OPINION:
Easter Day celebrations are the latest target of the Biden administration, which is determined to undermine Christianity (“‘I didn’t do that’: Biden goes on defense over honoring Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter,” web, April 1).
President Biden’s Transgender Day nonsense is another of his “lipstick on a pig” policies. He has been doing these for three years, all the while calling himself a man of faith. He has surrounded himself with secular staffers who want to demonstrate their arrogance of authority and ridicule our traditions. He has apparently never read Proverbs 29:12: “If a ruler listens to falsehoods, all his officials will be wicked.” When people get upset, he claims amnesia and says, “I didn’t do it.”
It’s part of his and his cronies’ larger continued assault on faith-based celebrations in America. Scholars and mental health experts keep talking about increased levels of emotional distress among people, particularly young ones. Mr. Biden doesn’t care that our youth are watching and listening to him, and a lot of his actions contradict what they are taught in religious institutions. Our society now denounces or downplays spiritual development, which is why celebrations such as Easter are critical to our younger generation’s social and emotional well-being.
As a volunteer counselor, I am sometimes told by young people that spiritual faith practices have played little or no role in their lives. I use Bible verses to help them understand their feelings of emptiness and loneliness.
Faith-based holidays and celebrations should not be fused with secular interpretations that only drive a wedge between people. If Mr. Biden were indeed a man of faith, he would know as much.
GREG RALEIGH
Washington
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