My wife and daughter are descended from a founder and are technically Daughters of the American Revolution. They aren’t members of the official group, nor do they have any interest, but the genealogy exists in case they ever express one. Not that they’d need that. Stay with me.
After the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) rejected a resolution defining “woman” as “born female,” the head of the Texas branch of DAR sent out an email threatening those who speak out against the decision. The vote on the resolution, held at Memorial Continental Hall in Washington, D.C. during DAR’s 135th Continental Congress, was 1,481 to 984.
Leadership has done something, I won’t say revolutionary, because it is typical of organizations, the further left they lean. Members are prohibited from speaking against the resolution in any official capacity on behalf of the group.
“Please note that giving interviews to the press on National Society governance matters is a serious violation of NSDAR policy, which could result in disciplinary action against a member,” DAR Texas Regent Susan Johnston said in an email obtained by The Federalist.
The revolutionary fathers and mothers from whom they descended would be aghast, but then how is that a problem when we consider the contradiction built into the debate’s context? You can be a daughter of the revolution if you are a man.
If biology doesn’t matter, then who among us cannot claim to be a “daughter” or “one of the American Revolution?” If there was money in it, Somalis right off the boat would do it.
If biology doesn’t matter, then I can claim to be one on such unserious grounds. In fact, I just did. I identify as a Daughter of the American Revolution. At least long enough to write this essay and then whenever I feel like it after.
Does anyone want to guess whether “leadership” would have a problem with that?
They would. It’s the same problem you get if you show up at a local Democrat Klanbake and declare yourself a voting member of the body without any ID. I identify as a Democrat for the purpose of electing “our” party leaders. They won’t let you in without ID, and they certainly won’t take your word for the rest. There are rules. Strict ones.
In other words, they aren’t serious. Whatever the progressive bent, ID matters, party registration matters, and biology matters when they want it to matter, but nowhere else.
The grounding principle is that they don’t have one.
Support those sorts of people at your peril.
Happy Independence Day.
