Student in one of our classes is a walkaway

[archaeobob]

I learned that one of the students in the class I help to TA is a walkaway... grew up in the Assemblies of God. Not only that, she also was familiar with the local AoG "University" we have to deal with and the real stuff that goes on behind the scenes. We got to chatting about fighting them... and one student was standing there with her mouth

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[moropus]

I didn't know it had gotten that bad. I'm a 1984 walk away from Baptist fundamentalists. I spent a year at Liberty University listening to Jerry Falwell telling me who to hate.

The really strange part is I didn't have enough money to stay there and the right people didn't care. You'd think they'd want to hang onto a uterus at all costs.

I was tired of being told who to hate.

I still get fund raising letter from them. I've told several times I'm a militant lesbian married to a woman, which I'm not, to get them to quit asking me for money.

Amazingly, they haven't tried to convert me out of that either. They are quite silent on that area.

I have no idea how they keep finding me. They are spending a lot of money finding me and sending me mail and I will never send them anything.

[archaeobob]

That sounds like us so much (and if there are lurking readers, this sort of long-term attempt is common). I walked over 30 1/2 years ago (we've been married that long on November 19) and as of a couple of years ago, some of the local dominionists were still stalking us. One, a extremely bad-news woman that I despise (very high in the NAR) was driven off by Susan, who had to intervene to get her to leave me alone in a public function we were attending. She was doing her best to get me to attend a church she and her husband has formed, in spite of my telling her I wasn't interested and to leave me alone (she also implied that I wasn't Christian and had to come to become a "Real Christian"). In Sue's case, it was a dominionist organization "connected" with our school that was stalking her... we caught them in multiple lies and got tired of the attempts to "hook" her, so we complained to the university (and suddenly the attempts to contact her stopped

[archaeobob]

I should add that when the woman was harassing me, I was still Christian at that time (a UU Christian). I no longer consider myself Christian and it's because of people like the woman harassing me that I'm not - combined with the harm they've done us -that we've caught- over the years. If there is ever any justice in this world, the goddamned churches in this area are in for a world of hurt.