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Why do left wingers hate transgenders?
The supposedly “moderate” Pope Francis was recently quoted in a meeting with Polish bishops as saying, “Today, in schools they are teaching this to children – to children! – that everyone can choose their gender… We are living a moment of annihilation of man as image of God.” He accused Western countries that tolerate transgender people of “ideological colonizing,” stating: “One such colonization, I'll say it clearly with its first and last name – is gender.”
He repeated these claims about “indoctrination” and “ideological colonization,” when speaking to reporters this week. He attacks schools which accept transgender youth describing the "'nasty' tendency of schools to 'indoctrinate' children with the idea that their gender is something that can be picked and chosen and changed."
Other high level Catholic officials have also made recent statements that leave no doubt that the Church has decided transgender people, and acceptance of them, are some of the most dangerous evils on the face of the Earth. Pope Francispreviously stated that transgender people are a “threat to the order of creation,” and compared danger of transgender people to nuclear weapons, stating: “Let’s think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings. Let’s think also of… of the gender theory, that does not recognize the order of creation.”
The abdicated Pope Benedict also has called being transgender one of the worst sins and threats to man and God alike, stating to Pope Francis, “‘Holiness, this is the epoch of sin against God the Creator, He’s intelligent! God created man and woman, God created the world this way, this way, this way, and we are doing the opposite.”
Other high level Catholic officials have also railed against the world tolerating the existence of transgender people. American Cardinal Raymond Burke recently said, “With gender theory, it is impossible to live in society. Already today, in certain places in the United States, anyone at all can change identity and say, ‘Today I am a man; tomorrow I will be a woman.’ That is truly madness. Some men insist on going into the women’s rest rooms. That is inhuman.”
At the 2016 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, which was attended by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Cardinal Robert Sarah also described tolerance of transgender people as a threat to life, the universe, and everything. “The death of God results in the burial of good, beauty, love and truth... Nowhere is this clearer than in the threat that societies are visiting on the family through a demonic “gender ideology,” a deadly impulse that is being experienced in a world increasingly cut off from God through ideological colonialism.”
It is not a far step from saying that transgender people will annihilate man and God, to saying that annihilating transgender people is an act of self-defense and a moral imperative. Indeed, the comparison to nuclear weapons is illustrative. TheCatholic Church’s position on nuclear weapons is that they should be banned, abolished, legislated out of existence, for the good of humanity. The implication here is that given the similarity of the threat, transgender people should be too.
The references to “colonialism” are another hint of their intent: they are nudging nations towards laws like the Ugandan “Kill the Gays,” legislation. The Catholic Church in Africa has been highly supportive of laws in Africa designed to kill, imprison, or otherwise drive lesbians and gays underground in an act of legislative cultural genocide. Bishop Wamika told parents of gay and lesbian children that they would be rewarded in heaven if they turned over their gay and lesbian children to the state for punishment. High level Catholic officials have turned a blind eye to what Cardinals and Bishops have done to encourage genocide and oppression of lesbians and gays.
This is terrifying for transgender people, and yet completely expected.
The Catholic Church has a long sordid history with standing idly by during genocide, or even encouraging it. A Catholic priest is on trial for crimes against humanity for his role in the Rwandan genocide, where Catholic Churches were used as extermination centers. During the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII is described by biographer John Cornwell’s book Hitler’s Pope as a “narcissistic, power-hungry manipulator who was prepared to lie, to appease, and to collaborate in order to accomplish his ecclesiastical purpose—which was not to save lives or even to protect the Catholic Church but, more narrowly, to protect and advance the power of the papacy.”
And this is just the modern history of the Church’s role in genocides and oppression, never mind the Inquisition, Crusades, wars against Protestants.
It’s not even as if the Catholic Church can pretend their position on transgender people is about the sanctity of people’s reproductive bits or protecting youth without descending into complete hypocrisy. For hundreds of years the Catholic Church castrated boys to keep their top talent in choirs, and didn’t ban the practice until the beginning of the 20th century. They castrated gay men to “cure” them well into the 1950’s. At the same time, the Church continues to try to cover up, hide, and otherwise dodge the consequences of Catholic Priests abusing children. Indeed, they have had the chutzpah to blame the children for being abused.
In the United States, the Catholic Church has now joined the largest Protestant denomination (the Southern Baptist Convention) in the demand to legislate transgender people out of existence. Their ability to do this will very much hinge on what the Supreme Court decides in the next few years when they inevitably hear a case which decides whether transgender people are protected by civil rights laws which include sex as a protected characteristic. However, the Church’s stance has two significant implications for people other than transgender people in the U.S.
First, it signals a death spiral into irrelevance of the teachings by top Catholic leaders among American Catholic congregations, particularly among predominantly white ones. Fifty-seven percent of U.S. Catholics support same sex marriage. Eighty percent of U.S. Catholics think birth control is morally acceptable, and 98% of U.S. Catholic women have used it. The majority of US Catholics also reject the Church’s teachings on co-habitation, divorce, and premarital sex according to Pew Research.
As such, it seems highly unlikely that American Catholics will buy into the narrative that transgender people are demons who should be eradicated to save humanity and all of creation. Where the real danger lies is in places that are already hostile to lesbians and gays, have large Catholic populations, and have weak human rights laws and or enforcement. This could include much of West Africa and the Philippines.
The rhetoric being used demonizes transgender people, while the repeated use of “colonizing” language is a dog whistle to politicians in nations where past colonialism is still a source of anger and resentment. The goal of the Catholic Church is to goad these countries into legislating their transgender populations out of existence, while not directly telling them to do so. Thus, in the aftermath of the human rights disaster, they will have some degree of culpable deniability because they never actually told them to do it, or suggested specific laws.
Now, who here still thinks Francis is a wonderful, progressive pope?
The supposedly “moderate” Pope Francis was recently quoted in a meeting with Polish bishops as saying, “Today, in schools they are teaching this to children – to children! – that everyone can choose their gender… We are living a moment of annihilation of man as image of God.” He accused Western countries that tolerate transgender people of “ideological colonizing,” stating: “One such colonization, I'll say it clearly with its first and last name – is gender.”
He repeated these claims about “indoctrination” and “ideological colonization,” when speaking to reporters this week. He attacks schools which accept transgender youth describing the "'nasty' tendency of schools to 'indoctrinate' children with the idea that their gender is something that can be picked and chosen and changed."
Other high level Catholic officials have also made recent statements that leave no doubt that the Church has decided transgender people, and acceptance of them, are some of the most dangerous evils on the face of the Earth. Pope Francispreviously stated that transgender people are a “threat to the order of creation,” and compared danger of transgender people to nuclear weapons, stating: “Let’s think of the nuclear arms, of the possibility to annihilate in a few instants a very high number of human beings. Let’s think also of… of the gender theory, that does not recognize the order of creation.”
The abdicated Pope Benedict also has called being transgender one of the worst sins and threats to man and God alike, stating to Pope Francis, “‘Holiness, this is the epoch of sin against God the Creator, He’s intelligent! God created man and woman, God created the world this way, this way, this way, and we are doing the opposite.”
Other high level Catholic officials have also railed against the world tolerating the existence of transgender people. American Cardinal Raymond Burke recently said, “With gender theory, it is impossible to live in society. Already today, in certain places in the United States, anyone at all can change identity and say, ‘Today I am a man; tomorrow I will be a woman.’ That is truly madness. Some men insist on going into the women’s rest rooms. That is inhuman.”
At the 2016 National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, which was attended by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Cardinal Robert Sarah also described tolerance of transgender people as a threat to life, the universe, and everything. “The death of God results in the burial of good, beauty, love and truth... Nowhere is this clearer than in the threat that societies are visiting on the family through a demonic “gender ideology,” a deadly impulse that is being experienced in a world increasingly cut off from God through ideological colonialism.”
It is not a far step from saying that transgender people will annihilate man and God, to saying that annihilating transgender people is an act of self-defense and a moral imperative. Indeed, the comparison to nuclear weapons is illustrative. TheCatholic Church’s position on nuclear weapons is that they should be banned, abolished, legislated out of existence, for the good of humanity. The implication here is that given the similarity of the threat, transgender people should be too.
The references to “colonialism” are another hint of their intent: they are nudging nations towards laws like the Ugandan “Kill the Gays,” legislation. The Catholic Church in Africa has been highly supportive of laws in Africa designed to kill, imprison, or otherwise drive lesbians and gays underground in an act of legislative cultural genocide. Bishop Wamika told parents of gay and lesbian children that they would be rewarded in heaven if they turned over their gay and lesbian children to the state for punishment. High level Catholic officials have turned a blind eye to what Cardinals and Bishops have done to encourage genocide and oppression of lesbians and gays.
This is terrifying for transgender people, and yet completely expected.
The Catholic Church has a long sordid history with standing idly by during genocide, or even encouraging it. A Catholic priest is on trial for crimes against humanity for his role in the Rwandan genocide, where Catholic Churches were used as extermination centers. During the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII is described by biographer John Cornwell’s book Hitler’s Pope as a “narcissistic, power-hungry manipulator who was prepared to lie, to appease, and to collaborate in order to accomplish his ecclesiastical purpose—which was not to save lives or even to protect the Catholic Church but, more narrowly, to protect and advance the power of the papacy.”
And this is just the modern history of the Church’s role in genocides and oppression, never mind the Inquisition, Crusades, wars against Protestants.
It’s not even as if the Catholic Church can pretend their position on transgender people is about the sanctity of people’s reproductive bits or protecting youth without descending into complete hypocrisy. For hundreds of years the Catholic Church castrated boys to keep their top talent in choirs, and didn’t ban the practice until the beginning of the 20th century. They castrated gay men to “cure” them well into the 1950’s. At the same time, the Church continues to try to cover up, hide, and otherwise dodge the consequences of Catholic Priests abusing children. Indeed, they have had the chutzpah to blame the children for being abused.
In the United States, the Catholic Church has now joined the largest Protestant denomination (the Southern Baptist Convention) in the demand to legislate transgender people out of existence. Their ability to do this will very much hinge on what the Supreme Court decides in the next few years when they inevitably hear a case which decides whether transgender people are protected by civil rights laws which include sex as a protected characteristic. However, the Church’s stance has two significant implications for people other than transgender people in the U.S.
First, it signals a death spiral into irrelevance of the teachings by top Catholic leaders among American Catholic congregations, particularly among predominantly white ones. Fifty-seven percent of U.S. Catholics support same sex marriage. Eighty percent of U.S. Catholics think birth control is morally acceptable, and 98% of U.S. Catholic women have used it. The majority of US Catholics also reject the Church’s teachings on co-habitation, divorce, and premarital sex according to Pew Research.
As such, it seems highly unlikely that American Catholics will buy into the narrative that transgender people are demons who should be eradicated to save humanity and all of creation. Where the real danger lies is in places that are already hostile to lesbians and gays, have large Catholic populations, and have weak human rights laws and or enforcement. This could include much of West Africa and the Philippines.
The rhetoric being used demonizes transgender people, while the repeated use of “colonizing” language is a dog whistle to politicians in nations where past colonialism is still a source of anger and resentment. The goal of the Catholic Church is to goad these countries into legislating their transgender populations out of existence, while not directly telling them to do so. Thus, in the aftermath of the human rights disaster, they will have some degree of culpable deniability because they never actually told them to do it, or suggested specific laws.
Now, who here still thinks Francis is a wonderful, progressive pope?
