It’s getting really lonely
Even “conservatives” have surrendered on sexuality
Several years ago I was invited to attend the “Resurgent Gathering” hosted by Erick Erickson. I was writing for Erickson’s website at the time and was thrilled at the opportunity to hear the line-up of great speakers and panels he was bringing to the event. One of the guys that I met that weekend was Guy Benson. I had read Benson’s articles for years at Townhall.com, long before he landed his own radio show and became a Fox News contributor.
Guy seemed to be a nice dude. He’s an effective communicator of many conservative political positions. Guy is also gay and “married” to another man (at the time of the event I think he was “engaged” to the man, but I don’t remember for certain). That doesn’t make his view on tax policy any better or worse, it doesn’t make his personality any more or less engaging, nor does it enhance or diminish his intelligence. It does, however, indicate a fundamental flaw in his ability to stand consistently for conservative principles.
That’s a difficult point to explain until something happens that makes obvious what I’m trying to say. Well, guess what? Something just happened to make obvious what I’m trying to say.
Christian writer Ben Zeisloft ignited a firestorm by drawing attention to it this last weekend.
To be clear, if Zeisloft is referring to a conservatism that is foundationally rooted in the truth of God’s Word and the Christian moral ethic taught therein, he is completely correct. A Christian understands that “gay” men were not designed by God to have children with one another. A Christian understands that God is the author of family, and that He determined the components of such, not us. The man/woman design is complimentary physically for the purposes of reproduction, but it is complimentary emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually for the purposes of family and raising children. A Christian also understands that the family unit is the single most critical element in sustaining a healthy, functional society.
Paying women to take your order, incubate a designer baby, and then hand that baby over from her arms to yours for good, just moments after his birth, is a fundamental injustice and denial of God’s good design. If you’re a Christian, that’s non-negotiable. It’s basic common sense. It’s authority-of-God-rather-than-your-emotions kind of stuff.
But this position I’ve laid out here is completely foreign to worldly minds – including those on the left and the “right.” The spirit of the age is not just compelling and mind-warping to liberal Democrats. Plenty of Republicans and self-professing conservatives have completely bought into the “autonomy is god” philosophy. Plenty now conclude that so long as consent is involved, whatever activity is occurring must be regarded as good and moral. It’s moral libertarianism, the very philosophy of Satan in the Garden of Eden: “you shall be as gods.”
And that’s what we’ve become. A society of wannabe gods who are willing to overlook the one true God’s instruction, and to intentionally deprive an innocent young life of his or her mother, all for the sake of gratifying our own selfish desires.
But I have to keep coming back to this point – while this has been the dominant thinking on the left for some time, it is now also the prevailing philosophy of the modern American right. Leading conservative voices in media and pop culture have completely surrendered on the issue of so-called gay marriage (“it’s the law of the land and you’re not going to rip families apart and nullify marriages at this point”) and now gay child surrogacy.
You could say they have been “empathy-shamed” into supporting it since they have no firm, unbending foundation that keeps them from being blown by the stiff wind of societal groupthink. What does it look like? Here's how a couple prominent online conservatives responded to Zeisloft:
Look at that question: “What exactly is the issue here?” Um, well the “issue” is the innocent baby. How has the political right lost sight of that? In the vain hope of appearing more reasonable and sophisticated to the culture, many conservatives have embraced the trendy practice of treating human babies as commodities: buy them, sell them, rob them of their mom. And it’s all okay because two dads can replace a mom and dad, don’t you know? The parts are interchangeable and all you need is love!
That belief might win you a slow-clap, standing ovation on social media, but it’s also every bit as foolish as the absurd, “trans women are women” routine. In fact, the two are built upon the same ridiculous premise that there are no meaningful distinctions between male and female. That there’s no unique role a mom plays with her child that a dude can’t play. Remember that as you see these same conservative voices lament and criticize the foolishness of transgenderism. They may criticize it today, but they have already laid the foundation for their own acceptance of the logical train wreck tomorrow.
That’s what Christians have to understand. It’s what I want this group we’ve formed here to understand and prepare for - the loneliness that is coming (and coming quickly) for us. So let me say a few hard things to us.