Many women today, including “Christian” feminists, complain about the decline of traditional male behaviors. They like the male behaviors that benefit women, like protecting and providing, but they strongly oppose other male behaviors: spiritual and moral leading. They only want “servant leadership” (non-judgmental ATM). They don’t want leadership that fights lies and evil.

Here’s an example of how society – under the influence of feminism – responds to traditional male spiritual and moral leadership, as reported in Daily Wire:

An Oregon education worker is suing his district, claiming it threatened to fire him for displaying several “transphobic” books, including Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s children’s book “Johnny the Walrus.”

Rod Theis has worked as an education specialist at the InterMountain Education Service District outside of Portland since 2008. In his office, Theis had displayed several children’s books, including two titled “He is He” and “She is She” as well as “Johnny the Walrus,” all books with messages rejecting transgender ideology.

A school employee saw some of the books and complained that they were “transphobic,” even filing a “bias incident” complaint with the district, the lawsuit says.

In response, the district opened an investigation and ultimately “ordered him to remove them and threatened him with discipline simply because it disagreed with the books’ content,” Theis’ lawsuit against the district, which he filed Wednesday, claims.

The district said the books were a “hostile expression of animus toward another person relating to their actual or perceived gender identity” and warned him that “further conduct of this nature” may result in discipline, including termination, the suit says.

Meanwhile, the district was allegedly allowing other employees to decorate in support of transgender ideology as well as “Black Lives Matter” and support for the teachers’ union.

The plaintiff is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, which is who I would pick if I were in his shoes.

And the ADF says this in their press release:

The district has created and implemented a speech policy that forbids employees from expressing a biological view of sex but permits employees to express viewpoints that a person’s subjective identity determines whether a person is male or female, not a person’s sex. The district’s censorship of Theis’ message, and the speech policy on which that censorship was based, violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

According to the complaint, the plaintiff:

• • is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker employed by IMESD as an Education Specialist
  • is a professing Christian who bases his beliefs on the Bible and strives to live out his Christian faith at work and in the community
  • has sincerely held religious beliefs govern his views about all aspects of life, including human nature, sex, and gender
  • is motivated by his sincerely held religious beliefs to speak on many topics from a Christian worldview
  • believes that all people should be treated with dignity and respect, that God created every person male or female, and that people should accept their God-given sex and not seek to reject or change it

So let me comment about this.

I have a very different view of Christianity and male leadership than virtually all Christians. Basically, I disagree with “servant leadership”, and that’s the dominant view of how men should lead today.

The standard cultural view of Christianity is “a set of rules that forces men to be nice so that people will like us so that we will feel good”. This is how most Christians understand Christianity today. For them, it’s not about making truth claims, especially ones that offend non-Christians. And it’s not about taking moral stands, because that is mean and judgmental, and makes people not like us. The standard view is that God wants people to like us, and he wants us to feel good. And that’s why it’s considered normal and natural to respond to a Christian man’s leadership on moral and spiritual issues with censorship and coercion. Everyone is so sure that Christianity is a tool for making men be “nice” that they are sure that Christian men who are not “nice” are wrong, and need to be punished.

My view of Christianity is not the standard cultural view. My view is the old view – namely, that men should be allowed to put up books in their offices to indicate that they oppose transing children, even if it is seen by feelings-based people as “mean” and “judgmental”.

Men have to be free to fight lies and evil. And if it is too difficult for a good man to do while married then men have to not marry. And if it is too difficult for a good man to do outside of a male-dominated profession, then men have to work in a male-dominated profession. And if it’s too difficult for a good man to do because he’s born in a feelings-dominated country, then the man has to immigrate to a better country. The point is that men should not put himself in an environment where the feelings-based people are going to rule over him.

C.S. Lewis wrote a wonderful essay a while back called “Men Without Chests”. It appears in the book “The Abolition of Man” which is one of his best works. In the essay, he explains how people expect men to behave honorably and self-sacrificially, even after they have removed the metaphysical underpinnings of those convictions. This case shows how they did it. They feelings-based people punish Christian men every time to speak out about things that God wants men to speak out about.

So, think about the tyranny of “nice”, and the toxicity of “empathy” when you wonder why men are not performing according to your expectations. “Why don’t men give us all their money and stop judging our bad behaviors?” It’s because good men don’t get involved in situations where they will be punished for leading on moral and spiritual issues. We are not here to be your servants. We are here to lead you.

When you emasculate good men out of their natural roles of moral and spiritual leadership, you don’t get the non-judgmental “servant leadership” ATM that you wanted. You get nothing – because good men decline to be reduced to people-pleasing slaves. Good men will find some other way to serve Boss that doesn’t put us under the control of feelings-based people. Every decision I made in my education, career and finances was to escape the coercion of the “be nice, be liked, feel good” crowd. I already HAVE a Boss.

I waited to blog on Colorado’s new bill that punishes parents who raise their their kids according to Christian values. Now that it’s passed, and we have the final version, let’s find out what’s in it. Then I’m going to ask why Christians and / or conservatives are content to live their lives – and pay their taxes – in states that trample on their religion and values. And I think I know the answer.

First, here’s the article from the Daily Caller, written by Mary Rooke, one of my favorite columnists:

Under the guise of “anti-discrimination” and adding legal protection for so-called transgender individuals, Colorado lawmakers adopted into law House Bill 25-1312, “Legal Protections for Transgender Individuals,” which may violate the First and Fourteenth Amendments.

Previously, I blogged on a new study that listed 7 different risks to children who undergo so-called “gender-affirming care”. I asked everyone to remember the top two: infertility and damage to bones. I’m very pleased with myself that I was able to name those two risks again today, while writing this post! And without any help! That’s why I write these blog posts. In case you need a refresher, here was the list in order of risk:

1. Infertility
2. Bone Health Deterioration
3. Cardiovascular Complications
4. Sexual Dysfunction
5. Regret/Detransition
6. Mental Health Concerns
7. Cancer Risk

But the Daily Caller article explains why it’s apparently a crime for parents to tell their children about this study, and try to warn them about the need to make wise decisions.

It says:

This bill puts the government and schools in charge of the welfare of children by requiring that the courts consider whether parents committed cardinal sins of transgender ideology like deadnaming or misgendering, which is now considered “coercive control” under the law. It also prevents the court from removing a child from a parent for allowing the child to receive so-called “gender-affirming care services.”

And:

HB 25-1312 also changes the state law to include deadnaming and misgendering as discriminatory acts. This makes using biological pronouns and birth names in a public place a discriminatory practice, which could mean fines starting at $5,000 per violation. It requires teachers to use “chosen” names and pronouns, and that school districts provide clothes and other amenities for these confused children, even if the parents disapprove.

It’s important to note that it’s not just disrespecting the will of the parents – who are the taxpayers that pay the salaries of the perverts. It’s that they want to punish the parents for disagreeing with Democrats on this issue. So, parents are good enough to pay taxes to the secular leftists, but not good enough to raise their own kids. They’re just slaves, in effect. And kings and queens don’t care what their slaves think about morality. Slaves just work and pay taxes.

One more quote from Mary, then I will give my opinion:

The left wants you to believe that the government has the right to sever the parent-child relationship by ending the importance of parental authority. It also wants you to believe in a false reality that sex is not immutable by forcing even non-parents to use fake names and pronouns. Their ultimate goal is to get to children. They want them so badly, and you, as their parent, stand in the way.

We have to fix this problem. Not only should this law be struck down as unconstitutional, but any state official who voted for or otherwise signed their name to it should face serious repercussions at the ballot box. We have to end the left’s control of our state and local governments, or these laws will continue to pass.

These are good thoughts, but I don’t think we need to reform any state or city laws. We just need to have the courage to leave blue cities and blue states. And I know why Christians don’t do it, too.

Christians don’t leave blue states for two reasons. Reason 1 is because they aren’t living lives that are inconvenced by these laws. For one reason or another, it’s not going to bother their plans at all if the secular left is taking their money and making decisions to limit their freedom. Probably because their plan isn’t Christian at all. There’s a lot of people who claim the label who have no plan.

The second reason is that too many Christians marry non-Christian spouses. These are spouses who think that Christianity is supposed to make them popular and happy. They don’t like to think about news or laws or anything else that will make them feel bad. And this isn’t a situation where the real Christian is the victim of a fake Christian spouse. People CHOOSE who they marry. If your “Christian” spouse likes to live in a blue state, then it’s YOUR fault for marrying that person. There is no use complaining about the state transing your kid if you chose to marry a secular leftist. And don’t complain about family courts in a blue state, when your property is plundered for the rest of your life because of an angry secular leftist judge.

Don’t pay taxes in blue states. Move to a red state. That’s the best way to change your blue state to a red state. When you leave, your tax money leaves with you, and that’s the only thing that will stop the abuse of Christian parents by the secular left. They understand money – they understand when the money leaves their state.