So here we are again. Another year, another series of high-powered explosives detonating the creaky, crumbling foundation of human sanity in our culture today.
It’s not all bad – we are certainly winning some battles out there. Working at LifeSiteNews.com for the past 3 1/2 years, though, on some days it can be hard to remember them. I really don’t blame readers who send us messages that read something like this:
“Hi, I really love your site. You do so much to expose all the bad stuff happening around the world that no one else will. Unfortunately, I’m removing myself from your email list because if I read one more depressing article I’m going to stick my head in a gas oven. Keep up the good work.”
I, on the other hand, am above all that. (My oven is electric, you see. I bend it to my own ends by heating my coffee on it every day, before taking the new-forged weapon down to the cave where I awaken the beast and spend the rest of the day courageously smacking at it.)
Okay, so it’s not that easy for me either. Not always. Every once in a while, there are things that make you just want to stop, turn off the computer, and go back to bed. What is it that really gets me? It’s when they go after kids.
For the most part, you can ignore it, just kind of block it out. But sometimes it just jumps out at you, particularly when you’re forced to think about just ONE child who’s being thrown under the bus – such as Wyatt Maines.
Maines is a boy with Gender Identity Disorder, a severe psychiatric condition that skews gender self-identification. The American Psychiatric Association says almost all children with GID wind up growing out of it by late adolescence or adulthood. But this hasn’t stopped ideologues from encouraging him to start powerful puberty-blocking drugs at age 11, and follow up with hormone therapy designed to result in a permanent, sterile gender-limbo for a lifetime.
This is the sort of thing that pops up in the news when you live in a society that’s gone beyond normal disagreements. It’s a society divided between two sets of principles based on opposite premises, and never shall the twain meet. Either there is a God who formed us, meaning we have a nature, a structure with its own set of instructions; or, there is no creator, no inherent meaning to man, leaving man alone to determine that meaning, what is right or wrong, and what will make us happy.
Thus, in so many aspects of what we could call the “culture of death” – transhumanism, homosexual activism, contraception – health and happiness becomes a matter of personal perception. Inevitably, this avant-garde approach to humanity, this violent tearing-up of old ideas in search of the ever-new, winds up also tearing apart the youngest, most innocent, and pliable minds – and, of course, the smallest and most fragile bodies as well.
Covering the abortion movement day in and day out, the jaw-dropping lies, the vicious attacks of even the most basic health regulations, the push for more, more abortion access, I often hear echoing in my head what Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculée Ilibagiza said she heard the murderers chanting as their machetes spilled the blood of 800,000 innocent people:
“Kill them big, kill them small, kill them, kill them, kill them all.”
I can’t say I always want to keep fighting. I don’t want to know evil, or think about it. No basically good person (I flatter myself) does. But I know that the most powerful weapon the other side has is darkness—secrecy. If I stop looking, they win.
That’s why I have decided to keep going, to keep trying…and why I hope you will continue to join me.
And you know, just by telling the truth, we really do make a big difference. Our articles are now reaching a bigger audience than ever, and I know for a fact that our work has real impact.
Frequently, we learn what our articles have done. For example, when LifeSiteNews published on a young teen being forced into a Wisconsin clinic, a local pro-life activist called to thank us for our coverage, which wound up receiving major attention on local radio and other outlets – bringing into sharp focus the real kind of “choice” abortion clinics offer young girls.
Had it not been for LifeSiteNews, this incident and countless other injustices would never have seen the light. We want to keep shedding that light where it’s the least wanted.
That’s our passion.
I need you, we all need you behind us for moral support, encouragement, and for financial support. Without you, LifeSiteNews doesn’t exist. We depend solely on the goodwill of the community of believers who simply won’t let the culture of death have the final say.
I am truly grateful to have you with us on this journey.
Thank you.
Kathleen Gilbert
U.S. Bureau Chief
LifeSiteNews.com
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