{"id":26666,"date":"2025-03-13T13:16:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/?p=26666"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T17:16:12","slug":"social-media-erupts-after-bernie-sanders-rally-features-trans-singers-heretical-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2025\/03\/social-media-erupts-after-bernie-sanders-rally-features-trans-singers-heretical-performance","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Erupts After Bernie Sanders Rally Features Trans Singer\u2019s Heretical Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_26669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26669\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/03\/Bernie-Sanders-Town-Hall_credit-thebatrastard-TikTok.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26669\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/140\/2025\/03\/Bernie-Sanders-Town-Hall_credit-thebatrastard-TikTok.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-26669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">thebatrastard \/ TikTok<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bernie Sanders found himself in the middle of a firestorm after featuring a trans performer at his rally whose songs included vulgar references to God. Laura Jane Grace, a man who identifies as a woman, performed at Sanders\u2019s \u201cFight Oligarchy\u201d town hall series in Kenosha, WI with his song, \u201cYour God.\u201d The song includes extremely vulgar lyrics, including a reference to if God has a \u201cbig fat d&#8212;\u201d and feeling like God is \u201cf&#8212;ing me.\u201d The rest of the lyrics make references to sodomy and genitalia. Sanders thanked Grace for the performance. Reports also state there were children present at the 3,500-person rally.<\/p>\n<p>Grace, formerly known as Thomas James Gabel, came out as transgender in 2012. A profile of him by <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/LnqE5\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> showed that he had sought both divine and demonic help with his desire to be a woman. \u201cSome days, he would pray to God: &#8216;Dear God, please, when I wake up, I want a female body.&#8217; Other times he&#8217;d try the devil: &#8216;I promise to spend the rest of my life as a serial killer if you turn me into a woman,\u2019\u201d the article described. At the time of his transition, he was married to a woman named Hannah Hannoura, whose struggles of now being married to a woman are detailed in the article. \u201cI\u2019m not really a think-about-the-future kind of person,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Let\u2019s see what happens, and we\u2019ll just roll with it.\u2019 My friends have been like, \u2018What about you?\u2019 But I\u2019m fine. I just want him to be who he is, and for us to get on with phase two. You know. Just\u2026\u00a0<em>charge!<\/em>\u201d she said in 2012. The couple divorced in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Social media erupted with outrage over the performance. Conservative commentator Robby Starbuck, who shared the song\u2019s\u00a0 full lyrics on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/robbystarbuck\/status\/1898900731618586954\">X<\/a>, called it, \u201cpure evil.\u201d \u201cThese people are insane. @BernieSanders is a lunatic and anti-Christian.\u201d \u201cBERNIE SANDERS PLATFORMED VILE ANTI-CHRISTIAN TRANS SINGER,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarioNawfal\/status\/1898943519110144227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1898943519110144227%7Ctwgr%5E7bfa2437aacb615d5f5d87d7fbc834d78831b67a%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fsocial-media-explodes-sanders-hosting-trans-musician-who-sang-pure-evil-song-anti-trump-rally\">wrote Mario Nawfal<\/a>. \u201cThis wasn\u2019t some rogue act\u2014Bernie invited it. The same party that screams about \u201ctolerance\u201d is now openly mocking Christianity in the most obscene way possible. This is who the Democrats are now\u2014and they\u2019re not even hiding it.\u201d \u201cLittle Bernie boy has gone full Satan, right before our eyes!\u201d wrote another user. \u201cWhat kind of singer even writes this on paper let alone sings it in front of an audience? Transgenderism and liberalism are both officially mental illnesses, that obviously can\u2019t be cured! Evil walks among us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Sanders found himself in the middle of a firestorm after featuring a trans performer at his rally whose songs included vulgar references to God. 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