The ConWeb spent a lot of time manufacturing outrage that President Biden issued a proclamation marking the Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter — even though that day has always fallen on March 31 and Easter skips around every year and just happened to fall on that day this year. Unsurprisingly, WorldNetDaily columnist Michael Brown — who enthusiastically pounces on any culture-war issue, especially if he thinks it can promote his anti-LGBT activism — felt the need to weigh in, and he did so in his April 1 column:
For many years now, it has been clear that America has been in a steep moral and spiritual decline, despite some genuine revival movements along with some holy pushback against the growing cultural insanity. But two recent examples confirm that we are now in moral freefall.
The first is Presdient Biden’s proclamation that March 31, which this year falls on Resurrection (Easter) Sunday, is now “Transgender Day of Visibility.”
This is not a poorly timed announcement. It is not even a slap in the face. It is a kick below the belt accompanied by a laugh and a smile. It is as insulting as it is perverse, no matter how much we care for our trans-identified friends and colleagues and want them to experience wholeness and freedom in the Lord.
Brown cares nothing for transgender people, of course — for him, they are a tool, an excuse to spread hate and fear. He doesn’t want them to “experience wholeness and freedom in the Lord” so much as he wants to eliminate their existence entirely. And he censored the fact that Transgender Day of Visibility has always fallen on March 31 when Easter just happened to share that date this year, since doing so would take some of the sting out of the outrage he’s trying to manufacture.
But Brown had a controversy to exploit for political purposes, and exploit it he did by rehashing his usual hate:
There’s even a danger of becoming so accustomed to our nation’s precipitous condition that we just yawn at the latest example of our depravity.
Drag queens reading to toddlers with the enthusiastic support of the American Library Association? No big deal.
Thirteen-year-old girls having their healthy breasts removed and 11-year-old boys getting chemically castrated because of short-lived struggles with their gender identity? Nothing to fuss about.
Radical feminists launching a “Shout Your Abortion” movement? No big deal.
Christians being canceled because they dare to hold to their biblically based values in public? Let’s not get too worked up.
How deadly complacency can be!
That’s why we need to feel the full force of the outrage of the moment, as the president of the United States, himself a professing Catholic, uses his bully platform to mock the followers of Jesus worldwide. First, he announced “Transgender Day of Visibility” on Good Friday. Then, he timed things so that it would be celebrated this year on Resurrection (Easter) Sunday.
Wake up, America! It really is revival or we die – and that revival, that awakening, that coming to life again, that returning to the Lord with all our hearts and souls, repenting of our own sins – must begin with each of us.
To pray it again, “Lord, let the awakening start with me!”
For Brown, that’s what it’s all about — forcing his religion on others instead of acknowledging and respecting the basic humanity of people who don’t think and act exactly like he does.