People of faith with politically liberal views are being attacked by the rabid far-left "woke" dogma that has infiltrated every walk of life in Western society. This phenomenon has also been occurring, for example, in progressive Jewish organizations and temples. (Read "Woke Anti-Semitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews", by progr…
People of faith with politically liberal views are being attacked by the rabid far-left "woke" dogma that has infiltrated every walk of life in Western society. This phenomenon has also been occurring, for example, in progressive Jewish organizations and temples. (Read "Woke Anti-Semitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews", by progressive American Jewish leader David Bernstein.) The irony here is that politically progressive Christians and Jews played big roles in the women's movement, the civil rights movement and the mainstreaming of non heterosexuals into Western life (both religious and secular). Unfortunately, woke dogma (as described by Dr. Rohde and in Mr. Bernstein's book) is not interested in judging a person by their character and deeds but on whether they belong to groups of "oppressed" or "oppressors". It insists that if you are someone "of color" or belong to an LGBTQ community you are among the "oppressed". If you are white with European ancestry, if you are hetero-sexual or if you are Jewish, you automatically fall into the "oppressor" category. I do not consider myself politically liberal. I'm politically independent. But I count myself among liberals on certain issues, including equal access in secular society for all persons and the free exchange of ideas, whether liberal or conservative. Woke dogma seeks to shut this down and if given free reign, will destroy all the good that classical liberalism has brought society.
I've attended the UU church for 28 years in my community. I'm a lesbian who wrote to our board of trustees asking them to remove the "Progess Pride" flag from our social hall that appeared over the holidays. To me this flag symbolizes trans activists hatred of women. The flag was not removed and instead I'm being "tried" by our Right Relations team for objecting to the flag.
Yes, I have heard some of the concerns from lesbians - and non-lesbian feminists - about the trans movement. An obvious problem is the trans' insistence on being included in women's sports and other spaces that pretty much all women believe should be reserved for "women only" (like public women's washrooms). Many mothers I know will not allow their youngsters to use a public washroom alone because of their fear of pedophiles posing as women who may be present there. Also, it seems to me that trans ideology, which is based on the notion that one can "choose" one's gender or gender identity flies in the face of the long-held belief that being gay/lesbian or heterosexual is an inherent characteristic; not something one "chooses" to be. My own concerns center around the proselytizing of gender identity in general and specifically to public school youngsters. (I am equally concerned about our society's flagrant promotion of all forms of sexual permissiveness because I believe it creates many psycho-social problems.) But with trans issues specifically, I have read about the physical and emotional problems associated with transitioning and cannot understand why the medical and psychiatric fields are going along with it.
People of faith with politically liberal views are being attacked by the rabid far-left "woke" dogma that has infiltrated every walk of life in Western society. This phenomenon has also been occurring, for example, in progressive Jewish organizations and temples. (Read "Woke Anti-Semitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews", by progressive American Jewish leader David Bernstein.) The irony here is that politically progressive Christians and Jews played big roles in the women's movement, the civil rights movement and the mainstreaming of non heterosexuals into Western life (both religious and secular). Unfortunately, woke dogma (as described by Dr. Rohde and in Mr. Bernstein's book) is not interested in judging a person by their character and deeds but on whether they belong to groups of "oppressed" or "oppressors". It insists that if you are someone "of color" or belong to an LGBTQ community you are among the "oppressed". If you are white with European ancestry, if you are hetero-sexual or if you are Jewish, you automatically fall into the "oppressor" category. I do not consider myself politically liberal. I'm politically independent. But I count myself among liberals on certain issues, including equal access in secular society for all persons and the free exchange of ideas, whether liberal or conservative. Woke dogma seeks to shut this down and if given free reign, will destroy all the good that classical liberalism has brought society.
I've attended the UU church for 28 years in my community. I'm a lesbian who wrote to our board of trustees asking them to remove the "Progess Pride" flag from our social hall that appeared over the holidays. To me this flag symbolizes trans activists hatred of women. The flag was not removed and instead I'm being "tried" by our Right Relations team for objecting to the flag.
Yes, I have heard some of the concerns from lesbians - and non-lesbian feminists - about the trans movement. An obvious problem is the trans' insistence on being included in women's sports and other spaces that pretty much all women believe should be reserved for "women only" (like public women's washrooms). Many mothers I know will not allow their youngsters to use a public washroom alone because of their fear of pedophiles posing as women who may be present there. Also, it seems to me that trans ideology, which is based on the notion that one can "choose" one's gender or gender identity flies in the face of the long-held belief that being gay/lesbian or heterosexual is an inherent characteristic; not something one "chooses" to be. My own concerns center around the proselytizing of gender identity in general and specifically to public school youngsters. (I am equally concerned about our society's flagrant promotion of all forms of sexual permissiveness because I believe it creates many psycho-social problems.) But with trans issues specifically, I have read about the physical and emotional problems associated with transitioning and cannot understand why the medical and psychiatric fields are going along with it.
I don't know why I'm jumping into this, but here I am.
Not so long ago many people believed that one chose to be gay or lesbian. I remember this.
I'm 44. I've known since before puberty that my body, specifically around my genitals wasn't as it should be.
So no, I didn't choose my gender identity. I just recognized it and chose to do something to make it match how I would like my body to be.