Episcopal priest, Mom, retired AP US history teacher, guitarist, ex-pat Okie. Reverent and irreverent Reverend. All opinions posted are mine.
Okie in Exile in the Midwest
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1/3 I quoted this in my sermon yesterday, & each time I read it I’m in wonder at how much we can learn right now from the 16th & 17th century Church:
“No man is an island,
entire of itself;
every man is a piece of the continent,
a part of the main. ...
#COVID19 #BeingChurch
No hate. Not in La Liga.
When a player gets targeted by homophobic fans for painting his nails, his team and their fans respond.
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NBC started with falsifying the feed at the Opening Ceremony when Vance was booed and loudly by the crowd. Y’all think we can’t see this on other actual news orgs’ streams?
Your toadying is disgusting and dangerous, @NBCSports — and will
lose you viewers. Permanently.
EPIC. WEEKEND. AHEAD. #SBLX #WinterOlympics
ALT The image is a promotional poster featuring two events. The top section shows the Winter Olympics February 6 Opening Ceremony with participants holding an American flag. The bottom section highlights the Super Bowl LX with Sam Darnold, Drake Maye and the Vince Lombardi Trophy, scheduled for February 8. The NBC and Peacock logos are displayed between the events. The text reads "One Legendary Weekend."
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Rev Leslie Scoopmire retweeted
People are worried about how American athletes are representing America.
Meanwhile Trump:
Posts racist videos
Calls female journalists piggy
Tells women to “smile” when discussing pedophilia
Has ICE killing people & getting away with it
The athletes are not the problem.
Rev Leslie Scoopmire retweeted
Our dog knows way too many phrases now, so my husband and I have resorted to talking like Victorian nobility to get anything by him. "Have you taken the dog on a brisk adventure recently? Would you escort the canine to the backyard, forthwith? Has he supped yet?"
I once served at a church where a couple of women in the greeting line would comment every so often on my weight.
Today I was told I don’t have any wrinkles.
HA! WINNING!
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Rev Leslie Scoopmire retweeted
Dear Black Men Supporting Trump,
I'd like to introduce you to this man, Lee Atwater. Now, you may not know who Lee Atwater is, but he's had a profound impact on your life over the past 50ish years. You see, he's the architect of a thing called the Southern Strategy...
This is basically the story of my psych interview for ordination. Thank you and don’t forget to tip your waiter.
made my therapist laugh until she had tears in her eyes & fell out of the zoom frame nothing can stop me now i am her favorite this is what peak performance looks like i have won all of therapy
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Rev Leslie Scoopmire retweeted
There are 17 gop states suing the federal government over the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The act protects access to very basic things, among which are:
- bathroom breaks
- access to water
- being able to sit or stand as needed
- allowing for lactation
So let's be clear, in gop states with unethical abortion bans where women are forced to go through pregnancy, the gop want to be able to not only disregard EMTALA, but they also want to get rid of very basic work place protections for those who are pregnant.
Never, ever forget. This was, is, and always will be wrong.
On this day 82 years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the height of insanity of racism after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, signed Executive Order 9066.
It ordered all Japanese Americans on the West Coast to be summarily rounded up and imprisoned within 10 barbed wire prison camps, with no charges, no trial, no due process.
One day, a few months later, we saw two soldiers marching up our driveway, carrying rifles with shiny bayonets on them. They stopped up the porch right in front of our window and banged on the front door. My father answered, and one of the soldiers pointed the rifle at him, right in front of us, and ordered us out of our home. I had just turned five in April; it was May when they came to take us away.
My father gave my brother Henry and me two heavy suitcases. And we brought them out onto the driveway and waited for our mother to come out. When she did, she had our baby sister in one arm, a huge duffel bag in the other, and tears were streaming down her cheeks.
That is one morning that is seared into my memory. I will never be able to forget all the innocent people, my family included, who had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor, most of who were law abiding U.S. citizens, who were suddenly categorized as ‘enemy aliens.’
Today, I hear terrifying words from political leaders today that once more raise the specter of what happened before, right here in America.
Donald Trump and his allies are talking about rounding up 11 million people and putting them into mass detention camps before deporting them.
There won’t be time for due process, to sort out who is documented and who is not. Homes will be lost. Businesses, too. Families will be torn apart. Lives will be ruined, over fear and ignorance, all to serve the ambitions and agendas of politicians.
I know, because I lived through it.
I say, never again. Not while I have one ounce of fight still left in me.
Join me. Fight this madness. Help keep America from repeating the mistakes of its past.
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Rev Leslie Scoopmire retweeted
Today is the Feast of S. Brigid of Kildare, Abbess.
She is the patroness saint of Ireland, and one of its three national saints along with S. Patrick and S. Columba.
She founded the important abbey of Kildare.
I had a dear aunt from Ireland also named Brigid.
Rev Leslie Scoopmire retweeted
Using the creation order from Genesis to argue for female subjugation is truly ridiculous.
If you’re really committed to a creation order hierarchy, here’s the chain of command:
1. Ocean
2. Sky
3. Land
4. Plants
5. Sun
6. Moon
7. Fish
8. Birds
9. Land Animals
10. Humans