Pride of Man or Truth of God
1 Corinthians 6 and Isaiah 5 have much to teach us on selfish pride.
Pride before Truth
It seems that when we consider 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, we are able to contemplate the individual transgressions, that are conducted willfully by those who oppose the will of God and they do so with pride:
[9] Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, [10] nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. [11] Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
And for the sexual transgressions, particularly those which are done in the “name of PRIDE”, we observe a complete inversion of what God has called good and what some are proclaiming as good and bad. This is precisely what is referenced in Isaiah 5:20-21:
[20] Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! [21] Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes And clever in their own sight!
There is an overwhelming arrogance in the disobedience taken by those who put themselves above others. A current example is the permanent ban of an 80-yr old woman for calling out a biological male that was in the vicinity of four to five little girls changing and going to the bathroom in a YMCA woman’s locker room.
An 80-year-old Washington state woman was permanently banned from her local YMCA pool after demanding that a transgender employee leave the women’s locker room, she told local media.
"I saw a man in a woman’s bathing suit watching maybe four or five little girls pulling down their suits in order to use the toilet," Port Townsend resident Julie Jaman recalled of the July incident to Seattle radio show host Dori Monson on Friday. "I asked if he had a penis and he said it was none of my business. I told that man to ‘get out right now.’"
The incident occurred on July 26 at the Mountain View pool, which is a City of Port Townsend facility operated by the Olympic Peninsula YMCA, according to local news outlet Port Townsend Free Press.
Jaman said that she was alerted to the trans employee being in the women’s locker room while she was showering and "heard a man’s voice."
She told Monson that she alerted a pool staffer to the incident and was stunned when the staff member told her she was "being discriminatory," and "was banned from the pool forever." The staffer also allegedly said the police would be called, according to Jaman’s radio interview.
"She didn’t ask me what the problem was, if I was okay, nothing about me," Jaman told Monson. "It’s as if she was just waiting to pounce on me. It was just stunning."
The incident report details that Jaman "had an emotional response to a strange male being in the bathroom" near young girls, and is hoping to not be "trespassed" from the pool, according to a phone call an officer had with Jaman. The report also noted a phone call from the YMCA detailing that Jaman was reportedly in the facility’s locker room "screaming" at an employee and "refusing to leave."
Jaman told local media that she had been a member of the pool facility for 35 years and has lived in Port Townsend for about 40 years. She has voted for Democrats during her life, she told the local outlet, and considers herself an "XX woman," referring to her chromosomes.
She added to the Port Townsend Free Press that she recoiled at being naked and showering in a room with a person born male. She added that the "momma bear in me" came out when she saw the individual near the young girls in the bathroom.
Jaman added that she also spoke with the CEO of the Olympic Peninsula YMCA, Wendy Bart, and said that she told Bart there should be warnings that the bathrooms were also used by trans individuals.
"I told her there were no signs posted to give women warning," Jaman told Monson. "She said there were Pride posters posted all over and she assumed that was adequate to inform women what to expect." Bart also said, "‘we take pride and everyone is welcome,’" according to Jaman’s description of the conversation.
"That’s fine with me, except that they do not provide alternatives for women who choose not to be undressing in front of men," Jaman continued in the radio interview. "Our pool is a very old pool. We just have two shower rooms, dressing rooms, one for men, one for women."
Jaman has since held a protest outside the pool facility and was joined by supporters, the Port Townsend Free Press reported. Trans activists also ran a counter-protest.
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