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 18:00:17 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4svo0jlml2lcmtgtep417921617gi1m6df@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:00:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="501a9a6b3b2c3f3484265f8785d6761c"; logging-data="3637519"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/ZbIyppzdtlKm6ACMqHvatKXsQrZztUoM=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cTOFmZTPY27EgL7OtjZyJEN3/uU= Bytes: 2680 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.