The Wide World

Yesterday, my day got off to a weird start. I was walking out my front door and I see an Altima pulling up outside my neighbor's house. A girl with multi colored highlights gets out of the car and heads to their front door. I think nothing of it. I get into the car and as I'm pulling out past their house I see my neighbor beating the crap out of this girl. At one point, she even had her down on the ground kicking her. I'm inches away from dialing 911 and I see the girl getting up off the ground, and Neighbor's husband standing at the door with a phone in his hand. Assuming there was something I didn't know about going on, I decided he probably had the situation under control and went on to work.

I texted about five people to tell them what I saw about lunch time, including TJ. I'm on my way home from work and I call him to gossip. He tells me he's at the Lutheran Church waiting on the "Transgendered Day of Remembrance" service to start. (For the record, the United Church of Christ in Enid meets there, and there were the ones putting on the service.) I told him it sounded like a funeral, and he said, yeah, that's basically what it is, and that they're showing a movie.

I decided to go. I don't have any real idea why I decided to do this. (I don't have any transgendered friends any more, except one.) I found out that there have been 118 people that were murdered in the last year as a result of hate crimes... documented. There are lots of places that don't report. I almost ended up in a bar, but sadly, that did not come to pass.

The video was Call Me Malcolm. It was (forgive me for saying this) the typical documentary put out by gltb rights groups, but there was one interesting point. The guy's minister said that she believed that transgendered people made the most complete picture of human beings as the image of God because they live in the worlds of both genders. I thought that was really interesting because I've had a hard time getting my mind around the idea theologically. (I don't have to understand something to accept it. That's never been the "issue" with me on that.)

Thought I'd share.