(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Rosaria Butterfield–a former lesbian, tenured English and Gender Studies professor and racial leftist, who is now a conservative Christian, homeschooling mother and wife–wrote a powerful article denouncing the use of transgender pronouns that was published Monday.
The article bears the title, “Why I no longer use Transgender Pronouns—and Why You shouldn’t, either,” and is published in reformation21, a magazine for Reformed Confessional Evangelical Christians.
Butterfield started her article by powerfully evoking Jesus and Abraham Lincoln.
“A civil war erupted within broad evangelicalism, and the idol of LGBTQ+ is dividing the house,” she wrote, and acknowledged that she had up until recently used used the preferred pronouns of transgenders.
“My use of transgendered pronouns was not a mistake; it was sin,” she wrote. “Public sin requires public repentance, not course correction. I have publicly sinned on the issue of transgender pronouns, which I have carelessly used in books and articles. I have publicly sinned by advocating for the use of transgender pronouns in interviews and public Q&As.”
Butterfield offered what she called some “lame and back-side covering excuses,” for these sins, like habituation from her gay activist days and not wanting to insult people.
Still, she argued that after Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court Case mandating states perform and honor homosexual ‘marriages,’ the danger of her position on pronouns became apparent.
“The codification of gay marriage and LGBTQ+ ‘civil rights’ launched a collision course between LGBTQ+ and the Christian faith,” she wrote. “The LGBTQ+ movement’s understanding of itself as ontological and morally good conflicts with the biblical account in Genesis 1:27.”
This verse is an essential part of the Christian understanding of human nature.
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them,” it reads. This passage clashing with the homosexual agenda created an existential crisis for Butterfield.
“Which is it? Which side was I on?,” she asked. “Is it part of God’s creational design or rebellion against the creation ordinance? It’s one or the other because the Christian faith is inherently binary, not non-binary.”
Butterfield produces an extensive list of ways using gender pronouns is a sin.
“I repent,” she wrote.
Butterfield acknowledges that she is outside the mainstream view of Evangelicals on this issue.
“They believe using transgender pronouns is respectful of someone’s chosen identity; it’s kind and courteous and necessary for continuing a relationship with a transgender person,” she wrote.
“But this position makes no Christian sense. Does any real Christian believe crafting a relationship on falsehood will give the gospel a better hearing? And is that how people are converted? By meeting God on sin’s terms and hearing nice things about themselves?”
Butterfield cited a former transgender who has repented, detransitioned and now lives as “a beautiful trophy of [H]is grace.”
She has, according to Butterfied, reported that those who were brave enough to tell her the truth were responsible for converting her.
“Her church and parents had refused to use her preferred pronouns throughout all the years she lived in the false identity of transgenderism,” she wrote. “Why did she return to them? Their refusal to lie compelled her trust.”
She issued a stern warning to her former-fellow travelers.
“Trans identity and Jesus are not coterminous,” she wrote. “It’s one or the other. Christians need to learn how to love their enemies, not pretend their enemies are their friends.”
Butterfield’s article ended with a call to “repent and believe the gospel.”
“We who have promoted this sin need to stand up and repent,” she wrote. “I’ll start. I repent. May God forgive me. Would anyone like to join me?”
Several of the Christians peddling the false doctrine, and especially David French, have also been harmful to other events influencing Christianity, according to the Daily Wire.
