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 21:11:21 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: <23bp0jp5393v3masgcvhssclhec7gjdotf@4ax.com> References: <4svo0jlml2lcmtgtep417921617gi1m6df@4ax.com> <20240402195501.0000575e@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 01:11:22 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="501a9a6b3b2c3f3484265f8785d6761c"; logging-data="3714659"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18at7qy+JRC2ZZwT9DrVqzLtetFKRHac2A=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:P4nfwm7AQDq8nxB9JbvQuLXU3RU= Bytes: 3318 On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 19:55:01 -0400, Rhino wrote: >On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:00:17 -0400 >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. > >Or he really needs the trans-folks to vote for him so he'll do ANYTHING >to win their support. He needs the sort of people that would support trans people to vote for him and doesn't need (or ever had a chance of getting) the votes of those who are anti-trans.