healthcare desert". A profound example that I recall reading about during the pandemic was a doctor in I think it was just east of Springfield (but don't recall further details of the location). He started a medical center or something along those lines - the point is that he brought in grant funding, a literal job creator. He had just moved there from somewhere else, however upon receiving literal death threats for offering to give people vaccines and before that telling people to wear masks, he left. For the sake of his daughters, it was not worth it to him to try and stay.
On the one hand, if people of good conscience abandon such areas to whoever remains to vote, that affects the country as a whole, especially via the Senate seats, see e.g. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, and yes Josh Hawley, who I recall was literally the only one to vote against a particular sex slave trafficking bill - the ONLY ONE!!! But on the other, please take care of yourself too.