When the Bizarre is Commonplace
Robert Knight has published a column for the Washington Times entitled, “When the Bizarre is Commonplace.”
In it Knight expounds on some of the bizarre happenings in America right now that many are accepting as normal–including a lesbian couple in California turning their 11-year-old adopted son into a girl.
“Two lesbians in Berkeley are turning their adopted 11-year-old boy into a girl. Seriously. The lad, who they acquired at age 2, is being given drugs via an implant on his left arm to block his puberty. The next step would be a surgery that will mutilate him forever. It’s supposed to be fine because the boy, Thomas, has bought into the idea. The two women say that the drug scheme will give the boy, now named Tammy, more time to think it over.
And we’re supposed to be OK with this?”
Knight also discusses the plight of a German home school family seeking asylum in America; laws in California and New Jersey preventing people from voluntarily seeking therapy for unwanted homosexual desires; and similar issues unfolding around the country.
Part of the reason the bizarre can become commonplace is that unless you look to a higher moral standard to guide you, your sense of “right and wrong” is largely based on your sense of what is “normal”–what you see in the culture around you. If that culture is sliding in a particular direction, your sense of right and wrong will slide with it. And if society’s moral compass always points in whatever direction society is already going, that compass doesn’t guide society’s actions. It simply reflects them.
In I Timothy 2:2, Paul urged Timothy (and every Christian) to pray “For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”