Redefining human sexuality and gender: Our relentless politically correct lemmings' march to the sea

So, it's no longer the Boy Scouts. But it's still the Girl Scouts. Girls can join the former, boys cannot join the latter.

It's just crazy. No, really, it is. And this is just one more mile marker on this politically correct lemmings march to the sea.

Our so-called "culture war" was fought for decades in the political realm, and in the classrooms and lecture halls. Now, increasingly, this struggle has moved into the arena of faith.

More mainstream, "liberal" denominations of After millennia of general agreement of such things, within a generation many mainstream, "liberal" Christian denominations have abandoned old, seemingly written-in-stone beliefs about the nature of humankind, love and what comprises the sanctity of marriage. These changes, they argue, reflect a more loving God, and a more selective, perhaps, reading of scripture.

A new PRRI poll shows that now the struggle appears to also be eroding, through attitudes of millennial members, the once-resolute commitment to "traditional marriage" and associated same-sex issues, within the ranks of the most conservative expressions of faith -- just 10 years after a coalition of such churches, along with Muslims, Hindus and others -- passed California's Prop 8.

While this shift is explosive in terms of religious timelines, perhaps the struggle is ancient. There always has been the dichotomy: Does humankind define the Divine and its intentions, or does a faithful humankind allow the God they claim to believe in to redefine and perfect them? A subset of that would seem to reflect the former -- that the foundations of scripture, doctrine and tradition are now an embarrassment to our more enlightened, evolved worldviews.

The trend seems to be that scripture is antiquated, its commands thus open to revision or dismissal in light of current, more "evolved" thought. In all this, where does love and fidelity come in? Can we, as believers, not love, respect and pray for those who do not share the tenets of our faith, and yet still hold fast, not compromising the heart of our faith given once, for all?

Can those who so rightly fight for civil rights for all humankind, regardless their ethnicity, gender, or personal, political and religious choices also respect -- even protect -- the rights of others who disagree on matters of faith and its practice to live out their convictions?

Once upon a time, such disagreements often would conclude without resolution, but with this statement, accredited to Evelyn Beatrice Hall: "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."