Caitlyn Jenner feels Lighter Now to be with a Rabidly Anti gay Congregation
Just over a week after Caitlyn Jenner turned heads by making what some saw as transphobic comments about "passing" in an interview with Time, the celebrity is again drawing attention after meeting with an anti-gay pastor in Houston while filming her show I Am Cait.
Houston's KTRK reports Jenner stopped by Second Baptist Church on Wednesday and prayed with the Rev. Ed Young, a vocal opponent of the recently defeated HERO ordinance, which was designed to outlaw discrimination against people on the basis of their sex, race, religion and sexual orientation or gender identity.
Young called the ordinance "deceptive and deadly" and argued it would allow men to use women's restrooms and vice versa. Video of Young denouncing HERO went viral, and voters shot down the idea by a wide popular margin in November.
Jenner was probably hoping to make some kind of statement about LGBT rights at the church. LGBT activists have previously visited the Second Baptist Church as part of outreach efforts around the time the HERO ordinance was put before voters.
"I mean, it's a Christian church," gay activist Ray Hill told KHOU. "And they recognize us as sinners. That's where you're supposed to go if you're a sinner, is a Christian church. So we hope to get to know people and let them get to know us."
According to Towleroad, not everyone is thrilled that Jenner is speaking for Houston's trans community.
"The problem I have with it along with many of our allies is that the taping had no Houston trans representation, and especially Houston trans people of color leaders to discuss on camera an issue that we have been all in about and are the experts at discussing in HERO," local black trans blogger Monica Roberts wrote. "... beside this being my hometown, we also have a diverse crew of kick ass trans activists and leaders that your I Am Cait viewers should have been able to get to know, but because of your (or your producers) lack of vanillacentric privileged vision, that won't happen."
Jenner apologized this week for comments she made during a Time interview earlier this month, specifically for saying other trans people who looked like a “man in a dress” were making others "uncomfortable."
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| Jenner at prayer meeting with vocally anti gay followers. Dad and @Caitlyn_Jenner had a great conversation and prayer after last night's service! #grace |
A couple of thoughts:
For all her life Jenner walked around with a dick between his/hers legs and she expected respect and full human and civil rights which she received. May be because of her money or maybe because thats the way its supposed to happen in this country or not. Then when she decided it was her time she cut off her dick and became a woman. A woman expecting to get every right every american has including to be married. So I ask, What is the problem with Jenner and gays? and Jenner and gays getting married? She has expressed a problem with both.
Now she is in bed with so called religious figures that believe being gay is a sin but cutting off your dick and becoming a woman is a Christian value. I have seen all types of excuses from the religious types and non religious bigots about gays should not being gay. My reaction is no longer disappointment or even laughter. I simply don’t care but in this case I feel bothered.
I see a few men wondering the desert without food nor water. They the men are forced to drink their own urine and just as they are about to die they get rescued. One of the men thanks his rescuers and tells them that had he not been rescued he might have been forced to drink his own pee and eat his own excrement like all the others did but not him because he had faith in being rescued.
I see that man who lied about who drank the urine and then also passed judgment on all the other ones that did even though he did also as Jenner. He is been there, he is been part of the LGBT but he is too good to admit it instead he passes judgment on the others. He is just lucky that now we have the science to change ones sex.
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