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It seems many conservative Christians have always had an infatuation with supporting Israel. This infatuation has bled into Republican politics, you know the party of "family values".
Well, I guess a "Christian Arab" won Israel's first transgender beauty pageant.
Israel?s first transgender beauty pageant a rare show of tolerance among faiths
Seems Christians who are loyal to the Republican party, like the likely nomination of Trump, have another challenge to face...
Well, I guess a "Christian Arab" won Israel's first transgender beauty pageant.
Israel?s first transgender beauty pageant a rare show of tolerance among faiths
Israel?s first transgender beauty pageant, won by a Christian Arab on Friday (May 27), brought together contestants from the Holy Land?s main faiths in an unconventional show of tolerance and coexistence.
In what organizers described as an ethnic ?mosaic,? the 12 vying for the Miss Trans Israel 2016 crown included a Jewish confectioner from an Orthodox Jerusalem family, a Muslim belly-dancer from Tel Aviv and a Christian ballerina from Nazareth.
The Christian, Taleen Abu Hanna, won and will represent Israel at the Miss Trans Star International pageant in Barcelona in September ? a role she will evidently relish.
?Our country deserves to come out on top,? Abu Hanna, 21, told journalists. ?Our country allowed me, a Christian Arab from Nazareth, to end the war between my soul and my body. So if it made peace for me, our country is only a country of peace.?
Unlike elsewhere in the Middle East, Israel has mostly liberal laws on sexual identity, with openly gay and transgender troops in its conscript military.
Seems Christians who are loyal to the Republican party, like the likely nomination of Trump, have another challenge to face...