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March 2014
Redefining Truth has
Consequences
By Raynard Jackson
Raynard Jackson
In all organized sports, there are clearly
defined rules that must be adhered to.
In all universities, there are clearly stated
guidelines for admittance. In all religions,
there are shared beliefs that all members
must adhere to. Without these clearly
defined rules of engagement (ROEs), there
can be no order within groups; and with
out order there is nothing left but chaos.
Groups and organizations, by defini
tion are all predicated upon certain
agreed upon principles and values.
These agreed upon principles and values
are the raison d'etre of these entities.
You join the Boy Scouts, for example,
because you are a boy and you join the
Girl Scouts because you are a girl. You
are a male because you are born with a
penis-and you are a girl because you are
born with a vagina. These things used
to be unquestioned statements of fact.
Now some parents are filing law suits
because their daughters want the legal
right to join the Boy Scouts. Some males,
on the other hand, want the right to join
a sorority while some females want the
right to join a fraternity. To call this a
ball of confusion is an understatement.
Sadly, sexuality is no longer determined at
birth and is no longer absolute. You now
can legally (in California)"self-identify" your
sex. You can be born a male and simply
wake up and say you "self-identify"as a
girl and legally you can play on your high
school's girls softball team; you must be
allowed to use the girls bathroom; and you
must be allowed to wear a dress to class.
Now, right is wrong; up is down,
black is white; and there are no rules.
Rules are created in order to main
tain order and control. No matter
where you go throughout the world,
the rules for basketball, American
football, and baseball are the same.
Conversely, when you have no clearly
defined rules, you have chaos instead of
order. This is exactly what is happening
in America in particular and the world in
general. Rules are the glue that keeps a
society together. Rules make the family
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into a functioning unit. Rules create
the framework for dispute resolution.
In America, as in most countries, murder
is deemed wrong and society universally
punishes the perpetrators. Killing can be
justified (self-defense), but murder (the
taking of an innocent life) can never be jus
tified. Honoring one's mother and father
is just simply expected in our society.
These rules are necessary to create a
society where there is structure and
order. Rules also create a sense of
security and freedom for the people.
How can you have a functioning country
when you can no longer define the family
unit? For time immemorial, the family has
been mother, father, and children; and in
some cases grandparents, uncles, or aunts,
also known as the extended family. Now,
agreement on the definition of the family
unit has become mired in controversy.
Some want Johnny to have two dads or
Jenny to have two moms. Some want
Rahim to have one father, but three moth
ers (all legally married to the one father).
Some simply want mother and child.
Study after study has shown that the
family unit is the most stabilizing force
in a society and that children who are
reared with a mother and father are
best positioned to be successful in life.
You can't prevent or resolve disputes unless
you have rules that have been agreed
upon by society that are compatible with
the values of a country. Most Americans
don't commit crimes because we have
been instilled with a sense of what is right
and wrong; also because we know crimes
will be met with certain punishment.
When there are disputes, you have courts.
Congress, and government to turn to for
redress. Today, you have judges ignoring
case law and the will of the people and
injecting their personal feelings into cases
such as homosexual"marriage." Congress is
incapable of passing bipartisan legislation
that is truly in the best interest of America.
Government is totally incapable of solv
ing conflict because there is no consensus
as to what the rules of engagement are.
I am a huge proponent of individual
freedom, but freedom can't exist with
out some agreed upon rules of engage
ment. You can't have children born as
one sex and then be allowed to simply
"self-identify" as to something totally dif
ferent. You can't - or shouldn't - seek
to become a member of, say, a Pentecos
tal church and then refuse to comport
yourself in a manner consistent with their
rules (including a prohibition against
homosexuality), and then call them a
bigot if they refuse you membership.
This altering of what it means to
be an American will lead to our
demise as a global leader. Even free
dom has its orderly limitations.
Raynard Jackson is president & CEO
of Raynard Jackson & Associates,
EEC., a Washington, D.C.-based public
relations/government affairs firm.
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"When I was a kid, my mother took music
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"When we got sick, she'd put us to bed and
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