A couple of weeks ago we saw a group staging a vigil outside a huge government building labeled "Consolidated Forensic Laboratory" opposite our hotel in DC. It was hard to tell from their few signs what it was about, plus it was dusk. We assumed they were leftwing but this lot was quiet and we strained to hear what a speaker was saying. Likely this was a regular fixture because a lot of security guards we didn't see the next day were out in force. When I googled "Consolidated Forensic Laboratory" it turned out that the body parts of preemie-sized babies found by activists in the garbage outside a DC abortion clinic were taken there; now the Biden administration has ordered their incineration without autopsy to determine whether the law was broken. https://www.lifenews.com/2024/02/07/joe-bidens-doj-is-trying-to-cover-up-potentially-illegal-abortions-that-killed-5-full-term-babies/
Protesting the destruction of innocent lives - even quietly - is stressful, time-consuming and costly. I salute you for being there, as well as the old timers like the 40 Days for Life crowd. Faithful Catholics by their persistent and public refusal to look the other way have left evangelicals in the dust on this issue. Let us never forget and never rest until the most defenseless among us are protected - including vulnerable victims of the trans cult.
I thought the slogans on your sign were pretty good, but somehow later in the day the best slogan for the movement to combat trans insanity popped into my head:
"It's not your motivation, it's your information".
When they ask you what your slogan means, you tell them (or give them a data sheet to explain) that we totally agree your motivation is right. You want to protect trans kids, help them fit in, keep them from suicide and from abuse by parents, etc.
We (trans skeptics) agree that these are all good motivations.
But what we're trying to tell you is that the information you are working from is wrong, and that in the effort to protect the well-being of these kids you are doing them grievous harm.
We ask you just to weigh the data, and base your decision solely on that.
I actually wrote a long and detailed comment outlining how to use this as a coherent strategy nationally, all trans skeptics repeating the same, because we need to force people to examine our data. But it wouldn't post so I decided maybe it wasn't God's will or you were not the person to put this burden on (and the latter is likely).
But I decided to put this thought here.
Anyway it's vitally important not to engage culture war topics so much they bring you down, so please do what seems right to you. Be that work, exploring, music, whatever. I don't know enough to run the universe.
A couple of weeks ago we saw a group staging a vigil outside a huge government building labeled "Consolidated Forensic Laboratory" opposite our hotel in DC. It was hard to tell from their few signs what it was about, plus it was dusk. We assumed they were leftwing but this lot was quiet and we strained to hear what a speaker was saying. Likely this was a regular fixture because a lot of security guards we didn't see the next day were out in force. When I googled "Consolidated Forensic Laboratory" it turned out that the body parts of preemie-sized babies found by activists in the garbage outside a DC abortion clinic were taken there; now the Biden administration has ordered their incineration without autopsy to determine whether the law was broken. https://www.lifenews.com/2024/02/07/joe-bidens-doj-is-trying-to-cover-up-potentially-illegal-abortions-that-killed-5-full-term-babies/
Protesting the destruction of innocent lives - even quietly - is stressful, time-consuming and costly. I salute you for being there, as well as the old timers like the 40 Days for Life crowd. Faithful Catholics by their persistent and public refusal to look the other way have left evangelicals in the dust on this issue. Let us never forget and never rest until the most defenseless among us are protected - including vulnerable victims of the trans cult.
I thought the slogans on your sign were pretty good, but somehow later in the day the best slogan for the movement to combat trans insanity popped into my head:
"It's not your motivation, it's your information".
When they ask you what your slogan means, you tell them (or give them a data sheet to explain) that we totally agree your motivation is right. You want to protect trans kids, help them fit in, keep them from suicide and from abuse by parents, etc.
We (trans skeptics) agree that these are all good motivations.
But what we're trying to tell you is that the information you are working from is wrong, and that in the effort to protect the well-being of these kids you are doing them grievous harm.
We ask you just to weigh the data, and base your decision solely on that.
I actually wrote a long and detailed comment outlining how to use this as a coherent strategy nationally, all trans skeptics repeating the same, because we need to force people to examine our data. But it wouldn't post so I decided maybe it wasn't God's will or you were not the person to put this burden on (and the latter is likely).
But I decided to put this thought here.
Anyway it's vitally important not to engage culture war topics so much they bring you down, so please do what seems right to you. Be that work, exploring, music, whatever. I don't know enough to run the universe.