Sexual
Chaos … Is there no end?
Published in Marietta (GA) Daily Journal, 3/10/19
A message to
three men whom I admire, U.S. Senators Isakson and Perdue, and my U.S. Rep.
Barry Loudermilk: Please tell the
federal government to keep its hands off my grand-daughters, all 7 of them.
If those
granddaughters wish to join the military, I hope they will, but I don’t want
them in combat with men. Neither do I
want the government ever to require that they register for military service.
One
of those granddaughters can scale a mountain as skillfully as a mountain lion. She has a degree in Outdoor Leadership. One of her sisters treasures a photograph in
which the sister is posing with her first deer, the first deer she ever shot
dead, that is.
None
of my granddaughters are shrinking violets, but if any of their fathers (my 2
sons and 2 sons-in-law) ever suggest it’s ok for them to engage in combat,
we’ll have a talk. My granddaughters
have total authority in the matter, but I still have an opinion plus the testimony
of nature, physiological science, and common, walking around horse sense.
Women
and men are different. Is it not
incredible how controversial such an assertion has become? Because we have perverted the word “equality,”
we now see it trivialized. Don’t
withdraw from the word “perverted.” It
merely means “distorted, twisted, or deviated from the norm.” “Equality under the law” means we embrace the
ideal that when we’re standing or sitting in front of a judge or jury, the
floor is wondrously level. It doesn’t
mean that in our daily interactions we’re to abandon every ounce of common
sense we possess, all for the impossible social goal of equality. Equal we aren’t.
Our
deviation from the classical definition of equality has led to the cry that sexual
differences are to be ignored, that masculinity is chauvinistic, that
marriage-centric households are passé, that science is wrong about chromosomes,
and that men and women together in trenches is just dandy.
I’m
sure that if I were in the trenches with a woman, I would be thinking about
protecting the woman as much as hitting my enemy target. I’m confident that 99 percent of the men I
know, including the 20- and 30-somethings, think the same.
“But
that’s the way you men were taught.” No,
that’s the way we were made. It’s also
what we see. My wife can birth children;
I can’t. I can sing baritone; she can’t. What’s happening is rebellion against nature
and norms. As our favorite philosopher
Woody Allen put it (after caught dishonoring a norm), “The heart wants what the
heart wants.”
My
wife could also run the world. I wish
she could be president. Oh, she could
command the troops! Her hold on the
broad picture and its details would be firm and sure. But that doesn’t mean she is equipped to do
the task of a soldier.
Sexual
chaos stretches far beyond the military issue.
It has led to cheap sex and the decline of marriage, in fact an absolute
marriage deficit. According to the
University of Virginia’s Institute for American Values, the out of marriage
birthrate went from 13 percent in 1985 to 44 percent in 2010. Writing for the Bloomberg News, former
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen called this statistic a recipe for poverty.
Still
more areas reflect the chaos, so include my 3 grandsons in the Watchful Papa
lineup. Schools around the country,
though maybe not too many in the Southeast, are teaching “gender-equity,” and
are inviting drag queens to their libraries to tell children glorious stories
of equality . Transgender ideologues are
making sure that “gender dysphoria” is given equal time, most likely causing
children to think about gender for the first time.
The Methodist Church has been affected. A strong, time-honored Christian denomination
is experiencing a good measure of turmoil over the ordination of LGBT clergy. Though delegates voted in a recent conference
to strengthen their ban on same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy, resistance
continues.
Fake genders are
multiplying. For 5 decades I’ve taught
that personal pronouns, unlike the nouns to which they refer, are a finite
group, a snooty, closed-class group of words that doesn’t admit new
members. They still are. But some people still dream, resist, and
pervert.
Sexual innovators will
always be with us, as well as the elevators of the unnatural to the
natural. The results will be the same:
craziness and sexual confusion. But I
for one will protect those I love most and will resist the chaos.
Meanwhile … Help, Senators
Isakson and Perdue and Rep. Loudermilk. Help!
Roger Hines
3/6/19
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