Indeed, millions of Americans, including many otherwise sympathetic to gay rights, are now openly rebelling against strong-armed, illegal \u2013 and arguably insane \u2013 governmental mandates that boys and men must be allowed to use girls\u2019 bathrooms, locker rooms and showers if they personally \u201cidentify\u201d as women. Children are even being sent to special transgender camps now, to encourage and facilitate their eventual \u201ctransition.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The big question: Why is all this happening?<\/em><\/p>\n In his widely acclaimed new book, \u201cThe Snapping of the American Mind,\u201d<\/a> award-winning journalist David Kupelian stunningly documents \u2013 in a chapter titled \u201cGender Madness\u201d \u2013 precisely what the transgender phenomenon is really all about. Prepare to be shocked. With the issue growing exponentially, and personally impacting more and more Americans, WND has decided to publish the entire chapter here, as many reviewers consider it the clearest, most revealing explanation yet of the issue.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I looked in the mirror, I just saw disgusting fat.\u201d<\/p>\n Those words, spoken by a dangerously skinny teenager named Emma Stewart, are typical of girls suffering from anorexia nervosa.<\/p>\n \u201cI was convinced I needed to be skinny to look good in a bikini,\u201d Emma told the U.K.\u2019s Daily Mirror.<\/a> \u201cI started obsessing about my weight and what I\u2019d look like sunbathing. I was convinced I was too heavy, so I started skipping meals and making myself sick \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Emma, literally wasting away as shocking photos document,<\/a> resembled an emaciated concentration-camp survivor. And yet, the effect her anorexia had on her mind and emotions was to make her see herself as disgustingly fat.<\/p>\n Emma\u2019s delusion is far from unusual. Between half and 1 percent of all American girls \u2013 that\u2019s hundreds of thousands of young women \u2013 suffer from anorexia nervosa, a key symptom of which is experiencing strong feelings of being fat, while in reality being skinny. Or, as the National Eating Disorders Association puts it,<\/a> making \u201cfrequent comments about feeling \u2018fat\u2019 or overweight despite weight loss.\u201d<\/p>\n Hold that thought. Now let\u2019s look into the mirror of people suffering from another condition, one increasingly fawned over by the news and entertainment media, honored as \u201cthe next civil rights movement\u201d and legitimized through passage of special laws all over the country \u2013 namely, gender dysphoria. That\u2019s the new name for what used to be called gender identity disorder, referring to the plight of transgender (or transsexual) people who so strongly identify with the opposite sex that they often undergo major surgery in an attempt to change genders.<\/p>\n image: http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/files\/2015\/10\/snapping-of-the-american-mind-cover.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I look in the mirror in the morning, before having \u201cWhenever I look in the mirror it\u2019s like I\u2019m looking at a stranger or something,\u201d says another.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cTranssexuals,\u201d explains one commentator, \u201creport feeling out of place, feeling awkward, and to get others to understand their inner struggle, transsexuals will ask: \u2018If you\u2019re a woman, imagine that every morning when you awaken and look in the mirror, you see a man. And if you\u2019re a man, imagine that when you awaken, you see a woman in the mirror. That\u2019s how a transsexual feels.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Increasingly, Americans are being inundated with sympathetic, media-driven stories showcasing this unfortunate and perplexing condition, like ABC\u2019s two-hour primetime interview with reality TV star Bruce Jenner, during which the legendary Olympic champion told a nation<\/a> and world that have long revered his masculine athleticism: \u201cI am a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Why would your brain lie?\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n The human mind is an amazing thing. Just like computers, they\u2019re awesome when they work properly, but vexing when they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n Yet there it is: Whether it\u2019s the anorexic or transgender individual staring intently into the mirror and seeing the exact opposite<\/i> of reality, or millions of others in similar straits tormented from within with myriad obsessions, compulsions, addictions, and delusions, our minds and emotions are \u2013 very simply \u2013 capable of lying to us, to the point of seriously disrupting our lives.<\/p>\n Take OCD, or obsessive-compulsive disorder, which currently afflicts one in 100 American adults (between 2 and 3 million), plus one in 200 children and teens (that\u2019s another 500,000), according to the National Institute of Mental Health.<\/p>\n Here, courtesy of the International OCD Foundation,<\/a> is a vivid description of what obsessive-compulsive disorder feels like from the inside:<\/p>\n Imagine that your mind got stuck on a certain thought or image \u2026<\/p>\n Then this thought or image got replayed in your mind, over and over again, no matter what you did \u2026<\/p>\n You don\u2019t want these thoughts \u2013 it feels like an avalanche \u2026<\/p>\n Along with the thoughts come intense feelings of anxiety \u2026<\/p>\n Anxiety is your brain\u2019s warning system. When you feel anxious, it feels like you are in danger. Anxiety is an emotion that tells you to respond, react, protect yourself, DO SOMETHING! Even if you’re just using wholesale cbd<\/a> to treat your symptoms, you shouldn’t just let your anxiety start to get the better of you.<\/p>\n On the one hand, you might recognize that the fear doesn\u2019t make sense, doesn\u2019t seem reasonable, yet it still feels very real, intense, and true \u2026<\/p>\n Why would your brain lie?<\/p>\n Why would you have these feelings if they weren\u2019t true? Feelings don\u2019t lie \u2026 Do they?<\/p>\n Unfortunately, if you have OCD, they do lie.<\/i> \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How many Americans have problems like these, where their thinking and feeling (or whatever lurks behind their thinking and feeling) profoundly deceives them? Fasten your seat belt, because in addition to the 2-3 million with OCD, the National Institute of Mental Health reports<\/a> that almost 14.8 million American adults have a major depressive disorder, 21 million have a mood disorder, 5.7 million suffer from bipolar disorder, 2.4 million have schizophrenia, 40 million have an anxiety disorder, 6 million have a panic disorder, 7.7 million are dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder, 6.8 million have generalized anxiety disorder, 15 million have a social phobia (fear of any situation where escape may be difficult, like traveling in a car, bus or airplane) and another 19 million have some type of specific phobia (marked, persistent fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation).<\/p>\n There are multitudes of phobias, from ablutophobia (fear of washing or bathing), to acarophobia (fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching), achluophobia (fear of darkness), acrophobia (fear of heights), aerophobia (fear of flying), aeronausiphobia (fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness), agateophobia (fear of insanity), agraphobia (fear of sexual abuse), agrizoophobia (fear of wild animals), algophobia (fear of pain), agoraphobia (fear of open spaces or crowds), agyrophobia (fear of streets or crossing the street), aichmophobia (fear of needles or pointed objects), amathophobia (fear of dust), amaxophobia (fear of riding in a car), androphobia (fear of men), anginophobia (fear of angina or choking), anthrophobia (fear of flowers), anthropophobia (fear of people or society), aphenphosmphobia (fear of being touched), apiphobia (fear of bees), apotemnophobia (fear of persons with amputations), arachnophobia (fear of spiders), arithmophobia (fear of numbers), arsonphobia (fear of fire), asthenophobia (fear of fainting or weakness), astraphobia (fear of thunder and lightning), ataxophobia (fear of disorder or untidiness), atelophobia (fear of imperfection), atychiphobia (fear of failure), automysophobia (fear of being dirty) and autophobia (fear of being alone or of oneself).<\/p>\n And those are just the A\u2019s; B through Z spell out hundreds more! But what most if not all phobias have in common is a root in some traumatic experience that has generated a syndrome of unwanted, irrationally fearful thoughts and feelings.<\/p>\n By the way, the mental health statistics cited above, which appear to account for around half of Americans, don\u2019t even include attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, one of the most common diagnoses in children and adolescents, or autism spectrum disorder, which now afflicts as many as one in 50 American kids,<\/i> according to the CDC.<\/a><\/p>\n Makes you wonder: Is there anybody left who is not afflicted?<\/p>\n Amputation of healthy organs \u2018the new normal\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n Having made this quick survey, something very strange now comes into view.<\/p>\n All of these conditions, whatever their symptoms or level of severity, are named and described in the psychiatrists\u2019 bible \u2013 the \u201cDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,\u201d the most recent being the fifth edition (so-called \u201cDSM-5\u201d) \u2013 and all are considered \u201cpathological\u201d (that is, \u201crelating to, or caused by, disease\u201d) and classified as \u201cdisorders.\u201d<\/p>\n Well, all except one.<\/p>\n Ironically, one the most extreme of all of these conditions \u2013 at least in terms of its preferred treatment, which often involves the amputation of healthy body parts, and whose sufferers have one of the highest suicide-attempt rates of any population on earth<\/a> \u2013 is for some reason in the process of being de<\/i>-pathologized, that is, reclassified as normal.<\/p>\n Indeed, the recent renaming of gender identity disorder as gender dysphoria, thanks to pressure from the powerful LGBT lobby, means the condition itself is no longer considered abnormal or \u201cdisordered\u201d at all, but only the anxiety<\/i> one may feel over it \u2013 anxiety LGBT apologists blame largely on public ignorance and intolerance.<\/p>\n Actually, this \u201cdysphoria\u201d business is a strategic half-measure; the unabashed, publicly stated goal of the LGBT world is to get gender identity disorder completely de-pathologized so it is officially and legally declared to be an absolutely normal variant of human sexuality. It is, after all, the \u201cT\u201d in the LGBT coalition, which represents itself as a minority community exactly like Blacks and Jews \u2013 so, no room for mental illness in the mix.<\/p>\n Ironically, there is some criticism toward the latest edition of the \u201cDiagnostic and Statistical Manual\u201d among mental health professionals, who claim the manual makes it too easy<\/i> to diagnose people as \u201cdisordered.\u201d For example, as one clinical psychologist wrote in Slate:<\/a><\/p>\n DSM-5<\/i> will change \u2026 the criteria for \u201cgeneralized anxiety disorder,\u201d a disorder that involves excessive and persistent worrying. Whereas the criteria in DSM-4<\/i> required three out of six symptoms of worrying, only one symptom is needed in DSM-5.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n How, then, when today\u2019s mental-health trend is to categorize more and more marginally problematic human behaviors as diagnosable \u201cdisorders,\u201d does the mental\/emotional state that craves having healthy body parts amputated in a pathetic and utterly impossible quest to change genders become magically transformed into something \u201cnormal\u201d?<\/p>\n NBC News, like many in the big media, trumpeted the good news in this headline: \u201cBeing transgender no longer a \u2018mental disorder\u2019: APA.\u201d As the network reported:<\/a><\/p>\n The American Psychiatric Association has revised its \u201cDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders\u201d and it no longer lists being transgender as a mental disorder, among other changes announced this past weekend.<\/p>\n Transgender people will now be diagnosed with \u201cgender dysphoria,\u201d which means emotional stress related to gender identity. \u201cGender identity disorder\u201d had been listed as a mental disorder since the third edition of the \u201cDSM\u201d more than 20 years ago.<\/p>\n In an interview with \u201cThe Advocate,\u201d APA member Jack Drescher explained the new revision, saying, \u201cAll psychiatric diagnoses occur within a cultural context. We know there is a whole community of people out there who are not seeking medical attention and live between the two binary categories. We wanted to send the message that the therapist\u2019s job isn\u2019t to pathologize.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Drescher\u2019s comment that \u201call psychiatric diagnoses occur within a cultural context\u201d is just code, of course, for admitting that the American Psychiatric Association cravenly caved in to LGBT demands to remove the \u201cdisorder\u201d label.<\/p>\n One organization that successfully lobbied for the change, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, confirms that it \u2026<\/p>\n conducted a consensus process in order to make recommendations for revision of the DSM diagnoses of Gender Identity Disorders. \u2026 The [work group] recommended changing the diagnosis to one based on distress rather than on identity, on which the current diagnosis is based.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cThere was consensus,\u201d the group reported,<\/a> \u201cthat a transgender identity is not pathology. Gender variant individuals are not inherently disordered; rather, the distress of gender dysphoria is the psychological problem.\u201d<\/p>\n If that line of thinking seems confusing, just wait: A report in the peer-reviewed journal \u201cClinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry\u201d<\/a> uses opaque academic lingo and tortured multicultural logic to rationalize why there\u2019s nothing at all wrong with people who want to cut off healthy breasts or genitalia in pursuit of \u201cgender transition\u201d:<\/p>\n As a diagnostic category, gender identity disorder remains problematic with ongoing debates concerning etiology, definition and ethics of treatment. Inherent in the current DSM definition is a Western model of the relationship between sex and gender which epitomizes the tension existing between essentialist and constructivist accounts of gender development. This model determines that gender-aberrant behavior and gender variation are, by definition, pathological, and reinforces a binary gender model. Studies of non-Western cultures reveal variations in models of gender and in the understanding of gender deviance. Cultures vary in their definition of gender roles and show varying degrees of tolerance for atypical gender behaviors and gender change. An understanding of cultural context is important in the clinical assessment of atypical gender development and challenges current models of sex and gender.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Translation: If you think there\u2019s something wrong with people who want to amputate parts of their body, you\u2019re an ignorant xenophobe, biased in favor of oppressive Western culture and hung up on the outdated notion that there are just two genders. If you were more multiculturally enlightened, you would realize it is just your own prejudice and narrow frame of reference that is the real problem here.<\/p>\n But back in the world of reality, transgenderism (or transsexualism) is not<\/i> normal. In fact, it\u2019s so abnormal and unnatural that a staggeringly tragic 41 percent of all transgender individuals living in the United States have attempted to commit suicide, according to a 2010 study.<\/a><\/p>\n And more recently, \u201csex change regret\u201d is emerging as a huge reality, as The Federalist documented in its \u201cTrouble in Transtopia\u201d report,<\/a> concluding: \u201cBiological truth has a way of outing itself. The hard reality of it is written right into our DNA as \u2018male\u2019 or \u2018female.\u2019 In the end, transgender activists and their media enablers won\u2019t be able to drown that massive iceberg.\u201d<\/p>\n In fact, former psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Paul R. McHugh, M.D., confirms that transgenderism is indeed a \u201cmental disorder.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Writing in the Wall Street Journal,<\/a> McHugh, who is currently Hopkins\u2019 Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, cites a long-term Swedish study that followed transgendered persons for up to 30 years, revealing that \u201cbeginning about 10 years after having the surgery, the transgendered began to experience increasing mental difficulties. Most shockingly, their suicide mortality rose almost 20-fold above the comparable non-transgender population.\u201d<\/p>\n What about those special transgender camps<\/a> now springing up in the U.S., where parents of young children who like to play or dress as the opposite sex take their kids, presumably to affirm and celebrate these poor children\u2019s supposed \u201ctransgender identity\u201d? McHugh reveals:<\/a> \u201cWhen children who reported transgender feelings were tracked without medical or surgical treatment at both Vanderbilt University and London\u2019s Portman Clinic, 70 to 80 percent of them spontaneously lost those feelings.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the same politically influenced psychiatric elite that see fit to diagnose millions of fidgety schoolboys with the \u201cmental disorder\u201d of ADHD (and then \u201ctreat\u201d them with powerful and poorly understood drugs), are re-categorizing the undeniably extreme transgender disorder as normal.<\/p>\n Why has the American Psychiatric Association given in to activist pressure with regard to transsexuals?<\/p>\n For the same reason the same psychiatrist organization, coming under the same pressure, declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder in 1973, while its sister organization, the American Psychological Association, followed suit two years later.<\/p>\n Stunningly, the former president of the American Psychological Association \u2013 indeed, the man who actually introduced the motion to declassify homosexuality as a mental illness in 1975 \u2013 is now sounding the alarm. Dr. Nicholas Cummings says the psychologists\u2019 organization has become dominated by \u201cultraliberals\u201d under the thumb of the \u201cgay rights movement.\u201d<\/a> Since the mid-1990s, warns Cummings, the group\u2019s positions have become based on \u201cpolitical stances\u201d that \u201cseemed to override any scientific results,\u201d adding, \u201cCherry-picking results became the mode. The gay rights movement sort of captured the APA.\u201d<\/p>\n Watch interview with Dr. Nicholas Cummings, the pro-gay rights former president of the American Psychological Association, who admits that no genuine, scientific, unbiased research is ever done on homosexuality and that the psychologists\u2019 group has been taken over by the gay rights movement:<\/i><\/p>\n The reference interview can be view at the following link: Dr. Nicholas Cummings Speaks<\/a><\/p>\n How far will the official normalization of pathological sexuality go? So-called Genetic Sexual Attraction (adult incest) is intruding into the mainstream with ever greater frequency, with news stories of fathers marrying their daughters and having children together.<\/a> No word as to whether the American Psychiatric Association\u2019s stance on incest is \u201cevolving.\u201d However, believe it or not, the APA actually altered the classification of pedophilia in the latest edition of its \u201cDiagnostic and Statistical Manual\u201d from a \u201cdisorder\u201d to a \u201csexual orientation.\u201d<\/p>\n But wait! \u201cSexual orientations\u201d are protected classes of Americans according to the current generation of \u201canti-discrimination\u201d laws. That would make pedophiles a protected class!<\/p>\n After a deafening public outcry, the APA released a press statement claiming it was all just a big mistake: \u201c\u2018Sexual orientation\u2019 is not a term used in the diagnostic criteria for pedophilic disorder,\u201d the psychiatrists\u2019 group clarified,<\/a> \u201cand its use in the DSM-5<\/i> text discussion is an error and should read \u2018sexual interest.\u2019\u201d The group promised to correct the error in its manual\u2019s next edition.<\/p>\n Reclaiming reality and sanity<\/b><\/p>\n Part and parcel of the decision to reclassify conditions once considered mental illnesses \u2013 like homosexuality and transsexuality \u2013 as normal, benign, healthy sexual or gender \u201corientations,\u201d is a determination that these proclivities are largely determined by genetics.<\/p>\n But a generation ago, before the search for the elusive and hypothetical \u201cgay gene\u201d ever began, psychologists and psychiatrists believed aberrant sexual attractions and obsessions often were rooted in childhood trauma.<\/p>\n Is it true? Certainly it\u2019s undeniable that little children, being so exquisitely impressionable, are powerfully shaped by the environment in which they grow up. Early sexual abuse, for example, can be devastating, and it\u2019s a sad fact that our prisons house many child molesters who were themselves molested as children.<\/p>\n Objective consideration of true causes is also complicated by the fact that today\u2019s psychiatric priesthood just doesn\u2019t seem that interested. Ever-increasing weight is instead placed on biological factors like genetics, infections, brain defects or injury, prenatal damage, substance abuse and poor nutrition. Moreover, even when factors like childhood abuse (physical, emotional or sexual), divorce, death in the family, etc., are<\/i> considered, the \u201ctherapy\u201d \u2013 almost always, drugs \u2013 doesn\u2019t deal with the trauma. How, for example, can psychiatric drugs undo a young woman\u2019s hatred and feelings of betrayal toward her father for having abused and\/or abandoned her when she was a little girl?<\/p>\n The evolving medical philosophy that says our mental health problems are determined largely by genetics and other mysterious biological factors is increasingly at war with reality.<\/p>\n To dramatize the problem, let\u2019s engage in a sort of thought experiment: Consider how some unfortunate children in the Arab-Muslim Middle East develop a bad case of (let\u2019s give it a clinical name) \u201cjihad martyrdom syndrome.\u201d I think it\u2019s fair to say that the compulsion to kill dozens of innocent people and yourself,<\/i> while simultaneously believing the creator of the universe will reward you for mass murder with endless sex with six dozen beautiful women in the afterlife, is at least as serious a disorder as some of the newly minted \u201cmental illnesses\u201d in the latest \u201cDSM,\u201d like \u201cmild cognitive impairment\u201d and \u201cbinge eating disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n So, how exactly do innocent little kids come to be possessed by such all-consuming emotions and delusional beliefs that lead them to blow themselves up while slaughtering innocent strangers?<\/p>\n If one suggested genetics, biochemical imbalances or environmental toxins were responsible, everyone would laugh. Little jihadists are created when, from an early age, they are continually traumatized \u2013 indoctrinated daily to hate infidels and see them as less than human \u2013 intimidated, degraded, frightened, rewarded, tempted, brutalized, brainwashed, lied to, punished, threatened, and praised (for reinforcement) \u2013 until their little developing minds and emotions no longer belong to them. They internalize and act out a completely new implanted identity, utterly foreign to the one with which they were born.<\/p>\n If the forces in one child\u2019s life can thus transform him so totally that, when he looks in a mirror, he sees someone with an overwhelming desire to kill \u201cinfidels\u201d in a glorious \u201cmartyrdom operation,\u201d couldn\u2019t the forces in another child\u2019s life (perhaps far more subtle, but nevertheless powerful) transform him or her into a person with feelings, thoughts, and desires he likewise was not born with \u2013 including homosexual or transgender feelings? Many lesbians have confessed that their hatred for their cruel, abusive fathers blocked them from bonding to men later in life. Why is this so hard to understand?<\/p>\n At the extreme, consider the sad story of \u201cfemale-to-male\u201d transsexual Nancy Verhelst<\/a> of Belgium, who was legally euthanized by lethal injection after a botched sex-change operation. The back story? Her parents hated and rejected her because she was a girl and they wanted another boy. So this poor girl tried to become a boy, and when it didn\u2019t work, she took her life.<\/p>\n Many other types of unseen (from the outside) but devastating family dysfunction, along with various forms of child abuse and sexual molestation, are indisputably powerful factors in causing sexual deviance later in life. In particular, it\u2019s scandalous that childhood sexual abuse as a well-known pathway into homosexuality is virtually ignored in our culture\u2019s rush to glorify aberrant sexual practices.<\/p>\n A multitude of peer-reviewed studies corroborate the fundamental truth that childhood trauma plays a huge role in later homosexuality:<\/p>\n Confirming that \u201cnumerous studies document an association between childhood physical and sexual abuse, neglect, and witnessing violence in childhood and same-sex sexuality,\u201d<\/a> this highly revealing study identifies several \u201cpathways\u201d for such early-childhood engendering of same-sex feelings:<\/p>\n \u201c(1) abuse of boys perpetrated by men causes boys to believe they are gay;<\/p>\n \u201c(2) abuse of girls by men leads them to be averse to sexual relationships with men;<\/p>\n \u201c(3) abuse survivors may feel stigmatized and different from others and may, therefore, be more willing to behave in ways that are socially stigmatized, including acknowledging same-sex attraction or having same-sex partners.\u201d Burgeoning totalitarianism<\/b><\/p>\n Today, what started in the \u201960s as \u201cgay liberation,\u201d later called \u201cgay rights,\u201d then \u201cLGBT\u201d (and more recently \u201cLGBTQIA,\u201d for lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-questioning-intersex-asexual), has metastasized into an ever-expanding form of totalitarianism and persecution of religious conscientious objectors.<\/p>\n Legislation is sweeping the country, outlawing counseling help for minors who want to overcome unwanted same-sex attractions; decreeing that boys and young men must be allowed to use girls\u2019 restrooms and locker rooms if they claim to identify with the opposite sex (and vice versa); mandating pro-homosexual\/pro-transgender indoctrination of children at kindergarten and even preschool age; requiring the integration of open homosexuals into the military; forcing same-sex marriage on the nation; and, perhaps most shockingly, persecuting individuals and businesses that simply oppose the LGBT agenda on moral and religious grounds:<\/p>\n Now that\u2019s tolerance for you.<\/p>\n \u2018Cease and desist\u2019 being a Christian<\/b><\/p>\n But these high-profile news events don\u2019t even begin to paint the true picture. The exact same sorts of totalitarian \u201cyou-aren\u2019t-allowed-to-even-think<\/i>-that way\u201d assaults are occurring all the time, throughout America. Here (courtesy of Americans for Truth<\/a>) are just a few more everyday examples:<\/p>\n Did you heard about New Mexico Christian photographers Jon and Elaine Huguenin, who were sued by two lesbians under the state\u2019s \u201csexual orientation\u201d law after declining to photograph the lesbians\u2019 \u201ccommitment ceremony\u201d?<\/p>\n Or the New Jersey case of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, convicted of \u201cdiscrimination\u201d after two lesbians, Harriet Bernstein and Luisa Paster, decided to hold their \u201ccommitment ceremony\u201d on the Methodist-run association\u2019s popular family-friendly boardwalk? After that, Ocean Grove quit the wedding-hosting business.<\/p>\n Or what about the Aloha Bed & Breakfast in Hawaii, a Christian business forced to \u201caccommodate\u201d two Southern California lesbians after a judge ruled the B&B violated state law when the owner told Taeko Bufford and Diane Cervelli she wasn\u2019t comfortable having them stay together in her home, due to her religious beliefs? Aloha has since been ordered by the state \u201cto provide a room to any same-sex couple that wishes to stay there.\u201d<\/p>\n Or Illinois Christian bed & breakfast owners Jim and Beth Walder who, for expressing their religious convictions regarding homosexuality, have been sued by LGBT activist Todd Wathen, who demanded monetary damages, attorneys\u2019 fees and \u201can order directing [the Walders] to cease and desist from any violation\u201d of the state\u2019s Human Rights Act.<\/p>\n Or Vermont\u2019s Wildflower Inn, which paid a settlement to lesbians and shut down its wedding reception business after the ACLU won a $10,000 civil penalty for two lesbians. The settlement also requires the inn\u2019s owners to place $20,000 in a charitable trust for the lesbians.<\/p>\n What about Oregon\u2019s \u201cSweet Cakes by Melissa\u201d bakery, which shut down after declining to bake for a \u201cgay wedding\u201d? Or owners of Indiana\u2019s \u201cJust Cookies,\u201d who, for refusing to fill a special order for \u201crainbow cookies\u201d for an LGBT group, were charged with \u201cdiscrimination\u201d under the city\u2019s \u201csexual orientation\u201d law. Or Colorado\u2019s \u201cMasterpiece Cakes,\u201d target of a formal complaint by the state\u2019s attorney general for refusing, on religious grounds, to make a \u201cgay\u201d wedding cake. Or Iowa\u2019s \u201cVictoria\u2019s Cake Cottage,\u201d whose owner Victoria Childress refused to provide a wedding cake for a homosexual couple out of \u201cconvictions for their lifestyle.\u201d Or Oregon\u2019s \u201cFleur Cakes,\u201d which joined \u201cSweet Cakes\u201d in refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.<\/p>\n And what about Washington state\u2019s \u201cArlene\u2019s Flowers,\u201d whose owner Barronelle Stutzman declined to provide flowers for the wedding of a same-sex couple who had long frequented her shop, because of her \u201crelationship with Jesus Christ\u201d? She later faced two lawsuits. Or New York\u2019s \u201cLiberty Ridge Farm,\u201d which refused to allow its property to be rented out for a lesbian \u201cwedding.\u201d Or Texas\u2019 \u201cAll Occasion Party Place,\u201d a Fort Worth venue that refused, on religious grounds, to rent out a banquet hall for homosexual \u201cwedding\u201d receptions.<\/p>\n Do I need to keep going?<\/p>\n What about Craig James, fired by Fox Sports Southwest after a GOP debate tape showed him expressing Christian beliefs in opposition to \u201chomosexual marriage\u201d? Or the Christian T-shirt maker in Kentucky being targeted by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission for refusing to print \u201cgay pride\u201d designs for a local homosexual group?<\/p>\n What about Chris Penner, owner of the Twilight Room Annex bar in Portland, who was fined $400,000 under the Oregon Equality Act for excluding transgender men who, dressed as women, had been alienating other customers by using the women\u2019s restroom. According to the Seattle Times,<\/a> 11 people \u2013 calling themselves the \u201cT-girls\u201d \u2013 \u201cwill get the money, with awards ranging from $20,000 to 50,000.\u201d<\/p>\n There are mountains of other examples \u2013 the Catholic Church being forced to shut down successful adoption agencies in several states because it opposes adoption by homosexual couples; Christians kicked out of college counseling programs because they oppose homosexuality; therapists prohibited by law from helping young people overcome unwanted same-sex attractions; \u201cex-gay\u201d and pro-change therapists forced out of business by lawsuits; people fired from their jobs solely because they oppose same-sex marriage; school districts forced to positively affirm homosexuality; \u201canti-gay\u201d 501(c)(3) organizations having their nonprofit status challenged; even a proposal to ban Christians from serving in government if they had ever demonstrated \u201cbias\u201d against homosexuals.<\/p>\n On and on it goes, increasing, not diminishing, with each passing year.<\/p>\n Many thought same-sex marriage would be the crowning achievement of the LGBT movement and that the juggernaut would finally wind down. But then, suddenly the focus shifted to \u201ctransgender rights,\u201d with Time magazine\u2019s \u201cThe Transgender Tipping Point\u201d issue<\/a> trumpeting the headline, \u201cAmerica\u2019s next civil rights frontier,\u201d and Vice President Joe Biden likewise proclaiming transgender discrimination \u201cthe civil rights issue of our time.\u201d<\/a> And then \u2013 brace yourself \u2013 there were reports of three-year-old children<\/i> being required to sign a contract<\/a> promising they will not use \u201ctransphobic language\u201d in nursery school!<\/p>\n The secret of this never-ending, always-expanding revolutionary movement, in case you haven\u2019t realized, is that it has the full support of the far left. Not because the left loves homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals for themselves, but because finally the left has found its spear-tip, with which \u2013 as it has dreamed of doing for decades \u2013 it can effectively attack, wound, marginalize, demonize and criminalize its greatest enemy: religion.<\/p>\n Indeed, the LGBT sexual anarchy movement has the unique potential to permanently corrupt our civilization\u2019s core institution, marriage and family,<\/i> as well as our core \u201coperating system,\u201d Judeo-Christian values.<\/i><\/p>\n Yet ironically, it is the one issue almost everybody is afraid to confront.<\/p>\n Like Voldemort, the arch-villain so feared by everyone in the Harry Potter stories that they \u201cdo not speak his name,\u201d almost no one \u2013 not Democrats, not Republicans, not Libertarians, not the news media, not even most churches \u2013 dares speak openly about it. Indeed, many have succumbed and joined forces with it.<\/p>\n However, when considering the increasing assault on the American mindscape we\u2019ve explored in this book, ask yourself this: How can the simultaneous glorification of sexual perversion, the revolutionary re-definition of \u201cmarriage\u201d and \u201cfamily,\u201d and the criminalization of the religion that for centuries has served as America\u2019s moral foundation, not<\/i> compound the epidemic of stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and suicide today plaguing our nation?<\/p>\n Is it not time for us to face reality and give up the illusions now tearing our nation apart? Can\u2019t we understand why, after thousands of years of human history, letting a few judges in black robes suddenly and radically redefine the most foundational institution of the human race \u2013 marriage \u2013 is a bad idea? And is it not madness to think we can transform a man into a woman by surgically fiddling with his plumbing and feeding him hormones \u2013 when every single one of his body\u2019s 37.2 trillion cells is permanently coded \u201cmale\u201d<\/i> with Y chromosomes? Paul R. McHugh, Johns Hopkins Hospital\u2019s former top psychiatrist, affirms it simply is \u201cbiologically impossible\u201d to change the sex you were born with,<\/a> and that those who advocate \u201csexual reassignment surgery\u201d are thus promoting<\/i> mental illness.<\/p>\n We Americans are in desperate need of serious self-reflection, of awakening, and a radical course correction. Perhaps more than ever, we need to take a good, long, hard, uncompromisingly honest look at ourselves in the mirror.<\/p>\n But what will we see staring back at us?<\/p>\n Will we \u2013 like the starving anorexic girl who saw in the mirror only \u201cdisgusting fat,\u201d or the man with transgender feelings who saw the reflection of a woman beckoning \u2013 continue to be drawn into a deceptive fantasy world, one where intense emotions of unclear origin drown out reality? Will we continue to embrace a brave new world of constantly mutating sexual anarchy, one so disconnected from science, faith, reason, and the lessons of history that it can lead us only into societal chaos?<\/p>\n Or, will we finally be able to see past the illusions generated by ceaseless propaganda and pressure? Will we be able to break free and catch a glimpse of our true self once again \u2013 a people uniquely blessed by God, and who in previous generations, despite whatever challenges and hardships we faced, were safely grounded (as George Washington admonished) in the twin virtues of \u201creligion and morality\u201d? For our children\u2019s sake, let us fervently hope our nation can once again reclaim this great blessing.<\/p>\n In the next chapter we will focus on the growing war for the American mind, and will survey the extraordinary battlefields now shaping up between the forces of sanity and madness, the outcome of which will determine who ultimately runs the American asylum \u2013 the sane people, or the lunatics.<\/p>\n Sign the petition demanding an end to the madness! No men in girls\u2019 bathrooms, locker rooms or showers! Just say no!<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n What’s really behind America’s transgender mania?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"snapping-of-the-american-mind-cover\"](\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/snapping-of-the-american-mind-cover.jpg\")
<\/a>shaved, it\u2019s certainly a painful experience. \u2026 The immediate reaction I get from my reflection is a feeling of very strong disassociation, accompanied by a kind of shock, confusion, or mental jarring. I have the strong, gut-level sensation that whoever is behind the mirror is not me,\u201d says one \u201ctrans\u201d individual.<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\nYet, however clear, compelling, and heartbreaking the evidence, none of this seems to matter. Fewer and fewer people seem to care any more about actual causes and effects, about the true nature of things. Instead, too many of us care only about what we want to believe, what we wish to be true. We want<\/i> homosexuality to be a healthy lifestyle, even though, as the Wall Street Journal has documented,<\/a> \u201cProjections have shown that if current trends continue, half of all gay and bisexual men will be HIV-positive by age 50.\u201d<\/i> We want<\/i> transgenderism to be normal, even though common sense and a mountain of evidence \u2013 not to mention basic biology \u2013 shout otherwise.
\nAs always, there is a very big price to pay for willfully denying reality. The LGBT movement has not only succeeded in mainstreaming behaviors all previous generations considered pathological and immoral; it also insists that the rest of society not only accept these behaviors, but affirm and celebrate<\/i> them \u2013 or be punished.<\/p>\n\n
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