Dad and Mom are NOT Evil Words

The Governor of California signed a bill yesterday that effectively eliminates the usage of the words “mom and dad” as well as “husband and wife” from California public schools. The law is not a list of banned words, such as "mom" and "dad", but the requirement is that the law bans discriminatory bias. The terms 'mom and dad' or 'husband and wife' could promote discrimination against homosexuals if a same-sex couple is not also featured.

It also creates the circumstances where a parent who says marriage is only for a man and a woman in the presence of a lesbian teacher could be convicted of "harassment," and a student who believes people are born either male or female could be reported as a "harasser" by a male teacher who wears women's clothes. It is no secret that this bill was pushed through the legislature by gay and lesbian activist groups.

Just because a lesbian couple objects to the word “dad”, should all the other family units that have a “dad” feel like they are doing something wrong by using this word in their families? If you don’t use “dad”, what word is to be used? If the baby’s first words aren’t “mama or dada”, what are they going to be? I called my earthly father “dad” or “daddy” from the moment I could speak. I called my earthly mother “mom” until she took her last breath. No one is going to prohibit me from speaking or writing about my dearly beloved “mom and dad”.

I understand “same-sex” marriage is an extremely controversial and hot topic. I understand how “same-sex” partners would object to the terms “husband and wife”. So as to not offend anyone, must we eliminate the pronouncement at the end of the ceremony that proclaims; “I now pronounce you husband and wife”? If some couple wants to be called “man and man” or “woman and woman”, that is their business and theirs alone. Why do we have to penalize the huge majority of people to “protect the rights” of the few when those rights plainly flow against God’s written Word?

The devilish phrase, “same-sex marriage”, never appeared in our society until just a few years ago. It is truly amazing how a concept the vast majority of people despise has taken off and drawn so much attention in such a short amount of time. State after state has rejected the idea of “same-sex marriage” in elections, yet it never goes away. The whole subject seems to thrive on public disapproval.

Some things just make me want to pack up find some other planet to move to. Outlawing “dad and mom” along with “husband and wife” from schools is one of those things. Next to be outlawed will be “father and mother” and then “man and woman”. Soon, all we will have left is “human” to describe all of us in every way. The people behind these moves will not rest until the notion of being born a boy or girl is destroyed once and for all.

The Gay-Straight Alliance Network and the Transgender Law Center is lobbying for special treatment in the school system. "If you want to use a restroom that matches your gender identity … you should be allowed to do so," it advises. "Whenever students are divided up into boys and girls, you should be allowed to join the group or participate in the program that matches your gender identity as much as possible." These people go as far as favoring allowing girls to use boys’ locker rooms and vice-a-versa in order to respect “gender identity” (not gender). The prevailing opinion is that these views will be the next law passed in California.

Why even bother to separate boys and girls? I know that many of the more liberal colleges did away with men’s and women’s dorms years ago. Now they have done away with even men’s and women’s floors and of course rest rooms. “Unisex” is the goal in all these decisions. Do these people never consider how offended the old fashioned straight people are by these moves?

“As California goes, so goes the nation” is a well known saying. God Forbid it goes that way this time. I believe it would take threats of military action to enforce a law, such as the one being considered next in California, in much of the United States. I cannot picture parents in the Deep South allowing their children to go to school and share restrooms with members of the opposite sex. I cannot fathom good wholesome Midwestern parents allowing their kids to go to a school in which boys and girls share the same locker room and showers.

Give me a break, only in a state which has gone off the deep end socially would such absurd and ludicrous behavior not only be allowed, but written into law. If I lived in the state of California I would sell my house (for a loss) as quickly as I could and move to a part of the country where God is still respected and is not going to be buried under brimstone soon.

If you read these posts, you know that I am a Bible believing Christian. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I am not ashamed to be a man, a husband and if I had children, a dad. Being such things, I cannot sit by and let an incident such as the one that took place yesterday in California go by without commenting on it. If you allow the enemy to take an inch, he will go for a foot. If you allow him a toehold, he will squeeze open the door, burst in and devour you.

I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am a concerned child of God who is sick and tired of watching elected officials take the Bible I love and rip it to shreds. Those who try and make a mockery of the God I love and the Word of God I stand for make me angry, just as the unbelief of the Pharisees and Sadducees made Jesus angry. Some issues you just can’t sit back and watch go by. Some issues you have to take a stand on. Some issues you have to be outspoken about.

I understand the risk in a post such as this. I understand it offends some people. What else is new, the Gospel has been offending people for 2,000 years. Truth is truth and all the lies on earth are not going to change the truth. God made man and He made woman. He made man and woman for each other. He made man and woman to become husband and wife. He made man and woman to be daddy and mommy to their children.

This is the truth whether people want to acknowledge it or not. The very integrity of God and His Word is being attacked in this whole issue. As a soldier of the Almighty, I must stand up for the God I love and serve. I must speak the truth in love, no matter what the cost. God is my “DAD” and no one will ever take that away from me.