Welcome to this episode of “Christian Hypocrisy: Anti-Gay Christian Edition.”

It’s been a while since we’ve done one of these, so let’s start off 2019 old-school style and call out an anti-LGBTQ public figure who turns out not to be so morally upstanding after all.

Just about all LGBTQ people have a story about something that confirmed for them that they were LGBTQ. For me, it was Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. That is, you might say, my root.

For the next generation of LGBTQ folks, their root will be Drag Queen Storytime at their local library.

You know, even though our country seems more divided than ever before, at least we can count on our elected leaders to respect the system of government that we’ve created and have been trying to get right for 240-some years. Key word is “trying” here. The United States actually has a super-ambitious system of governance that is based on admirable ideals. Unfortunately, we have yet to really live up to those ideals. There’s a lot of work to do! Thankfully, elected leaders, regardless of party, care deeply about democracy.

World AIDS Day was Dec. 1, as it has been every Dec. 1 for the last 30 years. And the day before, on Nov. 30, President George H.W. Bush died. While these two things may appear unrelated, they are not.