9.9.23
Hey, Calvary Fremont –
“I can’t tell you if that baby is a boy or a girl, all I know is that they/them have a penis.” Identity Alaska, a gender clinic in Alaska, recommends that doctors assign gender to babies as an informed guess. (This blog can be filed under the category ‘You Can’t Make This Stuff Up.’)
The curriculum advises educators to refrain from using the term “mother” in favor of more gender-neutral alternatives like “gestational parent,” “birth parent,” “egg producer,” or “carrier.”
Imagine the cultural hoops we’ll have to jump through if all this becomes the accepted social norm of the land. Instead of introducing someone to your mom and dad, you’ll have to say something like, “I’d like to introduce you to my gestational parent and her partner who, by some kind of silly coincidence, happens to have a penis.”
The gender clinic further advises that rather than saying “when the mom gives birth,” the recommended phrasing becomes “when the baby exits the womb.” (This will help us avoid the outmoded notion of assuming that the one who gives birth is a woman – er, excuse me – the person with a vagina.) This approach extends to the discussion of hormones and reproductive organs as well, replacing “male hormones” and “female hormones” with “testosterone or estrogen”. (This is sure to throw us off the scent of gender certainty like calling Robert, Bob, or calling William, Dick.)
22 years ago today two commercial passenger planes were piloted into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the whole world watched in horror as they collapsed. Well, not the whole world – some Muslim radicals rejoiced. Today, folly on a colossal scale has plowed into the twin towers of Male and Female and the whole world watches in horror as they collapse. Well, not all the whole world – some Woke radicals are rejoicing.
And the thing is, this stuff isn’t coming from some religious cult of Appalachian snake handlers who got bit once too often and spoke in tongues and claim a vision from God. This is coming from Ph.D.’s and other highly educated life forms. (I don’t want to offend them by referring to them as men and women, so I used the inclusive phrase ‘life-forms.’)
Professing to be wise, they became fools.
Let’s extend the wisdom of the Alaskan gender clinic –
“That’s not a cliff – that’s a vertical road.”
“That’s not a man-eating shark – that’s a fish with big teeth who likes biting into people with penises.”
“Come on, Tim – aren’t you being too harsh? We need to take this stuff seriously.” I agree. And I am being harsh because I do take it seriously. In Isaiah 44:19, the prophet makes fun of those who cut down a tree and with some of the wood make a fire and cook dinner. Then, with the rest of the wood, they make an idol and bow down to it and call it their god. This is some of the most biting satire in the Bible. Paul is pretty harsh in Galatians 5:12 when he wishes that false teachers would castrate themselves. OUCH! That’s not nice, Paul.
In the beginning God created them male and female. This is under attack today. The first social unit in the Bible is the family. This is under attack today. Gender and family are the bedrock of civilization. Civilization is under attack today. Let’s not play nice. Let’s call stupid, stupid. With Isaiah, let’s make fun of some stuff. With Paul, let’s hope some things get radically cut away. With the Holy Spirit, let’s preach Jesus and holy sanity and heavenly reason.
Be blessed and stay healthy and follow Jesus – Pastor Tim
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