{"id":44073,"date":"2019-01-23T00:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T03:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44073"},"modified":"2019-01-23T03:05:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T06:05:32","slug":"supreme-court-stays-injunctions-on-transgender-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/supreme-court-stays-injunctions-on-transgender-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Stays Injunctions on Transgender Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court ruled<\/a> (5-4) yesterday that injunctions preventing the Department of Defense from implementing a change to President Obama’s transgender policy were stayed while the case worked its way through the courts. This allows the DoD Policy proposed by then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis<\/a> to take effect.<\/p>\n

Previously, lower courts had ruled in both<\/a> directions<\/a> on the policy.<\/p>\n

While the policy is about medical<\/strong> and mental<\/strong> conditions, critics of the ruling blamed it on religion<\/strong> — that is,\u00a0Christianity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tris Mamone, a member of the awkwardly named LGBTQ Humanist Alliance, is quoted<\/a> saying [emphasis added]<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s ruling is another example of bigotry and Christian nationalism<\/strong> overriding legal protections for all Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael “Mikey” Weinstein similarly called it a product of the [emphasis added] <\/p>\n

fundamentalist, evangelical,<\/strong> extremist leanings of the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those “fundamentalist, evangelical, extremist[s]” are four Catholics and an Episcopalian who was raised Catholic, by the way — as if that should make a difference.\u00a0 To Mikey, anyone who doesn’t have the “right kind” of religious beliefs is a “fundamentalist, evangelical” — even if they’re agnostic<\/a> or Quaker<\/a>.\u00a0 (The MRFF once accused a group of Christians of being\u00a0“willing to use force” to achieve “world domination”.\u00a0 Those Christians included\u00a0Friends<\/em>.)\u00a0 For the record, the policy is supported by<\/a> the Military Archdiocese.<\/p>\n

It would seem activists have tried to paint transgenders in the military as being only<\/strong> opposed by Christians — and if there is only a religious<\/strong> argument against it, it must, prima facie<\/em>, be allowed to happen. (This is similar to some pro-abortion positions which paint the pro-life position solely<\/em> as religious.)<\/p>\n

By contrast, reasonable people can make a pretty good (non-religious) argument that a person who is<\/strong> one gender but believes<\/strong> him\/herself to be another<\/strong> gender has a condition that would warrant further attention<\/a> and would ultimately distract the military from its mission. In fact, some self-described transgenders<\/em> have said that — and they’re not “evangelical extremists.”<\/p>\n

The secondary argument is that anyone<\/strong> who wants to serve in the military should be allowed to do so — an argument that is, of course, ridiculous.\u00a0 Not everyone can do everything.\u00a0 That might not seem “fair” to some people — but fair is a complexion, not a state of reality.<\/p>\n

American society has decided it doesn’t care if a man wants to say he’s a woman or vice versa.\u00a0 But — to this point — society has said it does<\/strong> care if that demographic tries to foist its worldview on everyone else.<\/p>\n

It’s common sense, and it’s science.\u00a0 Both also happen to agree with religion.<\/p>\n

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