Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

A recent video exposed the injustice that is at the heart of both same-sex marriage and also commercial surrogacy.

In it, a man is bouncing a baby on his lap and asked, who do you want?

Dada or pop? The baby answered,

Mama, to which both the man and his unseen partner behind the camera laugh and say,

there's no mama. They continue to badger the child who then begins to cry. Now, the most obvious

evil that's portrayed in the video is the relentless teasing of a baby. The deeper evil,

however, is not that these men were mean, though they were. In fact, being mean was only the

insult that was added to the injury of forcing their farcical arrangement on a baby and then calling

it a family. Because, and everyone knows this, including these two men suppressing the truth by their

wickedness, there is a mama. She's not included in this video, nor is she in the life of this baby

that she carried and who now needs her, but she does exist. She's been cut out of her child's life,

presumably by her own choice, although that's not clear, but either way, the baby did not make

that choice.

And now two men who have appropriated the title of this baby's parents are badgering the baby

into affirming their lifestyle choice. Now, perhaps what this infant is doing is what infants often

do, babble out those syllables that are often among the first learned by young ones across

all times and places and cultures. But of course, they learn these syllables because they always

refer to the same person. They are, in the end, a primal cry of children for a particular

someone who should always be there for them.

Anyone who has spent time around babies understands what's playing out in this scene.

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