The controversy over trans athletes competing in school sports has come to Keller, thanks to a “joke” the owner of the city’s only butcher shop put up on his company’s Facebook page Wednesday night, Feb. 10.
“Public Service Announcement: Since everything is now equal, we’ve decided we will be showing our Prize Winning Bull next year in the Ft. Worth Stock Show Heifer division. Best of luck to all the contestants,” read the post on the Z Bar Cattle Co. page, time-stamped at 10:40 p.m. Feb. 10. Z Bar Cattle Co. butcher shop, owned by Stephen and Kristin Kirkland, and Stephen Kirkland seems to be the one who put the post on Facebook. The post includes a photo of the shop’s Fort Worth Stock Show champion bull, adorned with ribbons and banners.
The post has since garnered more than 320 comments — ranging from those laughing at Kirkland’s joke to those criticizing him for being transphobic and hateful — and has been shared more than 40 times. Those sharing also span the spectrum from fans who think it’s hilarious to outraged critics.
By around 1 a.m. Friday, Feb. 12, Kirkland decided to follow up with a post making sure everyone knows he and his company don’t in any way support transgender athletes and that in his earlier post he was using humor to declare his faith-opposition. Since some folks seemed to be misinterpreting his intention and to let others know he didn’t care about their criticism, he decided to make it clear:
“I’m Not ashamed to be a Christian in a fallen world. Just because I own a business I will not leave my faith at the door. I’ll replace my humor with scripture in hopes it will lead even one to repent.
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.
#notashamed”
By noon today (Saturday, Feb. 13), the second post also had earned more than 300 comments and had been shared more than 20 times. And again, comments and shares ranged from supportive to critical.
Z Bar Cattle Co. butcher shop features grass-fed beef from cattle raised on the Kirkland’s Z Bar Cattle Co. Ranch in Sunset, Texas, located between Decatur and Bowie on Highway 287. According to the Z Bar Cattle Co. website, Stephen (from Arkansas) and Kristin (from Mississippi) Kirkland met when they were both college students working as wranglers on a guest ranch in Colorado. They married and moved to the Fort Worth area where he attended TCU’s ranch management program. They both worked at Christ’s Haven for Children and developed Haven’s Horses Therapeutic Riding program for children with disabilities while Stephen also managed the ranch program at Christ’s Haven.
Stephen Kirkland established Zanzibar Cattle Co. in 2008 to “fill the need for replacement cattle.” They bought the ranch in Sunset and moved there from Keller in 2013, then began their grass-fed cattle business in 2015, soon after opening the butcher shop to sell the beef from their ranch.
— Tammye Nash
Relax Tammye. It’s just a joke. You cannot change science. Liberals believe the science when it comes to mask and the virus but don’t believe the science when it comes to biology and human genetics!
Amen
He actually edited it. Initially the post named the bull “TransAngus.” And in the comments when someone gently pointed out that it was mean, the owner replied “it’s just humor. I’m not going to stop having a sense of humor just because these people are an abomination in the sight of God. Plus these people are my best form of advertising. There is no such thing as bad publicity.” He took down some of this worse content late last night but the screenshots are alive and well.
Big deal! It’s America and we are free to have an opinion. Trans people are .0000001% of the USA population. Yet they are in the media 24/7z I don’t want trans people treated bad but god damn relax it’s a joke.
“Gaytrumpsupporter” aka “total fucking moron”
You must be a liberal hypocrite like Tammye Nash! She allows offensive name calling towards trump supporters and gay republicans but not towards trannys.
I’m incredibly disappointed in Z Bar Cattle Co for peddling such ridiculous backward views.
I’ve only been to their store a few times but it’s always been a good experience and I posted yesterday on their Facebook page about how much we enjoyed their products.
I’ve bought whole pork loins to preserve and make bacon and roast joints from. Their sausages, steaks, chicken and ground beef have filled my freezer and fridge.
Next weekend was a needed restock trip but nope, not happening now. You see since the age of at least 10, and probably before, I knew I was unlike most of my schoolmates. I kept it to myself as I tried to be “straight” and have girlfriends but it never worked for me. Now, here I am 7 years married to my same sex partner (16 years together).
I won’t spend a dime with a business which believes I’m an abomination in the sight of God. There are 7 versus in the books of the Bible which discuss homosexuality. There are huge numbers of things in scriptures that we don’t subscribe to as a human race in 2021.
So disappointed. My grandparents had land and livestock. They had a butcher shop which was a lot like Z Bar Cattle Co so it’s with a heavy heart I will be getting my meats from the grocery store chains if I cannot find an alternative to Z Bar.
And by the way, I do not vote Democrat, and I’m no snowflake. I’m just a pissed ex Z Bar customer who used to tell people how good they were. Until last night.
Why don’t people worry about something that is truly important instead of attacking everything someone says that they don’t like . Where is freedom of speech. I would continue to buy meat from this person . I am not offended by words of others. Has he harmed anyone. Grow up people !
We go once a week! Great cuts of all kinds of meat and good prices. I’ll continue to do business with them.
Slow news week. Tammye Nash is being a typical liberal and trying to destroy someone’s livelihood because they don’t agree with her. Nothing new here