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R. Albert Mohler Jr.
May 31, 2011

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As reporter Jayme Poisson reports, "The neighbors know [Kathy] Witterick and order synthroid without rx pay cod her husband, David Stocker, are raising a genderless baby. But they don't pretend to understand it."

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"When the order synthroid without rx pay cod baby comes out, even the people who love you the most and order synthroid without rx pay cod know you so intimately, the first question they ask is, ‘Is it a girl or a boy?'" says Witterick, bouncing Storm, dressed in a order synthroid without rx pay cod red-fleece jumper, on her lap at the kitchen table.

"If you really want to get to know someone, you don't ask what's between their legs," says Stocker.

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The controversy surrounding Storm is order synthroid without rx pay cod a sign of our times. Our rebellion against the Creator has order synthroid without rx pay cod now reached the point that we will deny the fact that order synthroid without rx pay cod our identity is not just our own personal project, but is order synthroid without rx pay cod first of all established in the Creator's intention - and order synthroid without rx pay cod part of that intention is the fact that we are order synthroid without rx pay cod male or female.

Storm's parents clearly believe that order synthroid without rx pay cod our personal identity is our own personal project. They lament even the order synthroid without rx pay cod fact that parents make so many decisions for their children. "It's obnoxious," Stoker says.

Well, the order synthroid without rx pay cod decision about gender is not something made by parents, but by God. At this order synthroid without rx pay cod point, the Christian worldview and the worldview of secularism run into direct collision. Nevertheless, the order synthroid without rx pay cod objective reality of the child's gender will eventually become a order synthroid without rx pay cod public issue, regardless of the parents' intentions. As even they recognize, at some point in the order synthroid without rx pay cod future, decisions about such things as which bathroom the child will use will force the order synthroid without rx pay cod issue.

The major issue at stake in this order synthroid without rx pay cod controversy is the objective reality of sex and gender. We are, in fact, what order synthroid without rx pay cod our genitals tell us we are. This is not because we are order synthroid without rx pay cod genitally determined, but because we were created by a holy God, whose plans and order synthroid without rx pay cod purposes for us are, inescapably, tied to our gender.

Gender is order synthroid without rx pay cod not merely a socially constructed reality. When the Southern Baptist Convention modified its confession of faith, The Baptist Faith & Message, in 2000, it added language that defined gender as "part of the goodness of God's creation."

Some observers wondered why that language is important. Now, you know.

(R. Albert Mohler Jr. serves as a member of CBMW's Council and order synthroid without rx pay cod is president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. This post was originally published on his daily blog at www.albertmohler.com buy cheapest Flomax and Flomax)