On its blog, the Family Research Council
recently promoted a report which came out last week. The report, which was falsely called a "study"
claimed that the no one was born gay or transgender. FRC's promotion of this tripe was to be expected.
What was not expected was the backlash of comments FRC received. There was a small, but consistent, outpouring on the organization's blog calling out the report's errors and calling out FRC in general. One comment caught my eye because of its poignancy:
Vast Majority? Show me the stats? EVERY Trans person I know is happy. We
can argue biblical view on the subject, but this is not a Christian
nation. I am a Christian, but It is a secular nation, built on a
combination of the view of diests, but also on people who observed human
behavior over all time. Let the church lead people to the Savior, and
also allow people to live according to the conscience. Yes, Christians
have the right to freely practice their faith in public and private
office, but they are constrained by the constitution against creating
laws simply to prevent behavior they consider sin. Laws should be
limited to allowing for free commerce, and the protection of the
innocent, unwilling, and vulnerable. As a Christian, I live my life as a
witness to compel others to ask about Jesus, whom I freely share. But
there are things I cannot answer. And I am certain that people were born
certain ways. When you have people like Ravi Zacharias saying that some
people will always have the urge, yet they need to refrain from acting
on it, it confirms that some people cannot be changed in ways of their
sexuality or gender identification, only to abstain from the feelings. I
think that is a cruel state of being, and I wait til Heaven to get an
explanation. Meantime, I will not be an activist against those people. .
All I know is that I will resist any organization that uses the
coercion of law to prevent behavior that harms nobody other than the
individual making the choice. The FRC is not different than those
seeking sharia law, save that their message is different. They are a
public policy organization. Not the church. God changes people.
Government or people do not. Progressivism and neoconservatism are
different sides of the same coin, and the antithesis of freedom. No gay
marriage ever threatened the sanctity of your marriage. No trans person
ever threatened your masculinity or femininity. God will not condemn you
for baking a cake. As far as their twisted goals. Their goals are to be
able to live as they wish. Your twisted goal is to prevent them from
doing so. I find your twisted goal more offensive in a secular
constitutional republic.
