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A High Court Case That Challenges the Rule of Law, by Phil Lawler – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

A High Court Case That Challenges the Rule of Law, by Phil Lawler

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By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture, Dec 04, 2024

Phil Lawler has been a Catholic journalist for more than 30 years. He has edited several Catholic magazines and written eight books. Founder of Catholic World News, he is the news director and lead analyst at CatholicCulture.org.

As I write, the US Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case that would leave the founders of the American republic shaking their heads in disbelief, appalled that the court they established would indulge is such a distasteful theater of the absurd.

The case involves a challenge to the Tennessee law that makes it illegal to give minor children “medical care” that alters their sexual function. Mainstream newspapers, carefully obedient to the directives of gender theory, refer to such treatment as “gender-affirming care.” That Orwellian term conceals the reality that the treatments are intended for patients who deny their natural gender. The “medical care” involved does not ensure, but in fact frustrates, the natural functions of the body, at times by mutilation. It is not medical care, it does not affirm anything, and for that matter it does not change the patient’s gender, because one’s gender—or rather one’s sex—is fixed at birth. …

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