Who is Welcome
By Thomas Hampson
Recently, I noticed an online post of a local church that read: “Everyone is welcome! No exceptions. Period.”
Really? Everyone?
What about Cardi B, the “artist” with a number-one hit three years ago titled “W.A.P.” I can’t tell you what the letters stand for, much less share the lyrics.
They are too obscene. Depraved.
Would she be welcome to come attend that church? To sing at it? To influence other believers in her views on sexuality?
In 2020, when the song came out, it was the number-one hit on Billboard’s Hot 100. It had 732 million streams in that year alone. It received multiple awards and was praised for the “sex-positive” message of the lyrics as well as for the “empowering” message on sexuality for women. To date, the official YouTube videofor the song, with obscene images added to the obscene lyrics, has been viewed over 500 million times.
The song was a direct, intentional, frontal assault on the virtue of purity.
Would she be welcome? Would the people who love the song be welcome?
What about Admiral Rachel Levine, the man who pretends to be a woman and who is the Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services? At one time, he was married. He has two children from that marriage. He’s now divorced and serves as the number one proponent in the Biden Administration for “gender-affirming care” for children.
That is, Levine says we all should affirm the view of any child who announces that he or she was born in the wrong body, that he is really a she or she is really a he.
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