2. The “shun your trans sibling out of love” post

Another post The Gospel Coalition took down, Josh Bishop’s “When the Transgender Issue Comes Home”, eventually resurfaced on the website of the Illinois Family Institute (which the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as a hate group). Like the more recent interracial marriage piece, this was another exercise in hate dressed up as love.

Love, it turns out, involves shunning:

For our part, high on our priority list is sheltering our two young sons (ages 1 and 5) from affirmations of alternate visions of gender and sexuality—especially while they’re too young to put language to their perceptions of gender, while they have no concept of sex or sexuality, and while introducing them to ideas like “transgender” will only confuse the truth. We cannot in good conscience tell our boys that their Aunt Jessah is now their Uncle Jace, but my family has made it clear that refusing to do so would be considered offensive, intolerant, and unacceptable. So we made the difficult decision to isolate them from this issue, and from my sister [sic].

Bishop then writes “our boundaries with the boys have implications for holidays and get-togethers”, euphemistically glossing over the fact that he is effectively driving his brother out of family life.

This, apparently, is love.

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