i have returned from my fabulous weekend of maine seacoast vacation and today i was back on the corner.
i had a couple of conversations with some people, including someone who expressed the opinion that surely if a certain person knew about this thing in the church, it would not have been such a disaster.
sadly, that certain person is the lay leader of the church and in the complete vacuum of adequate church leadership from a competent pastor, the lay leader actually wrote the astounding letter that tells me i am still a member of the church even though i'm not allowed on the premises.
i take that letter around to parties so people can laugh at it.
so no, the lay leader wouldn't have changed things much if she had only known about what had happened, because she knew right up front.
it was disappointing, i said, because i would have expected better of her.
but it turns out the williston federated church and its fraudulent pastor joan newton o'gorman and its congregation of sheeple aren't any better than any other large organization with a culture of silence and victim-blaming.
some days i do not know why i bothered to be surprised at this.
other days i am heartbroken about it.
it is an uneasy ambivalence.
i'll see you on the corner.
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