by David Pickup, Masters in Psychology, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Supervisor.
In one striking moment of myopic jurisprudence, the Supreme Court of the United States moved our country toward a future filled with confused and abused children.
SCOTUS ruled 5-4 (Harris Funeral Homes v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) that no employer can fire a transgendered or homosexual person who claims those identities. They ruled that doing so is at the heart of discrimination and is illegal.
“Held: An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender violates Title VII. Pp. 4–33.
SCOTUS provided three court cases as precedents to rule that their new interpretation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is correct. Incredibly, the court admitted that the Civil Rights Act did not mean gender or sexual orientation as the terms are defined today, but referred solely to biological gender.
What SCOTUS didn’t explain was why they changed the meaning of sex (which in today’s leftist thinking means anyone can be any gender or orientation with which they emotionally identify.) What they did not explain was how they came to the “certainty” of the latest meaning of sex. What they did not explain was by what constitutional authority did they have the right to redefine the core meaning of sex. SCOTUS ruled from the bench on an issue that is easily contradicted by accessible scientific research, which makes their ruling blatantly unconstitutional. Five justices have no right to change the meaning of what has been understood by human beings from the beginning of time. Those of us who are people of faith can also immediately recognize that there is a heavenly court that is higher than these judges.
SCOTUS wrangled legal language, codified misinformation, and displayed unnecessary ignorance, even from a purely scientific viewpoint, in their ruling. In principle, the same mistake of redefining gender and sexuality was made by ex-Justice Kennedy who wrote the majority opinion of the same-sex marriage question in 2013, Obergefell v. Hodges. Kennedy stated that sexuality is immutable — in other words, inborn and unchangeable. Every justification, reasoning, or emotional argument for LGBT rights is based on this one simple foundation. “This is who I am, I’m born this way and change is impossible” is the foundation on which all LGBT issues are built. Without this foundation, the Supreme Court has nothing on which to base its majority opinion. Their language was highly detailed, meticulous in noting precedents, and even highly passionate. But without this immutable foundation, everything falls.
Do you think LGBT activists don’t know the immense, civilization-changing effect of the court’s new definition of gender and sexuality? Just look at the article written by one of the most proactive LGBT online newspapers that was published in 2015:
“Here Is The Single Most Important Word In Today’s Historic Marriage Equality Opinion,” by Ian Millhiser, June 26, 2015. The word? “Immutable.” Inborn causation and immutability is the specific foundation on which LGBT rights are based.
Based on this modern-day interpretation of the SCOTUS majority, there are indeed people who are men born in women’s bodies, that “research” indicates homosexual and transgender identities are healthy and there couldn’t possibly be anything that causes these issues from childhood, that change is not just impossible but that any attempts to change these emotional issues are abusive and should be illegal. Do you see the danger of American’s rights to change-therapy and religious practice being taken away? You should. LGBT activists have already convinced over 20 states to take away the right of free speech of therapists and minor clients to engage in therapy that resolves these issues. These laws banning therapy include the imminent end of religious rights for church-employed, state-licensed counselors to practice their faith with faith-based minors and their parents.
I do not believe that any professional licensed therapist is harming clients undergoing change or resolution therapy. (There of course are rare exceptions to every helping profession no matter what therapeutic issues are being addressed.) I believe this because transgender and homosexual feelings are in fact not inborn or immutable. There is no research that has proved inborn causality or immutability. (If SCOTUS simply did their research, they would have accessed this knowledge.)
I also don’t believe in LGBT inborn causation because my very overbooked private therapy practice is filled with clients who know their gender or sexuality issues are in fact not inborn or immutable. All of them do not identify as LGBT. All of them have identified their own traumas and severely unmet needs in childhood that have caused their gender dysphoria or homosexual feelings. With expert therapy, our motivated clients experience real and lasting change or resolution of their issues. Of course, these issues are tough, and it takes work and time to resolve the underlying issues. But every single one of our motivated clients eventually experience the rise of their authentic, secure selves. Their depression or anxiety resolves. They are shown that shaming themselves for their feelings will never work, and that personal truth and unconditional compassion works indeed.
Contrary to pop-LGBT culture, no licensed therapist uses electroshock, shaming, or “pray away” the gay/trans therapy. In state legislatures over the past seven years, we have yet to hear any credible specific details from ex-clients who have experienced harms from therapists. The LGBT witnesses in state legislatures who seek to ban professional therapy never give names, dates and places to help us identify these therapists who have abused them.
In redefining the meaning of sex, the Supreme Court has put the entire country right up to the edge of destruction in terms of sound jurisprudence, accurate research, secure identity, marriage as the basis of civilization, religious rights, and plain common sense. Their recent ruling is masked by an attitude of lawfulness and compassion for a victimized minority. In reality, SCOTUS has shown their gross personal bias and assumptions about gender and sexuality to the detriment of our country and our children. LGBT persons deserve understanding, basic civil rights and our deep compassion for the issues they have undergone, especially over the past many decades. However, there is no such thing as compassion without truth.
The truth has been twisted by one branch of government, and we will pay the price for it. What’s next? In a word, pedophilia. It will be the “P” on the end of the ever-evolving LGBT moniker. Have you heard the stories beginning to come out of several psychological associations? Are you informed about the revelation of more and more famous people who have been convicted of sex with minors? Have you heard the recent arguments that describe similar “loving” sexual relationships that many men in ancient Rome professed for children? How do I know pedophilia is coming? Some researchers have recently reported that sexual feelings for little children are “inborn and immutable.” Once the truth of gender and sexuality is twisted, SCOTUS will have no real leg to stand on when denying rights to future pedophiles who will file lawsuits claiming the same arguments as our transgender and LGBT citizens.
Thankfully, there is a better way as written in 1 Corinthians 6:18-20:
“Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”