In case you haven’t heard, House Democrats want to remove all gendered language from their legislation, while the prayer to open the 117th Congress ended with, “Amen and A-woman.” I kid you not. Who would make up something so insane?
Let’s start with the PC prayer, which has to be seen to be believed. It is offered in “the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and ‘god’ known by many names by many different faiths.” And it concludes with, “Amen and A-woman,” as if the “men” of “Amen” was somehow a gendered term. How patriarchal and bigoted to use the “men” word in prayer!
Of course, “Amen” comes from the common Semitic root ‘-m-n, with the word itself meaning, “So be it.” And it is used in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic liturgy, being found in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Arabic (along with English and many other languages).
But who said being PC had anything to do with truth or reality? To the contrary, it is quite often based on the denial of reality, or, in this case, complete ignorance of a common word.
Following the logic of this prayer, we would have to learn new phrases like, “making awomends,” since “making amends” contains the dreaded m- word. Or, we would have to learn to be “awomenable,” lest we allow a male-dominated word like “amenable” to remain on the books. (Go ahead and make up your own list of words containing “men.” This is madness.)
Not to be outdone, though, House Democrats have revealed their new, “future-focused” rules, which in include the following: “In clause 8(c)(3) of rule XXIII, gendered terms, such as ‘father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half sister, grandson, or granddaughter’ will be removed.
“In their place, terms such as ‘parent, child, sibling, parent’s sibling, first cousin, sibling’s child, spouse, parent-in-law, child-in-law, sibling-in-law, stepparent, stepchild, stepsibling, half-sibling, or grandchild’ will be used, instead.”
So, this is what the future looks like? This is what it means to be inclusive?
A particular highlight of the new rules is this: “The Office of the Whistleblower Ombudsman, for instance, is renamed in the rules to the ‘Office of the Whistleblower Ombuds.'”
How can you not love this? How creative! How futuristic! How absurd!
The best response was that of the House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy who tweeted, “This is stupid.
“Signed,
“- A father, son, and brother.”
Well said. Stupid it is.
For others, however, these were bold and commendable reforms. As expressed by Rep. Ilhan Omar (with reference to the entire rules package, in particular, with regard to Medicare), “End of Nov, the Progressive Caucus decided on a set of progressive rules reform priorities: Paygo reform and MTR reform ranked high on that list.
“So grateful to Chairman @RepMcGovern for helping us secure these reforms and setting the stage for us to push for bolder agenda.”
But as easy as it is to poke fun at this ridiculous proposal, it is highly significant when one of our major government institutions wants to remove all gendered language. As the saying goes, this does not end well.
Looking to Canada as a case in point, the Religious Tolerance website reported that:
“The Ontario Court of Appeals issued a decision on 2003-JUN-10 requiring the province of Ontario to provide marriage licenses to, and to register the marriages of, same-sex couples. However 73 pieces of existing legislation in the province violated this court ruling by referring to wife, husband, widow, widower, and similar sex-related terms. In order to bring the legislation in synchronism with the court decision which legalized SSM [same-sex marriage], each of these laws had to be amended to include gender-neutral language.”
You might say, “So, what’s the big deal. This is just technical, legal language. It hardly affects the person on the street.”
Not so. This reflects both a mindset and a legal logic, and these things reflect where a culture is headed.
Consequently, over time, these things do trickle down, especially in the wake of the wave of transgender activism, where the war on gender-specific language becomes more pitched.
That’s why, in 2016, Canada passed Bill C-16, which critics claim was all about compelled speech, specifically with regard to charges of hate speech for failure to comply with transgender preferences.
The most famous critic was Prof. Jordan Peterson who rose to international fame when he said in an October 2016 interview:
“If they fine me, I won’t pay it. If they put me in jail, I’ll go on a hunger strike. I’m not doing this. I’m not using the words that other people require me to use. Especially if they’re made up by radical left-wing ideologues.”
Having studied the methods of totalitarian regimes for many years, Peterson drew the line when it came to compelled speech. He knew all that it implied.
As to where this kind of legislation can go, in 2019, I spoke face to face with a Canadian man involved in a legal dispute over his daughter’s desire to transition to male. Not only did the court rule that he could not interfere with her getting hormone treatments, but he was forbidden to call his own daughter by her given, female name or to use female pronouns with reference to her, even in private, under penalty of immediate arrest.
And we have recently documented the new “hate speech” laws in Norway.
So, as laughable as the “A-woman” prayer might be, and as absurd as the House’s “gender-inclusive” rules might be, we should take both with complete seriousness and say, “Not on my watch.”
We can be compassionate to people in their struggles without engaging in gender madness.
Dr. Michael Brown is the host of the nationally syndicated Line of Fire radio program. His newest book is “Evangelicals at the Crossroads.”
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
Womenopause?
Nope max daddy, everyone knows that menopause is caused by men…..
But, can sleeping joe be thrown in the hoosegow when he says “come on, man”?
Does this mean that Nasty Nan is no longer a worthless ****?
Sorry ” IT ” is Still as Worthless as ever ! Wonder if we can still call
IT …… ” Piglosi ” . ?
Everything wrong is caused by men, didn’t you know!
You really didn’t think demons would know the real meaning behind “AMEN” now did you?
I keep saying, its a PITY that god doesn’t smite them down, with a blue bolt from heaven!
AND these are the self-righteous self-worshipping demonic FOOLS that the deranged Democrat party disciples want to mislead them and to be their handlers/masters??
I truly believe that half of the U.S. population has become disciples of Satan.
They claim that they are not but they lie, you will know them by their character and their actions. 👿
I don’t think they are willing disciples of satan… they’ve just been lied too and raised without God by the …REAL… disciples of satan…you know… politicians (most of them..not all.. just most). Once they got the ignorant masses to turn their back on God and replacing God with the government, it was all down hill coasting from there. When you stop asking God to bless you… that’s what happens.
Revelation 3:20
20: Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
Ones relationship with GOD is entirely between them and GOD.
One either accepts Jesus Christ or they don’t, one either follows Jesus Christ or they don’t.
Matthew 6:24
24: “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. (the term “money” can be interpreted as anything one serves other than GOD)
Where as i DO FEEL a # of them are FULLY WILLING… I agree the rest are just lied to/brain washed.
The mentally ill left, are perpetually mentally ill. We should put all liberals, since liberals are all mentally ill, in mental institutions permanently, in North Korea.
ANd seal the door shut, and toss the key into the ocean!
the prayer to open the 117th Congress ended with, “Amen and A-woman.” I
offered in “the name of the monotheistic God, Brahma, and ‘god’ known by many names by many different faiths.”
This is the end result when you tolerate a Spineless Weak opposition party. Maybe the ‘you have to vote ‘R’ or the Dems will get in’ crowd will finally understand this.
Hence why i am DONE with the R party!
Government has now officially turned into a carnival freak show. If I had been on an Elon Musk all electric spaceship visiting Mars and other planets for the last five years and returned home today to see this **** going on in Washington D.C. I would have been sure my navigation system had screwed up and sent me to alternative universe. This clown show is like some kind of Saturday Night Live parody skit about Congress. I am serious. This idiot that ended the opening prayer in the House of MisRepresentatives with “awomen” would have gotten mega laughs from the live studio audience that would have made Roseanne Roseannadanna jealous.
This is just sick theatrics I hope because I just can’t imagine the federal lawmakers could be this seriously petty.
I’d be right along side ya, in thinking i’d have gotten teleported into a nightmare realm.
*****…
And I second that *****… comment.
Correction “bat crazy democrats and crazy old nancy have gone gender crazy.
Piglosi and the other Demo-Rats want only ONE Gender . That way , they won’t have to choose !!
You people out there , Need to Fight for our Country . Don’t Just hand it over to the Communist / Socialist Left . This is what they want. They want you to give in !! Don’t Do It !! Show them What True American Republican Citizens are !! Then Show the Damn Rhino Republicans what happens when you are two-faced !!
Don’t Give up or Give in so easy !!
Poor Nancy, setting herself (and others) up for eternal frustration and disappointment — you can run but you can’t hide; no matter where you go, there you are, woMAN, you and your lost feMALE, woMEN followers.
Trying to deny and replace God, Truth, the truth about the Family and Marriage, with the idols of pride, control, wealth, power, self and false knowledge, will not help you, or anyone else, find your way out of the deep darkness of ignorance and error you’re stuck in. You must return to Jesus Christ, the Light of the world. Remember, He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. He’s ready & willing to help, but you must ask; He respects your free will. He does not force anyone to live under His loving & just authority, unlike those known as Communist, Marxist, Socialist or Totalitarian. Your choice. Choose life (in Him), every day.
So using their own insane standard: Democrats are “dewomented” in their pursuit of gender-neutral language.
As to the PC “prayer,” there is One, and only One, true and righteous God in the form of the Trinity; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Each and every part is “God” yet the Trinity remains only one God. (See your local conservative Christian pastor for further explanation.)
ALL other so-called deities are fakes, frauds, worthless idols, used by Satan to confuse and pervert stupid people.
Proving (once again) that Democrats don’t know what the hell they are talking about!
“Amen” (in Hebrew) means “it is so” or “so it be”. It has NOTHING to do with sex/gender!
BUT in keeping with their insane “gender neutral” pronoun mandate, should we refer to Nancy Pelosi as “Doofus Speaker” (rather than “Madam Speaker”)?
How’s about refer to her as the HEAD TRAITOR!
Expect the Glorious People’s Democratic Socialist Party (SM)(a wholly owned subsidiary of the SEIU), now that they control Congress, to ban any and all of these designations. You, I, and everyone else will be simply “Comrade” (for socialists and other liberals) and “Enemy of the State” for conservatives.
And they will be referred to as “your excellency”, or “Herr Furher”.