#progmo

[heathersdesk]

[bisexual-maelstrom12]

Ok I’m absolutely tired of some of y’all attacking ExMormons so much.

I get it, there’s annoying ones that won’t leave practicing members alone. But when you have more vitriol for those people than for the Church that will literally call exmos “Judases” and all kinds of evil names, then I don’t feel safe around you.

You get angry at the exmos who harass queer Mormons for staying in the church and yet you never defend the queer exmos who decide to leave. There are plenty of good communities online where progmos and exmos get along, but this is not one of them and there’s no way I can continue to follow Mormon accounts when I see constant hate towards exmos. You hate us more than the institution that harmed us.

[risingphoenix87]

Courtesy of @vegangmo. #veganism #vegansofinstagram🍃🌱🌿 #proGMO #science (at Hillandale, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4U3MaMp5Vr/?igshid=1bkuxrawv97vh

[atheismwethinkmore]

[heathersdesk]

Why do I bother to vote blue in Idaho?

Because I refuse to participate in the illusion that the only way to participate in the government that represents me is to register and vote Republican.

Because I've already sent John McCrostie, a gay educator, to my state legislature. Voting Democrat in Idaho is NOT a waste of a vote. Democrats win elections in Idaho when they run and when they TRY. So many elections in Idaho are still full of Republicans running completely unopposed.

Because showing up for myself as a disabled, chronically ill woman matters. Showing up for other marginalized communities in Idaho matters. Surrender is not an option when you understand it's people and their lives, not numbers, on the line.

Because in order to change a state from red to blue, it doesn't take magic. It takes work. It takes uncomfortable conversations, challenging the status quo, and asking important questions for as long as it takes to go through all the shades of red, then purple, then finally to blue.

I did not fail. In my own small way, I have taken Idaho from ruby red to red violet. That isn't nothing. It's exactly what change in a place like this has to look like. Patient. Long suffering. Incremental.

I vote blue in Idaho because I understand the assignment. I'm where I'm supposed to be, doing exactly what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm changing the soil so something different could actually grow and survive here.

Vote for the future you want, not for the future you have. And never tell yourself it doesn't matter and you're not making a difference.

[heathersdesk]

Random illustration from the Church website. Obsessed with the fact that Jesus is pink, ngl.

Source

[heathersdesk]

Being Denied the Sacrament During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Year Later

Those of you who follow me on Twitter will be familiar with the saga of when my former bishop rescinded access to sacrament administration f

For posterity/ICYMI: here is the entire saga of my former bishop refusing to grant home sacrament administration to my family during a pandemic because he thought an ultimatum would force us back to church in person.

Cheers to my new bishop, who doesn't do the whole *unrighteous dominion* thing and approved us for home sacrament administration twice a month!

[heathersdesk]

All honor and reverence to good men; but they and their attentions are not the only sources of happiness on the earth, and need not fill up every thought of woman. And when men see that women can exist without their being constantly at hand, that they can learn to be self-reliant or depend upon each other for more or less happiness, it will perhaps take a little of the conceit out of some of them.

Emmeline B. Wells, Women's Exponent, 1 October 1874