Toby Sumpter will act like a 12-year-old who needs his diaper changed for as long as people give him attention. Therefore, it behooves everyone to ignore him. Cut off his supply. This won’t make him grow up, but it will make him find another string to pluck on his banjo.
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Thankful for the #MeToo movement
I am grateful for the news coverage that allows me to see what is happening with our world, the many disasters and the devastation being caused by them. Though I often find myself weeping as I listen to the stories of those who are victims, my heart has compassion for them and the desire to help. I don’t know what it is like to see a cloud of volcanic ash/lava moving toward my home, nor do I know what it is like to have any other devastating disasters, natural or man-caused, threaten my life. So I will help in whatever way I can . . . donations, prayers, acknowledgement of their suffering.
So, too, I am grateful to the #MeToo movement for increasing my awareness of the sexually abusive situations women of all ages have been forced into. I am thankful to the media and those who bravely share their personal stories. I am thankful that it gives courage and strength to those abused as they realize they are not alone.
Again, I read with renewed horror these words taken directly from Toby Sumpter’s blog:
“As I have taken aim over the last few weeks and fired my Daisy BB gun at the #MeToo shrine of holy victimhood, I have had a few folks wonder why I have taken such a negative view towards the whole thing. . . Shouldn’t a Christian pastor rejoice even if one woman was set free by the #MeToo movement? Let me see. The answer is no. Absolutely not. Never. Not in a million years. Nope. Nada (that’s Spanish for Hell, no.)”
How can he so blatantly deny the goodness that has come from #MeToo. Unreal. Totally unreal. And even more unreal — this man still calls himself a pastor, a servant of Christ. His words and attitude are more damaging than any disaster — and, sadly, his is man made.
Lorna Bickerdyke
Moscow
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