It’s a double feature today but this is important.
The City of Murfreesboro, the organization, continues to let me down, as they (we, as I am on the payroll for now) run parallel to white Christian nationalist politics in policy and code, and it’s honestly pretty damn disheartening. The word of the day is “homophobia,” though it’s very twisted up currently with purity culture on steroids.
A personal-er note is that I feel as though I am unqualified to confront those at the command station because I am both single and childless, and the current, biggest culture war is that against “the sexualization of our kids” - scare quotes intended. I truly believe I am already at a disadvantage in this way, as the “mama bear” and “pastor, husband, father” crowd seem to esteem those gifts of marriage and kids above all else. Don’t even think about being queer unmarried and childless.
All I know for sure - being asked in youth group if I’d rather be a beat up old pickup truck or a shiny yellow corvette took a psychic toll. White evangelicalism is terror.