Children – “Spoils” That Go to the Victor?

By: American Decency Staff

Three of the four gospels [Matt. 18:6; Mark 9:42; and Luke 17:2] record a very descriptive warning from Jesus:  “whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” 

While “little ones” refers not only to children, but to all who belong to Christ, throughout the Bible there is a recurring theme of nurturing children.  Most people, whether Christian or not, have a God-given instinct to protect children.  That’s why we have a special kind of anger and revulsion when we hear news accounts of children who were abused, assaulted, or murdered. 

Yet as our nation’s collective conscience is deadened, we see the loss of that protective instinct.  As a predator stalks the weakest in a herd, so we see forces of evil directed at the most defenseless among us. 

In a battle of worldviews, children are “spoils” that go to the victor.  As our culture’s view of morality changes at warp speed, these little ones are one of the last remaining targets. 

Teach children from the youngest of ages that homosexuality and transgenderism are normal lifestyles and they will grow up believing it is so. 

This moral revolution has made its way from college campuses, to high school locker rooms, and now even in daycare centers, as the LGBT agenda is systematically pushed upon America’s children. 

In Katy, Texas the homosexual parents of a 6-year-old girl recently demanded that the workers at the child’s daycare begin referring to the little girl as a boy, and call her “John” [not the actual name given].

In that one sentence we see how this little girl, raised by two homosexual men, is being impacted by both homosexuality and transgenderism. 

As gay marriage has been forced upon our nation, it will only increase the number of foster/adoptive children placed with gay/lesbian parents.  Recently, when one courageous judge in Utah removed a baby from the foster home of two lesbians, stating that he believed children are better off when raised by both a mother and a father, the judge received such backlash he has now removed himself from the case.

And this little girl, called “John,” follows a new trend to convince young children that they are “transgender.”  It is not uncommon to see reports of “transgender” children – where parents encourage their children to “switch” genders based on a child’s wish that they were the opposite sex. In Great Britain the number of young children – some as young as three – being referred to the UK’s National Health Service for transgender treatments has quadrupled in the last six years.  

Little girls who once would have been referred to as tomboys, are now being steered into thinking they’re “transgender.”    A social experiment that leaves victimized children in its wake.

Yet in the case of this six-year-old girl, there were two women in her life who refused to go along with the insanity of calling her “John” and treating her as a boy.  Two female employees of the Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center, where the child attends, refused to refer to the little girl as a boy.

Their efforts to not only look out for the best interest of this little girl, but also the protection of the other children under their care, cost them their jobs.  One of the fired employees told Breitbart news:  “As a Christian and mother of a child who attends the Children’s Lighthouse, I didn’t want to expose the other children or my child to this subject.”  She also said it would expose the child to ridicule and harassment, as well as confuse the other students.

As this fired employee told a local news outlet: “I don’t think we should be talking to other people’s children who are under the age of 18 about being transgender.”  Yet such a commonsense viewpoint is now vilified in a culture that uses children as pawns in an effort to impose a degenerate worldview. 

A poem written decades ago by Shel Silverstein and turned into a song by Johnny Cash, has new meaning for today.

Well, my daddy left home when I was three,
and he didn’t leave much to Ma and me,
just this old guitar and a bottle of booze.
Now I don’t blame him because he run and hid,
but the meanest thing that he ever did was
before he left he went and named me Sue.

Well, he must have thought it was quite a joke,
and it got lots of laughs from a lot of folks,
it seems I had to fight my whole life through.
Some gal would giggle and I’d get red
and some guy would laugh and I’d bust his head,
I tell you, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.

Life won’t be easy, either, for children taught that what God calls sin, is just an “alternative lifestyle.”  Those pushing the LGBT agenda upon our children might want to remember – millstones are awfully heavy.

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