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From: FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "Speak Out Loudly Against This Evil": Internet Erupts Over Biden
 Declaring Easter "Trans Day Of Visibility"
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 06:33:52 -0400
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On 4/2/24 6:41 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <4svo0jlml2lcmtgtep417921617gi1m6df@4ax.com>,
>   shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:14:34 -0700, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 04:30:51 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
>>> 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?
> 

Nobody is forcing you to be decent.  If they were, you'd be on Death Row.

You can continue to be as racist and bigoted as the law allows.

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