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This story makes me beam …

At the start of this New year, the Reverend Lawrence Richardson officially became the lead pastor at Linden Hills United Church of Christ in Minneapolis.

Nice, but he also became the first black transgender cleric in the state's history, and it was a long road for Richardson who struggled with poverty, homelessness and divorced parents battling addiction:

“In high school, I knew that I wasn't gay or straight, but I didn't have a word for it, [but] it was directly in opposition to the religious system that I inherited from my grandmother, so she was not as pleased with that identity. To be queer, to be black, to be trans, and to be homeless, there's not a lot of opportunities for people like that."

This year, after 26 years, the Reverend Eliot Howard stepped down, and after watching Richardson shine for the last five years, Howard decided Richardson was the man to lead the congregation.

You know, there are times when you feel the world is against you, that you have a hard road to walk, and then you hear these kinds of stories and, you just beam.

It does, and can, get better.

Here’s a story I heard on NPR over the weekend about Tim Gunn’s father and Vivian Vance.

The elder Gunn worked for the FBI and was, in fact, J. Edgar Hoover’s biographer with an office just down the hall. One day wee Tim Gunn and his younger sister were visiting their father, and he asked if they’d like to meet Vivian Vance, from TVs I Love Lucy. Vance was meeting with Hoover in his office so the two Gun offspring went in to meet her. They had a lovely chat and were then whisked away.

Years later, Tim Gunn, now of Project Runway, was writing a book and he included the Vance story. As the editors began fact-checking his Vivian Vance story, they found no proof that the actress had ever been to the FBI headquarters, or met Hoover. The editors contacted several writers who’d written biographies of Vance, and they also had no knowledge of Vance ever meeting Hoover.

Now, y’all know what that means …Hoover in a dress; or, as Gunn tells it:

“She was in a rather nice house dress.”

Except she was never there.

Typical government double-speak. After _____ ordered the murder of General Soleimani on Iranian sole, lapdog Secretary Of State Mike Pompeo says the murder made the US safe.

Even while they ordered Americans out of the area and sent in more troops and warships.

Doesn’t sound safe to me, it sounds, again, like this administration is out of control.

In a rare interview with CNN, The Notorious RBG, AKA Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the 86-year-old four-time cancer survivor has resumed an active role in oral arguments at the Supreme Court.

It was just a year ago that RBG was recovering from lung cancer surgery and missed several weeks at the court. She finished out the term in June. Soon after, she discovered a cancerous tumor on her pancreas, which was treated in August, and then once again resumed her active schedule. She told CNN:

“I’m cancer free. That’s good.”

Don’t t**k with RBG. She’s back.

That twice-divorced adulterer who has told thousands of lies while in office, claimed Democrat Pete Buttigieg was “trying to pretend” he’s a Christian to stir up votes. _____ made the remarks while speaking conservative evangelical “Christians” who have questioned Buttigieg’s faith because he is a married gay man.

Pete, who has zero fucks to give about the #IMPOTUS, responded:

“I’m pretty sure I’ve been a believer longer than he’s been a Republican.”

Perfect response but let’s not forget the bigger picture: _____ is running on the idea that Pete Buttigieg, because he’s gay, is “less than,” and we are not taking that shit any more.

Especially from a pussy groping, porn star fucking rapist.

_____’s bitch … I kid … one of _____’s bitches, Nikki Haley says only Democrats care that the United States murdered an Iranian general on Iranian soil.

No, Nikki, people who don’t like murderers care; people that don’t like the idea that a draft dodger is pushing us toward war care; people who are sick of sycophants and ass-kissers and lapdogs and goose-steppers letting this traitor get away with literal murder because they don’t want to get on his bad side care.

Fuck off.

I featured Luke Evans before when a tall hunk of beefy gay man walks out of the water like this, it bears repeating:

Woof.

Cross-Dressing, Meth-Dealing Priest Liked Sex In The Rectory

Monsignor Kevin Wallin, that Catholic priest arrested for, ahem, ALLEGEDLY, dealing crystal meth, was suspended from his duties after church officials discovered he was a cross-dresser who was having sex in the rectory at Bridgeport's St. Augustine Cathedral.

The Catholic Church sure can pick 'em.

Wallin was relieved of his duties last May, but the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport kept him on the payroll--your Catholic Charity at work!--up until he was arrested a couple of weeks back for being a meth dealer. At one point, Wallin was selling upwards of $9,000 of meth a week; talk about Breaking Bad.

After being removed from his duties, though still collecting a catholic paycheck, Wallin AKA Monsignor, Meth, bought an adult specialty and video store called Land of Oz that sells sex toys and X-rated DVDs. Investigators believe the shop helped him launder thousands of dollars in weekly meth profits.

Wallin's arrest is rather shocking, considering that, as a man of the cloth, he was involved in many charitable activities. But, some folks, his former parishioners, are blaming anything and everything but the formerly good Monsignor.

Maria Spencer-Fonseca, a long-time parishioner at St. Augustine: "There is an evil invading our world and it has come to our church. This was a work of evil -- and I am praying for the monsignor."

Honey, the evil was in the church the moment Wallin stepped in and began using the rectory--and I won't even go there with the jokes that so easily write themselves--as his personal sex den.

Therese Ruppert, a parishioner at the Church of St. Peter in Danbury, where Wallin was pastor from 1996 to 2002: "I can't fathom it. He was so spiritual. His sermons were wonderful. He had such knowledge of theology."

Theology and chemistry, it seems now.

Wallin, represented by a federal public defender, is charged with possession with intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine, and he has been detained without bond pending an arraignment next week.

Diocese officials, trying to cover their own tracks--and remember, they kept paying him even after he was busted doing the deed at the altar--have stressed that they had no knowledge Wallin was selling drugs when he was pastor of St. Augustine's Cathedral or when he previously served as pastor of St. Peter Parish.

Diocese Spokesman Brian Wallace: "We had no indication he had a drug problem and never had complaints regarding him and drugs."

Wallace does admit that the diocese became 'concerned' in the spring of 2011 when they began receiving complaints from parishioners regarding Wallin's appearance and erratic behavior.

"We approached him and he admitted he was struggling a bit and shortly after that he resigned and the bishop granted him a sabbatical," Wallace said.

Wallin did go for a health assessment but didn't go for follow-up examinations and subsequently dropped out of sight. As a result, Wallace said Wallin was suspended.

But some are saying the diocese knew more than they care to admit today. Sources knowledgeable with the case said the situation went deeper than diocese officials will publicly admit.

It seems that while he was pastor of St. Augustine's he often disappeared for days at a time. Rectory personnel became concerned, and notified diocese officials, when Wallin, at times dressed as a woman, would entertain men, some also dressed as women, and engage in sex acts inside the church. Diocese officials consulted lawyers and were assured none of Wallin's behavior appeared illegal so, you know, nothing was done.

After he left the church, Wallin rented two apartments, one for himself and the other for his alleged partner in the drug business, Kenneth "Lyme" Devries, who was also arrested in the case, along Chad McCluskey and his girlfriend, Kristen Laschober.

A meth-dealing, cross-dressing, priest, whose actions, at least the cross-dressing-homosexual-sex having parts of his activities, were overlooked by the church, who kept him on the payroll.

And, it makes me wonder, how much of the church money, did Wallin use to start up his meth business?

Just sayin'.

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