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[zana16]

This is pissing me off more than it should...

Background: FUM has a policy not to hire queer people. At all. Ever. If they find out you are queer, they fire you.

So even if God were "calling me to deeper relationship and bolder service," they would ignore that.

Usually, I can ignore those parts of Quakerism that hate me. For some reason, today I can't.

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[zana16]

It depends on which branch of institutional Quakerism you're dealing with. One of them has it down very well. The others, not so much. And sadly, my congregation is affiliated with both the liberal branch and this one.

[the_shoshanna]

I'm reassured that it's not denomination-wide, at least!

[bee]

'the liberal branch of Quakerism' sounds so redundant. I thought Quakerism was the liberal branch, fullstop??? This is like, augh! this is illegal except relgious stuff like this can get away with it but like AUGH. I feel you.

[zana16]

I thought so too! It was not a happy discovery to find that this religion too has its fundamentalist fringe. Especially since the way I found it out was being hired by that fringe...

The spirituality is beautiful, if you can stomach the RANK HATE that threads through it. I can't, so I stay far away from those branches.

[bee]

I can't really do religions that a) hate and b) are all like 'this is the ONE TRUE religion'.

But seriously 'fundie' quakers shouldn't exist like the whole founding point of the religion was liberal??? Right???? I'm more bewildered as to how Quakers could stray so far from point.