📧 "blog entry for RLC" to Golden

Let me know when you can talk, perhaps by phone. If hosting a GI Justice workshop in Dallas will not be possible, you and I need to decide how to make good on that promise you made to me, as it affects my reputation and goodwill before my audience. I told people about Dallas because you invited me there, and they deserve to know how they can support soldiers and veterans. 

More importantly, RLC needs to know how to support soldiers and veterans and how to fight against the desire to not know who we are and why God loves us as we are. Our voices and our value have been erased from Jonathan and William Barbers' campaign, and we (via Desmond Doss) have been erased from Lynchburg. I have not seen any response from RLC about Shane's language in that email from a few months ago, and I know of no other efforts made other than the work I put into creating the 2 minute video and the blog I wrote without pay for the RLC blog. 

You know the power of public discourse, and Falwell's threat of arrest was not hidden from public scrutiny. Nor will I be willing to conceal from my small audience what has and has not occurred if I continue to be held at arms length like I have been. I know you all are very busy and the revival created a budget deficit, but I have not asked for anything that costs money. I need your support, and other soldiers and veterans need your support, to confront the American desire to not know about the complex reality of military communities, to challenge the erasure of human lives and contributions in progressive movements, an to combat the epidemic of suicide that s fueled by internalized oppression of anti-military bias. I look forward to setting up a time to talk at your earliest convenience.