WHAT"S THE DEAL WITH THE CRAZY GUY ON MASON MILL ROAD: TIM TEBOW'S RESTRAINING ORDER..?

 OVERHEARD ON REDDIT

[–]BATHTUBSURFER 

2 points 25 days ago 

I am not a Tim Tebow fan at all but someone needs to tell Tim to get a restraining order against this guy....not safe.

[–]SimplyJim 

1 point an hour ago 

FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!

  

HE'S A PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL PLAYER... 

AGAIN! 

I'M SURE...

 HE'S STILL ABLE DEFENDING HIMSELF QUITE WELL AGAINST A FIFTY-THREE YEAR OLD HEARING IMPAIRED CRACKHEAD!

The reason I'm so fixated on our Miracle Baby Tebow: 

because there is nothing any more special about his mother than my mother except for his mother getting ?exactly? what she was wanting; a healthy baby football player more likely than another minister!

"Is it wrong that I don't want my son to be gay," 

said my mother crying years later 

as the two of us drove from Prescott, Arkansas to Little Rock for a neice wedding; 

having chanced for the second time getting arrested flying home with the crystal meths for these two weddings.

"No Mother. It's not...WRONG... that you don't want your son to be gay. 

But you've known since I was twenty-three; 

(forty-seven at the time) 

GET OVER IT!"

Until our... MIRACLE BABY TEBOW... settles down and starts breeding more PRO-LIFES, I'm not convinced, although believe most unlikely, he's not gay..? Can you just imagine what it might be like, trying to come out of the closet as a young gay man having a mother like his having publically capitalized on their story of her (Pro-choice) pregnancy with... HIM ...before the whole wide world..?

Had Tim been born into a Catholic family instead of a Baptist family, would not have surprised me Tim becoming a priest instead of a football player.

Though the main purpose of the Westbore Baptist Church's Priests Rape Boys website is to criticize Catholicism, the WBC also criticizes several mainline Protestant churches on the website, including Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Baptists. The WBC states that

...their preachers have shirked their responsibility to tell people the truth about sin, and instead lie to them about what the Lord their God doth require of them. If these lying, false prophets told people the truth about what God says regarding those who suffer sin upon their neighbor (Lev. 19:17–18), there wouldn't be any butts in the seats when the plate got passed. These preachers are not preachers of righteousness, they are teachers having itching ears (2Tim 4:3), and they absolutely count on the abysmal bible illiteracy of their parishioners ... "Priests rape boys" is indeed an air-tight, three word case against all of the mainline "christian" churches – their preachers and members, without exception. They are all going to Hell!

So...there is some truth to the title of this WBC's statement about the Catholic Church.

And I personally know for a fact, our Methodists, definitely do have itching ears.  Having been raised as a Methodist the first eighteen years of my life, my mother still living in that same house this small Southern Arkansan town of Prescott; still consider myself to be "Methodist Fag" although radical atheist as an adult.  

That child is still there within me; and forever will go no where else..? 

Although Timothy Tebow homeschooled by missionaries, I'm sure if there's anything Tim knows better than football, it would be the lessons needing to be learned from our bible stories: 

• that his life has indeed been blessed; 
• that life is not the game of football in fact the game itself;
• that God does love playing this game, his specialty being the curve ball; 
• that this curve ball could well indeed be with his first child.

That family of HIS definitely due a major corrective with their inexcussable misuse of survivor's bias and confirmation bias...CONGENIALITY BIASES... to their advantage.

Besides, having myself never had vaginal intercourse with a woman, technically, even I'm still a virgin at the age of fifty-three; pragmatic competence being the actual game here.

   

  

You know what? 

Seeing no end to this...

and 

needing to get off the computer...

maybe 

Tim Tebow should... 

take out a restraining order against me..?

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"I can of my own self do nothing: as I sense, I judge: and my judgement is just; not because I seek my own will but the will of thy collective unconscienousness

 which cometh before us."

JOHN 5:30 

~(Simply Jim's Revised Version)~

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It's not enough to be busy;
so are the ants.

The question is:
what are we being busy about?

ELANA PARENT: The race to replace Jason Carter | News Feature | Creative Loafing Atlanta

  

The race to replace Jason Carter | News Feature | Creative Loafing Atlanta: Last November, Georgia Democrats rejoiced when state Sen. Jason Carter, D-Decatur, launched his 2014 gubernatorial campaign. Most political conversations have since revolved around whether or not the Candler Park resident can unseat Gov. Nathan Deal. But win or lose, Carter's political gamble means the Democratic-leaning district he's represented for the past four years is now up for grabs.

In the weeks after Carter's announcement, Democratic candidates Elena Parent and Kyle Williams decided to run for the lawmaker's DeKalb seat that spans from Buford Highway to the north, Candler Park to the west, East Lake to the south, and Decatur to the east. The two political hopefuls are now mired in one of the state's closest races.

On May 20, voters will decide which Democrat will be on the November ticket against Republican mortgage banker Greg Williams. And considering nearly three-quarters of the DeKalb County district's voters cast Democratic ballots in 2012, the odds are that whoever wins the primary will ultimately replace Carter.

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Gay candidate Kyle Williams in heated race with Elena Parent for Ga. senate seat

 The race to replace state Sen. Jason Carter for the District 42 seat has become a bit of a bumpy one in recent weeks. The two Democratic candidates, Kyle Williams, an attorney from Decatur who also chairs the Decatur Education Foundation, and Elena Parent, executive director of Georgia Watch and a former state representative (2010-2012), are in a battle to paint themselves as more progressive than the other.

The first openly gay person elected to the state legislature, state Rep. Karla Drenner (D-Avondale Estates), has endorsed Parent over Williams while Williams has picked up endorsements from gay groups Georgia Equality and the national Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.

A recent story in the conservative blog Peach Pundit outlined how the race has taken a somewhat nasty turn, with the Parent campaign in a push poll telling voters Williams accepted money from an organization that supports such U.S. Senators as Republican John McCain. In reality, in 2009 the Georgia Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Williams in his non-partisan and unsuccessful bid for the Decatur City Commission. Williams also received the endorsement of the Stonewall Democrats.

On the other hand, Williams’ campaign accused Parent of attending a Tea Party conference while she was a state representative. Her explanation was that she was there to “spy” on the organization on behalf of the AFL-CIO and other Democrats, including state Sen. Nan Orrock.

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Being honest,

 I was completely clueless about the election to replace Jason Carter in the Georgia Senate, about Elena Parent,  and even about her gay opponent Kyle Williams;  until after having had the opportunity meeting Elena in person this pass Sunday afternoon at a neighborhood picnic held by the Mason Mill Civic Association.  She had been invited by MMCA's President Mary Hinkel to speak about the re-zoning/cityhood issue our neighborhood is currently facing; an issue I personally could not care less about.

 State Senator Elena Parent was elected to the State Sen-ate in 2014. She represents District 42, which includes por-tions of central and north DeKalb County.

Sen. Parent is member of the Government Oversight, Judi-ciary Non-Civil, Science and Technology, and Special Judici-ary committees.

Senator Parent previously served as the State Representa-tive for District 81 in DeKalb County in 2011 and 2012. Senator Parent then continued her public service as the Executive Director of Georgia Watch, the state’s leading consumer rights non-profit.

Senator Parent began her career as a litigation attorney at Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP. She is active in her com-munity and has served on the Board of Directors of the At-lanta 2-Day Walk for Breast Cancer and the Foundation Board of the Georgia Association of Women Lawyers. She is a proud graduate of the University of Virginia and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Recently, Senator Parent was listed in the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “Who's Who Sustainability” feature for her lead-ership on energy and environmental policy issues. In 2011, she was the recipient of two prestigious awards in recogni-tion of her legislative accomplishments: the Fulton County Daily Report’s “On the Rise” and the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “40 Under 40”. She was also named a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2013.

Senator Parent traces her core beliefs – the importance of family and making the community a better place for all - to her upbringing in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol where her parents stressed the importance of faith and public service.

Senator Parent is married to Briley Brisendine and they be-came proud parents with the birth of their son, Brooks, in February 2010. Their second son, Reid, was born in Decem-ber 2012. They are members of All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Atlanta.

Although we spoke only briefly, after me having introduced myself to her as "THAT" mentally disturbed person living in the house with all the signs and inflatable in the front yard, could not help but be impressed with our new 

State Senator Elena Parent.

Had to learn more about her.

Now I can't help but wonder for whom I would have voted?

Maybe I already have..?

After voting for Jason Carter,  

all I needed to see the rest of the way down the ballot before casting my vote:

DEMOCRAT.   

If I know nothing about the candidates, that's automatically my default vote.

Then again, I only voted for Jason Carter because I knew his grandfather was Democrat; not because I knew anything about Jason Carter.

Would never vote for a Republican; not even a Log Cabin Republican.  But Kyle Williams having been endorsed by our Log Cabin Republicans can be an important clue.

But it relative to the other candidates.

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REV? DR? BETH LAROCCA-PITTS: CATHOLIC FAG HAG PAID A METHODIST ADMINISTER..?

  

"When I was 12 year old and a member of St. Joseph's 

Roman Catholic Church in Athens, 

I realized that I would never be happy in life if I had to do another job other than the job 

that 

the priest at St Joseph's did."

~(Rev. Dr. LaRocca-Pitts)~

Beth LaRocca-Pitts has been a member of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church since 1983, though she has been preaching for longer than that! "When I was 12 year old and a member of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Athens, I realized that I would never be happy in life if I had to do another job other than the job that the priest at St Joseph's did. So I started attending my mother's church, Athens First UMC and at age 14 I joined there. I also got a lay speaker's certificate at age 17 and began preaching around the district."

When it Was time for college, Beth decided on Duke University instead of the University of Georgia, where her father Joe had taught for nearly 40 years in the College of Pharmacy. She graduated in 1981 and then went to Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. In 1983 she was ordained a deacon in the North Georgia Annual Conference, then in 1984 returned to take her first appointment at the Bishop Circuit in lower Oconee County. The circuit then included Bishop, Farmington, High Shoals, and Salem UMC's. In 1986 Beth was ordained an elder, and in 1984 she returned to school for her PhD at Harvard University. There she majored in Old Testament Studies through the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department. She also continued her archaeological research trips to Israel during these years, which she had begun as an undergraduate. All told, she has served on the staffs of four digs to date: Ein Nabratein, Sepphoris, Beth Shemesh, and Tel Ein Zippori.

At Harvard, Beth met her husband Mark, a native of Terre Haute, Indiana, a student at Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD candidate also in the Near Eastern languages department. Beth fell for Mark, in part, because he spoke Hebrew better than she did, having lived in Israel for three years after undergraduate school at Indiana University. Beth and Mark were married in 1991. In 1993, they returned to Athens where Beth was appointed to serve as an associate pastor at Athens First, and Mark worked at Athens Regional Medical Center as a patient representative. In 1996, Beth was hired by Duke Divinity School to teach Old Testament. Mark went to work at Duke Medical Center as a chaplain. While at Duke in 1998, they were blessed with the arrival of their twins, Joe and Ellie! In 2001, Mark was hired to be one of the staff chaplains at Athens Regional and the family moved back to Athens as soon as the Duke School year concluded in 2002. Beth was then appointed to serve Snellville UMC as associate pastor and served there two years and began teaching part time in the religion department at UGA.

Then, in 2004, the opportunity came for Beth to serve as senior pastor at Watkinsville First United Methodist Church, which is a scant 4 miles up the road from the church at Bishop where she began her ministry. She liked to tell people "I haven't come very far in 25 years!"

In June 2010, Beth and her family moved to Atlanta to be a part of Saint Mark. We are blessed to have them here.

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Faith & Religion: 

Breaking ground on LGBT faith

Founded: 1872

Began reaching out to LGBT people: 1991

Approximate membership: 1,862

Estimated LGBT membership: 90 percent

Saint Mark United Methodist Church is one of several prominent churches that line Peachtree Street — also the route of Atlanta’s Gay Pride parade. In 1991, the church’s members made a decision that might seem simple today, but forever altered the church’s course.

As the gay marchers came by, church members passed out slips of paper reading, “Everyone is welcome at Saint Mark.”

“In that the Baptists were hiring armed guards at the time, that simple message had a big impact,” said Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts.

The next year, Saint Mark also passed out water to marchers — as they have continued to do ever since.

“We continue to do it because it changed our church’s life. We would have died as an aging congregation of fewer than 300 members if we had not been joined by the LGBT community,” LaRocca-Pitts said. “That parade saved us and opened up a whole new era of ministry and life here that we could not have imagined.”

Saint Mark’s membership is now mostly gay, and the church is now one of only three in North Georgia that are part of the Reconciling Ministries network. But while Saint Mark disagrees with the United Methodist Church’s stands against ordaining gay people who are in partnered relationships and denying marriage rites to gay couples, it has not chosen to join the handful of UMC clergy and congregations that have openly broken those rules.

In part, that’s because Saint Mark is one of the few UMC congregations with a majority LGBT membership, and leaders “choose our battles carefully” because they don’t want to risk the safe harbor they offer for LGBT worshippers.

For now, that means Saint Mark won’t host same-sex weddings and clergy can’t perform them. Instead, LaRocca-Pitts said, they can refer same-sex couples to other churches, and Saint Mark clergy may take a small role. They also offer “family blessing services” for those married elsewhere.

Change comes slowly, and Saint Mark doesn’t want the denomination to schism over LGBT inclusion.

“What we want is to convince our WHOLE church that God’s love and acceptance is available to all people,” LaRocca-Pitts said. “For this reason we go slowly —because we want the whole church to change.”

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ALL VOICE BELONG AT THE TABLE: Meet the gay pastor running for Georgia House — Project Q Atlanta

"I just feel like I'm in a good place in my life and career to throw my hat in. These seats don't become available that often. When the opportunity presents itself, I want to be there to be a part of that. It's an exciting time to be in this district."

~(Josh Noblitt)~

Meet the gay pastor running for Georgia House — Project Q Atlanta: Nevermind that Josh Noblitt could also offer state lawmakers an added dose of pastoral patience – he's a social justice minister at Saint Mark United Methodist Church – and conflict resolution – he's a licensed marriage and family therapist. Noblitt, a 37-year-old Democrat, is running for the District 59 seat. State Rep. Margaret Kaiser, the gay-friendly incumbent, says she won't seek re-election in 2016 and instead will run for mayor in 2017.

Noblitt says the open race provides a "launching pad" to continue his decade of community activism in his southeast Atlanta neighborhood as a state lawmaker.

'All voices belong at the table(?)'

Noblitt became enmeshed in public safety issues after he and his then-boyfriend were robbed at gunpoint while picnicking in Piedmont Park in 2010. Noblitt forgave his assailants and held a rally in the park after the incident. The robbery helped spur a town hall meeting with police officials and Mayor Kasim Reed, who later invited Noblitt to deliver the invocation as he re-opened several recreation centers that serve the city's youth.

Noblitt was later appointed to the police department's LGBT advisory committee and helped organize the first-ever NOH8 campaign shoot in Atlanta. In 2012, he was named a grand marshal of the Atlanta Pride parade. He has also served as a volunteer chaplain for Atlanta police and worked for more than eight years in the federal public defender's office.

"I've seen the criminal justice system from the perspective of being a victim of violent crime and serving as a chaplain for the Atlanta Police Department has given me a unique perspective," Noblitt says.

Pair that experience with his leadership role in civic groups – he's served as president of the South Atlanta Civic League and vice chair of Neighborhood Planning Unit Y – and as a gay man, and Noblitt says that gives him the experience to help make Georgia "more hospitable and economically feasible for everybody."

"All voices belong at the table," he says. "I know and have relationships with a broad group of people and I see that as a strength."

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Victim of hate

Could Josh Noblitt's attack mend the rift between the APD and the LGBT community?

For as long as the case against his attackers lazily lurches its way through the clogged channels of the justice system, Noblitt won't likely have the opportunity to do the same kind of outreach with his perpetrators. "I would love for an opportunity to be able to sit down with each of these kids, maybe even their families, and just hear their story and introduce myself to them and kind of do that exchange. In this criminal justice system, there are some artificial walls that are up that make it hard to navigate without them compromising their rights in the process." He will, however, have another chance for outreach: Noblitt was one of nine people appointed to the APD's newly formed GLBT Advisory Board, a body Officer Powell says will act as her "eyes and ears in the community." Meanwhile, the four minors who were arrested in Noblitt's attack will be tried as adults. All six of the alleged attackers face a minimum of 10 years in prison for armed robbery committed with a firearm.

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Police advisory board urged to take action

Joshua M. Noblitt. Minister of Social Justice at Saint Mark United Methodist Church in Midtown. Noblitt also serves as a mitigation specialist at the Federal Defender Program, Inc. for the Northern District of Georgia. He has also served on various boards and organizational leadership teams, including the board of directors for the Reconciling Ministry Network, an organization dedicated to full inclusion for GLBT people in the United Methodist Church both in policy and practice. Noblitt was attacked in Piedmont Park in July.

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Defendants in Piedmont Park gay bashing plead guilty

The attack was deemed an anti-gay hate crime by the Atlanta Police Department at the time. The defendants on Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges of robbery and Sam Johnson pleaded guilty to additional charges of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a robbery. The men faced one to 20 years in prison. Fulton Assistant District Attorney Fasha Lewis recommended 10 years for each.

Sentences handed down by Judge Alford Dempsey:

• Benjamin Johnson, who has been out on bond and under house arrest after serving a couple months in youth detention, was sentenced to five years but instead of serving time in prison, he will be under intensive probation.

• Sam Johnson, Benjamin’s older brother, who has been in jail since the day of the attack, was sentenced to five years to serve 15 months with time served and was to be released later Tuesday.

• Jarvis Johnson, a cousin of the two other men, has also been in jail since July 2, 2010. He was sentenced to seven years to serve two years with time served, leaving nine months to serve.

Before Alford handed down the sentences, Noblitt addressed the defendants in open court.

“I am a gay man. I am also a pastor, a brother, an uncle. I want you to know that,” he told them as they stood before the judge.

“I also would like to know more about your stories. My heart breaks for your families and you all. I harbor no ill will. In a weird way, I care about you all.”

After the hearing, Noblitt said he hoped the young men would examine their feelings toward gay people.

“I’m hoping that by being confronted by someone who is gay and shows mercy, maybe that will be enough — we’ve got to work to change one heart at a time,” Noblitt said.

Caprice Johnson, mother of Sam and Benjamin Johnson, was in tears during the court hearing. She was grateful for the judge’s sentences as well as Noblitt’s mercy and hugged Noblitt tight outside the courtroom. She said she would be happy to have Noblitt visit her home and talk to her sons and said she raised them not to hate anyone.

“We don’t have a problem with homosexuality. We are all one in God’s eyes. We are all brothers and sisters in Christ,” she said.

Noblitt said he had concerns about his attackers going to prison, especially because of their age.

“Time will tell and my hope and prayers are that they will be productive,” he said.

Cases are still pending against three other defendants — Daequan Lewis, age 15 at the time of the crime; Jamal Bryant, 13 at time of crime; and Tyrone Smith, 16 at time of crime. All are charged as adults.

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"I would like to request your help in getting copies of this file being held under my name with the Emory Police."
~(Simply Jim:  Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~

"UH-HUH!  ABSOLUTELY NOT!   NO WAY!"
~(Rev? Josh Noblitt)~

"I even willing to pay for your service through this business of yours outside of the church."
~(Simply Jim:  Ex-Ex-W.A.S.P.)~

"...(silence)..."
~(Rev? Josh Noblitt)~

mit·i·ga·tion

[mit-i-gey-shuhn]

NOUN

1.

the act of mitigating, or lessening the force or intensity of something unpleasant, as wrath, pain, grief, or extreme circumstances: Social support is the most important factor in the mitigation of stress among adolescents.

2.

the act of making a condition or consequence less severe: the mitigation of a punishment.

3.

the process of becoming milder, gentler, or less severe.

4.

a mitigating circumstance, event, or consequence.

"Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts 
(Senior Pastor St. Mark United Methodist Church)
is 
nothing but a Catholic fag hag."
~(Simply Jim:  Anti-Christ, Armilus, Dajjal)~

"SHE'S...METHODIST...NOW!!!"
~(Rev? Joshua Noblitt)~

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Could not care less 

how 

bounded, centralized, or fuzzy 

our 

Rev. Josh's ecumenical set.

It's not how often you say, "no"; it's how often you say, "yes."

He's stil'a slut.

Not even an ecumenical slut.

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“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid 

of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. 

If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn’t have friends.”

― Montesquieu