Harvard Introduces Third Gender.

[Daniels]

Prospective applicants to prestigious Harvard Business School no longer have to be of the male or female gender. One pro-family leader in Washington, DC, is criticizing the school for legitimizing transgenderism.
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/7/252006a.asp

 

[FadingWhispers3]

A third gender is more destructive than war, more sorrowful than poverty. Stopping this will prevent the muddling of gender roles, cure cancer, and make cheese waffles available to all.

 

[Aimee30]

Actually, I thought there already was a third gender.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphrodite
Hermaphrodite is the term used for beings with both male and female sex organs.
Maybe transgender covers this if the person was born and changed at that time, or maybe they should consider having a fourth gender too.

 

[faster_jackrabbit]

Actually, there have been people that were neither male nor female for a long time. Intersexuals are born with ambiguous sex organs.

"Is it a boy or girl?"
"Uhhh, let me get back to you on that."

An intersexual or intersex person (or organism of any unisexual species) is one who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sex characteristics determined as neither exclusively male nor female, or which combine features of the male and female sexes. The terms hermaphrodite and pseudohermaphrodite, introduced in the 19th century, are now considered misleading and stigmatizing, and patient advocates call for these terms to be abandoned. The phrase "ambiguous genitalia" refers specifically to genital appearance, but not all intersex conditions result in atypical genital appearance.

Everybody should be happy they exist. The more people that can be hated and discriminated against, the better.

 

[food4thought]

Hi, FadingWhispers3;
What becomes acceptable at america's top universities will influence what is acceptable elsewhere. As non-chistians, this may not strike you as important. As a Christian, I see what is an abomination in God's eyes becoming something that is taught as acceptable to 4th graders. I also see a day when it will be considered a hate crime for me or someone else to teach what God says clearly in the Bible. Like it or not, this is an issue.

 

[AlanGurvey]

Hi, FadingWhispers3;
What becomes acceptable at america's top universities will influence what is acceptable elsewhere. As non-chistians, this may not strike you as important. As a Christian, I see what is an abomination in God's eyes becoming something that is taught as acceptable to 4th graders. I also see a day when it will be considered a hate crime for me or someone else to teach what God says clearly in the Bible. Like it or not, this is an issue.

I just don't understand why Universities should be upholding Christian (or Theistic for that matter) values...

 

[faster_jackrabbit]

As a Christian, I see what is an abomination in God's eyes becoming something that is taught as acceptable to 4th graders.

Send them to church school and you can teach hatred on a nonstop basis.

 

[AlanGurvey]

As a Christian, I see what is an abomination in God's eyes becoming something that is taught as acceptable to 4th graders.

YOU ultimately choose your childs education.

 

[AlanGurvey]

Hi, FadingWhispers3;
What becomes acceptable at america's top universities will influence what is acceptable elsewhere.

So?

The book will still say what it says...

 

[benjdm]

Hi, FadingWhispers3;
What becomes acceptable at america's top universities will influence what is acceptable elsewhere. As non-chistians, this may not strike you as important. As a Christian, I see what is an abomination in God's eyes becoming something that is taught as acceptable to 4th graders. I also see a day when it will be considered a hate crime for me or someone else to teach what God says clearly in the Bible. Like it or not, this is an issue.

Well, God could change things so that babies weren't born with ambiguous genitalia. He hasn't. And don't try and tell me the babies chose to be born that way via their freewill.

 

[food4thought]

As a private institution, it has the right to uphold whatever values it deems appropriate. This is not a good example of what I spoke about, now that I think a little more about it. Darn knee jerk responses...

 

[FadingWhispers3]

As a Christian, I see what is an abomination in God's eyes becoming something that is taught as acceptable to 4th graders.

Are you refering to this?

"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Genesis 1:27

Or maybe this?

"A woman must not wear men's clothing, nor a man wear women's clothing, for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this." Deuteronomy 22:5

Perhaps you could enlighten those among us who fail to see how having a third gender harms anyone.

 

[food4thought]

I jumped into the wrong thread for what I was stating. I do apologize.

 

[food4thought]

If we are to debate the right or wrong of homosexuality and transgenderism as a whole, we could; but the example given is a right of private institutions.

 

[FadingWhispers3]

No problems. And to be clear, I have no problem with people teaching what is right and wrong according to the bible... that would be bad for freedom of speach and religion. But similarily, other people have the right to disagree.

 

[food4thought]

No problems. And to be clear, I have no problem with people teaching what is right and wrong according to the bible... that would be bad for freedom of speach and religion. But similarily, other people have the right to disagree.

Totally agree. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[MoonlessNight]

I love conversations like this because the same thing happens whether or not I comment, barring me accidentally saying something extremely controversial.

 

[RomanSoldier]

Hi, FadingWhispers3;
What becomes acceptable at america's top universities will influence what is acceptable elsewhere. As non-chistians, this may not strike you as important. As a Christian, I see what is an abomination in God's eyes becoming something that is taught as acceptable to 4th graders. I also see a day when it will be considered a hate crime for me or someone else to teach what God says clearly in the Bible. Like it or not, this is an issue.

How do you know that transgender is an "abomination in Gods eyes"? Just guessing what God might think? Any biblical references regarding transgender people?
Does God detest hermaphrodites too? After all, he must have created them that way right?

 

[Moros]

Who didn't see this coming?

 

[AlanGurvey]

I jumped into the wrong thread for what I was stating. I do apologize.

No problem.