You’ve probably wondered from time to time as this dreary pandemic drags on, “What’s with Albert the Pious these days? Is he still utterly insufferable”
Yes. Yes he is.
Gavin Newsom is also planning to run for reelection in 2022. So if he does win the recall question, he’s likely to do so by the way, he is likely to be back on the ballot in 2022. And the only real action when it comes to most statewide elections in California is on the Democratic side. So it’s also true that if Republicans have any chance to regain the governorship in California, it is probably by recalling Gavin Newsom and electing a Republican to replace him.
How likely is that? Well, it’s probably not very likely in the first place, just given the voter registration and population patterns, but it’s now unlikely for another reason, and that is the fact that the best known declared Republican indicating a desire to run in this race is the individual known as Caitlyn Jenner, previously, Bruce Jenner.
So: a clumsy locution in order to gratuitously demean Jenner — who surely knows a thing or two about sexual identity.
Mohler is exhibiting not merely ignorance; we expect that from conservative Christians, and from fundamentalists especially. There is real mean-spiritedness here, too, a nasty dismissal of Jenner’s own lived experience as meaningless and irrelevant — an attitude bound to be repeated in pews all across the land next Sunday morning. Seriously: There is no defense but to put the Godly as far out of your life as you possibly can.