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Probably the strangest thing I’ve ever read. A refutation of the rant of a cultural radical.
Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 7/30/2014 | Msgr. Charles Pope

Posted on 07/31/2014 1:41:29 AM PDT by markomalley

A reader recently alerted me to an article in Slate Magazine that is so bizarre that, as you read it, you think it is a joke, an April Fools farce, or someone illustrating absurdity by being absurd. Yet, as far as I can tell, the author means every word she says.

I must say, I have never read anything stranger in my life (except a couple things in Mad Magazine, but they actually were jokes). If you dare to read the excerpt below, prepare for your brain to explode.

And yet too, nothing I have read is such a perfect catalogue of the growing absurdities of the cultural radicals who are increasingly losing touch with reality. So bizzare and out there is this article that some of you will say, “Oh well, no really takes this seriously, why give publicity to such fringe lunacy?” But if that is your view I would ask to to think again. Even just ten years ago most people did not think the notion of “Gay marriage” would ever go anywhere. And yet. what was thought by most as a fringe lunacy then, is now celebrated by many and the “law of the land” in a growing number of States.

Watch out, things are getting dark very fast. Make sure you have a strong stomach before you read what follows. And beware, it may be coming soon to a maternity ward near you. An article such as this surely illustrates what St. Paul said of the unbelievers and sexually depraved of his day: they became vain in their thinking and their senseless minds were darkened. (Rom 1:21)

As usual the words of the author are in bold, black, italics. My comments are in plain, red text.  If you have a very strong stomach and a brain that does not easily explode you can read the full article here: Slate Magazine article

Imagine you are in recovery from labor, lying in bed, holding your infant. In your arms you cradle a stunningly beautiful, perfect little being. (being…? “Baby” is the usual term is it not? Consider this your first warning dear reader) Completely innocent and totally vulnerable, your baby (thats better)  is entirely dependent on you to make all the choices that will define their life for many years to come. (OK, here’s another sign of trouble. This woman has succumbed to fearing her own philosophy. Let me state for the record that it does not pertain to the human person to “define the life” of another person. That is what God does. This is a central error of the cultural radicals. They claim the right to “define life, and the lives of others. This woman is going to go on to describe her anxiety about the fact that a parent can “define the life” of their child. Again, her fear is based on a flawed and prideful notion she carries). 

Suddenly, the doctor comes in. He looks at you sternly (oh please), gloved hands reaching for your baby …“Is it really necessary?” [you ask]. ….The doctor flashes a paternalistic (oh please) smile. “No, no … but….This is a standard practice. People just wouldn’t understand why you didn’t go along with it,” he says, casting a judgmental (oh please) glance.

Look out here it comes…

…The imaginary [scenario] I described above is real. Obstetricians, doctors, and midwives (well at least its not all stern, paternalistic, judgmental male doctors!) commit this procedure on infants every single day, in every single country….without even asking for the parents’ consent, making this practice all the more insidious. It’s called infant gender assignment: When the doctor holds your child up to the harsh light of the delivery room, looks between its legs, and declares his opinion: It’s a boy or a girl, based on nothing more than a cursory assessment of your offspring’s genitals. It just gets stranger every day. Again this story is so insane that I was certain this article had to be a joke. But it seems the “woman” (can I call “her” that without giving offense?) is quite serious.

We tell our children, “You can be anything you want to be.” We say, “A girl can be a doctor, a boy can be a nurse,” but why in the first place must this person be a boy and that person be a girl? Your infant is an infant. (No, the sex of a baby in not incidental, it is integral, the infant IS male or IS female AND it is deeper than genitals, despite our author’s flippant reductionism. “Gender” or as most of us used to say the “sex” of a person goes all the way down to the DNA, and I would argue to the soul, which is the form of the body)….  As a newborn, your child’s potential is limitless (No it isn’t. Human beings are limited, contingent beings. We are not God. Here too, the strange notions of the cultural radicals are on full display. The simple fact is, no matter how unpleasant some think it is, human beings ARE limited and thus our potential is also limited. No matter how much our author might wish to leap a tall building in a single bound or be “genderless” (to use her term), she cannot. There are just some stubborn facts that get in the way of her pipe dream. Namely, we are not of unlimited potential and we ARE male or female. The world is full of possibilities that every person deserves to be able to explore freely, receiving equal respect and human dignity while maximizing happiness through individual expression. I wonder if our author would allow “offspring” to “explore freely” the owning of slaves, or the thrill of “maximizing happiness” through the “individual expression” of engaging in human trafficking or leading a genocidal campaign in a foreign land. Just asking. But her vague and wide open notions here allow such a question. Surely “she” (can I call her that) has some lines in mind that should not be crossed? But if she does, does it not mean she is limiting the “limitless potentials” she celebrates for every newborn?  

With infant gender assignment, in a single moment your baby’s life is instantly and brutally (Oh please) reduced from such infinite (there’s that word again)  potentials down to one concrete set of expectations and stereotypes, and any behavioral deviation from that will be severely punished (Oh please) —…That doctor (and the power structure behind him) plays a pivotal role in imposing those limits on helpless infants, without their consent, and without your informed consent as a parent. This issue deserves serious consideration by every parent, (no it doesn’t) because no matter what gender identity your child ultimately adopts, infant gender assignment has effects that will last through their whole life. I would like to say that I think the author is seeking to “limit my infinite potential” by trying to coerce me into ignoring the obvious, she is  “imposing” silliness on me and then (as the cultural radicals are more than capable of doing) threatening to “severely punish” any “behavioral deviation” by me against their politically correct agenda. In other words, doesn’t she want to break the very rules she announces? Does she not seek to impose an agenda on doctors and folks like me, whom she says commit the crime of imposing an agenda on others?

….Infant gender assignment might just be Russian roulette with your baby’s life. (Oh for heaven’s sake, such over the top rhetoric. But since she raised the issue of taking life I would like to point out that the cultural radicals are the one who have the body-count, in the hundreds of millions, through their advocacy and funding of abortion which really DOES kill babies). 

For the sake of thy sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world.


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To: OldNewYork

where at least one couple has refused to tell even close relatives the baby’s sex

...they must have some very stupid relatives...either that, or they are raving moonbats...

...I wonder which it is...


41 posted on 07/31/2014 2:48:30 PM PDT by IrishBrigade (')
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To: Tax-chick

“There never was such a person as Leon Trotsky, comrade.”

That would be Leona Trotsky to you.../s


42 posted on 07/31/2014 2:52:45 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Tax-chick

Liberals won’t be satisfied till we all reproduce by
asexual budding and then they will still go on about
being pollinated against the will.


43 posted on 07/31/2014 2:55:09 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

Oh, did she change his mind about their gender?


44 posted on 07/31/2014 3:44:14 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: markomalley

Author of Slate article - Christin Scarlett Milloy

(I'm thinking her next article might point out the vicious, despotic tyranny of parents -- I mean, the two breeding agents -- who will later dictatorially impose potty-training on their gender-imposed spawn, even if their offspring chooses not to go down that "potty-trained" route.)

45 posted on 07/31/2014 3:56:03 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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To: Tax-chick

did she change his mind about their gender?

No, Stalin did with an ice axe.
But that was later, much later.


46 posted on 07/31/2014 4:12:55 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Heart-Rest

Dang, that’s a homely ... er ... young person.


47 posted on 07/31/2014 4:13:17 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: tet68

Heh.


48 posted on 07/31/2014 4:13:35 PM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: IrishBrigade

It could be a little bit from column A, a little bit from column B. Prayers for the child for being born into a social experiment, rather than a family.


49 posted on 07/31/2014 6:09:17 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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