As
most of you are well aware, our world is in moral meltdown, and hardly a
day goes by when we are not slapped in the face with this fact. Note
this title from The Guardian: “French MPs vote to ban abortion websites that intimidate women.” The article then goes on to say, “The
socialist government’s proposal seeks to criminalise any websites that
deliberately mislead, intimidate or ‘exert psychological or moral
pressure’ on a woman seeking information about terminating a pregnancy,
with punishment of up to two years in prison and a €30,000 fine.” Of course, we would fully agree and condemn any attempt to “deliberately mislead” or “intimidate,” but the phrase, “exert psychological or moral pressure”
is open to interpretation and troubling. Will telling the truth about
the sanctity of life from a biblical perspective be classified as “moral
pressure”? I think that we can see the dangers this presents to those
who dare preach the truth in our “politically correct” world.
Another country that is taking the lead in abandoning biblical values is
Canada. The government of Alberta earlier this year began a social
engineering campaign to indoctrinate the province’s children with an
LGBTQ agenda. As a November 1, 2016 CBC News story points out, the
Alberta Teacher’s Association has picked up the baton with PRISM, a
manuscript instructing teachers how to propagandize children in their
grand social experiment. “A new toolkit to assist Alberta teachers with
LGBTQ discussions is being slammed by critics for suggesting drag shows
could be staged in schools and students be addressed as ‘comrades’
rather than boys and girls. Those are just two of the proposals in a
150-page document from the Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA). The
‘Prism Toolkit for Safe and Caring Discussions’ aims to help teachers
create classrooms and curriculum that are more LGBTQ inclusive.”
It is suggested on page 101 of this toolkit that, “Students may want to invite local drag queens to come to the school to teach make-up and hair techniques.”
This is only one of the more outrageous proposals, but it is perhaps
the more subtle suggestions that are most dangerous. “Normalizing
content can be more helpful than the token ‘gay’ lesson as it is
embedded in our regular practice” (p. 115). No subject is left out.
Everyday language and practice is to be transformed. Pronouns such as
he, she, him, her, himself and herself are to be replaced with: ze, xe,
per, zir, xem hir, xyrself, perself, etc. No my friends, these are not misspellings,
but new pronouns being shoved down the throats of unsuspecting and
vulnerable children who don’t understand what is being done!
Psychiatrist Dr. Miriam Grossman worked in the health services
department at UCLA and witnessed firsthand the activism found in
academia. She explains where this is headed in her powerful book, Unprotected:
“Their goal is an androgynous culture, where the differences between
male and female are discounted or denied, and the bond between them
robbed of singularity” (p. xxi).
Ontario is another Canadian province in meltdown. “Up to four people
will be able to be recognized as the parents of a child without a court
order, if all parties entered into a written pre-conception agreement
to be parents of the child together. The birth parent is required to be
one of the parties to the agreement” (Ontario Newsroom, Nov.
29, 2016). This bill also changes the Children’s Law Reform Act and
Vital Statistics Act to “use gender-neutral terminology, where
possible.”
But it gets worse! The Grand
Marshall for the Ottawa Gay Pride Parade this past year was a
gender-confused boy who sees himself as a girl. As Dr. Michelle
Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians, explained
to LifeSiteNews, “This unfortunate 10-year-old child is being
exploited by adult transgender activists in order to normalize their own
mental illness and procure special rights.”
Many are blind to what is happening and are falling for the propaganda
being pumped out by these activists and supported by a sympathetic news
media, but these behaviors are NOT normal. A gullible public doesn’t
realize how carefully crafted propaganda strategies are manipulating its
thinking, and anyone who honestly disagrees with them is labeled “homophobic” or “homo-haters”! Such intimidation tactics are dishonest. The ones who truly hate are those who promote dangerous behaviors. Since when is it love to encourage someone to live in a nightmarish fantasy world?
One of America’s most respected psychiatrists is Dr. Paul McHugh, who is
a University Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine. Regarding this subject, he explained in the Wall Street Journal: “The
transgendered suffer a disorder of ‘assumption’ like those in other
belief disorders familiar to psychiatrists. With the transgendered, the
disordered assumption is that the individual differs from what seems
given in nature—namely one’s maleness or femaleness. Other kinds of
disordered assumptions are held by those who suffer from anorexia and
bulimia nervosa, where the assumption that departs from physical reality
is the belief by the dangerously thin that they are overweight.”
He also wrote: “Yet policy makers and the media are doing no
favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their
confusions as a right in need of defending rather than as a mental
disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention. This
intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental
disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment
is simply mistaken—it does not correspond with physical reality. The
second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes” (WSJ, June 12, 2014).
And what are those “grim psychological outcomes”? Dr. McHugh points out
that in a large comprehensive Swedish study, individuals who are 10
years out after going through reassignment surgery to satisfy their sad delusions have a rate of suicide 20 times higher than that of the average population! So is it hate or is it love to tell people the truth and try to get them needed help?
Yet every kind of unnatural behavior is being promoted among our
children and grandchildren. God tells us through the writings of the
Apostle Paul: “And even as they did not like to retain God in their
knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind. . .” (Romans 1:28).
J.B. Phillips translates this verse: “Moreover, since they considered
themselves too high and mighty to acknowledge God, he allowed them to
become the slaves of their degenerate minds, and to perform
unmentionable deeds.”
In the introduction of PRISM, the toolkit for Alberta’s
teachers to use in indoctrinating other people’s children, note this
bizarre explanation: “Many acronyms are used, but the most recognizable
and common is LGBTQ. While this acronym is useful and has important
historical roots, it has been criticized for not being inclusive of all
marginalized identities. A more inclusive version of that acronym is
LGBTTTPQQAI+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Transsexual,
Two-Spirit, Pansexual, Queer, Questioning, Asexual, Aromantic, Ally,
Intersex, etc.…); however, this acronym can make conversations about
this topic cumbersome.
The Alberta Teachers’ Association uses Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM)
to be inclusive of all identities and ways of being. You will find this
acronym throughout ATA materials. Materials adapted from outside
sources may still use the LGBTQ acronyms or variations thereof. Outside
of this resource, you may encounter other acronyms such as MOGAI
(Marginalized Orientations, Gender Identities and Intersex) or QUILTBAG
(Queer/Questioning, Undecided, Intersex, Lesbian, Trans
(Transgender/Transsexual), Bisexual, Asexual, and/or Gay)” (p. 7).
Can we not see where our world is headed? Can we not see that these
are not normal times and that God’s patience will soon wear out? Can we
not see that disaster lurks right over the horizon and that the storm
clouds are building? Can we not see our need to turn fully to Him?
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