One reason for moonbats to get their education in a place like Berkeley is that it allows them to major in blasphemy. From New Ways Ministry:
Today’s reflection is from Ish Ruiz, Assistant Professor of Queer & Latinx Decolonial Theology at Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California. He is the author of LGBTQ+ Educators in Catholic Schools: Embracing Synodality, Inclusivity, and Justice, and a co-editor of Cornerstones: Sacred Stories of LGBTQ+ Employees in Catholic Institutions.
The educator Ruiz reveals that he has borne a cross: not his temptation to indulge in sin but rather the failure of others to approve of it:
“Through therapy, spiritual direction, and a lot of dancing at gay bars, I realized that my queerness was not a cross. My real cross was the social intolerance I encountered in society and throughout my upbringing. The cross was exclusion fueled by narrow theology and rigid, outdated teaching. The cross was also the racism I felt, even within some queer spaces, as a brown, queer Puerto Rican.”
The poor guy has practically endured crucifixion. This qualifies him to preach moonbattery under a vanishingly thin veneer of Christianity — the best strategy leftists have come up with yet to eradicate faith.
The moonbattery quickly merges into straight forward blasphemy:
“I also realized that my queerness is a gift from Jesus that allowed me to bear those crosses of intolerance and oppression.”
The immoral behavior comprising his queerness is adamantly condemned throughout the Bible.
“Jesus is queer. Not necessarily in the sense of sexual attraction or identity, though perhaps he was queer in that way (but who knows?).”
Moonbattery isn’t the only thing Ruiz worships. He also worships his self-pity over imagining himself to be oppressed:
“Jesus was queer in the sense that He knows what it is like to live differently, to be misunderstood, to be marginalized [yadda yadda yadda]. [M]y queerness is the Spirit’s gift that helps me endure and even transform the suffering caused by exclusion, racism, and shame.”
If only moonbats were capable of shame.
On a tip from Mike B.