I wish someone would explain it to me...

My son, if you receive my words
and treasure up my commandments with you,
making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures,
then you will understand the fear of the LORD
and find the knowledge of God.
For the LORD gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
guarding the paths of justice
and watching over the way of his saints.
Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path;
for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
discretion will watch over you,
understanding will guard you,
delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,
who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,
who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
men whose paths are crooked,
and who are devious in their ways. (Proverbs 2:1-15 ESV)

How To Explain Mississippi's New Anti-LGBT Law To Your Kids appeared on Romper ("a site for a new generation of women figuring out what motherhood means for us") today... Don't ask me how I located it; I'm not sure.

The author, presumably a concerned mother herself, like many well-intentioned others-- progressives (man, I hate that term), conservatives, Christians, whatever the affiliation-- are pointing their lances at windmills, rather than at the true giant that needs slaying in our society: cultural righteousness.

What a child sees and hears growing up effects his or her moral compass in adult life. Children who are raised in a traditional (now almost Rockwellian, sadly) family with an omnipresent father and mother will likely have similar families of their own. A young man learns, right or wrong, how to treat women by watching his father. A daughter learns, right or wrong, about men by watching her father. Children who are brought to Sunday school regularly grow up with a sense that church is an important part of life. Children who a raised without any church influence learn just the opposite.

The "next generation" will watch and act accordingly. A young person's sense of right and wrong is acquired from the world around them, if not taught and modeled at home-- same goes for learning what is meant by acceptable behavior, free speech, and proper attire. And that no one person is more deserving to live on this planet than anyone else. That discrimination is wrong, no matter what the reason.

Children must learn that the meaning of "correctness" is not simply tolerance (in the political correctness sense). The definition of correctness embodies integrity (freely-- and sometimes courageously-- doing the right thing, living inside the law, etc.) and a sense of when to stand up against what is wrong, even when our culture says it's right. If a young person rarely (or never) sees the basic human virtues of empathy, compassion, kindness, generosity, service, loyalty, patriotism (love of what is noble in one's country), and forgiveness modeled, then how can he or she be expected to make a positive impact in the world?

So, Romper Moms, your little ones are in less need of an explanation of Mississippi's quasi-Jim Crow anti-LGBT law than they are of your teaching and modeling what it means to live as a responsible and faithful (rather than "correct" as defined by changing cultural norms) man or woman, husband or wife, father or mother. The rest will, most likely, take care of itself.

(Need help? Guidance is as close as your nearest church...)

One pastor wrote a few years ago:

 All around us the earth has begun to rebel against humanity and we are ever close to a judgment we do not want for our children and grandchildren. It is not just a social issue any more, it is a cosmic issue that cries out to God against us. The social issues of our immorality and insensitivity to future generations are but bells tolling the times before us. Better to be heavenly, morally correct than stupidly correct socially and politically. History is against us right now. Seems to me the time to heed righteousness, the true correctness for our nation and generations to come, is upon us like a thief. The question, will we listen?

The bigger question is, are our governors listening?