"I just love 'em! "
Posted on 05/02/2007 1:04:48 PM PDT by Zakeet
How many homeless shelters does your town have that are "intended specifically for transgender youth"? If you live outside New York, the answer almost certainly is a big goose egg. Here in the Big Apple, on the other hand, one of the city's leading newspapers regards it as newsworthy that there is only one.
In case you're wondering what "transgender" means, here is what we took away from the story: The residents of this shelter are young men who go to extraordinary lengths to appear as if they were women. They wear dresses, high heels and feminine makeup; they carry purses; they even "take hormones--often bought illegally on the street--to develop breasts and hips and to deter masculine traits like Adam's apples and whiskers." Apparently, though, unlike "transsexuals," they do not go so far as to have surgery to make their bodies more womanlike.
The residents of this shelter, the Times informs us nonjudgmentally, work as prostitutes "on the 'tranny stroll' near Roosevelt Avenue in Jackson Heights [a neighborhood of Queens], where men go for quick sex with men who look like women."
If you've been reading the New York Times as long as we have, you'll find none of this shocking. What did raise our eyebrows a bit, though, is the attitude of the clergyman who runs the shelter, an Episcopal priest named Louis Braxton.
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"I just love 'em! "
Good question. Any more “love the sinner but hate the sin” means “love the sin and be indifferent towards the sinner.” No one dare hate the sin any longer. All they care about is their own social approval. To hate the sin enough to do nothing but provide a path out of the sin — hope, but no approval otherwise — is the only way to love the sinner. Everything else is helping him into hell.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yuk!
As a priest, he should be attempting to work with them so that they get their lives together in order that they may find work and housing. It is so disgusting what they are doing. What is equally disgusting is that there are people out there willing to pay for their “services”. I’m surprised there are homosexual shelters and a transgender shelter. I realize that they may be abused in other shelters, but they should be left alone if they don’t flaunt their behavior.
Mothers a stripper/drug addict
Dad, moms boyfriends like to use mom as a punching bag
Neighbor rapes the kid
Is it any wonder these kids have problems?
If I had to live through that I don’t know how Normal I would be.
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