Posted on 06/21/2016 6:10:06 AM PDT by marshmallow
Earlier this year I came across an “all gender” restroom in the airport of a large American city. I had never seen such a thing. I snapped a picture. It struck me as strange, certainly not something I would expect to find in Oklahoma, for example. That may be about to change.
The media have been highlighting recent legal attempts in some states to keep boys out of girl’s restrooms and vice versa. This latest restroom controversy is a manifestation of the new battleground over “gender.” This battle, however, is about more than who can use which restroom. According to rules just issued by the Obama administration, public schools ought no longer to differentiate between boys and girls based on their biological sex, but now ought to acknowledge and accept their personal “gender identity.”
This is to be the basis for allowing them to choose which restroom to use. So-called gender identity, according to the gender theorists, is a matter of personal expression rather than biology. Consequently, if a boy self-identifies as a girl, then he ought to be allowed to use the girl’s restroom or locker room in any school that accepts government funding. It doesn’t take long to imagine the bizarre consequences that this way of thinking and establishing public policy and law will have in the future.
Efforts to resist the imposition of this gender ideology are already meeting stiff resistance from the federal government and powerful economic forces that are determined to advance their radical reinterpretation of human personhood and relationships. In recent years, many Americans were astounded by how rapidly public opinion, cultural standards and laws changed with regard to the acceptance of so-called homosexual marriage.
Today, anyone who questions the appropriateness of equating same-sex unions with traditional marriage is labeled a bigot, a homophobe and a “hater.” Stiff economic penalties and laws are being enacted that threaten individuals, businesses and other associations that dissent from this new radical orthodoxy that is being advanced by a powerful network of special interests.
What proponents called “marriage equality” was just the beginning. Gender ideology is the next tsunami that threatens to sweep away centuries of accepted human wisdom about the complementarity and real differences between men and women.
These differences are not merely about self-expression and personal choice. Science, philosophy, theology and the accumulated wisdom of every culture have recognized that these differences are rooted in something real and objective. They are rooted in biology and more fundamentally, they are rooted in the design of the Creator.
Pope Francis’ recent apostolic exhortation, “The Joy of Love,” acknowledges the threat that this new radical gender ideology poses. It was the subject of much discussion in the recent Synod of bishops on the family. Pope Francis writes, “Yet another challenge is posed by the various forms of an ideology of gender that ‘denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman and envisages a society without sexual differences, thereby eliminating the anthropological basis of the family. This ideology leads to educational programs and legislative enactments that promote a personal identity and emotional intimacy radically separated from the biological difference between male and female.Consequently, human identity becomes the choice of the individual, one that can also change over time.’”
As with every ideology this one asserts itself as beyond dispute and absolute. It envisions a brave new world in which the creature asserts himself as the creator of his own reality. This is demonic. Pope Francis continues, “It is one thing to be understanding of human weakness and the complexities of life, and another to accept ideologies that attempt to sunder what are inseparable aspects of reality. Let us not fall into the sin of trying to replace the Creator. We are creatures, and not omnipotent. Creation is prior to us and must be received as a gift. At the same time, we are called to protect our humanity, and this means, in the first place accepting it and respecting it as it was created”(Amoris Laetitia 56).
I am not an alarmist, but it seems clear to me that battle lines are being drawn very clear. And, these lines are about more than government overreach. This is a spiritual battle between Light and darkness.
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!
So, we’re just kinda waiting for the signs on the doors to get changed to read “WHATEVER”.
Too late...already happened with IVF. Human beings now create babies on their terms, not God's. Is it any surprise that they now want to identify their own gender on their terms, not God's?
Sure. In muzzie tradition and practice it is acceptable to rape young girls and take child brides. 0bama is just paving the way, and at the same time, providing Michael Robinson (aka "Michelle") legal cover for going into the Ladies room.
Transgender bathrooms - put there by those dedicated to destroying Christianity and the Family. Makes a great place for them to cruise for sex with your pre-teen sons as a side benefit. You know I’d say it s time to hit back. Get some signs made that cover the faggot bathroom signs and start placing them everywhere. A little Velcro and you’re good to go.
“Too late...already happened with IVF.”
Idiotic. Yeah, medical science helping couples conceive is what lead to al this. So how are you with other medical procedures? I mean, that bone marrow transplant is totally playing god.
Moron.
For those following this madness, check out the reviews of long-time feminist Susan Faludi’s new book about her father Stephen - a Holocaust survivor, a wife abuser and at the grand age of 75 or something became...Stephanie! Like a somewhat smart feminist, Faludi agrees with radical fems that this is just another fetish calling some guys and not really about little girls hiding within fat, hairy males.
Surprisingly, the NY Times gave it a positive review.
The next step will be to mainstream peodophiles.
I honestly didn’t see the bathroom issue coming. Gay marriage was obvious and it proceeded to be embraced universally by what I thought was a quick process, really, about ten years or so.
But the bathroom thing was over and done in like six months.
The left won the bathroom wars so quickly...they are going to be left standing there scratching their head, wondering, “what do we do now?”.
I’m sort of wondering the same thing. What will they do now?
And I guess I will assume that it will be immediately effective b/c only immediate will be faster than how they rolled out the victorious bathroom issue.
I am repeating Catholic teaching. Guess you think that’s moronic as well.
The thing is...I don’t really care if you do.
Arbitrary government, murders, perversions, insanity.
This is apparently “progress”.
The purpose of this crap is to destroy the set of values that the kids received from their parents and church. It pretends to be about “gender equality”, but isn’t. It’s to force us to accept the new world order or put us in jail.
My take? When in public I use restrooms to urinate or wash my hands. Should I EVER have a sudden need to produce something particularly odious and noisy I now have an option that I know will not offend anyone I give a damn about. That is a GOOD thing...
We have had gender neutral bathrooms for some time now.
They’re called Port-A Potties.
Port-o-potties are unisex (although not always). I believe we are talking about restrooms where more than one person enters at a time. If the government, schools, businesses, etc. want to cough up the money to provide numerous one-stall bathrooms, I have no problem with that (of course if it’s governmental money we’re actually the ones who are paying for it).
But don’t call them “Transgender Bathrooms”. There is no need for that label outside the door other than to push an agenda to make this normal on the rest of us.
The animals have the option of the bushes
Pax vobis.
Thanks cloud, but it really is like water off a duck’s back. Perhaps he didn’t understand the link I was trying to make (it seemed as if he thought I was saying one was directly connected to the other for example) and he is also probably ignorant of Church teaching on the matter.
SO TRUE. Your approach, water off the duck's back, really is the best way. How else could it be since you seem most secure in your faith?
I am always amazed at how INTERESTED so many Protestants are about what our Pope says, does, doesn't say and doesn't do. Why do they even care as Pope Francis has NOTHING to do with them or their faith?
I sometimes think that they forget that the Catholic Church was the institution that put together the New Testament.
I read about how difficult that was, trying to sort out all the words from all the writers: which were true, which were not, which were heretical and so on. It took the Church a long time to do that.
Yet the criticism about the Church is puzzling since Protestants didn't even exist until the mid-15th century. And there have been and are innumerable denominations of their Protestant faith. How UN-UNITED they are. I wonder if they think that DISUNITY is what Jesus wanted for Christianity. There were/are some 30,000 (Catholic count) to 40,000 (Protestant count) different Christian denomination over the last 400+ years. Hard to imagine.
I sometimes think that they forget that the Catholic Church was the FIRST institution of Christianity, begun by Jesus Christ, as is His followers, Christians. So odd.
Oh well, God sorts it all out, doesn't He?
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