This is a painting of the martyrdom of St. Thomas More. He was killed for not taking Henry VIII’s “Oath of Supremacy”. Henry VIII didn’t like the Catholic Church’s stand on divorce (they did not recognize it) so he decided to create his own religion that allowed him to get divorced from his current wife (who did not give him a male heir) and get re-married.
If you look at the Church of England, and their American offshoot, the Episcopal church, they have changed the original teaching so much that it is currently unrecognizable.
But what does that have to do with pronouns?
American leftists are rebelling against the strictures of Christianity, and have started their own “reformation”. The Church of Wokeism”. It has its rituals, one of which is the pronoun ritual.
Someone will ask you your pronouns.
Now most rational people can look at someone and figure out what their pronouns are. In the above picture, there are two he/hims to the left and right and one she/her in the middle. They claim they are being polite, but by asking me my pronouns, you are signaling to me that you are either:
A total idiot that can’t figure out I’m a man.
You’re deliberately insulting me by implying I’m not manly-looking enough for you to figure it out.
If I go along with telling you my “pronouns”, I signal that I’m part of the woke tribe who can’t figure out someone gender by looking at someone and I need to deny the evidence right in front of me to have to “exchange pronouns”. Sort of like a not so secret woke handshake.
Wokeism also has sacraments. One of which is abortion. They even use the same words used during the Catholic consecration “this is my body” (with a diabolical opposite meaning).
They have dogma, and if you don’t subscribe to it, you get branded as a “heretic”. Their “circumcision” is the brutal mutilation of the genitals of both boys and girls, men and women.
So as I read on Twitter, I will not use pronouns for you that do not match your sex confirmed at birth any more than I would talk to a schizophrenic’s imaginary friend. If I must I will painfully use your name in conversation. “I was talking to John. John and John’s wife went to John’s mom’s house for Christmas. John and John’s wife said that the fish was really good…”
If you change your name to one that doesn’t appear to match your gender, I will still use it. It’s your name. I’ve known guys named Leslie, Ashley and Kelly. Your name is your name. I’ll call the man formerly known as Bruce Jenner “Caitlyn”.
But I will not deny reality, and I will not participate in your pronoun rituals.