WWUTT 2630 Q&A Review of "A Great Awakening"

The Podcast Intro and Psalm 9 Reading

If you've been listening for a while, you know I sometimes do movie reviews, and rarely do I watch anything I like, much more something that I could recommend. But on this episode, I've got a movie that preaches the gospel.

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Here once again is Pastor Gabe. Thank you, Becky, who is not along with me this week. I am flying solo, but I'm still going to respond to some of your messages and comments. Let me begin by reading from Psalm 9.

Be gracious to me, O Lord. See my affliction from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gates of death, that I may recount all your praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in your salvation.

The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God. For the needy shall not always be forgotten, and the hope of the poor shall not perish forever. Arise, O Lord, let not man prevail. Let the nations be judged before you.

Put them in fear, O Lord. Let the nations know that they are but men. Selah. My friends, I apologize that I have not had any new episodes of the podcast posted this week. Sometimes I'll just drop off like that and you won't even know what happened to me until about a week goes by.

But I have other obligations, of course, outside of the podcast, first to my family and then to my church. And it was some of those pastoral responsibilities this past week that kept me from recording any further Bible lessons.

I hope to get back on track, though, with the study in Acts and in Lamentations. And God willing, Becky will be back with me for another Q &A next week. You know, this past week we had a record-setting day.

It was either Tuesday or Wednesday that I had nearly 11 ,000 downloads of the podcast in a single day. And that might be a record. I don't think I've been over 10 ,000 before in one day. And that's just of the numbers that I'm able to see.

So some of those downloads that come from other sites don't even register back to me. What a blessing, though I was saddened that when I was probably attracting some new listeners, I didn't have any new episodes of the podcast to post.

But again, I hope to get back on track and I thank you for your patience with me. This episode isn't even necessarily going to be me sitting down and recording responses to some of the questions that we get, although you are going to hear a voicemail and then responding to some comments.

This episode is audio from video that I've posted this week. One of the videos that I did, this was either Monday or Tuesday, was in response to when I got banned from Twitter four years ago. It was just about four years ago this time of the year that I was banned from Twitter and there were a lot of comments that I never had the chance to respond to.

So I did a video responding to those comments. This first audio that you're going to hear, though, is my review of the film, A Great Awakening. So let's start with that, along with a voicemail message from Ryan.

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I'd like to respond to more questions on the YouTube channel as well. I've never played a voicemail on the channel before, so I'm going to select this one from Ryan, and here is what he asks. Hello, Pastor Gabe and Becky.

This is Ryan, the mailman from Iowa. And I know I keep bugging you about this, Gabe, but have you been able to see A Great Awakening yet? It's just fantastic. It's a compelling, solid, awesome movie, and I really hope you can see one better time than this weekend for the 4th of July Independence Day weekend, the big 250th birthday for America.

It'll be a good time for you to watch it during that weekend. And I'd like to hear your review. I don't know if you're going to do one for a Q &A or if you're going to do a Saturday special edition about it.

It'd be awesome if you did that. But yeah, it's on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, a few other places. You can also buy it on DVD on the Sight Sound website, and yeah, you guys will thoroughly enjoy it. God's will is presented very well, and it's a compelling, great, awesome movie.

So I don't want you to miss it. God bless you guys, and happy Independence Day. Go America, 250.

Thank you for your question, Ryan, and also for your patience, because I've been asked about this film ever since it came out over the Easter weekend, 2026. Here we are now past July the 4th, and I finally got around to watching A Great Awakening.

Thanks to a wonderful family in our church who invited us over to watch the film and served us some great pizza as well. A Great Awakening is about the life of George Whitefield, specifically the relationship that he had with Benjamin Franklin and the impact that Whitefield's preaching had on the American colonies prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the drafting of the Constitution.

Like Ryan said, the preaching in this movie is tremendous, and the gospel is clearly presented. There was a scene in the film that was my favorite presentation of the gospel, and I tried to record it to play in this video, but my screen recorder wouldn't pick it up.

Yeah, copyright and all that kind of a thing. But I did find this clip from YouTube, and this will give you an idea of the kind of preaching that you can hear in this movie, A Great Awakening.

In the pulpit, speak of things real, which our congregations receive as if they were but imaginary things. Why, my Lord, Mr. Bedderton replied, the answer is quite plain. We actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you in the pulpit speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

Therefore, I will not be a velvet-mouthed preacher. And yet have the devil in your heart. Our Lord speaks the same words to you as surely as he spoke them to Nicodemus of old. You must be born again.

Nicodemus, respected, religious, renowned as righteous, and still the master commanded, you must be born again. Like the church at Sardis, he had a reputation for being alive and yet was dead inside. How many of our congregations are dead because they have dead men preaching to them?

How can dead men beget living children? Therefore, Christ says to you, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I'm about to spit you out of my mouth. Do not trust in your good works for salvation, or that your name is written in the church registry.

I tell you, there is only one book where your name must be written, and that is the Lamb's book of life, just as you are to Christ.

That is just a small sample of how great the preaching is in this movie. And you get a real sense of the drama there as well. The acting was fantastic. The dialogue, the costuming, all of it is really good.

And the gospel is presented so clearly that a person could start the movie not a Christian, and then by the end, they put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ. There's exhortation that's given to turn from your sin to the Lord Christ, and you will live.

Even though this movie is called A Great Awakening, it's not really about the Great Awakening. It's set during that period of revival that happened in the American colonies in the 1700s. But you don't get to hear about some of the other impactful preachers in the Great Awakening period, like, for example, Jonathan Edwards.

He's mentioned only by name, but there are some other names there that you would recognize. The movie is told really from the perspective of Benjamin Franklin and the relationship that he had with George Whitefield.

Here's another scene where Whitefield and Franklin meet for the first time. I'm interested in working with you.

Please proceed. The Pennsylvania Gazette is the leading newspaper in His Majesty's 13 colonies. It would be extremely effective in communicating your whereabouts to ensure the largest crowds possible and, with it, the largest possible offerings.

Well, that is very thoughtful of you. I am endeavoring to raise funds for an orphanage in Georgia.

I'm sure you are. Partnering with me would guarantee the maximum benefit to your cause. And mine? A match made in heaven. Or just a deal made in a print shop.

Now, as far as we know, Ben Franklin never became a Christian, unless he had some sort of a deathbed conversion, God willing. He spent most of his life as a deist, though he knew the gospel. His father preached it to him and wanted him to become a priest.

And, of course, he had this great friendship with George Whitefield. The final dialogue in the movie between Franklin and Whitefield was recognizable to me, and I believe a lot of those lines were lifted from a letter that Whitefield wrote to Franklin appealing to him to turn to Christ.

Much of the preaching in the movie was taken straight from Whitefield's sermons. And a time or two, I heard a line that I've used as a quote from Whitefield in a sermon before. This is a great historical drama.

You may have noticed the guy that plays Ben Franklin looks just like him. George Washington is in the movie as well. And some other recognizable names include John and Charles Wesley. Early in the film, we flash back to George Whitefield's early days when he aspired to become an actor, and he went to Oxford to perfect these acting skills.

While there, he was invited to become part of a Bible study group known as the Holy Club. And among the men in that group were John Wesley, who was the father of Methodism, and his brother Charles, who wrote such great hymns like Oh for a Thousand Tongues to Sing and Hark the Herald Angels Sing.

Some of my favorite scenes in the film and some of the best doctrine that's shared in the movie is in those scenes with George Whitefield and the Holy Club. Unfortunately, I was not able to record any of those scenes, so you're just going to have to watch the movie yourself.

You can go to Sight Sound's website. Go to sight-sound .com, and they'll show you the different places where the movie is streaming, or you can purchase the DVD. Something else I noticed from their website is they also put on stage shows, and some of those shows are performed in Branson, Missouri.

It's been a long time since I've been to Branson, but anytime I'm in the area, I always try to take in a show. If you're nearby, check out Sight Sound's website because they have Bible stories that they've produced for the stage.

When I was watching the movie, I thought this would make a great stage show, but I don't see a Great Awakening listed in the live performances that Sight Sound put on. Maybe they will adapt it later.

In the meantime, it is my honor to be able to recommend this movie to you, and I hope that it is a blessing. In one of my favorite scenes, Whitefield is with the Holy Club as they are in a prison witnessing to the prisoners there.

And Whitefield opens up a Bible and begins to read from John 3 to the prisoners. And of course, it's right there in John 3 that we hear that wonderful presentation of the gospel that you know is John 3, 16.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him will not perish under the judgment of God that we all deserve because of our sin, but we will be saved by faith in Jesus and have everlasting life.

That is the message of Great Awakening that we all need. I want to begin by saying that some of the content here is going to be a little more explicit than usual. It's not like I'm going to get R-rated or anything.

I'm still going to keep this kind of mild, but I have families that will tell me that their kids will watch what videos, and you may want to watch this first before they do. Let me begin by reading from 1 Peter 4, starting in verse 2.

Live for the rest of the time in the flesh, no longer for human passions, but for the will of God. For the time that has passed suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

With respect to this, they're surprised when you don't join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you. But they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. Recently, I was doing a search for an old article of mine.

Some of my articles I don't have right at my fingertips. I have to do a Google search in order to find them. But I pulled up an article that was written about me four years ago this week, and I forgot about some of the things that were said regarding this particular event.

I don't know if you know this, but back when X was Twitter, I was banned from the site for posting what the Bible says. Here was the post that got me banned. I said, what do abortion, adultery, bestiality, child sacrifice, homicide, homosexuality, idolatry, incest, and witchcraft have in common?

Answer? They all deserve the death penalty. Turn from your sin to the Lord Jesus Christ and live. Well, that post exploded. You know, it really did not get a lot of attention when I made it. But then when I got banned from Twitter, then it became an international story.

Not the Bee did a story on it. There was also, what was it, Answers in Genesis used to do like a news beat. I don't know if they still do it or not, but they covered this story on their program as well.

Now, this happened. I got banned on the same day that Jordan Peterson got banned. So, eventually, this started off in the morning. Later on in the day when Peterson got banned, that became the story after that.

But for a little while there, I had a lot of attention for Twitter banning me because I shared what the Bible said. This was part of a thread. There was another post right under it where I gave the scriptural references for where God's law says that a person who does such things deserves to die.

For abortion, Exodus 21. Rape, Deuteronomy chapter 22. Homicide, idolatry, witchcraft, so on and so forth. And I also said, see Romans 6, 23, where it says the wages of sin is death. We also know from Romans 1, 32 that those who do such things know they deserve to die, but they not only do them, they give hearty approval to those who practice them.

We all deserve to die because of our sin. And in God's law, he said explicitly, these are the sins for which a person deserves the death penalty. But I had said in my post, turn from your sin to the Lord Jesus Christ and live.

My desire with that post was that people would repent and turn to Christ. Twitter banned me though, saying that I was citing hate speech. Now, here are some of the comments that I received after it was said through the What account, through WWUTT.

It was said, just to inform you all that Pastor Gabe has been permanently booted from Twitter. Twitter has not given a reason. Now, that account, Whatcom on Twitter, which is now X, that account was not started by me.

So when I got banned, I didn't lose that account since it belonged to somebody else. The guy had contacted me and said, it was when I moved the What account to a Pastor Gabe account. I didn't even start the first What account.

That was started by somebody else. And then when I changed it to Pastor Gabe, because he wasn't managing the account anymore, somebody contacted me and said, I'd still like to have a What account. Would you mind if I started one and just kind of make it like a fan account?

All I'll do is post What content and stuff like that. And I was flattered by that. And I said, the guy was free to do that. Well, after I got banned, he contacted me and said, yeah, listen, as far as I'm concerned, this account belongs to you anyway.

What is yours? So if you're going to get banned from Twitter, do you want to use the What account to kind of let people know and still be able to post to people and that kind of a thing? It was just very kind of him.

And I have access to that account to that account to this day. So it was through that account that we let everybody know that I had been banned. And here were some of the comments that we got when we posted that.

Responses to the Twitter Ban and the Charge of Hate Speech

So Billy in Colorado said, advocating for genocide is not a good look. Worse, when you're supposedly a follower of Christ. Lord, Christians are why people have a problem with Christianity. So much wishing for death.

How much more un-Christlike can one be? Well, of course, I wasn't wishing for anyone's death. I was actually calling for them to turn from their sin to Christ so that they would not die. This person said, Gabe can burn in hell off Twitter.

Have a blessed day, moron. Sam said, thank goodness this transphobic bigot is gone. This person called. Please clap, said turn to my faith or we will put you to death was pretty clear in that statement.

Now, Rebecca Lloyd came to my defense and said he did not say we will put you to death. Reading comprehension, please. Nick's undercover said, you're such a low life. He's calling for their deaths, calling for people to be executed by the state on the basis of their sexual orientation is a violation of the terms of service.

So it would have been the Twitter terms of service, whether it's one by one or all at once. This fellow by the name of Green Man said the reason was he was advocating for mass execution of groups he didn't like.

Turns out that's against the rules. Try playing by the rules sometime instead of being fake, hateful Christians. Brandy, who's a friend of mine, came to my defense and said lying is a sin. Slade G said, tell him that he can send me anything he wants to say and I'll post it.

X, Y, Zed replied. You people are nuts. What religion empowers you to tweet that a group of people deserve the death penalty? And you wonder why church membership is at an all time low. Weiland said, I've never been prouder of my what T-shirt and potluck.

Lauren said, what? Dang, that stinks. And someone claiming to be Jesus, according to their their username, said, yeah, what's the world coming to when you can't incite violence on social media? And like I said, it was it was pretty well noted.

That's not what I said. I was not inciting violence against anyone. In fact, when I would reach out to Twitter and I would ask them when I would appeal this decision, right, I would ask them, can you show me what I did to violate the terms of service?

They would never answer. They would never respond and show me how what I said was actually a violation of the TOS. And and so I was banned for supposedly inciting violence against a group of people when that wasn't there at all.

That's never what I said. David Bowling said, this is insane. And then Baldy, the prophet, replied, no, calling for the death penalty of a group of people based on their religion or because they have a religion slash sexual identity different than yours is insane.

Again, not what I did. T .J. said, and somehow Rick Warren is still here. And Tabby replied, Rick never post the biblical truth as Pastor Gabe did. That's why Ted Talker Wolf Rick is still here. Exile theology posted Psalm nine, six, which says endless ruin has overtaken my enemies.

Even the memory of them has perished. Yeah, that guy never liked me. I went and looked, I went and looked up if he's still on X and he has me blocked. Big shock. Josh Donaldson said, good, saying they deserve the death penalty is neither compassionate nor biblically accurate.

That's it's literally in the Bible. So is God not compassionate for putting the wicked to death? Because everybody who's going to be sent to hell will be sent there by God as his wrath pours out on them forever because they did unrighteousness and they did not love the Lord Jesus Christ, his son, whom God sent to die on the cross as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. And if a person doesn't believe in Jesus and then perishes in hell because of their sin and rebellion against God, is Josh therefore saying that's not compassionate?

So he goes on to say, hilarious to me that a page called when we understand the text doesn't understand the Bible or what Gabe actually wrote. On the contrary, Josh understands neither. This person named Lost Little Stars said, glad I was one of the people who reported and made this happen.

What an evil man. Now she's still on X and it appears that that she claims to be a Christian. So a professing Christian turned me in for saying what the Bible says and hoping that sinners turn to Christ.

Nathan, the unworthy prodigal said, pray for our brother, folks. Gabe, our Lord will find another avenue, another avenue for you to share his truth. Well, I still had my podcast. I still had the videos.

I've never done a video, though, responding to this. So this is my first time after four years, my first time addressing some of these comments that came about after I was banned from Twitter. Serving serious side, I said, expletive, expletive.

We've had it. Your hate will destroy you. You all have no idea what Jesus life example meant. He did not hate. Yet you all seem to interpret that you have the right to and that you should. And it is righteous to do so.

This person's cussing me out. And saying that I hate people, even though clearly, again, from my post, I was calling for people to turn from their sin to Christ so that they would live. Stu said, may what he wishes upon others be done to him in return.

And here's a bunch of people. Here's a bunch of people here saying awesome news. C. Darwin, PhD, said, thank God the psychotic religious zealots are a malignant cancer on society. Mrs. Smith and Valerie said, bring back Pastor Gay.

While Jared said, big win for Christian Twitter today. Joe Thorne said, shocking with a blank expression emoji. Yeah, Joe Thorne actually dogpiled on me for this particular post. I was really disappointed to see that from Joe.

I was always fine with Joe Thorne. He made contributions to founders ministry and the Ligonier. And I'd listen to I'd listen to a few of his podcasts. I think I went to one of his talks one time when he was speaking at at one of the seminaries up in Kansas City.

But it's interesting that a few years after this, we would find out that Joe has a lesbian daughter who married another woman and Joe attended the wedding and celebrated it. So and in my opinion, that disqualifies him as a pastor.

Therefore, it's not all that surprising that he was willing to dogpile on me for this particular post. Right under that, Justin said, what a blessing. Eric replied, I came here to say this. The world is a kinder and more intelligent place when Gabe's microphone is off.

Well done, Twitter. Well, nobody shut off my microphone. I still had my podcast, which, by the way, look up WWU TT on whatever podcasting app you like to use. Eileen said, this is insane. Pastor Gabe announced that he will be off Twitter soon, and now they suspended him.

And Roar replied he deserved it. Yeah, what was funny about this particular post is I had just said that I was going to be taking July off, so I was not going to be on Twitter at all in the month of July.

That post was made at the end of June, and it ended up getting me banned. I was I was able to get back on Twitter, which became X in between the time that I was banned and when I was able to get back on.

I got back on two years later, so I was off for about two years, and it was a congressman friend of mine who made a phone call. I really don't know what he did. I never asked for details, but he texted me one day after I'd been banned for nearly two years, and he goes, are you still banned from X?

And I said, yeah, even though Elon bought it and took it over, I still have not been able to be restored. And he said, well, let's see what I can do. And then I think he texted me the next morning or something like that and said, hey, by the way, you're back on X.

So I don't know what he did or who he called or what was said, but he did get me reinstated. And so I'm back on there now, much to the chagrin of all these people who were celebrating my departure. Now, like I said, I was searching for an old article of mine when I came across all of this again, and I forgot about a lot of these comments and never really had the chance to respond to them, at least in a video form.

I did write a blog, and I think I talked about it on the podcast as well. But it was in searching for my article that I came across this one from a guy named Dan Foster, and he has this medium blog site called Backyard Church Thoughts on Applying a 2000 Year Old Religion to 21st Century Life.

And he wrote an article about my being banned, which was posted on July 3rd, 2022. So this was actually about a week after I'd been banned. And he said, Fundamentalist preacher banned from Twitter for hate speech.

Free speech is not a license for hate speech. But again, I was just saying exactly what the Bible says. Here was what Dan wrote. 18 ,000 conservative Christians are in mourning today after the voice that delivered them a steady stream of fundamentalist religious dogma on Twitter was silenced for good, for two years by the social media giant.

And he was given the boot for hate speech. The offending tweeter, one Gabriel Hughes, is a Baptist pastor in Texas. Where else? It's kind of funny, like, you know, you'd expect all of the people who hate gay marriage to come from Texas, I suppose.

But Texas can be a really liberal place. Just ask anybody who lives in Austin or Dallas, any of those metro areas. They can be pretty bad, though the state, for the most part, is a red state. There's still a lot of liberalism there as well.

Now, I'm not in Texas anymore. In case any of you know, I am the pastor of Providence Reformed Baptist Church in Casa Grande, Arizona. Loved my time in Texas, but love this church that I'm pastoring now.

If you were to meander through his Twitter feed, Dan said, back when it existed, you would find a man who is anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-vax, which that's actually not true. I'm vaccinated. My kids are vaccinated.

I'm just opposed to certain vaccinations. They don't have all the vaxes. And I never got the COVID vax, nor did I advocate for anybody to get the COVID vax. So that translates as I'm anti-vax, anti-abortion.

That's true. Anti-evolution, anti-critical race theory, anti-Democrats, anti-wokeism, anti-climate change, and anti-fun. Funny thing is, he sounds a lot grumpier than I do. But going on here, it's, in fact, hard to find anything that Pastor Gabe isn't against, apart from interpreting the Bible literally and baseball.

He likes baseball. You know, that's, honestly, I'm okay with being known for that. That I love taking the Bible literally and baseball. That's a good reputation, I think. That's pretty good. Now, this thing is highlighted in green, and I don't really know why.

I didn't explore through this. Oh, here we go. Okay, so this is apparently on Medium. A person can highlight a certain section of an article and comment on just that section instead of commenting way down at the bottom.

So here's a comment on that particular paragraph from a guy named Barry. He said, it always confuses me when people speak of interpreting the Bible literally. In what way does something expressed in literal terms require interpretation?

I have to add that no follower of Pastor Gabe's would believe anything you say, and everyone else already knows it all. I really can't tell if that comment was in my favor or not. So interpreting the Bible literally, I interpret the Bible for what it says.

R .C. Sproul was once asked, do you interpret the Bible literally? And Sproul replied, of course. Duh. But he went on to explain when you interpret the Bible literally, you're interpreting it according to the literal device that's used.

So, for example, when we're reading in the Psalms, we're going to interpret the Psalms as song lyrics. We're not going to interpret the Psalms the same way that you would interpret, say, Genesis, which is a historical narrative.

You would interpret that differently. The Book of Revelation is apocalyptic literature. The Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, though it does include words that Jesus said and taught, it's also history the way that it's written down.

So we are going to read these books according to the literary genre that they fit in, and that's interpreting the Bible literally. Yes, that's exactly the way that I interpret it, using the grammatical historical approach to interpretation.

That's called hermeneutics, for those of you who know what that means. All right, so going on, Dan says, A long history of Twitter hate. Pastor Gabe's recipe for a life that pleases God can be summed up in this since-deleted tweet.

Yeah, it was deleted because everything in my account was gone. And even when I got my account restored, there was still a lot of things from the past I was not able to get back. It was kind of a spotty history, as a matter of fact.

And it was so troubling trying to find what was there and what wasn't that eventually I just nuked the end. Once I got reinstated, I kind of nuked my whole tweet history and started afresh again. So yeah, you still won't be able to find this post.

But this was the one that he highlighted from November 4th, I believe from the year before. Do you love Jesus? Do you go to church? Do you read your Bible? Do you love your spouse? Do you have family devotions?

Do you teach your kids the Bible? Do you sing and praise the Lord together? If yes, there is a world of people terrified of you. Keep it up for God's glory. And he went on to say groundbreaking stuff, right?

Now, there was a context to this particular post. Again, this was I'm pretty sure this was made at the end of 2021. And what was going on that particular year, especially in the months of November and December, I was getting bombarded by the LGBTQ brigade online.

And it wasn't just on Twitter. It was also on Instagram and Facebook. It was kind of like somebody put something out there on a message board and said, here's Gabe's social media accounts, go and bombard him with stuff.

And I had tons of comments. I had DMs. In fact, I lost my access to Instagram. And it wasn't for anything like they were banning me at all. I just couldn't get into it anymore because I switched phones and I couldn't remember the password from before.

And until Instagram changed the way that you could log in, I was locked out for a couple of years. So when I was able to regain my access to Instagram, there were DMs that were like the content that I was getting at this particular time.

And I just kind of forgot that all of that was going on. That was a fun little walk down memory lane. But anyway, so what they were bombarding me with at this time, they were hitting me with all kinds of hateful messages.

They would show pictures of people firing guns at me. So it was kind of like a passive aggressive threat that I'm going to kill you in my DMs, which are direct messages. They're private messages. I would get gifts in my DMs of men doing sexual things with one another.

And this was sexual assault that the LGBTQ people were sending me in an attempt to assault me. I mean, that is sexual assault. I don't want to subject my eyes to that at all. And at the time, Twitter didn't have that feature where the images could be blurred out and you couldn't even see it until you clicked on it.

That's kind of the way that things work now, but I don't think it worked that way at that time. Now, this is the equivalent of I would actually say this was worse, but let me give you kind of an equivalent scenario.

If you were out in public and somebody ran up to you with a trench coat on and opened their trench coat and flashed you, they were naked underneath, that's a crime. They will be arrested for that. They will have to go to court for that, and they will either be fined or repeat offenders can even be thrown in prison.

So this is a criminal act to flash someone in public and reveal themselves naked. Okay, so what's happening to me and my DMs on Twitter is just like that, if not worse, because it was men doing sexual acts with one another.

And this was what was being thrown at me by these LGBTQ persons. I'm being sexually assaulted online, but Twitter would not do anything about it. I would file a complaint and I would cite the DMs that I was getting and that this was harassment, and Twitter would respond and say that they found no violation of the terms of service in these hateful DMs, these hateful and disgusting direct messages that I was getting.