OPINION:
We’re only weeks into Kamala Harris’ campaign, and she’s already “made history.” How? As the “first-ever sitting vice president to ever sashay into the RuPaul’s Drag Race Werk Room.” In a show of support for the LGBTQ+ community, she released a special message to voters from the show’s set.
Such a campaign stop should not surprise anyone as, in the past, she’s successfully advocated for tax-payer funded sex-change surgeries for trans-identifying inmates and labeled those who oppose trans surgeries on minors — the irreversible removal of children and teens’ healthy sexual organs — as “bullies.”
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Our vice president is “all-in” when it comes to gender ideology, portraying her cause as the compassionate and caring solution to the identity struggles of children, young people, and adults. And yet her former communications director, Jamal Simmons, claims Mrs. Harris has “a strong Christian faith that she’s talked about a lot” and that the Christian church “still influences her, her worldview and her ethical commitments.”
This demands a comparison between Mrs. Harris’ public views and the standard for Christian truth: the Word of God, the Creator of all things.
Mrs. Harris goes along with the transgender narrative, accepting that gender is on a spectrum and that one’s subjective feelings self-determine their identity. This is the belief that we are people who create ourselves based on our own preferences. Indeed, our subjective feelings and preferences are more real than reality itself; we should try to alter reality with scalpels and surgery to conform to our subjective feelings and preferences.
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This is wrong at a very fundamental level, for anyone who believes in the God who reveals Himself in scripture. One of the first things we learn about our relationship to Him is that He is our Creator – revealed in a few simple words in Genesis 1:26, “let us make man…” In other words, we do not create ourselves. “My truth” isn’t the most foundational issue – rather, God’s truth is.
Genesis is the book of beginnings, or foundations. Sometimes, I like to call it the book of “blueprints.” Here are three blueprints which affect our identity as humans.
1. We are created by God
Indeed, everything is. Before God tells us anything at all about anything at all, He frames His revelation with the phrase, “in the beginning, God created…” That is the proper starting point for all rational thought. As noted, this quickly applies to us personally, because God created humankind. The ancient Psalmist understood what we have forgotten today, that “it is He who made us, and not we ourselves” (Psalm 100:3).
2. God created humankind according to a male and female sex binary
“Male and female He created them” – Genesis 1:27. The meaning of maleness and femaleness is not something for us to make up. Nor can we swap them out, like costumes. Sex and gender are linked together by the Creator’s work. Male and female dispositions and creation mandates are described from Genesis 2 and reaffirmed often. The one, a providing, responsible guardian. The other, a strength-giving nurturer and mother. Whatever the inevitable complexity of life brings our way, we do well to remember these qualities and value them.
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3. We are fallen
Although God’s original creation, functioning perfectly according to His blueprints, was called “very good” (Genesis 1:31), it is now defaced and corrupted by sin. Whilst it resembles its former glory, we see evidence of its corruption everywhere. One of these corruptions is the human desire to “be as gods” – to get too big for our boots as creatures, and try to wrestle the Creator’s power off Him, recreating things according to our own preferences.
We think that our truth (our feelings) should have the status of God’s truth. This is why the LGBTQ+ movement calls itself a “pride” movement. It is a sin of pride and hubris, to take God’s Creation order and deface it according to our own preferences, rather than submitting to His perfect will. It only leads to destruction.
We live in days where human bodies are reduced to objects of lust, are so used sexually that psychological scars run deep, are mutilated and broken in the name of “gender affirmation,” and much more besides. This is the bitter fruit of playing god.
So, what should Christians make of Kamala Harris and her radical gender agenda? Bluntly, it stands in total contrast to the God she claims to believe in.
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Martyn Iles is Executive CEO of Answers in Genesis, the Creation Museum, and the Ark Encounter. For more on our creation blueprints please see Iles’ book “Who am I? Solving the Identity Puzzle.”
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