Item One for Saturday
Either tune in or set your video
recorder for Saturday's airing (03Sep16) of Holy Hell on CNN which
will be shown in prime time with an encore broadcast immediately to
follow. I watched Will Allen's documentary on Thursday, and I
related to much of it.
What really caught my attention was the shift from the original goal of seeking enlightenment through inner experience to the selfish needs and obsessions of the leader. I thought of how my own spiritually abusive church started projects, only to abandon them and how Quiverfull always comes up with some new hobby horse that people must ride to be accepted. And don't you dare think about the inconsistencies!
What really caught my attention was the shift from the original goal of seeking enlightenment through inner experience to the selfish needs and obsessions of the leader. I thought of how my own spiritually abusive church started projects, only to abandon them and how Quiverfull always comes up with some new hobby horse that people must ride to be accepted. And don't you dare think about the inconsistencies!
Item Two ASAP
For those of you in California or for
those who know someone that they can bug to do it, please encourage
Governer Jerry Brown of California to sign the Protecting Youth From
Institutional Abuse Act. State legislature sent SB 524 to him and
it's awaiting his attention.
And for everyone, please consider
signing the petition
urging Governor Brown to approve the bill which will create support
for the nationwide effort to curtail the abuse that takes place
unchecked in teen reform homes. The Los Angeles LGBT Center supports
the measure, and it saddens me that the many huge churches in the LA
area didn't take up this initiative. Probably, most know little to
nothing about the Troubled Teen Home Industry. Everyone can benefit,
regardless of these abuse homes where parents believe their children
will be rehabilitated. Instead, they are tortured.
Read more
about it at Vanguard
Now.
