California
continues to be at the vanguard in establishing a post-Christian culture
amongst the 50 States. September 6th,
2023, was another watershed moment in her transformation as the California
Legislature designated
August as Transgender History Month, the first State to do so.
The
resolution establishing this new un-Christian liturgical celebration, HR
57, contains a list of supposedly significant moments in trans
history. Here is a portion from it:
WHEREAS,
The suppression of gender variance among indigenous California cultures by
Spanish and later Anglo settlers was a foundational event of the history of the
state, as documented in the journal of soldier Pedro Fages, who wrote in 1775
about native peoples he encountered near present-day San Diego, whom he
described as “those Indian men who, both here and farther inland, observed in
the dress, clothing, and character of women… They are called joyas, and they
are held in great esteem.”; and
WHEREAS,
The social fluidity of Gold Rush-era California attracted countless people who
lived transgender lives in the mid-19th century, including legendary stagecoach
driver Charley Parkhurst, whose life story was celebrated in the popular
television show Death Valley Days, hosted by Ronald Reagan; and
WHEREAS,
San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood has been known as a residential
district for transgender people since the second half of the 19th century, when
it was home to people such as “Jenny O.,” a trans woman who corresponded with
the famous German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld about her life in the
Tenderloin; and
WHEREAS,
Some of the earliest support organizations for cross-dressers were founded in
Los Angeles by Virginia Prince in the early 1960s; and
WHEREAS,
The 1959 Cooper Do-nuts Riot in Los Angeles and the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria
Riot in San Francisco were important acts of collective resistance to police
violence targeting trans people, years before the better-known Stonewall Riot
in New York; . . .
This is the
kind of thing that is barreling down on the Red States that still retain a modicum
of respect for Christianity within their respective cultures. And we are already seeing some buckling in
some of them. For instance, the Oklahoma
City public school system hired a
homosexual drag queen who has previously been arrested for possession of
child pornography to be principal of an elementary school.
California
values slap in the middle of Oklahoma?
You had better believe it.
But the
cultural assault against the sane States ‘away down south in Dixie’
and scattered across the rest of North America from the Old Midwest to the
Rocky Mountains is not going to stop. It
is therefore the responsibility of the leaders in all aspects of public and
private life in the conservative States to mount a counterattack in support of their
Christian inheritance.
Since
California has named August Trans History Month, the Red States need to parry
by naming August Christian History Month.
This is exceedingly appropriate, for the following reasons (we will
borrow the HR 57 legal-speak):
Whereas, August
6th is one of the 12 Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church’s
calendar celebrating the Transfiguration of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus
Christ on Mt. Tabor before the Holy Apostles Peter, James, and John, revealing
both the union of His divinity with His humanity as well as the goal of theosis that is now
attainable by mankind because of His Incarnation; and
Whereas, August
15th is one of the 12 Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church’s
calendar celebrating the falling asleep of the Mother of God, the Most Pure and
Ever-Virgin Mary, and her joyful entry into the courts of her Son and our God
Jesus Christ in Heaven; and
. .
.
The rest may
be read here:
https://orthodoxreflections.com/the-cultural-war-over-the-calendar/
Or here:
https://thehayride.com/2023/09/garlington-another-skirmish-in-the-war-for-the-calendar/
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us
sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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