OneNewsNow quotes Dr. David Stevens, the Chief Executive Officer of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA) in their piece Transgenderism — purely psychological?, where he makes a patently false statement about what the Bible says about altering the shape of one’s genitalia. He makes his false statement in a call for not treating transgender people with “immoral” treatments:

“Well, the Bible does tell us very clearly that mutilation of the body is wrong, and it’s sad that these people have this psychological disorder — but it should be treated from a psychological perspective,” Stevens contends.

The “psychological perspective” that Dr. Stevens is referring to is obviously conversion therapy, because he’s rejects the American Medical Association’s house of delegates approval of a resolution in June that supports removing barriers to treat and care for transgender people, as apparently he also rejects the Harry Benjamin Standard Of Care (HBSOC) [of which the purpose of the HBSOC is to articulate WPATH’s consensus about the psychiatric, psychological, medical, and surgical management of gender identity disorders (GID)].

Here’s what Dr. Stevens does say about treatment for trans people in the OneNewsNow:

The CMDA spokesman has taken a look at the recent [AMA] resolution. “They’re calling on insurance companies to provide treatment for gender-identity disorder, which actually is a sex-change operation. Those are very expensive and obviously treat something in a way that really isn’t going to solve the problem, just perpetuate it. [It is] sad that this has happened, but we’re increasingly seeing this happen at the American Medical Association and other professional organizations across the country,” Stevens explains

Lovely.

But hey, back to the headline: The real difficulty I have with Dr. Stevens comments on “mutilation” is that he’s either ignorant of what the Bible says — specifically in a quote attributed to Jesus — regarding changing the shape of one’s genitalia, or he’s lying about it. The quote from Jesus that Dr. Stevens should have been aware of:

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are also eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He who is able to accept this, let him accept it.

The Geneva Study Bible states this about that verse quoted above — Matthew 19:12 — on how one becomes a eunuch:

A man can become a eunuch in one of two ways: the first is by castration or emasculation, and the other by natural causes, such as a rupture.

There were no genital reassignment surgeries besides castration available at the time the New Testament was written.

For Dr. Stevens to indicate he knows what the Christ and the Bible says about genital mutilation when he obviously doesn’t — well, it takes the underpinning out from his and his organization’s stated beliefs. He’s either intentionally lying about what the Bible says about changing one’s genitalia, or he’s completely ignorant about what Jesus said about changing one’s genitalia.

Either way, Dr. Stevens looks a lot more like an ignoramus than a man with such an advanced medical degree should probably look. It certainly speaks loudly to how little knowledge the Christian Medical & Dental Associations must have even on basic scriptural references to changing one’s genitalia if their spokesperson is Dr. Stevens.

And hey, if some peewee, conservative Christian, medical association — with “Christian” boldy included in its name — doesn’t even know what the Bible states about an issue their commenting on, one can only wonder what this peewee, conservative Christian, association — with “Medical” boldy included in its name — doesn’t know about the medical side of issues it comments on.

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Further Reading:
* John Wesley’s Explanatory Notes, Isaiah 56:3-8

I would say it’s a safe bet to make that OneNewsNow avoids posting the term gay in the Associated Press articles they feed to their site by the use of an automatic search-and-replace program. It looks this way because of their embarrassing post of an article that changed the name of Beijing Olympics hopeful Tyson Gay to “Tyson Homosexual” (emphasis added).

Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials

Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.

His wind-aided 9.85 seconds was a fairly cut-and-dry performance compared to what happened a day earlier. On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heat and had to scramble to finish fourth, then in his quarterfinal a couple of hours later, ran 9.77 to break the American record that had stood since 1999…

They fixed the auto-replace gaff for their AP article feed here, in the retitled article Gay eases into 100 final at Olympic trials.

My guess would be that they consciously use homosexual as a term to throwback to when homosexual was listed as a mental health condition in DSM-II. Activist conservative Christians often tend to believe that it’s a Myth That Psychiatry Has Proven That Homosexual Behavior Is Normal, and because they believe that homosexuality should be relisted as a mental disorder because they believe homosexuality is marked by deviant and sinful behavior that’s tied to an identity.

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H/t: The Slog

I don’t give a hoot about what you think,
I look in the mirror and I’m tickled pink.

Yesterday, the band Weezer released their official video to their single “Pork And Beans.” The video features quite a few celewebrities, including a couple of famous gender benders. One is comedian Liam Sullivan — also known as Kelly of Shoes fame, and the other Chris Crocker.

I guess I never do take my activist hat off. I watched the video to see the cameos of Kelly, as Liam Sullivan is probably my favorite performer ever (I just love how Liam seems to capture a certain kind of trans experience without trying to “be” transgender) –yet watching the video, surprisingly my eyes welled with tears when Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo embraced Chris Crocker. When Rivers embraced Chris, the lyrics quoted above were playing in the background.

The full, bridge hook and chorus went as follows:

I’m going to do the things that I wanna do,
I ain’t gotta thing to prove to you.
I eat my candy with the pork and beans,
Excuse my manners if I make a scene.
I ain’t gonna wear the clothes that you like,
I’m fine and dandy with the me inside.
One look in the mirror and I’m tickled pink,
I don’t give a hoot about what you think.
I don’t care,
I don’t care,
I don’t care,
I don’t care,
I don’t care,
I don’t care.

Immediately before I watched the video, I’d read a OneNewsNow blog entry entitled Is This Really a Prom? I do care when folk like Pam Clayton writes stuff like this:

So now we are having gay proms? Since the gay agenda likes to compare themselves to the racism felt by African Americans how can they have a dance for those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or transgender? The event is being held at the National Museum of Mexican Art and is being promoted for the youth ( although adults are also invited). Well isn’t that just wonderful, we have underage children at a prom with Gay adults.

So basically, it’s just that sometimes I feel wearied from anti-LGBT lies and hate, so seeing the acceptance communicated in the Rivers’ embrace Chris caused a pretty emotional reaction on my part.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
–Martin Luther King Jr.

British actor Paul Scofield, renowned for his stage and screen portrayal of Sir Thomas More in “A Man for All Seasons,” died yesterday. Mr. Scofield, the New York Times noted …

… made his debut as Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet” on the school stage. “I had to wear an embarrassing blond wig,” he said. “But it was a turning point, because thenceforward there was nothing else I wanted to do.”

The Thomas More Law Center was also in the news yesterday. The TMLC has frequently been at odds with trans people, including …

• Opposing transsexual marriage in Kansas
• Opposing legislation against discrimination based on gender identity in Michigan
• Opposing trans-inclusive sex education in Maryland

The American Family Association (AFA) has a new action alert out today. The alert aludes to Ford Motor Company paying for “sex change operations” for transsexuals as part of their employee medical benefits package.

The headline for their action alert is Ford Motor Company offers sex change benefits — When I read the headline, I thought the AFA was objecting to Ford paying for genital reassignment surgery.

But, the alert’s paragraph describing the benefits states:

Ford offers medical benefits to help pay expenses of those who choose to undergo sex change operations. Ford pays for mental health counseling, hormone therapy, medical visits, and short-term disability after surgical procedures for employees who desire to change their sex.

So basically, if one reads the action alert closely, Ford doesn’t pay for sex change operations, they pay for psychological counseling, trips to medical professionals, prescription medication, and time off for recovery after genital reassignment surgery — if a transsexual were to pay for their own surgery out of pocket.

What Ford is paying for with regards to their transsexual employees is in no way new either. The AFA created a deceitful headline for an article “action alert” that just restates Ford’s current policy in an apparent attempt to deceptively keep their ongoing boycott “fresh.”

Clearly, one doesn’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that this kind of disingenuously worded “advertising” wouldn’t pass the “WWJD” smell test. Perhaps instead, AFA President Donald E. Wildmon is taking his lessons on advertising copy from the father of lies.