Church Decorated with ‘Drag Pumpkins’ Preaches Against Israeli Occupiers. Yes This is a Real Headline
Rev. Latifah Griffin is the impastor of The Unitarian Universalist Congregations (UUC), the pagan denomination where men like John Pavlovitz, the pro-LGBTQ, pro-choice writer for Relevant Magazine, find safety and succor. Griffin is the church’s first openly queer woman and first woman of color in a pastoral role, overseeing an “inclusive congregation of people of various faiths, backgrounds, gender identities and sexual orientations” that welcomes members who are Muslim or Atheist, having no core beliefs of creed. Think the PCUSA or ELCA in 20 years, and you’re on the right track.
It’s no surprise then that they decked out and decorated their altar with “drag pumpkins” created by the church’s gay and trans youth.
These decorations were on hand on when a deacon read a letter from UUA president Rev. Sofía Betancourt, responding to the attack on Israel by Hamas by saying things like:
How to reconcile the cost of occupation and of war? How to nuance two very real histories of oppression and violence?
…We as a people of faith can condemn violence against civilians while at the same time engaging the full legacies and histories of oppression that shape such devastating conflict.
….I pray that those of us less likely to know the trauma of unending brutality and harm will not turn away from generational loss, from the devastating realities and their root causes, or from the relentless tragedy of war and occupation.
h/t the Dissenter
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James Duncan is just upset that the pumpkins weren’t used for pie.
I’m just surprised he isn’t trans
And I do like pumpkin pie
Obviously.