3 Ways the Religious Freedom Debate Reveals Widespread Psychosis

This week has seen much ado regarding the supposed rights of transgendered people. North Carolina and Mississippi have each passed recent laws that will, among other things, provide that people use restrooms designated for their biological gender. Response from across the culture has been mind-numbing. PayPal announced that it will pull a major development from North Carolina on account of the new law. The company claimed to protest discrimination, despite doing business in Saudi Arabia, where homosexuals are executed for their orientation. Other entities have taken similar action. Whatever their expressed intent, their true gripe is with free association and the facts of reality.

The religious freedom debate has revealed widespread cultural psychosis, defined as "a serious mental disorder characterized by thinking and emotions that are so impaired, that they indicate that the person experiencing them has lost contact with reality." Here are but three expressions:

1) Denial of Biological Reality

Transgenderism was once widely regarded as a mental disorder, and properly so. We know, scientifically and objectively, what distinguishes a male from a female. The terms are not subjective, arbitrary, or debatable. Excepting for rare defects, human beings are born male or female. They stay that way. Surgical mutilation does not change a man into a woman, or vice versa. A man does not become a woman because he feels like one, or vice versa. We are each whichever gender our chromosomes determined at conception. This is not an opinion. It is as objective a fact as any fact can be. Yet we now live in a culture intent upon denying this reality and enabling transgendered fantasy.

2) The Contradictory LGBT Narrative

Politically, it makes sense that homosexual, bisexual, and transgendered constituencies would unite in common cause. Coalitions prove important to political endeavors. However, the narratives of these three communities completely contradict one another. Homosexuality, we are told, is an inherent and inescapable orientation. Efforts at conversion therapy are inappropriate and offensive, we are told, because a gay individual cannot naturally be attracted to the opposite sex. Except when they are. Then it's called bisexual. Similarly, no one chooses their orientation. Except when they do. Then it's called bi-curious. Apparently, orientation is an ironclad biological determination, or a trendy social experiment, whichever proves most convenient in a given context.


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