A Fundamentalist Discovers Hermaphrodites

Isn’t Landover a Poe?

I so hope Alan is correct and this is a Poe.

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She’s not a hermaphrodite: link
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Pastor Deacon Fred is pastor at my church. I often listen to his rants sermons. Sometimes I even listen on Sunday. I always find his sermons to be very uplifting(getting up off the floor, I mean).

I’m new to your blog and for a minute I thought you might not have noticed that site is a parody of fundamentalism.

Poe – it happens to the best of us 😉

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landover_Baptist_Church

Hemant, you might edit the post to include this little fact 😉

Landover Baptist Church! I fell for it too, until I saw that! Poe’s Law works!

I fell for it. I read the whole thing, missed the humor tag, and didn’t know anything about Landover Baptist.
I had steam coming out my ears until I read the comments.
Man, am I relieved. I need a drink.

I wouldn’t have been surprised if the article hadn’t been a parody… I’ve read things far more outlandish from religious extremists. It is a little reassuring and humorous to know that it’s not real, though. 😛 I hadn’t heard of Landover before this.

Given that she’s on suicide watch, this is in pretty poor taste.

Two things. First, I can’t think of a single instance when LBC was NOT in poor taste. Second, I doubt Semenya frequents the site.

That aside, it is sad what this poor girl has been put through considering she’s still a teenager.

WHAT ABOUT “SEMI” SAME-SEX MARRIAGES?

Paul the apostle wrote in the first chapter of his letter to the congregation in Rome that it was wrong for a woman to “burn” for another woman. But what if the other “woman” has both a vagina and a penis (where her clitoris is usually located)? Such people exist. What kind of condemnation should apply to them? Are such people allowed to “burn” for people of either sex?

Cases of inter-sexed human babies include different degrees and types of inter-sexuality. “When all causes of inter-sexuality are considered, as many as one in 2,000 babies are affected.” (Altheaea Yronwode, “Intersex Individuals Dispute Wisdom of Surgery on Infants,” Transgender Tapestry, Issue #88, Fall 1999) The American Medical Association has decreed that doctors ought to operate on the genitalia of such infants to ensure that every inter-sexed baby is “made to fit” into either the “male” or “female” categories that society prides itself on being able to easily distinguish.

In the case of a baby who has not been operated on (because their parents did not allow it), and who has grown into an adult having breasts, a vagina, and a penis instead of a clitoris, what decision should churches make? To allow such a person to wed a partner of either gender is to approve of “semi-same sex” marriages. (How far is that from approving of “same sex” marriages?) Another option would be for churches to insist on operations for all babies born with inter-sexed genitalia–in other words such children must be mutilated for having messed up the neat and tidy categories of human sexuality with which the Bible deals. The AMA is beginning to shy away from continuing such operations, so maybe churches will need to mount a counter campaign to maintain them. Or maybe churches can continue to do what they have done all along, simply ignore the theological questions that “inter-sexed” people raise. Certainly the Bible gives little assurance as to how to proceed and “what to condemn” in such cases.