By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations)
The Truth is Not Foolishness
“How is this?” said the Emperor to himself. “I can see nothing! This is indeed a terrible affair! Am I a simpleton, or am I unfit to be an Emperor? That would be the worst thing that could happen – Oh! The cloth is charming,” he said aloud. “I approve of it completely.”
Excerpt from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen
It seems we are caught in a place, much like the Emperor, where we are afraid to speak the truth for fear of being called a fool. There is a movement gaining momentum sweeping across our culture gobbling up our children, especially our girls. It claims that girls can be boys, boys can be girls, or more radically, girls and boys can be sexless. Speaking the truth makes you a fool, or worse, in the eyes of the gatekeepers of our current culture. Much like the people in the story, many who know the truth stay silent in the face of the greatest evil to plague our children today. It’s time to say, like the little child in the story, “But the Emperor has nothing at all on!” Staying silent should not be an option for those who love the Creator who made us.
A bill (HB24-1039 Non-Legal Name Change) will be heard in the Senate Education Committee on Monday, March 25th at 1:30 PM. It attempts to criminalize anyone not using an individual’s “chosen name” under the guise of “gender expression” discrimination. While the bill title only speaks about students in schools, Section 4 of the bill clearly makes it applicable to all employment, housing, or places of public accommodation situations. If this bill passes, no place in society will be immune from the requirement to acquiesce to a man-made truth which violates God’s created order. We are being forced to accept the unacceptable and affirm the unaffirmable.
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