Imagine for a moment that you are walking along a beautiful country lane and you come upon a large, well-manicured estate. Intrigued you approach the residence and knock on the door. You are greeted by a man who invites you in while introducing himself as Napoleon Bonaparte. Another man standing near the doorway overhears this and challenges that assertion. In exasperation he tells the first man that he could not be Napoleon Bonaparte because he was God and knew he was Julius Caesar because he created him. Hearing this exchange you immediately realize that this estate is not an estate at all, but an institution. You realize you have happened upon an insane asylum.
How did you come to this conclusion? You noticed no sign outside telling you the estate was an insane asylum. The grounds were well kept, virtually indistinguishable from any number of other properties you had seen. The man who invited you in was well dressed, pleasant, and articulate. In fact everything around you appeared to be quite normal. So how did you know you had entered an insane asylum? It became obvious once you discovered the people residing there had lost touch with reality; that is, they were insane; which brings us to The Maine Problem.
On October 17, 2007 The Maine Problem came to light when the school board of King Middle School in Portland, Maine approved a measure that allowed 6th grade girls, girls as young as 11, to receive birth control pills. What made this measure even more egregious is these girls could be given birth control without their parent’s knowledge or consent.
The school board members who voted in favor of this outrage, along with the city health officials who offered this service believe they know what is best for these girls. They believe they are better qualified than parents to make medical decisions for their children. They believe their morals and values are superior to those of the parents. They believe they are all-wise and parents are, at best, ignorant simpletons, incapable of correctly raising their children without the assistance of experts educated by a government that believes itself to be God.
In other words, these parents have discovered that what looks like a school board and health clinic is actually an insane asylum. How do they know that? Because the “inmates” have lost touch with reality. They believe they are God and have the right to rule over the parents and the children residing in their kingdom. But The Maine Problem is not confined to one school district; this insanity, like an aggressive, deadly cancer, has spread across the state. Another cancerous “tumor” has been discovered, a “tumor” called The Maine Human Rights Commission.
To say that The Maine Human Rights Commission is an insane asylum is too kind. A more accurate description would be an asylum for the criminally insane because what the “inmates” are attempting to inflict upon the citizens of Maine violates the natural law of human sexuality as ordained by God.
The Maine Human Rights Act “makes it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in schools and colleges.” Thus, the members (inmates) of the MHRC are working to ban schools, from preschools and nurseries to universities to graduate schools, from enforcing gender divisions in school organizations, sports teams, bathrooms, and locker rooms.
Using the logic of those who have lost touch with reality (the insane) the MHRC believe it is discrimination to deny transgender students access to the sports teams, bathrooms, and/or locker rooms that match their perceived gender. (MHRC defines “transgender” as “having a gender identity or expression that is different from that traditionally associated with an assigned sex at birth”.) In other words if a male perceives himself to be a female he is not only allowed to dress in feminine attire while attending school, he must be allowed use of the women’s bathroom, the women’s locker room, and play on female sports teams. Likewise females who perceive themselves to be male could not be banned from using the men’s bathroom, locker room, or participation on male sports teams. To make this perfectly clear the MHRC says: “Under no circumstances is it permissible to force transgender students to use bathrooms or locker rooms corresponding with their assigned sex at birth.”
The implications of what the Maine Human Rights Commission is attempting to tyrannize Mainers with are varied, complex, and unpredictable.
If a male “feels” feminine one day does he use the women’s bathroom; does he shower in the women’s locker room; does he try out for a spot on the women’s basketball team? If the next day his masculinity predominates his being does he hang up his dress and revert to using the facilities corresponding to the sex listed on his birth certificate? Does he give up his dream of being a star on the women’s basketball team?
Lest one believes such a scenario could not happen listen to words of the MHRC proposal. “Although personal feelings about one’s gender are usually set early and are not considered susceptible to change, establishing one’s gender can be a dynamic process for transgender children and young adults” (emphasis added). Nothing could be clearer. The inmates of the MHRC truly believe one can “be” a male one day and “be” a female the next. This would almost be comical except for the fact that sexual deviates would exploit such an insane idea to increase their opportunities to prey upon others, particularly children.
Yet some feel that the greatest threat of enforcing the Maine Human Rights Act upon schools is not males and females using bathrooms and locker rooms contrary to their “assigned sex at birth”. For one woman the greatest threat is the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) reclassifying Division 1 schools to a lower status if males are allowed to play on female sports teams because this could violate Title IX which requires that colleges and universities have an equal number of men’s and women’s sports teams.
Listen to the words of Karen K. Kemble, the director of the Office of Equal Opportunity at The University of Maine in a letter to the MHRC: “Because mixed teams do not count toward the institution’s total number of teams for NCAA compliance purposes, a reclassification could result in that institution’s losing its Division 1 status for not having the requisite number of teams. Division 1 is the top level of collegiate competition, highly prized by institutions as essential to recruiting athletes and fans” (emphasis added).
This woman evidently sees very little wrong with males and females being forced to share bathrooms and locker rooms with those of the opposite sex since she does not mention it in her letter, but heaven forbid the MHRC do anything that would potentially endanger The University of Maine from losing its Division 1 status! Forget compromising the safety of students by sexual predators who would absolutely use these purposed guidelines by the inmates of the MHRC to their sick advantage. The most important thing – according to Kemble – is for the MHRC to do nothing that may jeopardize the University’s ability to recruit athletes and fans!
Such a distortion of priorities is the inevitable result of a society that abandons common sense in favor of political correctness. But when one can condone or justify the idiocy of believing one can be a male one moment and a female the next because of the way one feels or perceives oneself to be, that person has entered the shadows of insanity.
The MHRC and people like Kemble are living in a fantasy land where truth is replaced with lies, where facts are discarded in favor of feelings, where self-actualization is the goal of life – where man believes he is God. And that is The Maine Problem.
Man desires to live unfettered by any restraints whatsoever. He insists not only to be free to engage in any lifestyle regardless of how deviant or destructive, he insists not only upon others applauding and encouraging such lifestyles, he insists upon codifying such lifestyles to punish those who have the courage and audacity to question the sanity of those who believe them to be normative of human nature.
Some may believe one can be a male one day and a female the next day; some may believe homosexuality is an ethical lifestyle equivalent to heterosexuality; some may believe absolute truth does not exist, that right and wrong, good and evil are determined by circumstances or feelings. But then some people believe they are God.
