A panel for the LGBTQ caucus
meeting at the recent Democratic National Convention featured J. Mai, a staffer
from Wake Forest University’s LGBTQ Center. Mai, who uses the plural pronouns
they/them, identifies as a “Black-Vietnamese nonbinary/gender-transcendent mermaid
Queen-King” who is “currently living out their ever-evolving truths in
Winston-Salem,” according to their biography at Wake Forest. Got it? The
same biography describes Mai as “a recently licensed minister in the
Progressive National Baptist Church.” Apparently, Mai received their
Bachelors in Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest
University and is currently working towards a Masters in Divinity at that
august institution’s School of Divinity.
J. Mai spoke at the DNC early
on Tuesday, August 18th. (I was—tragically-- otherwise engaged and
did not get to see or here them live.) According to The Tennessee
Star, Mai called for the
abolition of police forces, prisons and Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE), and said:
“Why can’t folks imagine a world without the cops?
Why can’t folks imagine a world without prisons? Why can’t people expand their
imaginations to include community care, to include an abolitionist future?” And they made it clear they were talking about
actual abolition, not some namby-pamby, garden-variety, “watered down” version,
stating: “We’re talking about
abolishing the police, we’re talking about abolishing ICE, we’re talking about
abolishing prisons.”
Allow me a few observations here. First off, I’m
sure that Disney will soon release a movie titled “The Little Mermaid
Queen-King” to be in keeping with the times. Secondly, it seems quite clear
that the Progressive National Baptist Church has been living out its
ever-evolving truths in the same manner our colleges and universities have, by
denying that there is any objective truth at all. Next, Mai is apparently as
fond of hyphenated words as they is of gender-transcendency. Five of them in a
single biographical sentence is nothing short of mind-blowing.
Imagine a world without laws. Imagine a world
without restrictions of any kind. Imagine a world without religion, shame or
morals. Per John Lennon, it isn’t hard to do.
Coincidentally, I, too, have been living out my
ever-evolving truths, and what I have come to realize is that a significant
percentage of progressives want to abolish civility, competence, the
Constitution, the rule of law, reason, sanity, reality, and truth. We’re not
talking about a namby-pamby, garden-variety, watered-down transformation of
America…but its utter destruction.
Speaking of “abolishing” things, when Lincoln abolished
slavery, he did so to save the union and to see that it lived up to the better
angels of its nature. Today’s leftists want nothing less than to abolish the principles--
and the nation-- that he saved.
In that case, we will all be non-binary, as
between prosperity and poverty, hope and despair, freedom and bondage…and good
and evil.
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