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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
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 17:38:51 -0700, suzeeq <suzee@imbris.com> wrote:

>On 4/2/2024 5:00 PM, Rhino wrote:
>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:46:21 -0400
>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:34:59 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 04:30:44 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
>>>> 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.