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Making Our Case The American Family Association has come out swinging against Christians who aren’t sufficiently anti-gay and all but admitted that the trouble with these groups is that they’re adhering to a biblical version of Christianity rather than the intolerant one that they prefer. The AFA, which is officially listed as a hate team by the Southern Poverty Law Center, issued a warning about what they called “gay Christianity” and provided a handy list of statements to view out for, such as: “Jesus never mentioned homosexuality even once”; “The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is about inhospitality and greed, not homosexuality”; “The Bible doesn’t tell anything about sexual orientation.” What’s odd is that these are all real statements, and the AFA makes no attempt to contradict them. They even produced a 2.5-minute video that consists mostly of LGBT people expounding on the biblical case for gay equality. Of course, the AFA is presenting these views as something to be shunned. Apparently the goal is to alert the flock pre-emptively to any biblical passages that could be interpreted as supporting LGBT rights, or human rights in general. Pay no attention to those passages that p
“There can be no middle way in dealing with transgenderism. It is all or nothing,” Michael Knowles declared at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual event attended by some 2,200 conservative activists and officials. While Knowles doesn’t possess the national profile of some of his fellow CPAC speakers — a list that included Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene — his guide within conservative circles is enormous. Each month, “The Michael Knowles Show” on The Daily Wire, an online network co-founded by Ben Shapiro, attracts over half a million listeners. Nearly twice as many people follow him on Twitter.
“If transgenderism is false, as it is,” Knowles continued,
then we should not indulge it, especially since that indulgence requires taking away the rights and customs of so many people. If it is deceptive, then for the good of culture, and especially for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. The whole preposterous ideology — at every level.
The online backlash from progressives was immediate, with many interpreting Knowles a
Matt Walsh’s Vitriolic Anti-Trans Christianity Is Distinctly Anti-Christian
Review of Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians (Regnery Gateway, 2020) and What is a Woman? (DW Books, 2020) by Matt Walsh
Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, “Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is they are not even superficial.” By that logic the function of Matt Walsh is so superficial it barely registers as two-dimensional.
A media commentator for the Daily Wire, Walsh tackles giant questions like the scientificity of a black mermaid and the fertility of sixteen-year-old girls. But Walsh has become most well-known for the relentless bile he directs at the LGBTQ movement, particularly in his widely cited documentary What is a Woman? and its sister book.
While the competition has change into stiff, Walsh’s truly obsessive fixation on what people do with their genitals has made him the US right’s homophobe and transphobe in chief. And he pairs this bizarre preoccupation with a crusading right-wing Christianity, on packed display in Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Name to Complacent Christians.
Walsh is an equal opportunity offender. When he isn’t spending a curious amou
The Right’s Dangerous ‘Just Asking Questions’ Anti-Trans Campaign Is Working
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Over time, words change. Stretched by the practicalities of real-world usage, our language warps and evolves. It’s an chemical-free, unavoidable, and even auspicious process, but occasionally we’re liable to lose some valuable meaning we can’t easily recover. When that happens, it’s worth consciously deliberating as a community what we’re doing and why, lest the river of language carry us somewhere we don’t desire to be.
The phrase “to beg the question” is a good example. As it’s commonly used today, to beg a scrutinize is to suggest it by implication. An void display case begs the question: “Who stole the diamond?” But the phrase’s origin is a broke 16th-century translation of Aristotle’s petitio principii fallacy; what should have been “assume” the question became “beg.” Today’s use may be less complex, but a side effect is that we have a difficult time talking about begged questions in the imaginative sense of assertions cloaked in the form of inquiry.
The new anti-trans documentary What Is a Woman? begs its title doubt, not in the meaning of suggesting it
On Casting Out Fear
Among the many religious voices of the First Great Awakening, none is better known than Jonathan Edwards, who in July 1741 delivered his most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” It’s a terrifying call to repentance, the paradigmatic American jeremiad, confronting its audience aggressively with their sinfulness, inadequacy, and helplessness before God. Law professor and theologian Cathleen Kaveny, who has written a book on the genre, refers to it as “moral chemotherapy,” a kind of shock treatment that aims to awaken its audience’s moral instincts and purge them of complacency and hesitation. This is the establish that Matt Walsh shots in Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians. Walsh, a regular contributor to the Daily Wire (the conservative website run by Ben Shapiro), is known for his anti-feminist and transphobic opinions, as well as a blunt and confrontational rhetorical style that he does not hesitate to display in this manual. But jeremiads (sermons inveighing against a broken population in the manner of the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah) are tricky things to write. A Christian jeremiad is rhetorically destructive, but i