Can you believe that? Lawmakers seriously passed this bill. When a custody battle occurs, child protective workers in Colorado can now legally remove a child from the home when they discover one of the parents refusing to acknowledge or is counseling against their son/daughter’s attempts to swap genders. This is not an AI generated joke. This really happened in the Colorado legislature. And you can bet, now that it’s on the books, other radical states will follow suit. 

Let me be very frank. Transgenderism is a lie. I realize that is an insensitive way to say it, but I believe this bill is also very insensitive. In this case, language needs to match usage. Kids have been playing dress up for thousands of years. When a kindergartner dresses up like a cat, that doesn’t mean he’s a cat. When a fourth grade girl wears a backwards baseball cap and overalls, it doesn’t mean she’s a boy. The phrase ‘tomboy’ never meant the girl actually became a boy. It always referred to a rough-and-tumble personality. But in our forceful culture, these children and thousands of others like them, are suddenly being counseled by professionals to actually begin the process of ‘changing’ genders. As if that is even possible! Sex change operations and hormone therapy on kids ought to be outlawed. Changing or removing a child’s God-given body parts should be considered mutilation. But it’s happening and it’s legal. And, now in Colorado, it’s encouraged. 

God created male and female with a very distinct purpose. Everything about us, very much including our gender, is custom-designed to give God glory, in much the same way the Pieta gives Michaelangelo glory for his work. In case you haven’t noticed, male and female bodies fit together. By design. Hormones are designed by God to excite us and nurture the bond between a husband and a wife. By design. Children are made by a husband and wife, not by two males or two females…or two human/cats. By design. Do we really need to say these elementary things? Apparently so.  And these things are being said. But there is more. 

God’s design is so much more than sexual. His design for marriage (and that’s the point of all of this) is what the Bible calls ‘oneness.’ “A man shall leave his father and mother and be united with his wife. And the two shall become one flesh.”(Genesis 2:24) Oneness is more than love and affection. It’s the union only God can perform—by design—between two people in marriage. It’s beautiful, holy, mysterious and fun. Oneness begins when a man and a woman choose to set their own needs, dreams and desires aside to serve the other. It grows when crisis happen and the couple chooses to lean on each other instead of drifting apart. It swells when the couple chooses to ignore the cultural norms that encourage pornography and adultery. Oneness is a God-given gift that creates an inseparable couple; a couple that is an absolute treasure to their kids, grandkids and friends. When a couple chooses to honor God by honoring and respecting each other, every person around them is blessed. All of this is shortcut by the LGBTQ+ agenda, with HB 1312 nearing the top of the list. 

Before you write this off as harsh or on the fringe, think about the long-term repercussions of a bill like this. When a child is removed from their biological home, not for abuse, but because the parents are adhering to God’s design for them and their kids, the destruction is paramount. We are allowing generations of children to reject the common sense that’s dominated for centuries. And we are depriving them of the beauty of true married oneness. We are losing our children. I’m not afraid of a law like this passing in Arkansas. I’m afraid our kids will think that our state is wrong for not following Colorado’s lead. How will you respond to their questions? Hopefully with an open Bible and an open heart.