They find something they cannot forgive in Bruce Jenner

Bruce Jenner Blasted Online After Coming Out As a Republican

This does raise the interesting question of the conservative attitude toward gender dysphoria and sex re-assignment.

So far as I know, they don't oppose surgical repair of cleft palate or congenital hernias or heart defects.

Nor do they seem to have any problem in principle with medical interventions to make the blind see, the deaf hear, or the lame walk.

But they both support therapies aimed at altering sexual orientation and oppose sex change.

As to the former, they insist it's both possible and desirable.

As to the latter, they deny both, all the while protesting the currently possible and customary mutilations and their role in the social game of "let's pretend" they equally deplore.

The former is linked to religiously and traditionally morally forbidden behavior, homosexuality.

But there is no mention of either dysphoria or sex change in the Bible, I suspect.

Still, homosexuality and dysphoria both signal, I think, in their eyes, an impious refusal of the body and sex role they take to have been divinely assigned at birth.