Growing Up Don Or Is It Donna?

This morning in the midst of my usual routine of quaffing piping hot java and perusing the world news for the day on my PC, I came across an article that made me wince with anger and shake my head in disappointment.  It was about a couple in England who decided they were doing society and families in general a huge favor by conducting a wholly selfish and catastrophically damaging experiment by raising their child to be gender neutral.  That's right neither boy nor girl just "it".  The child's parents, both women, decided that raising a child with it's natural given sexuality and gender in a traditional manner would be stereotyping the child into accepting norms that would cause it's personality to be malformed.  They didn't want to pigeon hole their child to accept gender as a definer of it's personality.  That's right folks, I'm not kidding you and we wonder why the apocalypse is upon us!  Ok, so back to the absurdity of this situation.  They alternated dressing the child into both girls and boys clothes, had it play with gender neutral toys and refused to expose the child to the medium of TV, not necessarily a bad thing, to prevent exposure to male or female role models.    One of the parents said that raising the child without stereotypes will allow the personality of  the child to fully develop.  Develop?  Into what?  They even said and I am quoting here,  "Gender affects what children wear and what they can play with and that shapes the kind of person they become."  Really, no kidding!  Did it ever occur to these two completely lost and irresponsible individuals the damage they are potentially causing to this innocent child.  Not only does the child grow up in a non traditional parental arrangement, but now they want to warp the natural sense of physical and mental as well as emotional growth of this innocent child too.  So, if you haven't detected my disgust by now let me add this.  By choosing to raise their child gender neutral, without any identity as to it's self worth or sexuality what do you think is going to happen when this child grows up?  
  Let me enlighten you a bit.  And this is not from a PhD in psychology here but an intelligent person, a loving, God fearing and dedicated parent.  Confusion, anxiety, lack of self confidence, relationship dysfunction, moody, withdrawn and isolated.   Not to mention the dangerous warping of the role that God had intended for them to live by in their life to it's fullest.  Why?  Why it's all in the name of tolerance and love.  Let's raise a generation of ambiguous children and set them upon the world with out any boundaries and role defining values and watch the mayhem begin.  It's no wonder that we are in such a downward spiral.  We are tearing at the fabric of the one institution under God that set's the standard for all societies lawful and moral restraint and that is the family.  Without natural male and female roles to live by, we blur the divine intent of our Heavenly Father and have undermined the foundation of our world.   Many sociologists agree that the breakdown of the traditional family is the single greatest cause for the decay in modern Western society today.  What these two women are embarking on is nothing short of criminal almost in the sense of child neglect in my view.  Some will say my views are narrow minded and obsolete in our modern utopian society called Toleranceville, but the practice of such behavior is wreaking havoc all around us.  We serve a God that will not be mocked and set up the Ten Commandments and later on sent His only begotten Son to die for us and pay for our sins.  Jesus said in Matthew 18:6, "But whoever shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea." I for one will pray for this child and his parents.  That's right , it is a he.  They had to reveal his gender to the school when their child became to old for them to conceal the sex anymore. Oh, and go figure his name is Sasha. Tick, tock, tick, tock and the clock approaches midnight! 


Proverbs 6:20-23

  My son, obey your father's commands, and don't neglect your mother's teaching.
  Keep their words always in your heart. Tie them around your neck. Wherever you walk, their counsel can lead you. When you sleep, they will protect you. When you wake up in the morning, they will advise you.For these commands and this teaching are a lamp to light the way ahead of you. The correction of discipline is the way of life.