I can imagine. I have heard people gossip about me right in front of me. One woman was whispering so loud while looking at me. The whole blooming congregation could hear her. I didn't care what she said it was true and she's a busybody lol.
How many kids did she have? Wondering how many times she broke the law of chastity and then repented to stay on good terms with church.
A congregation that treats you with disrespect is not worth going to. Even if they bill themselves as the world's truest beehive of dehumanizing gossip. Find a supportive faith tradition.
I don't go anymore. I was put off because there was a member who was a convert and her son with learning difficulties committed a crime (the girl was consenting and told him she was older but nonetheless still a crime). He went to prison for 15 months. But how the congregation were with her made me realise how awful they are. She should have been given support. They shunned her. So visibly. They stopped fellowshipping her. It wasn't her fault.
Women offended by JD Vance’s contention that the US is run by “childless cat ladies” should realise it was merely a “quip”, the Republican vice-presidential nominee’s wife, Usha Vance, claimed in an interview broadcast on Monday.
“And the reality is, he made a quip in service of making a point that he wanted to make that was substantive and had actual meaning..."
And the substantive point?
Speaking in 2021, a year shy of election to the US Senate in Ohio and when best known as the author of the bestseller Hillbilly Elegy, Vance told the then Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the US was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.
"It’s just a basic fact – you look at [vice-president] Kamala Harris, [US transportation secretary] Pete Buttigieg, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] – the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we’ve turned our country over to people who don’t really have a direct stake in it?”
