4/1/18 discussion of some of Jesus's philosophies

Here is the link to a Twitter thread I did on Easter of 2018 about some of Jesus's philosophies.

The thread was basically directed toward the idea that was being debated pretty heavily in my home state, Colorado, as well as being brought before the Supreme Court: should people have the "religious freedom" to deny service to people whose actions don't agree with the service provider's religion. In particular, the question of that moment was, in the US, should Christians have the "religious freedom" to refuse service to LGBTQ people?

The thread uses specific Bible verses to illustrate that making money is opposed to Christianity; that Jesus divided commerce and religion, so that "religious freedom" does not apply to commerce; that Jesus specifically commands people to love and serve everybody, regardless of their religious beliefs or actions; and that Jesus says Christians are immediately and eternally redeemed, so that any of their further actions, including serving non-Christian people, have no impact on their admittance to Heaven.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order on Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is moderately affected. My apologies.

11/12/17 discusson about being hit on as a teenager

Here is the link to a Twitter thread I wrote in November of 2017 about having been, as a teenager, hit on by an adult.

I wrote this story in response to some tweets I'd seen trying to prove that all youth/adult interactions involving attraction were traumatic to youth. A lot of the thread discusses my own youth trauma, which was actually the effect of Christian ideology claiming that LGBTQ people like myself were doomed to hell -- not the effects of random adults telling me, as a teenager, something pleasant about my appearance.

This thread is, by the way, my first mention of the term "manufactured consent" in relation to age of consent laws. And it's probably the first thread where I really discuss human beings, and especially young people, as legally being made the sexual property of the state.

10/5/17 review of book Jesus Acted Up, by Robert Goss

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the book Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto, by Robert Goss.

The thread gives a summary of the book and some context on why I read it. It discusses the book's themes, such as the crucial activist moments in recent LGBTQ history, Christ's love versus patriarchal ideologies, the importance of Christian LGBTQ community, erotic and agape love, the sacraments as a queer act, and some of my criticisms of Goss's emphasis on the importance of Christianity for LGBTQ people.