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   Bishop Greer Godsey (bishop@mastodon.myocci.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 00:24:56 JST Bishop Greer Godsey

   I am struggling with this issue. I help out at a #progressive #church with their video tech. My parish also rents space from them. However, one of the pastors close friends and a member of the church is a huge supporter of #Trump. He had bumper stickers on his car that said he voted for Trump the first time and was proudly voting for him again.

   Sad part is that 95% of the church is #LGBTQIA. This individual and the pastor is LGBTQIA. The pastor will not address this with him because they are close friends and he doesn’t want to meddle in #politics.

   I am LGBTQIA and my daughter is #transgender. We don’t feel comfortable around this individual as we know it is just a matter of time until he does or says something very damaging.

   However, we don’t want to leave the church without the video outreach and risk loosing our parish’s meeting spot either. I have had to bite my tongue so many times. Maybe I am just being overly sensitive, but it really concerns me.

   Any thoughts?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 00:24:45 JST Rich Felker

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     @bishop Organize. Get together people you can trust to share values on this and decide on a course of action where you can have each other's backs.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Mar-2025 00:25:54 JST Rich Felker

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     @bishop Going around with threats of hate and violence against members of his congregation isn't "politics" and demanding that stop isn't "engaging in politics".