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Breakpoint

Dads Can't Be Moms

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

The need for a mom and dad is baked into our human condition.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

With a one minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

0:05.0

Recently, the Washington Post released an article with this headline,

0:08.0

Our daughter wanted a mommy, so she picked one of her dads.

0:10.0

In it, the author praised his same-sex partner for taking a so-called motherly role as assigned

0:16.4

by their three-year-old adopted daughter.

0:19.0

He argued that the term mother needs to be broadened, as if anyone at all can be a motherly figure.

0:24.5

This is another iteration of a fundamentally bad idea of the sexual revolution that men and women

0:28.7

are fully interchangeable.

0:29.7

Still, this story betrays itself.

0:31.7

After all, why did this three-year-old girl

0:33.8

since something was wrong in the first place?

0:36.0

Somehow, she knew she needed a mother.

0:38.2

In fact, throughout the article, the author expressed his own concern

0:41.1

that his daughter was quote unquote bending the reality of having

0:43.8

two dads.

0:44.8

But that's the very point.

0:46.3

Two dads is not a reality.

0:48.3

It's a social construction.

0:49.8

Moms and dads, those are what's baked into the human condition. After all, dads can't mom.

0:55.2

Moms can't dad. I'm John Stone Street.

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