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Penny Wong has sparked uproar with a seemingly innocuous social media put up on Easter Sunday.
The Overseas Minister shared an image of the blue, purple and white-striped transgender flag on Sunday for Worldwide Transgender Day of Visibility, marked on March 31.
‘The Albanese Labor Authorities stands with trans and gender numerous individuals throughout Australia,’ the caption learn.
‘On this #TDOV, we have fun your energy and your braveness – and we recommit to advocating for gender numerous rights within the pursuit of equality.’
Nevertheless, the feedback made on the put up have been flooded with individuals questioning the timing.
That’s regardless of Senator Wong wishing her 115,000 Instagram followers a ‘Pleased Easter’ a number of hours earlier.
‘On Resurrection Sunday?’, wrote one particular person.
‘On all days, that is obscenely disrespectful and sacrilegious.’
Penny Wong (pictured) has sparked uproar with a seemingly innocuous social media put up
The Overseas Affairs Minister shared an image of the blue, purple and white striped transgender flag on Sunday for Worldwide Transgender Day of Visibility (pictured)
Earlier than posting about Transgender Day of Visibility – Penny Wong shared a contented Easter put up
One other accused Senator Wong of ‘blasphemy’.
‘Disgrace on you penny,’ they wrote.
‘You need tolerance & respect however you cant do it to Christians on some of the Holiest days on our calendar? I rebuke you within the identify of Jesus.’
In Christian scripture, Easter Sunday was the day of Jesus’s resurrection after he had been sacrificed on the cross.
The Transgender Day of Visibility will not be designed deliberately to fall on Easter Sunday. It has been celebrated on the identical date, March 31, for years. The date of Easter modifications annually.
Easter falls on the primary Sunday after the complete moon following the spring equinox, between March 22 and April 25. Final yr, it fell on April 9 and in 2022 it was on April 17.
However the feedback beneath the put up have been flooded with individuals questioning the timing of the put up
Not the entire feedback have been detrimental, nevertheless.
‘Love all of the so known as Christians getting labored up,’ wrote one commenter.
‘At a time when they’re supposed to point out love for all. Do not they perceive you can nonetheless have fun Easter on the Identical time?’
Senator Wong’s earlier ‘Pleased Easter’ put up was deluged with criticism – however for a unique motive.
This time, commenters have been slamming the Labor authorities’s place on the Israel-Palestine battle.
Not the entire feedback have been detrimental, nevertheless
Related feedback have been additionally made on the Transgender Day of Visibility put up.
‘This trans particular person does not actually care on your empty phrases when your actions have proven that you simply care little or no for humanity,’ wrote one.
One other stated: ‘I’m trans and I feel you’re a gutless, genocidal enabler.’
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Easter message issued earlier on Sunday was explicitly Christian in its theme.
‘Pleased Easter Australia,’ the Prime Minister stated in a recorded video.
‘Easter is a time of hope and renewal. For Christians right here and internationally it’s a second to mirror on the Resurrection.
‘Celebrations and companies throughout the nation remind us of the significance of forgiveness, grace and kindness to these in want, qualities which might be a lot part of the compassion and advantage of this, the best nation on earth.’
Senator Wong, 55, has lengthy been a vocal assist of LGBTQ+ causes.
She broke down in tears when Australians voted to legalise same-sex marriage in 2017.
Earlier this month she acquired married to her long-time associate Sophie Allouache in a quiet ceremony in her dwelling state of South Australia.
The couple share two younger daughters Alexandra, 11, and Hannah, eight.
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