So...I'm a Christian and still can't for the life of me understand the appeal of these vicious, hateful positions.
I'm even pretty direct-to-the-bible in my theology, thus the ideas that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made," and that God doesn't make mistakes, lead me to believe that choosing a different gender than you were born with is probably missing out on God's best for us.
Yet despite some common ground with the "religious right", I'm still to this day completely at a loss as to how you would get from literally anything you find in the bible to encouraging or applauding the removal of protections for very at-risk persons.
I promise, you can not read the Bible as a serious undertaking and arrive where these people have.
So...I'm a Christian and still can't for the life of me understand the appeal of these vicious, hateful positions.
I'm even pretty direct-to-the-bible in my theology, thus the ideas that we are "fearfully and wonderfully made," and that God doesn't make mistakes, lead me to believe that choosing a different gender than you were born with is probably missing out on God's best for us.
Yet despite some common ground with the "religious right", I'm still to this day completely at a loss as to how you would get from literally anything you find in the bible to encouraging or applauding the removal of protections for very at-risk persons.
I promise, you can not read the Bible as a serious undertaking and arrive where these people have.