a nation of skewed lines?

Perversion: Degrading, immoral acts or habits.

Normal: Conforming to established standards.

Make no bones about it, America is in a precipitous freefall, the likes never before seen in history. Societal changes are evolving at rates the average citizen can’t fathom, and the rapidity in acceleration should sound alarm bells to anyone with a modicum of common sense. So much, when the newest trend, MAPS (Minor Attracted Persons), an attempt to normalize pedophilia becomes acceptable, allowing children with their permission, to be used sexually by an adult, will speak volumes of the nation’s character. And with such, I believe right before our very eyes we are witnessing the death of the country on multiple fronts, with our government pushing the destruction, the desire for absolute power foremost.

The country I grew up in is gone, the freedoms I experienced stripped. And the one my son will inherit, the antithesis of mine, his freedoms, now removed by government overreach. The impetus, create an authoritarian state, agenda replacing intent, including the intentional breakdown of the nuclear family. The result, an omnipotent rule dictating every facet of permissibility. Yet, in my simplistic view of life, there are acceptable standards not to be crossed. And when each new degree of allowed perversity becomes more outlandish, and government pushes acceptance, what plateau becomes too much? Anyway:   

I’ve always been aloof, yet as a kid growing up, mom and dad were … mom and dad. One was female, the other male, by birth. And if a girl was more interested in doing boy things, she was a tomboy, but if a boy wanted to play with dolls, well, there was always G.I. Joe. But mom was mom, dad was dad, a boy was a boy, and a girl, a girl. Simple, especially when puberty kicked in and boobs became boobs. No mistaking gender there … on average.

Living in my sheltered world showed life wasn’t supposed to be complicated, or, confusing: at least that’s what I thought. I was reared to be respectful, along with knowing right and wrong. Then, little by little, things started to change, and today, as a nation, it appears we’ve gone berserk. Right is now wrong, and things once wrong, are now emphatically taught as right. Life is actually complicated, or, should I say, too confusing. It’s difficult enough for me in adulthood to understand, but to be a youth growing up in today’s quagmire trying to figure things out; glad it’s not me!

In designing the Constitution, the Framer’s were perceptive, setting controls, but I believe they could have never believed things could have gone this far, yet here we are, that far! But is it really that far … yet? Or when we’ve gone too far becomes: Damn, that’s out there! And trust me, it’s not my place to tell someone what’s right, nor what they can or cannot do, especially behind closed doors, but since our government has ripped the lid off Pandora’s Box, one they had no control over in the first place, what are boundaries? And when closed doors become forced public consumption, where does one actually draw a line, and say, enough.

So, for starters, I believe in marriage; two joining forces, becoming one, clinging to the other, growing in love, while helping the other become a better person. It’s actually biblical, not governmental, with a caveat. At least it had one for a couple thousand years until: “Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate” (Matthew 19:4-6). And making me an intolerant because I believe such.

A man, woman, and biblical, while not one word can be found anywhere in the Constitution regarding marriage. Think, for centuries, male and female, the norm, the standard, the societal bedrock: family strength. Although as humans, we perverted marriage sanctity, violated biblical precepts, negated foundational structures, a washout. Plus, I know, in the past, social injustice prevented mix-race, and same sex marriage, but that was government intrusion, not church exclusion. Congress and the Supreme Court ruling on things it had no power to rule on. And church, it either gets it, or it doesn’t, but knows a higher power will ultimately judge; those now teaching, allowing what’s deemed acceptable, or go against biblical precepts, thus a reaping what one sows. Although, in truth, for each entity, it’s really all about power and money. Plus, it was all long overdue for correction, right? Yet, the problem of everyone wanting government involved in anything still prevails, including things it has no power to be involved in.

Worse, I’m not the only intolerant one. Imagine the effort required to allow mix-race marriage, and the legislators who’d railed for years against it. Then gay marriage arrived, and those who were once like me until they weren’t, opining about the degradation of society if allowed, until they opined about breaking the boundaries that had been in place for eons. And none of this was in their purview. Yet, what level of degradation decides the limit? Polygamy, first cousins, brother/sister, parent/child, pets, farm animals, teacher/student, better still, no age limit, the younger the better, especially for those who prefer pre-puberty. Yes, I’m referring to MAPS, and other cultures. Isn’t America the melting pot of amalgamation? It’s not hard to fathom the potential possibilities, but who sets the bar for inclusion, or exclusion; thus making one a hypocritical bigot, worse than being an intolerant. Should boundaries ever be?

I read two articles sometime back. One was about a man becoming a woman. He was married with grown children but decided it was time. He’d started hormone therapy for breasts and was preparing to have his penis removed. During the process, he changed his mind, kept the penis, his breasts, and wife, but needed to renew the driver’s license. At the DMV there were only two choices; male or female, so he sued the State … and won. No longer a man, he’s now binary, but how many choices should there be? As I recall, the entire process started as gay and lesbian. Then LGBT. Then LGBTQIA. Then it evolved to LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP but shortened to LGBTQ+. Confused yet? I damn sure am.

The other article was the first person to have given birth twice, a conjure of normality. Although, the spectacular component in this case, the first time, female, the second, male. The child will be raised “gender neutral,” as “gender roles are make-believe,” including the best part, “pregnancy is not inherently female.” First, how does one raise a child “gender neutral” sans agenda? And second, if gender roles are make-believe, why the impetus to even change gender, thus making gender neutral a fallacy? There is nothing neutral in claiming to be a man after being a woman, which brings up: What’s the point? Plus, I’ll wait for the first person born male, XY factor, not a converted XX appearing XY, to gestate and deliver a baby, before boarding that Titanic.

In our evolved society, if a person decides to change gender, once completed, they’ll obtain a new birth certificate depicting what they’ve become, erasing what of who they were, but unable to replicate the chosen body’s function. The inverse of original design: a woman becoming a man, thus able to impregnate a man becoming a woman. On another spectrum, imagine the possible legal challenges to who has more rights? Who then becomes the deceiver or falls into being deceived territory?

But what if one is pushed into transition before the ability to even understand or grasp biology and purpose. No longer tom boys or G.I Joe, it’s about children changing a predetermined sperm/egg outcome at an extremely young, uneducated age. Like “Star Trek,” and the next frontier, pushing or indoctrinating children into a confusion of epic proportions, then postulating; it’s all normal. Yet, more truthfully, how apropos the Chiffon margarine commercial: “It’s not nice to fool mother nature!” And yes, that’s me with the doll, today fully aware of who I am and was created to be, but no recollection of then.

So, because of my views, I’m also a homophobe, but the precipice where the nation stands may reap a fatal reward. What’s transpiring, and the speed which changes are taking place, at what point will things eventually have gone too far? Or, when those who promoted, pushed, and denigrated those who disagreed, become hypocritical bigots? And, believe this, it doesn’t matter who one is, or pretends to be, everyone has a breaking point.

Lastly, many claim the Bible a work of fiction, nothing more. If so, in the Old Testament, there’s the story of Sodom, a city much like America today, anything went, while things devolved into chaos. The citizens only guiding principle, perversion, and God destroyed it. Afterwards, two daughters slept with their father to procreate (Genesis 19). A juxtaposition to where America now stands, raising another question: Should the nation even follow a compass, or have one? If one believes the country is on the right path, a compass is a waste. But, if one thinks otherwise, then the clock is ticking. And, it appears the definitions of perversion and normal have twisted, as what is now considered normal, makes me perverse. I love my country; I despise what my government has become.