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What Rep. Cleaver did would be laughable if it wasn't sacrilegious and stupid
American Thinker ^ | 4 Jan, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 01/04/2021 4:34:28 AM PST by MtnClimber

What was once the world’s greatest deliberative body is being reduced to a leftist clown show as the “woke” left struts its stuff.

On Saturday, news broke that the Democrats are going to remove all gendered words from the House of Representatives. On Sunday, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a pastor, opened the 117th Congress with a prayer. At its conclusion, he said “amen,” and then added “a-women.” What he said was both stupid and sacrilegious.

I wrote here about the newly “woke” House’s push to remove gendered language. I pointed out that, in English at least, gendered words fall into two categories. There are words that describe a job using both male and female terms, such as “chairman v. chairwoman” or “steward v. stewardess.” For the most part, it’s not a big deal to change those words. Indeed, most of them have already been changed in ordinary usage. We speak of the “chair” or of “flight attendants.”

However, the House is also going to do away with gendered words that apply specifically to the realities of human biology. No longer will there be “sons and daughters” or “mothers and fathers,” or any other descriptors that are tied to genetic codes that make people male or female. Instead, there will be “parents” and “children,” as well as other “gender neutral” language, as if there is no difference between the sexes.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: gender; insanity
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1 posted on 01/04/2021 4:34:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

This is not about discrimination. This is an excuse for the left to use force to make the rest of us live in their false reality.


2 posted on 01/04/2021 4:34:46 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Just wait for the “Struggle Sessions”!


3 posted on 01/04/2021 4:35:22 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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'Amen' means 'So be it'. Has nothing to do with men or women. This 'pastor' should have learned that in pastor school.

Of course, he probably got his title out of a Cracker Jack box.

Uh-oh. Cracker Jack. Is that racist?

4 posted on 01/04/2021 4:43:38 AM PST by real saxophonist (Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh... your opinion, man.)
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Yes, that’s true.

But in any reasonable environment, Cleaver would have been laughed off the podium. He was rambling on about Brahma and all sorts of peculiar things or deities, or at least judging by what could be understood from his poor diction.

What a joke. The Dems would almost be funny if they weren’t out to kill us.


5 posted on 01/04/2021 4:45:39 AM PST by livius
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He’s a Doctor of Divinaty don’t cha know.


6 posted on 01/04/2021 4:45:54 AM PST by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: MtnClimber

Will we be hearing about those awomendments to the Constitution?

Will there be a recognition of Black Herstory Month in February?


7 posted on 01/04/2021 4:47:08 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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To: MtnClimber

Political Re-edumication in the House chamber begins today...


8 posted on 01/04/2021 4:49:05 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Who built the cages, Joe?)
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Where are the separation of church and state freaks when it comes to Democrats?

Just imagine how they'd be howling if a conservative House GOPer was a Christian pastor. It would never be allowed.
9 posted on 01/04/2021 4:55:27 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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Representative Emmanuel Cleaver committed a hate crime when he mocked Christians' faith.
10 posted on 01/04/2021 4:56:55 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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“a-women”

Didn't he notice the word 'men' is still in there? And he can't escape it by attaching another 'wo' in front, a-wowomen, haha.

11 posted on 01/04/2021 4:57:51 AM PST by LibWhacker
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It was ignorant.

Any person over the age of eight—if they have a couple of brain cells to run together—should understand the meaning of common phrases.


12 posted on 01/04/2021 5:00:34 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: livius
[...] by what could be understood from his poor diction enunciation.

Diction = choice of words (not pronunciation).

Regards,

13 posted on 01/04/2021 5:01:25 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Vermont Lt

It is Cancel Culture now. They can destroy the lives of their political opposition by searching old social media for an infraction. It is all stupid and ignorant until you lose your job and reputation due to it!


14 posted on 01/04/2021 5:11:04 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: real saxophonist

https://www.babylonbee.com/news/cracker-jacks-changes-name-to-more-politically-correct-caucasian-jacks


15 posted on 01/04/2021 5:12:12 AM PST by pluvmantelo (Pallets of bricks for the street thugs, pallets of ballots for the suite thugs)
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If there were a single adult male, they would have added and A*hole.


16 posted on 01/04/2021 5:22:39 AM PST by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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Cleaver was the reason I moved out of Kansas City, worked for companies in different cities or states, and swore I’d work had to never purchase anything from KCMO, so ensure that I’d never have to give any sort of tax money to the clown show that he ran in Kansas City, MO!

One of the more corrupt a$$hats in congress!

Mark


17 posted on 01/04/2021 5:33:32 AM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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His diction was poor. He’s supposedly the graduate of a seminary of some Southern Protestant denomination but his speech is like that of a barely literate person.

Oh, and he enunciates badly too.


18 posted on 01/04/2021 5:34:34 AM PST by livius
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We speak of the “chair” or of “flight attendants.”

It's a travesty that stewards and stewardesses have been reclassified as "flight attendants" and that stewards and stewardesses accepted the change. "Steward" and "stewardess" imply authority, responsibility, leadership and duty while "flight attendant" has a more menial connotation, as in "gas station attendant."

19 posted on 01/04/2021 5:34:44 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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On Saturday, news broke that the Democrats are going to remove all gendered words from the House of Representatives. On Sunday, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a pastor, opened the 117th Congress with a prayer. At its conclusion, he said “amen,” and then added “a-women.”

Our ruling class.

20 posted on 01/04/2021 5:37:24 AM PST by Flick Lives (#resist)
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