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A HERETIC I AM

(24,585 posts)
Sun Jul 24, 2022, 05:16 PM Jul 2022

Listen to this lady's speech at a Colorado Spgs city council meeting.

As many of you are I’m sure aware, Colorado Springs is a seriously right wing town, home of the “Focus on the Family” bullshitters, the church of the hypocrite, disgraced pastor/homophobe and self hating gay man Ted Haggard as well as the U.S. Air Force Academy, which the evangelicals have infiltrated to a huge degree.

Anyway, the School Board and the City Council have been getting pushback of late regarding their anti LGBTQ and pro evangelical Christianity policies and this woman tells it like it is;


https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRAJPNSf/?k=1

The entire TikTok account is well worth having a look at, as a there are a bunch of vids showing just how off the rails many on the School Board and City Council really are.

BTW, This is the town that 12 years ago cut taxes so much in it’s efforts to be right wing, that their own city parks and street lights fell into disrepair, such that the citizens had to collect the trash from the parks to keep them usable.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123691065

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Listen to this lady's speech at a Colorado Spgs city council meeting. (Original Post) A HERETIC I AM Jul 2022 OP
Well crime is rising turning out the lights and cutting cops is an open opportunity. Historic NY Jul 2022 #1
When I started school there in the '80s, CS had AllyCat Jul 2022 #8
How can that be? progressoid Jul 2022 #9
And Chicago. Don't forget Chicago. paleotn Jul 2022 #13
Yeah, we're just going to ignore that red states have higher per capita murder rates progressoid Jul 2022 #16
Bingo! paleotn Jul 2022 #17
Use to like visiting C S but that place scares me now. efhmc Jul 2022 #2
Used to live there. It was getting bad in the '80s. AllyCat Jul 2022 #7
Drive straight through to the entry to Pike's Peak..... A HERETIC I AM Jul 2022 #11
Went on Rebl2 Jul 2022 #12
My brother lives in Colorado Springs and he is full trump right wing liberal N proud Jul 2022 #3
Brave lady multigraincracker Jul 2022 #4
Republicans just can't govern. They're only good at hate. Nt jaysunb Jul 2022 #5
+1000 paleotn Jul 2022 #14
This woman is my hero! AllyCat Jul 2022 #6
That was EXCELLENT! progressoid Jul 2022 #10
She kind of undercut herself by referring to herself as a "former Christian." Warpy Jul 2022 #15

AllyCat

(17,104 posts)
8. When I started school there in the '80s, CS had
Sun Jul 24, 2022, 05:57 PM
Jul 2022

the 4th highest assault rate in the nation according to our security services. We had to have escort service from the library to our dorms half a block away. A friend was sexually assaulted walking to her house for lunch.

For all their religiosity, I have never felt so unsafe living anywhere else as I did living there.

progressoid

(50,747 posts)
9. How can that be?
Sun Jul 24, 2022, 05:58 PM
Jul 2022

I've listened to foz newz and the only crime they talk about is in NYC and San Francisco.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,585 posts)
11. Drive straight through to the entry to Pike's Peak.....
Sun Jul 24, 2022, 06:06 PM
Jul 2022

Go up the mountain, back down and bugger off!

I was there for a short period a few months back. No real desire to stay, but one must give credit to the strong progressives in Co. Springs, as they are fighting back against this bullshit as best they can.

Rebl2

(14,705 posts)
12. Went on
Sun Jul 24, 2022, 06:46 PM
Jul 2022

vacation there many years ago and always figured it was right wing there because of the Air Force academy.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)
15. She kind of undercut herself by referring to herself as a "former Christian."
Sun Jul 24, 2022, 07:44 PM
Jul 2022

That confirmed the prejudices of every single zealot in the room that the "others" were the enemies of their holy faith and getting anywhere near any of them would send them to hell. They immediately shut down, bet the rent on that.

Yes, it was a great speech for everybody in attendance who wasn't a zealot, especially by pointing out that preaching from the school board's dais wasn't their job, that education was their job.

Dobson is now 86, both he and FOTF still lumbering along like wounded rhinos, neither as powerful as they once were as the young are deserting the hateful Evangelicals. One hopes that once he kicks the bucket, FOTF will soon follow. They've both done so much damage to Colorado, to the country, to families, and especially to children.



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