Vice President Mike Pence will be rolling through West Philly today for an event at the Saint Francis De Sales School at 47th and Springfield.
Pence is scheduled to be joined by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway for the event, billed as a celebration of National School Choice Week. They are scheduled to be at the school at 12:30 this afternoon.
An impromptu rally organized mostly on Facebook will be there to greet Pence and the others. Entitled “Love Thy LGBTQ Neighbor, West Philly,” the gathering is scheduled to meet at 47th and Springfield from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
February 5th, 2020 at 10:58 am
I love my LGBTQ neighbors. Yet I’m sure that some would consider me transphobic, homophobic, a hater, etc. Why, because although I respect their freedom of choice in a pluralistic society, I won’t affirm their lifestyle. Also, because I love them, I won’t affirm same-sex marriage as good for human flourishing. I won’t affirm as normal homosexual practices. I affirm that there are two and only two genders, male and female, and nothing, not even chemicals or surgery can change that reality. As long as affirmation or validation is required in order to have a conversation there will be acrimony and vitriol. The chasm will not be bridged. However, when we practice a mutual tolerance which permits everyone to live together without resolving all our differences, without pretending there has been resolution, and without demanding it, we will have made progress. I don’t hate people because I disagree with them. Don’t hate me because you disagree with me.
February 5th, 2020 at 11:03 am
Mike Pence is a dingbat. The two women also mentioned in this article, dingbats. Pence has posited that trump was sculpted in The Almighty’s likeness. So I guess that Taco Bell “fire sauce” stain on trump’s lapel…whatever. And there’s only one Conway I respect. later clowns (Not ICP (who rule)).
February 5th, 2020 at 12:01 pm
Meatloaf. Whatever happened to him?
February 5th, 2020 at 1:12 pm
It’s about material conditions more than ideology, per se. If you work to deny basic rights to queer people that are afforded each and every day to those that conform to the social norms that Pence and Trump uphold, do not be surprised if people push back against you. Because everyone wants Freedom and a good life, as well they should. It’s not actually spiritual or ethical to begrudge them that. It’s a fundamentally hateful thing to to do in fact, not at all “Christian” to me.
February 5th, 2020 at 2:00 pm
De Sales, was my Elementary Grade for 7/8 grades in 1946/7
February 5th, 2020 at 2:36 pm
west philly – you are a hypocrite. you “love your LGBTQ neighbors” but basically want them to sit back and shut up. keep patting your own back and convincing yourself that you are a good person.
February 5th, 2020 at 2:58 pm
@bw – So predictable. Didn’t take long for the knives to come out. Just engage in name-calling because I won’t affirm lifestyle choices. I don’t expect my neighbors to sit back and shut up. Neither do I allow them to cow me into a social agenda/experiment that allows men in women’s restrooms or on sport teams, for example. I’m for equal rights, not special rights. I don’t consider myself a “good” person and care little whether others think I am. I love my LGBTQ neighbor enough to tell them the truth rather than fawn over them or encourage them to persist in a destructive lifestyle.
February 5th, 2020 at 3:05 pm
Scientific American article discussing the various ways in which sex is not just binary, if you care to learn more:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-redefined-the-idea-of-2-sexes-is-overly-simplistic1/
February 5th, 2020 at 3:51 pm
See also: https://srlp.org/resources/trans-101/
February 5th, 2020 at 11:09 pm
User “West Philly” is actually Pence texting from inside the limo. Hi Mike!
February 6th, 2020 at 1:41 am
So glad yet another *yawn* tired argument had to break out. Totally missing the point of the article is not an uncommon theme on here. People love to toss their opinions in like anybody at all I mean anybody wants to hear them. See I thought the article was about Pence appearing at DeSales, a well respected West Philly school and place of worship. Apparently (I am always wrong…wipes yoke off face) it was an opportunity *second yawn* to bicker about lgbt issues. Love it. Love it. Brotherly love it. Please, more opinions. More more more.
February 11th, 2020 at 9:45 am
See also:
“Science Won’t Settle Trans Rights”
http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-gender-sexuality/anne-fausto-sterling-science-wont-settle-trans-rights