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A HERETIC I AM

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Sun Jul 24, 2022, 06:16 PM Jul 2022

Listen to this lady's speech at a Colorado Spgs city council meeting. [View all]

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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