Posted on 04/26/2015 11:35:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
This past Friday night, I tweeted out, My heart goes out to Bruce Jenner, & when he says, I am a woman, I hear him saying, I am deeply confused & hurting. Let's pray for him! The responses to this tweet were as ugly and profane as anything I have ever seen. Why the extreme and even irrational hostility?
Some of the tweets included these gems:
"f--- you you disgusting saliva gerbil" (to be honest, Ive never been called that before)
"you cranky scheming mustachio'd clown" (this was also a new one)
F--- YOU. I dont have the patience for this nonsense anymore. You are the epitome of everything thats wrong here.
Why such vitriol?
Look again at what I posted.
It was grounded in love, and I simply expressed what I heard in Bruce Jenners words, calling for prayer.
Some of the tweets were so profane that to quote them here would be of no use, since almost every word would have to be censored. But there were plenty of others that, while using better language, were just as ugly:
you are a horrible human being
youre disgusting
And all i hear is a bigoted old man who is scared to even think that a person may be different than him.
Later in the evening, in response to some comments others had made (there were some who were not as nasty in their tweets), I asked why the trans advocates discredited those who regretted sex-change surgery or who now believed that you cannot change your gender, posting some relevant links as well.
Then on Saturday, I made this comment: Who said that being a man or a woman is determined by how one feels? Since when are biology & genetics meaningless?
In response to this, one young man wrote, YOURE LITERALLY SO IGNORANT? Why is your mentality stuck in the 60s, move forward with time to now this stuff happens.
How do we deal with such moral madness? How do we even begin to interact with this social insanity that exalts subjective feelings and denies verifiable reality?
As followers of Jesus, we must be gracious and loving towards those who identity as transgender. And as Ive said many times before, we need to have great compassion on the children who struggle with gender identity issues, continuing to do our best to get to the root causes of these issues with the goal of providing a way for them and their families to find wholeness without the need for lifelong hormones and sex-change surgery.
But the fact is that Bruce Jenner is not a woman, and it is not hateful to say so.
If he were a woman, he would not have been able to father all of his children, nor would he need female hormones to feminize his body.
That doesnt mean he doesnt feel like hes a woman. It simply means hes not a woman.
Yet today, even to utter those words is to put oneself in the crosshairs of ugly and vile attacks.
Of course, trans people and their allies will remind us of the terrible struggles they endure, of their very high suicide rates, of their being rejected to the point of homelessness as a result of societal stigmas, at times violently assaulted.
And so, the moment you take issue with transgender activism, you are accused of pouring salt in the wounds, of causing more suicides, of deeply hurting precious, sensitive people.
I truly understand this, and I dont minimize the pain that many of these individuals have lived with.
Im simply pointing out that the vicious responses to my tweet point to an irrational hatred and anger more than to a caring disagreement, making clear that this is part of a larger ideological struggle in which those of us who hold to biblical marriage and morality and who celebrate gender distinctions will be vilified by those who reject those values.
Ironically, LGBT advocates constantly criticize us for holding to clear gender distinctions, telling us that we are being bigoted and stereotyped.
After all, they argue, who says that boys should play with footballs and girls with princess dolls? That is so sexist and out of date.
Yet when a little boy chooses princess dolls over footballs, those same advocates say, Its obvious that he is really a she!
In the same way, when Bruce Jenner tells Diane Sawyer he thinks the way a woman would think, hes not accused of gender stereotyping. Instead, hes celebrated for recognizing his real gender. And on and on it goes.
I truly believe that, in the coming years, our society will come back to its senses (but with greater sensitivity to the struggles endured by trans-identified people).
But for now, while walking in love towards all, we must stiffen our spines, stand up for what is right, be fervent in prayer, and continue to speak the truth, knowing that ultimately, truth will triumph.
And lets remember to pray for Gods very best for Bruce Jenner.
OMGLOL
I missed the thread of the week! Don’t you Freepers have a social life hahahah. I never knew staying up late on a saturday night would produce an excellent thread.
I’ve never head of Calpublican before but the rest of those fag lovers yaelle, albion, evening, kg9kid, swede girl are gonna be on my watch list..
LOL, Saturday night—are you kidding? When I got married I was so glad because it meant I could stay home and stop going out all the time! I got so sick of it.
Albion deserves kudos-—she was great on the thread. She stood up to the foolishness over and over.
I loved wardaddy’s “Dr. Tranny”, lol.
Couldn’t you just pull the lining out of your pants pockets and pretend you were an elephant?
You don't have to go to that much trouble. Just wear a baggy gray sweatsuit and say you're an elephant.
And you can chose your gender but your sexual perversion you can’t help, because you were born that way.
I started to agree, then I remembered that almost all of the trans-what-have-you claim that they always “felt” like they were what-have-you, ie, they were “born that way” but were too afraid or unconscious of it before, to admit it.
Since the religion of secular humanism is based upon what humans can “prove” through their senses, they must then undergo the knife to physically become, as closely as possible, what they claim to believe they are. At least Christianity admits to being faith-based, so that we don’t ourselves expect to, or demand that others, actually see the Holy Spirit, except through His influence in our lives.
Last time I posted with albion she claims she’s a retired school teacher and/or past 60. One of them.
The truth is in the middle.
Bruce Jenner was born with a brain dysfunction, like thousands of Americans. Some have OCD, some bipolar. His is that his brain thinks female, though he is a man. On scans female brains show activity complete differently than male brains. We have all noticed the different ways boys and girls, men and women, think. And inside, you “know” you are your gender. Matching your body. Some people have a condition where they also “know” they are one gender, though they are born a different one.
We need to show prayer and compassion for all people born with differences. They can’t help it.
The bleeding heart libs are wrong when they say this is “normal.” It isn’t; it’s clearly dysfunctional. But they are right and conservatives are wrong on caring for these individuals. Allow them to live life how they wish so that they don’t kill themselves over the pain of the difference. Half of them try to kill themselves, for something that is not their fault, because evil people are cruel about it.
Evil people used to be mocking and cruel to people with Down Syndrome. Now, these people are finally given the respect they deserve and chances at as great a life as they can live. We need to give these people with gender dysphoria the same kindness and loving human respect.
Biology is biology.
Anything else is imagination.
(As my old physiology professor said.)
Ive never head of Calpublican before but the rest of those fag lovers yaelle, albion, evening, kg9kid, swede girl are gonna be on my watch list..
It would be better if you engaged those of us you are reviling directly. I happened to come upon this.
I don’t appreciate being called names, but with the venomous, nasty treatment Bruce Jenner is getting on this forum, I guess I’d have to expect it. I don’t know the man and knew nothing about him except the Olympic thing and him being part of the Kardahsians. However, I recognize that he has tried very hard in his life to overcome his mental illness, has tried over and over to live the life of a normal man, but has been unable. I think being charitable toward him would be more conservative, as this whole site is about getting back a Free Republic. I would like to live my life MY way and I’d also like, according to the Golden Rule, the right for every other American to live their life THEIR way. I Accept that people won’t like my life style and that I won’t like theirs, and we can be civil.
Because how he wishes to live is unsavory, people here think that means he should be mocked for his mental illness. Just do not call yourselves good religous people.
I think he needs to surrender his olympic medals since he participated in the wrong gender events.
Kardashians are losing the limelight in apretty accelerated matter. Never would dream anyone would do anything this drastic to secure a new reality show. An ultimate publicity stunt if there ever was one.
Nor a Republican. Oh, wait. His standards are about the same as theirs.
Unless, Bruce has a Y chromosome, he is not a she.
Yep...especially if you feel like an elephant. Because it is what we feel that matters.
No, it shows you have a mental condition and I'm not going to condemn you for it.
Do you show such hatred for those who exhibit schizophrenia or are they just weird nut cases that deserve to ridiculed?
Do you call everything that you disagree with “hatred?”
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