Deputy Comms Dir.
@FlaDems
| Bishop of the
@flumc
#twitterdistrict
| Queerer than I look 💖💜💙 | we're all trying to find the guy responsible for my opinions
Among the things we just passed:
• removal of penalities for performing queer marriages
• removal of language condemning queerness in candidates for ministry
• a new social principle on gun violence
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@danidonovan
ADHD Bookseller here! I've had a rough reading year too.
My best advice for ADHD readers is to gravitate to short stories and essay collections — anything that has stand alone content that you can finish in one sitting.
They're good for a quick and easy achievement high too!
In a pretty shocking development, adopting the social principles will now adopt TWO definitions of marriage.
• one adult man and one adult woman of consenting age
• two adults of consenting age
Wow. Just...wow.
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THE COMMISSIONING RESOLUTION THAT PASSED
#FLUMC22
WHEREAS the Conference Board of Ordained Ministry is responsible for guiding, preparing, evaluating, and presenting gifted, Spirit-filled candidates for licensed, comissioned, and ordained ministry, and
We did it, Florida. 💥
It’s official, we just contested every legislative seat for the first time since the state flipped nearly 30 years ago. We’re going to
#TakeBackFL
.
BREAKING: The UMC General Conference lifted a 28-year-old prohibition on United Methodist clergy and churches blessing same-sex unions, the last major decision by the assembly to remove longstanding anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions.
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#UMCGC
We've passed 1/3 of the Revised Social Principles!!!
I'm overwhelmed, because among many, many pages of good guidance on political justice, the Book of Discipline will now say this:
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The Episcopal Church has been such a safe and caring place for me in seasons where the UMC has not. I'm so unbelievably happy to formalize a relationship with them.
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BREAKING: The
#UMC
struck down a 40-year-old ban on LGBTQ+ clergy Wednesday morning, the most pivotal step the denomination’s legislative assembly has taken so far toward LGBTQ+ inclusion.
Update 👇
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I wanna take a minute to thank the
@wjumc
's LGBTQIA+ Ministries for putting together such thoughtful comfort bags for queer delegates.
It's full of snacks and stress relievers and love. (And earplugs that help fight the volume issues and feedback!)
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If you look in the back of section B and see me crying yes you did and they're the happiest of tears.
Counting down to the passage of Consent Calendar A05 🌈
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Y'all. Don't. Know.
what lengths he has gone to in service to you for the last three years. He's answered the call despite injury, tragedy, harsh critique, disrespect from both sides.
You might not see, but Florida does.
Thank you
@bishopkencarter
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#GC2019
#FLGC2019
I've known for months that I'd have to leave
#UMCGC
before the work was done, but damn it hurts to be at the airport today before we've finished with marriage and chargeable offenses.
I'll be following along as I can tomorrow, but it's time to go back to my day job.
@KevinFl79824320
nope. science itself isn't "true" it's a constantly refining process used to uncover truths based in material reality and that process is still full of misteaks. neil just posts ridiculous sound bites like this for clout and he has no respect for epistemology
Queer people who have been abandoned by the church have shown me more Jesus in the last five years than the Church has — and it's not even close.
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A bishop finally explicitly names the LGBTQ+ community through talking about violence against trans people — 3 days into conference, in a sermon about the church's silence.
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I'm done holding back my bad words for this.
A large portion of the people responsible for this are LEAVING.
The immaturity required to actively scuttle the careers of people in a denomination you're LEAVING is FUCKING STAGGERING.
You can go now.
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Needed 75%. Revote only got 72%. The candidates that did everything they needed to do to be approved for commissioning by the Board of Ordained Ministry will have to wait a year.
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I am so unbelievably thrilled to announce to the larger
#UMC
#WMT
World that the Florida Conference of the United Methodist Church just elected its first openly queer Lay Leader, my dear friend and hero, Alice Williams!
My tweets will be VERY Methodist for the next few weeks. If you're not interested, just mute the hashtags. I
If you are interested, I hope we'll have something to celebrate together at the end of all this.
If you want to help, send memes and pray for my sanity.
22/22
One of the BEST perks of being a Bookseller is advance review copies.
That being said, ATTN:
@tjklune
I'M PRETTY SURE I JUST WOKE UP THE NEIGHBORS WITH THE SPIT TAKE/CACKLE I TOOK AT THE FIRST LINE OF CHAPTER TWO OF FLASH FIRE
Armando Rodriguez speaking as a traditionalist against the resolution affirming the traditional plan because it never speaks of love.
This is what integrity looks like.
#flumc19
Well this was some of the most fun I've had in my career —
@equalityfl
means so damn much to me and playing the Tallahassee gala was a bucket list item I didn't know I had.
Great party for an even better cause 🤘🏻
We've just commissioned openly queer pastors.
All of us in the room today are blessed beyond measure — I'll remember this moment for the rest of my life.
#flumc23
To be clear: I don't like being disabled. it makes so many things about my life — work, dating, staying healthy, etc. — more difficult, and in some cases not worth it.
But celebrating
#DisabilityPride
is about making you understand that I'm just as much of a person as you are.
Disability Pride isn’t just mainly focusing on being proud of being disabled. It also to acknowledge those who may struggle with accepting their disability or may not like being disabled.
Disability Pride is acknowledging everyone’s experience with disability.
@TLHBrianLee
I had this debate with myself for nearly five minutes and decided that there are three kinds of candidates and they run diagonally from top left to bottom right
I'm calling a White Folks Meeting because apparently we've forgotten that as historic oppressors we have no business telling ANYONE what is and isn't oppression.
Snacks will be provided.
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PLOT TWIST. Motion to bundle and pass all items that received less than 20 votes against in committee.
This would include item 465, which finishes the work of allowing pastors to marry queer people.
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Got a tumor removed from my left hand today — one we only found because I got hit by a fucking truck last month. Found out it was a tumor *YESTERDAY* and here we are today.
All is well, but I'd REALLY like to stop getting this hand cut open 😂
Thanks for the vibes, y'all ❤️
There's so much more good work to get done this weekend at
#UMCGC
— but the fight for nondiscrimination laws protecting queer and trans people is what got me into politics .
My faith is what drew me to that work, so seeing that affirmation in the BoD is incredibly moving.
We've passed 1/3 of the Revised Social Principles!!!
I'm overwhelmed, because among many, many pages of good guidance on political justice, the Book of Discipline will now say this:
#UMCGC
NEXT STEPS FOR PROGRESSIVES/MILLENNIALS (RT this please)
- cry
- have a glass of scotch.
- call your district office and volunteer to be a District At-Large Delegate
- if accepted and still open, immediately nominate yourself for GC2020.
It's not over.
#GC2019
#UMCGC
#GC2020
Singing the theme song for the UMC'S queer rights movement but leaving out the "for gay and for straight" verse is a CHOICE
And it's a choice that's not going over well with this queer delegate.
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The Florida Delegation thanks the General Commission on Goldfish Distribution Relations (GCGDR) for their faithful service to the body of Christ.
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CC:
@graceannalise_
@wisekris
The Florida Panhandle is one of the most beautiful places on the planet, full of art and culture and communities that classists are willing to ignore.
It's also full of kind, hardworking victims of the most sophisticated propaganda machine in history. (1/4)
If you give the Florida panhandle to Alabama, Clinton carries the state. There is no Governor DeSantis, or Senator Rick Scott.
It's the worst panhandle.
@NateSilver538
He covered up ON THE JOB SPREADSHEET TRAINING, Nate!
Sure, it's "just spreadsheets" at first, but before too long you could find yourself at <i>databases!</I>
From there, it's pretty much just a long slide down into opaque authoritarianism.
Pay Attention: Jorge Lockward is teaching a master class on respectfully dissenting within parliamentary procedures. This is something that is learned with age and experience and if we're lucky the under-35 crowd (my people) can pick up some of the lessons early
#gc2019
#UMCGC
My uncle, a nursing home resident, died from COVID this morning.
My brother, a corrections officer, has been put in isolation twice for exposure.
Maybe, just maybe, we shouldn't be rushing to occupy small spaces together again. 🤷🏻♂️
This is a subtweet.
While we're distracted with voting on nominees, I want to announce that a petition I wrote passed with this morning's consent calendar!
Proud and humbled to add language to the discipline — especially language that will develop young leaders!
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