Stop saying, “Do Whatever You Want In Your Own Bedroom”

The behaviors of other consenting adults could easily kill both you and your family.

My second child was born in late December, 1986. After a few days my wife claimed that our new baby was turning yellow. Initially I dismissed this, but eventually I humored her and agreed to take our little one in for observation. I don’t remember the details, but our daughter ended up in the hospital with the two of us trading shifts, standing watch over her.

The treatment for jaundice is to strip the baby naked and lay her under bright lights 24/7 (“phototherapy”). An infant gets jaundice when her liver is not developed enough at birth to process the bilirubin that has entered her bloodstream for some reason or other; the lights break it down into a substance that is easier for the liver to excrete. I don’t remember how long we were at the hospital, but it must’ve been several days. Despite the therapy, her blood toxin level kept increasing. I remember the doctor telling us that if her level went higher on her next measurement, she would be in danger of suffering brain damage, and that our only option then would be to do a blood transfusion.

The winter of 1986/7 was the height of the HIV/AIDS terror, and the blood supply was contaminated. Only one HIV test had been developed by that date, and it was inconclusive; a more reliable test would not appear until later in 1987, and it too would be largely useless for screening blood donors because one had to wait at least two weeks for the results.

So for years our blood banks had been collecting blood from HIV-infected people, and at the time of our daughter’s emergency there was no useful contamination test. A transfusion from an unknown source in those days was basically playing Russian Roulette. If neither of us was a compatible donor, we’d have to find friends or relatives very quickly, else face the possibility of either killing our baby with contaminated blood or condemning her to a life of brain damage. But we lucked out. Her little liver kicked in, and her next test showed a reduction in toxins, so we never had to make our terrible choice.

Think about this. The behaviors of promiscuous adults I’d never met, doing whatever they wanted with whomever they wanted “in their own bedrooms,” could easily have killed my newborn child.

Yes, what you do in your bedroom is my business

The latest mental contagion among “conservatives” is to say things like,

• “You do you, I’ll do me.”

• “Do whatever you want in your own bedroom.”

• It’s OK as long as it involves only consenting adults.

• You can “transgender” yourself, and maybe your kids, so long as you leave my kids alone.

I guess we are trying to sound magnanimous or even libertarian in a post-Christian society, where it is now fashionable to pretend that people can engage in self-destructive behavior without seriously affecting the rest of us.

Here are two examples that you’re not allowed to discuss:

• HIV:

  • HIV-infected people are still infecting the population at large.

  • Strident, self-righteous activists demand that we subsidize their destructive promiscuity. It is now an article of faith that we must all spend $28 billion per year funding HIV research, rather than demand self-restraint from people who mostly infected themselves by choice.

  • The LA Dodgers recently honored the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group that actively encourages promiscuous behavior that spreads HIV. The honor was ironically bestowed because the group raises money to help the HIV-infected population that it helps create (“perpetual indulgence” - get it?).

  • HIV treatment is now a huge profit center for Big Pharma, and guess who is paying for it (either via tax-funded subsidies or by your increased insurance rates).

  • HIV medications have many dangerous side-effects that can induce other serious illnesses; guess who is subsidizing treatment of those.

  • Regardless of treatment, HIV-infected people suffer enormous rates of other diseases induced by HIV itself; who do you suppose is subsidizing the treatment of those?

  • In ever-insane California, HIV-infected psychopaths have managed to get the CA legislature to reduce the crime of knowingly infecting another person with HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor. Why would they do this?
    

• Transgender:

  • Adults who buy into “transgenderism” have formed politically active groups promoting the practice.

  • These politically active groups have fully infested our schools with both in-class and after-school programs designed to lure children into the “transgender” lifestyle.

  • Corporations are now essentially using their profits from your purchases to fund transgender indoctrination of children. Did you know that State Farm, for example, is a huge supporter of GLSEN, an organization whose web site features an “escape” key feature that helps children instantly change their screen content when their parents walk in? We didn’t either.

  • According to Vanderbilt University Medical Clinic, transgender surgery is a big money maker that turns patients into lifelong customers. Guess who is subsidizing all those lifelong customers, most of whom could obviously never pay for this themselves.

The older I get, the more I stand in awe of our former political and religious leadership. These people understood the conflict between our basest human instincts vs. our survival and happiness. They understood, for example, that unrestricted sexual behavior and “sex work” lead to:

• incurable and often fatal diseases,

• interaction with violent, exploitive criminals,

• mental illness,

• the horrific abuse of abortion, and

• abuse and death at the hands of customers, employers, and random psychopaths.

Our former leaders were brilliant, and they truly cared about their populations. Thousands of years before the medical establishment accepted germ theory, eventually leading us to understand how sexually transmitted diseases operate, the authors of Exodus brought us, “You shall not commit adultery.” Such leaders implemented religious and legal restrictions, “mores” we called them, that were designed to prevent the inexperienced, the ignorant, and the dull-witted from injuring themselves. Such rules work even for people who are not necessarily religious: Jordan Peterson famously said, “I act as if God exists.” Imagine how many people would be alive and/or disease-free today if they had followed Peterson’s example.

But we’ve tossed the rules out the window. The new message is: Live it up! Do whatever! We will promote your basest instinct, whatever that may be! Today’s cowardly leadership has new words for “anything goes,” namely: inclusiveness and tolerance. Don’t be a fool for this emotional claptrap. When someone insists that you either shut up or “be kind” (rather than truthful or correct, apparently), remind him or her that there is nothing kind about humoring people’s self-destructive delusions.

In the absence of the moral leadership that once controlled our social fabric (an absence that could never have been imagined by our country’s founders) we face a contradiction:

• Our Constitution and our libertarian instincts dictate that we should refrain from seeking to govern other adults’ personal behaviors, lest the tables be turned and they end up controlling us.

• But our society is descending, step by carefully designed step, into narcissism and its attendant debauchery. This is not merely a moral problem; it is also a fiscal and civilizational disaster for everyone. This is how empires collapse.

As John Adams famously said:

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

James Madison chimed in, saying that our Constitution requires:

“sufficient virtue among men for self-government,”

otherwise,

“nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.”

We seem to have arrived at the place about which they warned us – we have a population without enough virtue or self-governing capacity to fill the huge gaps in our laws. In the absence of social structures that promote self-preserving and society-preserving behaviors (a function that churches formerly filled), we must at least put the brakes on our self-destruction.

Solutions

The first thing that seems to be working is boycotts. Examples:

• Does your medical service provider perform transgender surgeries or other disturbing procedures (abortions, etc.)? Find another service provider.

• Check into the philanthropic and political activities of the companies from which you buy products. When you discover disturbing connections, switch vendors and tell your old vendor why you’re leaving.

We already have put the kibosh on Bud Light, Disney, and Target. We haven’t put them out of business, but we’ve sent them a message. Let’s explore more avenues.

Then there’s disinvestment. Follow the example of the states that are pulling their investments out of ESG funds. Do you own stocks or mutual funds that hold stocks or bonds of the companies you’re boycotting? Find alternatives. If you have old 401Ks whose investments you cannot control, convert them to IRAs and take control.

Next is lawsuits. De-transitioners are leading the way with these hopeful beginnings:

• Detransitioner: ‘I’m suing the doctors who removed my healthy breasts

• Another Teen Detransitioner Sues Doctors Over Child Gender Transition

• ‘Chilling Effect’: Here’s How Lawsuits Could Take Down The Child Sex Change Industry

I’m expecting that future class-action lawsuits in the hundreds of billions will eventually take down entire medical systems. And of course, you don’t want to be invested in medical establishments that have anything to do with this.

And then there’s you. Stop lying in order to convey the idea that you are a “kind” person. Truly kind people care enough to prevent others’ self-destruction. There’s something wrong with having to lie in order to appear to be “kind.”

So .. are you still attending any MLB games anywhere after the MLB punished Georgia’s voters for enacting reasonable election integrity laws and their LA Dodgers honored the utterly diabolical Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence? Are you still patronizing and investing in businesses that violate your core principles? Are you mouthing illogical platitudes to appease people whose purpose is to silence you? Do you feel compelled, before delivering your opinion, to show your reasonableness by telling people they can do whatever they want in their own bedrooms?

Stop it. Just stop it.