It used to be that discrimination was a good word. A man with discriminating taste was a man with aesthetic standards that he understood and applied in wisdom. Now discrimination is an all-purpose term of condemnation designed to shut you up, Christian.
Of course, discrimination is one of those words that carry the inescapable concept around with it. It is not whether you have a standard of discrimination, it is which standard of discrimination you will have. Not whether, but which.
For example, Mississippi recently passed a law prohibiting, get this, discrimination by the government against sincerely held religious beliefs. Residents of that state will still have the freedom to follow their own conscience when their conscience requires them to decline to do crazy stuff. This outbreak of common sense was too much for the governor of New York, and so Andrew Cuomo banned all “non-essential travel to Mississippi” for state employees. Take that, Hattiesburg.
But the point here is that absolutely everyone involved is discriminating. Mississippi formally allowed her citizens to discriminate against abnormal people, and New York is mandating discrimination against normal people.
Ah, there it is — the intolerable word. How dare I, in these endarkened times, use a hurtful word like normal? Don’t I realize that cis-normality has been the greatest cause of grief in the world?
The secular world wants to assume a new normal, against which there can be no dissent permitted. It must be a universal normal, for if dissent against it is permitted, then this will reveal that normal implies a standard being applied. This is why apparent differences have to be accounted for on the basis of pathological and irrational hatreds — so that the standard can be quietly assumed as something that “just is.”
With the old normal, the defenders of it knew that they were imposing a morality, and they knew they were imposing a morality on those who differed with it. If some perv wanted to hang out in the junior high girls locker room, then society would say something like “no, you can’t do that because you’re a perv.” The old normal would play rough with the outliers, but it did not resent them.
The new normal has to discipline the outliers, just like every system of social organization must do, but they are powerfully insecure about it. This is why they are so shrill. Because they are trying to enshrine certain practices that the Almighty describes as kinks in the hose, the whole thing is problematic. The ruling elites have passed laws that the hose be kinked in at least seven places and, moreover, the majesty of the law has also determined that twice as much water will flow through as ever before. The governor signed the decree with a separate pen for each letter of his name. Did you hear that, people? Twice as much water!
When a people’s leadership have been struck with a judicial blindness that is capable of thinking something like that, they cannot even afford to have anybody clear their throat and say ummmm . . . And so it is that respected solons are banning travel to states where people have not lost their minds. It might be contagious.
This is why PayPal is boycotting North Carolina. For they dast — a word that must be brought back, by the way, for we have great need of it — allow freedom of conscience with regard to accepting or rejecting the new normal for weirdos in bathrooms. But no one may have the freedom to reject the new normal because if someone has the freedom to reject it, he will. And that is why we have the ridiculous strictures of totalitolerance. Assent must be universal, and for this reason those who do not assent must be defined as sick in the head. If you are sick in the head, they need not count you when determining if they have a quorum for universal. And if you do not assent to that, then you are sick in the head too.
PayPal does business in countries where the penalty for homosexual behavior is death, but they are too fastidious to do business with a state that allows people to keep restrooms what they have been in this country forever?
The secularist thinking is that we must demand that an evangelical florist to do an arrangement for the nuptials of Suzy and Fido.
Did I say Fido? Sorry, my mistake. It is not 2019 yet. These things are tumbling along fast enough without me rushing them. I meant to say Suzy and Loretta. Deepest apologies.
Neutrality is impossible. Sitting this one out is impossible. Wishing it might go away by itself is impossible. Cowardice is indefensible.
Who knew big brother was a raging queen?????
Homer Simpson has publicly stated that he prefers his homosexuals “fuh-laming.”
I don’t see that happening with Smithers. ; – )
It seems the Benedict Option might be forced upon us by default.
LMAO
Rotsa ruck with that Benedict Option thing.
Here in La-La Land of the North (Minnesota) our own Governor Mark Dayton (yes, a Democrat) has banned all non-essential travel to North Carolina lest we encourage people of a certain gender into actually using rest rooms specifically designed for their anatomy. The news media (in the interest of “fair and balanced reporting,” of course) was able to scrape up a token Republican for his take on the issue, who sheepishly asked why the state was paying for non-essential travel to North Carolina prior to the Governor’s most wise and beneficent ban. The Governor did not belittle himself by responding… Read more »
If North Carolina has any Dixie moxie* remaining, they’ll laud these recent developments as a good thing…a very good thing.
*I hereby stake claim to this phrase. I have coined it. Let it be promulgated.
Hmmmm, Malachi. An interesting proposition. Perhaps North Carolina could respond by dropping “North” from their name. That would show some Dixie moxie.
If North Carolina *simply* dropped the “North” from its name, the two Carolinas would be —
* Carolina
* South Carolina
which doesn’t seen quite right.
How about this?
* the current North Carolina renames itself to “South Carolina”
* and the current South Carolina renames itself to “Southest Carolina”
I like it. Perhaps they could just merge and name the new state “Y’all.” In the end, it’s not my call, y’all.
Well, you’ve got Virginia and West Virginia, so it’s not unreasonable
But WV was carved out of an already existing VA.
Illigitimately carved out, it would seem to some.
Yah, for shore, but lefse doesn’t keep the leftists away. They’re attracted to your oil money. It draws them like mosquitos to big, pink Norwegians on a warm summer night.
Surely gjetost would repel them??
Well, if this didn’t work, what will?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz2KrgIHlBw
If they can survive lutefisk and Jesse Ventura, they would probable revel in a stinky goat cheese. Especially if they thought it was trendy. The only cure I know of for extreme leftism is to let it run its course and administer the love of Jesus when they’ve fallen so far they can’t get up.
http://www.gamefishin.com/threads/can-you-improve-the-taste-of-lutfisk.3159/#post-33526
Mississippi will doubtless grieve the absence of New York bureaucrats, just as we, the Great Bigot Society of North Carolina, will mourn the loss of PayPal.
Meanwhile, Gov. Deal of Georgia has shown us why the RINOs are getting flogged in the polls this year, as they’ve never seen a moral fight they couldn’t justify fleeing from.
“Neutrality is impossible. Sitting this one out is impossible. Wishing it
might go away by itself is impossible. Cowardice is indefensible.”
Amen! When you even have the women up in arms, you know something has gone all awry. In our defense however, the “new normal” did just walk right into our bathrooms….with nary a whimper! At least that’s the way it is here in the 9th circuit of hell, where “normal” is thought to be perverse, while wearing a loin cloth and calling yourself a sea lion makes you a valuable member of the community.
Let’s hope he “marries up” to a tuxedo and starts calling himself a penguin! ; – )
Powerful final paragraph.
Doug, as a practical matter, do you urge believers to boycott (or divest from) pro-gay companies? Is it cowardice to do otherwise? In the NC case, here’s a list of the companies, including most corporate heavyweights, that are pressing for more kinks in the hose, as you say.
https://www.2ndvote.com/
You use this?
I just heard about it this morning and I only glanced at it. If a similar site existed from a progressive point of view (one where e.g. Chick-Fil-A got terrible ratings), I bet it would be a smash hit.
Just closed my Paypal account, before I’d read your post. Thanks for the list.
“. . . that the hose be kinked in seven places.” And the number keeps rising, like the number of places in Bertie Wooster’s spine that D’Arcy Stilton Cheesewright was going to break.
Chromosomes, people. They’re what determine your gender.
Science! No?
As this culture rejects the fundamental notion that people are evil sinners who must be punished for their perversion, and the concept that family is the foundation of society, all truth becomes subjective, except for the truth of those who insist on slaying anything Holy.
You and your “chromophobic” comments!
Helllllllp! Andrew Cuomo!
Uh-oh! I just invented another word “Cuomophobic”!
????????
“Chromosomes, people. They’re what determine your gender.”
The word you want is “sex”, not “gender”.
But what if they are not “natural born” chromosomes?
????
Nope.
Using them interchangeably….unlike male and female…which are distinct. (Culture may define the normative roles…)
When we lose the battle over language, the argument quikly follows (see abortion/murder).
#Thanksfortheopportunitytoclarify
And, remember – when it comes to marriage and just about everything else, God couldn’t care less about genes, and anyone who says otherwise is a vile hatemonger!
But even though God couldn’t care less about genes, He is absolutely obsessed with chromosomes!
Which doesn’t make much sense to me. But I’m funny that way.
Wow!?
“PRESS 1” to change your nom de blog to OJ COSBY? ; – )
Do you prefer PRESS 1 FOR HEBREW?
The new nom de blog is more cynically goofy.
I figured you changed from “PRESS 1” becuase every time you said something silly,
everyone would just respond with “PRESS 1 for:..(silly press 1 comment dujour)”
; – ) i.e. : PRESS 1 for bail out on ill advised, easliy refuteable nom de blog.
LMAO
It was a pleasure to close my account with PayPal.
Mine is way too useful to me to close. Anyway, there are so many companies it would be pretty much impossible to avoid them all.
I’ll let the Philistines sharpen my weapons …
Banning “non-essential” travel is odd. The government of NY can’t actually ban New Yorkers from traveling to Mississippi, so this applies only to business travel. But what in the world is “non-essential” business travel and how could there have been any of it to ban? The NC law is a bad law (that in all fairness is a response to another bad law) but I can’t see the logic of any company embroiling themselves in the controversy. How did the meeting where this was proposed go? What possible business case could there be? Either the proposed expansion was a bad… Read more »
Doesn’t this apply only to state employees traveling on state business? For example, if an association of state judges wanted to hold a convention at Elvis’s birthplace, New Yorkers couldn’t attend.
That’s probably it, that it describes travel to conferences and the like that are considered useful but not absolutely necessary to attend.
Banning non-essential official business travel amounts to an admission that they do boondoggles.
I am wondering how this legislation can achieve its stated objective: that of ensuring safety and privacy for people using public restrooms. From the summaries I have read, there is no provision for people who have already transitioned and who are surgically, though not chromosomally, no longer their birth sex. Does this mean that a woman who, through surgery and hormonal treatment, now looks exactly like a man is required to use the ladies’ restroom? Isn’t this what we are trying to prevent? I do not believe that many young men pretend to be gender confused in order to watch… Read more »
“From the summaries I have read, there is no provision for people who have already transitioned and who are surgically, though not chromosomally, no longer their birth sex.”
I haven’t seen seen the legislation itself but the articles about it refer to the individuals sex at birth.
NC allows you to change your sex on your birth certificate, and your birth certificate is what the law references as determining which bathroom you can enter. So someone who has fully transitioned can change their sex on their birth certificate to match and therefore avoid running afoul of the law. Not that this makes the law any more enforceable. Can you imagine a bathroom dispute elevating to the point of checking someone’s birth certificate? It’s completely absurd. I don’t know exactly what the Charlotte ordinance said but it should have been sufficient to simply negate that rather than attempt… Read more »
This isn’t about bathrooms. It’s about power over social norms.
It is always about power. John 19:10
If it hasn’t been before, it’s been increasingly clearer that, stated very tersely, secularism simply requires tyrannical control in order to function. Given the increase in this country on the secularist downward path, opposition to this “ism” should be clearly advanced if the liberties that were put in writing in our Constitution (and not granted in some token and arbitrary fashion by exercise of some governmental beneficence) are to continue as they were intended. It’s hard to believe the threat to the practice of religion has reached a point that, in view of our Constitution, the Founders would surely find… Read more »
“For they dast — a word that must be brought back, by the way, for we have great need of it”
I understood ‘dast’ to mean something like ‘dare’ and am wondering if you meant to say ‘dast not’ allow freedom of conscience? Freely confessing I am no wordsmith.
“verb (used without object)
1.Older Use. dare
“He dastn’t walk in his own backyard withouten he kept thet log wall betwixt hisself an’ ther mounting-side.”
The Roof Tree
Charles Neville Buck
(http://www.dictionary.com/browse/dast)
Go onto the University ofToronto’s website. UT did the full inclusion bathroom thing and surprise! They had some voyeurism cases last year. They have a map on their site showing where the transvestitite restrumes are located on campus. After similar things start happening here, America will probably go a similar path
Some may ask, “Whatever happened to sin?” Perhaps, so. Others may answer with, “Whatever happened to sin? Secularism. That’s what.”
I thought this was apt (from Wilson’s 2004 post, “Swallowing the Reductio”):
Blurry.
Doug says: It used to be that discrimination was a good word. Yes, it did use to be a good word. But not since the coming of Martin Luther King of Kings. What turned it into a bad word? The Civil Rights Movement and anti-racism. Both of which Judeochristians heartily approve of. And in both cases, for decades, Judeochristians have been demonizing anyone who doesn’t heartily approve. Oh, sure, Doug will occasionally trot out a quote from the racist conservative icon James Burnham which he can distort to help him signal to The Synagogue that he really, really hates Donald… Read more »
The constant across OJ COSBY’s transblogger identities seems to be the cynicism.
You right. He really do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHKiCTcayxs
People have been mocking me for 20 years for saying that one day separate restrooms for male and females would be outlawed. A lot fewer are mocking me these days. It seems to me that maybe Christians and conservatives should’ve thought long and hard before they spent the last 50 years denouncing the concept of separate restrooms as one of the most “hateful” ideas ever conceived. Just like it seems to me that maybe Christians and conservatives should’ve thought long and hard before they spent the last 50 years denouncing virtually all white Americans who lived during the previous 200… Read more »
I believe in separate restrooms in public or commercial buildings. I believe that people should use the restroom that conforms to their sexual identity (strictly male or female) with separate accommodations for people accompanied by opposite-sex young children. However, I do think it is cruel to force a transgendered person to use a public restroom which does not conform to his or her post-surgical appearance. I have known a couple of transgendered people, and although you might think one was a mannish woman and the other was an effeminate-seeming man, you would not have spotted them as “fakes”. A woman… Read more »