ChristianGovernance Report – November 20, 2010
Children need security and direction, not pandering and confusion
By Tim Bloedow

Some people have also billed November 20th as International Transgender Day of Remembrance.

What a sad state of affairs our modern western culture is.

Sex activists wear adult clothes but they have never grown up. Instead of recognizing natural reality and truth, they embrace perversion. When young people express confusion about their sexuality, these adolescent adults want to affirm them in the most perverse expressions of this confusion instead of guiding them into clarity and truth.

Maybe some of these adults are predatory beasts who want to groom and desensitize youth and children to be their victims. Perhaps they are simply fools. But what a tragedy that on any day, let alone Universal Children’s Day, another group of sex activists wants to celebrate their confusion and a perversion that many say is a threat to children.

In Canada this “transgender” movement is now being championed by a piece of federal legislation, Bill C-389, that would put protections against discrimination for “transgendered” people into the Canadian Human Rights Act and into the Criminal Code. Yet another example of normalizing, protecting and affirming something destructive and repugnant.

One of the greatest areas of conflict surrounding transgendered rights is bathroom access. Some men who feel that they are women want to be able to use female bathrooms, but women walk in and see a man in their bathroom and file complaints or call the police. They don’t know if the guy is a sick pervert who wants to rape them, or a harmless “transsexual.” Of much greater concern, then, is the prospect of people’s little girls facing such an experience in a public bathroom.

Homosexualists and other sex activists play down these concerns despite the heavy preoccupation with sex that they demonstrate and the lack of restraint exemplified in the sex activist sub-culture with filthy websites and demands that prostitution be decriminalized and that public sex be tolerated. Who is going to trust the spokesmen for this Movement when it comes to the security of our children in public bathrooms?

And all this is highlighted, celebrated and advocated in an annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance on the same day as Universal Children’s Day!

We should remember that the victims of this agenda are not simply the potential victims of sexual assault. As indicated in my initial comments above, those who think they are “transgendered” are also tragic victims. They are not transgendered. They are confused. They are lost. They need the guidance and help from real men and real women. They need protection, including by the law, from those who would sexually, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually abuse them by affirming them in their confusion. The person who drew my attention to this Transgender Day of Remembrance was a letter writer in the Ottawa Citizen who identified herself as an Executive Director of PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). What kind of parent or friend affirms a young person in his or her sexual confusion? It’s staggering that this abusive mentality is being normalized through euphemisms, rhetoric, emotional manipulation and scientific dishonesty.

The safest place for children is under the responsibility and authority of their biological parents in an intact family. Most Canadian youth still say they hope to enjoy that ideal. It’s very hard work, though, and most youth don’t have suitable role models to know how to succeed at this challenge. But the ideal is possible, and it can be normative again… but only through a Christian reformation because it is all but impossible for two human beings to live together for their entire earthly existence without the help of God. Even many professing Christians without the external support of a Church that follows through on accountability and discipline and a State that protects marriage too often surrender to the basest expressions of their character, and walk away from their vows.

On the other hand, Christians who have a clear understanding of the future, who understand the Biblical responsibility of legacy, who take seriously their responsibility to raise godly children and to leave a comprehensive inheritance to the next generation, will, with the grace of God, rise above the pull of temptation and weakness, and persevere. We have to. There are many reasons to do so, and one of the most important is our children and our children’s children.

Click here to see an outrageous example of parenting. This mother is also a teacher. It’s hideous to think that such a morally backward woman could influence more children than her own hyper-sexualized daughter. But that is simply a reflection of our age. Just look around.

Thankfully, in the face of this sad cultural decay, some Christians are raising their children in truth and righteousness, training their boys to be men and their girls to be women… and this movement may be growing. One could cite or reference a variety of examples. We have included a couple of illustrations below of this vision as it is being worked out today by some of these Christians. These are just two snapshots. Many other selections could have been chosen.

They may paint a picture that you find too idealistic. Your job, then, is to test it – and your current views – against the Scriptures and see what the Bible says. Never use your own frailty and failures as the standard by which to test new information. Test everything against the Scriptures, and be encouraged that if an idealistic challenge is Scriptural, then you know that God provides the strength to pursue and achieve it. Our children are counting on it.

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There is an alarming rise in effeminacy amongst young men in our nation. And the increase has nothing to do with genetics. The issue is moral, cultural, and, most importantly, theological. The collective social conscience of the meaning of Christian manhood is quickly becoming the stuff of story books. The abandonment of teaching on family orthopraxy from the pulpit, and the exchange of fundamental moral issues for short-term political victories by too many Christians who are engaged in culture wars, has created an environment where there is precious little practical difference between the way the church and the world view manhood and womanhood.

The fact is that our boys are confused because their fathers are confused. The gender-blending of the last twenty-five years is reaping an alarming toll on men, and if things don’t change, the worst may be yet to come.

The answer to the problem of effeminacy in boys and leaderless men is not going into the forest and beating a drum. Nor is the answer found in psychologically driven behavior modification theory.

Christian manhood must prevail. But for it to prevail we need a generation of men and women more concerned with the biblical vision of manhood than the contemporary view presented in the government schools, on MTV, and in too many pulpits across America. And we need men and women willing to stand – sometimes alone – against the wave of androgyny and social confusion.

The good news is that feminism in women and male effeminacy are self-defeating. They cannot be sustained. They are ultimately doomed to destruction. But along the way to their own self-annihilation, they can leave a devastating toll in the lives of our sons and daughters. They can wreak havoc on an entire culture. And this is where things stand now.

History is behind Christian manhood, which is why it must be studied both theologically and historically. In this message, Why Christian Manhood Must Prevail, I explain the issue and seek to encourage fathers and mothers who aspire to raise their sons to stand against the tide of effeminacy and embrace a vision of noble manhood.

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Introducing ‘Joyfully at Home,’ by Jasmine Baucham
Get Biblical Answers to the Tough Questions Girls Face

We know that the chief purpose and end of man is “to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.” (1) But how does this calling apply to daughters living at home? And how do daughters and parents explain that application to their extended families, pastors, and loved ones?

Jasmine Baucham, the oldest daughter of Christian speaker, author, and church elder Dr. Voddie Baucham, answers these important questions in her brand-new book, Joyfully at Home. Click Here to Purchase.

By age fourteen, Jasmine Baucham’s little-girl dreams of becoming a mommy were supplanted by bigger visions of winning the Pulitzer Prize or an Oscar and appearing on Oprah. She began viewing the calling of home and marriage as second-rate. Then her world was radically challenged by the Scriptures, as she went from craving personal renown to craving to please the Lord through delighting in his design for the joyful home – an even bigger dream, she realized, than stardom.

With humor, humility, and heart, Jasmine offers insight from her own struggles and victories as a young woman, tackling the tough questions Christian girls face and offering practical counsel on how to overcome false views of marriage, husbands, and singleness.

In her introduction to Joyfully at Home, Jasmine writes: “I want to encourage young women to shift their focus, to turn their hearts towards the home, to be enthusiastic and vibrant, purposeful and driven, meticulous and passionately focused in pursuit of the Lord’s will for their time at home. I want them to grasp the bigger picture: A vision for the home as a hub of ministry and discipleship, as a training ground for life ahead, as a place where they can bless those nearest and dearest to them, and, as a result, turn that blessing outward towards others in their church and community.”

Through Joyfully at Home you will learn how to:

* Become a good daughter to your Heavenly Father
* Become a good daughter to your parents
* Become a good sister to your siblings
* Help create a joyful home atmosphere
* Find joyful contentment
* Overcome a false view of marriage, husbands, singleness, and self
* Overcome a false view of God’s sovereignty
* Embrace the “Bigger Picture” of life
* Explain to others (and to yourself) why you choose to stay at home
* Answer the “What Ifs?” and “Are You Judging Me?” questions
* Understand how ministry in the home coincides with the Great Commission
* And much more!

Read Table of Contents & Introduction Online and Purchase Joyfully at Home