The Emperor Is Not Wearing Any Clothes
We've all heard the classic folktale about the Emperor with no
clothes. False "weavers" sold the unfortunate Emperor
invisible "clothes," and everyone around him only told him
everything he wanted to hear, too afraid to speak the truth. It got so
bad that the Emperor ultimately led an important procession before the
crowds wearing nothing but his underwear, thinking he was wearing
elaborate and fine clothing because everyone told him he was.
What's worse-he was too afraid to admit even to himself
that he wasn't wearing the fine clothing, desperate for their
approval and admiration.
I'm sad to say that at only seven days in office, President
Biden is already acting like an emperor, and he thinks he's
wearing fine clothing.
On his first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order
directing his Administration to implement the transgender political
agenda far and wide as a hat tip to the activists who supported his
bid for office. This executive order is setting up a tsunami of policy
changes that absolutely will affect every American family. With a
stroke of his pen, he declared that the word "boy" can
mean the word "girl." Everyone, even those on the far
left, knows that this can never be a physical reality, but President
Biden's words will make everyone pretend that it is.
Tell your governor and state legislators that President Biden's
transgender executive order must not stand!
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He will attempt to force every public school to let boys play on
girls' athletic teams. He will insist that men (who say they are
women) be housed at shelters specifically for women-even though
those women have often been victims of sexual assault or domestic
violence. He will attempt to force this ideology into every aspect of
public-school curriculum-pre-kindergarten on up to high school.
He plans to force doctors to perform physical interventions on
children's healthy bodies to make them better
"identify" with the opposite sex-often rendering
these children sterile and experimentally interrupting their natural
onset of puberty, regardless of whether the doctor thinks this is in
the child's best interest. And on and on.
The truth of sex as male and female, as God uniquely designed us, is
rightly so integrally woven throughout our law that the impact
President Biden's edict will have is not even comprehensible.
And yet the masses pretend right along with President Biden, no one
daring to say otherwise. And his advisers and political activists on
the Left call in "experts" to support their gender
theory-telling him they're giving him elaborate garments
to wear.
But reality is worse than the folktale. In the story, only the Emperor
is harmed as he embarrassingly wanders around in his underwear. In
this case, Biden's massive policy change will most directly harm
women and children. What's the point in shattering glass
ceilings if men are really the ones holding the hammer? And how do we
explain this to children whose lives and bodies have been irreparably
harmed in order to further a lie?
And to top it all off, Joe Biden isn't even an Emperor! Here in
America, we aren't supposed to have kings, thrones or edicts.
Yet he's walking around like the folktale emperor, attempting to
make massive policy changes with his pen.
Here in America, we have three separate branches of government
(Legislative, Judiciary and Executive) meant to serve as checks
against one another. And, we have dual systems of government, the
federal government and each state's government, operating as
sovereigns and serving as checks on one another. Policy changes are
supposed to come from the branch most closely connected to the people,
the Legislative branch-not the Executive branch, which holds the
presidency.
In fact, the Legislative branch has been debating the kind of policy
change President Biden wrote up out of thin air-a bill called
the "Equality Act," that would make a person's LGBT
status a protected class of the highest kind in law. This would give a
person identifying as LGBT the same level of special protection in law
that we give based on the classifications of race, national origin,
and religion. This is an extremely dangerous policy, and Congress has
rejected its passage every time.
President Biden and his advisers know all this-and how much work
it actually takes to pass a law-so he attempted to make this
sweeping change himself by writing it up as an executive order.
He's operating like an emperor, far outside the bounds of his
executive branch authority.
So when we have a makeshift emperor wandering around, with no one
daring to tell him he's been sold fake clothes, and perhaps much
of the country too busy to notice while they fight with each other,
what are we as believers to do? Because we must do something!
What you can do to engage our government, in a manner worthy of the
Gospel.
The beautiful thing about the folktale is that a little child is the
one who finally speaks the truth and tells the emperor he's not
wearing any clothing. I love this because of the biblical
connection-God's Word tells us to be as little children.
May we all have the childlike faith, boldness and love to engage in
our system of government.
Individual families and the states themselves can push back against
the direction the Biden Administration is moving-serving as a
check on the government. For example, Biden's executive order
looks to force schools to permit boys in girls' sports. But last
year Family Policy Alliance helped Idaho pass a law specifically
reserving girls' sports for girls-and seven more states
are already following Idaho's lead this year, moving "save
girls' sports" legislation through the process. This sends
a powerful message to Washington, D.C.
Especially when it comes to our children, we have to draw a hard line
in our states, and the time is now. Join us in sending a message to
your state legislators and governor: President Biden's
transgender agenda is outside his authority and harmful to children,
and must be stopped.
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Send your message now- it only takes one minute through our
Action Center, which sends a message automatically to your state
policymakers.
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What you can do spiritually
Even when we disagree with our leaders, we are called to pray for
them. So, we will continue to lift up President Biden and his advisers
in prayer before the throne of Heaven. He has been deeply deceived on
this issue and needs our prayers.
Please consider joining our prayer initiative, where we are praying
and seeking to restore God as first in this country-Under God,
One Nation. You can reserve a time where you will commit to lifting up
our country and its leaders to our True King.
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I don't know about you, but I'd rather be the child
telling the Emperor he's been sold fake clothing than the
Emperor's advisors who feed him lies to protect themselves and
seek their own interest.
For truth-and in love,
Autumn Leva
Vice President for Strategy
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