The Meerkat Responds: The ‘Sin’ of Pride
Eagle-eyed readers of Meerkat Musings will know that I have not had anything to do with Derrick Thomas Thiessen for some time. He has left me alone, so I have left him alone. All was well, until it wasn’t, and Derrick decided to stick his oar in where it was not warranted. Now, lest he whinge (and we all know how much he loves to whinge), he is free to respond to anything anyone writes about. It’s a free world. He can do whatever he likes. I suspect he will be upset that I exercise that same freedom to correct his misplaced and out-of-context rant in response to one of my recent posts.
I’m not going to waste my time issuing a point-by-point rebuke to Derrick’s ill-conceived reply, nor will I waste my energy educating him (yet again) on how he lacks credibility by failing to either name me or link to my site. Instead I will point out only this: his starting premise is faulty, and thus his entire post fails.
He preaches about how the LGBT community is sinful, wrong etc, but he forgets that the vast majority of those in the LGBT community are not believers. He spouts that the LGBT community hates God. He forgets that the vast majority do not believe in God. If some within the LGBT community hate anyone, it’s those who direct hate towards them, such as wayward Christians who hide behind false names and a refusal to take accountability for their words and deeds.
I’ll repeat what I mentioned in my original post. If same-sex relationships upset you more than child abuse, you are an idiot, and a cruel one at that. There is no equivalence between the two. One is a consenting relationship between two adults. It does not affect anyone. Derrick’s attempt to suggest they can be equated is disturbing, and what do we make of how he spends more time ranting about LGBT rights than he ever has over the various abuses within Christian organisations?
If he truly believes that the LGBT community is as evil as say, the systemic child abuse instituted by Epstein and protected by his rich friends, then he ought to be providing posts that condemn Epstein and his network. I await his post on that very subject, along with posts calling out child abuse within Christian organisations. Indeed, if he seriously thinks the two are equivalent, I look forward to a one-for-one setup from Derrick. For every single post he writes complaining about the ‘horrors’ of same-sex marriage or trans rights, he should write a post that’s in similar vein to Bruce Gerencser’s Black Collar Series.
If he doesn’t do so, it will be clear that his outrage is performative.
Oh, and in case Derrick complains I am dictating to him what he should write, it’s not a demand, it’s a suggestion. It’s not my fault if his failure to take me up on it further exposes him as a hypocrite.
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