Gary Varvel: The Left Replaces Fathers

Non-Gestating Parent’s Day?

For thousands of years, every generation knew the definition of “father” and “mother.”

Two thousand years ago, Jesus clarified this family dynamic in Matthew 19:4–5: “Haven’t you read that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?”

Fast-forward to today’s progressive architects of a post-modern, secular culture who decided “father” and “mother” needed a corporate, biological downgrade. In their rebellious quest to build a genderless utopia, New York Democrats and the cultural left have determined that the word “Dad” is just too exclusive. Instead, they prefer “Non-Gestating Parent”—a title that oozes all the warmth and affection of a government tax audit. It’s hard to imagine a kid handing a greeting card to their pop on a Sunday morning and saying, “Happy Non-Gestating Parent’s Day to the biological entity who contributed 50% of my chromosomal makeup!” The devil must be getting a kick out of this mockery, but our Creator is not amused.

Go ahead and replace the card racks with whatever absurd, hyperspecific terminology a progressive focus group cooked up this week. You can try to rewrite the dictionary, but you can’t rewrite God’s design. The left should remember this stark warning from Romans 2:5: “…you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.” -- More...

Fast-forward to today’s progressive architects of a post-modern, secular culture who decided “father” and “mother” needed a corporate, biological downgrade. In their rebellious quest to build a genderless utopia, New York Democrats and the cultural left have determined that the word “Dad” is just too exclusive. Instead, they prefer “Non-Gestating Parent”—a title that oozes all the warmth and affection of a government tax audit. It’s hard to imagine a kid handing a greeting card to their pop on a Sunday morning and saying, “Happy Non-Gestating Parent’s Day to the biological entity who contributed 50% of my chromosomal makeup!” The devil must be getting a kick out of this mockery, but our Creator is not amused.

Go ahead and replace the card racks with whatever absurd, hyperspecific terminology a progressive focus group cooked up this week. You can try to rewrite the dictionary, but you can’t rewrite God’s design. The left should remember this stark warning from Romans 2:5: “…you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself. For a day of anger is coming, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.” -- More...