With God On Our Side...

Power-Plays and Ploys used to Promote Prejudices and Pet Peeves.

Most of us in the LGBT Community are all too familiar with the hurtful schemes, plans and scams that Far Right religionists and politicians come up with, to justify their insistence that we do not deserve the same rights and privileges as they do in society. As I have said in past writings, the mildest of these insulting attacks is to claim we are asking for "special" rights when all we are asking for is a level playing field of EQUAL rights. And what fuels the twisted logic behind this ruinous rhetoric and brutish behavior?As Bob Dylan so aptly spells out in his appropriately-titled anti-war tune of the 60s, These people simply claim they have God on their side.They claim that THEIR God says we are heinous sinners - and unrepentant sinners who rebel against the "natural order of things" (they really try to hang this one on us Transgender folks) cannot ever be made equal to saints...

Never mind that many of these so-called "saints" had been caught up to their necks in Enron-like misadventures of filthy lucre. Or in clandestine Gay sex scandals. Or in horrific domestic abuse cases. Or had by their countless adulteries, illicit affairs, and frivolous divorces trashed the Institution of Marriage LONG before any Gay couples ever started clamoring for State-sanctioned, Church-ordained nuptials.

And whose "natural order" are they talking about, anyway? How can they appeal to "Mother Nature" in this case, when they normally impugn Darwinian Naturalists, tree-hugging Environmentalists and Pagans whose faith follows nature’s Circle of Life? (Come on, now - they can’t have it both ways!)

Nevertheless, in accordance with Hitler’s chief strategy, they drone on and on promulgating the Big Lie, in the hopes that society would continue to buy into it - and thus not lose any sleep over heartlessly discriminating against people who in their minds are way too different (and therefore must be sub-human anyway).

But before we go after the Far Right’s hypocrisy too vehemently here, some on the Far Left had better look in the mirror first!

Some Gay theologians and ministers violently trash the validity of the Bible just to justify their Gayness - then want to claim that the God promoted in that "flawed" book is the same one who vindicates them. I obviously do not have a problem with anyone’s sexual orientation, but sorry - they can’t have it both ways either! In my mind, any god who cannot keep his own words from getting flawed by mere mortal men is himself seriously flawed and woefully impotent. I don’t need that sort of defense attorney to back me up! (Those who preach this way ought to at least admit that they are no longer Christians!)

And then there is that stupefying phenomenon of the Unity-stifling, Equality-delaying "Tranny Wars". You know - the one where blushing, beautiful Post-Op girls run to their new gilded closets and disavow ever being a "disgusting Transgender anything". They swear off any association whatsoever with the Trans Community at large and wouldn’t be caught dead helping another sister pull through the Hell of Transition, lest they be "outed" via "guilt by association"! Or where Drag Queens say "I’m not Transgender - I’m Gay..." Or where deeply-sequestered Cross-dressers claim one-upmanship because they "Are at least not Gay, nor so far deluded as to want to get THAT surgery done!" Or where full-time TG gals rake the part-timers over the coals for being "cowardly weekend warriors". And each sub-set claims almost dogmatic religious-like rights to assume the preeminence over the others.

It is so hypocritically pathetic!!!

In my political forays, I have also found no shortage of so-called "Progressives" who still have a big problem with TRULY treating me and other Transgender people equally and respectfully. One high official in my own political party was quoted as having said of my ascension to power in El Paso County, "How did THAT happen? That Nancy-Jo was supposed to be gone from here a long time ago! We don’t mind those people working for us behind the scenes - but we cannot afford to have some Transsexual be the Face of our Party!"

At least he didn’t claim God told him to say that...

Um, well - I think it’s time that I jump into that God power-play bit, myself. I’ll claim the Divine Rights of Queens, begin the T version of the Doctrine of Manifest Destiny, incite the Militant Arm and Sword of the Trans-Girl Liberation Revolution - and THEN openly promote my Program for World Domination!

Because I have God on my side!

But on second thought - maybe I just need another cup of coffee...

The Painfully Pragmatic
Nancy-Jo