"When We Want to Be Courageous, a Bishop Stands Up"
"...And though we might decide to be brave in spite of our fears, that isn’t the same as being brave only to assuage our guilt. That’s why we need to remember that courage rests in decisive moments whether we choose to go or stay, change or persevere.
No one needs any additional guilt from otherwise well-meaning people added to any they already have. As I’ve argued before: “Guilt, a seemingly noble expression of justice, is a useful control mechanism for those protecting their power and prejudice. And even for the less powerful, dwelling on one’s own guilt helps us feel that we’re in control of what we probably are not.”
Maybe, then, our courage is expressed in starting a private group of individuals who are too vulnerable or afraid in this truly scary time to do any more than to meet to support each other. Maybe our courage means seeing that a charity we love continues.
Maybe it will be something like standing up in a meeting and just saying, “No, I disagree” and sitting down. Maybe it’s the courage to keep still.
But for many in our society, courage is expressed by just making it through another day, another week, another presidency."
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including his, in this issue, saying that we must go beyond just calling bigots hypocrites - the religion itself has to be held accountable. He names names and is right: 'What we’re seeing is the heart of what right-wing religion itself really is, not merely hypocrisy.'"
-- veteran LGBT activist (since 1959) and a founder of LA's Homosexual Information Center in 1968, Billy Glover
and this organization promotes and is a strong advocate for such thinking. He is a perfect fit for the 21st Century American thinking."
-- Michael Alldaffer, founder of the Great Plains Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State
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