09.01.10: Tony Perkins is a horse's ass

Look at this nastiness that I got in my junk mail the other day:

Stop Obama's Crossdresser Protection Bill‏
From: Tony Perkins (reply@frc.org)
Sent: Wed 1/06/10 11:08 PM
To: ---------------

Family Research Council


Sign our petition to tell our elected leaders we oppose the so-called "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" (ENDA)

Stop Obama's Crossdresser Protection Bill
January 06, 2010 | Share with Friends

Dear ------,

On New Year's Eve, when most Americans were waiting for the ball to drop in Times Square, the Obama Administration dropped another bombshell in its agenda to radicalize America by appointing its first openly "transgender" person to a high federal post. "Transgender" is an umbrella term for anyone who "expresses" a "gender identity" contrary to their biological sex at birth-in other words, men who claim to be (and dress as) women, and vice versa.



Mitchell Simpson, a man who had sex-change surgery and now calls himself a woman (named "Amanda"), was appointed as Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department. Simpson announced that "as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds."

The day after Simpson began work, The New York Times reported that the main website advertising jobs with the federal government now says there will be no "discrimination" based on "gender identity"-even though Congress has never passed a law saying that.

This new policy applies only to the federal government. But there is a bill being considered in Congress, the so-called "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" (ENDA), which would require every employer in America to open every position to homosexuals (by making "sexual orientation" a protected category) and "transgenders" (by protecting "gender identity").

All American employers including Christian owned businesses and potentially Christian ministries would be affected.

"Gender identity disorder" is a recognized mental illness that should be treated-not affirmed and protected. And the right of employers to set "dress and grooming standards" for their employees should include the most basic standard of all-that people dress in a way appropriate for their biological sex.

Don't let Congress and President Obama force American employers to hire homosexuals, transsexuals, and cross-dressers.

Sign our petition to tell our elected leaders we oppose the so-called "Employment Non-Discrimination Act" (ENDA)

Sincerely,

Tony Perkins
President

P.S. Please forward this email to at least one friend.

I actually yelped when I read this in the office on Friday. I was so disgusted. Let's be honest here: I did sign up for this mailing list in college when I was more vocally anti-abortion than I am now. Since then, my thoughts on that particular human problem have become more nuanced. And since then, I have tried repeatedly to remove myself from this mailing list, but with no luck. The subject line of this particular message was so incredible that I had to open it up and see what they were ranting about, yet again.

Can you fucking believe these people? From their tone, you would think our dear leader just promulgated legislation requiring men to dress as women!

And there's a special circle of hell reserved for Bible-thumpers who rely on science to buttress their moral stances. Depression is a medicable disorder, you fucks. So is ADD. How many of your kids are on Prozac or Ritalin? How many people in your collective employ are mentally ill by the standards of that oh-so-finicky goliath, the American Psychological Institute?

And as for your fucking standards, how many women, Christian or otherwise, rock up to their office jobs in a tasteful pant suit? Nobody in their right mind is telling women they have to wear skirts and dresses to work, and if they do, most professional places require that they aren't indecently short. Why shouldn't the penised among us enjoy the same spectrum of wardrobe options? Who the fuck cares as long as they are doing their jobs?

And what about poor Richard Curtis? That poor slob. Actually, my pity is misplaced given his record of voting AGAINST legislation that would have protected the rights of gays and lesbians in the US. But the sentiment could not be more simply, beautifully and aptly expressed than "People like Curtis are forced to live in the closet because of people like Curtis." And Tony Perkins. Fucking Wikipedia is more nuanced.

FAMILY FUCKING VALUES! Lord have mercy, I am glad I have no chair at that Tony Perkins Christmas dinner table. Can you imagine the secrets, the lies? The pretending?

I used to date a guy in a family like that, and on informal nights out the girls talked about the most recent transgressions of their husbands, their father, the lies at work, their private Christian school, and church. And then on big holidays, I would join them for dinner and they would all link hands and pray to God and make a big show of respect for the adulterous, licentious head of the family. And as confusing and nauseating as that was for me, it occurs to me now it was probably at least one step closer to God than Tony Perkins. They were trying to be close, trying to include the lost sheep, trying to be a family full of imperfect people.

That's a family. That's family values. Families are SUPPOSED to be a safe place where individuals can express themselves. Families are SUPPOSED to provide unconditional love. Home is the place to which the prodigal son returns, where the father welcomes him back with open arms.

I am gonna start my own Family Values platform. Then I am gonna stand on my soapbox and talk about real family values. Family values is not only for straight, evangelical Protestant men and women in nuclear families. People fuck up, and your God allows for that, Tony Perkins. I have read the Bible, you fuck. And what about the fact that this world is fallen? At the very least, you can give the transgendered among us the benefit of the doubt — God created the world, human sin brought about the Fall, now we are living in an imperfect place. No amount of legislation or APA literature-thumping is going to redeem it. Family values are about inclusion and you're trying to institute a national dress code.

Read your manual, you shithead.

Luke 12:
[22] And he said to his disciples, "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat, nor about your body, what you shall put on.
[23] For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
[24] Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!
[25] And which of you by being anxious can add a cubit to his span of life?
[26] If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?
[27] Consider the lilies, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
[28] But if God so clothes the grass which is alive in the field today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O men of little faith!


Stupid. You should be glad you even have clothes considering how many people in developing countries are worried about wearing anything at all, let alone dealing with existential/superficial questions like whether or not their outfit reflects their gender identity. Maybe you should look into that, you fuck.

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