ROME – Arlington Bishop Michael Burbidge said Thursday that President Joe Biden showed a lack of integrity by declaring March 31, 2024 (Easter Sunday) on Good Friday as Transgender Visibility Day. Ta.
“You can’t make up what Easter is. Everyone knows what Easter is. It’s a celebration of the Lord Jesus, who rose from the dead and fought the world and won. It’s Easter. We can’t pretend it’s something else,” Bishop Burbidge said. Said on his “Walk Humbley” podcast.
“I am deeply disappointed that local officials and the president have used the most important religious event of the Christian calendar to proclaim a political and divisive message,” Burbidge said. Ta. “It was offensive to many and unnecessary.”
In the podcast, Burbidge also responded to those defending the White House’s decision to claim that Transgender Visibility Day has been celebrated on March 31st since 2009.
In fact, Burbidge says: “We always reschedule our holidays. We never really talked about this day until Easter, so I tend to think this day was calculated, which is really, really sad and offensive to me as a Christian.” was.”
“We should celebrate all Transgender Visibility Day “only divides people and hurts people,” the bishop said.
Although the Church loves and accepts all people, “we cannot agree to be anyone other than who God created us to be, and we cannot accept surgery or other procedures to confirm that this is not true.” I also don’t agree with the medical invention of this,” Burbidge said.
“God created us male and female, that’s the truth,” he said.
Burbidge also highlighted recent comments by Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., who labeled Biden a “cafeteria Catholic” because of the way Biden picks and chooses which aspects of Catholicism he supports. Ta.
“If you stand with the Lord, you are all in. It means obeying the gospel of the Lord and accepting the gospel of life,” the bishop said. “You can’t choose. And it’s not just for the president, it’s for all of us.”
He said it was “very disappointing” to see a Catholic president “compromise himself and what he believes.”
“I think the average person, the person of goodwill, ultimately respects integrity. And I think that the president of our country, who has stepped away from his faith, specifically on Easter, has declared that he will not use Easter symbols, and that transgender people… “Seeing it declared a visibility day is very disappointing to say the least,” he added.
