How would you like to be suspended from participating in activities and have your bank account frozen because of your religious beliefs? If you were Muslim, nearly anywhere in the world today, that would never happen. But if you’re a Christian, you’d be lucky if that’s all that happened to you if you lived in a Muslim country. In America, you’d like to believe that these things wouldn’t happen — but they could, if you’re a Christian. And they have happened, to Christians, in England.

So, what grievous act did this 76-year old Christian group perform that would cause an organization to take their money from them and ban them? They dared to use the words “men” and “women” in their charter. Yes, if you dare to utter the word “man” in print in England now, you are vile, discriminatory, and deserving of scorn. Ah, if only I could be making this up, but alas, I’m not.

The Christian group even went so far as to allow anyone to attend their meetings — but to vote, you had to be a member of the group. And the group’s charter, by mentioning the vile and hated word “men,” was seen to be excluding so-called “transsexual” and “transgendered” people. Keep in mind — the GROUP didn’t exclude them in any way, shape, or form. No member of the group uttered a single word against, nor discriminated against any member of the exalted protected class of sexless or genderless people. Instead, just simply having the word “men” in their charter subjected them to banning.

And people claim that Christians are intolerant.

Said Ogre @ 6:00 pm | Permalink   

1. OK, just how long do you think it will be before the Muslim community (somewhere) demands “reparations” due to the “years of subjugation and discrimination? The other question, which stems from the article it’s self, is since this has been said officiall, have the Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, and other organizations complied? I may be wrong, but doesn’t Islam FORBID homosexuality, and wouldn’t they also “discriminate” against lesbians, gays, as well as trans-gender and trans-sexual people?

   The last question is this…..

   If you are a woman and have a sex change are you not now a man? Or, if you are a man who has this surgery, are you not now, a woman?

   Comment by The Smoke Eater — 1/30/2006 @ 7:21 pm

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2. Ah, but Smokey, the other organizations are protected minorities — and by definition can literally do no wrong.

   And to answer your last question, you sexist oppressor, you left out those who aren’t sure what sex they are.

   Comment by Ogre — 1/30/2006 @ 8:28 pm

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3. No, you’re not making it up.

   This kind of underlines why we need a Supreme Court to whom the text of the Constitution means something. That’s all that’s standing between us and that.

   Comment by MaxedOutMama — 1/30/2006 @ 9:00 pm

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