ill bite what was ur tattoo idea :chinhands:
thank you for indulging me :’) shoutout also to @feargender @a-very-honoured-moose and an anon for asking!
so:
my father is a United Methodist minister
John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, got in a lot of trouble during his lifetime for supporting lay pastors (ministers who weren’t ordained by the Church of England)
the United Methodist Church is currently tearing itself to shreds over refusing to ordain LGBTQ+ people or allow ordained ministers to marry gay couples
John Wesley is famous for open-air preaching when he wasn’t allowed to preach in Church of England churches. notably, he preached in a cemetery using his father’s grave as a pulpit
i want a tattoo of a visibly queer person preaching from a tombstone that has a riff on the United Methodist Church logo on it
