The death threats were the first clue. On Friday, March 7th, Laura Jane Grace played her new song, “Your God (God’s Dick),” at a Bernie Sanders “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” event in Wisconsin. A bawdy, and, yes, profane, sing-along, the track was meant to be a protest against the religious right’s censoring and discriminating against trans people. But to right-wing influencers and politicians, it was just blasphemy.
“I’m not being profane to be profane,” Grace says. “I’m not just saying ‘dick’ to say ‘dick.’ I’m asking a genuine question. If you refer to your God as he and him, but you will not refer to a transgender person with the pronouns that are theirs… that’s just insane. It’s such blatant hypocrisy. You can’t prove God exists with biology or chromosomes. So if you’re gonna throw science continually in my face,…
