Rebuking Jesus—Liberal Elites Know Best
"Let me stop you right there, Jesus. I want to acknowledge your statements are transphobic, and they perpetrate violence against trans people, ok?"
Our sensory-overloaded society has a hard time focusing. We go from scandal to scandal, emergency to emergency, outrage to outrage. There is no time for serious reflection and introspection—no time for mourning and repentance. It is no wonder we have become so easily deceived and manipulated.
The swindle of the radical gender ideology is a perfect example. This week, UC Berkeley School of Law Professor Khiara Bridges testified at a Senate Judiciary hearing titled, "A Post-Roe America: The Legal Consequences of the Dobbs Decision." Of course, everyone expected the radical abortion position that refuses to acknowledge the humanity of babies in the womb at any point. That sort of callous disregard for human life, even after birth, has become a hallmark of the liberal elites that permeate our institutions of higher learning. What is new is this attempt to present a fact-free, fantastical account of reality as an uncontroverted fact that everyone must pretend to accept or else.
In speaking about the killing of a baby in the womb, Prof. Bridges repeatedly said things like, "I think that the person with the capacity for pregnancy has value, and they should have the ability to control what happens."
To speak of mothers as "the person with the capacity of pregnancy" is deranged. But this is what is being demanded of all of us. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) clashed with the new gender ideology golden statue as he tried to probe Prof. Bridges on the matter.
HAWLEY: "You've referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy. Would that be women?"
BRIDGES: "Many women, cis women, have the capacity for pregnancy. Many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy. There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy as well as nonbinary people who are capable of pregnancy."
HAWLEY: "So this isn't really a women's rights issue, it's a, what?'
BRIDGES: "We can recognize that this impacts women while also recognizing that it impacts other groups. Those things are not mutually exclusive, Sen. Hawley."
HAWLEY: "So, your view is that the core of this, this right then, is about what?"
BRIDGES: "So, I want to recognize that your line of questioning, am, is transphobic, and it opens up trans people to violence."
It went downhill from that. Must-watch exchange below:
Did you learn the lesson? To ask reasonable questions to an academic giving her opinion at a congressional hearing is to do violence to a whole group of people. To state facts like "only women can get pregnant" is intolerable.
Biological reality is now transphobic. Anyone stating it in any setting must be strongly rebuked. For example, Concerned Women for America's (CWA) CEO and President Penny Nance was suspended from Twitter for saying, "Another woman displaced by a man," with a link to a news story about young female athletes complaining about competing against Lia Thomas, who as recently as 2020 was competing in the university's men's swimming team.
Today's radical ideology demands we rebuke Jesus. Remember Jesus' answer to the Pharisees when asked about divorce? "Have you not read," He answered, "that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female …" (Matthew 19:4). In 2022, Prof. Bridges would jump right in, "Let me stop you right there, Jesus. I want to acknowledge your statements are transphobic, and they perpetrate violence against trans people, ok?"
Reader, I want to encourage you to recognize what is happening in our culture. There is a spiritual reality undergirding everything you are witnessing. You are being pushed to choose this day whom you will serve. Life or death, truth or lies, reality vs. personal fantasies, the true God vs. the made-up gods of this present age, like this silly gender ideology idol. You must choose.
So choose wisely. "[A]s for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" (Joshua 24:15).