A passionate, patriotic, progressive millennial's musings on current events. Unless otherwise noted, all original content is the work of Phelan Acheson.
Watching LDS General Conference today directly inspired me to write this talk. I actually had to pause General Conference (morning session) long enough to transcribe what was impressed upon my mind. Without further ado, here is that talk:
This drawing is by me, Phelan Acheson. It represents the weight of America's most recent sins over the last several decades on He who bore all the sins of all mankind.
I have three messages tonight. The first is to my LGTBQIA+ and otherwise non-cis-heternormative siblings of humanity. To you, I say this: I affirm you, I love you, and I cherish you. My heart tells me to add: Your Creator loves, affirms, and holds you, as He/She/They made you.
1 year after Greta Thunberg followed her own path and did the first ever school strike for climate, the Climate Strike of 09/20/19 was a worldwide affair with around 4,000,000 (4 million) people joining in across the globe.
Did anyone else notice it? "What?", you may ask. History shifted this week. Democrats, especially Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, are FINALLY upholding their oaths to the Constitution and have formally opened an impeachment inquiry. See "Read: Pelosi's announcement..." via CNN "Why?" may be your next question. It's definitely a fair question: America's been … Continue reading A spark of hope.
"...In short, I believe we have to allow love to make space for justice and that true justice will require us to make room for the terrible people who had no idea how terrible and harmful they were, for those who truly believed they were good and loving and positive to their community. Once they wake up, they are going to need a new family, a new house, and a new school."
"...In so doing, they cast out Christians that actually follow Christ, and all members of humanity that challenge their wealth and false superiority. In short, they like to say they know God, and became everything He told them to stand against. Their hollowness is why they think taxes are Marxism and everyone willing to even moderately improve our society is jealous of the rich. Their hypocrisy is why they can't see noble motives, because they can't fathom what they aren't..."
Senator Mitt Romney (R), of Utah held a Town Hall in the Draper City Library last night. Myself and a fellow activist and colleague of mine from CAHR named Doug went to try and hold the Senator accountable regarding immigration and gun reform.
The VA works, and would work better if Republicans (and some Democrats) weren't deliberately underfunding it. Medicare for all would save us money. Stop insulting our veterans with the falsehoods.
No, 'immigrants', 'illegals', 'brown people', (insert other racist + dehumanizing word _here_) are NOT taking your jobs. In fact, immigration is a boon to any economy. That's not my point, though. My point is to expose the real culprits behind jobs dwindling. One word: Robots.
New Zealand has shown the world what it is to possess the iron strength that is moral courage. They just went through what should be the unthinkable. They didn't merely offer 'thoughts and prayers', nor did they disrespect the memory of the lives lost and dishonor the families by saying we aren't going to talk … Continue reading NZ has Moral Courage. The US doesn’t.
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