I have to wonder whether future generations of Americans will look back and judge us. What regrets will they have? What questions will they raise? What accusations will they make? Will they ask about their childhood?
In December 2024 the world watched with the benign look of a cow chewing its cud as the Supreme Court of the United States became the theater of the absurd. SCOTUS, the world’s bastion of the rule of law where allegedly legal jurisprudence meets common sense to render precedent affecting hundreds of millions.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments by a woman pretending to be a man arguing in favor of mutilating young children supposedly born in the wrong bodies. Touting the shattered glass ceiling of being the first transgender to argue before the Supreme Court was not enough. In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, ACLU lawyer and trans-activist Chase Strangio told the world that children as young as two years old know they are trans. But it was not just private entities and liberal activists before the bench that day. The U.S. government joined in with arguments by U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar.
Have we have slipped off into some post-apocalyptic mayhem? In my opinion, there are things for which a nation will be judged – those moments that future generations scornfully assess in hindsight.
We look back on the Salem witch trials and are repulsed by them. But they happened.
We look back on slavery and are repulsed by it, but it happened.
We look back on the Nazi genocide of Jews and are repulsed by it, but it happened.
I believe that how this current generation cares for and protects its kids is something that future generations will either praise us for or be repulsed by.
Look at our southern border as hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied young children have inexplicably streamed into our country. Some as young as two years old have shown up alone with nothing but a phone number written on paper. The Biden administration has allowed these precious ones to come into our care and then promptly lost them. A recent report from the inspector general of Biden’s own Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement details the awful statistic that the U.S. government has lost track of over 320,000 minor children who entered the U.S. unaccompanied. They are just gone. Into the ether with only the hope that they are not being trafficked and abused.
Every single day we catch more glimpses into the activist factories that some schools have become. Great educators stand idly by while wolves-in-sheep’s-clothing occupy the classroom down the hall and teach children that grammar is bendable for the use of pronouns, that biology is fluid, that history is racist, that civics is for tyrants. Female athletes are forced to share showers with males and lose their medals and scholarships in the name of trans equity. Educational settings are places where every value, every belief, every patriotic vibe and faith-based position is laid bare and vacated by activists who pose as teachers and coaches.
An entire generation is being abused. Lost. Bandied about as trophies.
Children in America too often face the social contagion of constant pressure to follow their own truth. They are “affirmed” by medical interventions and surgeries resulting in a lifetime of counseling and medication. We are a society that tells children to understand, accept, and even participate in adult versions of sexuality, while at the same time setting age limits on when they can drive, sign contracts, marry, join the military, or get a Costco card. We tell children they are important while at the same time blithely moving past the idea that a third of a million of them can be handed off to strangers and then forgotten by the world.
We have reached the zenith of social schizophrenia, on the one hand telling a child we are going to “affirm” them, while on the other demanding that they be altered, thereby affirming nothing more than them being made wrong. We claim to value children as dear to us, yet we callously have a national policy of allowing vulnerable children to wander across our borders and then be farmed out to alleged family members, promptly washing our hands of them and writing them off the books.
We must reign this in. They will be adults soon enough, if they make it that far. How will they remember their childhood? Kids are a gift from God and we are called to be good stewards of His gifts. I’m concerned that our nation claims on the one hand to do all that it can for kids, while on the other, destroys them at a rate never before seen.
Gone are the days of turning a blind eye. Gone are the days when we can just shrug our shoulders and say, “That’s not my kid, so it’s not my fight.” If it’s not your kid today it may be your grandchild tomorrow … or that sweet neighbor’s kid who plays in the yard … the little minions that run in the hallways of your church, play on the corner playground, or get too loud in the grocery store. This, my friends, is a fight for all of us!
As a nation, as a culture, we will be held accountable one day. Future generations will look back on this time. What will they say about us? It is not enough to say that we were good stewards with our possessions, our skills and talents, our natural resources, or our time.
One of the greatest forms of stewardship that any culture can be measured against is found in the simple question: “What did you do with the children?”
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