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More than that, the phrase “gestating parent” is a major “dishonor to motherhood,” Harper added. “When you watch a woman — especially when you’re married to her — go through pregnancy, childbirth, the early infant stage, and you see the sacrifice, you see what a woman has to do to have a baby and care for that baby, you realize that it’s very Christlike. You really have to lay down your life for that baby.”
Alas, “this is the downstream effect of when you change marriage law,” responded Dr. David Closson, director of FRC’s Center for Biblical Worldview. “It’s sad, but I’m not surprised by this.”
“Years ago, during the debates on same-sex marriage … we were assured that redefining marriage would have no effect on our understanding of motherhood or fatherhood or parenthood,” Closson grimaced. “But … once marriage is no longer fundamentally connected to the union of a man and a woman, and then, once surrogacy enters the picture, separating biological children from their parents, well, it becomes increasingly difficult to explain why the law should privilege terms like father and mother.”
In other words, “this is not appearing out of nowhere,” Closson continued. “If a child can have two fathers or two mothers, a surrogate mother, an egg donor, a gestational carrier, well, our legal system eventually is going to have to develop new categories and new terminology to sort out some of those relationships. And ‘gestating parent,’ as silly as it sounds — that’s the kind of language that emerges when parenthood is detached from biological reality.”
The new legal language isn’t clarifying, but rather makes everything more obscure, as the more commonsense politicos in New York are pointing out.
A “putative father” — also known as a deadbeat dad — would now be called “an alleged parent” in official state records, under the bill, which was sponsored by liberals Sen. Luis Sepulveda (D-Bronx) and Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D-Westchester) and will go to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk for approval.
“It’s woke culture run amok. It’s one-upmanship,” said state Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar, a former longtime state Senate and Assembly staffer.
“When we change these words like this, it’s really doing theology,” Harper summarized. “They want to say it’s legal. But when you change the meanings of words, you’re doing theology.”
“This whole transgender revolution — it really is rooted in a view of the human person that is diametrically opposed to the biblical worldview,” Closson concurred. “The biblical worldview sees us as body and soul together. The transgender worldview — it’s really a reincarnation of ancient Gnosticism that separates the mind from the body.”
When Hochul was asked about the legislation — which she either has to sign or veto — she claimed that she couldn’t speak on it because she wasn’t “familiar with what was introduced.”
As the New York Post pointed out, Hochul is the first governor of the Empire State to be a mother, though it’s unsurprising that she dodged the question. Hochul, despite her pride in being a mom, will likely bend the knee to whatever her party demands of her — and in anti-family New York, “mother” and “father” are not in vogue.
Takeaway
We as a nation have strayed from heterosexual marriage, we have strayed from the belief that a nuclear family is the safest and best structure for children, and we have strayed from the immutable fact that body and soul are inseparable. You cannot be born in the “wrong body” and have a different gendered soul.
Using so-called gender-neutral legal language isn’t inclusive; it’s demeaning and dehumanizing. Hopefully, the residents of New York will stand against this legislation.
As The Washington Stand’s Joshua Arnold observes, New York’s deviation from “mother” and “father” is a sign of just how far society has strayed from biblical theology.
What is encouraging is the strong public reaction to this bill in New York, which tells me that many Americans — including non-religious Americans — still recognize mothers as mothers, fathers as fathers, and recognize that children benefit from knowing and being connected to both of their parents whenever possible.
Reality and Truth have a way of asserting themselves even when our laws and language attempt to redefine them.
What should the righteous do? Stand. Be salt and light in the culture. Share the Gospel, and support others who are doing so.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged, Be Prayerful.
