I try to keep my writings positive and encouraging, so this blog post is hard for me to write and may be hard for you to read, but ignoring the enemy’s activity around us won’t make it go away. Over the last 50 years, I have witnessed our society slide down that proverbial slippery slope away from God and our founding documents. It became clear in 1973, when Roe v Wade opened the door for tens of millions of innocent babies to be slaughtered in the name of “choice” or “women’s health”. Biblical values and Constitutional freedoms of speech and worship have been constantly under attack ever since.
The results of this societal slide are truly stranger than fiction. Some ridiculous new words are being added to our vocabulary that bewilders me. I investigated a story that New York City’s Commission on Human Rights has enacted an ordinance requiring landlords, employers, public accommodations (all business serving the public), coworkers, etc. to use the appropriate name or “gender designation” that a person chooses or face a fine up to $250,000. That had to be a hoax, right? No, it not only is true, it represents an even greater attack on Christian and family values.
Here are just a few excerpts from that ordinance with my comments in parenthesis. “Employers and covered entities are entitled to enforce a dress code, or require specific grooming or appearance standards; however it must be done without imposing restrictions or requirements specific to gender or sex. It will not be a defense that an employer or covered entity is catering to the preferences of their customers or clients.” (Doesn’t the commission realize that catering to the preferences of customers or clients is what keeps them in business?) “Definitions: Cisgender: an adjective denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity conforms with the gender that corresponds to their biological sex.” (This is the only line in the entire law to which I can relate, but I still have no intention of ever using that weird word to describe myself.) “Gender Identity: one’s internal deeply-held sense of one’s gender, which may be the same or different from one’s sex assigned at birth. One’s gender identity may be male, female, neither or both. Everyone has a gender identity.” (Psychoanalysis has sure come a long way since Sigmund Freud.) “Gender: an individual’s actual or perceived sex, gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression whether or not that gender identity, self-image, appearance, behavior or expression is different from that traditionally associated with the sex assigned at birth.” (These aren’t definitions; they are redefinitions just the way marriage has been redefined.) I didn’t quote the part of the law that allows any person to participate in single-sex activities and use the single sex bathroom, dressing room or shower of their choice based on their “gender identity”. I don’t recommend reading the entire law if you have a low gag threshold.
Anyone who lived through the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s, as I did, should be outraged that this law creates a new “protected class” based on personal feelings and preferences then compares that class to a racial minority. There is simply no rational comparison.
None of this has any scriptural basis of course. Genesis 5:2 reads, He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them “human.” Jesus affirms that verse in Matthew 19:4 and Mark 10:6.
Sexual confusion is real, but it is not biological in nature according to genetic science. It is a mental or psychological condition created by the enemy and perpetrated by some psychotherapists and other nonbelievers whose agenda is to label Christians and God’s word as bigoted, insensitive and out of touch. Of course they are the ones completely out of touch with God and His creation.
Several school districts have already proposed gender identity classes beginning in the eighth grade through high school to help students explore their male and female tendencies and help them find their specific place on the scale of sexual identity. That will greatly increase sexual confusion in our vulnerable young people.
It is more important than ever that our young people are rooted in God’s word and confident in the identity God has given them. I pray that we as Christian believers stand strong against this perversion, without condemning those who are its victims. God loves them and wants to draw them to Himself, clearing their minds, setting them free and giving them peace as only belief in Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit can do.