OPINION:
Our president issued a proclamation declaring that March 31 would be the Transgender Day of Visibility, whatever that is. Of course, as everyone who can read a calendar probably knows, March 31 this year also had the good fortune of being Easter Sunday.
The legacy media assured us that this was not nefarious; it was a simple intersection of dates. For those who didn’t know before, March 31 has always, always, always been the day of visibility for transgender folks. This was simply a happy accident of timing and did not reflect President Biden’s priorities at all. Nothing to see here.
But old Joe was actually making a point — that he personally values transgender festival days more than Easter. The proclamation on visibility was a lengthy paean to diversity that ran 650 words, while the one on Easter was a desultory and cliche-ridden 94 words.
All of this is, of course, Mr. Biden’s prerogative. He is a grown man.
It is not clear whether Mr. Biden continued to work the beads he carries in his pockets — beads that we are intended to assume are rosary beads — as his staff secretary carried the proclamation declaring that Easter was, in fact, Transgender Day of Visibility into the Oval Office to be signed.
It is worth noting, however, that Mr. Biden takes great pains to ensure everyone knows he carries those beads in his pockets. It is, one supposed, his final flailing attempt to use a vestigial remnant of his parents’ faith for his own shady and sad political purposes.
The beads, in this instance, are emblematic. The real and ongoing contest in our civilization is precisely a contest between religion and disbelief, between what and who built this nation and who will inherit it. The irreducible conclusion that one comes to with respect to this contest — and the dispositive lesson from the Transgender Day of Visibility proclamation — is that the Biden administration, and Mr. Biden himself, would rather have Christianity not continue to be the dominant social force in the United States.
That’s fine. Everyone makes their own decisions about what or who to worship.
The voters in November, however, might want to reflect on the choice made by Mr. Biden. In a moment of what can only be considered clarity, he chose to elevate what can be most charitably described as a passing political fetish above celebrating what the religion he professes to believe — Roman Catholicism — identifies as the most important single event in the history of the world. Then he sent out his messengers to spread lies about his decision.
When people tell you who they are, believe them. Then vote for a new regime.
• Michael McKenna is a contributing editor at The Washington Times and a co-host of the podcast “The Unregulated.”
Correction: A previous version of this column incorrectly reported the 2023 date of the “Transgender Day of Visibility.” It was on March 31.
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