Where's the restroom?

Today's society is being hit hard by a new reality which for conservative Christians are particularly impacted and on a regular basis.

No longer is the question "Where's the restroom?" just a phrase you try to be prepared to ask in whatever language necessary to get around on your vacation. It is a phrase fundamental to determining your own local facilities because of the actions of the GLBT groups (this refers to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender groups).

It is a phrase that frightens and sends red flags up, when considering the ramifications of recent laws and political activism. Read this to get some idea of what our young people face on college campuses, and even in your own elementary schools.

It hit home for me when I read just this one sentence from that article stating, "An article in the New York Times revealed how parents of children with gender confusion are now being encouraged to dress their children as members of the opposite sex. At the Park Day School in Oakland [Calif.], teachers . . . are urged to line up students by sneaker color rather than by gender.” What type of life is that? Instead of saying "I'm a girl", you say "I'm pink and purple sneaker?"

I was particularly shocked when I read about the Colorado ruling recently and learned about the affect on Christian ministries such as Focus on the Family. Additionally, reading more on Focus on the Family's web site, they have been faithfully addressing this since at least 1982. Dr. Dobson and his organization have been continually faced with conflict with media and GLBT groups, because of the persistent faith stand taken in evangelical circles, of which Focus on the Family is founded upon.

What should my response as a Christian be to homosexuality and transgender activism? How do I show love and acceptance of the people while not condoning their lifestyle alone? How do I portray my Christian belief that God's Word speaks directly to the sin of lifestyles separate from male and female genders, yet bring the person to the realization of God's unconditional love for them?

EXODUS International is a web site dedicated to providing the Word of God and hope for those in this environment find freedom & support when seeking God.

I heard Kay Warren on HomeWord today by radio broadcast. She was actually speaking about her experience when God called her to serve and minister among people afflicted with late stage HIV in America and abroad. What struck me most about her conversation with Dr. Burns, was her statement that she had to get over her own tendency to ask "How did you become infected?" and rather ask "What can I do to help [serve] you?" She found Biblically that this was the only way to respond and be effectual in her ministry because Jesus never asked the person afflicted "why are you like this?" He addressed the affliction and the person's faith, not the causes or choices the led them to Him.

I'm really fighting this same issue in my own walk with God when addressing the transgender movement and my response as a conservative Christian American. It flies in the face of all I've ever been taught as a child, a young girl, a women, a nurse (nonetheless, A&P is pretty clear), and now, as a mother facing rearing twin daughters.

So, gone are the days that the frail elderly lady can simply walk in a Womens Restroom and not worry about being met up with someone who has features or possibly actions consistent with public stereotypes of the male sex. Gone are the days when you can say to your child "No, dear, you belong in the "girls" restroom.

Now are the days when your child needs you to explain why "two mommies are kissing in the toilet stall." Now, around the corner is the ever growing worry that someone evil will take the opportunity that society is presenting, and use the freedom of "transgender" orientation or identification to commit crimes to innocent people.

This is where fear and red flags really rear their ugly heads. Yes, it can happen in Christian circles also, no doubt; under the "flag" of evangelical, evil can and will happen. Yet, as clarification, typically evil really wants to run away from places and systems that are likely to see through the "sheeps clothing" and "expose the "wolf" in them.

The Bible does address this situation:

"Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!" Galations 5:19, 20 Soure: NETBible

"Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones, and likewise the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed in their passions for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. "
Romans 1:22-28 Source: NETBible


Please pray with me that the Word of God will prevail and those who are hooded under the darkness of this sin, will be able to free themselves, and most of all understand the love of God transcends orientation of sex, race, creed or even evil. God does seek to save and to free the lost.

1 Corinthians 6:13 Source: New King James Version (NKJV)
Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
"Foods for the stomach and the stomach for foods, but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body."

"But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness."
I John 1:9 Source: NETBible

No, in all these things we have complete victory through him who loved us! For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:37-39 Source: NETBible