Face it, man don't give birth to children, period

More and more people want to defy the natural laws, and say that they can do whatever they want, both with their bodies, as with what they have between their legs.

Take into account how this news reports that "a man" has given birth. You are amazed, until you read that the "man" used to be a woman.

The 27-year-old university graduate, who was born a woman but has had treatment to change his gender, gave birth to a girl in March last year, and admitted he had had to cope with concerns from his family.

The woman who turned herself to a man, should have remembered that man don't giver birth to babies, but this is once more an example that people, if able, will do unthinkable things to please their fallen nature.

He was born a woman but had been living as a man for five years. He had legally changed his name and gender and had been receiving hormone treatment, but decided to attempt to conceive with his male partner, from whom he has now separated, using his own eggs. 

He conceived after stopping hormone treatment that had deactivated his womb and gave birth to the baby he calls his “little angel” in March last year. His case is thought to be only the fourth in the world.

So, he was with a man, now they are separated,  and yet, they brought a child to the world. And this is totally crazy. In my mind, if this woman became a man to be with another woman, that would make case, but apparently, she became a man to be with another man!!!

I fear for the poor little baby. Having being borne into a dysfunctional family is worst than just being borne to a dysfunctional society.

And of course, that the mother comes to her senses, and stops trying to be a dad.

A third gender in Australian Passports

The Australian Federal government has fallen victim to the transgendered lobby, and have approved that their passports will not only display two genders, "Male" and "Female", but now, they have introduced a third one, "Undeterminate".

What are they thinking? This is not something that you can play around with. Imagine, I wake up one morning feeling like a man, the next, like a woman, and on the third day, I don't have an idea what I am!!!!

The decision was taken at the angst of Labor Senator Louise Pratt, who is herself partnered to a woman, who now is a man.

They say that this is a big win for transgendered individuals, but is it? This just shows that in our run away democratic and pluralistic society, 4% of the population (that's the figured given of the population who still can't decide their gender) can hold to ramson the rest of the country.

Read the news piece. I don't agree with this new trend. I am seeing society loosing its moral values and don't foresee the consequences.

Kids taking the decision for their parents regarding their sex

This story really sickens me. What if my daughter comes to me and says, "daddy, I am really a drug addict, and I can't help myself". Of course, I would be obliged to correct it. I have known kids who steal from early age, and who have done really bad stuff from an early age, yet, we don't encourage that.

This proves that sin is well entrenched in us from early age. We are borne in sin, and from an early age, we show signs of this sin pattern.

The worst thing is that the show portrays the parents as very understanding, and inclusive, yet, they portray the granddad as intolerant. Yet, the granddad is the only one who really stands for the right, while the parents, let their son, yes, SON, indulge in his sinful nature.

The show, is merely to satisfy people's desire to see how far things can be taken. People like to be shocked, and impressed.

I can see that this boy is struggling with his gender. Yet, do you really believe that a boy that age can put such arguments about his gender confusion? There must be something influencing him, yet, his parents have surrendered their parenting duties.

Some say that I am fixated by this issue, yet, now after the passing of gay marriage in New York, we find that the sexual stories now move onto children's sexuality. Don't you see the trend?

But I do have an issue with how the report starts:

Turns out there are parents in the news who do the right thing.

Is giving in to our kids deviant, or wrong desires, doing the right thing? Again, the granddad is right for standing for truth, yet, he is vilified.

It goes to show, that only those who call and do wrong, are accepted in this inclusive culture.

A Transgender Pastor in the Pulpit?

From the Albert Mohler Website.

What do you do when your pastor shows up in a new gender? That question is now faced by a United Methodist church in Maryland, and the issue of transgender persons is soon to confront all churches and denominations.

As The Baltimore Sun reports, the Rev. Ann Gordon is now presented as Rev. Drew Phoenix. The paper sets the issue clearly:

A year ago, the Rev. Ann Gordon received her routine reappointment as minister of a Charles Village Methodist congregation. Yesterday - after undergoing a sex-change operation and taking on a new symbolic name - the Rev. Drew Phoenix received another one-year contract to head St. John's United Methodist Church.

The paper also reported that the "reappointment" of the minister came after a 2 1/2-hour meeting with Methodist clergy "as well as an emotional open session." In the end, the bishop of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church decided that the church's moral code, known as the Book of Discipline, did not preclude the appointment of transgender persons as pastors.

Before turning to the ecclesiastical and theological issues at stake, we should note the way the minister explained her motivation -- to do this for others. "This is about more than me . . . . This is about people who come after me, about young people in particular who are struggling with their gender identity. I'm doing this for them." What she is doing is leading her congregation into an illusion and her denomination into an explosive controversy.

The illusory nature of this transformation becomes clear in another section of the paper's report:

"The gender I was assigned at birth has never matched my own true authentic God-given gender identity, how I know myself," Phoenix said. "Fortunately today God's gift of medical science is enabling me to bring my physical body in alignment with my true gender."

This pastor claims that she knows her "own true authentic God-given gender identity" to be different than her own body. The ancient Gnostics would understand this repudiation of the body, but not historic Christianity. Christians have believed that the body is a gift from God, for believers the Temple of the Holy Spirit. Despising the body to the point of repudiating birth gender is a posture in direct conflict with the Bible and the historic Christian tradition.

There can be no question that some persons suffer excruciating gender confusions. But the answer to this must be the embrace of birth gender as a central dimension of God's will for the individual. Christians must understand that gender --the sex of an individual -- is a part of God's glory in creation. God's own verdict on the creation of humanity as male and female, both made in His image, was that is was "very good." The transgender temptation is a repudiation of God's own verdict on His creation and His plan for humanity.

The emergence of this phenomenon is a direct consequence of the massive social, moral, legal, and ideological shifts that mark our times. The concept of autonomous individualism has led persons to believe that each of us holds the protean ability to create and re-create ourselves into whatever or whomever we wish -- and that no one outside the autonomous self has any right to set limits on this self-definition and transformation. The therapeutic revolution has deluded modern Americans into thinking that patterns of basic rebellion against God are means of self-liberation and therapy. The law has been transformed into an instrument of social revolution, even as many legal authorities claim that traditional definitions of marriage, sexuality, and gender are artifacts of an oppressive and patriarchal age.

Added to all this, the sexual revolution has led to a society fixated on sex and reluctant to draw any clear boundaries. A worldview of nearly absolute non-judgmentalism leads the larger society to consider sexuality and sexual issues to be beyond the bounds of common concern.

The saddest part of the Sun's report comes when the pastor claims that "today God's gift of medical science is enabling me to bring my physical body in alignment with my true gender."

This is an illusion of incredible tragedy. Modern medicine is truly capable of many wonders, but it cannot turn a woman into a man, nor a man into a woman. Doctors may perform drastic surgery and prescribe hormone therapies, but they cannot make a woman into a man. Rev. Drew Phoenix will be no more capable of biological fatherhood than Rev. Ann Gordon. Those who overlook this fact are hiding from reality.

Subsequent to its first report, the Sun reported that local Methodist clergy have asked for a judicial opinion from the church's highest legal authority, questioning Bishop John R. Schol's decision to reappoint the pastor. UMAction, an organization of conservative United Methodists, called upon their church to offer moral teaching on this pressing issue:

"I think instinctively most church people would say there are some theological problems with gender change, but they don't know how to articulate the arguments, and expect the church to offer a teaching on the subject," said UMAction director Mark Tooley.

"The issue of gender identity is not directly about sexual practice and really requires some different theological arguments," he said.

As one concerned pastor lamented, "Medical technology has gotten ahead of us." That is true for virtually all churches and denominations. Now is the time for Christian congregations, schools, and denominations to offer clear moral teaching and sound theological reflection on the gift of gender and the challenge of transgender persons.

The challenge could show up at your church tomorrow.