Thursday, February 20, 2014

"Gender upheaval, coming soon to a commode near you"

Yes, you read that title right. That is a direct quote from an article written by Owen Strachan. You may not know who Owen is so I am including his bio from his webpage...
"Owen Strachan is executive director of the Council on Biblical Manhood & Womanhood and assistant professor of Christian Theology and Church History at Boyce College in Louisville, Kentucky. He also teaches for the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is married to Bethany and is the father of two children."

The title to the article is "Children’s Restrooms Are The Next Front Line In The Gender Wars" and as if the title wasn't enough to get my attention, this photo did.


In Owen's article, you will find this paragraph... "It’s true: gender upheaval, coming soon to a commode near you. In Maine, the state Supreme Judicial Court found in a recent court case that a young woman described as transgender could enter male or female restrooms. In California, the state legislature passed a bill that gives students who self-identify as “transgender” the right “to participate in sex-segregated programs, activities and facilities,” including the use of restrooms of both sexes. As if using public restrooms wasn’t frightful enough!"  You can read the article here... http://goo.gl/Zxziel

The article is worth reading but for now, I would like for you to study this photo for a moment and discover what it actually means. This is another case where something was meant for one purpose (to show support to transgender-minded people) but actually shows something else. The Bible (and yes, it really is the authoritative Word of God) says that God created mankind by making them male and female (as shown in Genesis 1:26-27 and Ephesians 5:31). In this photo, you have a red symbol which represents the female and you have a black symbol which represents the male. But what about the symbol that is both black and red? It is part male and part female? Not really a man or not really a woman? If it is not a 'he' or a 'she', is it an 'it'? 'He' and 'she' are personal pronouns that have been around forever but what do you use for the symbol that is part red and part black?

It has been almost 238 years since the Declaration of Independence was signed and so I ask you, 'Does it not seem strange to you that the same homosexuality that recognized as unbiblical and unnatural for all of those years is now being pushed at us from every direction in the last decade?' Federal judges telling Kentuckians that even though we voted to uphold the traditional values for marriage, Kentucky now has to recognize same-sex marriages that were performed in other states or countries?

To show you another side of the seriousness of this problem, I refer you back to Owen's article about the kids... "These measures in Maine and California are seemingly laudable. They have been handed down in the name of opposing bullying. Legislatures and courts should oppose bullying. But there is a palpable irony in these acts of the state. They have effectively bullied their citizens into accepting gender revisionism that compromises the privacy of their children and places them in hostile environments. This is as unnecessary as it is alarming. The public officials involved in both decisions seek to oppose injustice, but they are perpetuating it." He also says "In our enlightened new world, boys can shower with girls. They can enter a locker room of the opposite sex when they wish, and, provided they profess to be transgender, no one can stop them. This is true not only of teenagers, but kindergartners. The sexually curious no longer have a barrier to their exploration. Teachers cannot step in. Administrators cannot intervene. In public schools, per the will of the Maine judiciary and the California legislature, children no longer enjoy the protection our society has assumed as a matter of course."

Here is a quote from the Washington Post written by Eugene Volohk... "So holds today’s Maine Supreme Judicial Court decision in Doe v. Regional School Unit 26, as to a fifth-grade student who is biologically male but identifies and dresses as a girl. Maine law bans discrimination in places of public accommodation based on “sexual orientation,” which includes “gender identity or expression.” The court held that this means that transgender people were entitled to use the restrooms appropriate to their gender identity, rather than their biological sex." ["Barring transgender student from using girls’ bathroom violates Maine law"  http://goo.gl/rbXDh3]

Friends, we must continue to pray for our nation. Pray for our leaders to be leaders of integrity and to lead us by biblical values. Pray for our homes that marriages would be consist of one man and one woman and that each couple focused on God more than they focused on themselves. Pray that our kids would have the proper amount of parental supervision and love. And pray that our churches would teach the true gospel of Jesus Christ and nothing less. And may God bless America once again...



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