Re: Biden proclaims this Easter as Trans Day of Visibility
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:04 am
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Ken,Ken wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:24 pm
And that most of what passes for religious holidays in this country are not even Biblical anyway. Certainly not celebrating Christmas on December 25th. Or celebrating Easter on the first Sunday after the first full Moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox.
Ken, when do you celebrate Christmas and Easter?Ken wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:24 pm My point is that we live in a secular society and have a secular government. And that most of what passes for religious holidays in this country are not even Biblical anyway. Certainly not celebrating Christmas on December 25th. Or celebrating Easter on the first Sunday after the first full Moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox.
Same day as everyone else. But I recognize they are just tradition and not Biblically accurate. And I just don’t pretend to be upset that Easter shared a date with Caesar Chavez day this year and will again sometime in the 2080s.HondurasKeiser wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:00 amKen, when do you celebrate Christmas and Easter?Ken wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:24 pm My point is that we live in a secular society and have a secular government. And that most of what passes for religious holidays in this country are not even Biblical anyway. Certainly not celebrating Christmas on December 25th. Or celebrating Easter on the first Sunday after the first full Moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox.
So even though they're not biblical, you nevertheless recognize their importance and celebrate them accordingly?Ken wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:25 amSame day as everyone else. I just don’t pretend to be upset that it shared a date with Caesar Chavez day this year and will again sometime in the 2080s.HondurasKeiser wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:00 amKen, when do you celebrate Christmas and Easter?Ken wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 3:24 pm My point is that we live in a secular society and have a secular government. And that most of what passes for religious holidays in this country are not even Biblical anyway. Certainly not celebrating Christmas on December 25th. Or celebrating Easter on the first Sunday after the first full Moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox.
Richard/Rachel Levine was Pennsylvania's Governor Wolf's Health Secretary during Covid. Governor Wolf had some stringent regulations for some businesses/places, (but not for close friends and family businesses). All the while Richard/Rachel Levine was telling Pennsylvanians to "follow the science" of Covid and the need for vaccines. Something I thought was ironic beings obviously He/She wasn't following "Science" when He/She changed her biological gender. Governor Wolf forced nursing homes to take Covid patients after hospital stays, and I know of one instance, where half a nursing home residency was wiped out from Covid. Ironically just before Gov. Wolf made that decree, Dr. Levine moved His/Her mother from a elderly care facility to the cushy Hershey Hotel.Martin wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:44 amhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... lity-2024/Grace wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 8:21 am Biden made the proclamation last Friday, “I, Joseph R. Biden … do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility,”
But when asked by reporters on Monday about his official White House proclamation declaring the same day as Easter this year, as Transgender Day of Visibility, he said “I didn’t do that”. That statement begs the question, was that another lie? Did he forget? Or did a puppeteer write the proclamation.
President Biden also appointed transgender Richard Levine as Assistant Secretary of Health and gay Pete Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary. Mr Levine would be the last person I would trust as a "health" secretary. He needs psychiatric intervention.
Of course. But I don't look for my government to endorse my religious observations or beliefs one way or the other. When it comes to holidays or anything else.HondurasKeiser wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:29 amSo even though they're not biblical, you nevertheless recognize their importance and celebrate them accordingly?
Neither do I look for a presidential endorsement of my celebration of Easter and Christmas. That's not exactly my point. I ask all this because whenever these types of discussions come up you make it sure to point out that our Christian celebrations of the Birth and Resurrection are neither Biblical nor particularly Christian in origin. Yet you admit that you do indeed celebrate them and see them as important.Ken wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:05 pmOf course. But I don't look for my government to endorse my religious observations or beliefs one way or the other. When it comes to holidays or anything else.HondurasKeiser wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:29 amSo even though they're not biblical, you nevertheless recognize their importance and celebrate them accordingly?
For our family it means that my wife and I are privy to these changes and conversant with them and then how much or how little we allow our children to be exposed to them and at what age. At our church it means being conversant about the new ways of speaking and thinking about gender and sexuality (and why it is we don't speak like the world does) while at the same time not losing sight of the humanity of the people that we're speaking about. That's a start, I guess.