President Biden’s 2023 Easter Egg Roll image is on C-SPAN’s picture album.
Spiritual conservatives are critical of President Joe Biden for designating March 31 as “Transgender Day of Visibility,” which coincides with Easter Sunday this season.
The Democratic senator issued the statement, urging “all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender persons throughout our Nation and work toward ending violence and discrimination based on gender identity.”
But in 2024, the March 31 date overlaps with Easter, one of Christianity’s holiest activities. Donald Trump’s plan accused Biden, a Roman Catholic, of being indifferent to the church, and fellow Democrats piled on.
President Biden was criticized by Kansas U.S. Senator Roger Marshall for making Trans Day of Celebration on the Christian calendar.
“This is not a fluke or supervision. On our most lauded Holy Day, Joe Biden is publicly and purposefully slapping hundreds of millions of American Christians in the face. Sickening.”
Biden was criticized on his social media platform by the former President Trump strategy.
The press secretary for the Trump campaign, Karoline Leavitt, said, “We call on Joe Biden’s failing strategy and White House to apologize to the millions of Christians and Catholics across America who believe Monday is for one party simply: the resurrection of Jesus Christ.” She assailed what she called the Biden government’s “years-long assault on the Christian faith.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said on social media that the “Biden White House has betrayed the core principle of Easter” and called the choice “outrageous and awful.”
According to Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the White House, Republicans “are trying to divide and weaken our country with violent, cruel, and deceptive rhetoric” are using it to divide and divide.
President Biden, a Christian who celebrates Easter with his family, “stands for bringing people up and upholding the integrity and rights of every American,” according to Bates. President Biden pledges not to misuse his faith for political gain or for political gain.
Biden believes that the majority of his conscience and personality come from his faithful attendance at Mass. He met with Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2021, and he later claimed to be a “fine Christian” who should continue to receive Holy Communion.
The White House online site published the whole Biden statement:
“Some of the bravest people I know have to frequently had to throw their jobs, relationships, and lives on the line just to be their true selves, and Transgender Day of Visibility celebrates the happiness, strength, and overall courage of these people. We show thousands of transgender and nonbinary Americans that they belong, deserve respect, and are treated with dignity and value now. No one should have to be fearless just to be themselves, but their bravery has given many others strength. Every American deserves that flexibility.
Transgender Americans shape our world’s mind — happily serving in the military, curing deadly illnesses, holding elected office, running growing businesses, fighting for fairness, raising people, and much more. As kids, they deserve what every child deserves: the chance to learn in safe and supportive schools, to develop meaningful friendships, and to live openly and honestly. As adults, they deserve the same rights enjoyed by every American, including equal access to health care, housing, and jobs and the chance to age with grace as senior citizens. However, too many transgender Americans still lack those same rights and freedoms today. A wave of sexist State laws are aimed at transgender youth, terrifying families, and hurting children who are not hurting anyone. A pandemonium of violence against transgender girls and women, particularly women and girls of color, has already taken many lives. Another agonizing example of this kind of violence was the Colorado shooting last year that left a trail in the minds of our nation.”
My administration has worked from day one to put an end to these injustices, making sure transgender people and the LGBTQI+ community can live freely and safely. I issued an Executive Order on my first day as president, mandating the Federal Government to stop discrimination against LGBTQI+ people and their families. We have chosen a record number of LGBTQI+ leaders, and I was pleased to back the inclusion of openly transgender individuals in the military. Additionally, we are working to make public spaces and travel more accessible, including adding more gender-inclusive markers to American passports. We are enhancing Social Security and other public benefits access. We are working to stop discrimination in education and housing. And last December, I signed the Respect for Marriage Act, making it clear that everyone in America can marry the person they love and have their union accepted.
Meanwhile, we are also working to ease the tremendous strain that discrimination, bullying, and harassment can put on transgender children — more than half of whom seriously considered suicide in the last year. For instance, the Department of Justice is working to ensure that transgender students have equal opportunities to learn and excel in school, and the Department of Justice is fighting against extreme laws that aim to outlaw evidence-based gender-affirming health care.
There is much more to do. I continue to appeal to Congress to pass the Equality Act and grant all LGBTQI+ Americans long-overdue civil rights protections to ensure that all LGBTQI+ Americans can live in dignity and safety. Making sure every child is made in the image of God, loved, and that we are standing up for them, is a task we must all bear together in addition to the hundreds of hateful State laws that have been passed across the nation.
The premise of America is that everyone is created equal and deserves to receive the same treatment throughout their lives. We have never lived up to that, but we have never given up on it either. Today, as we celebrate transgender people, we also celebrate every American’s fundamental right to be themselves, bringing us closer to realizing America’s full promise.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2023, as Transgender Day of Visibility. I urge all Americans to join us in promoting the rights and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work to end all forms of violence and discrimination against transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary individuals.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-seventh. – JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
