The slippery slope of subversion

When wrong is deemed right, we all suffer

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! - Isaiah 5:20

If you haven’t been paying attention lately, there is much going on in the news. If you have, you are all too aware of the country’s serious slide into turpitude. Here are a few recent happenings:

• Biden’s gender-fluid fetishist in charge of spent nuclear fuel may now be a felon. Sam Brinton, who is regularly seen donning dresses, and in his spare time enjoys “role play” as a passionate puppy, was caught on camera committing luggage larceny at Minneapolis St. Paul Airport.

• Last week, Kelvin Blowe, an activist who fought to reshape laws in Washington D.C., making more lenient legislation for weapons crimes, was shot and killed.

• Everyone has heard of the FTX crypto company calamity, wherein Sam Bankman-Fried, and other FTX execs, funneled millions of dollars in customer funds to U.S. political campaigns. There is even speculation some of that money originated as aid money sent to Ukraine.

  

• Women’s boutique Balenciaga is bearing major backlash for marketing materials depicting, along with their products, children, alcohol, and pedophilic papers.

• WaPo published a glowing review in their Theater and Dance section, and on Twitter, titled, “‘Downstate’ is a play about pedophiles. It’s also brilliant.” Yes, they are lauding a play that ponders our propensity for showing compassion to these “troubled souls.”

What do all of these have in common? They are the cumulative result of society’s change in attitude toward morality. Despite Adams’ warning that “our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People,” we have altogether turned away. This is why our Constitution no longer constrains the government, as it was intended to do. This is why crime is on the rise across the country. This is why degeneracy now makes headlines rather than being hidden in the shadows.

Sam Brinton is a victim of society no longer treating mental maladies as pychological disorders, but instead celebrating them as brave expressions of individuality. What once (and technically still is) would have garnered psychiatric attention now is encouraged for adults and children alike. Gender dysphoria cannot be healed or helped by changing a person’s physical appearance. Performing a sex change operation on someone with an altered view of their own sexuality/gender is analogous to performing a gastric bypass on someone who suffers from anorexia. If you don’t believe these are disorders, just look to the 2015 ICD-9 (International Classification of Diseases - 9th edition). Even the current ICD-11, though the term has become softened, in line with the main thrust of this discussion, to gender incongruence. It is this acquiescence to less stigmatizing terminology that makes easier the integration of such disorders into society. These people need help that they are not receiving. The same can be seen with guns and crime.

While Blowe’s death was tragic, it is merely a symptom of the current view and treatment of crime. No longer do we have swift or public justice served for those who commit heinous crimes, never mind the fact that many cities will no longer even pursue any penalties for lesser crimes. Instead of District Attorneys prosecuting with extreme prejudice those who commit crimes involving firearms, legislators seek to restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens who own such weapons:

. When criminals can no longer be called such, how can crime be stopped? This leads in to how Bankman-Fried was able, without a nagging conscience, to relieve customers of their funds so that he could donate to his political pet projects.

Perhaps not as well-known as the FTX debacle itself, Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother, a law professor at the esteemed Stanford Law School, in 2013 penned an essay titled “Beyond Blame,” espouses the idea that people should not bear individual responsibility for their choices and actions, but rather, they are a product of their circumstances. So, don’t blame the criminal for committing a crime; let’s instead find a way to “fix this problem.” When consequences for crime are abandoned, is it any surprise that criminal activity increases? In case you are unconvinced, look at cities like San Francisco, where petty theft has been decriminalized. Look at all the stores shutting down. San Francisco is not the only example. Target stores this year have posted a whopping $400 million in losses due to theft. Murders and violent crime are increasing, and as seen in the video above, many legislators are more concerned with controlling the non-criminal than with stopping crime.

This brings us to the last two, which really are a combination of the rest. Sexual deviancy and fetishism left unchecked lead to degeneracy of the worst kind - pedophilia. This is a crime that impacts the most vulnerable among us: children. Yet even now millions across the country are allowing the sexualization of our youth, with parents even taking their children to “family-friendly” drag shows (a drag show by nature is sexual) and drag queen story hours. Not only parents, but even corporations, are fighting to be able to have young children exposed to sexuality in public school as early as kindergarten. When Florida passed a law deeming discussion of sexuality illegal for children from kindergarten through third grade, activists pushed even Disney, a corporation once known for being among the most family-friendly around, to fight the legislation. Yet a reviewer at the Washington Post, and editors who allowed the review to be published, apparently believe we should soften our view of pedophiles. This is not new. In the past couple of years, more than one academic has written about pedophiles simply being misunderstood, and have even pushed for a change to the term “pedophile” because of the stigma it carries.

We are on a very rapid downhill slide from which we will find it difficult to recover. With so many inculcated by society to not only accept, but to celebrate, evil, how do we recalibrate their thought processes? Not only have so many been indoctrinated, but they are now, as Brinton, being elevated to positions of power specifically for their deviancy, as a political virtue signal. The problem is not insurmountable, but changing trajectory will require a persisting, herculean effort. Paul warned of such times in his letter to the Romans, when he said that “although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them” (Rom. 1:32). Woe to us for allowing evil to be called good and good evil. For so long as we allow what is wrong to be deemed right, we only stand to suffer.