By Judie Brown
The latest catch phrase is It’s complicated. When those words are uttered, obfuscation is imminent. You see, when folks do not want to face facts, they create stories that support their perspective, and all of a sudden the truth is erased.
To know how to defend truth, we must know how to define it. According to Webster, truth means “agreement with fact or reality.” Yet in today’s moral free-fall, a statement of fact can be dismissed quite easily if one is hell-bent on supporting a particular opinion, even if the words themselves are based on fiction. We have a few examples.
An order of nuns, the Little Sisters of the Poor, has been maligned by some for their Catholic position that the order will not abide by the Biden administration’s contraceptive mandate, part of the Affordable Care Act commonly known as Obamacare. They understand the truth that contraception is not healthcare and that not only is it against Church law, but it can harm women and kill babies. In December, the nuns’ defense of religious freedom paid off in what one writer called a “Christmas blessing,” as “the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice in the Federal Register stating that it has opted to withdraw rule changes to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraception mandate.”
While some cases against the religious order are still ongoing, we must hope that, in a nation founded on the constitutional right to freedom of religion, the order will ultimately be victorious. A spokesperson for the Becket law firm underscored this, concluding that “suing nuns is never a good idea.”
In an additional turn of events, the Biden administration has also withdrawn a proposal “interpreting Title IX [rules] to allow trans-identified males to compete in women’s sports.”
We find this proposal to be among the most ridiculous of Biden’s faux pas given the foundational argument that in order for the rule to be legal the nation would have to concur that men and women can change their sex based on their desire. This contradicts biology, not to mention common sense.
And finally, some look upon the new year as a moment in time when even though the Supreme Court has ruled to dampen abortion “rights,” the actual facts document the bloody truth that abortion rates are up in the United States. This is so because abortion pills drive a false narrative, mocking the science of fetology while feigning a way forward for any female who opts not to be a mother even after her child’s life has begun.
In the age of fiction parading as fact, human beings are sacrificed, and their very existence is expunged at the whims of death peddlers. Minds are lulled into ignorant bliss even though the very core of truth can never be eliminated, no matter what evil is inflicted on the masses by the evil one and his drones.
Yet, no matter how loud their brass bands, their blaring headlines, or their phony compassion, the still small voice of God remains, never to be totally erased.
We hear that voice; we reflect it in our pro-life work, and we will never be silent no matter the cost. For this gift of faith in truth we praise God and go forth into this new year, prepared to defend it to everyone. It’s not really that complicated after all.