Short Take #5: The Equality Act

Here is another short take from The Christian Worldview with David Wheaton. The Equality Act, which we've been talking about in the program as well, which has now passed the House of Representatives and will be coming before the Senate fairly soon, and this would add homosexuality and transgenderism to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and thus setting a situation, a zero-sum game between the LGBTQ movement and those who, any organization or any person who won't participate in what they know to be sin. It's going to be a zero-sum game.

One side will win and one side is going to lose. And so when homosexuality and transgenderism get codified in law as part of the Civil Rights Act, it's going to put at jeopardy those who hold to biblical morality. Now, there was an amazing speech made on the floor of the US House when the Equality Act was being debated by Greg Stube. He's a congressman, Republican from Florida. And instead of getting up there and speaking about the scientific studies that transgenderism is bad for someone's health and they have a higher rate of suicide, and all those things may be true.

Greg Stube did something that I haven't heard done in probably many, many years on the floor of the US House. He used a biblical foundation why the Equality Act should be rejected. Here's what he said.

Like most speeches you'll hear on this floor today, I'm going to start with the truth. Deuteronomy 22 5 states, a woman must not wear men's clothing nor man wear women's clothing for the Lord your God detests anyone who does this. Now this verse isn't concerned about clothing styles, but with people determining their own sexual identities. It's not clothing or personal style that offends God, but rather the use of one's appearance to act out or take on a sexual identity different from the one biologically assigned by God at birth. In his wisdom, God intentionally made each individual uniquely either male or female. When men or women claim to be able to choose their own sexual identity, they are making a statement that God did not know what he was doing when he created them. I'm going to quote directly from Dr. Tony Evans' Commentary Bible on this passage of scripture. Men and women equally share in bearing the image of God, but he has designed them to be distinct from and complementary toward one another. The gender confusion that exists in our culture today is a clear rejection of God's good design. Whenever a nation's laws no longer reflect the standards of God, that nation is in rebellion against him and will inevitably bear the consequences.

And I think we are seeing the consequences of rejecting God here in our country today. And this bill speaks directly against what is laid out in scripture. Our government through this bill is going to redefine what a woman is and what a man is.

It can be anyone who identifies in that gender at any time. You're going to single-handedly end women's sports and all of the gains for women's rights contained in Title IX that was passed in this body since 1972. Single-handedly destroying women's sports in the name of equality.

How ironic. If biological men can compete in women's sports, then it's no longer women's sports at all. We might as well just have one sports team per event and women, transgender women, men, transgender men can all compete against each other. How is that for equality? If biological differences didn't matter, we would never have created and funded separate teams for men and women. We know science supports the idea that there are performance differences between biological men and women in competitive sports. And it's just common sense to the vast majority of Americans.

Just not common sense to this democratic majority. In Connecticut, three high school female track runners have had to file a lawsuit because their Title IX protections were violated by biological male athletes competing against them. They had no choice but to file suit after they were forced to compete against biological male athletes. And after those biological male athletes brought home 15 women's state championship titles.

I could stand up here and give you example after example of this happening throughout our country in all sports categories, but I don't have near the time. If you want to protect women's sports, then vote against this bill. I yield back. And then, in the spirit of Romans 1, Jerry Nadler, the Democratic Congressman, had this to say in response to Greg Stube's speech. Mr. Stube, what any religious tradition ascribes as God's will is no concern of this Congress. Did you hear that?

I'm going to play it again. Mr. Stube, what any religious tradition ascribes as God's will is no concern of this Congress. That my friend is exactly what is the problem, what has gone wrong in our country, that we have no concern as a nation.

Yes, there are some people who do have concern about the things of God, but those in leadership and a vast, sizable part of our population has no concern for the things of God. And when that takes place, there is a consequence of God's judgment for rebelling and shaking our fist in His face. But here's the good news. The country may be a sinking ship, and we don't know exactly what's going to happen. God can do amazing things. There can be revival.

Who knows? But certainly the direction is one away from God. But God on that sinking ship is still saving souls from being sunk. This has been a short take from The Christian Worldview with David Wheaton. To find out more about The Christian Worldview, order resources, make a donation, become a monthly partner or contact us, visit thechristianworldview.org. You can also call us at toll-free 1-888-646-2233 or write to us at Box 401, Excelsior, Minnesota 55331. That's Box 401, Excelsior, Minnesota 55331.