It Didn’t Have to Come to This
Published in Marietta (GA) Daily Journal, 2/20/21
Oh, the
craziness that abounds. Conservatives just aren’t good at protesting and
hollering about it. For one thing, they’re at work. They’re not college kids or
liberals with time on their hands. Consequently the loudmouths are winning.
Conservatives are learning to speak up, however. They’ve just about had enough.
Readers
might recall that many months ago I reported on a visit I made to a Target
store. I’ll review just a few details.
The
visit was made to find out if I (a male) could use their ladies’ restroom. I was naïve to think their answer would be no.
I had read that Target was leading the way in the battle for open bathrooms but
doubted it was true. No corporation particularly in the South would ever go
that far with “equity” (the new word of choice), diversity, openness,
transgenderism, gender-denial and all the other lofty goals that progressives wear
on their sleeves and that deplorables like me are supposedly so ignorant of.
Was
I wrong! Entering the store I approached three ladies who looked authoritative
standing in front of the cashier lines. I asked if I were allowed to use the
ladies’ restroom. Turning to me, the youngest of the trio said, “Sir, you may
use the restroom you identify with.”
“What
do you mean by identify with? “ I asked.
“I
mean that if you identify with a particular restroom you may enter it.” (In 10th
grade English that’s called being redundant.)
But
the bathroom issue is history, some argue. There are more serious issues.
That’s true unless you have daughters and granddaughters and understand how
sick and evil people can be.
Let’s put the issue in a context that perhaps
our new president and his supporters can buy into. While their holy trinity is
still abortion, race, and socialism – or is it grievance, victimhood, and rage?
– they also like to chant, “Follow the science,” so let’s follow along but ask
some questions.
Think
hard. How many genders are there? Progressives (what a misnomer for those who
think rebellion against nature is progress) are now saying there are three:
males, females, and non-binary. Could there be four? How many does it take to
produce a baby? Since when did “identifying with” anything change biology?
Wherever he lies buried, Aristotle, the father of scientific reasoning, is
either scoffing or shaking his head in disbelief. No, this issue is not dead. If you think it is, look at the long list of
President Biden’s executive orders. You’ll see that one of those orders does
not follow science but literally rejects biological science. It attempts to re-set
human sexuality. It would deserve a loud
hoot if its consequences were not so serious, namely confused children and
teens.
Let’s
follow the science with pregnancy as well. Let’s look at the pictures of weeks-old
unborn babies, long dismissed by radical feminists and now by a president, as
“tissue” that’s “not viable.” Question: how “viable” is a happy, healthy, three-month-old
baby that was allowed birth? Answer: He or she is no more “viable” and no less
dependent than the baby that was aborted. If Americans had truly followed
science and accepted what sonograms showed us, perhaps we would not have
aborted over 62 million unborn babies since that fateful year, 1974.
How
did it come to this? How did we arrive at the sexual chaos that pervades the
culture? However it happened, there’s hope. As recently as 2019 Dr. Paul McHugh,
psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins University declared that sex changes are
biologically impossible. In Cornwall, England Dr. Tammie Downs has an
increasing following of other doctors who are boldly moving toward her pro-life
position.
There’s
more hope. Of the 17 women elected to Congress in 2020, 16 of them are pro-life
conservative Republicans who also reject transgender politics. The female
governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, is strongly pro-life and anti-same sex
marriage. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ run for Arkansas governor should also
encourage conservatives.
I
had rather be canceled by a firing squad than to yield to the craziness of
“de-programming,” “transformational re-set,” and all of the other
anti-intellectualism of the left. Some things are more precious than life and
one of them is freedom of speech and conscience.
“Follow
the science” is a bumper sticker chant totally unheeded by those who chant it.
It leads to the shoddy science of Planned Parenthood and to the total
anti-reality of the transgender movement.
After all, the word
science (from Latin, scio, meaning “I
know”) actually means knowledge. And the greatest of scientists, or knowers,
have always disagreed with each other. Suffice it to say that “science” devoid
of common sense and reality is suspect. We best not follow it.
Roger Hines
February 15, 2021