I think I've watched this video posted by Republican Representative Nancy Mace about 20 times, and somehow the sudden voice-change emerging from the transgender activist that jumps from cosplay high to manly low startles me every time.
My mind immediately gravitates back to a less politically correct era when Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, and David Spade teamed up on Saturday Night Live for this classic:
Farley's sudden voice change as he tears into the fries is nearly identical to what Rep. Mace posted.
I know that's the point where many people who agree with my political views will leave it, pointing and laughing at the disturbed dude in a dress and wig. Clearly, we can't permit those who would normalize such psychosis to write our laws and set the public agenda.
But I must ask a serious question: Are we okay permitting those who would intentionally mock and demean such people, then post their dehumanizing insults for likes, retweets, and online clout, to write our laws and set the public agenda?
To be completely honest, I'm not. And truthfully, that is the most disturbing part of the video to me.
Granted, posting videos that put on blast her own thin-skinned sensitivity, anger, volatility, and overall lack of patience, seems to be the emerging pattern of behavior for Rep. Mace. On Easter Sunday, with no apparent sense of self-awareness, she posted this hostile exchange with a constituent to her X account.
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It's one thing to have a tough day, lose your cool, and get caught on camera having a bad moment. It's quite another to relish the opportunity to verbally abuse a gay man on camera and eagerly post it online yourself, somehow believing it makes you look good.
Yet the real issue with Mace's antics is far more serious than some worldly congresswoman acting in worldly ways. The truly lamentable thing about her conduct is that she wraps her public identity in the cross of Christ. Mace posted her offensive store confrontation on Easter Sunday, the very same day that she also posted these thoughts:
Talk about cognitive, and spiritual, dissonance:
You are who God is shaping you to become.
Believe in Him, His resurrection and His everlasting life. Keep the faith!
Find God and fast.
A risen Savior.
Give your burdens to God.
Get the f*** out of my face right now. F*** you.
In one sense, this is just stupid politics. You're a sitting member of Congress and a constituent asked you a question in a very non-threatening manner. You lose your cool, verbally berate him, insult him and cuss him out, and then post the exchange hoping to generate sympathy by playing the victim.
But the more important perspective is the spiritual one. If Mace is a born-again believer as she professes, she surely knows that her witness of Christ's love, her faithful demonstration of the fruit of the Spirit, is eternally more significant than her impact on any temporal public policy. And it is a catastrophic failure of character to juxtapose messages of God's long-suffering goodness to an undeserving humanity with demonstrations of your own angry hostility towards others.
Wearing the name of Jesus is something that all believers must take seriously, particularly those who thrust themselves into the public eye. Paul tells us that we are Christ's ambassadors, "God making His appeal through us." That's an incredible privilege and a grave responsibility.
One that, particularly after her previous dalliances with public pronouncements that bring shame to the wisdom of God, I would implore Ms. Mace to take it more seriously for everyone's sake.
Including her own.
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