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.
Well at least he’s a Republican. :-)
From Wikipedia
His first marriage was with Chrystie Crownover from 1972 to 1981. They have two children, son Burt and daughter Cassandra, known as Casey. Jenner and Crownover's divorce was finalized the first week of January 1981. The same week, on January 5, 1981, Jenner married his second wife, actress Linda Thompson, at the Oahu, Hawaii, home of film producer Allan Carr. By February 1986, Jenner and Thompson had separated, and they subsequently divorced. Jenner and Thompson have two sons together, Brandon and Sam Brody, known as Brody. enner married his third wife, Kris Kardashian (née Houghton), on April 21, 1991, after five months of dating. They have two daughters, Kendall and Kylie
Sorry Bruce getting your dick cut off does not make you a she no matter how hard you try to convince yourself
Not really, sorry for the poor choice of words......
How about this, does this meet your criteria for criticism?
Do you show such (fill in the word) for those who exhibit schizophrenia or are they just weird nut cases that deserve to ridiculed?
I’m not sure he’ll ever take the step of having his dick removed. Seems he just wants to wear makeup and women’s clothes.
I bet this doesn’t last.
Is there any such thing as objective reality?
Or is all reality subjective, and each person is entitled to their own version of reality?
If I say the 2 + 2 = 5, who are you to say differently?
If you give me $20 for a $3 purchase and I give you back forty-seven cents in change, do you have a right to impose your version of reality on me?
LOLOLOL! Love this!
Don't ask me any questions that you don't already know the answer to but are afraid to face...............
Why does Jenner and his mental illness scare you so much that you refuse to address the comparison to someone who suffers from a similar mental illness such as schizophrenia?
Because society doesn’t celebrate schizophrenia as something normal and healthy, like these people think we need to celebrate transgenders.
This is pretty much accurate!!
With your able contributions! Bless you, my sister!
God bless you, friend. ;)
How in the world could you possibly have concluded that I am a so-called "f-g lover" based on this thread in which I lambasted Bruce Jenner's delusion and called it a scandal? Kindly check back and correct your mistaken impression.
Oh KAY! Post of the year!
That's not me. I guess you were referring to the freeper who calls him or herself merely "Albion." But she wasn't the one on the Bruce Jenner thread with me and CatherineOfAragon on Saturday night. That was me.
It's call Reaping the whirlwind.
We've been killing our unborn for what; 42 years now?
I'm surprised the country is not in WORSE shape by now!
Here is the answer:
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
I’ve a cat like that.
Follows me everywhere!
Those same people attacking the author, also hate Jenner for saying he was a pubbie. lol
We have gone through the looking glass and Hillary is the queen of hearts who will be chopping off heads left and right
microretching
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