Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: "Speak Out Loudly Against This Evil": Internet Erupts Over Biden Declaring Easter "Trans Day Of Visibility" Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 19:57:52 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 68 Message-ID: <20240402195752.00004e87@example.com> References: <4svo0jlml2lcmtgtep417921617gi1m6df@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 23:57:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="349f1a814b41615e7a851adbb90fb18e"; logging-data="3576172"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Qrzhg3gO5dXe0qT8OC2DIgQi9Zg1ZW68=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ksRLmiWmi/uaOFPg1f3xEvh4EPo= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240402-6, 4/2/2024), Outbound message Bytes: 4413 On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:41:07 -0700 BTR1701 wrote: > In article <4svo0jlml2lcmtgtep417921617gi1m6df@4ax.com>, > shawn wrote: > > > On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:14:34 -0700, The Horny Goat > > wrote: > > > > >On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:30:51 -0400, Ubiquitous > > >wrote: > > > > > >>I also suspect this announcement would not have been made if it > > >>were during a Moslem holy holiday, like Ramadan. > > >> > > >That's my entire point. > > > > > >(Though to be fair Ramadan is a month long and this year is from > > >March 10 - April 9 whereas Good Friday and Easter are both single > > >day Christian days though Easter is the highest of all Christian > > >"high holy days" even above Christmas. > > > > > >(As far as Good Friday goes "Friday isn't important without > > >Sunday...." - in fact Christianity - St. Paul specifically - says > > >that one cannot be a Christian without believing in the Easter > > >narrative) > > > > > >Again Biden is a seasoned enough pol that he KNOWS what kind of > > >reaction would be coming and therefore in my view both knows and > > >doesn't CARE. I cannot believe he has forgotten what day Sunday > > >was. > > > > > >As I said earlier, he's either ignorant or not caring of the > > >feelings of the predominant religion in America and whichever of > > >the two it is it isn't a personal quality I would expect to see in > > >any presidential candidate particularly in an election year. > > > > Or as a long time Catholic and church going Christian he doesn't > > have the same feelings that you and BTR appear to think all > > Christians have. Luckily they aren't a monolith that all think the > > same and a significant number feel that we should be accepting of > > our fellow Gay and Trans people. > > Depends on what you mean by 'accepting'. If it means not caring if a > dude wants to wear a dress everywhere he goes, then I'm already > there. Couldn't care less. > > If it means forcing me-- increasingly under penalty of criminal law-- > to actively participate in his delusions and to not only allow, but > celebrate, dudes in dresses taking over womens' sports and wagging > their bits in the faces of real women and young girls in showers and > locker rooms, then Biden can fuck right the hell off. There's nothing > "unChristian" about objecting to that. (As if I cared what is and is > not "unChristian" in the first place, being an atheist and all.) > > And since when are "gay" and "trans" capitalized? They're not proper > nouns. Is this another new politically-correct language modification > decree from the pronoun people that I missed the memo on? Probably. After Saint George of Fentanyl died, the "woke" publications immediately adopted capitalizing "black" as some kind of tribute or recognition of black people. Perhaps these same self-styled elites have now decreed that the same must be done for gays and trannies.... -- Rhino