Last week I reported
on the program of gender mainstreaming,
in process now for several decades. Under pressure from well financed and
influential groups many western governments are adopting it—Alberta and Ontario
leading the way in Canada. Its end aim is to dispense with the traditional idea
of male and female, and replace it with a genderless society.
This may
seem far-fetched, but elimination of the terms “father” and “mother” from
children’s kindergartens and schools shows how the program is progressing.
“Parent one” and “parent two” (or three or more) eliminates the opposite-sex understanding
of parenthood.
Gay
“marriage” already leads the way to the lesser significance of traditional
sexual roles. The inclusion of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer
(LGBTQ) as alternate genders further dilutes the idea of two distinct sexes.
Sexual
deviation no longer exists, only sexual orientation, which allows freedom of all
sexual expressions and removes the stigma. Declare these “human rights,” and liberating
our baser instincts becomes human achievement.
However,
this direction is unsustainable. Let me present two primary reasons. First, the
decay of western nations by attrition is this culture’s death wish.
The rush to
satisfy personal desires, masked as “rights,” has resulted in lowering
birthrates and populations. Gay “marriage,”—essentially infertile—abortion,
euthanasia, and contraception have reduced Canada’s birthrate to 1.61 children
per female, which continues to fall far below the minimum 2.4 needed to
maintain the population.
Most western
nations are experiencing similar inadequate birthrates. While the west promotes
the laudable influx of refugees from disaster areas, the need for importing
people to make up for birthrate loss is an undeclared motivating factor. It is unlikely
that national “adoption” of imported families will be able to alleviate population
loss in the long term.
Yet, while
our culture demands we preserve the planet’s ecology as nature requires, the
culture defies nature’s plan of male and female for procreation and nurture of
offspring. We have already seen the disastrous imbalance of men over women
after China’s “one child” policy, and India’s infanticide of girls—the two most
populous nations on earth.
Second, gender
mainstreaming opposes truth. During preceding centuries, the bedrock of
Christianity provided a system of complying with nature as God created it. With
all its faults and wars, western culture has continued to flourish until this
century. The current decline of western civilization follows a retreat from its
former godly heritage.
Christianity
is struggling against increasing hostility and persecution, aided by the apathetic
response of most Christians. If Christians pursue their personal goals in place
of the imperatives of the faith, Christianity will continue to weaken and the
errors plaguing our culture will grow.
Christianity
is resilient, however. Repeatedly, as Christianity’s end is predicted and
persecution intensifies, its basic message of hope revives the hunger of people
for God’s transcendent order of life and the equality and dignity of all humans
before God. Genuine, concerted prayer for revival, and fearless proclamation of
the truth, will unmask the false directions of our times.
