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I bring him up because he is the face of the Southern Baptist faith too. One of them left church work entirely the other is this man. I had two Southern Baptist pastor friends - both conservatives - who quit their congregations because they couldn’t take it anymore.
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The seething hatred folks had for each other, and the expectation that the clergy would take a side. But he hated what politics had done to the people in his church. He was, and is, a conservative, both theologically and politically.
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Trying to help lead a congregation through the Covid crisis tore him up, plus he was ground down by the politicization of Southern Baptist life. I do remember that when he left town, he was worn out with congregational ministry. I could be wrong I honestly can’t remember. I know he’s still involved in ministry, but I seem to recall that it’s not in a Southern Baptist context. But then, he had left the pastorate suffering from burnout. I am sure that this man, my pastor friend, would have expressed disgust with it all. I only remembered that I had wanted his take on the scandal after I got home and read the new David Brooks column, more on which in a moment. We spent a long time talking about my ongoing divorce, and about what his life was like in his new city, and about miracles, and all kinds of things. We were together for two hours, and though I intended to ask him what he thought of this scandal, it never came up. He is a Southern Baptist pastor who moved out of town a couple of years ago, and happened to be back visiting family. I just returned from getting together with a friend who is one of the finest men I know. If you haven’t been following this story, this CNN report will bring you up to speed:
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On the other hand, the Catholic Church was full of people who may not have had direct responsibility for protecting abusers, but who had a pretty good idea of what was happening anyway, but said nothing. The priest at the parish down the street might have known as little about what was going on as his non-Catholic neighbors, and just as little power to do anything about it.
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This is important, because I remember as a Catholic going through the first years of the outbreak of the Catholic scandal, which exploded in early 2002, in the wake of the Geoghan trial in Boston, how the justified rage of all people came down unfairly on many priests who had nothing to do with it. It is hard for me as an outsider to get a handle on who, precisely, is to blame for what. I don’t understand the degree of responsibility that the SBC’s leaders have, compared to the Catholic system. Each congregation has far more autonomy than Catholic congregations. I don’t know nearly as much about the Southern Baptists, aside from the fact that it is far less systematically organized than Catholicism. I understand it less than I did the same thing in the Catholic Church, in part because I was once Catholic, and grasped how the system worked within Catholic ecclesiology. For now, we rounded up 35 of our favorite LGBTQ movies, from a sapphic historical romance to a cheesy early-aughts coming out rom-com and everything in between.I have been wondering what to say about the catastrophe that has overtaken the Southern Baptist Convention, regarding the tolerance of key leaders of a culture of sexual abuse, and cover up. With more queer-identifying filmmakers, actors, producers, and directors than ever before given the opportunity to share their stories, we can only expect more fantastic LGBTQ+ films in the future. While we’re a long way from total inclusivity and gay movies sans stereotypes, the film industry has made recent strides in centering LGBTQ+ characters. For marginalized groups, truthful representation in film is imperative, even lifesaving, and in today’s stormy political climate there’s an urgency for straight cisgender people to see LGBTQ characters portrayed accurately and unapologetically - and by people who actually know what LGBTQ life is like because they live it. Still, from Sacha Baron Cohen’s fashion-obsessed Brüno to a Scream Queens character nicknamed Predatory Lez, we unfortunately continue to see it all. LGBTQ people have long been buried under tropes and unsubtle stereotypes in film and television. LGBTQ movies are a rarity, even more so than accurately portrayed queer characters in film nowadays.