Hi there,
So I realised there is a glaring inequality, between government and people of faith: the standard for government is that difference matters, the standard for people of faith, is that difference doesn't matter! Let me explain what I mean. Say you have a transgender person, and you don't want your customers to think the transgender lifestyle is irreverent in a good way. You think, my customers need their gender respected and a transgender person either can't or will find it more difficult to acknowledge (the gender). That's not a condemnation of being transgender, as much as it is about being gender respectful. You don't hire someone short to a basketball team; calling yourself ten feet tall doesn't make you taller.
But this is the kicker, right? Government doesn't have its privileges stripped. Imagine telling Government, you have to hire statesman that have been both liberal and conservative? You would never get the bill passed! The whole point is that you are surrounding yourself with people, who are of a like mindset. A mindset that is divided between liberal and conservative obligations will never do as great a job, as someone who is all liberal or all conservative. See how hypocritical that is?
Now, how is it, that you can force a wedding cake maker to put homosexual figurines on the top, but you can't force a senator pledge allegiance to two parties? This is the Devil's work! The Devil doesn't respect gender at all, he doesn't care. He will break up couples, he will dishearten children, he will abuse innocence. God is against this. God doesn't have to swear allegiance to Himself and the Devil. That is our greatest hope. We need to be recognised culturally, as having a derivative expectation of identification, as is exemplified in congress. This is what is destroying our nations! Government is passing laws that it doesn't see are blind, to its own inner workings. "It is for the nation" they think "who cares why?". When God is why!
Now, I am not saying revolt or disdain - I am saying this is something we need to pray about. We don't want things to get worse, because we put our neck out on the foundation of equality without thinking what it may mean. There are transgender people that may think "I don't want people of faith, to be in my organisation, they will make the company look authoritarian" that's fine. Jesus said "go from town to town, if you have to" rejection is not the end. We can stand on Jesus' Word, in this respect. The example we set, is more important, than the fleeting work we are a part of, when the circumstances are right. Even then, prayer is necessary, the example Governments sets, is what we want. We want government to say "God rules us, we rule the people, but the people are free to associate with who ever wants to join them, in the spirit of friendship".
The point is that we can educate people from a position of strength. We don't need to be forced to tolerate people whose views are concretely different to ours. We can allow them to express themselves, in ways that company policy shapes - because we have legislation in place, to justify the approach we want people such as those who are transgender to take. We might want the figurines on the wedding cake, to be kept apart - as a way of symbolizing that it is a spiritual union, rather than a physical union, between same-sex couples. That would be ok, under legislation that keeps the same importance political parties have under a distinguished example, for examples set in the business arena of the culture or the faith arenas of the culture. It's just not right that senators have freedom of selection and the rest of the country does not?
I don't know if you want to think about this, its a very simple argument. As I've already said, you may just want to pray about it, and see if there is a way to leverage understanding, from the perspective of governance.
God bless. I hope you understand that I have not set out to condemn people, but care that the standards they want to live by, not be ignored.
So I realised there is a glaring inequality, between government and people of faith: the standard for government is that difference matters, the standard for people of faith, is that difference doesn't matter! Let me explain what I mean. Say you have a transgender person, and you don't want your customers to think the transgender lifestyle is irreverent in a good way. You think, my customers need their gender respected and a transgender person either can't or will find it more difficult to acknowledge (the gender). That's not a condemnation of being transgender, as much as it is about being gender respectful. You don't hire someone short to a basketball team; calling yourself ten feet tall doesn't make you taller.
But this is the kicker, right? Government doesn't have its privileges stripped. Imagine telling Government, you have to hire statesman that have been both liberal and conservative? You would never get the bill passed! The whole point is that you are surrounding yourself with people, who are of a like mindset. A mindset that is divided between liberal and conservative obligations will never do as great a job, as someone who is all liberal or all conservative. See how hypocritical that is?
Now, how is it, that you can force a wedding cake maker to put homosexual figurines on the top, but you can't force a senator pledge allegiance to two parties? This is the Devil's work! The Devil doesn't respect gender at all, he doesn't care. He will break up couples, he will dishearten children, he will abuse innocence. God is against this. God doesn't have to swear allegiance to Himself and the Devil. That is our greatest hope. We need to be recognised culturally, as having a derivative expectation of identification, as is exemplified in congress. This is what is destroying our nations! Government is passing laws that it doesn't see are blind, to its own inner workings. "It is for the nation" they think "who cares why?". When God is why!
Now, I am not saying revolt or disdain - I am saying this is something we need to pray about. We don't want things to get worse, because we put our neck out on the foundation of equality without thinking what it may mean. There are transgender people that may think "I don't want people of faith, to be in my organisation, they will make the company look authoritarian" that's fine. Jesus said "go from town to town, if you have to" rejection is not the end. We can stand on Jesus' Word, in this respect. The example we set, is more important, than the fleeting work we are a part of, when the circumstances are right. Even then, prayer is necessary, the example Governments sets, is what we want. We want government to say "God rules us, we rule the people, but the people are free to associate with who ever wants to join them, in the spirit of friendship".
The point is that we can educate people from a position of strength. We don't need to be forced to tolerate people whose views are concretely different to ours. We can allow them to express themselves, in ways that company policy shapes - because we have legislation in place, to justify the approach we want people such as those who are transgender to take. We might want the figurines on the wedding cake, to be kept apart - as a way of symbolizing that it is a spiritual union, rather than a physical union, between same-sex couples. That would be ok, under legislation that keeps the same importance political parties have under a distinguished example, for examples set in the business arena of the culture or the faith arenas of the culture. It's just not right that senators have freedom of selection and the rest of the country does not?
I don't know if you want to think about this, its a very simple argument. As I've already said, you may just want to pray about it, and see if there is a way to leverage understanding, from the perspective of governance.
God bless. I hope you understand that I have not set out to condemn people, but care that the standards they want to live by, not be ignored.