Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: "Speak Out Loudly Against This Evil": Internet Erupts Over Biden Declaring Easter "Trans Day Of Visibility" Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:09:21 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <20240402200042.0000706c@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 01:09:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="501a9a6b3b2c3f3484265f8785d6761c"; logging-data="3714659"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19E9mzMwp21AClZSV+MQb3k8R3w9OSnQa0=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cb2cFdsVfJm7wFmirSubTAO969A= Bytes: 3449 On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 17:38:51 -0700, suzeeq wrote: >On 4/2/2024 5:00 PM, Rhino wrote: >> On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:46:21 -0400 >> shawn wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:34:59 -0700, The Horny Goat >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 04:30:44 -0400, Ubiquitous >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> “I have as low an opinion of Biden as you can possibly have and yet >>>>> this is so outrageously evil that I had to check to make sure it >>>>> was real. It is,” Daily Wire host and author Matt Walsh said. “Our >>>>> ‘catholic’ president has chosen the highest holiday on the >>>>> Christian calendar to celebrate transgenderism. This man is a >>>>> demon.” >>>> >>>> That's an exaggeration but no question, were I an American I'd vote >>>> for anybody BUT Biden solely on the basis of that. >>> >>> Then you would be as foolish as the MAGA faithful I see making a fuss >>> over this. The day has always >> >> Always? As in "since the dawn of time"? Really? I would think it hasn't >> been anywhere NEAR that long. >> >>> been celebrated on March 31st. It just >>> so happens that this year Easter Sunday also happens to be on March >>> 31st. So it isn't like Biden or anyone else was doing something >>> against Christianity. >>> >>>> I have no particular problem with him setting such a day on any other >>>> day but to do it on the highest high holy day on the Christian >>>> calendar shows a level of insensitivity unworthy of any candidate for >>>> high office. I wouldn't do it on Yom Kippur or Eid either. >>> >>> I wonder what Jesus would say about the intolerance being exposed >>> here. Sure seems to go against some of the tenets of Christianity to >>> me. >> >> Remind me where Jesus supported trans-folk in the Bible.... > >He supported all people except hypocrites, and those who would do harm >to others. That isn't their Jesus. I see it as the same way people see the bible. They get out of it whatever they want and ignore the rest. It is something we all do. Sadly I always thought the most important message coming out of the New Testament for anyone (believer or not) was the idea of tolerance for others.