Saturday, February 11, 2023

ADF doctrine on human biological sex

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a U.S. conservative Christian legal adovcacy organization, defines itself as "the world’s largest legal organization committed to protecting religious freedom, free speech, marriage and family, parental rights, and the sanctity of life."

As seen today, February 11, 2023, the ADF includes these two statements in its "Doctrinal Distinctives":

"We believe God creates each person with an immutable biological sex — male or female — that reflects the image and likeness of God.
We believe God designed marriage as a unique conjugal relationship joining one man and one woman in a single, exclusive, life-long union, and God intends sexual intimacy only to occur within that relationship.

Regarding the first, Max K. Strassfeld writes in a footnote to Trans Talmud: "In the time period during which I was preparing this manuscript, the statement of faith for the ADF changed to include this language, perhaps signaling a greater focus on trans issues." Trans Talmud was published April 2022, and Strassfeld's footnote indicates that he accessed the ADF's statement on December 28, 2021.

In a Think article (December 20, 2019): "Courts, of course, tend to look askance at being asked to rule that an employee should be allowed to harm their employers and co-workers based on 'philosophical beliefs' they've decided are both 'biological truths' and tantamount to religious canon." Paradoxical, isn't it? If it were a simple fact, it wouldn't require a religious or philosophical belief to see it, and if people ever needed protection for their belief in this fact, they shouldn't need to seek that protection on grounds of the freedom of religion, right? They'd simply be correct? And others would simply be incorrect? And the dispute would not be a matter of religion, right?

In a March 22, 2022 Twitter thread, TygerSongbird wrote:

dinosaur skeletons arranged as if they're in a fight with each other, tyrannosarus vs stegosaurus
Jules Suzdaltsev @jules_su tweet: conservative logic is weird, if you’re a groomer why would you go through all the work it takes to live as a trans person in a transphobic society when you can just become a priest and the most gullible adults on earth will just hand you their children on a silver platter
Jules Suzdaltsev @jules_su tweet: and if those kids speak up, they get punished and called liars, & if you actually get caught they’ll just send you to another parish with a fresh batch of kids - just seems easier than risking being murdered at the grocery store for wearing heels
Jules Suzdaltsev @jules_su tweet: and on an aside, it’s genuinely funny that the same people screaming about 'immutable biological evidence' to justify their transphobic beliefs also fundamentally believe you can create an entire woman out of some dude’s rib? Jun 6, 2023
Gillian Branstetter is tweeting on May 17 2023 that the ADF offered ACPeds $15,000 to tell them why youth standards of care are wrong so they could sue in support of their efforts to criminalize this care.
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