The Administration has again upped the ante with the sexual and gender revolution, using, perhaps most alarmingly, schools, from kindergarten to college, as the latest target.
If we are to stand against this agenda, and the harm it causes children, we need to ground ourselves in the Word, but also in science, the idea of community, and the basics of family structure. We need to remember what the world is trying to get us to forget. I need to say something else, as you read this. I am not trying to stop other adults from living as they please. I am not attacking gay weddings,or throwing out transgenders, and I will try to be civil even to those who proclaim themselves such an evolved human they have no gender. Take your beliefs live them out and see what happens. I have accepted a different way. I think it is a better way. I think I can show you this agenda has harmed you and will further harm the next generation, but I in no way want criminalize or further disrupt the lives of people trapped in these lifestyles. For Christians, I hope having resources will help you ground your thinking when dealing with these issues in your families, your workplaces, etc. Perhaps, sadly, even in your churches. What is gender? It is a word that was considered less..bothersome than the word sex. Became popular on government forms.,It describes male or female. Period. One of the distressing things about the current social divide is the ripping up of language to create a new paradigm, when none exists. Genesis 5:2 Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. So Adam just means man, or as we seem to prefer, mankind. We were created male and female to allow for reproduction, just like the animals, we are of the same stuff, the same biology, as the animals, our relationship to God is in our souls and spirits. We can respond to God! God even ensured the bonding of Adam and Eve by making her from Adam. They were truly one flesh. So perhaps it is no surprise that “being gay”or” being transgender” has no basis as a genetic condition. http://www.christianpost.com/news/no-scientific-evidence-that-people-are-born-gay-or-transgender-johns-hopkins-researchers-say-168263/ But when dealing with emotion, we throw out everything including science, while still espousing Darwinism and our need to “evolve.” Darwinism as a theory is dead, doesn’t work there are no hierarchal trees, no proof of evolutionary change. archeopteryxs is not the ancestor of birds, feathers or no feathers. http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/31/archeopteryxs-evolutionary-humuliation-continues/ I have also heard that the horse evolution we were all taught in school is now discredited. Darwin was paid to come up with a natural explanation to replace the idea of God but allow his wealthy benefactors to continue to rule. To consider other human beings as “lesser.”because they are better evolved. We have had so much suffering from this “might makes right” idea…from Margaret Sanger using it to allow the destruction of “lesser races,” to huge industries that didn’t care how many employees it harmed or killed, to incorrect and ridiculous embryology taught as truth in schools. And questioning the orthodoxy of science is reason to be thrown aside, cast out…so science in these areas does not ever research the anomalies, the questions…it has ceased to use the scientific method. The scientists now work on a cellular and molecular level, and are still astounded by what they cannot prove. Now they discuss lateral transmission of genes, you see this in antibiotic resistant bacteria. One becomes resistant, and can apparently swap genes even with other species, they can pass protection from a threat.They still remain their own species however. And all of that is about to be left behind in the quest for three parent embryos, and human animal chimeras, while we are assured no one will create a living chimera and the changes to three parent embryos even though the genetic change is permanent, are good and not bad. We are about to embark on changing the human genome forever and no one questions whether that is a good thing. Plants are not immune , as GMOs, mainly cereal crops and mainly to allow higher use of herbicides to make it cheaper to grow the crop, while not caring what else the changed genes might do, separate strains of corn, for example, have been contaminated, in the usual way..pollen from other fields. Bees may not do well exposed to GMO crops, and no one has proven that animals fed GMO crops are in any way more healthful for us. Or that viruses to insert these genes are not still active! Or that genes removed might not also be harmful (I am not sure which technique was used)( witness the tampering with the tiger mosquito to eliminate, I think yellow fever, but it allowed more breeding ground for Zika, considered harmless, to flourish, and it has become more dangerous. We don’t have all the answers yet, whether it was just opportunity for more mosquitos to be infected and so more humans to be infected or if it allowed a change in Zika to become more dangerous,) And if you guys really like supermarket store tomatoes, bred not for flavor but for better shipping and holding qualities, over homegrown tomatoes, please let me know. Science, as all business, is driven by profit, and it has been used to further the progressive agenda about sexuality, which is to destroy all norms and create human beings with no attachment to anything but their own pleasure. Such people will always vote for the policies that allow them to continue , and will obviously like the idea of “everyone being just like them” globalist government, no one allowed to say there are other ways to live, totalitarianism. Romans 1:18-22. 18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. http://www.raptureforums.com/politics-culture-wars/media-myths-homosexual-transgender-agenda/ There is a lot to absorb in that report, but suffice it to say, the LGBT agenda is not life affirming, it is instead a morass of mental health issues, physical health issues, addictions, shorter relationships, and in the case of transsexuals, much higher rates of suicide.so the progressives take up the chant of..it’s all about acceptance. Just love us and we won’t be sickly anymore (bacteria spirochetes and viruses don’t care about your agendas, your morality, or anything else, they just want to live.) Instead of looking at issues of child abuse, mental health issues which have a different resolution than cutting a perfectly good body up to resemble the opposite sex, possibly family issues, or proclaiming some weird gender status (having confused gender with gender norms) such as two souled (does that mean they admit they are demonically possessed how else could there be two in one?) We proclaim it good, and force this belief on every child in America. And that is where I part company with the idea of government being the teacher of our young,. It was always meant to be parents, then community, which taught the young, It has been that way even in America until the 1960’s or so, we teach social acceptance and do not teach the basics reading math science history, etc., preferring our youth to be new citizens over educated citizens, firmly pushing aside any parental authority and running towards the equality government promised, (there is no such thing as equality, only equal opportunity, but then, creativity, strength in some area of one’s life, etc. are also no longer valued. Just..go along with the crowd.) Proverbs 22:6 train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Deuteronomy 6:6-7 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. We have had religious texts for thousands of years, reminding us that parents have duties to children, Not governments and kings; parents. As to families.. between loss of men in all the 20th century wars, the sexual revolution and the ease of divorce in this country, we have basically allowed generations of children to grow up without fathers, to have a skewed picture of the world and of male female relationships. So to gay people, who only see themselves as lesser than straight people, the idea was,,make us equal, we want gay marriage. Another emotional plea based on an unrealistic idea of marriage..a family unit that would raise future citizens in a binary system so they learned to deal with males and female, gender norms, and be able to take up some trade or job to be able to care for their own families, the passing of tradition, a solid connection to other people outside oneself, As well it was considered a way to keep down disease rates, unwedded births, etc. It isn’t terribly romantic. That is an American notion. And it certainly isn’t just to get a tax break. Interestingly, gay marriage hasn’t changed the gay relationship dynamic very much, Here is an excerpt on the latest gallup poll A new Gallup poll released Wednesday estimates about 9.6 percent of LGBT adults are currently married to a same-sex spouse, up from 7.9 percent before the landmark court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges last June. Gallup estimates about 123,000 same-sex marriages have taken place since the ruling: Gallup currently estimates 3.9% of U.S. adults are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, and 0.4% of U.S. adults are married to a same-sex spouse. These figures can be used to estimate there are approximately 981,000 U.S. adults in a same-sex marriage and, thus, 491,000 same-sex marriages in the U.S. That latter estimate is up from roughly 368,000 a year ago. http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/gay-marriage-obergefell-hodges/488258/ 123,000 marriages. Less than 5% of Americans identify as LGBT, suicide rates remain high even in LGBT accepting countries in Europe,and perhaps more surprising yet… More people who identify as LGBT are in heterosexual marriages than same sex marriages. So it seems despite having a preferred partner, one can chose to have a traditional family, As far as those who don’t wish a traditional family, very few of them marry;the rate of marriage, heterosexual to gay, is five to one. This against a backdrop of Americans as a whole, not seeking marriage, but only cohabitating. ( about 50 %) And it points out that both bisexuals and transgenders may chose heterosexual marriage,their goals and needs are not the same as gay men or women, Shocking but true. http://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2016/07/09/gallup-reveals-same-sex-marriages-low-after-sup-ct-ruling http://www.raptureforums.com/politics-culture-wars/homosexual-marriage-risk-suicide/ If living as a gay or transgender individual is so rare, why the rush to give them preferred status? It doesn’t help individuals, for sure. It does however constrain both conservative and Christian thought, and may at some point make any such belief illegal. It makes young people dependent on the government instead of their families for everything from education to health care.So..euthanasia for dementia and other diseases of the elderly? Sounds great, more for us, no more suffering for them (totally emotional and financial argument, no moral basis for one life to be considered more valuable than others) Abortion on demand or euthanasia for children who don’t meet your expectations? Good idea, we only want functional productive human beings. No more of our taxes going to a waste of space. Social mores including never standing out, never offending anyone, never expressing political belief outside the norm, or a belief in the existence of God, Human beings genetically altered, downloaded to computers, for eternity ( a fake eternity, but no one will remember that) o rhaving access via an uplink to all of the interconnected computer knowledge creating a wired vs unwired split in humanity, no children allowed to be created unless sit fits societal norms, possibly in labs instead of in women. This is avidly being pursued by some on this planet as we speak. They don’t care if the agenda harms children, they want to own your children, Every different idea is now being pushed, so a bit is given to this group, say vegans, and a bit to that group, say LGBT, when the intent is absolute control of every human being, and if they don’t live as long, or become even more violent trying to assert some control over their lives, you can always blame the old fashioned belief in God and target Christians and Jews. We who believe in God have known about such governments arising for thousands of years. Romans 1:28-32 28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. This is the state of natural man: Genesis 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Consumed by selfishness, ( self as God) we will erode this society to the point where nothing of the goodness of human life will be experienced just keeping your own head above water to go home and pursue whatever lets you forget for a while. This is what the agenda being pursed it actually doing to our children ,unsure of who they are, anxious about all these mysterious changes that they are told can occur, unsure whether to trust their parents, vulnerable to any adult and used to the idea of sex, so prominently taught, and more likely to be sexually abused. More likely to be attacked in bathrooms as the idea of privacy has been dismantled, That’s the real agenda..not helping transgenders. Making us afraid to even use a public bathroom, and vulnerable to predators if we do. Jungle law. So no matter who you prefer as sexual partners, you might want to consider whether, if you have children or nieces and nephews, this agenda actually is good for them, Never mind feeling “proud” of yourself. Most parents get over that nonsense pretty quickly, raising kids can be hard and unrewarding, But biology and God propel us in these matters.. If you must leave your children in public school, you are going to have to fight, Fight efforts to force learning that is not necessary, especially in the younger children. They need to learn to follow directions, be polite to their classmates, and their families can teach them as they believe about sexual matters. They only need to be polite to transgender or gay parents and students, they shouldn’t have their learning disrupted because of them. Students with other special needs get equivalent education. Even if they need one classroom all day, or aides, they receive the same education, but do not disrupt the mainstreamed students and I believe the same standard should be applied to transgendered children, this idea that we must all costs preserve their fragile grasp on reality by pretending they ARE the sex they proclaim ,is nonsense;other children don’t get to live out a lie…many children get bullied, and science/psychology report most children return to identifying as the sex they were born, We are creating a tool for parents and students to harass schools and other children, to be bullies themselves, for a non-existent need. Home school private school charter schools, this should be our mantra, And as long as we still have the ability to speak up (which may not be for much longer) those who hold that nature and God both argue for a traditional family system, and not making special cases for every different habit and then protecting that habit with political and scientific lies, to “protect” them, meaning the vast majority of citizens have no protection. We have no consensus in this country, no national vision.. Division has weakened us to the point where we have no competing belief systems, just governmental rules. We conservatives and Christians still have the right to offer our ideas, back political candidates, and worship as we see fit, we need to be doing this. I plead with any of you who have not considered the matter of God to take at look at Christian belief and what it offers, No, not prosperity, or godlike special powers, just the safety and security of knowing God loves you, that He paid the price for your sin in full and if you accept that, you can have fellowship with God. Jesus paid that price, He is the Son of God, If you can believe that, as Jesus said… John 8:31-36. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. |
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