Queer Vegan Witch Accuses Radical Feminists of ‘Anti-Trans Violence’

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David Salisbury (@davidsalisbury) describes himself as “a queer, vegan, Witch . . . chief of the DC Bureau of the Pagan Newswire Collective . . . High Priest of Coven of the Spiral Moon . . . involved with street activism with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and . . . a full time employee with the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization.” Salisbury’s employment by HRC means that his various forms of “activism” necessarily reflect on the “civil rights organization” that pays him a full time salary.

HRC supported the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) which voters in Houston overwhelmingly rejected at the ballot box earlier this month, in large part because of concerns that the measure would have endangered girls and women by compelling “transgender” access to public restrooms and locker rooms. William Bigelow reported:

On October 5, campaign finance reports showed that the group supporting the measure, Houston Unites, had raised $1.2 million, while the group opposing it, Campaign for Houston, had raised only $275,000.
The Washington Times reported, “The ordinance, which included fines of up to $5,000 for preventing someone from using public accommodations, such as business-owned bathrooms open to the public, based on gender identity.” . .
HERO was openly supported by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton . . .

Despite a 4-to-1 money advantage, and despite the fact that Houston is a Democrat Party stronghold with a lesbian mayor, voters rejected HERO by a 61%-39% margin — a decisive defeat for the effort to “mainstream” transgenderism. The defeat of HERO was widely seen as a conservative victory. Hillary Clinton blamed “the far right” which she said created “a lot of fear, and a lot of anxiety” about “the bathroom issue . . . that was totally without merit, that there was no basis for it.”

The problem with such a claim, however, is that it is rejected by radical feminists, who believe that “the bathroom issue,” as Mrs. Clinton calls it, does have “merit.” There is a petition to “Drop the T” from LGBT:

We are a group of gay/bisexual men and women who have come to the conclusion that the transgender community needs to be disassociated from the larger LGB community; in essence, we ask that organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, Lambda Legal and media outlets such as The Advocate, Out, Huff Post Gay Voices, etc., stop representing the transgender community as we feel their ideology is not only completely different from that promoted by the LGB community (LGB is about sexual orientation, trans is about gender identity), but is ultimately regressive and actually hostile to the goals of women and gay men. . . .
The vilification and harassment of women and gay/lesbian individuals who openly express disagreement with the trans ideology; a simple disagreement over an issue can result in responses that range from insults (“transphobic bigot”) to threats of physical harm (often, in the case of women, rape) and even death . . .
The infringement of the rights of individuals, particularly women, to perform normal everyday activities in traditional safe spaces based on sex; this is most pernicious in the case of men claiming to be transgender demanding access to bathrooms, locker rooms, women’s shelters and other such spaces reserved for women. . . .

Radical feminist Cathy Brennan says David Salisbury is “harassing lesbians who signed the Drop the T petition,” showing a message in which Salisbury wrote:

And while we’re doing the work of calling out horrible transphobic “elders”, I present you with this, posted just a few days ago. Trying to take the “T” out of LGBT, and claiming that transwomen are actually men who are lying to get into spaces … that too is anti-trans violence that mustn’t be condoned. I ask us all to end this silence. If you support spaces where people like [name redacted] teach, ask yourself, is this really in line with your values?
I am proud to work for the organization that has authored the Equality Act. Because we will NEVER be equal unless we bring everyone along with us.

David Salisbury accuses “horrible transphobic ‘elders'” of engaging in “anti-trans violence” just because they don’t want men in dresses and wigs invading the women’s restroom. Meanwhile, David Marcus at The Federalist interviewed the gay man who authored the Change.org “Drop the T” petition:

Any attempt to rationally discuss issues that gays/lesbians/bisexuals are concerned about regarding the trans movement is met with unparalleled vitriol, harassment, death threats, and silencing—demanding that the person commenting contrary to the trans narrative be banned from forums, for example.
I know that lesbians have for several years been the object of attack from trans activists for their (rightful) desire to enjoy exclusively lesbian and women-only events such as the now shuttered Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, in the wake of the Stonewall brouhaha as well as the recent proliferation of stories about effeminate boys and masculine girls being directed by their parents and health professionals into the trans identity. So many gays and lesbians were “sissies” and “tomboys” as kids, I think they see themselves in these children and are concerned about them being directed down an inaccurate path.

Read the whole thing. This is a serious issue involving real human beings and, as with so many issues today, certain “progressives” (evidently including Hillary Clinton) want to exercise a totalitarian authority to tell us what to think and control what we are allowed to say. It’s like the climate change “consensus” — a clique of influential insiders have anointed themselves Official Experts, decided what the Correct Opinion is, and the rest of us are just supposed to nod our heads in mute assent. How dare we question the Official Experts?

When I first became aware of this conflict in January 2014, I had a lot of laughs about the absurdity of this conflict:

The Competitive Victimhood Derby is ultimately a zero-sum game, you see. There can only be one winner, and the transgender claim to equal victimhood is rejected by radical feminists, who view this as an attempt to usurp their own categorical claim.
It’s like a traffic jam on the Crazyville Road, where two politicized groups of wackjobs are compelled by the implicit logic of their arguments to fight each other for supremacy.

Over the past 22 months, however, I have come to appreciate the seriousness of this issue in the post-Obergefell era. The “vitriol, harassment [and] death threats” directed against Cathy Brennan and other radical feminists who refuse to back away from a scientific fact — i.e., female is a matter of biology, involving XX chromosomes — should alarm everyone who cares about truth. The ideology behind the transgender movement demands that we pretend that Bruce Jenner deserves recognition as “Woman of the Year.” Lunatics want to compel us to cooperate with their delusions, and we are condemned as hateful bigots if we refuse to play along with their make-believe game. So the “Woman of the Year” is 66 years old and has a penis, and you’re not even allowed to call him “Bruce” or mention that he is a grandfather.

Having examined this issue in depth (see “The Queering of Feminism: Why Does ‘Equality’ Require Promoting Perversion?”), I cannot be accused of ignorance in regard to these arguments, and I am indifferent to accusations of “hate.” One can scarcely have any opinion at all nowadays without being accused of “hate,” and the fact that these accusations are flung around so haphazardly should tell us that the Official Experts are afraid of honest debate. The question we should be asking is this: Who authorized these people to tell us what to think?

Are we going to listen to common sense, or are we going to listen to the High Priest of the Coven of the Spiral Moon?

David was first introduced to the Craft at the age of 11 by his stepmother, and then on a deeper more intentional level by a childhood friend at the age of 12. That same year, he began training with a friend’s family coven and initiated a year later.

That’s how you become a “human rights” advocate, I guess.

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201 comments

  2. Pardon, but elements of your tradition are over 2000 years old. There’s a lot of history between then and now, most of it actually reflects well on Christians.

    *looks around*

    Who said that?

    Oh, guess it was me.

  4. It’s worse.

    Liberals want the alternative religions for the dog & pony shows, but outside that there’s no respect for other faiths. It’s strictly about the media coverage.

  8. If all you got out of religion was narcissism and sexual depravity. …that sounds like it had more to do with you, than what ever religion you were following.

    Pagan is an umbrella term for many different religions. Some are indigenous religions, revived religions, or are new religious movements. They vary widely in beliefs, deities worshipped, and religious practice.

    So just by calling Paganism a religion, rather than a group of over 100 religions, you show you really aren’t knowledgeable about this at all.

    Do you know any of the ethical codes from any of the religions grouped under the Pagan umbrella? Or even just one?

  13. In fact, for 2000 years, we’ve sought out differing opinions.
    .
    But then, we do have that nasty habit of correcting false/invalid opinions.

  14. It’s certainly true that “pagan” is a category and consists of legions of belief systems outside Judaic-Christian beliefs. That said, “Paganism” as it exists currently is a specific movement under the umbrella of which are those things such as Wicca, Satanism, etc. which are expressly and deliberately opposed to those things which are proscribed by Judaic-Christian morality. The difference is that the former have beliefs predicated upon ignorance. The latter is conceived specifically for purposes of attacking the bourgeois. I don’t wish to speak for Jeannette, but I read her comments as speaking to the latter modern movement as opposed to being a statement encompassing all non-Judaic Christian belief systems.

  15. LOL You haven’t a clue who I was and who I know. I stand by what I wrote today’s “Paganism” is a bunch of newly invented “traditions” and it bears no resemblance to actual ancient Paganism. It is narcissistic and influenced by Sci-Fi novels and the media. It is a “religion” of self-worship and a excuse for moral depravity. That some are fooled by the glamour doesn’t change these facts.

  18. I, for one, refuse to use the term “gay,” …
    I also refuse to use the word ‘community’ in this leftist meaning.

  19. In fairness, I didn’t try. So you may be right. At the time, I had visions of being a journalist, so I applied to the universities with the best J-Schools. At the time, those were Mizzou, Northwestern, Syracuse and UC-Berkeley. I was accepted to all of them, but my parents refused to pony up the cash to go somewhere else when the top school also allowed in-state tuition.

  21. Oh, good night! Am I going to have to shave my beard (of 30+ years) just because the super-nuts have taken to wearing them?

  25. Why does he have to wear a dress to “identify” as “trans-female”? Why does he have to wear anything at all? This is about breaking down all standards.

  27. Well he has his Facebook account there he can still harass those who don’t agree with his warped view of the world

  28. Can we please all stop arguing and just celebrate the first woman to win the Men’s decathlon? Caitlyn identifies as a woman and her “parts” identify as a vagina. It’s just cruel and mean to call her “outie” a “penis.” Also, is the “spiral moon” a one-wolf or a three-wolf moon?

  29. “Who can blame him?” Well, I can. As a toaster that is transitioning into an automobile, I get crap from everywhere…especially from toaster-ovens (whatsamatter Ace? Notta toaster. Not an oven. Well just what are ya?). Heck, I don’t have a backbone but I have more of a spine than Mr. Moonbeam Snowflake Pansie. You can hide your tweets, but you can’t hide your cowardice.

  32. Our esteemed host wrote:

    So, yes, in some sense, “Father” is a role that is socially constructed and “performative.” But the radical deconstruction of social roles is aimed at delegitimizing these roles, in order to destroy society as we know it.

    The role of fatherhood — as opposed to sperm donorhood or babydaddyhood — includes the exercise of authority, and this is something that the feminists, both normal and homosexual, cannot stand, because it implies a husband’s authority over his wife as much as a father’s authority over his children. Thus, the role of fatherhood must be delegitimized, because any cultural concepts which include a stated or implied male authority over women cannot be allowed to stand.

    The problem with that is that most of the feminists, normal or lesbian, wind up having children, and the abrogation of the role of fatherhood leaves many of them trying to rear their children with only half a set of parents. Not only does this create a lot more work for them, it leaves the children with an incomplete set of role models, with a childhood experience of growing up in a less efficient home unit. That such children grow up to become adults with no flaming idea how to be parents themselves is inevitable.

    Feminism as practiced today is one which increases the burdens on most women, and provides them few rewards. The self-appointed feminist leaders reap some rewards, but the vast majority of women pay the price for the rewards for the few.

    Considering the fealty that women supposedly owe to the feminist leadership — you must vote for Hillary Clinton! — the relationship between the feminist leadership and women in general greatly resembles feudalism.

  33. When I saw the photo of his Wiccan altar at 12 years of age, my first thought was, “Didn’t his parents ever make him clean his room?” That thing is filthy.

  36. Oh, wait, now I see. It really is a vagina, but simply one which has herniated so badly that it sticks out. How could I have missed that?

  40. Fatherhood was invented by God and, as such, is not socially constructed. It is, however, performative. The deconstruction of social roles is actually an attack against God’s order, and, thus, God Himself.

  43. I certainly don’t disagree with you. The problem is, as Thomas Aquinas noted, we have to be able to meet the opposition on their playing field. Materialists cannot have it both ways. They cannot deny the transcendent in favor of a Darwinian reality and then claim that the Darwinian morality has no utility. Under a purely materialist view of the world, the performative exists for a reason. Specifically, it would have been necessary for the survival of the species. If it was necessary for the survival of the species, “deconstruction” of it can only lead to a species’ demise. The materialist rejects God in favor of Nature. Very well. Nature is an amoral, cruel mistress.

  44. When it comes to matters of faith, the age thing shouldn’t matter a whole lot.

    …unless you want to give Christians a massive inferiority complex over the history of Judaism. I suspect that’s the real reason why some Christians like to use “Judeo-Christian.”

    I think the only bit that should matter is how you treat other people. The rest is between you and the Divine and frankly isn’t anyone else’s business.

    Unless they try to use their belief to control someone else. Then they are fair game.

  49. Actually, Christianity came pretty much directly from Judaism. All of the Apostles were Jews, and when Jesus was crucified, the title they put on His cross was “King of the Jews”.

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