Gender Bending

Paul wrote to Timothy in chapter 3 of the book of 2nd Timothy:
(15) from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness,
17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

We have to regard the Bible as the inspired, infallible Word of God. If we begin to pick and choose what to believe and what to minimize, then we are not being submissive to the authority of the Scriptures. If we try to twist Scripture to conform to modern trends, thinking it is somehow outdated and needs to be updated, we run the risk of developing a personal theology that does not line up with God's truth.  His Word is authoritative and reliable, and we start with Scripture and allow God to speak into us each day.

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We have to be careful not to revise the teachings of Scripture to fit cultural trends.  His Word is authoritative and applicable, and certainly does not need to be altered.  Jesus says in John 16:

13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.
15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

The Bible is clear: our Creator has made two genders - and only two - we are told that He made male and female.  Science, which is not incompatible with Scripture, bears this out: biology does not lie.

But, for whatever reason, there is a distinct effort to homogenize the genders and to buy into the delusion that gender identity, what we think about ourselves, trumps biology, what science actually tests and proves. 

Case in point, according to a New York Post piece by Karol Markowicz:

In the latest move to make the female sex simply disappear, the American Civil Liberties Union altered a Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote, on the anniversary of her death, to remove any mention of women.

The ACLU account tweeted: “The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person’s] life, to [their] well-being and dignity. When the government controls that decision for [people], [they are] being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for [their] own choices.”

The quote in its original form or the revised one, is still not one that we can embrace, since it states the concept of a woman's so-called "right" to have an abortion.  But, the quote revision transcends the subject of women's rights and moves into the nature of womanhood itself.  That quote, by the way, is from someone who is regarded as a pioneer for women, and as Markowicz writes, the ACLU is "erasing" her.  She goes on to say:

And it’s happening all over. Male dominated sports haven’t seen an influx of trans men. Male spas don’t have trans men trying to get in. The word “father” remains unchanged even as the Biden administration switches out “mother” for “birthing person” in their 2022 fiscal year budget in a section about, ahem, maternal mortality. We’ll need some extra safe spaces if anyone looks up what “maternal” means.

At The Federalist, writing about the ACLU's twisting of the late Supreme Court justice's words, Spencer Lindquist writes:

The perspective of many on the left isn’t just that men can be women or that women can be men, a proposition that itself is self-evidently ludicrous, but that men can be pregnant. When biological reality is detached from womanhood and femininity, women are inescapably devalued for their unique capability to create life. Now, that ability is supposedly conferred to men and all “persons.”

After decades of attempting to brand themselves as defenders of women and women’s rights this erasure of women by powerful figures and institutions on the left proves that their support for women, to the extent that it was ever anything more than a shrewd political or rhetorical tactic to begin with, entirely evaporates when it proves to be an obstacle to woke gender theory.

Well, apparently, the ACLU has issued an apology, according to a piece on The Hill website., which reports that:

The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that he regrets that his organization altered a quote from late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be gender-neutral, according to a New York Times column.

Anthony Romero stated, "Having spent time with Justice Ginsburg, I would like to believe that if she were alive today, she would encourage us to evolve our language to encompass a broader vision of gender, identity and sexuality..." 

So, that gives him permission to change her words?

Anyway, that doesn't erase the underlying philosophy that spurred the original revision.  The late justice was apparently talking about the fictitious right of a woman, not a "birthing person," to terminate the child's life through abortion.  So, the ACLU goes one step further to embrace a cultural fantasy and further the notion that men can bear children.  There's your broader vision...

But, it's not Biblical vision.  And, when it comes right down to it, there is a tendency to twist or revise the words of Scripture that is present within our culture today.  We have to be careful not to try to make God's Word conform to our situations or our beliefs.  Rather, we should believe what the Bible says about the situations we are in.  We cannot say that the Bible endorses certain behaviors or attitudes without the attitude of allowing Scripture to speak. Then we follow. It's dangerous and irresponsible to allow the culture to dictate how we interpret Scripture, remembering the Word of God is timeless and applicable to us today.