Sunday evening as I was preparing to take the trash to the curb, I spotted a friend's Facebook post (an actual real-life friend, not just the social-media variety). She reposted a meme from Ahmad Kanu which read, "We're living in a time where some people are proud of what they should be ashamed of."

Ain't that the truth.

About now there are people nodding their heads and saying things like, "Yeah, those women have just gotten too uppity nowadays," and "Those people should just go back in the closet."

Ahem. As an uppity woman and an LGBTQ ally, I'm not gonna make those people very happy, because what my friend and I took that meme to mean was that some people are proud of being hateful and mean.

Too many people have decided that what Jesus taught was just too woke. I mean, all that talk about loving your neighbor as yourself, loving your enemies, not being hypocritical ... yeah, who did he think he was? How dare!

Too many have decided that they're no longer going to hide their hatred of certain demographics (people of color, women, LGBTQ ... basically anyone who isn't straight, white, male and Christian, but only certain types of Christians, because some of them folks "just ain't right" ... heck, I heard enough of that in my church........

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