Weatherford lgbT "leader" inane thinking undermines our rights. DMN provides cover for homophobes church.
This is why we don't make progress and lose rights
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Weatherford lgbT “leader” Alexandra Brock undermining our rights
This is the link to the article, “A Texas judge doesn’t want to marry gay couples. The Supreme Court will soon hear her case,” Dallas Morning News (DMN), 10/22/2023.
Our right to get married is being undermined and this is the thinking of Alexandra Brock, so-called leader of the LGBT in Weatherford.
Hensley doesn’t have a monopoly on faith, Brock added, saying the judge’s beliefs don’t represent the Waco she knows. She said that cases like this add to a false perception that places like Waco are “too small, too rural, too conservative to have happy, openly queer people.”
“And that is very not true,” Brock said.
Brock does what is unfortunately done all too often in the DFW, is to drag our rights inside the Bible. To make them contingent on a debate over religious belief.
We have rights because we live in a democracy and not a theocracy.
We have rights regardless of whether Weatherford is a stinkhole of religious bigoty or not.
That is what a system of human rights is about, local prejudice can’t take away your rights. DOES BROCK EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT CIVIL RIGHTS ARE ABOUT?
Instead, Brock makes it a debate over Weatherford’s image and how she perceives Weatherford.
I also use “lgbT” without some capital letters for a reason. The article points out that they don’t have same-sex marriage on their agenda for a variety of excuses.
The following is a message for Alexandra Brock and LGBT Christians.
Potential Consequences of this case
Did a hospital refuse your right to visit your spouse who is hospitalized? Maybe the judge doesn’t have to hear your case because the judge doesn’t believe in same-sex marriage and maybe the hospital can refuse your visit because the nurse, doctor, some stray security guard is Christian.
Are their relatives trying to take away your inheritance or house when your spouse dies. You are trying to secure your rights in the courts, but the judge is an anti-Gay Christian so you can’t get heard in court.
Maybe your can’t file the necessary papers to execute the will because the local county clerk or judge is a religious bigot.
Once the rule of law is replaced by religious law you will find that through one means or another our status of being married will be undermined a thousand ways.
Yet this isn’t a priority of this group.
Lawyers supposedly defending our rights regard them as marginal.
At the core of the commission’s argument is that members of the public must be able to believe they have equal access to justice. Inherent in the government’s argument is the idea of the slippery slope: If the assurance of impartiality is waived in this instance, what comes next?
The argument should be, “when you surrender the rights of one group, no ones rights are safe.” It is the them of an Aesop fable from ancient Greece.
https://fablesofaesop.com/the-trees-and-the-axe.html
I place the link so the Commission can get a clue.
“Slippery slope” is the idea of a minor thing leading to a major thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
A slippery slope fallacy (SSF), in logic, critical thinking, political rhetoric, and caselaw, is a fallacious argument in which a party asserts that a relatively small first step leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant (usually negative) effect.
The loss of same-sex marriage is not “a relatively small” thing. It is significant.
If this is the thinking of those who are defending our rights, we are really in trouble.
What Church is bigot Dianne Hensley a member?
She is a member of Highland Baptist Church according to this Waco Tribune-Herald article, Dec. 17, 2019. The DMN omits info on which church she belongs to.
From this article we can see that it appears that Dianne Hensley is a member of the Highland Baptist Church in Waco, Texas.
https://www.lakeshorefuneralhome.com/kimberly-kim-ann-rivera-hensley/
This is their website.
This is their Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/hbcwaco/
Their Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/hbcwaco/
YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRT9UExD-qpuT5RsyqzIOKQ
In About Us.
https://www.hbcwaco.org/about/aboutus/
For “The Marriage Covenant”
We believe that marriage is a union ordained by God and intended as a lifelong commitment between one man and one woman. (Genesis 1:27-28, Genesis 2:18, Matthew 19:4-9, Mark 10:5-9, Ephesians 5:31-33). In keeping with the Bible’s clear teaching on marriage as being between one man and one woman — Elders, Ministry staff, or any member ordained by the church will not conduct same-sex wedding ceremonies. Moreover, Highland Baptist Church’s facilities will solely be used for marriage ceremonies between a man and a woman.
When the Baptist General Convention of Texas decided to welcome LGBT with a message, Highland Park Baptist, which is a member of that convention, avoided commenting.
Dianne Hensley isn’t the only member of Highland Baptist Church campaigning against Gays. Another member, Donna Garner, doesn’t want Walmart to carry any titles with Gay themes.
“I think we’ve done a pretty good job in our country of letting Wal-Mart know we’ve not been pleased at all with their decision to back the homosexual agenda,” Garner, a member of Highland Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, told Baptist Press.
Spawned International movement hostile to Gays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch_International_Movement_of_Churches
DMN article coddles Dianne Hensley’s anti-Gay bigotry
All Hensley’s excuses and rationales are handled with delicate care. If she said she refused interfaith marriages, this would not be the article that the DMN would write.
Evidently gurgling about Jesus gives you a free pass to do whatever you want.
This is why we are losing.
The local “leadership” isn’t solid on Gay rights.
The local “leadership” isn’t able to stand up to religious homophobia.
The local “leadership” isn’t doesn’t criticize bad media.
The local “leadership” isn’t focused on Lesbian and Gay rights.
They seem to think Lesbian and Gay rights are special favors and not inherent and don’t ever want to say something that might be construed as being “mean” or “harsh.”
They are waiting for local establishments to pat them on the head.
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