There was a time in America when employers hired people strictly on the basis of who they thought could best do the job.  Of course, there were some who deviated from that plan, and hired friends and relatives who were not always the best people for that job.  That’s to be expected in any human endeavor.

However, over time, claims of discrimination in hiring practices gained national attention, and the government implemented new federal laws in an effort to achieve “more fair” hiring practices.  These laws prohibited discrimination based on race, creed, color or national origin – and over time the laws were extended to include religion, sex, handicap, age and then sexual orientation.

Unfortunately, those laws which were intended to eliminate discrimination, in some instances, created situations of reverse discrimination.  Particularly in taxpayer-funded colleges and universities where certain applicants were (and still are) given priority over other applicants – and that “special status” was (and still is) granted strictly on the basis of race, creed, color, or national origin.

However, in today’s world, the national movement of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and queers (LGBTQ) have resulted in the filing of multiple “workplace discrimination” lawsuits, and three of those cases have made their way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

On October 8, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in three cases that will determine whether LGBTQ people can be fired from their jobs because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

One of the cases involves a 58-year-old man from Michigan, who now claims to be a transgender woman.  This person, who now goes by the name “Aimee Stephens” claims to have been fired in 2013 because he was transitioning from a man to a woman.

Stephens, who was born male, told his boss at the Garden City Funeral Home in Detroit, Michigan that he was transitioning from a man into a woman, and intended to begin dressing as a woman – and he wanted to continue in the job he had held for nearly six years. 

However, Thomas Rost, the owner of the funeral home, told Stephens that would not work out, and instead, he offered Stephens a severance package, which Stephens refused to accept, so Mr. Rost terminated Stephens’ employment. 

Stephens, who is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), filed a “wrongful termination” lawsuit against Mr. Rost, and that lawsuit made its way through the legal system to the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati – and the court in Stephens’ favor.  So now, Stephens’ case is being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

It makes you wonder:  If Stephens had walked into his workplace and announced that he was “an angel” sent from God, would the secular world and the ACLU have supported his claim and taken his case to the highest court in the land?  No, I don’t think they would.  Instead, Stephens would probably have been taken into custody and place under psychiatric care in an effort to cure his mental illness.

Have we lost all common sense?  The highest court in the land is seriously going to hear the complaint of a man, who is obviously suffering from gender dysphoria, which at one time was diagnosed as “gender identity disorder” by mental health professionals.  That was before LGBTQ advocates came on the national scene promoting homosexual activity.

Gender identity disorder more clearly defines the condition of any man who looks into a mirror – and sees the reflection of a man – but still declares himself to be a woman.  That person, whether man or woman, is clearly mentally confused.

Have we lost touch with reality?  Claiming to be LGBTQ is nothing more than a self-perceived thought that cannot be scientifically or biologically proven or disproven.  It is clearly an abnormal state of mind, that the secular world, social media, and many socialist/progressive/liberal political leaders are now claiming to be the “new normal”.

Let us pray that the U.S. Supreme Court makes the right decision on this case.  A decision that any reasonable-thinking person would make.  Otherwise, if the Court classifies LGBTQ persons as a “protected class” and extends special protection to them, that ordinary people do not have, that would have a far-reaching negative impact on the majority of American citizens . . . And it would radically change (in a negative way) the American Way of Life forever.

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them” (Genesis 2:27).