Christian group wants ’self-mutilating’ (transgender) Obama appointee fired

[tekisui]

Source: The Raw Story

The conservative American Family Association is calling on President Barack Obama to fire Amanda Simpson, Obama's transgender appointee to the Commerce Department, because the appointment "puts the weight of the federal government behind the normalization of sexual deviancy."

"'Amanda' is a biological male in every cell of his body, and no amount of surgical mutilation is ever going to change that," AFA President Tim Wildmon said in a press release circulated Thursday. "It's a mistake for our president to appoint such a sexually confused individual to a position of public responsibility."

Wildmon went on to say that "gender is assigned by the Creator at the moment of conception, and no healthy society should ever regard sexual mutilation, even if it's self-inflicted, as something that's normal and merits approval."

He ended by saying the "appointment should be rescinded immediately."

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:puke: I can't stand this line of thought.

[OHdem10]

1. Is anyone really surprised????

[RetiredTrotskyite]

25. Not Me.

[ZombieHorde]

2. This quote is fun in light of Biblical teachings concerning circumcision.

"no healthy society should ever regard sexual mutilation, even if it's self-inflicted, as something that's normal and merits approval"

[zbdent]

4. especially in these days, when a lot of people clean themselves regularly

and the "diseases" which come from an unwashed/unclean foreskin are far less prevalent ...

[jimshoes]

3. I find it unnerving that someone who takes their cues from

an invisible source should be telling someone else how to live their life.

[aquart]

5. Matthew 25:41-46

[mrbarber]

6. Who gives a flying fuck what the "conservative family associaton"

wants.

And someone should tell Tim Wildmon that he is a fucking idiot in every cell of his body, and to do the world a favor and stand in front of a mack truck.

[The_Commonist]

13. I think you are quite wrong!

That should be Mack truck.
Capitalized because it's a proper noun.
:-)

[Meeker Morgan]

7. All it says in the Old Testament about castrated men ...

... is that they are not allowed in the Temple.

I suppose in modern terms that's the Commerce Department?

As for the New Testament, Jesus himself allegedly implies that self castration might not be such a bad idea. (Matthew 19:12)

Of course we know that's not exactly what being transgendered is about, but if the fundie is going to play it that way ...

[LeftHander]

23. won't work....with the "pick and choose" bible belief crowd...nt

[Jamastiene]

8. God, what an ignorant bunch of assholes.

I hope they know Jesus facepalms every time they open their willfully ignorant mouths.

[donheld]

9. She's not self mutilating - she had a Doctor do it

:banghead:

[chollybocker]

10. The AFA can suck it.

Amanda Simpson was hired for her brain, not her plumbing.

[FreeState]

11. AFA should be ashamed of itself and it's bigotry n/t

[RetiredTrotskyite]

12. I Would Have Been Surprised...

had the moronic fundies not sounded off about something about which they know nothing. Predictable assholes.

[The_Commonist]

14. Obama should say "I'll take that into consideration...

...Not!"

[icymist]

15. On the assignment of gender.....

No, "gender is (not) assigned by the Creator at the moment of conception". In this world, it's assigned by a doctor directly after the baby is born and that doctor determines 1) the presence of a penis, then male, or 2) the absence of a penis, then female. This doctor determined sex gets written on a piece of paper (birth certificate) and is then sealed in concrete for the rest of the childs' life. Not once is the child observed to see what sex they may become nor are they allowed to change this infallible doctors' opinion unless they undergo extensive demonstration to psychologists that they can function in their 'chosen' sex and that they can make money. The self appointed authorities on God are wrong in not only on what God thinks, but what actually happens in the delivery room.

[bullwinkle428]

16. They sure showed a lot of support for their "self-mutilating beauty queen"

when she made her infamous anti-gay marriage comments...

[TheBigotBasher]

17. Every time groups like these shout their mouths off

they HELP our cause. Just look at the reaction Fox got to the Westboro Baptist Church.

[LeftyMom]

18. Mr. Wildmon, newly offended by sexual mutilation, then called God up to give him a stern talking to

over that whole Abraham circumcision thing.

[TexasObserver]

19. These people still are not civilized.

[Tim01]

20. Ignore the religious extremists. nt

[tonekat]

21. Hey Tim (Wildmon)...bite me! N/T

[LeftHander]

22. what blind ignorance....

When are these people going to be ignored?

[sui generis]

24. in a nutshell, it's the whole reason christians

who happened to look a lot like jews 2000 years ago decided to stop circumcising, and they've been obsessed with "self mutilation" ever since.

My greatest regret was Rome stepping in making it illegal to sacrifice christian slaves to our pagan gods in 899, and any slave in 1100. now THAT was some mutilatin' they would still be talking about.

:silly:

[Deep13]

26. So Christians now acknowledge that cells and DNA exist.

1. religious tests for public office are unconstitutional. So Obama really should not give a shit what the supposed Creator decided.

2. WTF does any of this have to do with the duties of that office?