Oddly enough, I don’t have much to say about Bruce Jenner. Others have provided excellent commentary and I don’t feel the need to add to the mix. What I will say is that my heart goes out to the man. I cannot imagine what it is like to feel like you are a woman trapped in a man’s body. While I think his decision to alter his body to make it look like a female’s body is a tragic one, I understand why he would do so. He is trying to look like what he thinks he truly is, and he thinks that these alterations will make him happy. Unfortunately, I think he’ll find out too late that it won’t bring him the happiness he thought it would, and he may even come to regret the decision. While we should be firm in our convictions and position that his actions are wrong, we should never do so at the expense of his humanity. He is a person. A confused person. A lost person. A person who needs love, and not just words of moral condemnation. This is a time that we need to proclaim the truth, but proclaim it with compassion and love.
What I would like to focus my attention on is why our culture is divided on the issue of transgenderism and gender-reassignment, and then show how the logic of the liberal view is applied inconsistently. (more…)
Thinking to Believe 