THREAD: 1. Those pushing anti-trans discrimination with religious warrants would like you to think this is all about gender.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
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2. Don't buy that framing.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
3. It's about heterosexual male entitlement and hegemony, especially for white men.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
4. It's wrapped up in pseudo-biblical, pseudo-religious arguments,— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
5. As if the Judaeo-Christian biblical texts are preoccupied with binary gender thinking as the very center of religious life.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
6. They're not.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
7. If there's any preoccupation linking Jewish and Christian scripture, it's the preoccupation with living justly and mercifully.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
8. Note how those appealing to pseudo-biblical rationales to justify their gender ideology always fall back on common-sense arguments.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
9. They always end up arguing that binary gender roles (with male superiority) are simply a matter of common sense.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
10. This common-sense argument gives away their game: what they want to enshrine with religion is their taken-for-granted prejudice.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
11. It's THEIR prejudice, their worldview, wrapped up in biblical texts snatched out of context.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
12. What anti-trans (anti-LGBTQ) folks are arguing for, all said done, is the "right" to impose their prejudice on everyone as normative.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
13. What they do not want or intend to do is submit their taken-for-granted worldview to any critical examination.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
14. The debate about trans rights is ultimately a debate about the "right" of a segment of the population to impose their taken-for-granted— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
15. prejudices and unexamined worldview on everyone else in the name of "God."— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
16. Religion that has any meaning at all makes us UNcomfortable with, not comfortable with, our taken-for-granted prejudices.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
17. Religion that means anything challenges self-righteousness, the cruelty that assumes that I am made "superior" to you & can abuse you.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
18. Christians promoting anti-trans ideology claim the "right" to impose their prejudice on everyone else by invoking "tradition."— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
19. But the Christian tradition is very clear that the sins of the spirit are much more dangerous than the sins of the flesh.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
20. Long tradition holds that sexual lapses do not endanger the soul nearly so much as self-righteous, arrogant cruelty does.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
21. Churches fixated on attacking trans folks are promoting behavior regarded by tradition itself as more sinful by far than sexual lapses.— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
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