LET’S REASON TOGETHER
Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the Lord…” We have arrived at a place in society where individuals ask to be identified by whatever they consider their gender preference. In some cases men wish to be identified as women and vice versa. The following scenarios will illustrate the danger and social hazards of such a declassification of gender absolutes. Does a person have the right to apply these same principles to age? For example, can an eight-year-old boy DEMAND to be treated as a thirty-year-old man, simply because he FEELS he is a thirty-year-old man? If we are going to remove gender restrictions to accommodate gender preference, why not do the same with age? If a person is 70 years old and INSISTS on being treated as a four-year-old, are they required to pay the adult fares on an airplane or cruise? Isn’t this a type of discrimination according to the transgender logic? Should eleven-year-old girls be allowed to buy liquor simply because they identify themselves as twenty-five? There are hundreds of scenarios where this type of logic can lead to chaos at best and life-threatening situations at worst. I am not addressing the morality of the transgender phenomenon at this moment. I am addressing the inherent dangers when a society seeks to accommodate every personal preference and feeling. I think we all would do well to heed The Lord’s admonition to Israel, to reason together about such matters. With much love in The Beautiful Jesus, pastor john