What is gender?
The ideology of gender is the result of ideological-cultural transformation that lasts over decades and that is firmly rooted in neo-marxism. Gender promotes principles that are completely contrary to reality and traditional understanding of human nature. It claims that biological sex is purely cultural, that it is possible to choose one with the time passing by, and that the traditional family is an obsolete and social burden. According to gender, homosexuality is innate, and gays and lesbians have a right to establish unions, which would be the basis of a new family model, and even to adopt and raise children. The promoters of this ideology convince that each person has so called reproductive rights, including the right to change the gender, the right to in vitro and even to abortion. Gender in its most radical form treats biological sex as a kind of violence of nature against a human. According to it, 'a man is entangled in sex', from which one should get released. Denying the biological sex, a man gains a 'real, unfettered freedom' and can choose the so called cultural sex, which is revealed only in the external behaviour. Moreover, the man has a right to change spontaneously his choices that were already made in the field within five sexes, which include gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and heterosexual. Danger of gender ideology ensues essentially from the deeply destructive nature against the person and interpersonal relations, and therefore against the whole social life. A man bereft of constant gender identity loses the sense of his existence, is unable to discover and fulfil tasks in his personal, family and social development.
The moral rot
The builders of the new order, neo-jacobins of the 21st century, are leading their perverse revolution on the living social organism, and their favourite action place is no longer a university, like it was in the 60's of the last century, but a school and a kindergarten. Prophets of the moral decay are well aware that the key to the future are minds and hearts of children, and their education of today will decide about the fate and effects of the anti-Christian battle. Therefore, family and marriage is being attacked in all possible ways as well as the efforts to limit the impact of parents on the education of their children accordingly with their beliefs are being made. All the sexual deviance is being promoted in Sodom madness, and the value of life itself is being attacked in Herod insanity. An example is euthanasia and an abortion on demand, as well as euthanasia of ill newborns (yes, newborns!) in a children's hospital in Groningen, the Netherlands. Moreover, in December the Belgian Senate has adopted a law on euthanasia of terminally ill children on their request (sic!). The dance of madness lasts, because the sane majority is silent, and its representatives - politicians - are becoming the followers of political correctness, being afraid of its eulogists, neo-liberal and libertarian media dominated mostly by Marxism poisoned journalism. In a ruthless way, as befits a revolution, everyone who dares to be a protector of the natural Christian order of values is being guillotined by media and is being labelled as a homophobe. It has led to a situation where (in the colloquial or in common circulation) deliberately altered and manipulated definitions of key concepts in this debate are being used as a verbal weapon. So that tolerance has a meaning of respecting one's views, beliefs, preferences, which differ from their own, only in the dictionary. Today the word respect was replaced with acceptance, thereby distorting the meaning of the tolerance. And surely it is not the same thing. The definition of democracy is also a victim of reality distortion. From the time of Montesquieu, democracy meant majority rule with the respect for minority rights. Today democracy appears to us in a distorted mirror as the rule of all sorts of minorities without respect for the rights of the majority. Isn't it the narrative we hear when we turn on the TV? It is worth to notice these verbal traps, as they are used by 'quasi-progressive men' with delight.
Not everything is lost yet
It is true that the ideology of gender, LGBT and belligerent feminism is in a great offensive, but defenders of civilization of life and good, traditional values, deeply rooted in Christianity and natural law, of which John Paul II told us a lot, are present too. More and more politicians and parties recognize the need of protection of the family as a basis for a sustainable development of society and for the prevention of demographic collapse of our countries. In Lithuania that kind of a party is Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL), which not so long ago bravely has made an effort in the Seimas trying to protect the most vulnerable - unborn children. It promotes, what is worth to emphasize, the help for needy families, and local governments ruled by EAPL keep on pro-social politics. Chairman of the party, Mr Valdemar Tomaševski, has launched efforts in the European Parliament for creating in the European public space a positive image of the family, children, protection of women during maternity, helping multiple-child families and the protection of life from conception to natural death through the development of pro-family policies in Europe. The initiative of Tomaševski was supported by the deputies of three factions in European Parliament, including the largest EPP as well as ECR and EFD.
Let us remember it during the upcoming elections to the European Parliament in May, as whom we will elect will determine not only the future of Europe, but also the future of our children and families.
Dr. Bogusław Rogalski, Political scientist
ECR Advisor for the international affairs at the European Parliament
