St Valentine's Day Massacre With a New Twist - It's All About Me

                       

On February 14, 1929, Al Capone arranged for Chicago mobster and rival bootlegger, George "Bugs" Moran, along with most of his North Side Gang to be eliminated.  The total narcissism of thugs such as Capone, rendered other human beings as expendable, in order to satisfy their own needs and dominance.    

On this upcoming Valentine’s Day, the Illinois Senate will be voting on redefining marriage to include same-sex partners. The old St. Valentine’s Day Massacre will take on a new meaning, as the traditional meaning of marriage and family will be massacred - only this time the victims are children.

I used to hear my parent’s generation say, “You have to learn to play your hand with the cards life deals you.”  This used to help me face many of life’s difficulties and disappointments which came my way.  We Christians follow Jesus’s words “pick up your cross and follow me” - another blueprint for life’s trials.  Naturally, within human limits we seek answers to suffering which are ethical and moral. 

But - today, instead of playing one’s hand with the cards life deals them, they are reshuffling the deck – and in a ‘feel good’ generation, no one wants to carry a cross – and so there is a complete redrafting of the Creator’s blueprint.   

Today, people’s interpretation of “equality” has gone to such an extreme as to supplant common sense altogether.   Fervor over equality in everything from monetary matters, education to marital equality and the equal ability to have a child – it seems the Creator is being ordered to make a ‘do over’.  Instead of man being made in God’s image – man now creates God in his own image – and demands God’s subservience to his every desire.

Fertility tourism is now a booming global trade, with the largest sperm bank in the world, ‘Cryos,’ in Denmark, shipping three-quarters of its sperm overseas. Wow! What a cargo! The United States alone has a fertility industry that brings in $3.3 billion annually; with estimated 30,000 - 60,000 children born each year through sperm donation!  And I thought we were worried about population explosion.

In the quest to satisfy the urges of same-sex attracted persons, marriage and family are now being redefined, with the needs of adults superseding the needs of the child.

From a new study, “My Daddy’s Name is Donor”, the kinship, well-being and social justice experiences of sperm donor children revealed that, young adults who had been conceived through sperm donation are hurting more, are more confused, and feel more isolated from their families. The study further showed that they experience higher rates of depression, delinquency and substance abuse, than their peers who were raised by biological parents.  Nearly two-thirds of them agreed, “My sperm donor is half of who I am.”

For those children raised by same-sex partners, studies revealed – they too suffered poorer life outcomes than those from intact biological families.  It was discovered there was a higher percentage of suicide, infidelity and unemployment, among those people who had been raised by same-sex couples. Those raised in same-sex households were also more likely to seek psychotherapy, as well as being under greater social service surveillance compared to peers raised by heterosexual couples.

Jean-Dominique Bunel, who specializes in humanitarian law, and has done relief work in war-torn areas, relates his own personal experience of being raised by two women, explaining how: “He suffered from the lack of a father, a daily presence, a character and a properly masculine example, some counterweight to the relationship of my mother to her lover. I was aware of it at a very early age. I lived that absence of a father - experienced it - as an amputation.

Some further concerns of sperm donor children were - nearly half of those conceived thru sperm donation were disturbed that money was involved in their conception. More than half said, that when they see someone who resembles them, they worry that they might be related. This concern was further complicated by the worry of becoming attracted to and or having sexual relations with someone whom they are unknowingly related.  

All of this begs the question, in whose interest is all this reshuffling of the deck? Because one person or persons, does not want to accept the cards life has dealt them, they have simply decided to reshuffle the deck and or dump their cross onto the back of another – namely the children who are involved in all these new blueprints.

Most of us know someone who is struggling with the heartache of infertility or same-sex attraction – and we hurt right along with them – and certainly want to see a resolve to their problem. But, to try and relieve one person’s disappointment by burdening another – especially an innocent who never had a voice in the matter is quite another thing.

But of course, in a society where 55 million unborn voices were silenced through abortion, it seems a logical progression to continue solving one’s problem by either eliminating another – as good ol Al did – and Roe v Wade accomplished – or passing one’s problem along to the next guy.      

It’s All About Me. Happy Valentine’s Day to Me.