While nursing Christopher this morning I happened upon the Queen of talk - Oprah. Her show today? - transgender families - specifically a dad who wanted and subsequently has become a woman. Still married and raising the kiddos. Yet now his wife (the real woman) must wake up next to a woman (kind of) next to her each morning and the kiddos sit with two women at the breakfast table! Ah, and all of it rationalized and excused by the all important Oprah mantra of 'being "true" to yourself'.
You've got to be who you are you know. How can one be authentic and truthful in any area of life be it marriage, love, family, etc. if one is not "who" they feel they need to be...blah, blah, blah... It occurred to me at that moment of Oprah preaching her "gospel" of truth is what ever makes you feel good and "empowers" you, that we would not be so accepting of other choices in the pursuit of "truth".
Would we find it acceptable to say that my "true" identity compels me to live out in the woods with my family and fail to educate my kiddos? Would it be ok if my true identity compelled me to take on two husbands (or for a man to have 2 wives)? Would it be ok if I decided that this stay at home mom thing was not for me and that my "true" calling was to become an international journalist and fly around the world leaving my kiddos behind? Wouldn't all these things be considered selfish?
Why is it that no one ever calls these people struggling with these gender identity issues on the carpet? How about saying that as much as they may feel compelled to be a certain way or to live a certain way we CANNOT give in to these compulsions! Why? Because very simply it's SELFISH! No matter how much "HAPPIER" we might be to live as a woman when God created us a man, that "happiness" does NOT negate our responsibility to live out the commitments we made to marriage and family. Our wife took her vows to be true to a man. Our children have a right to a father and a mother. Most importantly, if we believe in God as Creator, we must recognize that our sex was determined by HIM and that he has good reasons for this.
Ultimately that's what this show came down to - Who is God? Is God, God? Or am I god? Oprah, and her guests, and her millions of adoring fans/viewers have once again recognized SELF as god. We determine truth, truth is based on "happiness" and happiness is most typically determined by the fulfillment of our most base and unenlightened needs and desires. Plainly said - when we satisfy our animal urges and then rationalize them with talk of "truth" and "inner peace" - we are saying to the world - "I am god" Period. End of story.
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