Coming from deeply conservative evangelical culture, I can tell you that to them, she isn’t a pastor, she’s a woman pastor which a completely different and significantly less respected thing. To us she’s just a pastor, which also earns her buckets of disrespect. She’s basically unelectable by everyone.
Still nice to hear. But, agreed.
The trans acceptance is nice to hear, but religious leaders melding their position with political leadership is less nice. Clergy should not be allowed to run for public office, no matter what their platform.
Ohhh I’m 100% with you on religious figures in office.
very hard to believe this pastor is genuine especially in Missouri
like believing a prosecutor is going to stand with the citizens instead of supporting cops and the corporate interests they protect and serve
Christianity is very diverse, in Missouri as elsewhere. Sure this diversity is not equally distributed, but still you can find any type in any American state.
like believing a prosecutor is going to stand with the citizens instead of supporting cops
Also odd that we’re one of the few states that jailed a killer cop. KC is paying for it though. Cops here are determinedly lax on the job right now, and word on the street is they’re unmotivated because that cop’s still in prison.
Oh no, are they going to fail to investigate real crimes like usual but also harrass people leas often?
Sounds like a win.
On a macro level, yes.
On a micro level, no. There’s been a lot more petty crime, especially targeting small businesses. The larger retailers can absorb those losses, the little local ice cream shop in my neighborhood that’s been broken into twice can’t.
Still, it’s important that cops be held accountable for murder, but I think Parson’s going to pardon the bastard once the election’s settled. They know it will be unpopular enough here in Kansas City that they can’t do it before, even if he’s a lame duck.
Is there an actual increase or a perception that there is an increase?
One anecdote doesn’t mean there is a widespread increase.
That’s a good point.
For my part it’s a perception of an increase, but there are definitely things happening that haven’t been happening historically. For instance, this week there were five local businesses hit overnight in the River Market area. That kind of brazen criminal activity is unusual.
I can confirm that the Betty Rae’s Ice Cream shop has never been broken into twice in a six-month period, though, and that’s what got me frustrated.
I’m a Missourian and find this headline shocking. My state is doing everything it possibly can to disenfranchise unconventional people of every sort.
YSK that Missouri is going to get worse and worse over time, seeing as how it looks over at states such as Mississippi and says “golly gee willickers, I wanna be more like them!”
Businesses will not move there, some already there will not expand, and some will even outright leave. It will become something of a “healthcare desert”. A profound example that I recall reading about during the pandemic was a doctor in I think it was just east of Springfield (but don’t recall further details of the location). He started a medical center or something along those lines - the point is that he brought in grant funding, a literal job creator. He had just moved there from somewhere else, however upon receiving literal death threats for offering to give people vaccines and before that telling people to wear masks, he left. For the sake of his daughters, it was not worth it to him to try and stay.
On the one hand, if people of good conscience abandon such areas to whoever remains to vote, that affects the country as a whole, especially via the Senate seats, see e.g. Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham, and yes Josh Hawley, who I recall was literally the only one to vote against a particular sex slave trafficking bill - the ONLY ONE!!! But on the other, please take care of yourself too.
