The Battle Between Light & Dark

There is a battle raging between the love and hate over the lives of children, we need to make sure that love wins out. One side say that they are fighting in the name of god, but in reality they are fighting on the side of the dark and hate. They try to demonize us but we have defeated them so far with the truth.

It is an epic battle that has lasted centuries*.

GOP Oklahoma lawmaker criticized for transgender comments
AP
By Sean Murphy
April 16, 2021


OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma lawmaker who helped revive a bill to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports is coming under fire for saying transgender people “have a mental illness.”

Rep. Justin Humphrey, a Republican from the southeast Oklahoma town of Lane, made the comment in an email exchange with a woman who was urging him to vote against the bill.

“I never mind helping to educate the uninformed,” Humphrey wrote in the email obtained by The Associated Press. “I understand ... transgender people have a mental illness.”

Humphrey stood by his comments Friday.

“I don’t have any problem backing up what I said,” Humphrey said in a telephone interview with the AP. “If you’re a male, you’re a male to the core. This is science and logic, and science and logic are on my side.”

The dark use lies like "mental illness" But the light stood up to his hate…

Opponents of the Oklahoma bill have expressed concern that its passage could lead to the NCAA moving its College Softball World Series, which is held each year in Oklahoma City and is expected to generate more than $20 million in revenue for the city.

National medical organizations has stood against the hate, the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychiatric Association all have come out against these bills and laws.

Transgender Children Across The U.S. Are Fighting For Their Lives (Again)
More than 30 states have introduced laws that include banning trans kids from school sports and criminalizing parents for providing gender-affirming medical care.
Huffpost
By Alanna Vagianos
April 16, 2021

Asher McKinney-Ring stepped up to the podium on the floor of the North Carolina General Assembly on Wednesday and took a deep breath. McKinney-Ring is only 15 years old, but the transgender high schooler appeared calm as he argued against North Carolina’s HB358, a bill that would restrict trans kids like him from participating in school sports.

“Words cannot explain how painful and exhausting it is to wake up every morning knowing that my rights to normal childhood experiences like school sports are being debated by elected officials that I’ve never met and that my existence and identity are not protected by law,” he said.

“We are not a threat. We are children,” he said. “And we just want to experience life normally like the rest of our classmates.”

Light and love speak up.

New poll shows Americans overwhelmingly oppose anti-transgender laws
PBS
By Matt Loffman
April 16, 2021


The rights of transgender Americans has been a growing topic of debate on sports fields, in state capitols and in Congress. The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBTQ advocacy organization, says more than 30 state legislatures have proposed more than 115 bills that would limit transgender rights, from participation on sports teams to access to medical care.

But two-thirds of Americans are against laws that would limit transgender rights, a new PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll found. That opposition includes majorities of every political ideology from liberal to conservative and every age group.

These proposed bills have emerged as a new culture war, with Republican state legislators introducing and voting for them amid Democratic opposition, while a majority of Americans who identify as Republicans are against such laws, according to the poll.

“The parties are speaking to their base people,” said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, which conducts the poll. “The Democratic coalition is more diverse. It’s broader. The Republicans are speaking to a much narrower base, and that can put you against the overall public opinion within those jurisdictions.”

This really is a battle, people lives are at stake.

Psychology Today reported that one of the causes of the decline in religious beliefs are

“… more tolerance and equality (around race, gender, and sexual orientation), less adherence to social rules (with acceptance of premarital sex at an all-time high)…

Prejudice may never entirely leave us, but will increasingly be tossed into the dustbin of history, with transgender rights becoming the new civil rights movement after gay and lesbian rights become taken for granted. More Americans will disassociate from religion – not just in affiliation but in participation, religiosity, and belief. The America of the future, if these trends hold, will be unchurched, unmarried, and unprejudiced…

The younger generation is growing up with us and they don’t see us as “evil” like their parents do, they see the light, not the dark.

As the PBS article says, the Republicans are speaking to their “christian” base, but they are worshiping a false idol.

Seek the light...

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* In December 1771 one of our nation's founders, John Adams, defended a trans person in the case of "Gray vs. Pitts. Assault and Battery."