Was America Founded by Heretics?

If you are a federal employee who has moral objections to referring to coworkers by their preferred pronouns, I would argue that you have two options (besides, of course, compromising on those objections). You could offer a lowest-common-denominator argument in the hopes of appealing to the premises of a secular audience, leveraging biology and reason as you cite the immutability of chromosomes and the teleology of human gametes. Or you could argue that your religious beliefs prohibit you from using alternative pronouns. Those religious beliefs could possess a respected pedigree and be consistent with human logic or they could be more fantastic, such as, say, claiming that Zeus or Thor had appeared to you that very morning and declared to you that if you used alternative pronouns, you’d be struck dead by thunderbolts. Read Full Article »