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How The Transgender Crusade Made Me Rethink My Support For Gay Marriage
The Federalist ^ | 09/06/2017 | Bethany Mandel

Posted on 09/06/2017 8:27:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/06/2017 8:27:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Transgenderism is at present a sort of mass Hysteria imposed by the left. Why anyone should take them seriously on things like climate change when they insist on adopting this fantasy about men who are actually women.


2 posted on 09/06/2017 8:34:50 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I agree with the author, but even she could be more honest and direct. She writes

” (because many progressive activists view opposite-sex hormones and plastic surgery as health care now).”

A facelift is “plastic surgery”. Chopping off a man’s penis is genital mutilation and should be called out as such.


3 posted on 09/06/2017 8:35:34 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s say transgenderism could be exactly what the left claims - a person who is male in all respects but is actually somehow a woman, I guess in their brain? Such a condition would be one to engender great sympathy not adulation or encouragement.


4 posted on 09/06/2017 8:36:57 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: SeekAndFind

In order to accommodate wonderful Islam, we’re also going to be told to accept polygamy, something they denied for so long but now it’s here. Also female genital mutilation is now okay, and soon to follow is pedophilia. After that they’ll have to think of something new.


5 posted on 09/06/2017 8:43:02 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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I left something important off the list Western societies already are being told to accept molestation and rape of females. In fact, the women are being told it’s their fault.


6 posted on 09/06/2017 8:44:23 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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“Why do you care what transgender individuals call themselves?”

We're already beyond this point. New York City already fines people for not calling transgendered people by their "preferred pronouns". And young kids are getting in trouble at school for the same thing ("misgendering"). The Thought Police are already here.

7 posted on 09/06/2017 8:47:02 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: SeekAndFind

Great new phrases I learned from the comments:

“The Alphabet People”.

HAHAHAHA!


8 posted on 09/06/2017 8:48:11 AM PDT by robroys woman
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left will not and cannot accept a win and stop demanding concessions. There is no end for them. If society granted every demand, they would be forced to develop even more outrageous demands. It isn’t about whatever their crusade of the moment is. It’s a process intended to destroy civilization.


9 posted on 09/06/2017 8:52:30 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: SeekAndFind

By supporting the homo perversion of marriage, she and people like her enabled this transgender nonsense. They were warned repeatedly about the slippery slope. They refused to listen. Now it’s too late.

Foresight is useful; regret is not.


10 posted on 09/06/2017 8:57:00 AM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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To: Gen.Blather

“The revolution is always.” It is an incessant march from one goalpost to another.


11 posted on 09/06/2017 8:57:00 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Hey, marriage is great, so let’s just give into the Left’s demands about the redefinition of a cornerstone of our society because not doing so would be bigoted.”

To put this another way, this person, understandably, took the position of the Republican Establishment, which was to ‘put the issue behind us’, because ‘we don’t want to be on the neanderthal side of social issues’ because ‘we cannot win elections that way’.

Well, not UNDERSTANDING your enemy means that they will always, and I mean always, defeat you.

It takes COURAGE on our side to understand our enemies. The first step is to understand that the MEDIA is an enemy. For example, when they show the 1% of DACA children going to Harvard, but not the 20% (or whatever number) of DACA children going to state prisons...we need to accept that we’re being manipulated.

On gay marriage, it was ONLY A START. 5 years ago their argument was “What harm will gays getting married do to straight people?” and we bought it, because we really thought it would end there. Now we see lives ruined, kids being sexualized in schools, not just without parents being allowed to opt-out, but without even bothering to inform parents, and the beginnings of the push to normalize pedophilia.

On a different topic, but similar results - how many Asian parents thought that allowing qualified blacks and Hispanics equal access to colleges would result in their vastly more qualified kids being REJECTED from those schools, so as to open up slots for underqualified blacks and Hispanics.

And it will continue, it will never stop...until we kick out the GOPe, who seem totally oblivious to this, and win enough elections, for a sustained period of time.


12 posted on 09/06/2017 8:58:38 AM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: SeekAndFind

The intolerant demanding tolerance.
Actually, it’s more than tolerance..they demand you embrace their delusional lifestyle.


13 posted on 09/06/2017 9:11:13 AM PDT by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: Williams

“After that they’ll have to think of something new.”

Bestiality.


14 posted on 09/06/2017 9:15:20 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: SeekAndFind
I’ve been called every name in the book: hateful, bigoted, transphobic, etc. All for having a belief that was utterly uncontroversial just three years ago: men are born with penises, women are born with vaginas, and, to quote the great Ben Shapiro, facts don’t care about your feelings.

Strange days indeed in these interesting times. The only way to understand things as they are now, and how we in this world have gotten here so quickly, is to read what the Bible says about it.

We've been sent skiing down the ultra-dangerous, double black diamond Romans 1:18-32 slope and we're really moving now!

If you've read the Bible and have been paying attention to the signs we've zoomed past so far, you'll see where we are, where we're headed, more or less, along with the big-picture reason why this is happening as it is.

Buckle up.

15 posted on 09/06/2017 9:30:25 AM PDT by GBA (A = 432)
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>>>Chopping off a man’s penis is genital mutilation<<<

or at the very least a beheading . . .


16 posted on 09/06/2017 9:31:05 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Williams

Read 1984 again


17 posted on 09/06/2017 9:40:02 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: Gen.Blather

The real issue is: Most Americans just assume; what more could they possibly want? Who could have possibly imagined where we are today?

Remember when “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” seemed soooo reasonable of an accommodation for the US Military? I would always ask; then what? What will be the next demand and how far are we willing to go IOT not be called names and be loved by our fellow citizens.

Always you hear; “they have overplayed their hand this time”! Yet onward they march over the culture, religion and history of this great Nation seemingly oblivious to the irreparable damage they inflict.

Yet even today we ask earnestly; “What do they want”? What more could they possibly demand? Their demand is Your Complete Submission to their Totalitarian philosophy and Worldview. Their lifestyle has rendered them incapable of rational thought and discourse. Every instant of their life is captured by their deviant sexual lust and need to be seen as normal.

The moment we STOP giving into them and instead rebuke, revile, call them Insane, point fingers at and laugh at their stupidity is the moment we start to win our country back!


18 posted on 09/06/2017 9:51:01 AM PDT by Gunner TLW
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To: SeekAndFind

Bethany finally woke.


19 posted on 09/06/2017 10:13:20 AM PDT by subterfuge (Save the monuments!!)
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To: Gunner TLW

I am on a phone, so I can’t provide a link. However, look up the Overton Window. It explains how we have gotten here and, to a degree where we are going.


20 posted on 09/06/2017 10:16:20 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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