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While we're redefining gender and marriage, why not redefine everything else?
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| 6/8/14
| Steve Berman
Posted on 06/09/2014 4:36:41 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
Today I read an article where the author suggests that we come up with another word for marriage because the one were using has been redefined by the courts and the liberals away from what is originally meant.
While were at it, lets come up with another word for coffee table since we dont use them for coffee, and frequently they become footrests. Or a new word for money because our government seems to talk about it like they have it, but they dont. Theres always a whole bunch of new words for automobile, like SUV and crossover and minivan. These things just keep changing, so we need new words to replace the ones that have been hijacked, right?
Lets use the word resort to mean jail. But jail still wouldnt be pleasurable. Even if jail was in a 5-star resort, if you couldnt leave, it would still be Hotel California, and it would be jail, not a resort. How about If we defined jail to mean a resort where you could leave, then when a judge sentenced me to jail, Id be shouting woo-hoo! Judge, can you make it a life sentence?
Lets make soldier or sailor mean anyone who puts on a uniform, and then Wal-Mart can sell the uniforms, along with all the rank, insignia, and ribbons. I would buy myself a white Navy mess dress uniform, with Admirals epaulettes, a cap with lots of nice gold designs on the visor, and a chest full of ribbons, maybe the Navy CrossId get the Congressional Medal of Honor but I wouldnt want to appear too vain. Since sailor means me because I wear the uniform, I would walk up the gangway of the USS Ronald Reagan and expect to be saluted and have my orders followed.
And theologian means anyone who has an opinion about God? Id write a book, make my arguments about what the Bible, or the Quran, or the Vedas mean, and write in the author slug that Im a noted theologian. People will buy the book and take my word as authoritative because I have an opinion and wrote a book about it. After all, Im a theologian.
How about gender, and sex. They used to mean the same thing (as nouns at least). Now gender is something we identify like looking at some modern art and getting some revelationaha! Im a boy! Sex is just biology, which counts for very little other than what original equipment I had when born. So boy means girl and girl means boy or something called genderqueer or androgyne or pangender. I could call myself a girl, put on a dress, and expect to walk into a womens public restroom, dressing room, or locker room.
Thats different, you say, because its a personal thing. You cant tell me what gender I am because I identify myself. Oh, really? Get naked and I can tell youre a man (okay dont really do that, please). Get your tallywacker hacked off and then youll be a man without a penis. Get breasts implanted, have a fake vagina installed, and youll be a man without a penis, and with breast implants and a fake vagina. A simple blood test will show up male in the DNA.
Michael Jackson tried to physically become white. At the time of his death, he was whiter than most caucasians. But it didnt change his racial makeup. We could redefine race as self-identified, then Michael could be white because he wanted to be. Id become a black Korean Native American, and as such, get 500 friends to say they are black Korean Native Americans, and form a society for the advancement of black Korean Native Americans. Wed throw lavish parties, and increase our numbers by the millions, and then have a huge political base to elicit government benefits for oppressed black Korean Native Americans.
Theres not much more personal than race, right?
What about cancer? Lets redefine cancer as anyone who says they have it. Then I could ask on Facebook for people to donate to my cancer treatment, check in to a hospital and lay in a bed while the donations roll in. Then when I decide Im better, I can call myself a cancer survivor, and thank everyone for the donations I can now use to buy houses for myself and other self-identified cancer survivors.
Thats offensive? Why? My body is the most personal thing I have, and if I say theres cancer in me, then by God it must be there. If I say its gone, then Ive survived the cancer.
Family used to mean a biological, or marriage-joined group of individuals; you know, relatives, the ones you dont get to choose and the spouse you do get to choose (if they choose you). The basic family unit was a husband, wife, and children, who were siblings. Sometimes a dog, cat, horse, or bird. Extended family included grandmas and grandpas, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, and cousins. Now family means pretty much whatever group of people who live together or decide to become a family. Sure, there are work families and church families but those have always been understood to be different than relatives. These days, two guys who met at a bar and found a younger guy can decide they are husband, husband, and child, and they become a family. Theyre linked by nothing else but a desire to be called family.
Theyre not a family.
Words have meanings. Meanings have consequences.
Words also have emotions attached to them. If I say I have cancer, people will feel compassion for me, they will pray for me, help me with money, they will go out of their way to be nice to me. Because cancer kills people, and nobody wishes someone to die that way (minus some pinheads who write hate mail like I hope you get cancer and die). If anyone can claim cancer, then the emotional attachment of that word is lost, which is offensive to those who are actually dying from it and wish to be cured.
What if I could just say Im your brother, and come see you, and tell everyone were siblings. Because I say so. If you didnt want me as your brother, that would not be a good thing for you, and it would be confusing for everyone else. What if you liked it and we told everyone we were siblings. Then I got kidney disease, and you insisted on giving me yours, and since were brothers, we are compatible, so the doctors would have to ignore the DNA test and install your kidney in me, and if I died from it, its their fault.
We all know thats stupidity and my death would be my fault. Ignoring all the medical evidence is dumb. Then I could call you a bigot for criticizing my decision. If I decided to have unprotected gay sex with a man who had AIDS, I could say its my decision and because AIDS is not a disease spread among gay men (because thats a homophobic myth), Im not going to get AIDS. When you tell me how stupid and potentially lethal that decision is, youre a bigot for daring to cite medical evidence to me about me self-identified personal decision.
For that matter, lets define a bigot as anyone who doesnt agree with my self-identified personal definitions of my gender, my family, my body, my decisions, and how society should see me. After all, if you disagree with these deeply personal things, you must hate me and want me to die from cancer.
Words have meanings. Meanings may change over time, but doing away with entire categories of word meanings and inventing new words to take their place is lunacy. And I define lunacy as doing things that harm society. Stupid, ignorant, dumb, moronic things. Those words have meaning too. Stripping words of their meanings and replacing them with other words unmoor the anchors of society in a way that has unpredictable results, but they are actually predictable in this outcome: introducing chaos into order does not produce more order. It produces chaos.
I am going to continue to fight for the meaning of the word marriage, as the union of one man and one woman, for life. Family is the fruit of that union, and the fruit of the prior unions that produced the man and the woman in marriage. Man is the biological male of the human species, and woman is the biological female. There are no other genders because there are no other varieties of humans in regards to biological sex.
This fight means I am against divorce. Divorce means the separation of a married couple, the end of a marriage which is for life. Its a tragedy. When two become one flesh in marriage, divorce means the death of that new creation, that one flesh. It should be mourned. That death should be fought as if its to save either the man or the womans own life. The death of a marriage kills the hosts who joined into it, and recovery from that death takes a very long time, if it ever comes.
Sometimes, life support fails, and marriage dies. But irreconcilable differences is not a reason for that death. Thats murder. Were not the same anymore is murder. Its like saying my kitten grew up into a cat, and I dont like cats, only kittens, so I drowned it. Or my cute baby grew up into a rebellious teen, so I killed her, we just didnt get along anymore. No-fault divorce is poison to marriage, and therefore to family.
Broken families are the new normal. Theyre not really broken, thats a misnomer. They are murdered families who are looking for new life. I was in one of those families. My parents divorced when I was four, and when I was nine, my mother remarried. My step-father was caring and kind, and did a wonderful job raising me. But my family was dead. I had a dad with whom I spent weekends, and for almost 20 years I had very little relationship with him until I was in my late 30s. I waited until I was in my early 40s to marry, because I was so scared of divorce. My marriage is for life. My family is for life. My children will not know the murder of divorce, and with Gods grace, will grow up into adults who see a happy marriage and family without life-support.
I will fight for my marriage, and for my family. Whatever it takes, Ill do it like I am fighting for my own life. This is the meaning of marriage and family, not some self-identified group deciding to call themselves family until they move on to the next set of people. Thats just using people, and its the most selfish motive possible.
I will fight for families, and to give new life to those families that died. This means understanding what a living family should be, and the damage that no-fault divorce does to families and children.
For this fight Im sure Ill be called a bigot, by the new definition, and Im sure Ill be cursed by those wishing I died of cancer. Thats offensive to real cancer sufferers, so go ahead and curse, it makes clear your real motives. There are thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, who join in this fight. Most of them are silent, but they should remain silent no more.
If all of us who believe in the meanings of words, and the definitions of marriage and family would fight for our own marriage and our own families, and stand for those meanings with our lives, regardless of the attacks, we will win this war of definitions.
We will win because we stand for the natural order of the world in a society that is trying to bring chaos and disorder. The order of the world is written in our DNA, in our physical makeup, not by our own selfish thoughts and desires. I would rather selflessly stand for those facts and principles than to give in to an unending search for my own pleasure and fulfillment with things that never satisfy (who has met a satisfied hedonist? If a hedonist is satisfied, then they are not a hedonist anymore, by definition).
I suppose we could redefine hedonist as someone who has found their pleasure and stopped pursing it and is living in the reality of that pleasure with a certainty of it continuing eternally. I like that definition, so you hedonists can stop pursuing and count me as one of your numbers. Ive found my pleasure in God, marriage and family, and by His grace, I will continue in that forever.
So if you want to wish me death, all youre doing is
threatening me with heaven. If all of us who feel this way simply stand up in the face of opposition, there is no way we can lose.
As Winston Churchill said,
Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
I, for one, will never give in. Its a matter of life and death, not my death, but those who are perishing. From the movie,
End of the Spear, this,
Young Steve Saint: If the Waodani attack, will you defend yourself? Will you use your guns?
Nate Saint: Son, we can't shoot the Waodani. They're not ready for heaven... we are.
For those who believe, lets all stand, not only for our own sake, for our families sake, for our childrens sake, but for the sake of those who are not ready for heaven.
TOPICS: Politics; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: cancer; definitions; family; marriage; moralabsolutes
To: lifeofgrace
Yeah, make the White House the nineteenth hole.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:41:31 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
To: lifeofgrace
The B.C. and A.D. alteration kills me because you won't know the age of old text without knowing that.
At some point, it became USA law that we adopt the metric system. There were plenty of objections. Statements like Walk a mile in my shoes would go out the window.
To: lifeofgrace
You can’t redefine everything. Sexual orienation, we are told, is fixed and set at birth, and unchangable as granite. Gender, however, is nebulous and ill-defined, and easily changable.
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posted on
06/09/2014 4:59:44 AM PDT
by
Cymbaline
("Allahu Akbar": Arabic for "Nothing To See Here" - Mark Steyn)
To: lifeofgrace
I believe it started well over a century ago when Marx and Engels redefined what an economy is. You’d think such a wholesale failure would have made redefinition unpopular but the left side of the world engaged in a massive game of “Let’s Pretend” so the trend persisted.
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posted on
06/09/2014 5:03:44 AM PDT
by
muir_redwoods
(When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
To: lifeofgrace
It isn't that far off base.
Some chick in college can bring a guy home to her apartment, get drunk, strip naked, share a bed and pass out, but if the guy awakens before she does, is too drunk to remember where he is and sees an attractive naked chick in the same bed with her legs spread wide open and does what most stupid young drunk guys would do in the same situation, she can cry rape as if it is the equivalent of some dirtbag grabbing an innocent girl on a dark street and dragging her into the alley.
And any politician who actually points out this difference will suffer the same fate as Todd Aiken.
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posted on
06/09/2014 5:21:50 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: lifeofgrace
More accurate new definition: LIBeral = Insane
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posted on
06/09/2014 5:44:16 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: lifeofgrace
Exactly! If, in a matter of years, we allow the po-mo homos to redefine an institution that has stood for millennia, then we have forsaken any sense of cumtural continuity and have abolished the notion that a society is defined by its morals. Dissolving those common bonds of sensible tradition mean turning a united people into rabble.
THAT and nothing else is the goal of the pro-homos.
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posted on
06/09/2014 6:14:11 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: lifeofgrace; 185JHP; 230FMJ; AKA Elena; APatientMan; Albion Wilde; Aleighanne; Alexander Rubin; ...
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posted on
06/09/2014 6:27:57 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: lifeofgrace
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posted on
06/09/2014 7:03:14 AM PDT
by
aquila48
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