JEANETTE V. writes:

I made a remark in an online discussion of this article about transgendered lesbians that got several people in an uproar. I said: “These freak shows are covered to desensitize the public into accepting the bizarre as normal.” 

This an example of the responses I got: 

Though I agree with your overall sentiment, Jeanette, let’s not use name-calling like “freak show.” These people need help, and the left are the one’s who name-call, not us. We all have to be mindful of our words because we represent Christ. You have terrific ideas and take lots of important action, but you can have that same impact without the ridicule and name-calling. We’re sorry if we’ve offended you but believe you can hear the truth … after all, you speak it all the time :)

It is my firm belief that my fellow that Christians have been so “nice” that evil knows that it will not be substantially criticized. In a sane world my calling this a freak show wouldn’t surprise or offend anyone. The media is all about promoting evil as good. It is the media who have turned their mental illness into a side show.

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Jeanette adds:

I was further gently chastised for my lack of “compassion” for these individuals who clearly must be “hurting.” But I really don’t have compassion for men who have abandoned their children and their wives to live in such a persevere way and on top of that to make a public spectacle of themselves. I have more compassion for the families these men left in their wake. I do believe the Christian response would be to minister to the wreckage of the families these two selfish men left behind. Shockingly, not one single Christian who suggested that I be more compassionate and sensitive to those hurting even gave these men’s families a mention. Both of these men walked away from marriages that had lasted decades (20 and 30 years). There are five children between these two men and no doubt grandchildren too. Just how does one explain that dad is now a woman and grandpa is now grandma?

I really feel that Christians have abdicated their moral duty in being a guiding light; I suspect many are seeing the world though the idol of “tolerance.”

Laura writes:

Another way of looking at it is that Christianity has been replaced by another faith, a secular religion with equality as the ultimate good. 

Jeanette is dead-on when she points out the heartlessness beneath this pseudo-Christian niceness. Being nice in these cases entails being mean. The victims are invariably the powerless, particularly children.

 Jeanette writes:

It is strange how in the interests of an utterly false kindness to men, Christians are sometimes willing to relinquish their loyalty to the crucified Lord.

                                            ~  J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism.

John writes:

As usual, Laura, you’re right on the mark. Yes, we Christians are supposed to be Christ-like as possible, but where did this idea ever come from that Christ was a sweet little limp-wrist in a nightgown who would never “offend” anyone. Certainly, it doesn’t come from any mature reading of the New Testament. Read the invective He hurled against the Pharisees in the 8th chapter of John and the 23rd chapter of Matthew. Would that we could be so bold against our modern-day P.C. Pharisees.

Laura writes:

This is not to say that people should take pleasure in speaking bluntly or enjoy the occasion of someone else’s failings. In a different atmosphere, the Christian would defend the humanity of the sinner.

Kimberly writes:

If that is not a freak show, then what is? If one of those men were my son, I’d be in utter despair, and I would appreciate Jeanette’s comment in hopes that it would knock some sense into him/it/(what?)! It is not “name-calling,” it’s calling a fact for what it is. Speaking the truth is reasonable. Being harsh is not exactly mean when it is not said with malice, but with tough-love. 

I was recently chewed out for calling gays “perverts” on a Catholic chat forum. I was just speaking in a matter-of-fact way to a group of (I thought) very Catholic-minded women, but was accused of “hurling stones in an uncharitable manner.” 

I have recently been trying to let down my guard against homosexuals a little, to understand why they are so anxious to have these “rights” that would destroy us. I think it’s a mistake. I’m going to keep my guard up, just as always. The bottom line is that they are entirely confused, and therefore confusing, and it’s best to keep a safe distance to retain my reason.

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