Many Americans were horrified when a certain video went viral on the internet. This video captured one of the most natural and innocent desires you can find: a baby’s desire for its mother. The video in question was of a young baby boy being held by his adoptive guardian, a man who is seen asking for “mum-mum.” The man responds by laughing, mocking the boy, and correcting him: “There’s no mama. Do you want dada or pop?” The man is gay, and he is referring to his partner as “pop.” There is no mother. This boy will never have a mother.
Now, was this a situation where the young boy was put up for adoption and this was the best home available for him? After all, at least he is in a loving home, right? Well, not exactly. This young boy was bought and paid for; his conception was the result of surrogacy. So this boy was brought into the world to be taken away from his mother. This was the whole purpose of his existence, according to these men.
This has caused a stir. Those who are believers in Jesus are obviously appalled by such blatant depravity. But even those who are not as principled on sexual morality struggle to watch a video like this and not be heartbroken for this poor boy. But how in the world did we get here? How is this even allowed?
When we think about it, this insanity is not so insane when you analyze the secular worldview that rules the day in America. Secularism states that there is either no God or there is not one worth focusing on. Even if a secularist is not quite an atheist, they will still only focus on the horizontal—not on any kind of vertical relationship with God—with a limited belief in any sort of intervention from the Almighty. This worldview indicates that every law or standard we establish will be completely subjective, since there can be no objectivity to things such as morality or values. This leads to the idea of “live and let live,” but of course, that is only valid when we are talking about issues of morality. In the end, secularism becomes extremely authoritarian.
The idea of rights has been misconstrued and corrupted over the 250 years since the United States of America has been a nation. We have a Constitution that guarantees our God-given rights. These rights to speech, self-protection, due process, etc., are rights that are given by God. These rights are available in natural law as well as the Constitution. Unless the government commits force against a citizen, that person should be able to exercise the rights afforded to them in the Constitution. These rights also focus on the individual. We do not have a right to do what we want with someone else’s property. We have a right to express ourselves in speech and defend our own property.
This is very different from the “right to vote.” This is the right that began the distortion of our original rights under the Constitution. You do not have an inherent right to have your say in how the government runs. This is not a God-given right. Should we be able to democratically elect our representatives? I think so. But this right is not the same as our natural, God-given rights, because these rights are afforded to citizens and non-citizens alike.
The idea of democracy as a right has led to the idea that you have the right to live whatever degrading, sinful lifestyle you desire while receiving all of the benefits of a traditional lifestyle.
Some would vehemently disagree with my assertion. But this bending of the term “right” has led to what we see today. When women were granted the right to vote in 1920 through the 19th Amendment, it defied logic. Men had to sign up for the draft and got the right to vote in exchange. After this amendment, the same rules applied for men, but women got to vote without any of the skin in the game. This made it a “right” for women and a privilege for men.
The LGBT movement had the same idea in mind. Gays should be able to get “married” so they could have the same rights that married couples possess. This means the adoption of children. As we all know, gays cannot have kids. The Lord designed it that way. That lifestyle is fruitless and is just pure hedonism with no love. The choice was made to live that lifestyle. When that choice was made, raising children was off the table because you will have none.
Once the Obergefell decision on the Supreme Court was made in 2015, this opened the floodgates. If they can be married, they can adopt kids. But somehow, it continues to get worse. With the newfound ability to manipulate biology with IVF and surrogacy, this has further degraded our culture into allowing gays to purchase children. This is beyond the pale. There is an argument that can be made for gay adoption: if a child cannot find a home and the only home is a gay home, that may be better than the streets. Although I still disagree with that statement, I can understand the thought process. Surrogacy is bringing a child into the world just to rip them away from the mother and give them to sexual deviants. This is dark.
When you step back, this is a natural progression. As a country, we now proclaim that men have the right to purchase children for the sole purpose of ripping them away from their mothers and giving them to a group of people that are shown to be astronomically more likely to abuse that child. It has been found that 81.8% of children adopted by gay men are boys. Now, we have legally given them unfettered access.
This started with the debasement of the term “right.” The slippery slope led to where we are now. It is hard to make moral arguments when you commit yourself to secularism. There is no truth in secularism. This led us to where we are now.
