Did you know that Anabaptists were a mob of murderers? This is news to me. Anabaptists are pacifists, right? What do they have to do with the Orlando massacre carried out by a gay Muslim radical? Mennonite SJW Jay (Jennifer) Yoder squints real hard to explain why she sees her co-religionists as basically monsters. Excerpts:

What we found was the violence of the recent MC USA convention in Kansas City. What we found was decades-long firings and shunnings and shamings. What we found was a whispered history of rape, of suicide, of addiction, of Mennonites dying secretly in their homes of AIDs, their wives by their bedsides. What we found was forcing queer people of color to deny one piece of their identity so that they could be tokenized for another. What we found was preaching peace while ignoring violence and accountability. What we found was passing resolutions acknowledging that treating queer folks as less than full members of our Mennonite community results in us being targeted for sexual violence while *simultaneously* passing a resolution denying us full membership in the community.

Most of the times I don’t tell the hardest parts of my story publicly. Most of the time what I want you to know is that I’m whole and I’m happy and I’m not your sad broken queer story to be used.

Here’s what I want you to know today. We are dying, and you are killing us. We are dying, and you are killing us. We are dying, and you are killing us.

God forgive you. I’m not ready to.

Wow, did you know that Mennonites beat up queer Mennonites at the church’s annual convention last year? Did you know that they kill gay Mennonites? Well, if by “kill” you mean “refused to give the LGBT lobby within the church exactly what they want,” then it was basically the Holocaust. Here’s what happened:

Delegates attending the annual conference voted to approve a “forbearance” measure, a new part of the church platform acknowledging that there is not currently a consensus within the church on issues of human sexuality. The forbearance encourages dialogue, discussion, and prayer. Yet delegates also affirmed membership guidelines that effectively shut the door on the church allowing same-sex unions, with a moratorium on further discussion for four more years. The forbearance was supposed to be a nod towards the church progressives, with the membership guidelines a bone for the conservatives.

Got that? The church meeting said no same-sex marriages now, absent a consensus, but we’ll keep talking about it. Lord have mercy, it’s pretty much the Wannsee Conference, innit?

Honestly, aren’t people getting sick and tired of these hysterics? This is objectively deranged, as well as morally disgusting: to accuse your fellow church members of being guilty of murder because they won’t give you what you want. And The Mennonite magazine gave Yoder space to slander her opponents within the church.

Any community or institution that grants extremists like Yoder space to be taken seriously with berserker slanders like this is drinking poison. Here’s a piece from a piece Yoder wrote in advance of the conference last year that did not go her way. Excerpt:

Let’s create brave spaces of shared vulnerability, of shared accountability here together, in Kansas together, and let us cultivate a practice of creating brave spaces, spaces where we can model accountability, transparency, truthtelling, and brave nonviolent action. In other words, let us model the beloved community alternative to the violent structures of MC USA.

Who talks that way? This is SJW cant. It is a mark of our times that protesters and activists press their case by making highly emotional assertions of their own sanctity, and then asserting, with equal hysteria, their opponents’ evil. Sooner or later, I hope, reasonable adults in all kinds of institutions and communities will marginalize these drama-queen bullies, and refuse to be intimidated by this nonsense. Let the Jennifer Yoders of the world fall out and spontaneously combust, if that’s their choice. The rest of us can’t reward such emotional theatrics.