President Joe Biden’s secular deputies kidnapped Christian theology to champion transgenderism on the holiest weekend for Christianity.
On Sunday afternoon, Biden’s X account tweeted : “ Today, on Transgender Day of Visibility, I have a simple message to all trans Americans: I see you. You are made in the image of God, and you’re worthy of respect and dignity.”
The aggressive appropriation of Christian themes for political advantage — on Christianity’s holiest days — suggests Biden’s campaign staffers are trying to provoke a political fight over religion and sex that could rally demoralized progressives to his failing presidential campaign.
However, the Easter Sunday provocation will likely fail — and may backfire.
Christians recognize the need to suppress anger, forgive, and even love their enemies, even as they also fight hard to do good in the world. For example, the Bible reports that Jesus told Christians: “ You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.”
Moreover, many polls show that transgenderism is losing public support as more people — including many progressives, and gays and lesbians — feel the impact of transgenderism’s civic aggression , personal violence , criminal behavior , intellectual incoherence , medical damage , hostility to parents and women , and danger to pitiable children . women, men, and gay men .
The “made in the image of God” phrase and claim is a theological statement by a government that vigorously enforces secularism outside churches.
For example, author Wayne Grudem says the phrase means :
Every single human being, no matter how … marred by sin, or illness, or weakness, or age, or any other disability, still has the status of being in God’s image and therefore must be treated with the dignity and respect that is due to God’s image-bearer. This has profound implications for our conduct toward others. It means that people of every race deserve equal dignity and rights. It means that elderly people … and children yet unborn deserve full protection and honor as human beings.
Biden’s transgenderism statement was slammed by Christians and critics of transgenderism , including “Billboard Chris “:
To say that humans who block puberty, take cross-sex hormones, and cut off their body parts because they were ‘born in the wrong body’ are “made in the image of God” is quite an insult to God.
Progressives argue that the desire to change sex is legitimate and should be forcibly enabled by government intervention.
That goal has been embraced by millions of Democratic-leaning voters who deeply empathize with people they see as afflicted minorities, such as “transgender kids ,” migrant “kids in cages,” blacks, and even criminals. This progressive demographic is critical to Democrats because it is far larger than the tiny population of self-declared transgender people — few of whom even undergo cosmetic surgery on the genitals.
This transgender-focused empathy was expressed in 2020 by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in language taken from Christian theology :
There is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of people, no matter who they are, on the grounds of what their identity is … There is nothing holy about turning someone away from a hospital.
The empathy-minded progressive voters are a critical slice of Biden’s political coalition — but they are fracturing from Biden amid the damage caused by mass migration, economic turmoil — such as high rents — and the Israeli response to HAMAS’ October 7 massacre of Jewish civilians.
So multiple Democrats are amping up their portrayal of “transgender” people as bullied victims as they try to spur an emotional conservative backlash and a progressive turnout in the November election.
This weekend, Biden’s staffers touted their political “Transgender Day of Visibility ” claim on Easter Friday, which marked the start of Christianity’s holiest days. His deputies and political allies repeated the theme over the weekend and topped it off with the “made in the image of God” tweet on Sunday.
The White House’s weekend messages implement the progressive mobilization strategy, but it also risks further alienating millions of swing-voting Christians, including Latino Christians.
Christianity says that God created men and women as naturally equal, complementary, and distinctly different. The view is matched by science and is recognized by evolved cultural norms, such as marriage, single-sex changing rooms, and different obligations on men and women.
This “different and complementary” understanding of the two sexes is directly opposed by the Biden-backed transgender claim that the two sexes are interchangeable with a bit of makeup, a change of clothing, and perhaps some surgery
Many polls show that transgenderism is unpopular — and is losing support . For example, a Gallup poll in September showed that almost 70 percent of Americans say that athletes born male should not be allowed to play against women, and 55 percent say it is “morally wrong” to claim opposite-sex status.
But Democrats have successfully dodged public opposition by mobilizing progressives with the claim that politicians who oppose transgenderism are mean bullies .
Last November, for example, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear fended off a GOP rival by declaring himself the good-hearted defender of vulnerable kids. He told MSNBC on November 20:
The way these super PACs and my opponent went about their campaign, it was just mean. It was gross. It was cruel. And people don’t like that. That’s not who we are. This ought to be a message that you can’t scapegoat people just to get folks angry. And is wrong think about what some people are doing, trying to dehumanize other human beings.
Tomorrow is Christianity’s holiest day, for it commemorates Jesus’s resurrection three days after he was taken off the cross. A man like Joe Biden, whom we’ve been assured is the most Catholic of all Catholics, should surely be honoring this day with reverence. Well, he’s not. He’s issued a proclamation celebrating 2024’s “Transgender Day of Visibility,” which, not coincidentally, falls on Easter, while his White House has warned families participating in the White House Easter Egg art contest to keep all religious symbolism off White House grounds.
The proclamation about Transgender Day went out yesterday. It spends paragraphs celebrating the wonder and courage of mentally ill and/or brainwashed people who deny reality. It wraps up by stating,
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.
It’s not a coincidence that 2024’s Transgender Day of Visibility falls on Easter. As Logan Lancing and James Lindsay explain in their must-read The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids , Marxism is not an economic theory; it’s a religious cult, and Christianity is one of the things that stands in its way.
At its most simple level, Marx’s theory posits that people’s inner divinity lies in their inherent creativity. There is no God; we’re all gods. However, everything in Western society—its history, institutions, and norms—operates to quash that divinity.
Image: The Resurrection by Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci), late 15th-early 16th century. The Met; public domain.
Originally, Marx simply attacked capitalism, believing that the ownership class, by forcing people to work for it, sucked out the worker’s creativity, destroying their divinity. He reasoned that, if people no longer worked for each other but with each other, they’d be able to ascend to their true god-like status. (Yes, the theory is that stupid and, when it comes to human nature, naïve.)
When the affluent West rejected this cultic economic gobbledygook, Marx’s ideological heirs devised a new theory: The answer to releasing inner divinity wasn’t getting rid of capitalism (although they’d like to) but getting rid of norms. And the normiest norms in the West are reality and Christianity. If you can undermine both, they say, people will be liberated.
That’s at a societal level. At the individual level, our body is the ultimate norm. It is the one thing we know with certainty. This knowledge continues when it comes to whether we’re of the sex that plants the seed or grows the baby. That’s the ultimate male-female binary. It’s both a biological norm and, thanks to Genesis, it’s the Judeo-Christian norm of the West. God didn’t create Adam, Eve, and It. Just Adam and Eve, “male and female, He created them.”
So, what better thing to do to smash the gender binary than to take the holiest day on the Christian calendar and turn it into the complete denial of the foundations of the Bible itself?
But Biden isn’t content with mere symbolism. When it comes to Easter, this central Christian holiday, Biden wants to make sure that the White House celebration is unsullied by…Christianity. Thus, in the White House announcement for the art contest, the instructions are clear. No actual Easter iconography is allowed (emphasis added):
Restrictions:
The Submission must not contain material that violates or infringes any rights of any other party, including but not limited to copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or any other intellectual property rights;
The Submission must not in any way disparage Sponsor or any other person or party; The Submission must not contain material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene hateful, tortious, defamatory, slanderous or libelous; The Submission must not contain material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; The Submission must not contain material that is unlawful, in violation of or contrary to the laws or regulations of the United States or of any jurisdiction where Submission is created. The Submission must not promote illegal drugs or firearms (or the use of any of the foregoing), or any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes The Submission must be consistent with the image and values of Sponsor and be consistent with and satisfy the purpose of the submission. Do you know what Easter is without Christian iconography? It’s not Easter. I mean, as someone Jewish, I love that America has created a non-religious gloss on Christmas and Easter. Christmas lights and music, the abundance of delicate spring colors on Easter décor, along with the pretty chicks and bunnies, and, for both holidays, all the chocolate…what’s not to love?
But I never lose track of the fact that these sanitized, ecumenical holidays exist above a religious foundation. Apparently, though, that most Catholic of Catholic American presidents has forgotten that…or Biden agrees with Marx that the pathway to a utopia filled with human divinities is paved with the abandoned norms of the most prosperous, stable, accomplished culture in human history.
(Now let’s see which norms he smashes for Ramadan…)
JOE BIDEN is known as a serial liar , a "public servant" who has somehow managed to accrue tremendous wealth , a race-baiting opportunist, a Catholic-in-name-only , and a bought-and-paid-for politician in bed with criminal cartels and foreign foes . In another era, Joe Biden would have been run out of his country much the same way Benedict Arnold was two and a half centuries ago; in an era when integrity, honor, fortitude, fidelity, and grit have been jettisoned for immorality, unscrupulousness, weakness, betrayal, and craven pliability, however, he is elevated to king sleazeball in a city drowning in sleaze. JB SHURK
Florida GOP Blasts Biden for Declaring Easter Sunday ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ Luis Soto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) // Inset: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images 4:23
Republican Party of Florida chairman Evan Power blasted President Joe Biden on Saturday for declaring March 31, 2024, Easter Sunday, “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
“There appears to be no limit to what the Biden administration will do to try and shove their radical agenda down the throats of the American people,” Power said in a statement released on Saturday.
“As Christians gather tomorrow to celebrate Easter Sunday, one of the most holy days of the Christian calendar, President Biden thinks that it is appropriate to issue a proclamation designating Easter Sunday as ‘Transgender Day of Visibility,'” he continued, pointing out that this “comes the same day that it is reported for the first time that Christian symbolism was not allowed in the White House Easter Egg contest.”
“President Biden should issue a retraction and an apology to the American people, and Nikki Fried along with all Florida Democrats should demand the same,” he added.
Indeed, Biden officially declared Easter Sunday the “Transgender Day of Visibility.” In the proclamation, he demonized those who defend children from transgender ideology as “extremists.”
Biden’s proclamation continues:
Transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our Nation. Whether serving their communities or in the military, raising families or running businesses, they help America thrive. They deserve, and are entitled to, the same rights and freedoms as every other American, including the most fundamental freedom to be their true selves. But extremists are proposing hundreds of hateful laws that target and terrify transgender kids and their families — silencing teachers; banning books; and even threatening parents, doctors, and nurses with prison for helping parents get care for their children. These bills attack our most basic American values: the freedom to be yourself, the freedom to make your own health care decisions, and even the right to raise your own child. It is no surprise that the bullying and discrimination that transgender Americans face is worsening our Nation’s mental health crisis, leading half of transgender youth to consider suicide in the past year.
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At the same time, an epidemic of violence against transgender women and girls, especially women and girls of color, continues to take too many lives. Let me be clear: All of these attacks are un-American and must end. No one should have to be brave just to be themselves.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.
Many across the board expressed both shock and disgust.
“The Biden White House has betrayed the central tenet of Easter — which is the resurrection of Jesus Christ,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said.
“Banning sacred truth and tradition—while at the same time proclaiming Easter Sunday as “Transgender Day”—is outrageous and abhorrent. This is why the American people are taking note,” he added:
“Biden is banning religious symbols from Easter celebrations at the White House, while flying the trans flag and declaring Easter Sunday to be ‘Trans Visibility Day,'” Donald Trump Jr. said.
“This is the left’s new religion. They want people worshiping the trans flag instead of God. They must be stopped,” he added:
“Joe Biden declares that Easter Sunday is transgender visibility day while he bans Christian symbols from the White House Easter egg roll,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said.
“Disgraceful. Easter will forever be the celebration of Jesus Christ’s resurrection,” she added as others expressed similar reactions:
This coincides with the Biden White House banning religious-themed art from this year’s Easter egg art contest, barring “any questionable content,” which apparently includes “religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”
White House Prohibits Children from Submitting ‘Overtly Religious’ Art for Easter Egg Roll AP Photo/Evan Vucci 2:14
President Joe Biden’s Democrat administration is taking flak for prohibiting children from submitting Easter eggs featuring religious artwork for a contest.
The event, which is part of the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll, is called “Celebrating National Guard Families” but will not allow submissions to feature symbols related to the holiday that Christians celebrate all over the world, the Daily Caller reported Friday.
The 2024 “Call for Youth Art” flyer said :
On behalf of First Lady Jill Biden, The Adjutants General of the National Guard are asking youth from National Guard families across the United States and all U.S. territories to submit artwork inspired by the theme “Celebrating our Military Families”. Children should depict on an egg template (see Art Submission form) a snapshot of their life – a favorite activity, scenery in your state, your military family, a day-in-your life, etc.
Under its restrictions list, the flyer noted, “The Submission must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”
Social media users shared their thoughts on the Daily Caller’s story regarding the ban, one person writing , “A snapshot of your life excluding part of your life.”
“They’ll ban religion all together as soon as they think they can get away with it,” someone else said , while another person commented , “What does the Biden White House think Easter is all about? The Easter Bunny?”
UPI reported Thursday that the White House is bringing back its “EGGucation” theme for the Easter Egg Roll.
“First lady Jill Biden, a longtime educator, will lead the festivities, which will include a reading nook, picture area, farm field trip, STEAM school and snack area. The Easter Egg Roll is a White House event that dates back to 1878,” the outlet said.
Meanwhile, inflation and supply chain issues in Biden’s America are making the price of the eggs themselves (along with chocolate) rise, Breitbart News noted Friday.
Joe Biden Declares Easter Sunday ‘Transgender Day of Visibility’ Manuel Augusto Moreno, Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty 3:44
President Joe Biden’s White House has declared the holiest of Christian holidays “Transgender Day of Visibility,” announcing that “transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our nation.”
Biden issued an official proclamation on Good Friday, reading, “We honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union — where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.”
The official proclamation continued:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.
Biden’s chosen day for the inaugural celebration is Easter Sunday, a day on which Christians — including Biden, who discusses his Catholic faith often — celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The Biden White House has made the promotion of transgenderism a cornerstone of its policy agenda, with Biden in his 2024 State of the Union address pledging loyalty to transgender Americans. His proclamation touts the work he has done to promote that agenda:
I am proud that my Administration has stood for justice from the start, working to ensure that the LGBTQI+ community can live openly, in safety, with dignity and respect. I am proud to have appointed transgender leaders to my Administration and to have ended the ban on transgender Americans serving openly in our military. I am proud to have signed historic Executive Orders that strengthen civil rights protections in housing, employment, health care, education, the justice system, and more. I am proud to have signed the Respect for Marriage Act into law, ensuring that every American can marry the person they love.
The proclamation continues:
My Administration is working to stop the bullying and harassment of transgender children and their families. The Department of Justice has taken action to push back against extreme and un-American State laws targeting transgender youth and their families and the Department of Justice is partnering with law enforcement and community groups to combat hate and violence. My Administration is also providing dedicated emergency mental health support through our nationwide suicide and crisis lifeline — any LGBTQI+ young person in need can call “988” and press “3” to speak with a counselor trained to support them. We are making public services more accessible for transgender Americans, including with more inclusive passports and easier access to Social Security benefits.
Biden’s proclamation calls for Congress to pass the Equality Act, which would codify Democrats’ embrace of gender identity, the made-up concept that one can identify as a sex other than what they were born as. Democrats have tried to pass the bill for years but have yet to get it across a president’s desk.
In June 2023, the White House held an event for “LGBTQI+ families,” during which transgender activist Rose Montoya and other transgender activists flashed their bare chests. The White House has even pushed transgenderism on children.
The proclamation can be read in full here .
Bradley Jaye is a Capitol Hill Correspondent for Breitbart News. Follow him on X/Twitter at @BradleyAJaye .
The Democrat party: who are they? By Mike McDaniel
Other oppressed are the millions of illegal aliens they’re importing. Non-D/s/c Americans have so disappointed them. They intend to abolish them and import their replacements. That many of them are criminals, terrorists, pedophiles, slavers and masses who can’t speak the language and have no skills with which to support themselves is a feature rather than a bug. They’re worried about the illegal avalanche, but not because of the damage it’s doing to America. They’re afraid of losing power, afraid, despite their best Trump Derangement Syndrome efforts, their election fraud protocols might not prevail. MIKE McDaniel
BUILDING THE DEMOCRATS' NEO-FASCIST GLOBALIST REGIME FOR OPEN BORDERS
Nobody in his right mind, of course, would credit Old Joe with being insightful or perceptive. He’s a desperately corrupt, senescent apparatchik acting in the service of malevolent anti-American forces, and so that leaves us the other option: all this has been carefully planned. The Russian Collusion hoax didn’t work, the Ukraine phone call didn’t work, even the fake Jan. 6 “insurrection” didn’t, in the second impeachment proceeding, accomplish its purpose of ensuring that Trump couldn’t become president again. ROBERT SPENCER
Daring to speak truth about the COVID virus and treatments , about Hunter or Joe Biden , about the irregularities and illegalities that occurred in the 2020 election , the invasion of illegal aliens , mis-gendering someone , constitutes speech drawing punishments ranging from suspension or censorship, to IRS and FBI visits, to fines, or to imprisonment.
NAFTA JOE’S OPEN BORDERS: T hey want billions for foreign countries, but refuse to halt Biden's open-borders policies, which have created untold misery on city streets as migrants are dumped, human traffick ers are empowered, cartels are growing so rich they are driving Mexicans out of their homes, families are being broken up and kids sold into slavery based on Joe 's immigration incentives, migrants a r e d ie en route . Dem city see crime up & budgets blown and s ervices cut. MONICA SHOWALTER
So they want billions and billions in assistance to foreign countries, such as Ukraine, which is not a NATO country, but a big hog wallow for the U.S. foreign policy consulting establishment, nearly all Democrats, drawing lots of "contracts," if not losing track of the money entirely, as a top Ukrainian official admitted, but they refuse to lift a finger to halt Joe Biden's open-borders policies, which have created untold misery on city streets as migrants are dumped, human trafficking networks are empowered, cartels are growing so rich they are driving Mexicans out of their homes, families are being separated and broken up and kids sold into slavery based on Biden's immigration incentives, migrants a r e dying en route through dangerous crossings, illegal alien crime is growing, and Democrat-led cities are seeing their budgets blown out and vital police and fire services cut. MONICA SHOWALTER
What it tells us is that Comer is onto something dangerous for Biden and the Biden machine will stop at nothing to protect its kingpin and take down his rival. Call that corruption piled upon corruption. One can only hope that Comer will recognize that he's over the target and expose these thugs to the max, the getting to the bottom of the whole corrupt foundation of House Biden before they can do any more damage to the country. MONICA SHOWALTER
As Breitbart News reported, Biden’s campaign is being backed by nearly “all the big banks” on Wall Street, according to CNN analysis , and Wall Street executives and employees have donated more than $74 million to elect the former vice president.
Despite his Wall Street, big business, Big Tech, and billionaire donations, Biden has attempted to portray himself as a small-town fighter from Scranton, Pennsylvania. JOHN BINDER
Biden’s influence-peddling is consistent with what I wrote in my book, 'Capitol Hills Criminal Underground'
By Richard Lawless
More than three years ago, MedLaw Publishing released my book, “ Capitol Hills Criminal Underground ” in which I, the book's author, describe a long-running “protection racket” being run by then-Vice President Joe Biden, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder and New York Senator, Chuck Schumer.
When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA
THE COST OF JOE BIDEN'S 'CHEAP' LABOR INVASION: At a cost of $6,000 per family of illegals, per month,” explaining that the Biden administration is “forcing American citizens to pay for the housing of illegal immigrants, while simultaneously subsidizing the Government of Pakistan.” HANNAH BLEAU
Here is the problem in a nutshell. Most Democrat voters don't realize that leftist idealogues have hijacked the Democrat party , actively pushing traditional Democrat politicians out. They don't yet understand that the Democrat party they knew doesn't exist anymore. Almost all of the major news organizations work together to lie to Democrat voters and feed them misinformation constantly. Corrupted government entities like the FBI and the DOJ, and the leftists running all social media, have worked together to censor and silence any dissenting voices. The goal is to create a false reality in the eyes of Democrat voters and shield them from the truth. This is vital to ensure their continued support on Election Day. IAN MacCONNELL
Polls Show Broad Swathes of Americans Fed Up With DEI in Entertainment, Products A recent Rasmussen poll has shown that most Americans do not believe that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) ideology has improved entertainment and other products in industries where it has been implemented, and many believe that such policies are detrimental to these industries.
In a pair of tweets on X from Tuesday, Rasmussen outlined the results of a recent survey of 1,272 American adults which was conducted between March 10 and 12, 2024. Among the various questions included in the survey, participants were asked if they believed DEI programs were improving products and entertainment.
In striking contrast, 56 percent of those who categorized themselves as very familiar with DEI policies declared that they believed such policies had made products and entertainment worse, while 31 and 35 percent of those who were somewhat and not very familiar answered in the same fashion.
Rasmussen Reports Head Pollster Mark Mitchell also examined a number of other DEI-related questions asked of survey respondents. The same survey from March found that only 25 percent of respondents believed that DEI policies were improving companies, while 59 percent of respondents felt that they either made no difference or made the companies worse. In terms of the demographic breakdown of these respondents, 72 percent of Republican respondents and 60 percent of Independent respondents answered that DEI policies either made the companies worse or made no difference, with 52 percent of black and 63 percent of Hispanics responding likewise.
Aside from DEI, other eye-opening responses included answers to questions such as the statement “it’s okay to be white” and a question about the state of race relations in the United States. Fully 72 percent of the 1,000 respondents agreed with the phrase, including 83 percent of Republican and 69 percent of Democratic respondents. Concerning race relations in America, of 1,149 respondents, 42 percent of respondents believed race relations were getting worse, while 68 percent of respondents declared that current race relations in the United States were of fair or poor quality.
Considering these two polling trends in conjunction with one another, it seems that many Americans believe that race relations are getting worse, and that DEI ideology is either aggravating circumstances or doing nothing to alleviate them.
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