THIS IS CONTROVERSIAL?

A grandfather makes an announcement regarding his granddaughter: "We're raising her as a girl."

Wait. What? One feels compelled to make an announcement like that? Isn't it obvious that one doesn't have to announce it or make something like an official statement about it?

But wait. It gets worse. His statement prompted protestations and demonstrations as there were those who took him and his family to task at what they believe to be an outrageous position because, according to them, biology doesn't determine whether a person is male or female. Not only that, but his granddaughter, according to them, should be free to choose, later on, boy . . . or . . . girl. Think about it for a moment: we've come to the place in which saying, "We're raising a girl as a girl"  provokes debates, protests, and a demonstration.

ANOTHER CLASSIC CASE

This is yet another classic example of what we might call "The Pharaoh Syndrome" which is the loss of rationality due to the hardening of the heart which occurs when an individual says, "No" to God's revealed will--he loses the ability to think and therefore, eventually, God lets him proceed to his own self-destruction.

We see this syndrome in Exodus as Amenhotep II kept making decisions that wrecked the Egyptian economy, the nation's water supply, and the health of himself and his people, yet, so hardened was he that it's recorded he had "no concern" about the matter even as things continued to fall apart as he marched to the ruin of his nation.

This grandfather who made the announcement, who is he? He's fairly well-known. He's Jerry Falwell Jr., the President of Liberty University, the very, very, very large Christian university whose founder wanted to make it the Notre Dame of the South.  Here's what he said, "“She’s our granddaughter, and we’re raising her as a girl. We’re not letting her have a choice. God makes the choice of what the babies are going to be and God decided she would be a girl,”

Now the drama intensifies--the protest and demonstration in opposition Jerry Falwell Jr., where did they come from?  The world? Some secular, humanist, atheist group? No. the protest and demonstration came from students at Liberty University. Listen to one of them: A senior and demonstrator, said the group hoped to use the event to spark a shift in attitude on a largely conservative campus. “Our hope is to start a conversation that can hopefully lead to change within social perception and university policy. Hopefully, we can create an environment where comments like [the President's] aren’t welcome and aren’t normal.”

A news report stated, "Carrying signs in support transgender rights and waving a gay pride flag, a group of about 30 students rallied at the heart of campus [of Liberty University] from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m."

Yes, you read that correctly--the senior said that their goal was that such comments as the President of the university made should not be deemed normal on the campus of a Christian school. And furthermore, he said that their goal was to make certain that such comments wouldn't be welcome on the campus of a Christian school.

The Pharaoh syndrome is on the campus of a Christian university.