Posted on 04/11/2016 5:40:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
Dear Bruce,
As a resident of North Carolina since 2003, I read with interest that you decided to cancel your April 10th concert in Greensboro because of HB2, the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act.
In your statement you explained that, in your view, the bill is an attempt by people who cannot stand the progress our country has made in recognizing the human rights of all of our citizens to overturn that progress.
You added that it was time for you and your band to show solidarity for those freedom fighters (speaking of transgender activists), and you ended your statement with these powerful words: Some things are more important than a rock show and this fight against prejudice and bigotry — which is happening as I write — is one of them. It is the strongest means I have for raising my voice in opposition to those who continue to push us backwards instead of forwards.
I also read that your guitarist Steven Van Zandt, has likened HB2 to an evil virus that is spreading through the United States in the form of similar legislation.
These are strong words, and they represent strong convictions.
So, let me first commend you and your band members for putting your principles before your livelihood, even to the disappointment of your North Carolina fans.
I have read that you regretted not performing at the 1985 Live Aid concert in Wembley, and perhaps this is your way of saying, I do care and Im here to make a difference.
Whatever your motivation, I admire anyone who puts morality before money.
My question to you and your band is simply this: In boycotting North Carolina and siding against HB2, did you really side with morality? Are you truly standing with freedom fighters?
Im assuming you read HB2 for yourself and youre not just listening to media reports attacking the bill or, worse still, getting your talking points from biased lobbyist groups like the Human Rights Campaign. (If youre not really familiar with the bill, then click here and here and here.)
So, please allow me to ask you some questions.
First, how do you know if someone is really transgender or not? Is it determined entirely by how they feel about themselves? If so, do you think that it might be hard to make laws based entirely on how people feel? Did you ever stop to consider that?
Second, whats the difference between someone with gender dysphoria (or, as it used to be called, gender identity disorder) and someone, say, with schizophrenia or multiple personality disorder or some other psychological condition? In other words, if a man is a biological and chromosomal male but believes he is a woman, is he actually a woman, or does he have a psychological disorder?
If he does have a psychological disorder, should we try to treat that disorder or should we celebrate that disorder? And is it right to call biological males who feel they are women and biological women who feel they are men freedom fighters? Perhaps thats not the best use of the term?
If you are deeply offended that I would dare suggest that many transgender individuals are dealing with a psychological disorder, could you kindly point me to the definitive scientific literature that explains that these biological males are actually females and these biological females are actually males?
Im not saying they dont deserve compassion.
To the contrary, Im saying thats exactly what they deserve: compassion, not celebration.
But perhaps Im being too abstract here, so lets get really practical.
Lets say that a 6 4 male who used to play professional football and who has secretly agonized over his gender identity for years finally determines that he must be true to himself and live as a woman.
Do you think it might be traumatic for a little girl using the library bathroom to see this big man walk into her room wearing a dress and a wig? Should we take her feelings into account, or is she not important? What if that was your granddaughter? Would you care if she was traumatized? And when you speak of the human rights of all of our citizens does that include little girls like this?
I understand that this gentleman will have difficulties should he decide to dress and live as a woman, but that is still a choice he is making, and it is not fair to impose his struggles on innocent little children, is it?
And what if this same man, whom well assume is not a sexual predator, wants to share the YMCA locker room with your wife and daughter, standing there in his underwear as they come out of the shower stalls wrapped in towels. Is this fair to them?
Lets take this one step further.
If any man who claims to be a woman can use womens bathrooms and locker rooms, then how do we keep the sexual predators out? Ive asked people to watch this short video, giving examples of male heterosexual predators who donned womens clothing to get into the ladies rooms, and Id encourage you to watch it too.
Without HB2, rapists and voyeurs and pedophiles would have free access to our women and daughters in the safety of their own bathrooms and locker rooms.
Since you dont like HB2 indeed, your guitarist called it an evil virus whats your plan to keep the predators out? How can we tell the difference between a genuine transgender person and a sexual predator? Since everyone knows you as The Boss, what would you do to keep the ladies and children safe?
And one final question.
When you booked the concert in Greenboro, the laws in North Carolina were just as they are today: In public facilities, people had to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that corresponded to their biological sex.
Why, then, did you agree to come in the first place? Why cancel the concert when things today are just what they were six months ago?
Again, I appreciate your sincerity, but I question your judgment.
In your zeal to do what is right, you have actually done what is wrong.
Yep. We didn't see that coming, did we?
That is the inevitable case. I am listening to Michael Brown on the Line of Fire right now, talking to a lady who works at a homeless shelter (in MA?), and they are required to allow men to be in the female side if they ID as female, regardless of how they look. The demonic alternative universe.
And they will act so shocked when a rape or molestation happens.
They’ll say, “Who would have figured?”
And the rest of the world will say, “99.999% of the entire human race.”
Whichever way the political winds shift, Springsteen is right there.
His major career markers have been examples of opportunistic bandwagon-jumping in order to sell records.
Born In the USA=Vietnam was baaaad, America is baaaad!
The Rising (post-9/11) = America is Good! Rise up Americans! Bush is our hero!
The Seeger Sessions (post Katrina tour) = Bush caused the levees to break! Bush’s fault!
At one point he even tried to go solo, and dumped the E-Street Band. When his record sales tanked, re-union time! Imagine that!
Jumping on the tranny bandwagon is just his latest attempt to sell records, but the idiot’s working class fan base won’t be following him onto this bandwagon. He’s over.
Great post. I wholeheartedly agree! Who needs all these rich lib celebrities anyway?? Screw them all!
As kids, all of us who hated his voice & music called called him GOOSE SH*TSTAIN! :))
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
Nope!
Not related to ME!!!
Not to worry; as the MSM is placing fags in almost EVERY program on the air!
Didn't you people learn ANYTHING from the smoke of SODOM?
-- GOD |
I’m shocked that such a minute percentage of the population can cause such an uproar over having their rights at the cost of everyone else’s.
My open letter:
FUBS. FUESB.
In short, Springsteen cancelled as much to save face on the fact it didn't sell out.
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