I will fight over library issue
To the Editor:
I would like to speak in support of a decision from this board to remove from a library system that continues to make decisions that offer and highlight sexually based material, including sexually explicit material, for children.
It would behoove this board to find an alternative option of having a library. No child needs to be exposed to adult themes, sexual themes or explicit material. I stand here today as a local pastor, expressing not only my opinions, but the opinions of many others in the community.
I want to clarify my position, a position, I should note, that is also held by a large number of citizens but is often misrepresented by the media, including local sources. This is not about LGBT material. This is not about the LGBT community. This is about the immoral and, in my opinion, illegal decisions to provide sexually themed and illicit material to minors.
I also oppose material being made available to children that confuses and contradicts basic biology and gender. The reason for this is simple:
Absolute truth does exist. “Two” plus “two” does in fact equal “four,” no questions asked. The answer does not change because one day a person wakes up and decides to say that the answer is now “five” because it makes them feel better. “Two” plus “two” equals “four” and that is how it should be taught to children. Therefore, if we seek to teach our children absolute truth, it needs to be in all areas. In the area of gender, the absolute truth of human biology is that there are males and females, and what you are is determined long before you are aware of it and no matter what you say or do, that truth will never change.
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If I suddenly declared that I was a 91-year-old man, rather than a 31-year-old man, that does not change the simple fact that I am 31, not 91. And if everyone around me just accepted that I was 91 and changed their reality to fit within my distorted reality, they would not be showing me love or help. They would be ignoring whatever issue I had that made me think this inaccurate reality, and they would possibly be enabling more destructive tendencies as I continued to live out this false reality.
So it is with our children. To somehow say that holding to the absolute truth, that we are born either male or female, is hateful and wrong is disingenuous. In contrast, letting a child become confused or more confused by much of what these books contain, rather than helping them to understand the absolute truth, is wrong and destructive. I know that some disagree with what I am saying and will often ask, “Why not leave us alone? If you don’t want it for your kid, then ignore it, but let us have access to it.” My answer to these folks is simple:
We are a society, not in a vacuum. I am a citizen of the same country, state, and community as you, therefore, I have a right to express how I want that society to operate, and I refuse to be a part of a society that is OK with confusing children about simple truths and exposing them to sexual themes. And I will not leave this society because this is where I have chosen to live, therefore my only option is to fight. I will fight for the truth. I will fight for what is right. I will fight for the innocence of children. I will fight. And I will not stop, I will not yield, I will not back down.
Dylan Castle
Pastor of Home Fellowships,
Jackson and Macon counties
