http://www.wesleybros.com/wesbros/guardians-of-the-gospel/

Aargh.

«During the Civil Rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s, Martin Luther King, Jr. was most frustrated by the overwhelming silence from the vast majority of white churches.  These were nice churches, not anti-black, not pro-segregation, just opting to stay out of all these politics.  This is called complicity, and it’s silence like this that allows the folks that are openly hateful to get away with it.  It allows structures to remain in place that harm individuals.  We’ve been in the midst of a new Civil Rights movement, and the church continues the same patterns as before, either silence or self-defense…anything other than what the world really needs.»

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/dianne-feinstein-video-climate-change-sunrise-movement/583501/

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2019/2/23/18228142/green-new-deal-critics

They both seem right. Dianne Feinstein shouldn’t/can’t be logrolled by some organization trying to use kids to get done whatever it’s trying to get done (score points?), but we do need a solution.

https://twitter.com/managerspeak/status/1101013206045204485?s=17

Sometimes I feel like this is the Methodist Church.

Management Speak (@managerspeak) Tweeted:

There will be a photo opportunity with board members and their wives mingling with young people. This will boost our millennial recruitment drive.

http://wesleyanway.org/?p=3108

Hmmm.

https://twitter.com/KHNews/status/1100496650454425600?s=17

Kaiser Health News (@KHNews) Tweeted:

More than 42% of the 9.5 million people diagnosed with cancer from 2000 to 2012 drained their life’s assets within two years, according to a study published last year in the American Journal of Medicine. via @annagorman KHN/@NPR https://t.co/cNinEMGYFK

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/us/united-methodists-vote.html

«But in the United States, the vote poses a significant risk for a denomination that struggles to attract young people. United Methodists have one of the oldest religious populations in the country, with a median age of 57.

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“This feels like one generation locking down the church for the next,” said William H. Willimon, a retired bishop of the United Methodist Church and a professor at Duke Divinity School. “That’s a death sentence.”

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Six in 10 United Methodists in the United States believe homosexuality should be accepted.

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“The wound may one day be healed by the grace of God,” she said, “but the scar left behind will be visible forever.”

For many, the church’s slogan, “Open Hearts. Open Minds. Open Doors,” now feels shattered.

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The denomination has split about a dozen times in its history, notably over slavery and race.»

https://projects.propublica.org/represent/votes/116/house/1/94

Party-line vote in NC.

To be clear: EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN thinks it’s ok for the President to declare an emergency to get what he wants after Congress has said “No.”

Remember this in future when a Dem President declares gun violence or climate change to be a national emergency.

https://twitter.com/JKMH/status/1100511998268166145

This is a good point.

«Why are people aligning divorce and a bunch of other “sins” with being gay? Wtf? The whole “we all sinners” weak argument does not help the cause for lgbtq inclusion. #GC2019»

https://medium.com/@teamwarren/the-best-president-money-cant-buy-1adfbe01a344

I’m really liking Warren. I said in the past that she doesn’t have the foreign policy chops she needs, and I’m still a little iffy on that[1], because I believe foreign policy has only gotten more important in the last two years, but… I like her.  Here’s a related earlier post of mine: https://herereadthisarticle.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/the-five-types-of-trump-voters/

I think she might be able to get some mileage out of the concept of members of the super-wealthy getting in a snit and withholding donations just because she won’t make special time for them.

[1] If she builds a good team, though, that can make up a lot. We’re not electing a person, we’re electing a team (although the person is the team-builder).

«But I believe the biggest risk in this election is failing to empower the millions of people who feel the squeeze of an economy rigged against them and the deep frustration of a failing political system that produced Donald Trump in the first place.»