Same Advice for a Very Different Society

As I viewed the video clip of the "celebration" outside the Supreme Court this morning, my first thought was that it looked like a Jr. High Dance.  The guys all on one side and the girls on the other . . . and as I listened to the comments, especially from the two women who are raising four sons, speak several times about all of this being for the children, it only confirmed what I already know.  This is about the children!  American children have been losing the innocence of childhood for years, but today it became official.

As I sit here writing and listening to the next step in the direction, YHWH is leading me, I am becoming very meditative and contemplative.  I want this to just be novel or a dream.  I don't hate the LGBT community, but today everything became reversed.  Now, if I don't embrace their lifestyle, I'm a hater, but I'm not.  I don't necessarily embrace the rules of marriage set forth by some religious groups either, but speaking against them has never been a problem in America.

I can openly say, I think the religious groups who believe divorce and remarriage are wrong, and I am not socially obligated to find a politically correct way to say it.  I can just say, I don't agree.  I can also, openly say, I don't believe in polygamy, but I'm not sure if I really disagree with it.  I've been a second wife after divorce, and to be honest, it usually feels that the first wife still has priority except I have to cook his meals and do laundry and she just gets a nice check in the mail, so I'm not sure we're so far from polygamy anyway.  I can openly say I'm against adultery, and our "evolving views" President, clearly hasn't evolved on that one according to the Patraeus situation.  I can openly say that Congressman shouldn't send pictures of themselves in their underwear to women, and the government seems to agree.   So, if my religious beliefs do not applaud homosexuality, I'm labeled a homophobe; yet my religious beliefs do not applaud adultery and fornication, but no one is calling me a heterophobe.

Once upon a time in a not so distant land, it was okay for little boys and little girls to think each other had "cooties," without having a gender identity beyond being normal boys and girls.  And the feisty little boy that did sneak a kiss or pull a braid, wasn't labeled an offender, he was simply being a little boy.  Every Jr. High dance began with the boys on one side of the gym and the girls giggling on the other side, but it wasn't where we all stayed.  I don't know if anyone had a secret gender issue.  I do believe in my heart, if I were in school today, many of us not so stereotypical kids would have been set apart, regarding gender issues, and invited to become a part of "the community."  This legal move will actually marginalize kids who are late bloomers, those who do not gender identify according to stereotype, and those who are simply less confident.    

By High School, I hung out mostly with boys and I knew I was a girl and felt like one, but we were all just friends.  Those were the days before children's cereal was advertised to influence.  If children's programming did contain sexual content, we didn't know it.  Those were also before the days children were kept institutionally for several hours be programmed for herd mentality, through the autonomous phase of childhood.  The reality is, there is a fairly large section of our society that truly does not define ourselves within the limits of their sexual interests and gender leanings, but somehow those members of society have now been set aside, to be disregarded and be the only group with no tax break.

I'm including a link to an article I found interesting, as well as the video I viewed this morning.