Posted on 03/21/2019 5:48:41 PM PDT by lightman
Readers of this blog are already familiar with Glide Memorial, a radical progressive congregation in San Francisco that recently severed ties with the United Methodist Church (UMC). Legal fights between Glide and the UMC’s California-Nevada Annual Conference continue, but occasionally there is something or someone that we suspect regular readers will find noteworthy, such as an Islamic Drag Queen.
Enter “Drag & Spirituality: Claiming Our Sanctuary” –
“This talk show-style conversation will explore the intersections of drag, gender, sexuality and spirituality. Our host & event curator, B0NNi33 Vi0L3T, aka Duane Quintana, a queer chaplain, will interview ground-breaking local drag queens, providing an opportunity for the audience to peek into their minds, listen to their hearts and appreciate their transformations.
Please join Duane, Ms. Carolyn Henry, Faluda Islam, Landa Lakes and the GLIDE community for a very powerful and unique event as these artists lace their narratives with a spiritual thread and excavate the resilience from their herstories, building strength in their present and giving voice to their hope for a brilliant future for themselves and for the broader LGBTQ+ community.”
The March 24 event promises to be an over-the-top intersectional jamboree, promising “local drag queens from Islamic, Native American & Christian spiritual traditions.”
While the “Two Spirit” concept (male and female spirits coexisting within a single body) has been ascribed to Native American spirituality, it is unclear what part of the Islamic tradition embraces drag – at least as Faluda Islam embraces it.
A quick glance at the linked Facebook pages indicates that Faluda Islam is also engaged in – you guessed it – anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) advocacy. An anti-Israeli Islamic drag queen panel appears to be the sort of cosmic event that only Glide could facilitate.
That having been said, the UMC dodged a HUGE bullet at the special General Conference last month.
I’d like to see the Islamic drag queen take his act to a mosque.
No, the concept is wrong. The Methodists aren’t going to host this monstrosity. Glide Memorial is. There’s a huge difference.
gee, this sounds so very wonderfully Christian.....let’s ALL go and attend!
(just try not to slip and fall on all the sheit on San Fransicko’s sidewalks...)
They're like 12 year olds, in a way, aren't they?
Methodists have gone to Hell. Not the Methodist church I grew up in. Now I am a Baptist and loving it.
Glide Memorial was always a Communist Party stronghold. I think one of their leaders was a Rev. Lawson, as far left as could be, and his predecessors were hardcore reds.
As I recall, many of them were associated with the congressionally identified CPUSA religious front (their oldest existing front), the Methodist Federation for Social Action (MFSA).
Some information on them should be at www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org and www.keywiki.org.
The United Methodist Church was the leading religious member of the “Hanoi Lobby” and its various anti-VN aid coalitions with leaders such as Mia Adjali and the infamous red Herman Will (his record goes back to the 1940’s).
You should find information about the UMC and Hanoi at www.keywiki.org. Check the page “Hanoi Lobby” as one place for details.
A pox on both their houses.
At any rate, this character is Islamic in family background *maybe*, but really it's just part of the costume to "trigger" conservatives on top of him being a drag queen.
In other words, it's political theater.
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