The following report is from Yahoo Life:
Fans of the Star Wars franchise can relate to Padmé Amidala, a character from the Star Wars prequel trilogy played by Natalie Portman, for a multitude of reasons, from her troubled romance with Anakin Skywalker to her desire to do her best to protect her people.
It’s the latter that inspired the Amidala Initiative, a group of Star Wars fans and content creators who have joined … forces … to raise money for Texas advocacy organization Equality Texas after Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate the parents of trans children who have had or are seeking elective gender-affirming procedures or treatments.
We, the undersigned, are 77 fan content creators, podcasters, YouTubers, TikTokers, artists, writers and cosplayers who have joined together to use our limited platforms to stand in solidarity with our trans siblings and their families in Texas.
No child should fear that their teachers will report their parents to the government for allowing them to live as their true gender. No parent should fear criminal charges for supporting their transgender child and helping them seek therapeutic and medical support to treat their gender dysphoria … this is something we refuse to stand by silently for.
A GoFundMe site for the Amidala Initiative states.
Byn McDonald, a podcaster within the Star Wars community, calls Abbot’s Feb. 22 proclamation, “the straw that broke the camel’s back.”
LGBTQIA issues are obviously something that’s very important to me as a queer person and a nonbinary person. Obviously it’s not just Texas: We’ve got Florida and Utah and South Dakota and Tennessee and Arkansas — it’s a bevy of states using the opportunity to overload us with all of this so we can’t really concentrate on one part of it.
McDonald, who lives in Arkansas and uses they/them pronouns, tells Yahoo Life.
Inspired by Queen Padmé Amidala’s willingness to fight for causes that mattered to her, McDonald started the Amidala Initiative, where they, along with 76 other Star Wars fans, hope to raise at least $25,000 to donate to Equality Texas in support of trans youth.
When you have a level of misplaced anxiety, it helps if you can find something to do with it. Obviously I don’t have any pull with Texas legislators. I can’t pop up as an advocate. I don’t know people. But at the very least I’m good at doing my research and I can find someone who’s already doing that and help in what little way I can.
To date, the group has raised over $8,000 toward its goal. McDonald and their counterparts plan to promote the fundraiser throughout the month of March before sending the donation to Equality Texas.
Chase Hauser, a nonbinary YouTuber who posts about all things Star Wars and uses he/they pronouns, is part of the initiative says when they heard the news coming from Texas, they were “horrified” and wanted to help.
Almost immediately, my mind went to the heartbreaking statistics of self-harm among nonbinary and trans youth — which is devastatingly high. My heart just broke. I feared the worst and, to be honest, I still do. If I could have connected with every young LGBTQIA+ person in Texas that day, I would have. As trite as it may sound, I just wanted to hug each and every one of them and tell them how loved they are.
Hauser says.
McDonald says there’s a second purpose to the Amidala Initiative: making sure queer youth know there’s room for them within the Star Wars community, a place they say is often perceived as only being for “white cisgender heterosexual men.”
Growing up as a queer kid, I loved Star Wars for as long as I can remember. Say I’m a 12 or 13-year-old kid who loves Star Wars and I’m watching Star Wars explained on YouTube by a creator who has a huge reach and then I see them pop up and talk about this fundraiser: It would feel really reassuring and would verify that I belonged.
They say.
Even if it’s just a fictional thing that isn’t necessarily going to change your experience at school or at home. I think sometimes just that little bit of hope that there are other people like you or that accept you and want you there — I think we underestimate how much those small gestures can mean to people. I know it would have been life-changing for me to feel that growing up.
McDonald adds
Hauser agrees.
Revisiting Star Wars as an adult who has never been more self-assured in their queerness has been an invigorating journey. The message I want kids taking away from all of this is one of solidarity and hope — they aren’t alone now and despite the other messages they are receiving, they never will be. This community is here both with them and for them and we aren’t going anywhere.
They say.
Ricardo Martinez, chief operating officer of Equality Texas, says the passion and support of the Star Wars community are both seen and appreciated by the organization.
Something we have learned in the last two weeks is that [these Star Wars fan creators] have unleashed an incredible new age where LGBTQ+ advocacy and philanthropy meet for good, and our ‘geek squad’ — our staff — is really inspired by their efforts. Their involvement really reinforces our belief that anyone can contribute to advocacy and justice in whatever way makes sense for them at this very moment.
Meeting people where they are at and encouraging individuals to leverage their talents on behalf of meaningful causes is incredibly important and so incredibly moving to witness.
[Equality Texas is] the largest statewide organization working to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Texans.
While McDonald says the official fundraising campaign for the Amidala Initiative will end at the close of March, they plan to leave the GoFundMe running indefinitely, sending any donations directly to Equality Texas. As more people learn of the efforts, they hope additional funds and support will continue.
The thing that I’ve learned in this part of the Star Wars community is that there are so many people — more than you would think — that have never felt like they could talk to someone else in the community about [their fandom]. I’m meeting huge groups of queer people who have never talked to another queer person about Star Wars. It’s something silly and it’s light entertainment fluff, but those are things that mean something and represent something larger.
They explain.
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[7] Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous. [8] For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? [9] Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? [10] Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God? Job 27:7-10
I am not here to defend Star Wars, but it’s typical of these wicked hypocrites to wave the banner behind something that does not even represent what they claim it does, such as the case with their perversion of the rainbow, and now with a character that was not a sodomite nor represented anything of the kind.
Be that is it may, Star Wars greatly perverts what is good and evil, as everything is relative in that religion. And yet it is what most professing Christians will tell you it’s their favorite movie series, and now more and more sodomites are using the movies as a banner to fly for their wickedness. Rather interesting that those people all seem to be floored with Star Wars.
The bottom-line here is that the Lord is already done with this nation, and his harsh judgment is already in motion, and it will be utterly devastating in the times to come.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Jude 7
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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That thing just looks perverse. Unclean.
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It’s craft. ‘The work’…’the great work’….is Luciferian/Hermetic enlightenment, ‘love’ being union with everything, merging everything….one-ness, samahdi is single-pointed meditative consciousness: the meaningless ohm & mindless repetition of their fake ‘mantra’ prayer turning off –searing—conscience & rational mindsoul: opening to any spirit; monism, corporatism, globalism, pantheism. The force. The ‘energy’. Lust/love. Gnosis.
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Wicked, mocking John Maynard Keynes called it ‘the love beyond Christian understanding’ as he relished in his wealth in lawless ‘economics’, seducing the sons of ‘evangelicals’ sent him for professional mentoring in economics, even as they recognized his system would end in crash & crisis: they would not refuse the insane amount of immediate gain, & risked their sons to his ‘mentoring’ & ‘tutellage’, professorship.
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His group was tied in to the so-called ‘Bohemians’ & ‘Romantics’…to Crowley in turn, many sodomite initiated Catholics amongst them: all witchcraft.
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Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, worked the compromised evangelical ‘scholars’ of the Revision Committee, his Through the Looking Glass, and Alice in Wonderland witchcraft tutorials & initiations. Alice was one of the daughters of Henry Liddell, whom he seduced, with her sister, photographing them in their underthings, as his other ‘art’ was cutting edge photographic pedo-porn. They call him a ‘pioneer’.
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Liddell was Humpty-Dumpty, whom all the king’s men, & all the king’s horses couldn’t put back together again. His specialty was lexicons. Reminds you of Lot & his daughters.
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Disney was in that stuff up to his neck.
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Sick. God calls it hating the truth, loving lies…..their so-called ‘magical kingdom’. ‘You gotta have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true’…. Rogers&Hammerstine, filthy Talmudic kabala. ‘filthy dreamers’…..Jude. They ‘visualize’ their idolatrous ‘jesus’, not proving by the word. Jeremiah spoke to this.
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Huxley prodded Darwin into publishing, & promoted elitist Darwinism relentlessly….but by the testimony of some such as Lady Hope, Darwin capitulated & repented, seeing the power of the Gospel & scripture at work in the lives of the Tahitians, stricken, unable to stop the momentum of their ‘great work’ and lie with men the likes of his wicked grandfather, Erasmus, & Huxley & that whole coverted network & ‘brotherhood’ behind it. Huxley saw his ‘elite’ & superior pride stained w/ his daughter, Nettie’s great fall into drunkenness, promiscuity & bringing flaming sodomite actors into his manse. He thought he could play with fire & mock God, & not get the whole hog.
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His later sons, Aldous & Julian were as bad, & part of the psychedelic spiritist promoters. Potheads. Associates of AA’s headship, together with their Jesuit priest associate, Father Dowling, they used to all get high together! Higher power as you imagine it, indeed. Remember how they made ‘Father Dowling’ that endearing, harmless nice guy in their ecumenizing & conditioning sitcom? All of it steered. The ‘Golden Girls’ all witches, & their characters named after famous historical witches.
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Then there was Einstein’s ‘open marriage’ & connection to Huxley & Crowley guaranteed his promotion. De Jardin the Jesuit w/ the Piltdown & Peking man frauds. Lemaitre and the Big Bang. All craft….and creationism covered for a lot of it, allowing no discussion of the distinctives or King James as authoritative because it was ‘divisive’ & would break the political unity they needed to be taken seriously in the world….becoming part of the world & no different from the world in truth, just other ‘handled’ arms of Rome & her craft! No wonder Bill Nye the bowtie guy was never confronted with scripture.
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They even called one of the most popular & promoted ‘conservative Christian’ Romanized ecumenizing home school curriculums ‘The Mystery of History’, in which they co-mingled Catholic, Protestant, Reformed, & biblical Christian ….white-washing Rome, promoting craft mysticism, ritual, necromancy, charismania….demonizing the ‘dangerous’ schismatics like the baptists, & lumping them in with those Owenites, Quakers & Shakers while erasing the distinctives; making cults like Seventh Day Adventism & Mormonism mainstream! I was on my face repenting over that one….what fools they made of many, the damage that was done. How difficult to find the truth! or a truth-teller!….But God is faithful to those truly seeking it, regardless of cost.
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We were so deceived, & our earlier public school education was ANYTHING but religiously neutral. There is no neutral ground: Augustine was a devil, & ‘ecumenism’ the antichrist crowning achievement.
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Rome was never Christian, but always covert MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT. Never taking out the Bible & the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ making men free indeed, but making diplomatic ‘deals’ with elite statecraft aristocracies/elders and their associated priests& shamanic occult/covert/gnostic craft to come in as ‘lesser lieges’ & such, a twisted & perverse patriarchy, in exchange for alliance with Rome at the head…absorbing & incorporating all of their evil knowledge, lording over all the respective peoples of the earth in that corporatist monstrosity & covert, layered, interconnected system & web.
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And yet God called souls out of that, & even in that with bits of scripture & truth hitting receptive hearts & consciences & souls.
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So much scripture against this & exposing this. No wonder they so hate that King James Bible& pretend with all their might that ‘the Jesuit oath has been debunked’ & such blather. Yeah, right.
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They blatantly sell it in the name of Christ & Christianity, & it always ends in Sodom & Egypt, & in judgment. Romans 1, Revelation 11, Ezekiel 8, and down the line.
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Daniel 11:38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
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Jude 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
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Jude 8 ¶ Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
Jude 9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
Jude 10 But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
Jude 11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
Jude 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Jude 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Jude 14 And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,
Jude 15 ¶ To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Jude 16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage.
Jude 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Jude 18 How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
Jude 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
Jude 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
Jude 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Jude 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference:
Jude 23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Jude 24 Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy,
Jude 25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.