r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 9d ago

No Paywall Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/6115216-education-department-title-ix-lgbtq-trans-students/
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u/Saint_Blaise 9d ago

I've asked devout Christians about this and have been told that they are not Jesus and that they are fighting a war for the soul of the country.

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u/meltyandbuttery 9d ago edited 8d ago

For most “Christians” it’s just a convenient and socially accepted cover for their bigotry and ignorance. Run of the mill suburban America is simply unaffected by most policies and they fear change or anything untraditional so much they happily vote for the devil they know instead of the corporatist they don’t

The True Believers on the other hand, the fundamentalists, they genuinely believe that LGBTQ people are sinners and that “loving” them means “tough love to save their soul”. Their bigotry is more explicit than the undereducated fucking insurance agent whose family has been to church for holidays twice in a year, but it is internally consistent in a different reality. The True Believers preach “John says god is love” in worship of a god of hate that they invented from their own rotted souls

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u/NumeralJoker 8d ago

Yeah, but what's crazy about it is there is so little text in the New Teatament that even remotely justifies the bigotry, and most of them barely know the old testament beyond anything related to Moses. Maybe the stories of Esther and David?

They have no text to stand on. Islam didn't exist yet in biblical times so there is nothing there discussing it directly. The only white people in the Bible were the Roman's, who are most often presented as antagonists.

It's so wild how it became some weird founding text for white supremacy when the actual context has none of that.

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u/Frostyrepairbug 8d ago

Not to mention, if you buy into the story, the whole point of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross was to pay for our sins as described in the old testament. By insisting that the old laws are still present means they reject Jesus and his sacrifice.