{"id":999,"date":"2018-07-26T11:11:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=999"},"modified":"2018-07-26T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T15:11:44","slug":"silenced-by-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/silenced-by-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Silenced by a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/silenced.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1001\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/silenced-300x138.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/silenced-300x138.png 300w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/silenced-768x353.png 768w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/silenced-600x275.png 600w, http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/silenced.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I heard yesterday that I am &#8220;just an angry lesbian.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt takes only one phrase,<br \/>\nuttered by those in charge of writing history,<br \/>\nto <em>erase<\/em> the reality of those not in power.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a new thought.<br \/>\nOppressed people<br \/>\nknow who writes history<br \/>\nand it is not them.<br \/>\nIt had never been so personal before.<\/p>\n<p>If <em>I<\/em> were writing my history<br \/>\nthis is the story I would tell:<br \/>\nGodde called me to ministry.<br \/>\nI had to figure out what it meant.<br \/>\nI went to seminary with the intention of being<br \/>\nauthentic<br \/>\nopen<br \/>\nvulnerable<br \/>\nand willing to engage in difficult, often hurtful conversations.<br \/>\nI made that choice<br \/>\nIt came with a great price.<br \/>\nI got to experience personal rejection<br \/>\neven hate<br \/>\nand ignorance in the name of God<br \/>\nthat daily crushed my spirit.<\/p>\n<p>And yet I believed<br \/>\nI had the strength to engage<br \/>\nTo stay.<br \/>\nTo listen.<br \/>\nTo retain my integrity.<br \/>\nSo I did.<br \/>\nAnd I thank Godde for sustaining me in that time.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t realize that<br \/>\nyears later<br \/>\nmy witness would be silenced<br \/>\nby a lie.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard yesterday that I am &#8220;just an angry lesbian.&#8221; It takes only one phrase, uttered by those in charge of writing history, to erase the reality of those not in power. This is not a new thought. Oppressed people know who writes history and it is not them. It had never been so personal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/silenced-by-a-lie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silenced by a Lie<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,39,24,22,17,8,25,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}