Transgender rights advocates sue Georgia

[3Nails4Given]

Transgender rights groups sue Georgia;

Parents of transgender youth are suing to block Georgia's gender-affirming care ban

Parents of four transgender children in Georgia have filed a lawsuit challenging a Georgia law that bans most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for minors.

apnews.com

 

[mattfivefour]

My first reaction was a knee jerk: some people should just not be parents. But then I realized they think they are doing what every good parent should-- helping their children. The problem is that they have no basis upon which to decide what is good or bad. Their foundation is that which their social, political, and spiritual (such as it may be) environment tells them is good. Unfortunately for them, the ideas of men are fluctuating and flawed. Societal norms are impermanent. And if you doubt that, take a look at how different American norms are today compared to just a generation ago.

I cannot fault these parents for their actions in regards to their children when they lack God's own instructions that would enable them to make truly wise decisions for their children. I can fault them, however, for their ignorance and perhaps rejection of God's Word. But at the same time I must fault the Church. We have not done a good job presenting the case for Christ to the world. In fact, in many churches I am familiar with, the members are either indistinguishable from those in the world around them or have separated themselves from them to such a degree that they have nothing to do with them. What happened to the idea that we should be salt and light in the world? What happened to the love of God that we should be sharing with those among whom we live?

I hope in these last days that those of us who gather here will seriously ask God to inspire us to truly love others as He loves them and be willing to become witnesses for Him and His salvation.

 

[Eric Nicholas]

My first reaction was a knee jerk: some people should just not be parents. But then I realized they think they are doing what every good parent should-- helping their children. The problem is that they have no basis upon which to decide what is good or bad. Their foundation is that which their social, political spiritual (such as it may be) environment tells them is good. Unfortunately for them, the ideas of men are fluctuating and flawed. Societal norms are impermanent. And if you doubt that, take a look at how different American norms are today compared to just a generation ago.

I cannot fault these parents for their actions in regards to their children when they lack God's own instructions that would enable them to make truly wise decisions for their children. I can fault them, however, for their ignorance and perhaps rejection of God's Word. But at the same time I must fault the Church. We have not done a good job presenting the case for Christ to the world. In fact, in many churches I am familiar with, the members are either indistinguishable from those in the world around them or have separated themselves from them to such a degree that they have nothing to do with them. What happened to the idea that we should be salt and light in the world? What happened to the love of God that we should be sharing with those among whom we live?

I got in these last days that those of us who gather here will seriously ask God to inspire us to truly love others as He loves them and be willing to become witnesses for Him and His salvation.

None of what you said can be overstated enough. They behave like Christians. Wait, hear me out, I mean as if they had a worldview which they can ground their morality, ethics, and terms like "good" and "bad" like us monotheists, particularly Christians can and quite handily so. Those are simply things that materialism, subjectivism, atheism, etc. can never afford, objectively. They are really, really bad at their ideals. They exalt subjectivity, but make truth claims and assert morality and appeal to one of the weakest arguments for anything that I have ever heard, the "social contract". Again, in no place ever on this earth did we ever sign it. Ever. We can't even agree that chocolate is objectively the best flavor of ice cream. So, I mean, where do we even go from there?

I won't lie, pastor. Before, some time ago, I was so hung up on the logic of it all and sheer lack that they possessed, and it made me unloving, as I didn't marry the heart (love) with the mind (logic) and it made me abrasive. As once quoted, "Life without love is as a flower without fragrance."