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, I’ve never been called that before)
"you cranky scheming mustachio'd clown" (this was also a new one)
“F--- YOU. I don’t have the patience for this nonsense anymore. You are the epitome of everything that’s 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 Jenner’s 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”
“you’re 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, “YOU’RE LITERALLY SO IGNORANT? Why is your mentality stuck in the 60’s, 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 I’ve 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 doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel like he’s a woman. It simply means he’s 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 don’t minimize the pain that many of these individuals have lived with.
I’m 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, “It’s 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, he’s not accused of gender stereotyping. Instead, he’s 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 let’s remember to pray for God’s very best for Bruce Jenner.
Amen!
The passing of time is going to see some remarkable changes..and they wont be gender changes
If I graft a trunk to my face and call myself an elephant, does that make me an elephant?
If it weren't for double standards, liberals would have no standards at all.
I always laugh whenever someone comes up with the line that Republicans practice hate politics; really? Have you looked at the reaction to anything conservative by liberals? Their abilities to project their problems onto others knows no limits.
Using liberal logic, yes, that makes you an elephant.
Just as the liberals claim that feeling you are a woman in man’s body makes you female, then the grafted trunk would make you an elephant.
As we currently do not have the technology to actually make him a woman (who knows what science has in store, in a bizarre future), that makes Jenner mutilated and since he paid to have it done he is self mutilated.
He truly is a mutant.
Because it’s not wrong to get disgusted by aberration or sin. Jesus used a lot of insulting terms towards unrepentant sinners, and scourged some out of the temple. If a whole society wasn’t being forced to swallow this, being upheaved over it, Christians might show a little more compassion, or “tolerance”. but back when we were truly allowed to have tolerance, the left didn’t leave it there. Now tolerance isn’t enough, forced compliance and celebration are the new standards, and Christians don’t want to be burned again, though that toothpaste is out of the tube. The further extreme they go in compelling “tolerance”, the further we have to go to distance ourselves from it.
I heard Jenner quoted as saying that he’s heterosexual, and that he’s attracted to women, even now.
So, does that make him “lesbian”? If we say for sake of argument he is going to be a woman, wouldn’t he be a lesbian female???
This gets too confusing.
I’m hopelessly behind the times. And to think that Facebook allows for 56 different gender identities. I’ll never learn what they all are or what they mean. I’m stuck in the “binary” and “hetero normative” world of just two, male and female.
Will Bruce have to give back the medals and trophys he won competing in the male category?
Brown is correct, but that Killer Bee mentality is one reason I don’t even comment on Twitter or certain websites.
Some on the left will never be able to discuss these matters objectively, and some will, in spite of being punished by their peers with ostracism.
For many LGBT’s their gender of choice is the form they take to worship the fact of their sexuality. Many of this group become so identified with the trappings and affectations of gender, that it becomes all they live for. That’s when you find young people growing confused, depressed and angry as they realize how empty and two dimensional their lives have become.
“He’s” not a woman alright. It’s a vomit-inducing freak.
Time is really getting short for Old Scratch. You can tell by the response of his people to Christians and Jews (and Michael Brown is both so, I guess, he’ll get a double dose).
To stupid libtards, yeah you should be an elephant LOL
Where hate resides is plain to see.
I’m detecting some macroaggression there.
Has Jenner had a chopadictomy yet? IF so, he ain't a woman, he's a eunich.
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just heard sermon about this topic today- what does it matter that their vile responses are posted? You are not here to please them- you are hear to present God’s word and be a shining example because those people are living in darkness and hate— When you get to heaven you won’t be judged by them but by God- their opinions don’t matter- sure thyme sting- but what does it matter? God is your judge, not them-
Psalms 9:13 Have mercy on me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death:
Psalms 119:86 All your commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help you me.
Jeremiah 20:11 But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Matthew 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, you know that it hated me before it hated you.
John 15:20 Remember the word that I said to you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
1 Corinthians 4:12 And labor, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
2 Corinthians 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
1 Thessalonians 3:4 For truly, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and you know.
2 Timothy 3:12 Yes, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Hebrews 10:33 Partly, whilst you were made a spectacle both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst you became companions of them that were so used.
1 Peter 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you:
1 Peter 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.
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