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In sex, gender, and
sexuality, what is normal?
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What is normal marriage?
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Normal family?
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Western civilization
once knew.
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But no longer.
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Academics, philosophers,
and politicians are waging
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a passionate ideological
war to establish a world
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in which nothing is
considered normal--where
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even suggesting that
one thing is normal and
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another is abnormal is
considered an act of
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hatred and violence.
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That conflict is eating
away at the foundations of
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civilization itself.
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Join us for this episode
of Tomorrow's World, where
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we expose the War
Against Normal.
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♪
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A warm welcome to you
from all of us here at
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Tomorrow's World, where
we help you make sense of
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In Jeremiah 10:23, we see
a statement made of
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profound importance:
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"O LORD, I know the way
of man is not in himself;
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it is not in man who walks
to direct his own steps."
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Our topic today
illustrates the truth of
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that statement and the
civilization-wide tragedy
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that unfolds when
we ignore it.
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We asked at the
beginning--in gender,
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sexuality, marriage, and
family, what is normal?
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Many can no longer answer
this question, thanks to a
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long-running war against
all things "normal."
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In fact, we're in the final
stages of that war in
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the West, which we will
demonstrate today.
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Now we used to know
what "normal" was.
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At least we thought
we did, right?
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Marriage was a lifetime
commitment between a man
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and a woman, defining
family and creating the
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healthiest environment
for childrearing.
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Mankind was organized into
males and females,
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and sex was to take
place between a male and
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a female, and that was an obvious matter of biology,
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That was our world as
recently as 20 years ago.
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But today, simply
asking what is normal is
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offensive to many--and
may offend some of you.
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That's because we're
living in the final stages
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of a war against normality.
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Social engineers have
mounted an aggressive
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campaign over multiple
decades, seeking to
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eradicate any idea that
some things are normal
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and some abnormal.
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And as normality is losing
this war, an abnormal
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world is quickly filling
the space left behind.
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It is this new world
that our children will
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inherit--in which there is
no such thing as "normal"
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and it's the highest offense
to suggest that there should be.
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How did we get here?
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How bad is it?
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And can it get worse?
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Finally, what does God
think of a culture in
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which anything
normal is the enemy?
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While the combatants
attacking normality are
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not as coordinated and
conspiratorial as many
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think, there are common
doctrines and goals that
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drive and unite them.
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Originating in the infamous Frankfurt School in the 1920s,
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so-called "Critical Theory"
in various forms
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has become all the rage.
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The 1970s saw the rise of
Critical Legal Theory,
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and more recently, Critical
Race Theory became the hot
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topic of discussion,
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No less pervasive in
its influence on modern
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culture is Queer Theory.
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Queer Theory seeks to
"deconstruct" common ways
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of thinking, to overturn
widely held norms, and to
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define all of society as
a power play between the
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"oppressed" and their
"oppressors." Developed in
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LGBT Studies and Women's
Studies programs at
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universities across the
Western world, Queer
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Theory focuses on
deconstructing sexuality
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and gender--and, consequently, everything affected by
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those facets of life,
such as family structure.
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Academics steeped in these
ideas seek to subvert what
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has been considered normal
and celebrate what were
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previously "abnormal"
ideas and practices.
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To them, it's not enough
for society to merely
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accept or allow the
fullest spectrum of sexual
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behaviors and "gender
constructs." Their goal is
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to "queer" the discourse
entirely, meaning to
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change mainstream thinking
so that nothing is even
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thought of as "normal" or
"not normal" any longer.
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For example, Dr. Roberta
Chevrette of Middle
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Tennessee State University
has written of the need to
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"'queer' family
communication"--changing
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discussions within
families so that
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heterosexuality is no
longer treated as normal
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in those families.
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The goal of these social
engineers is to change
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societal thinking so
that all forms of sexual
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activity are considered
equally "normal."
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The "queering" of
communication has
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proceeded at quite a pace.
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In fact, social engineers
expect us to speak a
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different language with
a different vocabulary.
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Control a language, and
you control a people.
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We'll explore that new
language wielded against
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normalcy in just a moment.
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Welcome back.
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The prejudice against normal,
healthy sexuality and gender
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expression can be seen in,
essentially, a new vocabulary.
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Are you familiar
with its words?
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Because your college-educated children probably are--
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and, increasingly, your
younger children are, too.
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More importantly, those
designing school policies
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and programs
definitely are.
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One new word is
heteronormative.
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As of mid-2023,
Merriam-Webster defines it
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as "of, relating to, or
based on the attitude that
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heterosexuality is the
only normal and natural
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expression of sexuality."
And an Internet search is
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enough to show you
that "heteronormative
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thinking"--that is,
thinking that the normal
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expression of sexuality
is between a man and a
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woman--is no longer "right
thinking." In fact, if you
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think that sexual
relations between men and
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women are more normal than
others, you are considered
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guilty of heterosexism.
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Similarly, if you're a
man or a woman who, like
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almost all humans beings,
still considers yourself
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the same gender the doctor
observed you to be at birth,
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it's not enough to call
yourself a man or woman anymore.
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Now, you must be a cisgender
man or cisgender woman,
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to distinguish from a
transgender man
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or a transgender woman.
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If you are, say, a man
who thinks referring to
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himself as a "cisgender man"
instead of just a "man" is a
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little strange, watch out--now you're engaging in cisgenderism.
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Also, you'd better not
think it is normal for
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someone in a male body to
think he is a man, because
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if you do, you're
practicing cisnormativity.
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How dare you think
anything--any sexuality,
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any relationship between
sex and gender, any family
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structure--is normal?
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For a glimpse at how
normal sexuality and
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family structure have been
recast as evils, one need
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only look at--believe it
or not--Black Lives Matter.
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While the Black Lives
Matter movement made
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global headlines in the
wake of George Floyd's death,
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some interested in the cause
were distressed by what they
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found on the organization's
"About Us" webpage.
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There, under the heading
"What We Believe," they
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saw Black Lives Matter
declare, "We are
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self-reflexive and do the
work required to dismantle
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cisgender privilege,"
"We disrupt the
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Western-prescribed nuclear
family structure,"
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and "We foster a
queer-affirming network.
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When we gather, we do
so with the intention of
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freeing ourselves
from the tight grip of
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heteronormative thinking."
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While that page was
removed in the days
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leading up to
the 2020 U.S.
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presidential election, the
question remained: What
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does ending discrimination
and violence against black
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people have to do with
transgender ideology?
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Why would supporting black
lives also require standing
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against "heteronormativity" or traditional family structures?
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The answer is that the
war against normal has
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successfully woven itself
into nearly every effort
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to create social change.
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As critical theorists
irrationally recategorize
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human relationships as
expressions of coercive power,
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and any attempt to address
injustice then also, has to be
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made to connect with all other
injustices, real or perceived.
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Believing there is a
normal family structure,
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a normal human sexuality,
and a normal understanding
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of sex and gender is
increasingly equated with
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power structures
designed to oppress.
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To today's social
engineers, if you believe
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that family is best
grounded in a marriage
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between a man and a woman,
sex between that man and
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that woman represents
normal and natural
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sexuality, and it actually
is possible in virtually
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all cases to identify a
child's gender at birth,
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well then you've aligned yourself with the likes of
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Mussolini and Hitler
and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Presuming someone's gender
based on their appearance
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is labeled an act of
ignorance at best and
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violence at worst.
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If a young girl is plagued
by thoughts that she might
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be transgender, to help
that girl feel more
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comfortable being a girl
is committing the sin of
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"conversion therapy."
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But as bad as things are, we are
far from how bad they can get.
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Ultimately, the war on normality
is a war on boundaries.
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Human beings crave sexual
"freedom," unbound by any
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rules, definitions, laws,
and even shame--to define
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sexuality based solely
on individual desires.
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So, the boundaries keeping
sex within marriage must fall,
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the boundaries defining
marriage as between
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one man and one woman must
fall, and the boundaries
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defining differences between sexes or genders must fall.
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There is, however, at
least one boundary that
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remains--one land the War
Against Normal has not yet
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conquered, but that is
under siege and could fall
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at any moment.
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For the sake of
your children and
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grandchildren, we'll
discuss the assault on
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that final boundary
in our next segment.
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In our last segment, we
noted that the War Against
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Normal is an attempt to
remove all restrictions
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and boundaries.
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No rules, no definitions,
no shame--just worship of
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the will and
personal autonomy.
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But there is a
boundary that remains,
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even as it is under continuous
assault: The age boundary.
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Thankfully, many still
consider childhood a time
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for protection from the
incursions of modern
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sexual "liberty." Yet
many of our self-appointed
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superiors deem that this
boundary, too, must fall.
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Consider the flood of sexual
content into school libraries.
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In the United States,
the American Library
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Association found that
nine of the top ten school
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library books most
challenged in 2021 were
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challenged due to their sexual
content and explicit nature.
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The most challenged
book--which we will not
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name, so as not to
risk promoting it
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accidentally--contained
imagery that any
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reasonable person would
consider pornographic.
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Not long ago, any teacher
who shared such a book
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with a child would have
been labeled a pedophile
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and a predator, and that
teacher would have been
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disciplined or dismissed.
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Consider, too, the
phenomenon of Drag Queen
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Story Hour, in which men
who dress as women--often
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in exaggerated and
sometimes sexually
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suggestive clothing--read
to children in libraries
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and other venues.
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Such events are designed
to blur sexual and gender
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lines and family
attachments in children's
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impressionable minds so
that they grow up thinking
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that everything is just as
"normal" as everything else.
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Don't take our word for it.
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Take theirs.
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In the academic journal
Curriculum Inquiry,
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"critical pedagogy"
researcher Harper Keenan
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and a drag queen organizer
of events known as
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"Lil Miss Hot Mess"
collaborated on a paper
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titled "Drag pedagogy: The
playful practice of queer
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imagination in
early childhood."
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The authors are completely
plain concerning the goals
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of Drag Queen Story Hour.
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"Ultimately, we
suggest that drag
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pedagogy offers one model
for learning not simply
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about queer lives, but
how to live queerly."
17:11.463 --> 17:15.367
They note that drag is
"implicitly transgressive"
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that "While drag has
some conventions, it
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ultimately has no rules--
its defining quality
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is often to break as
many rules as possible!"
17:26.678 --> 17:29.915
They note that drag "is
all about bending and
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breaking the rules,"
often,"turn[ing] rejection
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into desire, transforming
the labour of performance
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into the pleasure
of participation."
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They tell us "Drag Queen
Story Hours offers a queer
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relationality with children
that breaks from
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the reproductive futurity
of the normative classroom
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and nuclear family."
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In their conclusion, they
point out that they "have
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occasionally encountered
critiques that [Drag Queen
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Story Hour] is sanitizing
the risqué nature of drag
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in order to make it
'family friendly.' We do
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not share this pessimistic
view," noting, "it is less
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a sanitizing force than
it is a preparatory
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introduction to alternate
modes of kinship."
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It's not an exaggeration
or hyperbole: The War
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Against Normal is
coming for our children.
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You might wonder--how
could things get so far?
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Well, a large part of the
answer is that, to a great
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extent, the attitudes and
philosophies motivating
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this are nothing new.
18:42.421 --> 18:46.158
Ecclesiastes 1:9 says,
"That which has been is
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what will be, That which
is done is what will be
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done, And there is
nothing new under the sun.
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Is there anything of
which it may be said,
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'See, this is new'?
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It has already been in
ancient times before us."
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Indeed, the attack on
sexual barriers between
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children and adults goes
back to philosophers and
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academics whose ideas
helped lay the foundations
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of today's Queer Theory.
19:13.418 --> 19:17.689
In 1977, supposedly
"enlightened" souls such
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as Paul-Michel Foucault,
Jean-Paul Sartre, and
19:21.660 --> 19:24.663
Jacques Derrida signed
a petition to the French
19:24.730 --> 19:28.767
government to allow adults
to engage in "consensual"
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sexual relations
with children.
19:31.069 --> 19:32.804
As reported in the
Guardian, these
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intellectuals demanded
that French law "should
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acknowledge the right of
children and adolescents
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to have relations with
whomever they choose."
19:41.647 --> 19:45.183
The same article reported
on the positions of French
19:45.250 --> 19:49.121
philosopher and author
Tony Duvert of the 1970s,
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who "praised 'the great
adventure of paedophilia'
19:52.591 --> 19:56.662
and raged at 'the fascism
of mothers.'" According to
19:56.728 --> 19:59.331
its English-language
publisher MIT Press,
19:59.398 --> 20:04.269
Duvert's 1976 book Diary
of an Innocent ends with
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"a fanciful yet rigorous
construction of a reverse world
20:08.674 --> 20:13.145
in which marginal sexualities
have become the norm."
20:13.211 --> 20:15.914
Isn't that increasingly
the world we live in?
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A "reverse world" in which the
marginal has become the norm?
20:21.153 --> 20:26.458
The world of no boundaries
is not the world God intended.
20:26.525 --> 20:29.494
We will take a look at
that reality--the only
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reality--in a moment.
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people all over the world
are increasingly at each
20:50.115 --> 20:53.785
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of the chaos that results
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Welcome back.
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We began by reading
Jeremiah's comment to God,
22:16.735 --> 22:20.739
"O LORD, I know the way of
man is not in himself;
22:20.806 --> 22:25.277
It is not in man who walks
to direct his own steps."
22:25.343 --> 22:29.981
But the very next verse
gives us the key to
22:30.048 --> 22:32.384
resolving the War
Against Normal:
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"O LORD, correct me,
but with justice;
22:36.521 --> 22:40.392
not in Your anger, lest
You bring me to nothing."
22:40.459 --> 22:43.729
God is the Creator
of all reality.
22:43.795 --> 22:48.900
It is His design, His law,
and His will that defines
22:48.967 --> 22:54.473
what is normal--or what
should be, and what will
22:54.539 --> 22:58.777
be in the world Christ
will bring at His return.
22:58.844 --> 23:01.813
Concerning sexuality,
gender, and family,
23:01.880 --> 23:04.750
God made it plain
from the beginning.
23:04.816 --> 23:06.918
Referring back to the
Genesis account of creation,
23:06.985 --> 23:12.791
Jesus taught about marriage.
In Matthew 19, we read:
23:12.858 --> 23:16.328
"Have you not read that
He who made them at
23:16.394 --> 23:20.966
the beginning 'made them
male and female,'and said,
23:21.032 --> 23:24.436
'for this reason a man
shall leave his father and
23:24.503 --> 23:27.973
mother and be joined to
his wife, and the two
23:28.039 --> 23:30.542
shall become one flesh'?
23:30.609 --> 23:34.212
So then, they are no
longer two but one flesh.
23:34.279 --> 23:39.684
Therefore what God has joined
together, let not man separate."
23:39.751 --> 23:44.189
In one fell swoop, Jesus
definitely affirmed the
23:44.256 --> 23:47.959
gender binary of man and
woman, the biological
23:48.026 --> 23:51.663
design of male and female,
and the place of sex in
23:51.730 --> 23:54.733
marriage between a
husband and a wife.
23:54.800 --> 23:57.736
While the War Against
Normal seeks to abolish
23:57.803 --> 24:01.773
any sort of boundaries,
God seeks to establish
24:01.840 --> 24:04.676
boundaries and to make
them clear and firm.
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In fact, the very first
pages of Scripture
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illuminate exactly how
our Creator deals with
24:11.316 --> 24:16.388
boundary-obliterating chaos--
and that is reestablishing
24:16.454 --> 24:21.293
order and normalcy by
reestablishing boundaries.
24:21.359 --> 24:25.764
The opening pages of
Genesis details chaos:
24:25.831 --> 24:29.401
"The earth was without
form, and void".
24:29.467 --> 24:34.172
Now a world "without form
and void"--without guiding
24:34.239 --> 24:37.809
distinctions, shapes, and
ideals--is exactly the
24:37.876 --> 24:41.780
society today's social
engineers seek to create.
24:41.847 --> 24:45.016
The Creator brought
order to that chaos by
24:45.083 --> 24:47.452
establishing clear boundaries.
24:47.519 --> 24:51.289
He separated light and
darkness, the waters below
24:51.356 --> 24:54.626
from those above, and
the land from the seas.
24:54.693 --> 24:57.529
He established a distinct
boundary between animals
24:57.596 --> 25:01.132
and humanity--humans are
created beings, and yet
25:01.199 --> 25:04.402
unique in bearing
God's own image.
25:04.469 --> 25:08.440
He organized humans into two
sexes: male and female.
25:08.506 --> 25:11.343
And upon ordering the
world He had created,
25:11.409 --> 25:14.546
God declared it "very good".
25:14.613 --> 25:18.283
We enjoy the goodness of
that ordered world today.
25:18.350 --> 25:20.919
Eradicating all
borders, boundaries, and
25:20.986 --> 25:24.489
limitations does not
produce a better world.
25:24.556 --> 25:27.826
It only creates a more
chaotic one--in which the
25:27.893 --> 25:31.796
joys God designed go unrealized,
and the sufferings He
25:31.863 --> 25:36.201
intended to keep at bay
become the new normal.
25:36.268 --> 25:38.870
Still, let's be careful.
25:38.937 --> 25:41.706
It's ironic that so much
of the world is waging a
25:41.773 --> 25:44.709
passionate war against
normal, because Jesus
25:44.776 --> 25:48.580
Christ Himself will
fundamentally correct the
25:48.647 --> 25:51.283
definition of what is
normal when He establishes
25:51.349 --> 25:53.318
a new world at
His Second Coming.
25:53.385 --> 25:56.488
Often, those who lament
the War Against Normal
25:56.554 --> 26:00.725
also fail to see that the
traditions they see as
26:00.792 --> 26:04.930
normal are tainted and
broken in their own ways.
26:04.996 --> 26:07.732
The Kingdom Jesus will
establish will not look
26:07.799 --> 26:12.003
like 1950s America, nor
the Judea of Jesus' day.
26:12.070 --> 26:16.308
Nostalgia for a better
past is no substitute for
26:16.374 --> 26:20.312
the full transformation
called for in His Gospel,
26:20.378 --> 26:22.547
and the life to which
Christians are called
26:22.614 --> 26:26.685
transcends what was ever
lived throughout history.
26:26.751 --> 26:30.956
To live God's way requires
a complete change in
26:31.022 --> 26:33.458
how we see ourselves,
our relationships,
26:33.525 --> 26:34.826
and our obligations.
26:34.893 --> 26:38.463
And, frankly, no
civilization has ever
26:38.530 --> 26:43.168
fully gotten it right. As God tells us through Isaiah:
26:43.234 --> 26:46.972
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher
26:47.038 --> 26:51.009
than your ways, and My thoughts
than your thoughts."
26:51.076 --> 26:55.013
After Jesus' return, the
world will learn what
26:55.080 --> 26:58.783
family, sexuality,
relationships, and society
26:58.850 --> 27:03.254
can be when we follow
the original design and
27:03.321 --> 27:05.156
intention of our Creator.
27:05.223 --> 27:08.093
From the blessings that
follow, mankind will
27:08.159 --> 27:12.397
finally understand why no
one should ever exchange
27:12.464 --> 27:15.767
God's normal for
anything less.
27:15.834 --> 27:19.270
It is that time to come
that we proclaim here on
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Tomorrow's World.
27:20.739 --> 27:23.174
If you want to begin
seeking the power of
27:23.241 --> 27:26.811
tomorrow's world in your
own life, seeing through
27:26.878 --> 27:30.181
the madness of today's
world is a great start.
27:30.248 --> 27:32.517
I hope you'll get
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And I hope you'll join
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When you do, Gerald
Weston, Richard Ames, Rod
27:41.359 --> 27:44.229
McNair, and I will be
right here, ready to share
27:44.295 --> 27:46.831
with you the teachings
of Jesus Christ, the real
27:46.898 --> 27:49.734
meaning of the Bible's
end-time prophecies, and
27:49.801 --> 27:52.804
the beautiful news of
the Kingdom of God.
27:52.871 --> 27:55.707
Until we see you
again, take care.
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