Our own permissiveness coming back to haunt us...

If you look at some of the things happening today, it’s pretty clear that our world’s complacent permissiveness toward political correctness and increased government control is coming back to bite us.

In the UK, where socialized medicine is well-entrenched, Charlie Gard, the baby with the life-threatening medical condition, was held prisoner by the hospital. Despite private funds raised by Charlie’s parents to bring their son to the US for experimental treatment, the hospital and courts wouldn’t allow it. They wouldn’t even allow the parents to take their son home to die there.

If the parents had been abusing Charlie, the government would have been right to step in. But Charlie’s parents did all they were supposed to do as his parents: everything they could to save their child. They should have had the liberty to do so.

This is what happens though when you allow government to provide healthcare -- you get government making life and death decisions, even against our will. Under this control, all the private funds in the world cannot buy the freedom to decide for ourselves or our loved ones what is best. If we learn anything from this, it’s that the Charlie Gard case is a dangerous sign for all those who want the same single-payer government-controlled health system here in America.

Meanwhile, Canada’s government is taking its authority even further. It recently enacted a law that gives government the power to remove children from their homes if the parents disagree with the child’s chosen gender identity.

Prior to this law, parents were rightly free to direct their children’s education, religious and cultural upbringing. But this legislation says parents may only influence a child’s upbringing “in accordance with the child’s own creed, community identity and cultural identity.” If the thought of a child left to his own devices in a world all too eager to gobble him up makes you shudder, don’t worry. The government is there to take over if things go awry. Who needs a mom and dad to get in the way of that?

As for gender identity issues, someone suffering from that needs compassion, prayers and psychological help, not government-forced coddling. Over a dozen surveys worldwide have shown that transgender suicide rates remain astronomically high regardless of how accepting society is, and it remains high even after they “transition.”

In a National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 41 percent of transgenders said they want to kill themselves not because of bullying, or because they’re being refused sex-change treatments, but because they’re confused, deluded, and they hate themselves. Encouraging hormonal and bodily mutilation as a solution is like prescribing liposuction to an anorexic. And forcing parents to accept their gender-confused child’s bewilderment and self-loathing, or risk losing them to the government, is simply insane. But it’s politically incorrect to question transgenderism, so parents better zip their lips if they want to keep their kids.

Here in America, when the US Supreme Court ruled that marriage was no longer between one man and one woman as God sees it, it was predicted immediately that this would usher in an aggressive transgender movement here as well, and has it ever.

In New York City, you can be fined up to $250,000 for refusing to use a transgender’s preferred pronouns. On college campuses, “No-Gender” t-shirts are trending as though it’s just the latest fad, while professors get terminated for failing to use the correct gender terminology. In Connecticut, a 15-year-old boy with a mustache is killing it on the girls’ track team because he “identifies” as a girl. How sad that all the training, commitment and effort put in by the actual girls on the team are for nothing because they simply cannot keep up with the physically superior boy claiming to be a girl.

In a telling interview following the recent track competition in which the mustached “girl” won first place, the “second” place actual girl said she could not share what she really thinks, but was able to express her disappointment at the loss. Of course she could not say what she really thought because it would likely have subjected her to the consequences of the hatred and intolerance of which she would’ve been accused.

It remains to be seen if the feminists who have championed political correctness and claimed for so long that girls can do anything boys can do, even physically, will be so willing to accept boys as being girls when those boys start getting the girls’ athletic scholarships. What a dilemma to have to choose between the politically correct tolerance they preach and the reality that such political correctness has wrought upon them.

This obsession with political correctness, the blind-eye toward government intrusion, and the demand that we embrace disorders as something good is to be expected. After all, our world has largely rejected natural order as designed by God. In doing so we’ve created a void being filled by bureaucrats who want to control us, while we promote feel-good emotions as our standard of what is right. Unfortunately, all this will deliver is more disorder, and if we persist in our own complacency rather than fight back, we’ll only continue to reap what we sow.