Pretty quiet this week on the social networks, if you don’t count the fact that everyone is tweeting and Facebooking about the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear as well as Halloween.
We love it when you share things with us via our FB wall. St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Washington D.C. has a contribution to the “It Gets Better” campaign, shared on our wall by Louie Stuart. You can see it here.
To the Daily Episcopalian post “Heterosexism, a wound in Christ’s Body,” John Andrews was inspired to write about the leap from acceptance and tolerance to full inclusion: “We must get to the point that one’s sexual identity is not something we have to think about, but that it just is–just like I’m just a heterosexual. So, not acceptance, not tolerance, but relationship.”
Facebook page find of the week goes to “Christians Tired of Being Misrepresented.” It was started by someone who felt that a lot of public figures were touting their Christian values but acting very unChristian, and the page posts links of interest who feel their faith is betrayed in the political arena. They just posted a link to an essay by the Rev. Dr. Jane Foraker-Thompson, a prison chaplain in the Diocese of Nevada (at least, near as I can figure from my Google-fu), that explains why she is a Democrat:
I grew up with Republican parents who believed in fiscal responsibility, social justice and equal opportunity. They trained their children to be critical thinkers; to learn to think for ourselves, gather facts with an open mind, and be able to change positions when the facts and circumstances warranted it. The GOP lost my family in the 1970s, when the radical right-wing religious fanatics began to take it over, and our country became increasingly polarized by their extreme tactics. I am saying that as a Christian who belongs to one of the mainstream Christian churches, and as an ordained minister myself. The right-wing tail is now wagging the dog in the GOP.