It has been brought to my attention that I made an error in my recent article titled Male Pregnancy: The Greatest Miracle of All. In that piece, I claimed that the left’s recent accomplishment of enabling men to have children was the greatest miracle because even God could not do such a thing. While making this argument, I appealed to the idea that there are some things that even God cannot do, such as creating a round cube or making one plus one equal forty-seven. I then concluded that male pregnancy falls into the same category of phenomena.
A very perceptive reader pointed out, however, that I had made a mistake by failing to distinguish between two kinds of impossibility. He explained my error in this way:
Males becoming pregnant is a physical (biological) impossibility at most, not a logical one, and as such does not represent a limitation on the power of an omnipotent God any more than divine impregnation of a woman does. On the other hand, 1+1 = 47 and round cube express (demonstrable) logical impossibilities.
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Upon reading this I immediately recognized that the reader was correct. I have to, therefore, acknowledge my mistake and issue a correction. At the same time, I would like to note that this error does not take away from the article’s substance, which was to draw attention to the left’s craziness in its complete disregard for the physical and biological realities of human existence.
Reminds me of this old skit from THE LIFE OF BRIAN from 40 years ago. Facebook won’t allow me to post it.
***STAN/LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.***
http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Life_of_Brian/8.htm
JUDITH: I do feel, Reg, that any Anti-Imperialist group like ours must reflect such a divergence of interests within its power-base.
REG: Agreed. Francis?
FRANCIS: Yeah. I think Judith’s point of view is very valid, Reg, provided the Movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every man—
STAN: Or woman.
FRANCIS: Or woman... to rid himself—
STAN: Or herself.
FRANCIS: Or herself.
REG: Agreed.
FRANCIS: Thank you, brother.
STAN: Or sister.
FRANCIS: Or sister. Where was I?
REG: I think you’d finished.
FRANCIS: Oh. Right.
REG: Furthermore, it is the birthright of every man—
STAN: Or woman.
REG: Why don’t you shut up about women, Stan. You’re putting us off.
STAN: Women have a perfect right to play a part in our movement, Reg.
FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It’s my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But... you can’t have babies.
LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.
REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I— I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What’s the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.