Tea at Trianon: When the State Comes After a Gender-Confused Child

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

When the State Comes After a Gender-Confused Child

From PJ Media:

Over on CrossPolitic, an anonymous author has published a piece detailing what happens when the State latches onto a confused child who claims to be a different gender. The piece is a troubling look at the horrible ramifications that come out of a situation like that and offers some wise counsel for Christians.

The article begins with the harrowing words, "This past year my 15-year-old niece decided that she was a boy." From there, the author describes how "the religious secular state came for my niece" after she attempted suicide.

The daughter of a single mother with a rotating door of boyfriends, the writer's niece suffered bullying at school and watched her mom deal with abusive men in her life. Sadly, the writer confesses, "My niece’s self-hate is evident. The dysfunction around her is obvious. She has never met a Christian other than my family, and we live a few states away. She is alone." (Read more.)