There’s a battle going on between the patriarchal forces of this world, which focus on truth and virtue, and the emotional forces of this world, which focus on “follow your heart” and “don’t judge”. The patriarchal forces know that evil is afoot, and they want to confront it. The emotional forces believe that judging is the root of all evil, because it makes some people feel bad.

Here’s an article from Daily Caller that shows how the emotional forces work.

It says:

New Hampshire’s first elected transgender representative was hit with federal charges for the sexual exploitation of children Tuesday, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Stacie Marie Laughton was charged with aiding and abetting in addition to one count of child exploitation in relation to former intimate partner Lindsay Groves, according to a DOJ press release. Laughton and Groves allegedly had over 10,000 text messages discussing and transferring explicit photographs that Groves took while employed as a daycare worker at Creative Minds daycare, a forensic review revealed from Groves’ cellphone, according to the DOJ.

At this point, I want to mention that of course this person is a Democrat. People on the secular left have enormous problems with morality. They are able to ape the moral conventions of the people around them, but when they are alone, there is simply no reason for them to control themselves. People like this lawmaker become active in politics because they want to prevent people with genuine morality from judging them or punishing them for their actions. This is why atheists are so active in politics. They are actively seeking to escape judgment and punishment for their immorality. Atheists vote overwhelmingly for the Democrat party. They want to undermine the moral laws that protect the weak and vulnerable.

More:

Laughton was arrested on June 23 on child porn charges after Nashua police were alerted about a juvenile matter and spoke to individuals who allegedly indicated Laughton distributed explicit images of children

The texts allegedly included four sexually explicit images of children who appeared to be three to five years old. Messages also discussed explicit descriptions of sex between the two partners and others, with mentions of children, according to the DOJ.

If I had to pick one place where the emotional / don’t-judge forces have their headquarters, I would pick the daycares and the public schools.  In these places, emotions rule. Moral standards are all but non-existent. The religion is “don’t judge”. And people who “don’t judge” have no way to tell good from evil. When they are tempted to do something, they do it. The only calculation is “will I get caught”.

As for moral standards, they think of those as customs that are valid for a time and place. Like cooking conventions . Or clothing conventions. They don’t believe that the universe is designed by a Designer who made the moral law. They don’t actually believe that morality applies to humans like math applies to humans. And they certainly don’t believe that God will hold them accountable for their moral choices. In fact, atheism is motivated by nothing more than the retreat from accountability to God. It’s not something that people become convinced of because of evidence. It’s something that people want to be true, so that they can pursue pleasure without any constraints or accountability.

Many teachers and administrators in our daycares and schools are insulated from the real world. The are not experienced at linking causes and effects, the way that private sector workers – blue collar or white collar – regularly do. Teachers are administrators are generally not inclined accept that people who make poor decisions should be “punished” with real world consequences. They are also not responsive to customers in a competitive private sector workplace. They don’t feel any responsibility to treat children well. After all, their pay and benefits has nothing to do with the quality of their work. Private sector workers have to work hard in order to make their employers profitable, so they can keep their jobs. These two conditions: disconnection from the consequences imposed by reality, and disconnection from the need to please customers, make it easy for teachers to break the moral law. That’s why “don’t judge” comes from the public schools.

What should we do? Well,  we need to pass school choice, so that parents can have their kids educated by people who are more connected to reality, and more responsible to the parents who pay them. At the very least, we should insist that people who want to be teachers have 2+ years of private sector experience. And teacher unions should be abolished. That would be the best, but at the very least, no one should have to pay union dues in order to work as a teacher. Teacher unions are one of the greatest forces for evil in this world. It’s very strange to me that people who believe in morality are sometimes confused about this. You just have to look at here the union dues go to see that what they really believe.

By the way, I noticed that one of the major gay rights groups in America took down their post celebrating the first openly transgender lawmaker. Here is the archived version. Why do you think they would do that?

A while back, I blogged about a case in Canada, where a father was imprisoned for objecting to the forced transgendering of his child by the schools, hospitals, lawyers and judges. The people pushing for the transgendering were all feminists and LGBT activists. That case was quite disturbing, and I was wondering when this would come to America. Then I found an article by Abigail Shrier in City Journal.

The father, Ted, is a senior software engineer with Apple. He is comfortable living in San Francisco. His wife Christine is an executive at BlackRock, the firm that is always buying up people’s houses and then renting them out. They also champion ESG, which is a social credit system for businesses, that leads to socialism.

Things started to go wrong for Ted when his wife moved to the East coast with the two boys for family reasons:

Ted was then fully preoccupied with a grueling six-week project for Apple… On a Saturday in August 2019, shortly after returning from upstate New York with the boys, Christine walked into Ted’s home office and announced both that she was leaving and that their son Drew was transgender… Christine walked out, taking the kids to stay with her at a neighbor’s house.

Most women who go along with transgendering do so because they want their children to like them, and they want to be seen as compassionate and tolerant by their peers.

But the father did research on the risks to his child:

While trying to keep an open mind about Drew’s gender, Ted was adamant to the judge that he did not want Drew to begin medical transition. In the 312 days since he had last seen his boy, Ted had done a lot of research on medical transition and gender dysphoria. He begged the court to consider research that suggested puberty blockers could impair cognition and diminish bone density. He knew that Drew, if administered puberty blockers along with estrogen, would be at high risk of permanent infertility. He wasn’t even sure that his son had gender dysphoria. He wanted to see his son—and he wanted this bullet train to slow down.

The San Francisco judge awarded full custody of Drew to his wife:

On June 24, 2020… Judge Joni Hiramoto granted Christine sole legal custody of Drew on a temporary basis and approved the shared legal and physical custody arrangement of their younger son. She assured Ted that her order was not yet permanent. Judge Hiramoto had decided to order the appointment of a minor’s counsel to investigate how the boys were faring before making any permanent decisions. She already had the perfect person in mind. “I actually know of one who was previously appointed by the court, by a different judge, on a case involving children that were allegedly transgender,” she said. That minor’s counsel was attorney Daniel Harkins.

Harkins decided that Ted’s hesitance to drug therapy and sex change surgery was a sign that Ted was not a fit parent:

Based on the lengthy minor’s counsel report, Harkins gave Ted’s parenting a failing grade: “Father has not been accepting of [Drew’s] status as transgender. He has been quite clear that he does not accept that [Drew] is in fact transgender.”

[…]Harkins’s judgment was swift and ironclad: mom should retain full legal custody on a permanent basis and provide Ted updates, at her discretion, regarding matters that affect Drew’s health, education, and welfare. Drew would commence hormone therapy, as directed by USCF. Judge Hiramoto made all this official. The only right that Ted seems to have retained is the power to prevent Drew from undergoing “any gender identity related surgery” before he turns 18, absent agreement of both parties.

Without Ted’s knowledge or permission, Drew got a puberty-blocking implant, and Ted had to pay:

In October 2021, Ted was stunned by a $209,820.34 charge on his insurance statement. When he wrote to Christine, she confirmed that a puberty-blocking implant had been inserted in Drew’s arm months earlier and that Drew had begun a course of cross-sex hormones. The combination—if not soon stopped—would likely sterilize Drew. No one had asked Ted’s permission for the procedure or even informed Ted of what had been done.

This part is interesting, especially for men who are considering marriage and having children today.

Read it carefully:

Ted responded to this news with a flurry of e-mails to Christine’s attorney. He told Christine’s lawyer that the medical procedure was in violation of a court order, and Christine was risking being held in contempt of court. A day later, Christine’s lawyer filed a request for a Domestic Violence Restraining Order against Ted, alleging that he had spoken to his ex-wife “menacingly” at their younger son’s football games. Ted was served with the temporary restraining order; California law now required him to relinquish all his firearms within 24 hours or potentially face felony charges. He quickly complied.

Ted was informed about the long-term consequences of the decision, because he had looked at evidence. But how did his ex-wife respond to his evidence? By charging him with domestic violence. Not actual violence, but just words of disagreement which caused her to feel unhappy.

Ted made the decision to let people at his Silicon Valley company know what was happening in a company Slack channel. Slack is software used to allow employees to communicate with each other in a chat format. People in the channel were offended, and reported him to Human Resources:

Ted joined the Apple Slack channel devoted to “trans kid parenting” and shared his outrage and concern about his son’s medical transition and the risks involved. The other members chastised him and reported Ted to “Employee Relations,” known everywhere else as “HR.” Ted now worries for his job.

The details of Ted’s divorce were not revealed in the article, but if he is supposed to pay child support and alimony to his wife, and he lost his job, he probably would still have come up with the same amount of money, or go to prison for not paying his debts. That’s how the divorce courts work.

And here is how the story ended for with Harkins:

Within just a few months, the court would definitively end Ted’s parental relationship. He would have no right to see Drew, no right to talk to him, no right to demand that Drew attend therapy with him, and absolutely no right to stop a medical transition already planned by the Child and Adolescent Gender Center of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

And now I want to say something about what this means to me as a Christian man, who is frequently urged to go to church and get married and have children by church-attending women and pastors.

The denial of male headship

The overriding of male leadership of the home that you saw from the judge and the attorney is universal… even among conservative evangelical Christian women who claim to be social conservatives. One evangelical Christian social conservative woman told me that “Masculinity means that men use their strength to protect and provide for women”. Another one told me that male headship does not exist in the Bible, and that men have no authority in marriages – only responsibilities. She also said that when women divorce, it is ALWAYS the fault of their husbands for not meeting the wife’s emotional needs.

Even many evangelical Christian socially conservative women don’t think that men have a distinct role to confront evil, protect their children, or lead their homes. They would side with the divorcing wife and the female judge against the mean, excluding, judgmental, father Ted. They would say that men’s role in marriage is to be compassionate, tolerant, and to make their wives happy.

Marriage and child-bearing exposes you to the state

To Christian men who are considering marriage and child-raising, you need to choose women who form their views on morality, policy, etc. through reason and evidence. If she isn’t interested in truth, then understand that her views will be formed by her feelings and peer-approval. You will not be able to change her mind by appealing to reason and evidence. Look for women who have the demonstrated ability to defend their theological and moral views against the secular left culture. For example, the issue of male headship in marriage. Otherwise, you can expect the treatment that Ted got at the hands of his ex-wife, the judge, etc. Divorce is a nightmare for men. The feminist state will overpower you. You will lose your freedom, your savings and your children. You will become a slave.

Read 2 Tim 2:4 and consider whether you want to use your freedom and finances to serve God, or whether you want to be controlled by the secular left state. As a Christian man, you already have a Boss. A woman’s role is to help you serve your Boss. Beware of women who want to take the place of your Boss. Beware of women who think that marriage is about you making them happy. Beware of women who scorn your moral leadership. Beware of women who demand that you show compassion, tolerance and approval for whatever is popular in the secular left culture.

Below, I’ve posted  the video of Tucker Carlson interviewing Ron DeSantis, with a list of the topics / questions. The interview goes 25 minutes, then there is a discussion between the Blaze TV hosts for another 15 minutes. What I like about DeSantis is that when he talks about what he would do as President, it’s just a continuation of what he’s already done in Florida as governor.

Video: (from Blaze Media)

Topics / Questions:

• DeSantis signed a ban on abortion after 6 weeks as governor, would he do the same as President?
• How would you convince someone pro-abortion to change their mind on abortion?
• Explain the difference between concerns about climate change and concerns about other environment, and what has Florida done to address environmental concerns.
• How is Florida handling the massive influx of refugees from failing blue states like California and New York?
• How is Florida handling wokeness in women’s sports?
• What would a Ron DeSantis foreign policy look like, specifically on the war in Ukraine?
• How would Ron DeSantis be different from Joe Biden on the issue of border security and drug cartels?
• What is the exit strategy from Ukraine?
• Who is the bigger threat, Russia or China?
• What has Florida done to limit China’s power in Florida?
• What can we do to encourage other European countries to defend themselves from aggression?
• How is our energy policy related to foreign policy, and specifically to regional conflicts in Europe and the Middle East?
• Tell us how Florida derecognized Central Bank Digital Currency. Would you do the same as President?
• What would you address the weaponization of the federal government against Christians and conservatives, as President? Specifically FBI vs pro-lifers, FBI colluding with Big Tech, and Anthony Fauci.
• How would you deal with people who censored dissenting evidence during the COVID crisis?
• What will you do to prevent surveillance of American citizens by the federal government?
• Do you think Joe Biden will be the Democrat nominee?