I'm sitting here shaking my head at some of the rubbish that is being written about rights ect ect.
I am bowing out of this discussion.
You have the right to remain silent...
I do hope you choose to exercise it, because your denunciation of Mr. Beattie's choice to raise a child is something I will never agree with and makes me feel like this:
I cannot defend what I don't believe in. Whatever the reasons they are NOT my concern, my concern is the damage...
you have
...done to my credibility as a Trans woman...
and the credibility of everyone working for the rights of the Trans community.
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Henry David Thoreau
His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
Jesus answered, "Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him. "
John 9:2-3
Mahatma Ghandi, though a devout Hindu, was widely known to admire Jesus; Ghandi often quoted from the Sermon on the Mount, in fact. Once when the missionary E. Stanley Jones met with Ghandi he asked him, "Mr. Ghandi, though you quote the words of Christ often, why is that you appear to so adamantly reject becoming his follower?"
Ghandi replied, "Oh, I don't reject your Christ. I love your Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ."