Open Mouth, Insert Foot, Chew Vigorously….

 

Trump has done it again:

“Miriam, I watched (Sheldon Adelson, her late husband) sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That’s the highest award you can get as a civilian, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version. It’s actually much better, because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor – that’s soldiers. They’re either in very bad shape because they’ve been hit so many times by bullets, or they’re dead.  She gets it and she’s a healthy, beautiful woman, and they’re rated equal.”

This man, both as president and former president, continually denigrates the service and sacrifice of our service members, both past and current.  

This latest remark should anger every person who ever wore the uniform of our country.  It should anger every mother, father, brother, sister, wife, husband, son or daughter, or any other family member who made that service possible.

It should anger every person in law enforcement, past or present, who ever wore the other uniforms of our country to see a current/former Commander in Chief denigrate the service and sacrifice of our brothers and sisters in military service.

While it is true that many deserving people have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for significant contributions to our country, it is also true that many more of them received the medal in return for personal favors and contributions given to the president himself.  

The Medal of Honor recognizes those who gave, or were willing to give, what Pres. Abraham Lincoln characterized as “…the last full measure of devotion…”  It recognizes gallantry, valor, action, and blood shed above and beyond the call of duty.  It is an honor earned, not given.  For this reason, it will ALWAYS be superior to the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Madness Posing As Political Dogma….

This is nuts.  Beyond nuts.  It is sheer madness.  I read some news reports about this, and I checked for myself.  This is the screenshot I took of the job application on the campaign’s website.  This whole idea that gender is a mental/psychological construct that is completely separate from one’s objective biological sex/genetic makeup, that there are unlimited “genders”, is beyond absurd.  I stand on the historic Biblical Truth (capital T truth): 

Gen 1:27: “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

Gen 5:1-2: “On the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them “mankind” on the day when they were created.”

God Himself created humans in His image.  He identifies Himself as Father(masculine); He defines mother (feminine) as the complimentary opposite of that.  He created male; He created female as the opposite and complimentary sex/gender.

God further applied this distinction to the animal world:

Gen 6:19: “And of every living thing of all flesh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.”

Gen 7:2-3: “You shall take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and his female; and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and his female; also of the birds of the sky, seven pairs, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.”

Gender isn’t some fluid mental/psychological construct that can change with our every whim, it is hardwired, encoded in our dna as it was created to be.

For those who don’t recognize the Biblical narrative as authoritative, I will put it a little differently, using a phrase that’s all the rage these days: it’s the science.  Your gender is encoded in your dna - it doesn’t change.  If you are XX (female), you will always be XX.  If you are XY (male), you will always be XY.  That’s the science.  It doesn’t change because you disagree with it.  Surgeries and hormones do nothing to change this basic scientific fact.

Theology and science are on the same page with this; they agree.  Gender and biological sex are the same identity.