The Anglican site VirtueOnLine has a commentary on a bill in the US Senate that would make the gender agenda the law, requiring Churches and church run institutions and devout Christian and Muslims to obey or else.
it goes into detail, and this is not from a "right wing conspiracy" site, so maybe read the whole thing and consider how it would affect you.
Not only would it require hospitals to do gender affirming surgeries (traditionally the non theraputic removal of an organ is not allowed under Catholic law). But it gets worse: If I live in the USA, it would force me to do abortions
"pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition," laws like the Hyde Amendment that ban taxpayer funding for abortion could be eliminated, as well as conscience protections for health care workers who refuse to perform abortions. This is because the phrase "related medical conditions" has been interpreted by the Third Circuit Court and by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as including abortion. All insurances would have to cover abortion and health care providers could not refuse to offer it as one of their pregnancy services.
Didn't Jordan Peterson predict the danger of a slippery slope a couple years ago when he objected to the Canadian government criminalizing the use (deliberate or accidental use) of the wrong pronoun?
we now are in danger of a law that will persecute (fire, refuse to hire, fail them in college, remove them from the military or government) anyone who whispers "yet it moves or it's modern equivalent: there are two genders: it's biology: or the religious equivalent Male and female he created them"
already we see the "woke" Twittersphere Red Guards and their obedient corporate minions pushing the agenda, so maybe paranoia is the proper response here.
As to the Catholics: Pope Francis has long objected to the radical gender ideology of the west, and especially has objected to western countries pushing this agenda on the Third World: He calls this a type of imperialism that destroys the cultures of the weaker countries.
And he is right: Because in the third world, it is the family who is the first line to help the poor and sick, since governments simply don't have money for welfare. When you encourage sexual liberation and birth control agenda in the high schools, it means teenagers ending up raising their child, or aborting it (and some die, since few local docs are willing to do this, and the hilots, traditional birth attendents, who might do it don't usualy have a good reputation so some of these girls die or end up infertile:( no, legalization won't stop this: like in the USA, ordinary folks won't go to a medical person who kills if they have a choice).
as for the gay agenda: here it means teachers and priests and employers feeling they have the right to sex with those under their care. (don't ask).And since I gave the HIV lectures to my National Guard unit, I have been aghast at how the press ignores the seedier side of the gay "lifestyle". This is not about gays, it is about approving of the radical promiscuity lifestyle, and yes, that includes the present day "extraordinary Popular delusions and the madness of crowds" that is going on in our schools, where vulnerable unhappy children, mainly girls are being persuaded they are transgender, and all their problems will be solved if they change gender.
Here in the Philippines, gay and trans people are considered quaint, but hey, they are part of the family and welcomed as long as they don't preach or seduce the maids/gardners. Our town even has a "Miss Gay Gapan" contest every year.
But of course, such tolerance is not allowed in the twittersphre led PC world, as some of our folks have found out.
Well, I remember when Manny Paquiao lost a fight that most folks thought he should have won, and many of us suspected it was because some reporter blind sided him with a question if he approved of gay marriage, and as a Christian he said no, even though Manny has no problem with his gay friends and relatives on a personal level. One of our beauty queens in an international contest similarly probably lost because she gave the wrong answer.
Now, here in the Philippines, as Manny pointed out, we have lots of gays and even tranagenders, and they still keep family ties so no one has a problem with this, unless it means teachers molesting kids in schools (As a priest did to President Duterte as a child) or having gay "tourists" preying on our street kids.
But this doesn't mean saying it is equal to marriage: And pushing this as a law would not just be opposed by the Catholics, but even more so by the moral middle class, who are becoming more and more evangelical or pentecostal Christians.
Indeed, the common sense opposition of ordanary poor people who recognize this as an open threat to the family is one reason the Vatican just said that the church cannot approve of gay marriage or approval of gay partnerships.
but you know, if this bill is passed by the US Congress, the pressure on poorer countries by the US State Dept to legalize the sexual agenda (abortion euthanasia, gay marriage, sex ed normalizing promiscuity and homosexuality as equally moral as marriage relationships) will increase: with the implied threat if the locals don't change their law, they will not get American aid.
The end result will be more anti American sentiment in public opinion, something that Russia (who is positioning herself as the defender of Christianity) and China (who will point out that they don't try to change local customs when they give you aid) will take advantage of and benefit.
Two related articles:
One: Austin Bay on Chinese and Russian disinformation on the vaccines. As I have pointed out in previous essays (and he points out here) this is not new.
In early 2020, Chinese propagandists began blaming the U.S. for the virus. One agit-prop anti-America howler accused a U.S. Army reservist of bringing the disease to China in October 2019. China's 2020 lie mimicked a Cold War-era Soviet KGB lie about the origin of the AIDS virus. Kremlin communists claimed U.S. biological warfare scientists created AIDS in 1973. The KGB lie appeared circa 1983. Over time, the lie mutated, as all sick gossip does. A 1986 version I read in a Southeast Asian paper claimed that the virus was engineered to kill black and brown people. In 2002, while visiting east Africa, I heard this version again.
and read the article on GetReligion on the Vatican daring to reaffirm the biblical and 2000 year ethical rules of the church. The headlines are about gay marriage not being legal in the church, but GR notes that it also applies to people who have been divorced and remarried without annulment of their first marriage, and to people cohabitating outside of wedlock.
Both the right and the left wing of the European/American branches of the church figure that this will remain the rule, but that the activists will manipulate propaganda against the bishops if they dare to defend it.
But don't worry: a lot of us (cynically) believe Francis will figure out how to get a footnote or make a comment to make people think it is okay to ignore the rule.
and by the way: yes, the bill in the US Congress will allow churches to be pushed into approving the gender agenda, and those who believe otherwise, even if they believe it quietly, could very well lose their jobs or not get hired: Something we already see happening.
Milo, call your office. Michael Voris is hyperventilating again.
I have not listened to this, and usually see Milo and Voris as Alex Jones or C2C type commentators; but hey, I love iconoclasts, and figure since I will probably get in trouble for not being PC, well, in for a penny, in for a pound.
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