With
barely three months left of his tenure as the President of the United States,
Barack Obama is fighting tooth and nail to deal one final blow to the core fabric
of family in his country. As we reported
in 2009, in the early days of Mr Obama’s presidency: “Indeed just a few minutes after [Obama’s]
inauguration, his staff posted his agendas concerning homosexuality and
abortion on the White House website. The postings also included his avowed
decision to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act” (http://churcharise.blogspot.com.ng/2009/03/re-is-obama-antichrist.html ). His latest
act, in June, is the announcement
by the Pentagon that openly transgender people could now serve in the nation’s
armed forces (http://tinyurl.com/z84sz6y).
But the big battle is in schools,
directly affecting the critical, coming generation. In his final salvo in that sector, in May, Mr
Obama announced new rules requiring that public schools
allow transgender students to use toilet facilities consistent with whatever
gender status they claim, irrespective of the gender listed in their birth
certificates. Eleven states, led by
Texas went to court at that time. With
Obama’s hot aggression against non-compliant states, especially against North
Carolina, which passed a law directly opposing the new rule, ten other states, led by Nebraska have on
July 8, also gone to court requesting “legal clarity” in the interpretation of existing laws.
The core of the matter is the meaning
of the word “sex” in Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which outlaws
discrimination “on the basis of sex”. In
2014, the Obama administration had clarified that the existing federal ban on
discrimination on the basis of sex
“extends to claims of discrimination based on gender identity or failure
to conform to stereotypical notions of masculinity or femininity” – in other
words, transgenders. The new rule in May
was portrayed as an innocuous build-up on this definition.
The lawsuits from the states is however
challenging this interpretation by Mr Obama’s federal government. According to the new lawsuit: “The
legislative history of Title IX reveals no intent to include ‘gender identity’
within the meaning of ‘sex….The term ‘sex’, as used in Title IX and its
implementing regulations, means male and female, under the traditional binary
conception of sex consistent with one’s genes and anatomy.”
In the meantime, the Obama government is
aggressively using every power in its custody to push its position while the
matter lingers in the courts. States who refuse to allow transgenders to
whatever toilets they choose in public schools stand to lose enormous amount of
federal funding. For instance, North Carolina
stands to lose up to $4.8bn if it does not comply with the federal government’s
rules on transgenders. Hence the high stakes attached to the lawsuits.
So far while state and federal
legislative houses have generally supported the traditional position that “sex”
in Title IX is referring to the gender assigned at birth based on anatomy, the
Courts have largely tended to support the transgenders, with hefty fines
imposed on non-complying authorities or individuals, as we have reported in
several previous issues. It seems clear that the matter will not be laid to
rest till it reaches the Supreme Court.
It’s amazing that ordinarily intelligent people could argue on such
self-evident point that the male and female genders are basic character of
life-forms on earth; and needed for the sustenance of life. This is a clear example of people being given
over by God to “strong delusion” (2 Thess 2:11)
What ‘s particularly amazing is how arguments used to support one crazy
notion in one case can be advanced to support another crazy idea, directly contradicting
the first one, simply as it fits into the new world order agenda.
For instance while people are actively encouraged to change their minds
on what gender they think they are (with free medical services for so-called
sex-change therapies, see last edition of CA!), it is taboo to suggest that
homosexuals are not just “born that way,” and that they too can be encouraged
to change their impression of their sexuality.
Once
in a while though, even from the very core of advocates for the spurious
“rights” of deviants in society, truth and common-sense often breaks through,
opening previously blind eyes and producing radical turn-arounds.
Such was the case with Maya Dillard
Smith, the State Director of the rather
notorious ACLU in Georgia. Maya Dillard
Smith by virtue of her office had been a staunch advocate for transgenders’
right and all that. She however got a first-hand feel for the situation on the
other side of field, where normal people also seek to protect their rights to a
sane society. As recalled by Ms Smith
herself, she was jolted back to the real world, when “three transgender young
adults, over six feet [tall] with deep voices” entered the female toilet with
her two elementary school-age daughters.
According to Ms Smith: “My children
were visibly frightened, concerned about their safety and left asking lots of
questions for which I, like many parents, was ill-prepared to answer.”
Confronted with such reality, Maya
Smith, who is one of only three black State Directors of the ACLU, wrote to resign her appointment.
If
things continue on the present trajectory in “God’s own country”, then every
other objective measure of reality in life, including age, skin colour, even
specie, would soon become relative. For
instance, adults who claim they actually are children, (eg. See Wolschtt of Toronto in CA! Vol 18 Q
4) could start filing for protection of their rights, say to participate in
children’s competitions. Does all this call for laughter or weeping?
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