Did not know yet they were MAGAs, when one pushed my kids out of the church. The evangelical ones started showing up in my closest Catholic church in the mid 1990s. Half were very decent, the other half, questionable, some very proud of pushing the regulars' children out.
Did not know yet they were MAGAs, when one pushed my kids out of the church. The evangelical ones started showing up in my closest Catholic church in the mid 1990s. Half were very decent, the other half, questionable, some very proud of pushing the regulars' children out.
When one was confronted, she boasted she and her father were extra-good Christians, that our children were 'too smart", that ours should go all the way down to the university for church. (13-15 year-olds with 20-22 year-olds? what?)
She went after the teen boys first, so we separated the boys and taught them separately. We were not in the room with her and the girls, so were not to find out, until later, she had berated the smarter ones in front of the others until some cried.
Confronted a second time, she said she was only teaching what her father taught her. She was mystified her brothers quit going to church, given her father was so right.
Finding other of our girls had been upset, more irate parents than us, more of us confronted her, together. Though she was white, she said she could not get along with the white girls, needed to teach just the Hispanics. We changed churches for a year, went to a less diverse church nearby, second closest, ironically, less diverse, as more Hispanic.
After a year, friends invited us back, to an easter musical at our old church. as they were singing. We went. My daughter then sat in the car afterward and cried for an hour. After that, she avoided church, any and all churches, went with me to Xmas Mass twice, to please me. She liked seeing all the solar panels at American University in DC, so may be having a re-think. We'll see.
I had not heard of MAGA yet, but that was what that ill woman seemed to be. Her ideas, her hatred, her need to punish, until somebody cried.
Will try to check out The Pillar.
Did not know yet they were MAGAs, when one pushed my kids out of the church. The evangelical ones started showing up in my closest Catholic church in the mid 1990s. Half were very decent, the other half, questionable, some very proud of pushing the regulars' children out.
When one was confronted, she boasted she and her father were extra-good Christians, that our children were 'too smart", that ours should go all the way down to the university for church. (13-15 year-olds with 20-22 year-olds? what?)
She went after the teen boys first, so we separated the boys and taught them separately. We were not in the room with her and the girls, so were not to find out, until later, she had berated the smarter ones in front of the others until some cried.
Confronted a second time, she said she was only teaching what her father taught her. She was mystified her brothers quit going to church, given her father was so right.
Finding other of our girls had been upset, more irate parents than us, more of us confronted her, together. Though she was white, she said she could not get along with the white girls, needed to teach just the Hispanics. We changed churches for a year, went to a less diverse church nearby, second closest, ironically, less diverse, as more Hispanic.
After a year, friends invited us back, to an easter musical at our old church. as they were singing. We went. My daughter then sat in the car afterward and cried for an hour. After that, she avoided church, any and all churches, went with me to Xmas Mass twice, to please me. She liked seeing all the solar panels at American University in DC, so may be having a re-think. We'll see.
I had not heard of MAGA yet, but that was what that ill woman seemed to be. Her ideas, her hatred, her need to punish, until somebody cried.