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For most of his adult life, regardless how he had planned his future, Moses, chosen by God, had to perform some rather mind blowing tasks as if he had had the courage to make all the upcoming sacrifices and was prepared enough. He had to take on the Pharoah, prove to the Hebrews he was God-directed and not crazy, and then had to deal for forty years with any complaint uttered by anyone on the trek to the Promised land.

There had been pursuing armies, a sea in the way, having to deal with the substitution of a golden calf for God and having to deal with the crowd that would do that, and a God who didn’t like it. He had to convince his people to paint their doors with blood because God couldn’t tell a Jew from an Egyptian and might accidentally kill a wrong kid.

It was one thing after another and Moses bore up pretty well.

But, in spite of this, he was barred from entry into the Promised Land for one minor act.

From the source, Numbers 20:

“Now there was no water for the community, and the people gathered in opposition to Moses and Aaron. They quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had died when our brothers fell dead before the LORD!

Why did you bring the LORD’s community into this desert, that we and our livestock should die here?

Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!”

So much gvetching that Moses needed some help and turned to God.

The LORD said to Moses,

“Take the staff, and you and your brother Aaron gather the assembly together. Speak to that rock before their eyes and it will pour out its water. You will bring water out of the rock for the community so they and their livestock can drink.”

So Moses took the staff from the LORD’s presence, the staff he had used every time God needed something done like turning it into a snake to scare the Pharoah and friends, when he parted the Red Sea, times like that.

When he got to the rock, Moses first said something, admonishing the Hebrews for all the whining, and then, perhaps by force of habit, as he had done for over forty years at God’s bidding, he raised his arms and struck the rock twice with his staff.

Water gushed out, and the community and their livestock drank.

The problem was that while he struck the rock twice, like one does with the elevator button to make sure you pressed it right, or as if a second push will speed up the elevator’s arrival, especially as no water started coming out immediately as one would expect from a miracle, perhaps his first tap being too light, he tapped it again and  the water flowed.

However, in childish petulance, God said this, in spite of everything else, showed Moses doubted God, and so he was barred from entry into the Holy Land.

After all those years using his staff every time God had him do something, this one time, God had a problem with it.

A whole life of dedication to the Lord, wiped out because God was a little slow on letting the water flow. There might have been a football game on the tube in his celestial background and God got momentarily distracted.

After all his nerve wracking trials and adventures, Moses could have turned out to be either by nature or the Exodus nurture one of those people who always hits the light switch a second time or randomly straightens pictures on other people’s walls. There had to be some effects from the whole Hebrews going to the Promised Land events.

Can you imagine how many souls would be burning in hell if God had a thing for elevator buttons?

Hell would be overcrowded with people with OCD.

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Recently, walking from the New Bedford Whaling Museum to the Southcoast Regional Transit Authority bus terminal, as I got to the corner of William and Purchase Streets, a very busy intersection with pedestrians, cars, and delivery trucks, I had to walk wide of the sidewalk West of Purchase as the corner was occupied by three people, one standing and two sitting, who had two approximately five feet tall magazine racks with Biblical literature on each placed in such a way that if you were walking up the North side of William to Pleasant Street one block up from there, if you did not cross the street as I did, or walk pass them by taking to the street, like cows at the slaughter house being forced into single file so the kill is easier, you would be forced to walk closer to the people who would break your mindset by saying something religious as you passed, most likely something to cause you to pause so they could preach, with no way to avoid seeing their publications.

Even from the corner across the street, the titles of the publications on the two racks were large enough to read, so avoiding the message being promoted and the lifestyle being thrust into the faces of any pedestrians was impossible. Pedestrians had no choice but to view the racks and deal with those attempting to recruit people to their chosen lifestyle

Accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior is a clear choice and one that gets a pass.

Earlier, when I had sat down across Acushnet Ave from Customs House Square to check for any phone calls or messages I had ignored during the museum volunteer monthly meeting, a monk from the Marian Chapel on Pleasant Street passed by me at the corner of William and Acushnet Streets in full monk habit, rope, cowl, and robe. I assumed he was on his way up the two blocks and one over from where he passed me on his way from somewhere further back to get home.

I know from looking up the ordinances for sidewalks so as not to give an excuse for arrest or banishment before my own one-man sit outs, they are in violation of space limitations and impeding pedestrian traffic. You are to construct no permanent structure or dig a hole without a permit, and you cannot impede the progress of pedestrians with temporary and/or permanent structures or crowds, so you cannot put things up that cause people on the sidewalk to change direction, and you cannot just spread out like you own the area.

My footprint at my occasional one-man sit outs is the size of a foldable lawn chair close to the curb and, unlike the Bible people, away from the handicap ramps so they do not have to tango to get the closest clear spot.

As was to be expected, when I had my first five-day anti-Trump’s homophobic actions sit out at the beginning of his tenure, the guards from the federal building came up to me at the corner of Middle and 6^th and asked if I was aware of city ordinances regarding sidewalks, and upon my reciting them, left me alone as I was adhering to them to such a degree that, rather than have any yelling or loud public discussions with those with a differing viewpoint, I had a print out with my points on it so passers-by could read them before saying anything, especially irrelevant comments.

This happened two more times with long intervals between sit outs over the time it took to get rid of Trump and his lackey, Bristol County sheriff, and on the first day when I set up my chair by the Octopus, where Pleasant and Purchase Streets intersect Rte. 6, I was questioned by a police officer who agreed that I was adhering to city sidewalk rules.

The religious people have been on that sidewalk before and in other locations as well.

It is allowed.

The monk walked through public space dressed as he chose to dress, and not in the fashion chosen by the majority because of the, yes, because of the lifestyle he chose where he and his confreres have to dress like pre-Thirteenth Century Italian Shepherds.

Not being the general mode of dress that is gender based but dressing like a 12th Century Italian shepherd is simply a form of Drag.

Religious fanatics are claiming people are being accosted by Drag performances in public where children might be present and be groomed, and, like flash mobs, you can never tell when a Drag show will suddenly materialize without warning. The argument is made that, having their own gathering places, any such shows should be confined to those places.

What I encountered was religious people pushing their lifestyle choice on an unsuspecting public, some of whom were children, thus, grooming them. They have their own spaces designated for the purpose of preaching and promoting a particular religious view and, as such, should be confined to those spaces.

And, as for the monks.

Whatever they choose to wear within the walls of their monastery is fine, but when they come outside, put on some pants. This is not Assisi 1200. Next thing you know, some kid might want to become a monk who never thought of that before until that monk in flowing robes passed by.

Why is this acceptable?

If people object to the theoretical possibility that a Drag show might break out, an event yet to actually be witnessed, because it promotes a lifestyle to which children might be groomed and recruited in violation of what they have been taught at home, they should equally object to religious flash mob-like appearances where small children might begin questioning their own family’s religious beliefs and be recruited to a religious lifestyle other than that of the child’s family.

Otherwise, one belief system and lifestyle choice is being accepted and allowed to skirt laws and ordinances.

Save the children.

Get religious proselytizing of the public streets.

There is no evidence of spontaneous Drag shows intruding on the public square, but here is proof that religious proselytizing does, and if a possibility is a danger to be prevented, this is religious grooming and recruitment is a actual danger that needs to be stopped.

I have included two pictures. One is the public sidewalk as it should be, passable and not a center for grooming. The other is that same corner when the Drag show broke out.

THE RELIGIOUS INTRUSION AND GROOMING

THE SAME CORNER EVERY TIME A DRAG SHOW SPONTANEOUSLY BREAKS OUT.

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WHO THE REAL “GROOMERS” ARE AND HOW THEY DO IT

(I had taught just a few doors down from Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern when she and I taught at NorthWest Classen High School in Oklahoma City. What follows is my account of her attempt to remove Gay Friendly and “Homosexually themed” books from public libraries, and the administrators’ mistake in inviting her to a high school graduation that made them look good, but was an insult to any GLBT student, graduate, family member, or teacher. At the time we were attempting to have GLBT students openly included in policies on Bullying, Harassment, and Nondiscrimination so that their inclusion would not be left up to the individual views of teachers as school policies should be neutral and include all students.

Sally Kern was a prime example of why the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” needed to be included in any policy dealing with students, which they finally were after a 12 year battle with the School Board.

      It was also an example of a loud, but ot necessarily correct religio-poltical viewpoint attempts to make itself the only one.

     While people were advocating for the Gay students, another chain of events was put in motion that further showed the need to make it clear that Gay students had protection under District policy and that they have a right to self-affirming books and information.)

     The woman who had been teaching Advanced Placement Government, a class that was supposed to explain how our democratic system worked and, perhaps, interest students in a life of public service, was an extremely religious and conservative person. According to her web site she had wanted to be a celibate missionary for Christ until He introduced her to the minister who would become her future husband. She never made it clear on her web site or in personal conversation whether this introduction was done as a blind date, a simple introduction at a social event, or a tossing off from a horse on the road to some city like Demascus. Although God never spoke to the woman who was to be the Mother of His Son, rather choosing to send an emissary, He not only spoke to this teacher that one time, but, seemingly to give in to the Yenta side of his Jewish-ness, Jesus then decided to go further and tell her to have babies and stay home to raise them He then directed her to get into teaching when they were grown so He could be brought back to the public school; and after having accomplished everything Jesus told her to do up to that point from whom to marry and what to teach, but still not being in a position to change public education state-wide from the classroom, Jesus told her to run for the state legislature to accomplish this.

     Her running as the candidate chosen by Jesus in the Buckle of the Bible Belt guaranteed her election was a given and now she could begin promoting her religious ideas in the school systems of the state, and she chose as her first step, to banning books.

     It seemed that after she got into the legislature she needed to come out of the clichéd gate running, and she found her introductory issue.

     Oddly, as it happened this way in every place in America back around 2003 where the book was condemned, two parents whose state and town of residence was the empty space into which a local name could be placed making the threat just too darn close, picked up their children whom they had left at the library unattended, and on the way home asked what books they had gotten. The parents were pleased with the books being called out until one of the children began to read from a book, King and King, the story of a prince whose mother while attempting to marry him off to a princess found he was actually in love with another prince and had no problem with it. After almost hitting a tree and potentially killing their own children in their horror, the parents called the new representative in the local case but was usually the representative from another state telling the tale there, who then demanded that, as the public libraries are tax funded, this book be removed from all libraries, or those offending libraries which refused to do this would be denied funding from the state.

     The bad parenting skills of the parents who simply dropped their children off unsupervised in a day and age when children were being abducted, or could be, who did not help choose what their children intended to read at home, who did not take the opportunity to strengthen family values by helping to guide in book choice, but upon seeing their own failing attempted to blind others to it by using this supposed assault on the Christian values, yes, they were all Christian families in all iterations of the story, as distraction so they would not be held responsible for their lax parenting.  

     Attracting some very disturbingly conservative people, the legislator went to a Metro Library Commission meeting demanding any book with a “Homosexual Theme” or which might have spoken of Homosexuality as anything other than an abomination be removed from the system. Her assumption, apparently, was that as a legislator she would speak, they would listen, and there would be no question. I do not think she was aware that people would object to her attempted use of power, or that her wishes would not be so automatically obeyed.

     A group of people including legal people from the ACLU, local Gay organizations, library workers, and concerned citizens, myself included, went to a Library Commission meeting at which she was to present her demand. We argued that parents, after instilling in their children their own family values, should view what their children intended to read before they checked out a book at any library, rather than demand that if they found something objectionable no one should be allowed to read it.

     Perhaps if they had done better raising their children to be what they want them to be, sharing the same Christian family values, it would not be so easy for a child to push all that aside because the child found a book with a “Homosexual Theme”.

     I felt a little naked at that first of many meetings when, in attempting to prove her action was not based on bigotry, but a concern for children, the legislator tried that old chestnut that she only objected to certain things of a homosexual nature, but she herself loved Gay people and knew many, and even worked with some very fine teachers who happened to be Gay, and, while making that last statement, swept her left arm in an inclusive arcing motion, declaring as stopped when pointing at me that I was a wonderful teacher, a Gay man with whom she had no problem as she mentioned my name. Although she knew I was open at school, she took the liberty, or acted on the assumption that there would be no harm in using me in so public a manner.

     The commission was to take things under advisement, or avoidance if you will, and hold a few more meetings before any decision was to be made.

     The media was mixed in their reaction to Kern’s move, but, most often, questioning it. Although the media tried mightily to report in a balanced, neutral way, some of her statements which bordered on fanaticism came across that way. 

     As the meetings progressed and the foolishness of her demands became more and more apparent, she modified her demand from removing the books totally from libraries to placing them in a restricted area for books that were controversial in nature without actually describing who would do this, or on what it would be based.

     The commission, for its part, knowing that as libraries are funded by all taxpayers, was reluctant to choose and place books apart solely on the opinions and desires of any one group.   Even the Bible had its unsavory parts, and fairy tales were rife with negative references to step-mothers that would certainly offend those families that had one. It was conceivable that since quite a few books with anything anyone might find objectionable would be put in a totally separate place, there just wasn‘t enough separate space in any library to accommodate all the books that might need to be moved.

     Or, looked at another way, they have been so gathered and that id the contents of the library.

     Wherever the legislator went with her message, people from the other side of the argument were there too. If any parent did not want his or her child to read something it was up to them to establish limits within their family and be with the child at the library. It was wrong for someone to force their own personal family values on others by deciding what other people‘s children should be able to read.

     There were rallies in front of libraries, interviews in the various media, and a presence at all Library Commission meetings.

     The final compromise of the Library Commission to the legislator‘s demand was far from a total seclusion of these books in a separate room. They would be placed on an easily findable shelf, but separated from other books in that section of the library as its own section. Instead of the desired effect of making them hard to find, these “controversial” books were made more easy to find because they were on a separate shelf in the various areas like the children‘s section.

     Her greatest threat of withholding public funds from non-cooperating libraries was shot down in the state legislature, and the matter died.

     Just a few weeks before graduation that year Sally Kern wrote a letter to her constituents which stated she had been divinely placed in the legislature to return much needed reality to the state.

     Gay people were the biggest problem.
“I ask for your prayers that God’s will be done. We, the Christian community, have set [sic] idly by for too long and let this perversion get out of hand. The homosexuals are wanting us to accept their behavior as normal and natural. It is not. It is sin and unless Believers stand up and be heard it will continue to spread like a cancer and destroy our society. I believe that with all my heart. I am not a particularly valiant person but God has put me in the position of State Representative for such a time as this.”

     If this assumption of divine anointing, and her attitude toward Homosexuals as stated above were brought into her Government classes especially during the time she was a candidate for office what, other than the wording of school policy, could have protected Gay Students from her negative attitude toward them and homosexuals in general?

     Although I could understand the political expediency of having the Representative invited to attend the graduation of a school in her legislative district, and although I could see that as she was a former teacher it was nice to have invited her to attend the graduation of some of her former students, I questioned why she sat up on the stage with administrators and honored students. I saw this as a little insensitive toward the Gay students who fell into her perversion category.

     Again, without regard for our Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender students and family members, some sitting among the graduation class, and others either as siblings or parents in the audience, and ignoring the demeaning and dismissive attitude expressed in her email and

comments made while she attempted to ban Gay books, and the damage done to our past and present students by the actions she had taken and the expressed reasons for them, she was given political advantage. Someone thought it would be a feather in the cap of the school if a Representative was an honored guest. Her hurtful comments did not apply to them.

     Students found out fast that an assignment in her Advanced Placement Government class calling for the expressing of views on certain political and current events topics, got a higher grade the closer the report was to the conservative argument for or against any subject, the opposite holding true for a more liberal standpoint. Her classes usually dwindled over any given year as students chose not to be proselytized either religiously or politically.

      In an email exchange with a former student, the representative had told her that she would have done better in school had she then accepted, and would do better in the future if she now accepts Jesus into her Jewish life.

     I was responsible for some segment of the education of those graduating, and I had attempted to give them the best education I could. For GLBT people, some being graduates, their family members, and myself, to be publicly described by the Representative as pedophiles, a lower form of creature, sexual predators, recruiters of youth into a condemned “life-style”, pornographic by our very nature, a danger to the welfare of youth, and a cancer on society that needed to be removed like a cancer from one’s little toe so it does not spread at Library Commission meetings, rallies of conservatives at the state capitol, or at political gatherings where such statements could be heard by my students, and there she was presented as a good and totally acceptable and honored role-model, a person who was extremely insensitive toward those to whom her ignorance was directed, again, some of whom were members of the honored graduates and their families.

     Book banning then and book banning now is an exercise in forcing one religio-political view on others while claiming it is to protect children from the perversions contained in readily available books one might CHOOSE to read, while the motivation to control people’s reading and and level of education is the way they want to groom children to be like them, removing any other viewpoints obviously because if comparisons were made the groomers would lose.

     If the motivation were truly to remove books available to children in school libraries that contain rape, child molestation, castration, incest, nudity fornication,murder, mutilation, starvation, genocide and the like, the Bible, readily available to children at schools and in public Libraries must also go unless a certain viewpoint is established as the states viewpoint.

     This is what grooming looks like in the open as it attempts to distract from what these groomers are doing by claiming it is being done by others.

     Distraction, the easiest way to take a cookie away from a toddler’s pile of them so they do not notice that one is now missing while blaming the dog.

In the GOP obsession with Transgender and non-binary, non-heterosexual people, they act like there is an emergency as thousands of Gay people seem to be coming from nowhere like an invasion from an alien planet or from Europe.

But just as in Columbus’s day, once discovered, they must be enslaved or killed off.

If there isn’t a caravan heading toward our border, they will collect the people to create one.

Their ignorance of reality is evidenced by their apparent claim that Drag Queens and Trans people, like the Western Hemisphere, exist now as never before based only on their refusal to remain in the pre-Colombian shadows.

The thing is, Gays Lesbian, Transgender people all manner of non-heterosexually oriented people have been here, it is that now we are tired of you not letting us tell you that.

As the chant in my day went,

“We’re here! we’re Queer! Get used to it!”

We have always been here. It is the fear of losing control over our lives that angers the theocrats.

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I lived and taught on both coasts and in the middle, in the “Heartland”, a name, based more on location than any claim to the overabundance of love or charity. A common experience I have had and have witnessed others having as Gay people being somewhere in public doing something unremarkable, such as eating in a restaurant, and being assaulted by someone who approaches throwing out Bible verses like some flower girl at a wedding because they saw you were Gay yet doing the same thing that the bible verse hurlers are doing.

You have done nothing to call for this, but your simply existing is enough justification.

As a teacher, I have been called to too many meetings in the Bible Belt that were called by an administrator, leading one to believe it was a standard parent/teacher meeting, only to have the parent, and sometimes even the administrator, hurl Bible verses at me because in class I mentioned an author was Gay or I was not hiding the fact I was a Gay man.

If the district curriculum requires me to bring up the heterosexuality of authors by mentioning their spouses whose only claim to fame is they are married to someone say, for example Anne Hathaway whose only claim to fame is that she got knocked up by William Shakespeare and so, had a shotgun wedding, and tell my students all about Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her doting husband, Robert, and cover Romeo and Juliette in class with the two minors falling in love and committing suicide, a wonderful story for kids entering the dating game who have the same emotional maturity that the two star crossed lovers had, I would not be honest with my students if I did not give equal respect to a Gay poet.

If the parent at one of these was a man, I would ask that they only quote the Latin and Greek originals as translations can be influenced by the translator, or, if a woman, quoting the line in Timothy that women must be quiet and not lord it over men.

In both cases I would ask to see their Bibles and having an almost 100% guarantee of being right, would flip to that place where the book of Sirach that is contained in the Jerome, or “Catholic” Bible, but not in their King James, I could not accept the veracity of their source so it was useless to cite it.

I and others have been accosted entering or exiting a Gay establishment heading toward my car with questions about my having accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior followed by the Bible verses that should influence me to do that.

Jesus can’t take the wheel if you don’t let me get into my car.

They have leaned on the door while preaching so I couldn’t open it, making my entry real inconvenient by having me go to the passenger side door and climbing from the passenger seat to the driver seat over the stick shift between the two. Jesus’s getting in was His problem.

While Gay people were denied the right to marry civilly, the Bible quoting was applied and the sum total of it was that, while we are told sex outside of marriage was a sin, we were condemned for having it outside the marriages we were denied.

Don’t tell me I can’t have what everyone else is eating because you have decided i won’t like it.

The Bible and any out of context verse was considered fair game to hurl at Gay people.

Once during the Gay Pride Parade in Long Beach California, a minister, nicknamed Bible Bill by the Gay Community, had his gathered congregants rush into the parade repeatedly beating the closest marchers over their heads with the obligatory Southern Baptist, leather bound Bibles resulting in their only being able to attend the event in the future if they remained within a roped off area in lieu of the arrests they had faced for their actions the previous parade per orders of the Long Beach PD who did not want to deal with this foolishness and an agreement with the Gay Community as “We are a gentle loving people fighting for our lives.”

I have been at a religious gathering at a state capitol where a state representative, using the Bible as justification, told the Praise-Jesus crowd that like cancer, Gay people must be cut out and killed off.

Preachers have called for the government to execute Gay people because their version of the Bible claims God wants that in spite of neither Father or Son even mentioning Homosexuality anywhere in either the old or new testament in the original languages of the books contained in them.

Some humans might have things to say, but God in any guise remains silent and He has made multiple personal appearances.

There is no modification allowed when verse interpretations do not agree but one Christian is louder than the other and, so, obviously has the correct exegesis, and no way to brush aside a Bible verse when it is hurled at someone like a weapon and, for the sake of others around perhaps having an anniversary, a birthday, or all important first date dinner in a fine restaurant who could be negatively affected, the target chooses not to add to the scene and thinks of other things while there is a hum in the background.

I have often used that time, and they were often at one point, to come up with a cartoon on a completely different topic as, knowing the bible, like an actor just going through the motions of a play running long past its relevance, I can automatically hear the word that cues my next line, need to nod, or my giving a look that implies I am paying attention.

God’s word in the Bible is inerrant and cannot be modified for a person’s convenience, unless, of course, you are a Bible-verse hurling Christian.

Congress member Lauren Boebert who, as a Bible thumping Christian, claimed that if Jesus had an AR-15, the Romans would never have been able to arrest him that Thursday night in the Garden, He would not have had to pray to his Heavenly Father to let “this cup pass” because he could blow away those who approached and, thereby, avoiding God’s plan for our Salvation removing any reason to love and revere Him, and preventing the very religion she espouses, showed her deep passion for That man and that religion and her chosen translation of the Bible when she proudly announced that, just like her when she was a senior in high school and got pregnant out of wedlock, her 17 year old son has done the same by impregnating his girlfriend out of wedlock.

She made her announcement of this violation of the Bible at CPAC to a group of conservatives, many who do that whole Bible quoting thing because, they claim, this is a Christian Nation founded on the Bible to which we must adhere to avoid the wrath of God descending on the United States.

“I’m going to tell you all for the first time in a public setting that not only am I a mom of four boys but come April, I will be a GG to a brand new grandson.”

Last June, Boebert told people at a Colorado Christian gathering that she was tired of the separation of church and state and would rather have unspecified churches directing the government.

She claimed her opposition to Kevin McCarthy being the Speaker of the House was based on her being an instrument of God who was tasked with standing  up to “demons”.

Obviously then, based on her own experience and her very public promotion of her brand of Christianity, one that would support the negating of God’s plan for salvation in the attempt to put guns, obviously, above all things, even her own religion and the basis of it, the Resurrection, some one was going to ask about this contradiction in her proud announcement that her son had done a very unbiblical thing which brought her such joy.

She publicly rejoiced in sin.

On a conservative political talk show, Dave Rubin, the host, asked if her son’s getting a girl  pregnant out of wedlock which was clearly in violation of hers and his religion went against her beliefs, Boebert responded in such a way that quoting her could be the form of Garlic needed to ward off the religious vampires.

“Obviously, I’m a Christian, and there are standards that we like to uphold, but none of us do it perfectly. We can nitpick what the Bible says is right and wrong, but I think just having that heart posture of wanting to serve God, it’s so important.”

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“I would I have chose a different path [for him]? Of course, but this is where we’re at, and we’re all embracing it, and we’re so happy.”

She also happily added that because of this her son will remain  close to her rather than attending the university in Florida he had planned to attend.

This is good because,

“I get to instruct him now on how to be a loving father and how to raise a baby.”

Boebert made her 36 year-old mother a grandmother then, and now, she herself will be a grandmother at 36, and, if she is successful in showing her son how to be a good father,  one assumes a Christian one, her son will be a grandfather in another 17 years, keeping the Christian family tradition and her family values alive.

This was not lost on her son who seems to have a belief system that is in some ways different from his mothers religious views or horrifying the same.

When they had their “talk” about the situation, according to Boebert, when she presented the family history, i.e, “My mom—she was 18 when she had me. I was 18 when I had Tyler, and now he’s 18. One of his first comments was, ‘Mom, it’s hereditary’.” said, ‘Nice try. Doesn’t work that way.’ But I’m really proud of him and my grandson’s mom for being responsible, because they could have taken a different route, and both of them chose life,’ she said.

There is an  upside to this hypocrisy. Every non-heterosexual person, every woman, every minority, anyone who has had the experience of a religious ambush should tell every assaulting Christian,

“Oh, you can nitpick what the Bible says is right and wrong, but I think just having that Heart posture of wanting to serve God. It’s so important.”

Now so that you do not think nothing good came of this Child out of wedlock with a grandmother who conceived the father the same way, apparently passing on this very un-biblical cross-generational turning of one’s back on the very religion that should be running this country, Boebert did speak to her son assuring him all would be well and his violation of all she believes in and spews was something for which he could ask God  for forgiveness and then proceed like nothing ever happened and those who continue to disapprove are just nitpicking.

Ironically, the redemption he so easily gets would not have been possible if the plan for salvation never came to pass because on Holy Thursday, coming up this week, Jesus had had an AR-15.

This is a case of convenient morality, situational ethics as, while the son did not commit another Biblical violation this one is, therefore, easily dismissed.

 Boebert maintains that she is proud of her son and the mom to be for being responsible, which the pregnancy shows they clearly were not, because they chose to keep the baby and not abort it. She finds it acceptable  that they violated one rule because they did not violate another, so all is forgiven,

“because they could have taken a different route, and both of them chose life.”

A life that would not be there if the Christian Family Values she wants to force on all of us had been taught correctly and the family members held to them.

Apparently, for Boebert, it is okay to break the rule against having children out of wedlock so long as one does not break another rule.

“Officer, you cannot arrest me. I may have robbed the store, yes, but I didn’t then burn the place down. You have to let me go.”

So, remember when religiously accosted, like if you are a Drag Queen and the local monks come after you for reading to children in the Library, simply quote Boebert, that fine example of the Christians who want to run the country and make law and a fine example of Christianity,

“Oh, you can nitpick what the Bible says is right and wrong, but I think just having that Heart posture of wanting to serve God. It’s so important.”

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