Posted on 01/06/2021 7:35:57 AM PST by SJackson
Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, who is also a pastor at St. James United Methodist Church of Kansas City, Missouri, delivered the opening prayer for the 117th Congress last Sunday. After invoking “the God known by many names and faith,” he closed the prayer, of course, with “Amen.” Then, in a moment of shark-jumping absurdity, he added, “and a-woman,” apparently ascribing gender to the word “Amen” and attempting to be inclusive of the female sex.
As a pastor (with a Master of Divinity degree, no less), surely Cleaver cannot be unaware that “amen” comes from Hebrew filtered through Greek and Latin, and means “truly” or “so be it.” Was he seriously suggesting that the word somehow excludes women? Even people who are ignorant of its etymology understand that “amen” is the traditional conclusion of a usually Christian or Jewish prayer and has nothing to do with the male sex. In addition to Cleaver’s theologically confused appeal to a “God known by many names and faith,” his “a-woman” remark was the most idiotic feminist virtue-signaling since the corruption of the word “history” to “herstory.”
Cleaver unashamedly shared a video of the prayer on social media and was swiftly and justifiably roasted on Twitter. “Bruh you do know what Amen means, right?” wrote one commenter. Another respondent tweeted, “’Amen and awomen’? Is there a stupidity contest this year in government?” To that, someone replied, “Cleaver is off to an early lead.” Newt Gingrich tweeted, “perfect House Democrat prayer ending as House Dems focus on gender security by abolishing virtually every normal gender term [like father and mother].”
What Gingrich was referring to was the new House rules package for the 117th Congress, approved in a 217-to-206 vote on Monday, which “includes sweeping ethics reforms, increases accountability for the American people, and makes this House of Representatives the most inclusive in history,” according to a statement from the Committee. The package includes the establishment of a “Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth,” which will require Congress to “honor all gender identities by changing pronouns and familial relationships in the House rules to be gender neutral.”
Ergo, in clause 8(c)(3) of rule XXIII, perfectly normal terms which describe those “familial relationships,” such as “father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, grandson, or granddaughter,” must be eliminated because they are “gendered” and will offend the bullying transgender lobby.
Instead, those perfectly normal terms will be replaced by awkward and imprecise but non-triggering labels such as “parent, child, sibling, parent’s sibling, first cousin, sibling’s child, spouse, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, half-sibling, or grandchild.”
“These future-focused proposals reflect our priorities as a Caucus and as a Country,” doddering House Speaker Nancy Pelosi proclaimed proudly when the rules were introduced last Friday. Well, they might reflect the anti-family, anti-science priorities of what used to be the lunatic fringe and is now the mainstream Democratic Party, but they certainly don’t reflect our priorities and values as a country.
Republican lawmakers rightly condemned the new language restrictions. “I’m a proud husband, proud father of a son and a daughter — they don’t even want you to be able to say that anymore,” said GOP whip Steve Scalise. “The Democrats rule package takes out words like mother and father and brother and sister in their quest to not offend anyone,” said Rep. Debbie Lesko. “They’re offending almost all of America.”
“Show me where it says in writing that we’re canceling Mother’s Day or that you can’t refer to yourself as a husband or father or mother or grandmother,” dared Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern, irked by the criticism. Well, his committee’s own rules specify in writing that, at least in Congress, you can’t refer to yourself or anyone else that way. As for canceling Mother’s Day – the anti-family left has been itching to eliminate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day for many years. Maybe Congressional Democrats will get around to prioritizing that in the next rules package.
By the House’s own measure, perhaps Rep. Cleaver should be censured for his exclusionary “amen” and “a-woman,” which did not “honor all gender identities.” That goes for Speaker Pelosi as well, for hypocritically continuing to identify as “mother, grandmother” in her official Twitter biography. Apparently it’s difficult for the left to keep up with its own ever-shifting terminology of inclusivity.
“Give me a break. Enough is enough,” an irritable McGovern continued to protest his critics. “We have to stop this. And we have to focus in on solving the problems that face the American people.” Gee, if the Democrats feel such an urgency to address the problems Americans care about, a great place to start would have been the lifting of their own draconian coronavirus lockdowns, which have resulted in economic disaster for literally millions of Americans. Another great place would have been supporting the Republican investigation of widespread voter fraud in the November election, an issue that is tearing this country apart. Perhaps the Democrat leaders also could have addressed violent crime or immigration or any other issue that ranks high among American concerns.
Instead, House Dems prioritized this inane issue of gender inclusivity because these elites know better than their constituents what is important – and what is important to these Marxists is, as Karl Marx himself preached, the abolition of the family. Eradicating or obfuscating language that denotes traditional familial bonds goes a long way toward promoting that agenda, because if terms such as “father” and “daughter” are rendered unacceptably exclusive against narcissists who “identify” as some gender other than what they were “assigned” at birth, then it becomes easier to cloud our understanding of family roles and even to demonize traditional families themselves.
Despite Committee Chairman (shouldn’t that be Chairperson? Or is “per-son” also sexist toward women?) McGovern’s insistence that “we made this change for the sake of inclusion, not exclusion,” the truth is that the new House rule was made precisely for the sake of exclusion – excluding the vast majority of Americans who aren’t onboard with the radical left’s relentless assault on the traditional definition of family.
Congressional Democrats voted to legitimize this not-insignificant step in that assault because, as Hannah Arendt, the foremost scholar of totalitarianism, has noted, totalitarians aspire to nothing less than defining and controlling reality. A perfect demonstration of that is the totalitarian left’s subversion of family relationships, their manipulation of the language to erase sex distinctions and roles, and their denial of biological reality.
Americans who care about the future of our country and of our civilization itself must resist the left’s anti-family totalitarianism at every turn and at any cost. And that resistance begins with rejecting their perversion of language, science, and truth. Amen to that.
I’m sure it’s an old pastor joke. He was just being stupid and snarky. Probably used it before.
Nope. We laugh, they push their agenda.
Guess who is winning?
Pelosi’s new genderless rule was probably part of the deal to keep her gavel.
I am sure there will be more.
“Can we get an Amen and an Awomen?”
only if you are Amoron
“I’m sure it’s an old pastor joke. He was just being stupid and snarky. Probably used it before.”
I grew up in a family full of pastors, and I never heard that one. He IS stupid. The guy has no clue how the word, “Amen”, translates. He just thought he was being ultra PC and he failed.
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If I’m not mistaken, Amen is Hebrew, and has nothing to do with males or females.
But it’s not about logic, or the meaning of words. It’s all about trashing the MALE/FEMALE binary. ANY book about genetics will tell you that there are TWO manifestations of the species, and the chromosomes of each one are different and there is no possibility of confusing the two.
But that’s science, and the country is way past science and into insane cults.
Humans are gendered, and so the words used to describe them are gendered. But that’s logic, and the country is way past logic and into hysterical mental masturbation.
PS. If everything is to be gender neutral, then the same pronouns MUST be used for every single person, and there are to be no exceptions. That contradicts the current hysteria that says that a man can demand to be referred to as “she” and vice versa, and that you get thrown in jail for using the “wrong” pronouns.
It’s a waste of time trying to reason with insane, hysterical people, and so we had better just talk to each other on this forum, and among friends because it’s become awfully difficult to find sane, reasonable people in the current USA.
Facts don't matter. A number of years ago I remember two incidents of professors getting in trouble for using the term niggardly. I believe one was fired. Pretty soon we'll have to rename the color black. And white too I suppose.
That should be a PersonU
You forgot
Menstruation...will now be womenstruation
I guess that the polygamous Mormons will have to accustom themselves to using "sibling-spouse."
Regards,
Here are 12 things to consider as we closed the door on one of the
most horrible years of our lifetime:
1. The dumbest thing I ever bought was a 2020 planner.
2. I was so bored I called Jake from State Farm just to talk to
someone. He asked me what I was wearing.
3. 2019: Stay away from negative people. 2020: Stay away from positive people.
4. The world has turned upside down. Old folks are sneaking out of the house & their kids are yelling at them to stay indoors!
5. This morning I saw a neighbor talking to her cat. It was obvious she thought her car understood her. I came into my house & told my dog. We laughed a lot.
6. Every few days try your jeans on just to make sure they fit. Sweats will have you believe all is well in the kingdom.
7. Does anyone know if we can take showers yet or should we just keep washing our hands?
8. This virus has done what no woman has been able to do. Cancel sports, shut down all bars & keep men at home!
9. I never thought the comment, “I wouldn’t touch him/her with a 6-foot pole” would become a national policy, but here we are!
10. I need to practice social-distancing from the refrigerator.
11. I hope the weather is good tomorrow for my trip to the Backyard. I’m getting tired of our family Room.
12. Never in a million years could I have imagined I would go up to a bank teller wearing a mask & ask for money and get it with
Here’s hoping for a Happier New Year, and that this gave you a good laugh!
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